domino harvey wrote: Sun Jun 16, 2019 8:11 pm
That’s a really good point. I think many a 90s Kid has had that feeling of watching a movie years later and going, “Oh, that already funny on its own
Simpsons joke was a reference to this!”
On one of the
Simpsons DVD commentaries, Matt Groening cracked that, if they assembled all of their
Citizen Kane parodies from over the decades in chronological order, they'd almost be able to re-create the entire movie.
That's what a smart, well-written spoof/satire can do...act as a treasure trove of Easter Eggs that will make the movie or show
funnier in retrospect when you return to it years later and suddenly "get" references you didn't the first time around. But if it's something akin to
Vampires Suck or whatever, all you're left with are dunderheaded "jokes" where the characters just parrot recent movie lines verbatim and expect you to laugh just because, hey, I
totally heard that in another movie recently! No satire, no tweaking of the source material to underline what might have been unintentionally humorous about it in the first place (and a po-faced movie series like the
Twilight franchise was rife for parody), just Xeroxing someone else's funny/iconic cinema moment and adding fart noises over the top.
