This is only true if you have watched the films that are referenced there. And they didn't catch many references even here - for example on Flashdance. Or Dances with Wolves.
Pro Tip: Don't try to drink anything when Lloyd Bridges is on screen. Also, "Hot Shots! Part Deux" (1993) is definitely worth watching. Somehow Lloyd Bridges is even funnier in the sequel.
@@bujin1977A case could be made for Rodger Moore playing Seymour Goldfarb in Cannonball Run. It did broil Albert Broccoli. And A case could be made Star Trek V really should be views as a parody
Top Secret! has some spoof elements in it, has similar humor, and is directed by the Zucker Abrams Zucker trio who directed Airplane! You may want to add that to your list.
I recently rewatched both Hot Shots!es and watched Top Secret! for the first time. The latter felt really fresh and hilarious, Hot Shots! did nothing for me unfortunately. I feel like ZAZ worked best as a trio, but when they went solo, they lost some of the magic.
Some of the more random seeming stuff was spoofing other well known movies from around the same time as Top Gun, like the food/fridge thing was spoofing a famous scene from 9 1/2 Weeks (1986) with Mickey Rourke and Kim Bassinger and the piano scene was taken from The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) with Jeff and Beau Bridges and Michelle Pfeiffer.
Hot Shots and its sequel were decent, but this it where the diminishing returns start and the spoof movies just tried to reference as many current movies as possible. It got to a point where the reference was more important than the joke.
Pretty sure there's a bit of An Officer and a Gentlemen in there too. Is it my imagination or was Charlie Sheen in a slightly dumb military action movie called Navy Seals a year or two before Hot Shots? And if so, does this qualify as an answer to George's question?
@@Rocket1377 I think most reactors don't get the reference, when the elder is talking. He says Latoya, Tito and Jermaine. Those are three siblings from the Jackson family. You know as in Michael Jackson. 😂
One of my favourite running gags is the infestation of chihuahuas. No. There is no explanation. It's just funny. Plus, Cary Elwes is impossibly handsome here. Good lord.
The sequel Hotshots part Duex parodies Apocalypse Now and has a brief cameo from Martin Sheen. That's at least one case where the original actor appeared in the parody. Another example is when John Hurt appeared in Spaceballs to reprise his Alien chest bursting scene and utters the line, "not again."
Loaded Weapon (leathal weapon spoof with insane cast), Hot Shots 2 (Rambo 2 & 3 spoof) and Scary Movie (Scream and I know what you did last summer) are other amazing parody movies that I can't recommend enough
The sitting on the chihuahua recurring gag is simply an exercise in dismissing returns. I love it. For some reason, the hardest I laugh is the damn “it’s Vick’s… I have a cold.” line. I’m a very fickle person when it comes to spoof movies. I can take or leave Airplane and i actually don’t enjoy Space Balls. But all three Naked Guns, both Hot Shots and Men In tights are genius in my opinion.
The only time I can remember an original star showing up in a spoof/parody/movie was Robert Patrick who played the T-1000 and literally played the T-1000 in Wayne's World in one of the most random, funniest scenes ever imo. He also had a small cameo as such in Last Action Hero.
@@BETMARKonTube Well that's more a direct starring role in a spoof/parody whereas the ones I was referring to were just cameos or small roles. But I guess it would still count since that movie is a parody of The Exorcist with Linda Blair in it (though the movie is pretty bad lol)
@@BETMARKonTube Yeah I'd guess Martin Sheen would count and the Bruce Willis one, not sure if he was McLane or just "generic action hero guy" either lol
“Not Another Teen Movie” is the last great parody movie. It does feature a couple actors in it from the movies it spoofs. You should definitely watch it, as I think you have seen most of the movies it parodies now: American Pie, She’s All That, Cruel Intentions, every John Hughes teen movie.
To me that movie is the turning point of the parody movie genre. It's such an odd mix of wholesome 1980's movies being parodied, with a lot of raunchy 2000's movies being parodied at the same time.
_"Has there ever been a spoof movie where the star from the original suddenly shows up?"_ Literally Hot Shots, Part Deux. *"I loved you in Wall Street!"*
" who.put that crab there? " " what crab? I didn't see any crab " " Don't tell me there was no crab! There were 2 crabs, they travel in pairs " Gets me every time
The scene of making eggs and bacon in the stomach are a spoof of "9 1/2 weeks" with Kim Basinger. This movie was so fun and the sequel have his moments too. PD Love your laughs Simone
4:28 - Spaceballs. At the tail end of the movie, in the diner, an alien bursts out of someone's chest. They look down at it and say "Oh no. Not again". That man was John Hurt, who starred in the original Alien, and whose character died when the Xenomorph burst out of his chest.
Another AWESOME spoof movie is “Loaded Weapon 1” with Samual L. Jackson and Emilio Esteves. They play spoof characters of the Lethal Weapon franchise. It also spoofs Silence of the Lambs, Die Hard, and a host of other action stereotypes. Bruce Willis actually spoofs his character from Die Hard. It’s well worth watching. It’s freakin’ hilarious.
I worked on this film as one of the Purple Crewmembers on the aircraft carrier. The carrier was built of wood on the cliff bluff in Palos Verdes, CA at the old Marineland that had just closed. The planes on the carrier were fake and could be pushed around easily. I worked on the sequel as a prisoner of war and it was funny too. Lloyd Bridges becomes the President in the sequel "Hot Shots Part Deux".
