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    7 hours ago

    Blazing Saddles. It killed the western genre for a long time because of how well it parodied them

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      Austin Powers did nearly the same with Bond/spy flicks for a while. From Wikipedia:

      Daniel Craig, who portrayed James Bond on screen from 2006 to 2021, credited the Austin Powers franchise with the relatively serious tone of later Bond films. In a 2014 interview, Craig said, “We had to destroy the myth because Mike Myers fucked us”, making it “impossible” to do the gags of earlier Bond films which Austin Powers satirized.