# Favorite "Spoof" movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2001, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938 "2001-10-27T06:18:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/1 "2001-10-27T06:18:02Z")
What’s your favorite “Spoof” movie? I dig spoof movies, but there’s only one GREAT. I’ve always thought Young Frankenstein was the best. Bride of Frankenstein was good too, and some people consider that to be somewhat of a spoof of the original. Although Bride of Frank may have had some spoof and humor, I think it had a lot of dramatic scenes. Like when Frank (the monster) befriends a blind man but after the man hears he’s in the company of a monster, he freaks. Or at the end (spoilers I guess) where he kills himself and lets Dr. Frank live without harm before blowing up. Anyway… best spoof? OH… is it me, or was Teri Garr INCREDIBLY attractive in Young Frankenstein. Boy… she was cute! (maybe still is, but is wat too old for me) ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/2 "2001-10-27T07:48:04Z")
> [@](#): > > Anyway… best spoof? Me, of course. But all you damn people keep misspelling my name. 😃 Anyway, my favorite is and always will be _Spaceballs_. It managed to combine all the elements of cheesy space opera movies without always directly parodying them (unlike something like _Scary Movie_, which just kept switching from a parody of one film to another). _Spaceballs_ managed to take a good chunk of material from Star Wars, Star Trek, and a bunch of other, lesser-known sci-fi movies of the '80s (hint: the _Eagle I_ wasn’t a take-off of the _Millenium Falcon_) and meshed them all together seamlessly. AND it added enough of its own stuff (like the radar jamming) to make it a wonderful film. ---
**Author:** ![Revedge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Revedge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revedge)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/3 "2001-10-27T07:58:04Z")
I agree that Young Frankenstein is probably the tightest “spoofe” movie ever made. Nowever a personal favorite is Serial. If you lived through the seventies, then this is incredibly funny. What makes it so good, is that it doesn’t spoof movies per se, but all of the trendy ideas and institutions that grew up in society during that period. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/4 "2001-10-27T08:00:05Z")
No, no, Revedge… “spoof” is the parody-thing. “SPOOFE” is the… well… me. And I goofed. Lonestar’s ship was called the _Eagle **5** _. ---
**Author:** ![DarkJudicator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@DarkJudicator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkJudicator)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/5 "2001-10-27T08:48:14Z")
_Shriek if you know what I did last Friday the 13th_, more commonly known as just Shriek. Manages to pay out every single crappy teen titillation horror movie ever made, and does it with a lot of style. It has this weird storyline that meanders around a mutant hybrid of Scream and IKWYDLS, except it’s even more comical than they were. 😃 This is what Scary Movie should have been. Oh, and the fact that Tiffany Amber-Thiessen is in one of the major roles doesn’t hurt the watchability either. 😃 She plays the equivalent of Courtney Cox’s character out of Scream… the reporter named Hagatha Utslay :). ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/6 "2001-10-27T08:57:42Z")
_Mars Attacks_ It was the best spoof on old sci-fi movies of the past, not to mention the card series it was more solidly based on. It was original, silly, stupid, and just plain FUN! ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/7 "2001-10-27T09:24:00Z")
I love movie parodies. _Airplane!_ and _Spaceballs_ are right up there near the top, but _Top Secret!_ is my favorite. —[thick French accent]Well, Mr. Rivières, it seems you have become how do you say een-dee-spen-see-bl? —“Indispensable.” —[thick French accent]Yes, that’s what I thought. [Edited by bibliophage on 10-27-2001 at 04:26 AM] ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/8 "2001-10-27T10:44:12Z")
And, like _Top Secret!_, _Spy Hard_ gets a nod as delightfully hilarious. Especially the opening credits, with the silhouettes… and Weird Al singing… ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/9 "2001-10-27T12:32:20Z")
I can’t believe no one has mentioned “The Naked Gun” yet! (Well, I’m only mentioning it because it hasn’t been said yet. “Airplane!” is still the best spoof ever made.) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/10 "2001-10-27T13:12:41Z")