Michael Jackson's siblings were often the butt of jokes back in those days hence the indian saying "Tito, Jermaine." back then everyone would have immediately recognized the names.
I was so happy to see Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson together in this. One my favorites with them is "The Chase" (1992, I think), which was heaps of fun.
Not star as such but Richard Crenna plays the same part both in Rambo and in Hot Shots Part Deux which is amazing. I haven't found another case of an actor playing the same part both in the original and in the parody.
In spaceballs, there was a scene at the end that spoofed the Alien scene where the xenomorph exploded from the guy's chest. They used the original actor, and he even said "not again!"
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And that actor was, of course, the late, great John Hurt.
The Freshman starring Matt Broderick as a new NYU student who gets caught up with a NY mafia boss played by Marlon Brando spoofing his Godfather character. One of my favorite movies.
Near the end, the dentist saying "Is it safe?" is a reference to Marathon Man, a 70s thriller starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. A great movie, BTW
the "is it safe" reference at the end of the movie was a weird choice as even when this movie was released that would have been a deep cut. If you've not seen it Marathon Man is a great 70's thriller that they pulled from. Even weirder is how dark that is it safe" scene is to reference it in a comedy.
Indeed, you'd have to be a Movie expert to catch every gag & reference. Because of that people w/different movie histories, each see a somewhat different movie w/different jokes when they watch this movie. Including some who say, I don't 'get it'. But, Movie lovers, can watch it 10 times & catch something they've missed on every viewing.
The reason Airplane! feels more coherent as a story is because it’s based on an actual disaster movie (Zero Hour from 1957) that they bought the rights to and added jokes to it, rather than just hanging a story around a series of scenes.
@Rocket1377...Your using "basically identical" quite liberally, don't you think?? No secret mission to train for, no defense contractor sabotage, no love triangle, etc The only connection that holds up through both is the family history angle with their father's military records, that's about it...
Zero Hour! Is a trip to watch after viewing Airplane! Especially if you aren’t Canadian which throws the geographic orientation of the flight tracking off for the non Canadian viewer Your waiting for the punchlines that never happen and all the cities are referenced are Canadian because it was a Canadian film.
When I first saw Airplane in the theater when it first came out it seemed so familiar to me it seemed I had seen it before. Which was impossible. I later realized I had seen Zero Hour and that was why Airplane seemed so familiar.
What you were saying about the scene with Ramada singing in the red dress is very funny. That scene is taken from a movie called "The Fabulous Baker Boys" where Michelle Pfeiffer is the singer in the red dress, and she said in an interview that she felt ridiculous sliding around on top of the piano singing in the red dress. So, good call :).
A lot of the scenes like the food sex scene (9 1/2 weeks) and the crawling on piano scene (The fabulous Baker Boys) are spoofs on actual scenes in 80s movies - not just top gun :)
Lloyd Bochner in the second Naked Gun film references his legendary Twilight Zone episode appearance, To Serve Man, yelling out "It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!" It cracks me up every time.
Lloyd Bridges is THE factor in the Hot Shots movies to me, he already was big time in Airplane, imo. I am laughing tears every time I see him drop out of the plane, fall down the stairs to flight deck or tell some weird stories😂😂😂 As always, great reaction, keep going, greetings from Germany!🙂 Ps. As much as I love seeing you react to comedy movies, I'd also like to suggest the imo best German movie of all times, "Das Boot" , directed by Wolfgang Petersen. I'd love to see, how you like it(if you decide to, go for German with english subs, the dubbing is... awful🤐😬)
Loaded Weapon has some cameos of actors from some shows. The dog gag was just a random thing that would happen when it wasn’t expected.It’s kind of a thing if you have a small dog or know people that have small dogs where you tend to accidentally step on it or sit on it when you not paying attention.
Hot Shots part Deux has Richard Crenna in it spoofing his own character from the first three Rambo movies. He only agreed to do it after getting Stallone’s blessing.
Your question George of if there had ever been a spoof where the original actor came back? There was Repossessed starring Linda Blair. Really funny film where Reagan grows up and becomes a mother and the possession starts again. With Leslie Nielson as the exorcist.
Any "spoof" movie involving the names Zucker, Abrahams, (or, Zucker *AND* Abrahams) or Brooks is probably going to be pretty good. I do increasingly believe that there should be an annotated version of these movies, for when the references become a tad dated.
The girl on the piano at about 11:20 is definitely a spoof of Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys! You gotta see that one, it is a brilliant movie! Michelle doing Making Whoopie is unforgettable!
Paula Abdul was Charlie Sheen's sister-in-law at the time of this movie. Hot Shots Part Deux is just as funny and makes fun of Chuck Norris and Rambo movies. This was also spoofing the Iron Eagles series which likely don't hold up very well, they're USAF have cool jets too movies.
