They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the best and funniest spoof scenes in movies, now matter how big or small the reference is.
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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the best and funniest spoof
00:08scenes in movies, no matter how big or small the reference is.
00:20Number 20.
00:21The Snozzberries from Willy Wonka.
00:23Super Troopers.
00:24Vermont state troopers pull over a car where the occupants are using narcotics.
00:28They tried to ditch the drugs by ingesting a ton and throwing some out the window, but
00:32it didn't work.
00:33The troopers, Thorny and Rabbit, enjoy messing
00:42with the guys before they place them in the back of a patrol car.
00:45A bit later, after a high-speed chase, one of the guys is seen licking the divider window
00:49of the car and says that the Snozzberries taste like Snozzberries.
00:53In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, one of the products produced by Wonka is lickable
00:57wallpaper where if you like certain fruits, it'll taste like said fruits, and included
01:01is the Snozzberry.
01:08Number 19.
01:09The T-1000 from Terminator 2 Judgment Day.
01:12Wayne's World.
01:13Wayne's World is filled with tons of classic bits, but perhaps one of the most surprising
01:17is the appearance of the T-1000.
01:24When Wayne races over to where Cassandra is shooting a music video, he's pulled over
01:27by a police officer on a motorcycle.
01:29There's a slow build-up as the cop walks up to the Garth Mobile, takes off his helmet,
01:33and holds up a picture asking Wayne if he's seen the boy.
01:42Of course, it's Robert Patrick reprising his role from Terminator 2 Judgment Day.
01:46Understandably, Wayne takes off screaming.
01:48We would too.
01:50Number 18.
01:51The Notepad from North by Northwest.
01:53The Big Lebowski.
01:54The dude gets caught up in an elaborate extortion plot when he's mistaken as Jeffrey Lebowski,
01:59given that he and the other Lebowski share the same name.
02:02This brings the dude into contact with Jackie Trehorn, a big-time producer of Erotica.
02:23He meets Trehorn at his home, where they're trying to work out a solution to their problem.
02:27Suddenly, Trehorn gets a call and writes something down on a notepad.
02:30He momentarily leaves the room, and the dude cleverly shades the notepad Trehorn used
02:34only to find he drew a dirty sketch.
02:44This is a spoof on North by Northwest, where the same technique is used, but it yields
02:48useful information.
02:50Number 17.
02:51Dawn of Man from 2001 A Space Odyssey.
02:54Zoolander.
02:55The fashion industry has been behind many political assassinations over the years, and
02:59the Malaysian Prime Minister is the next target.
03:08Derek Zoolander and Hansel McDonald break into the office of Zoolander's agent to recover
03:12incriminating computer files.
03:14However, the duo aren't exactly the brightest and don't actually know how to operate or
03:18even turn on the computer.
03:19Puzzled, they resort to slapping and hitting the machine while making ape vocalizations.
03:30This is very similar to how the apes in 2001 A Space Odyssey react once the monolith appears.
03:35Hansel is even about to use a bone to strike the computer, but he's stopped by Derek.
03:39Number 16.
03:40Kevin Costner from Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.
03:43Robin Hood Men in Tights.
03:45After being captured during the Crusades, Robin of Loxley returns to England to find
03:49that his home has been repossessed and that King John, along with the Sheriff of Rottingham,
03:53have been unfairly treating the citizens of the land.
04:06Robin decides to confront the King at a lavish banquet.
04:08He openly accuses John of being an usurper and demands that he stops levying new taxes
04:13or he will leave the people of England in a rebellion.
04:16When John asks why people should listen to him, Robin replies that he can actually speak
04:20with an English accent.
04:30This is a direct reference to Kevin Costner's performance in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves,
04:34where he doesn't exactly sound like an English native.
04:37Number 15.
04:38The post-credits scene from Ferris Bueller.
04:40Deadpool.
04:41Deadpool is known for breaking the fourth wall and addressing the audience, so it should
04:45be no surprise that he pays tribute to Ferris Bueller, another character who frequently
04:48looks into the camera.
04:55Of course, post-credits scenes are fairly common, especially for superhero movies, and
04:59at the end of Deadpool, we're treated to Mr. Pool in a bathrobe telling us to go home
05:04because there's not going to be a teaser for Deadpool 2.
05:11This takes a page from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, where post-credits, Ferris berates
05:15the audience for sticking around after the film is over.
05:17It's a nice touch.
05:18Number 14.
05:20You Like Apples from Good Will Hunting.
05:21Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
05:23In order to stop a movie being made about their comic book alter egos, Jay and Silent
05:27Bob travel to Hollywood.
05:34When they finally arrive in Tinseltown, they sneak into Miramax's studio lot, and we
05:38get to take a look at some of the other projects going on.
05:40Jay and Silent Bob find themselves on the set of Good Will Hunting 2, Hunting Season.
05:45They revisit the bar scene from Good Will Hunting, where Will faces off against Clark.
05:49Everything about this scene is over-the-top, from director Gus Van Sant counting money
05:52in the corner, to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's performance as fictionalized versions of themselves.
