• Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
    32·
    2 days ago

    As an animation nerd I gotta mention Shrek. As a parody of “Disney princess movies” it killed the entire genre dead.

    The only time Disney tried to play the tropes somewhat straight again was the Princess and the Frog, and THAT was a major flop (though racism probably also played a part in that).

    Since then Disney only made remakes or titles like Frozen that spend 70% of their runtime mugging at themselves and poking fun at their own tropes (… While still circling back to them anyway and failing to make any point or commentary)

    On a less “this made a major cultural impact” note and more of a “this personally completely altered my entire sense of humour and replaced the original in my heart” – SnapCube’s Realtime Fandub Games Sonic Adventure 2

    Oh oh ohohoh! Just remembered JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. Very much a manga that was poking fun at contemporaries like Fist of the North Star… And while it didn’t outlive or outdo them per se, it definitely gained a life of its own, continuing to this day and actually being quite influential in its own right.

    • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
      11·
      2 days ago

      princess and the frog had no chance, disney wanted it to fail so they had an excuse to never go back to 2d animation again

      • Count Regal Inkwell@pawb.social
        3·
        1 day ago

        That part I didn’t know but it doesn’t surprise me either.

        Still, “Disney wanted to kill off their traditional animation department” might explain why every movie since has been CGI/Live Action. – It does NOT explain why every movie since has been so metalinguistic and self-satirising. THAT can be laid at Dreamworks’ feet entirely, with the influence of Shrek et. al. on the cultural zeitgeist.

    • 46_and_2@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 days ago

      The only time Disney tried to play the tropes somewhat straight again was the Princess and the Frog, and THAT was a major flop (though racism probably also played a part in that).

      Probably, I watched because of my kid recently, and it striked me as one of the better Disney movies. In fact, it’s a pretty awesome one compared to recent bigger hits like Frozen and etc.

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
    151·
    3 days ago

    I think a lot of Whitest Kid’s U Know stuff genuinely transcends the topics its mocking by how good it is.

    For example: WKUK - Kennedy Assasination

    That song at 3:41 swims into my head from time to time, when I’m feeling stressed or overworked or uncertain about the future:

    Somewhere out in space there is a place,
    Where I can do what I want to,
    And all at my own pace.

    Somewhere out of time I hope I’ll find,
    A place where I can just unwind,
    And work on my own mind.

    Oh send me a signal, oh give me a prayer,
    I just need to know that there’s some spot out there,
    Where I could be me and you could be you…

    Just a pure sentiment longing for free time, personal agency, co-existence, brotherhood, and harmony – which I think are topics everyone can click with.

  • ValiantDust@feddit.org
    6·
    3 days ago

    Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen is a satire of Gothic novels in general, and The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe in particular. Several others are referenced by name in the story and for many of them it’s probably the only reason they are even remembered today.

  • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    3 days ago

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

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Steven Tyler didn’t think it was funny

      This Is Spinal Tap should have had one of the band members with a pre-pubescent girlfriend, but I guess that would have been too over the top even for them.

      In case anybody doesn’t know this, '70s rockers were notorious for their consumption of literally underaged girls. Tyler in particular even assumed legal guardianship of his bit of jailbait so he could take her on tour with him.

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 day ago

    Might not be exactly what you’re asking for, but if you’ve seen ever seen Rocky and Bullwinkle, you’ll know the villain “Boris Badenov,” but you might not know his name is a pun of a historical figure, “Boris Godunov”. Old cartoons like that are great because they’re full of these super obscure references and jokes that completely fly past you until years later when you encounter something in a history class and suddenly burst out laughing. Another example I remember from that show is “The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam,” a reference to “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.”

  • Batadon@lemm.ee
    5·
    3 days ago

    Not really a parody but “happy but beats 2 and 4 are swapped.”

    The truth is this: oof!

  • untorquer@lemmy.world
    472·
    3 days ago

    Cunk - parodying Attenborough and cosmos style docs

    Starship troopers - more of an active ignorance of source material

    Happy Gilmore