The spoof movie has persisted in certain forms, but it's evolved some since Date Movie/Epic Movie/Disaster Movie poisoned the well. In particular, there are a few modern-ish movies that have perpetuated it, all of which are pretty good, and almost all of which involve music. In 2007, we got two: Judd Apatow produced the music spoof Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, which is great, and that same year The Lonely Island made their movie debut with Hot Rod. Both of them returned to the well a few years later: Apatow produced the action spoof The Other Guys in 2010, and in 2016, The Lonely Island returned with Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, which is a mockumentary-style parody. Most recently, Weird Al followed in the footsteps of Walk Hard with Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, which would make a good pairing with his 1980s spoof-driven comedy UHF. I would also say that Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are spoofs, just not quite as slapsticky/cartoons (and you've already done them). I also recommend the same classics of the genre you'll see all over the comments: Top Secret!, the other two entries in the Naked Gun trilogy, and Hot Shots! Part Deux. There's also the film the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team made *before* Airplane!, Kentucky Fried Movie, and the similar sketchy-spoof film Amazon Women on the Moon (which, if you watch it, watch through the credits). Finally, at the tail end of the original era, there was the Fugitive parody Wrongfully Accused, which I remember as being much better than the other late-'90s Leslie Nielsen spoof movie Spy Hard (which was the first volley by the guys who would go onto do Date/Epic/Disaster).
I would also give an honorable mention to 21 & 22 Jump Street. I don't think they quite fit into the "spoof movie genre," but they have some of those same spoof-movie elements.
@@Matt_Mosley1983 "Can you believe that that was John C. Reilly's FIRST comedic performance" Not really. He was in Boogie Nights 10 years earlier and in Talladega Nights the year before Walk Hard.
👆🏼 Everything this guy said, pretty spot on. I never cared for the latter Leslie Neilsen movies (Spy Hard, etc.) but otherwise agree with all of it. UHF is a classic. And Pop Star is freaking HILARIOUS.
@@Matt_Mosley1983 1. boogie nights was absolutely a comedy...that descends into a drama... and Reilly's role was clearly comic relief...unless of course you think that "Rockin' Reed Rothchild" was a serious dramatic character. 2. "as I understand it WALK HARD was filmed first but came out second." You understand it wrong. Talladega came out in August 2006, Walk Hard did not come out till a year and a half later, December 2007. Judd Apatow chose Reilly for Walk Hard, Precisely because he'd just worked with him. Judd Apatow: "I had just worked with him on Talladega Nights. So he was someone I was astounded by on a daily basis. I knew he was a fantastic singer, so we never considered anybody else. John took it very, very seriously. Early on, he made it very clear he wanted to be deeply involved in all creative aspects of the movie."
for the original top gun, you can find some behind the scenes footage. they're actually using model planes and just manually shaking the camera. it was ingenious.
I love classic parody movies like Naked Gun, Hot Shots, Top Secret, Airplane. I think you are gonna love Hot Shots 2: Part Deux. Because you have watched some of the movies they spoof in that. Looking forward to it. You asked if there been a star in the original movie that is in a spoof movie, well you'll see if you watch Hot Shots 2.
Charlie Sheen can go from being being in a Great War drama like Platoon to being in a great spoof comedy. There was a time when he was a good actor. Another great comedy of his that I recommend is “Men at Work” with his brother Emilio Esteves.
To answer your question at 4:20 there hasn't been a movie per say, but in Space Balls the guy in the diner with the Alien Chest Burster is played by John Hurt. Same actor who was the first ever Chest Burster victim in Alien. Hence why his character even says "Not again."
Spoof movies with an original star, the best example I can think of is "Not Another Teen Movie." Spoofing all the various teen dramas/comedies, Molly Ringwald does make an appearance and she was great.
Can't believe nobody has mentioned it yet... Beat the Devil (1953) is a spoof of Film Noir, basically a spoof of Bogart movies. Not only does it star Humphrey Bogart in the lead role, he's also the executive producer. Not appreciated in its time, it is extremely funny.
The thing about the "ZAZ" (Zucker Abrams Zucker) movies is the sheer *number* of jokes, gags, puns, parodies, and so on. Like if the first joke didn't make you laugh, there's another one right on it's tail. I think "Airplane" even has a record of most jokes per minute. And the Annoying Dog is, well, just that. A little dog who shows up to be in somebody's way whenever it's funny. There IS some payoff in the next "Hot Shots", but I think the first movie's simple "Why is this dog here" running gag is funnier.
In the 90s, Paula Abdul was not only a famous singer, but an ex-Lakers girl and a dancer and a sought after dance choreographer. She was the dancer choreographer for Janet Jackson before she got big
The difference between the spoof movies in the 80s/90s versus the 2000s ones that messed everything up is that the earlier ones played it straight. You watched a world/universe that was completely absurd and everyone in it thought it was normal. The 2000s ones changed into "Hey look, we are spoofing this thing. Aren't we funny? Look! Look!" Making the movies unbearable and annoying
You asked if an original actor ever shows up in the spoof movie? Yes, in Hot Shots Part Deux. Check it out if you get a chance! Oh, and many, many of these jokes are random references to other movies. For example, the Indian bit was Dancing With Wolves. The piano singing bit was Fabulous Baker Boys. The food bit was 9 1/2 Weeks. Guessing the references is part of what makes these spoof movies so much fun! 😃
At 4:22 George asks if there has been a spoof movie in which the original actor from the original movie appears in the spoof. Answer: Hot Shots Part Deux. I won't spoil who.
In the movie Varsity Blues actor Ron Lester played a character called Billy Bob. In the movie Not Another Teen Movie he played a spoof of himself called Reggie Ray.
