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The washed-up cast of a canceled space show gets abducted by aliens who watched the reruns and thought they were documentaries. "Never give up, never surrender!" The Star Trek parody so good that actual Trek fans voted it one of the best Star Trek films — and it isn't one.
Tim Burton's $80 million love letter to a gory 1962 trading-card set: cackling bug-eyed Martians vaporizing Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, and half of Hollywood — until Slim Whitman's yodeling makes their heads explode. Five months after Independence Day played it straight, this played it very, very weird.
The king of musical parody, Alfred Matthew Yankovic turned accordion jokes and lyrical hijinks into a decade-long MTV empire. He made fun of the songs everyone loved—and everyone watched him do it.