Saw Planet of the Apes on AMC the other day and didn’t make it 5 minutes before singing to myself “Dr. Zeus, Dr. Zeus” and “You’ve finally made a monkey out of meeeeeee”.
Have to agree. The parody is a haphazard collection of uninspired sight gags and unusually dull one-liners. It’s only remotely Star Wars-related, and most of its Star-Wars material was done better years ago.
In a weird way, 300.
Simply put, the movie is its own parody. I was sitting in the theater thinking I wanted to keel over and laugh until I vomited. It was so funny, and almost every scene got worse. (Or better, if you see it my way.) But there were other people, so I didn’t want to bother them.
Not really a parody, but I’ll never hear “Don’t Fear the Reaper” without seeing Chris Walken insisting on more cowbell.
And since Anne Hathaway’s appearance on Saturday Night Live, I’ll forever think of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as a social disease.
For me, it’s the song. I can’t hear it without singing “Eat a big dinner, have a nice snack. If you don’t like it you can’t send it back. Just eat it!”
My husband totally thinks I’m a Weird Al fan and I’m not!
You know, I really don’t think of The Princess Bride as being a parody of fairy tales any more than I think of The Sword in the Stone (the book) as being a parody of the Arthurian legend… to me, they’re smart updates of the genre.
All of Tom Lehrer’s versions of Clementine were far superior to the original.
Than the odd numbered ones, for sure. 
Sorry, I just discovered that my above link for Zero Hour! actually goes to the IMDb Trivia page for Airplane!, where I harvested the information. This one is corrected.
“I can see Russia from my house!”
I finally saw Citizen Kane last week. During the newsreel intro to Kane’s life at the beginning, all I could think of was Tom Servo from MST3K: The Movie. “See big men sticking screw drivers into things - turning them - AND ADJUSTING THEM!”
Some parodies are done because people’s talent lies in tweaking something original. Some parodies are done out of contempt for their source material. The Princess Bride was done by people who love fairy tales. The deuling and adventures could have only come from someone who was committed to getting them right. But it is still a parody. There just aren’t very many (none that I can think of) loving parodies to compare it to.
I don’t know if they’re parodies or homages, but Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead are outstanding buddy-cop and zombie movies, respectively. Among the best of their genre, IMO.
I think The High and the Mighty is a better fit. I can’t watch that movie without busting out laughing at the parallels.
I haven’t seen Zero Hour!, but it’s definitely the basis for Airplane! Much of the dialogue in Airplane! is taken word-for-word from the older movie, and so is the name Ted Stryker. It’s a great example of how you can make something serious become silly by changing the way it’s presented.
Who can watch the cheesiest of the Bond films without thinking of Dr. Evil?
“Airplane!” spoofs many real disaster movies, including “The High and the Mighty” and several of the “Airport” movies, but the Zucker Brothers bought the rights to “Zero Hour!” (yes, the original had an exclamation point in its title), then used real character names and whole chunks of dialogue from that movie.
For instance, Ted Stryker was the real name of the pilot played by Dana Andrews in "Zero Hour!!
For me, I can’t listen to “Beat It” without seeing the Undercover Brother in my head; that’s a parody of the video, not really of the song, if that counts.
In my mind “The Rabbit of Seville” comes in front of the Wagner parody.
How about Jonathon Swift’s “A Modest Proposal…”? Nobody even remembers the whole genre of the pamphlets it is satirizing, let alone any specific examples.
My parents are members of the John Birch Society. Yes, it’s still around.
I’d rather listen to Sterling Hayden talk about fluoridation of drinking water and maintaining the purity of his precious bodily fluids than try to have a political conversation with my mom.
Not sure they’re better, per se, but the Cthulhu Carols from A Very Scary Solsticeare more fun than real Christmas carols. 