A spoof that features the original actor is in Spaceballs when they do the parody of Alien in the diner at the end John Hurt reprises his role as Kane the guy who the alien bursts out of his chest. So in spaceballs when it happens again he says “oh no, not again”
Tons of fun - ZAZ were up there w/Mel Brooks for parodies. FYI: Jim Abrahams (the A of ZAZ) had his 79th birthday 2 days ago. Also - the fridge scene is a spoof of 9 1/ weeks w/Mickey Rourke & Kim Basinger. And just go w/the dog joke - it's just random nutiness as a running gag.
A couple of movie parodies from the day you didn't notice- the piano bar is from Fabulous Baker Boys and the food sex scene is from 9 1/2 weeks. The "is it safe?" In the dentist chair from Marathon Man. The dog is just a running joke.
The dentist at the end is a reference to a Dustin Hoffman classic from the 1970s. Marathon Man. You guys need to react to that film. It's a great thriller with an iconic scary scene.
Hot Shots Part Deux is somehow even funnier than the first one.
Unless I see topper throw bullets and use a chicken as a arrow i don't wanna see it
"They tied my shoelaces together !"
@@o0pinkdino0o "A knot....Bastards.."
This is only true if you have watched the films that are referenced there.
And they didn't catch many references even here - for example on Flashdance. Or Dances with Wolves.
I way second this.
Pro Tip: Don't try to drink anything when Lloyd Bridges is on screen.
Also, "Hot Shots! Part Deux" (1993) is definitely worth watching. Somehow Lloyd Bridges is even funnier in the sequel.
And it also partially answers George's question about whether an actor from a film being spoofed ever appears in the spoof too...
Honestly surprised they didn't recognise Lloyd from Airplane!
Looks like they picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
@@dernwine Yes, they did. George said something along the lines of "Oh god, they've promoted the airplane guy to admiral".
@@bujin1977 Best cameo of all time!
@@bujin1977A case could be made for Rodger Moore playing Seymour Goldfarb in Cannonball Run.
It did broil Albert Broccoli.
And A case could be made Star Trek V really should be views as a parody
Top Secret! has some spoof elements in it, has similar humor, and is directed by the Zucker Abrams Zucker trio who directed Airplane! You may want to add that to your list.
I recently rewatched both Hot Shots!es and watched Top Secret! for the first time. The latter felt really fresh and hilarious, Hot Shots! did nothing for me unfortunately. I feel like ZAZ worked best as a trio, but when they went solo, they lost some of the magic.
Top Secret is great! Still have never seen anything like the underwater fight scene to this day.
That was one of my favourite films. It's a must see!
And it has Val Kilmer in it.
@@BandOfHarjaps Val Kilmer's first leading movie role too. He does all the dancing and singing in it.
I can confirm in the 90's you always had to check your seat for a Chihuahua.
Nobody ever questioned it to my knowledge
Yeah the younger generations are oblivious of our battle against the chair-stealing Chihuahuas. We almost lost Earth that time.
It was a wild time!
I certainly did.
I had a Chihuahua in the 80s and 90s.
Some of the more random seeming stuff was spoofing other well known movies from around the same time as Top Gun, like the food/fridge thing was spoofing a famous scene from 9 1/2 Weeks (1986) with Mickey Rourke and Kim Bassinger and the piano scene was taken from The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) with Jeff and Beau Bridges and Michelle Pfeiffer.
smiles they really need to check out these movies before.
Some were even older such as the dentist @ 25:35 who asks "Is It Safe" That is from "Marathon Man" which was 26 years before this film.
Hot Shots and its sequel were decent, but this it where the diminishing returns start and the spoof movies just tried to reference as many current movies as possible. It got to a point where the reference was more important than the joke.
Pretty sure there's a bit of An Officer and a Gentlemen in there too. Is it my imagination or was Charlie Sheen in a slightly dumb military action movie called Navy Seals a year or two before Hot Shots? And if so, does this qualify as an answer to George's question?
@@Rocket1377 I think most reactors don't get the reference, when the elder is talking. He says Latoya, Tito and Jermaine. Those are three siblings from the Jackson family. You know as in Michael Jackson. 😂
One of my favourite running gags is the infestation of chihuahuas. No. There is no explanation. It's just funny.
Plus, Cary Elwes is impossibly handsome here. Good lord.
It's a joke ripped right out of the first episode of Monty Python where they kept sitting on sheep.
I always assumed it was the same chihuahua.
Just a running gag.
Young Doctors in Love did something similar with a dwarf.
My mom had a Chihuahua when I was a kid. It used to burrow into the couch cushions. Everytime you sat on the couch, a Chihuahua would snap at you.
my mind went to "dogfighting", but i'm not sure it has any meaning
National lampoon's loaded weapon has Bruce Willis appear essentially as his character from die hard for a cameo.
My personal favorite cameo from loaded weapon is having Charlie Sheen show up as Emilio's valet do the fact that they are brothers in real life
"You got anything smaller?'
"Keep it."
"...Got anything larger?"
Very underrated movie.
One of my favorite spoofs. Such a good movie!
@@jculver1674... Yeah.
The sequel Hotshots part Duex parodies Apocalypse Now and has a brief cameo from Martin Sheen. That's at least one case where the original actor appeared in the parody. Another example is when John Hurt appeared in Spaceballs to reprise his Alien chest bursting scene and utters the line, "not again."
Charlie Sheen was also in Platoon, so he's starring in a parody of his own movie.
Ron Lester (Billy Bob in "Varsity Blues") spoofing himself in "Not Another Teen Movie" was, imo, the best instance.