06:12Number 13.
06:13Their House Stands from Footloose.
06:15Hot Rod.
06:16Looking to make a name for himself and earn the respect of his stepfather, Frank, Rod
06:20Kimble returns home one day to find out that Frank needs a heart transplant or he'll die.
06:37Looking to vent his frustrations, Rod goes to his quiet place, which is in the middle
06:40of the forest.
06:41Here, he dances out his pent-up anger in a similar fashion to Kevin Bacon's Ren McCormick
06:46in Footloose.
06:47Rod's dancing may not be as smooth as Ren's, but the whole scenario is quite humorous,
06:51especially when it abruptly ends rolling down a hill for what seems like an eternity.
07:02Number 12.
07:03Feeling Lucky from Dirty Harry.
07:05The Mask.
07:06Stanley Ipkiss' life changes when he comes across a mysterious mask.
07:09He goes from a down-on-his-luck pushover to a wild, charismatic, and confident individual.
07:26Towards the end of the movie, in order to rescue the girl and save the day, as The Mask,
07:30he confronts Dorian Tyrell's henchmen.
07:32He pulls out a huge arsenal of weaponry and asks them if they feel lucky.
07:36This is, of course, a reference to Dirty Harry, complete with Jim Carrey's spot-on
07:39impression of Clint Eastwood.
07:54Much like Harry Callaghan, The Mask's weapons are empty, but that's revealed after the
07:58henchmen run away.
07:59Number 11.
08:00Makeover from She's All That.
08:02Not another teen movie.
08:04Although it parodies several teen rom-coms, perhaps one of the funniest moments from Not
08:08Another Teen Movie is when Janie Biggs receives a makeover.
08:19The moment is lifted from She's All That, where Lainie Boggs is given a makeover by
08:23Zack Siler's sister before going out to party.
08:26The previously nerdy Boggs is revealed to be drop-dead gorgeous.
08:29When Janie gets her makeover by simply having her glasses removed and her hair let down,
08:33it highlights the fact that the supposed unattractive nerdy characters are played by
08:37attractive actresses.
08:43The scene is capped off by Janie falling through the stairs when she reveals her new look.
08:47Number 10.
08:48Disco dancing from Saturday Night Fever.
08:50Airplane.
08:51Sure, it may be about nothing more than a group of quirky airport employees, but Airplane
08:55is one of the greatest and most quotable satirical comedies ever.
09:11Even though it mostly parodies the disaster film genre overall, the best spoof in Airplane
09:15is its pretty much shot-for-shot remake of a famous moment in Saturday Night Fever.
09:20In the scene, the main protagonist, Ted Stryker, is telling the story of how he met his one
09:24true love, Elaine, and it involves a bar, the Bee Gees, and a rather silly version of
09:28a disco dance number originally performed by John Travolta.
09:31From the choreography to the famous zingers, Airplane's level of comedy stays sky-high
09:36throughout, and especially in this scene.
09:45Number 9.
09:47Staircase shootout from The Untouchables and Battleship Potemkin.
09:50Naked Gun 33 1 3rd, The Final Insult.
09:52It may be the lowest-grossing Naked Gun film, but 33 1 3rd still brings the spoofs.
10:02In fact, the film's opening is a parody of a parody.
10:05It recreates a famous scene from 1987's The Untouchables, which in turn recreated
10:09the famous Odessa Steps sequence from 1925's Battleship Potemkin.
10:13Frank Trebin is waiting for, uh, something, when he decides to help a woman with a baby
10:18carriage up the many, many stairs.
10:20Much like Kevin Costner.
10:21But once the mobsters show up, Trebin starts a wild shootout that involves multiple falling
10:25strollers – President Clinton, the Pope, mass-murdering mailmen, and awkwardly, O.J.
10:30Simpson, just before the infamous murder.
10:40As if that weren't funny enough, it's all a dream.
10:43Number 8.
10:44T-Rex reveal from Jurassic Park, Wayne's World 2.
10:48Whether he's crashing weddings like Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, or pulling off the
10:51Thelma and Louise ending, Mike Myers is clearly a movie buff.
11:00But for our money, the best spoof scene in Wayne's World 2 is his parody of Jurassic
11:04Park, which was released a mere six months before this sequel.
11:07Wayne and Garth are trying to plan a music festival called WayneStock, and they're
11:11scouting the location on a rainy day.
11:13But all of a sudden, they encounter a T-Rex, paying homage to an iconic shot in the Steven
11:17Spielberg film.
11:28How did Wayne and Garth end up in Jurassic Park, you may be asking?
11:31We're not worthy of the answer.
11:33Number 7.
11:34Always Been Here from The Shining, Hot Fuzz.
11:36Like many movies on this list, this badass British police comedy is a satire of an entire
11:41genre's worth of films, but the scene we've selected parodies something entirely different.
11:49Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are two police officers trying to solve a mystery in a quaint little
11:53village.