I’ve thought about it and as much as I love _Young Frankenstein_, _Airplne!_ and _Top Secret!_ I have to give my vote to _Spaceballs_. It’s just so likeable. If I could pal around with any of the characters in the above movies, it would be Lonestar and Barf. on a side note, holy cow they’re remaking _[Santa Claues Conquers the Martians](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0158916)_ which I found because Zucker of _Airplane!_ fame is producing it. Wierd cause I saw the original on MST3K and now … ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/11 "2001-10-27T17:08:10Z")
Top Secret! is one of my favourites. (suspiciously) “How do we know you’re _not_ Mel Torme?” The dancing scene I particularly love. Those guys can choreograph. Of course, the calf/bull incident. Hillary: My uncle was born in America. Nick: Oh, really? Hillary: But he was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape in a balloon during the Jimmy Carter presidency. Nick: Is this the potato farm? Farmer: Yes, I’m Albert Potato. I like all the Zuckers-Abraham-Zuckers work, back when they were a real team. Airplane! Top Secret! Naked Gun 1 and 2, the first Hot Shots, Police Squad. ---
**Author:** ![Hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@Hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hombre)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/12 "2001-10-27T17:13:06Z")
I don’t know if this was a SPOOFE 😉 or not, but viewed as one it’s funny: ‘I Spit On Your Grave’ ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/13 "2001-10-27T17:38:39Z")
Two semi-obscure spoofs I liked were Rustler’s Rhapsody and Pandemonium. ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/14 "2001-10-27T17:46:53Z")
Shrek was a spoof too ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/15 "2001-10-27T17:55:18Z")
**Airplane!** Pure and simple. Seeing Barbara Billingsly speak jive was worth the price of admission alone. Few English speaking people on earth can any longer use the word “surely” without an inward smirk at least. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/16 "2001-10-29T15:00:22Z")
I loved Spaceballs! It was the first thing i ever saw Bill Pullman in, and even now everytime I see him, i hear in my mind “It’s Lonestar!” “Pizza the Hutt!” “I can see your schwartz is as big as mine!” “Goodbye Virgin Alarm” “She’s gone from suck to blow!” “Funny, she doesn’t look Druish…” Lorie ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/17 "2001-10-29T15:16:08Z")
Mel Brooks: King of the Spoofs! This isn’t exactly a spoof, but the IMDb says it is: [Spies Like Us](http://us.imdb.com/Details?0090056). One of the best spy comedies ever. And Vanessa Angel is sure nice to look at! ---
**Author:** ![Xerxes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/d2c977/32.png) [@Xerxes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xerxes)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/18 "2001-10-29T15:40:42Z")
I can’t believe no-one’s mentioned Rob Reiner’s **This is Spinal Tap**. > [@](#): > > Such absurd moments, combined with memorable quotes, such as “Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year, it’s just not that widely reported,” and gleefully trashy songs like “Sex Farm,” “Hellhole,” and “Big Bottom” (“Talk about mudflaps, my girl’s got 'em”) helped land this film on the American Film Institute’s 100 Greatest Comedies list. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/19 "2001-10-29T15:48:43Z")
I’ve always been partial to Woody Allen’s [What’s Up Tiger Lily?](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0061177). “No bullets? Ah, but if all of you in the audience who believe in fairies will clap your hands, then my gun will be magically filled with bullets.” ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938/20 "2001-10-29T18:06:09Z")
I love everything Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker. From Kentucky Fried Movie with “Fistful of Yen” to Spy Hard. I like the way that they’re not (totally) “in your face” comedy and parody like most of the movies today. Even now I watch one of their movies that I’ve seen 100 times and notice something new. My favorite of all time is Hot Shots! Cary Elwes and Charlie Sheen make a great team. Especially since Cary Elwes is better known as Westley. It also has Ryan Stiles playing “Mail Man” (it’s hard to tell with the helmet, but the voice gives it away if you’re a WLIIA fan). I love the other people in that movie too: Lloyd Bridges, Jon Cryer, Valeria Golino, and the chick that played the original Buffy (in the movie). The original Naked Gun is much much better than the sequels. Anyone who thinks otherwise is nuts. Mel Brooks gets props for Spaceballs, which is my #2 favorite parody, but most of the other Mel Brooks movies I just don’t like. Also, the movie CB4 is pretty damn funny. I guess it’s kind of a parody. All in all, a bunch of great movies. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-spoof-movie/89938.md?page=2)