Richard Cennar comes back to play Trautman in Part 2 as well
Or in the same movie commander troutman from rambo literally plays the same role as he did in the rambo movies
I was about to reference John Hurt's Spaceballs appearance...
Admiral Benson taking the earbuds like pills gets me every time. The timing of that whole segment is perfect.
He steals every scene he's in, but that's my favorite moment of his! 😄
Loved that, it was the scene I loled the most watching this xD
The Native American asking for batteries is just naming off Michael Jackson's siblings. "Latoya, Tito, Jermaine..."
You should put "Top Secret" on your list if you like spoofs, that was Val Kilmer's first role and hilarious! 🤣
Loaded Weapon (leathal weapon spoof with insane cast), Hot Shots 2 (Rambo 2 & 3 spoof) and Scary Movie (Scream and I know what you did last summer) are other amazing parody movies that I can't recommend enough
I am eagerly awaiting their viewing of Loaded Weapon. I want to say so much, but Its hard to explain why it is so good without spoiling it.
17:04 he’s referencing the godfather, saying “moe green, tatalia, barzini, all the heads of the five families are dead.”
This is classic but HOTSHOTS PART DEUX is even more hysterical.
Please do the sequel too:-) It is the rare comedy sequel that’s actually good
4:30 In Hot Shots Part Deux, the movie is a spoof on Rambo, and one of the Rambo actors reprises his role for the whole movie. It’s amazing
It also has one of the GREATEST fourth wall destroying cameos of all time 👍
The police chief in 48 hrs, Loaded Weapon, and Last Action Hero.
The food scene is a reference to 9 1/2 weeks.
The sitting on the chihuahua recurring gag is simply an exercise in dismissing returns. I love it. For some reason, the hardest I laugh is the damn “it’s Vick’s… I have a cold.” line.
I’m a very fickle person when it comes to spoof movies. I can take or leave Airplane and i actually don’t enjoy Space Balls. But all three Naked Guns, both Hot Shots and Men In tights are genius in my opinion.
Star Trek - Trouble with Tribbles.
From this movie I learned that crabs travel in pairs.
I think the term you're going for is "diminishing returns."
@@TreyBlythe yes indeed I did. Sometimes typing on an iPad on my lap sucks for misspelling and erroneous auto-correct.
You like ZAZ movies, and that's OK. They're my favorites too.
The only time I can remember an original star showing up in a spoof/parody/movie was Robert Patrick who played the T-1000 and literally played the T-1000 in Wayne's World in one of the most random, funniest scenes ever imo. He also had a small cameo as such in Last Action Hero.
@@BETMARKonTube Well that's more a direct starring role in a spoof/parody whereas the ones I was referring to were just cameos or small roles. But I guess it would still count since that movie is a parody of The Exorcist with Linda Blair in it (though the movie is pretty bad lol)
@@BETMARKonTube Yeah I'd guess Martin Sheen would count and the Bruce Willis one, not sure if he was McLane or just "generic action hero guy" either lol
@@BETMARKonTube See this is what happens when you approach 50. You forget all this shit lol
"If it helps, I didn't have seconds." ... I loved the delayed reaction on that one. :D
You got John Hurt spoofing his scene from Alien in Space Balls, I suppose that counts as an original actor in a spoof!
Similar, Molly Ringwald at the end of Not Another Teen Movie.
“Not Another Teen Movie” is the last great parody movie. It does feature a couple actors in it from the movies it spoofs. You should definitely watch it, as I think you have seen most of the movies it parodies now: American Pie, She’s All That, Cruel Intentions, every John Hughes teen movie.
I think you're correct.
To me that movie is the turning point of the parody movie genre. It's such an odd mix of wholesome 1980's movies being parodied, with a lot of raunchy 2000's movies being parodied at the same time.
All the good bits would be blocked from TH-cam, wouldn't they?
Agree, the parody genre largely died after that one.
The cameo at the end was a fitting closeout for the genre.
_"Has there ever been a spoof movie where the star from the original suddenly shows up?"_
Literally Hot Shots, Part Deux. *"I loved you in Wall Street!"*
Sitting on Chihuahua is a spoof on Caprain Kirk sitting on a Tribble in the original Star Trek episode The Trouble with Tribbles.
"God I *love* a good funeral!" Such a great movie.
That may be my fave line. Oh wait... the doctor's entire segment is way funnier.
" who.put that crab there? "
" what crab? I didn't see any crab "
" Don't tell me there was no crab! There were 2 crabs, they travel in pairs "
Gets me every time
So glad you guys did this. You absolutely have to do the sequel, it's amazing
My dad showed me this when I was tiny because he had a ridiculous sense of humor. Cant wait for Part Deux!
RIP Baklavah, Pita, Hummus, Taoubleh, Couscous, Babaganoush and Kabob. You did your best.
The scene of making eggs and bacon in the stomach are a spoof of "9 1/2 weeks" with Kim Basinger. This movie was so fun and the sequel have his moments too. PD Love your laughs Simone
4:28 - Spaceballs. At the tail end of the movie, in the diner, an alien bursts out of someone's chest. They look down at it and say "Oh no. Not again". That man was John Hurt, who starred in the original Alien, and whose character died when the Xenomorph burst out of his chest.
