I think my table speaks for itself, but I'll give a legend above it and a little commentary below it. The table has two columns:
The little numbers are the counts of "spoofed in" or "referenced in" references for that movie or TV show.
A title in bold shows up on only one list. This doesn't mean that, for instance, "The X-Files" has never been spoofed, only that it's not spoofed enough to make it onto the "most spoofed" list. A title in italics shows up on both lists (or would, if I extended the lists a little bit), but it's in a much higher position on the "spoof" list (left column) or the "non-spoof" list (right column). If a title is neither bolded nor italicized, then it's in approximately the same position on the "spoof" and "non-spoof" lists.
At this point I should probably let the table do the talking, so here it is. If you hate data, you can skip the table.
I'm not terribly happy with this data. I suspect many "referenced in" references are actually spoofs, or are throwaway jokes that don't even rise to the level of "spoof". Are there really 179 non-spoof references to "The Lion King"? You know everyone's just riffing on the baby-lifting shot.
However, the reverse problem ("incorrectly regarded as spoofs") is nonexistent, so it's easy to spot things like The Blair Witch Project and "Cops" which only exist in our culture as things to make fun of; as well as things that are occasionally referenced seriously but much more frequently spoofed (The Matrix).
Sun Aug 28 2011 22:15 You Can't Be Serious:
It's time for another big HTML table! This time I'm interested in movie connections. IMDB's dataset relates movies to each other using many different predicates: "edited into", "remake of", "alternate language version of", and so on. I'm interested in two of the most common predicates, "referenced in" and "spoofed in". Specifically, I want to answer these questions:
Most Spoofed Most Referenced Seriously
1 Star Wars 279 Star Wars 1793 2 The Wizard of Oz 199 The Wizard of Oz 1397 3 "Star Trek" 180 "Star Trek" 1270 4 The Godfather 155 The Godfather 737 5 The Matrix 148 Psycho 693 6 2001: A Space Odyssey 141 Casablanca 622 7 Psycho 139 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 587 8 Raiders of the Lost Ark 134 Jaws 585 9 Jaws 120 "The Simpsons" 573 10 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 119 Gone with the Wind 534 11 The Exorcist 96 King Kong 527 12 King Kong 96 The Terminator 485 13 "Batman" 95 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 449 14 Pulp Fiction 93 2001: A Space Odyssey 448 15 Titanic 93 "Sesame Street" 448 16 Superman 89 Raiders of the Lost Ark 440 17 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial 86 Apocalypse Now 422 18 Apocalypse Now 85 Frankenstein 379 19 The Shining 84 The Exorcist 374 20 "The Twilight Zone" 83 "The Twilight Zone" 366 21 The Terminator 81 "Saturday Night Live" 363 22 Casablanca 75 Scarface 361 23 Jurassic Park 74 Citizen Kane 358 24 Frankenstein 72 Pulp Fiction 350 25 Taxi Driver 71 Titanic 350 26 Rocky 68 The Shining 348 27 Alien 68 "Doctor Who" 348 28 The Silence of the Lambs 67 Alien 346 29 The Blair Witch Project 61 "The Oprah Winfrey Show" 344 30 Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. 59 Taxi Driver 343 31 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 59 Ghost Busters 343 32 The Graduate 58 "The Flintstones" 334 33 Ghost Busters 57 Rocky 333 34 Gone with the Wind 56 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi 328 35 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi 56 The Matrix 326 36 It's a Wonderful Life 54 Back to the Future 323 37 Forrest Gump 52 The Silence of the Lambs 323 38 Goldfinger 52 "Batman" 317 39 Back to the Future 52 A Clockwork Orange 306 40 Dr. No 49 Terminator 2: Judgment Day 302 41 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 49 "Happy Days" 301 42 Gojira 48 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 298 43 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 48 The Sound of Music 293 44 Scarface 47 A Nightmare on Elm Street 289 45 Planet of the Apes 47 Superman 285 46 "Cops" 47 "Gilligan's Island" 284 47 "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" 47 Dracula 282 48 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 46 "Star Trek: The Next Generation" 276 49 Dracula 45 "The X Files" 275 50 The Sound of Music 44 "The Brady Bunch" 271 51 Reservoir Dogs 44 Dr. No 270 52 Batman 44 "I Love Lucy" 269 53 Citizen Kane 43 First Blood 268 54 Goodfellas 43 Night of the Living Dead 262 55 Night of the Living Dead 43 "American Idol: The Search for a Superstar" 261 56 Carrie 43 Gojira 259 57 "Jeopardy!" 43 Jurassic Park 258 58 Saturday Night Fever 42 Dirty Harry 257 59 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 41 The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 254 60 "American Idol: The Search for a Superstar" 40 Vertigo 253 61 Mary Poppins 40 It's a Wonderful Life 253 62 Full Metal Jacket 40 Aliens 243 63 Dirty Harry 40 Planet of the Apes 243 64 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 39 Batman 239 65 The Karate Kid 38 Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. 236 66 "The Brady Bunch" 38 "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!" 231 67 Friday the 13th 37 The Graduate 229 68 RoboCop 37 Goldfinger 227 69 Risky Business 37 Deliverance 226 70 "I Love Lucy" 36 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 221 71 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 35 Blade Runner 220 72 "Star Trek: The Next Generation" 35 Die Hard 218 73 "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" 34 "Jeopardy!" 215 74 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 34 "Seinfeld" 215 75 "Baywatch" 33 Rosemary's Baby 214 76 Scream 33 Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 213 77 Flashdance 33 The Lion King 211 78 Lady and the Tramp 33 Saturday Night Fever 210 79 First Blood 33 Mary Poppins 206 80 "The Oprah Winfrey Show" 32 Bambi 205 81 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 32 The Karate Kid 202 82 The Lion King 32 "Friends" 201 83 "The Flintstones" 32 "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" 200 84 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 32 Halloween 199 85 "24" 32 Reservoir Dogs 199 86 "Mission: Impossible" 32 Top Gun 198 87 The Seven Year Itch 32 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 196 88 Halloween 32 "The Muppet Show" 194 89 Spider-Man 31 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" 193 90 Patton 31 "The Andy Griffith Show" 192 91 Rain Man 31 Forrest Gump 188 92 Thriller 31 Dawn of the Dead 188 93 Singin' in the Rain 30 Friday the 13th 188 94 Aliens 30 Jerry Maguire 187 95 A Clockwork Orange 30 Close Encounters of the Third Kind 186 96 Monty Python and the Holy Grail 30 Singin' in the Rain 185 97 Grease 30 "Dancing with the Stars" 180 98 Deliverance 30 West Side Story 177 99 Mission: Impossible 30 "Baywatch" 176 100 "The Sopranos" 30 Grease 175
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