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What parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?

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What parody surpassed what it was trying to parody?

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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.
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  I saw Spaceballs before I saw Star Wars. I cannot take any Star Wars movie seriously now.

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