Another AWESOME spoof movie is “Loaded Weapon 1” with Samual L. Jackson and Emilio Esteves. They play spoof characters of the Lethal Weapon franchise. It also spoofs Silence of the Lambs, Die Hard, and a host of other action stereotypes. Bruce Willis actually spoofs his character from Die Hard. It’s well worth watching. It’s freakin’ hilarious.
Loaded Weapon 1 is awesome. I also have fondness for Fatal Instinct. Not the greatest, but still love it.
@@Redundant_underscore That's a good one. But I don' think Simone and George have seen any of the movies it spoofs.
Lloyd Bridges, man! What an absolute fucking legend! 😂😂😂
I worked on this film as one of the Purple Crewmembers on the aircraft carrier. The carrier was built of wood on the cliff bluff in Palos Verdes, CA at the old Marineland that had just closed. The planes on the carrier were fake and could be pushed around easily. I worked on the sequel as a prisoner of war and it was funny too. Lloyd Bridges becomes the President in the sequel "Hot Shots Part Deux".
Michael Jackson's siblings were often the butt of jokes back in those days hence the indian saying "Tito, Jermaine." back then everyone would have immediately recognized the names.
I was so happy to see Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson together in this. One my favorites with them is "The Chase" (1992, I think), which was heaps of fun.
Henry Rollins as a cop too, right ?
Not star as such but Richard Crenna plays the same part both in Rambo and in Hot Shots Part Deux which is amazing. I haven't found another case of an actor playing the same part both in the original and in the parody.
Repossessed. Linda Blair.
John Hurt in Alien and Spaceballs?
In spaceballs, there was a scene at the end that spoofed the Alien scene where the xenomorph exploded from the guy's chest. They used the original actor, and he even said "not again!"
And that actor was, of course, the late, great John Hurt.
The Freshman starring Matt Broderick as a new NYU student who gets caught up with a NY mafia boss played by Marlon Brando spoofing his Godfather character. One of my favorite movies.
Near the end, the dentist saying "Is it safe?" is a reference to Marathon Man, a 70s thriller starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier. A great movie, BTW
The sitting on the dog is what is called in comedy...a running gag.
Wait to watch Part Deux 😸 You brought back so many memories, thanks Guys!
4:23 Yes. The spoof of The Exorcist
called *Repossessed* features Linda
Blair (the girl from The Exorcist.)
the "is it safe" reference at the end of the movie was a weird choice as even when this movie was released that would have been a deep cut. If you've not seen it Marathon Man is a great 70's thriller that they pulled from. Even weirder is how dark that is it safe" scene is to reference it in a comedy.
I have a coworker who says "Is it safe?" He the most random of people.
I heard that line first on Gremlins 2
Indeed, you'd have to be a Movie expert to catch every gag & reference. Because of that people w/different movie histories, each see a somewhat different movie w/different jokes when they watch this movie. Including some who say, I don't 'get it'. But, Movie lovers, can watch it 10 times & catch something they've missed on every viewing.
In Spaceballs, John Hurt comes back to repeat the Alien scene with the xenomorph coming out of his chest.
The reason Airplane! feels more coherent as a story is because it’s based on an actual disaster movie (Zero Hour from 1957) that they bought the rights to and added jokes to it, rather than just hanging a story around a series of scenes.
Exactly!!!
@Rocket1377...Your using "basically identical" quite liberally, don't you think??
No secret mission to train for, no defense contractor sabotage, no love triangle, etc
The only connection that holds up through both is the family history angle with their father's military records, that's about it...
Zero Hour! Is a trip to watch after viewing Airplane! Especially if you aren’t Canadian which throws the geographic orientation of the flight tracking off for the non Canadian viewer
Your waiting for the punchlines that never happen and all the cities are referenced are Canadian because it was a Canadian film.
When I first saw Airplane in the theater when it first came out it seemed so familiar to me it seemed I had seen it before. Which was impossible. I later realized I had seen Zero Hour and that was why Airplane seemed so familiar.
What you were saying about the scene with Ramada singing in the red dress is very funny. That scene is taken from a movie called "The Fabulous Baker Boys" where Michelle Pfeiffer is the singer in the red dress, and she said in an interview that she felt ridiculous sliding around on top of the piano singing in the red dress. So, good call :).
A lot of the scenes like the food sex scene (9 1/2 weeks) and the crawling on piano scene (The fabulous Baker Boys) are spoofs on actual scenes in 80s movies - not just top gun :)
Lloyd Bochner in the second Naked Gun film references his legendary Twilight Zone episode appearance, To Serve Man, yelling out "It's a cookbook! It's a cookbook!" It cracks me up every time.
Lloyd Bridges is THE factor in the Hot Shots movies to me, he already was big time in Airplane, imo. I am laughing tears every time I see him drop out of the plane, fall down the stairs to flight deck or tell some weird stories😂😂😂 As always, great reaction, keep going, greetings from Germany!🙂 Ps. As much as I love seeing you react to comedy movies, I'd also like to suggest the imo best German movie of all times, "Das Boot" , directed by Wolfgang Petersen. I'd love to see, how you like it(if you decide to, go for German with english subs, the dubbing is... awful🤐😬)
Every time you watch hot shots you notice new things in the background. I loved these movies as a child.
Loaded Weapon has some cameos of actors from some shows. The dog gag was just a random thing that would happen when it wasn’t expected.It’s kind of a thing if you have a small dog or know people that have small dogs where you tend to accidentally step on it or sit on it when you not paying attention.
