Parody

Parodies of tv shows or movies that
are better than the show they are based on

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Super Dimension Macross was supposed to be a parody of shows like Mobile Suit Gundam and especially Space Runaway Ideon. It turned out to be the best mecha show ever made for television.

No.

What do you think the best mecha show is then? Votoms? The action and setting were really cool, but the actual story was mediocre at best.

Tough call but if you held my feet to the fire I would say Giant Robo or Gunbuster. I really liked Bokurano too but it didn't feel like a mecha show even if it ostensibly was, if I'm making sense saying that.

I agree, but those are OVAs. They weren't made for TV.

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Young Frankenstein.
The dad on Everybody Loves Raymond plays Frankenstein's monster.
Austin Powers, depending on which movie it's ripping.
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Parodies are a pretty jewish thing. Instead of creating something new, they take the ideas of others and make fun of it. A good formula to generate shekels. They did it way before way before there were movies.

Light years better than the Kevin Costner tragedy.

Mel Brooks was the king of parodies. God Bless him.

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yeah he's a jew but that never bugged me that much. The comedy is all that matters to me.

I don't get it. Where's the parody? Macross is every bit as serious as Gundam, telling an honest war story about the toll war has on one's own humanity. It has a few goofy mecha designs and some of the Zentradi are played as comic characters, but Gundam had things like the Zakrello and the Zock, plus orphan trio antics.

Are you saying it was supposed to be a parody initially, but that element was dropped? Because even from the very first episode, there aren't any signs of it.

In any case, to answer OP, Galaxy Quest, especially in comparison to the Star Trek films that were coming out at the time.

would you say that Evangellion was a good deconstruction of the mecha genre or not? Because from what you described it seemed like the Mecha genre was allready pretty serious to begin with.

No, he was not. He was the proto-stage of 'films' like Date Movie, Not another Teen Movie and so on.

'So, you like Star Wars, eh? WELL, FUCK YOU AND YOUR ACTION FIGURES, YOU IMBECILE! Oh, what's that? You actually enjoyed Costner's Robin Hood film? WELL, FUCK YOU AND YOUR BRYAN ADAMS SOUNDTRACK, YOU CRETIN!'

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It was all played serious, yes, but the parody was in the ridiculous concepts, like having the alien race be defeated by a little girl singing at them or having an entire city inside of a space ship.

Evangelion deconstruction stuff was just a side effect of the psycho bullshit, if you change the mecha for any other genre like sentai or magical girls or some shit it works just as fine.
Although EVA has its fair share of mistakes a lot of criticism comes from "dropping the deconstruction for psycho analisis" and while I agree the "psycho analysis" could've done better the truth is that it was there since just about before entering the mecha and the mecha is just a tool for the lore and nothing more.

Compare it to Madoka that was a straight deconstruction with the psycho stuff being a side effect of this deconstruction, if you change Madoka's Magical Girl for mecha it breaks the whole thing apart.

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It also helps that Madoka was tripe in the first place.

Sure thing

Madoka was ok 7.5/10, I would say that gets good until episode 6 wich is sad.
The first episodes sin too much on creating fake tension between the characters.

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