What movies, books or tv shows are meant to spoof/parody a particular genre while actually being a great example of the genre?

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What movies, books or tv shows are meant to spoof/parody a particular genre while actually being a great example of the genre? - Lemmy.world

The 3 that come to mind for me are Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The Princess Bride. All three are poking fun at their respective genres but also are great examples of the genre. I’m curious if Lemmy has other such examples.

After many seasons, it turned out that Joss Whedon was secretly the Big Bad.

Anyone know what’s up with him?

Last I remember hearing allegations from the Justice League team… Nothing further.

He’s made some of my favourite movies, including both Avengers 1 and 2, and Cabin in the Woods… So it was disheartening to hear such stuff about him.

There were more allegations? I only knew about Charisma Carpenter and the Buffy cast.
Goddammit. We’ve both shattered each others “ignorance is bliss” moments lol.

I read that Allison Hannigan stood by Whedon, kinda ignoring Charisma’s suffering under him. Which is why I don’t like her anymore.

But there was a lot of shit wrong there…James Marsters was so infatuated with underage Michelle Trachtenberg, that he even wrote a very questionable song about her.

Finding all this out kinda ruins my teenage memories of the show.

That’s a bummer.

I love her in so many things.

I haven’t seen Charisma so idk any of the rest but I’m sad that he created some of my favourite work and destroyed his reputation and my respect for him all at once.

Yeah, his work had a lot of fans who are very disappointed. And he doesn’t even own up to his shitty behavior. There are also people who defend him though. Which is pretty shitty. Allegations came from multiple believeable people who have absolutely no reason to smear him and tell lies.
Dammit. Honestly, Allison Hannigan not saying anything hurt me more.
Yeah, me too. I liked her as an actress.