Ron Lester parodied his own Varsity Blues character in Not Another Teen Movie.
Hot Shots part Deux has Richard Crenna in it spoofing his own character from the first three Rambo movies. He only agreed to do it after getting Stallone’s blessing.
I love that even after all of that...
"How'd that horse get there?"
Your question George of if there had ever been a spoof where the original actor came back? There was Repossessed starring Linda Blair. Really funny film where Reagan grows up and becomes a mother and the possession starts again. With Leslie Nielson as the exorcist.
Richard Crenna played a version of his character from Rambo in the Sequel to Hot Shots.
The red dress scene is the fabulous baker boys…the whole movie isnt just top gun but mainly
The realisation that there are people who have not seen Hot Shots, is somehow making me feel older than I am.
i don't think I ever saw Hot Shots, but I certainly saw Hot Shots 2 a lot of times...
4:20 Yes, George. John Hurt in Spaceballs.
One of my favourite silly smart movies. Glad you got around to watching this one :)
Valeria in the red dress on the piano is what Michelle Pfeiffer does in the Fabulous Baker Boys
Any "spoof" movie involving the names Zucker, Abrahams, (or, Zucker *AND* Abrahams) or Brooks is probably going to be pretty good. I do increasingly believe that there should be an annotated version of these movies, for when the references become a tad dated.
The girl on the piano at about 11:20 is definitely a spoof of Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys! You gotta see that one, it is a brilliant movie! Michelle doing Making Whoopie is unforgettable!
Paula Abdul was Charlie Sheen's sister-in-law at the time of this movie. Hot Shots Part Deux is just as funny and makes fun of Chuck Norris and Rambo movies. This was also spoofing the Iron Eagles series which likely don't hold up very well, they're USAF have cool jets too movies.
“Eagle river?”
I use it every time I share a memory and someone is connected 😂😂😂
The spoof movie has persisted in certain forms, but it's evolved some since Date Movie/Epic Movie/Disaster Movie poisoned the well. In particular, there are a few modern-ish movies that have perpetuated it, all of which are pretty good, and almost all of which involve music. In 2007, we got two: Judd Apatow produced the music spoof Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, which is great, and that same year The Lonely Island made their movie debut with Hot Rod. Both of them returned to the well a few years later: Apatow produced the action spoof The Other Guys in 2010, and in 2016, The Lonely Island returned with Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, which is a mockumentary-style parody. Most recently, Weird Al followed in the footsteps of Walk Hard with Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, which would make a good pairing with his 1980s spoof-driven comedy UHF. I would also say that Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are spoofs, just not quite as slapsticky/cartoons (and you've already done them).
I also recommend the same classics of the genre you'll see all over the comments: Top Secret!, the other two entries in the Naked Gun trilogy, and Hot Shots! Part Deux. There's also the film the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team made *before* Airplane!, Kentucky Fried Movie, and the similar sketchy-spoof film Amazon Women on the Moon (which, if you watch it, watch through the credits). Finally, at the tail end of the original era, there was the Fugitive parody Wrongfully Accused, which I remember as being much better than the other late-'90s Leslie Nielsen spoof movie Spy Hard (which was the first volley by the guys who would go onto do Date/Epic/Disaster).
I would also give an honorable mention to 21 & 22 Jump Street. I don't think they quite fit into the "spoof movie genre," but they have some of those same spoof-movie elements.
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"Can you believe that that was John C. Reilly's FIRST comedic performance"
Not really. He was in Boogie Nights 10 years earlier and in Talladega Nights the year before Walk Hard.
@@pokes404 I thought about it, but I tried to adhere to more openly cartoonish examples. In any case, they're already on the channel.
👆🏼 Everything this guy said, pretty spot on. I never cared for the latter Leslie Neilsen movies (Spy Hard, etc.) but otherwise agree with all of it. UHF is a classic. And Pop Star is freaking HILARIOUS.
@@Matt_Mosley1983
1. boogie nights was absolutely a comedy...that descends into a drama... and Reilly's role was clearly comic relief...unless of course you think that "Rockin' Reed Rothchild" was a serious dramatic character.
2. "as I understand it WALK HARD was filmed first but came out second."
You understand it wrong. Talladega came out in August 2006, Walk Hard did not come out till a year and a half later, December 2007. Judd Apatow chose Reilly for Walk Hard, Precisely because he'd just worked with him.
Judd Apatow:
"I had just worked with him on Talladega Nights. So he was someone I was astounded by on a daily basis. I knew he was a fantastic singer, so we never considered anybody else. John took it very, very seriously. Early on, he made it very clear he wanted to be deeply involved in all creative aspects of the movie."
3:05 This whole scene parodies Dances With Wolves if you haven't seen it.
Lloyd Bridges is a legend 😂
for the original top gun, you can find some behind the scenes footage. they're actually using model planes and just manually shaking the camera. it was ingenious.
I love classic parody movies like Naked Gun, Hot Shots, Top Secret, Airplane. I think you are gonna love Hot Shots 2: Part Deux. Because you have watched some of the movies they spoof in that. Looking forward to it. You asked if there been a star in the original movie that is in a spoof movie, well you'll see if you watch Hot Shots 2.
Robin Hood: Men In Tights was always a guilty pleasure of mine too!