11:54When Pegg's character, Nicholas Angel, is checking into his hotel, he's met with a
11:58line of dialogue eerily reminiscent of The Shining.
12:00However, whereas Jack Torrance's hotel chat is with a ghost, Sergeant Angel is just trying
12:05to get to his room.
12:06Fortunately, the hotel Angel checks into isn't haunted, and the conversation is followed
12:09by a slew of hilarious misunderstandings involving a crossword puzzle.
12:24Number 6.
12:25Headspin from The Exorcist, Toy Story.
12:27Like any animated feature worth its salt, Pixar's breakout movie about the secret life
12:31of toys threw in enough jokes for the adults to keep parents entertained alongside their
12:35kids.
12:36In an effort to teach budding psychopath Sid a lesson and save his buddy Buzz, Woody enlists
12:50the help of Sid's other victims to scare the bejesus out of the toy torturer.
12:55During the ambush, our favorite cowboy doll takes a page out of the Exorcist book, spinning
12:59his head around a full 360 much like the possessed Reagan McNeil does in front of two
13:03shaken priests.
13:04It may be a little heavy for a kid's movie, but nonetheless, the reference fits perfectly.
13:18Now let's use Sid to play nicer with toys.
13:20Number 5.
13:21Chestburster from Alien, Spaceballs.
13:24Following a Han Solo-like character and his half-man, half-dog sidekick as they travel
13:28the galaxy to defeat the evil Lord Dark Helmet and save a princess, this Mel Brooks space
13:32spoof tackles Star Wars, parodying everything from Imperial cruisers to near-declarations
13:37of fraternity.
13:50But it's got a dead-on Alien spoof we just can't forget.
13:53During their travels, Captain Lone Star and Barf stop at a diner, where John Hurt also
13:58happens to be eating.
13:59What follows is a scene we swear we've seen somewhere before.
14:02Making this otherwise disgusting Alien parody even funnier is the fact that the chestburster
14:06then performs a charming musical number, a la Michigan J. Frogg.
14:15Say what you will, but that's adorable.
14:17Number 4.
14:18Fatherly reveal from The Empire Strikes Back, Austin Powers' The Spy Who Shagged Me.
14:23One of the most hilarious spoof scenes in this satire of James Bond is actually another
14:27parody of Star Wars.
14:28Austin and Dr. Evil have finally caught up with each other on the villain's moon base,
14:32when the good doctor makes a stunning reveal.
14:38However, unlike The Empire Strikes Back, Dr. Evil is of course not Austin's father, and
14:53claim is.
14:54Hey, at least he was honest, right?
14:55What ups the funny factor of this scene even more is how out of nowhere it is.
15:05And lucky for Austin Powers fans, this spoof scene is one of many.
15:09Number 3.
15:10Bulletproof vest trick from A Fistful of Dollars, Back to the Future Part III.
15:14The third installment of the BTTF franchise follows Marty McFly and Doc Brown to 1885,
15:18where they can reference as many movies as they want, and no one will know what they're
15:22talking about.
15:36In fact, while in the Old West, Marty goes by the name of Clint Eastwood, and that piece
15:40of foreshadowing comes into play near the end of the film.
15:42Marty, or Clint, has agreed to face Mad Dog Tannen in a gunfight, but being from 1985,
15:49he has a century's worth of wisdom to help him out at the showdown.
16:01Marty taps into his film knowledge, copying the real Clint Eastwood's move in A Fistful
16:04of Dollars, by taking a boilerplate and using it as a makeshift bulletproof vest.
16:09Bad ass.
16:11Number 2.
16:12Garage door death from Scream, Scary Movie.
16:14If you remember the 90s, you know that teen horror flicks made a big comeback during that
16:19decade, and with them, they brought the inevitable spoofs.
16:34Scary Movie takes aim at many popular horror films, but the scene we've chosen mocks
16:38an iconic death from 1996's Scream.
16:40A young party-goer is trapped in the garage by Ghostface, but where things diverge from
16:45is when the girl tries to escape through the kiddie flap in the garage door.
16:48This girl doesn't get her head crushed by the opening garage, no, due to her weight,
16:52she causes everything to collapse on top of her.
16:55Seeing Ghostface's reaction to the incident makes this moment comedic gold.
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17:18Number 1.
17:19Defoe death from Platoon, Tropic Thunder.
17:21Since this Ben Stiller joint is a satire of the film industry as a whole, it's littered
17:25with hysterical references to past films and actors.
17:28But one of the most memorable spoof scenes comes at the beginning of the movie, when
17:34the actors are filming an intense and expensive action sequence for their fictional film,
17:39also called Tropic Thunder.
17:40Stiller's character, Tug Speedman, was running out of the jungle, hands to the sky, as he
17:44shot multiple times.
17:50This moment was, of course, originally made famous by Willem Dafoe in Oliver Stone's
17:54Platoon, and Stiller and co. do it comedic justice.
17:56The scene is so overly dramatic, it's perfect, and it makes us cry tears of laughter every
18:01time.
18:02What's your favorite spoof scene?
18:03Let us know in the comments!