Ask Lemmy

Blur - Song 2 was intended as a parody of American rock and is laden with nonsense lyrics. It's their most known song in America by a wide margin and might even be their most known song globally.

Woohoo

Does it count if I only read summaries of both works, not the works itself?

"A true story" is a parody on the "travelogue" that were popular in ancient Greece, like Homer's Odyssey and Illiad. 800 years later, they had a resurgence in the Roman Empire, like when Virgil wrote the Aeneid. Still 200 years later, A True Story was written by Lucian.

In the preface, Lucian complains that the genre was ruined by authors making up unbelievable tales to trick their dumb readership. So he thinks it better to just admit that all he says is a lie.

The story goes on how Lucian then set sail across the Atlantic, got caught in a storm so terrible it blew him to outer space, and meet the all-male civilisation that lives on the moon, who carry their children through the calf of their leg.

Lucian and his crew return to Earth, get swallowed by a whale, explore the Islands of the blessed, see the Sinners being punished (the ones who lied in their stories being punished the hardest) and reach a distant continent. Lucian says what happened there will be shared in the sequel, which a comment describes as the biggest lie of all.

Bugs Bunny far surpassed It Happened One Night. His manner of speaking, saying “doc,” and his obsession with carrots are a direct parody of Clark Gable’s character from that movie, but modern audiences don’t realize he’s a parody at all and instead assume the carrot thing it based on rabbits’ real dietary preferences.

Yugi Oh The Abridged Series

Spaceballs.

Galaxy Quest!

Weird Al's White And Nerdy, so much better than Ridin Dirty.

Airplane parodying the airliner movies like Zero Hour

Dr Strangelove parodying atomic terror movies like Fail Safe

r/TheDonald. If I remember right, it started as a meme sub before he actually ran, then it was overtaken by actual supporters.

Pretty much everything from Weird Al.

Blazing Saddles. It killed the western genre for a long time because of how well it parodied them

Hot Fuzz is the best buddy cop movie I've ever seen.

Cunk - parodying Attenborough and cosmos style docs

Starship troopers - more of an active ignorance of source material

Happy Gilmore

For my wife Spaceballs is the original and Star Wars is the spoof.

But more seriously, too many people didn't register that Scream was a parody. That way it managed to surpass older slashers.

Airplane! lapped Zero Hour! so hard most people don't know about the existence of the latter

The best parodies are humorous takes that treat the source material with repect.

Shaun of the Dead

Galaxy Quest

Army of Darkness (person out of time becomes a leader against evil)

Naked Gun.

Austin Powers.

Team America: World Police

Kung pow: enter the fist

Spinal Tap. The reactions to it are telling enough: allegedly Steven Tyler didn’t think it was funny, and the Edge just wept.

Idiocracy.

The Orville