@@wardenm Yeah, i also love Spaceballs
that refrigerator sequence is a parody of 9 1/2 weeks from 1986 with Mickey Rourke.
Charlie Sheen can go from being being in a Great War drama like Platoon to being in a great spoof comedy. There was a time when he was a good actor. Another great comedy of his that I recommend is “Men at Work” with his brother Emilio Esteves.
Somebody threw away a perfectly good white boy.
The piano scene is a parody of “The fabulous Baker Boys” and the food part is from “nine and a half weeks”
If you continue the Lethal Weapons, definitely watch Loaded Weapon 1. Very underrated spoof
I love Lloyd Bridges in those. His deadpan delivery is as good as Leslie Nielsen's.
Hot Shots 2 is the best one! Definitely watch the sequel!
Part deux is the best
To answer your question at 4:20 there hasn't been a movie per say, but in Space Balls the guy in the diner with the Alien Chest Burster is played by John Hurt. Same actor who was the first ever Chest Burster victim in Alien. Hence why his character even says "Not again."
Spoof movies with an original star, the best example I can think of is "Not Another Teen Movie." Spoofing all the various teen dramas/comedies, Molly Ringwald does make an appearance and she was great.
@@Matt_Mosley1983 Was that the same actor too? I didn't even notice at the time, but Van Der Beek and Larter were too distracting.
Spoiler for Hot Shots Part Deux but Martin Sheen does make an appearance spoofing his own role in Apocalypse Now. Very short but still...
Can't believe nobody has mentioned it yet... Beat the Devil (1953) is a spoof of Film Noir, basically a spoof of Bogart movies. Not only does it star Humphrey Bogart in the lead role, he's also the executive producer. Not appreciated in its time, it is extremely funny.
If you guys haven't seen 'Not another teen movie', please watch it. It's one of the best spoof movies ever made!
The thing about the "ZAZ" (Zucker Abrams Zucker) movies is the sheer *number* of jokes, gags, puns, parodies, and so on. Like if the first joke didn't make you laugh, there's another one right on it's tail. I think "Airplane" even has a record of most jokes per minute.
And the Annoying Dog is, well, just that. A little dog who shows up to be in somebody's way whenever it's funny. There IS some payoff in the next "Hot Shots", but I think the first movie's simple "Why is this dog here" running gag is funnier.
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Hot Shots Part Deux please, even funnier. Oh and Top Secret.😊
In the 90s, Paula Abdul was not only a famous singer, but an ex-Lakers girl and a dancer and a sought after dance choreographer. She was the dancer choreographer for Janet Jackson before she got big
The difference between the spoof movies in the 80s/90s versus the 2000s ones that messed everything up is that the earlier ones played it straight. You watched a world/universe that was completely absurd and everyone in it thought it was normal.
The 2000s ones changed into "Hey look, we are spoofing this thing. Aren't we funny? Look! Look!" Making the movies unbearable and annoying
Repossessed is a spoof of the exorcist and the main women in that, is the same actress who played the little girl in the exorcist
I always loved the running joke with the chihuahua. And Lloyd Bridges was great!
RIP, Lloyd Bridges. I was seven years old when this movie came out.
You asked if an original actor ever shows up in the spoof movie? Yes, in Hot Shots Part Deux. Check it out if you get a chance! Oh, and many, many of these jokes are random references to other movies. For example, the Indian bit was Dancing With Wolves. The piano singing bit was Fabulous Baker Boys. The food bit was 9 1/2 Weeks. Guessing the references is part of what makes these spoof movies so much fun! 😃
At 4:22 George asks if there has been a spoof movie in which the original actor from the original movie appears in the spoof. Answer: Hot Shots Part Deux. I won't spoil who.
A great example of comedy from taking phrases literally, is the 1951 MGM cartoon short "Symphony in Slang."
In the movie Varsity Blues actor Ron Lester played a character called Billy Bob. In the movie Not Another Teen Movie he played a spoof of himself called Reggie Ray.
“Two of them, they always work in pairs” I use that line to this day, anytime I lose my footing 😂😂😂
A spoof that features the original actor is in Spaceballs when they do the parody of Alien in the diner at the end John Hurt reprises his role as Kane the guy who the alien bursts out of his chest. So in spaceballs when it happens again he says “oh no, not again”
Tons of fun - ZAZ were up there w/Mel Brooks for parodies. FYI: Jim Abrahams (the A of ZAZ) had his 79th birthday 2 days ago. Also - the fridge scene is a spoof of 9 1/ weeks w/Mickey Rourke & Kim Basinger. And just go w/the dog joke - it's just random nutiness as a running gag.
A couple of movie parodies from the day you didn't notice- the piano bar is from Fabulous Baker Boys and the food sex scene is from 9 1/2 weeks. The "is it safe?" In the dentist chair from Marathon Man.
The dog is just a running joke.
The chihuahua bit is in there because it is simply funny, every, single, time.
The dentist at the end is a reference to a Dustin Hoffman classic from the 1970s. Marathon Man. You guys need to react to that film. It's a great thriller with an iconic scary scene.
Bruce Willis had a cameo in "National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1". IIRC he was playing his character from "The Last Boy Scout".
Repossessed (1990) is a parody of The Exorcist, and has Linda Blair reprising her original role, also Leslie Nielsen as the priest
@4:23 Check out Hot Shots Part Deux. The original actor from Rambo trilogy “reprised” his role.