History Film / ScaryMovie

* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: The protagonists are shown boarding over a cellar door to keep aliens out (in a parody of ''Film/{{Signs}}''). George says nobody could get through it...cue Cindy opening the door with no problem to join them. It turns out they'd just nailed some planks to it without fastening them to the wall.

* AndStarring: "Featuring Queen Latifah / Special Appearance by Eddie Griffin / With Creator/DeniseRichards / With Regina Hall / And Creator/CharlieSheen."

** ''Film/AirForceOne''. When Harris [[WhatWouldXDo wondered what "President Ford" would have done,]] it seems like he was talking about Gerald Ford. However the camera pans along to show a still portrait of Creator/HarrisonFord in his presidential suit [[BaitAndSwitch instead.]]

* CreatorCameo: Keenen Ivory Wayans appears as a slave in the ''Film/{{Amistad}} 2'' trailer.

* NotHisSled: [[spoiler:The movie is a mix and match spoof of ''Film/{{Scream}}'' and ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', and despite being entirely comedic, manages to do this by having neither murderer be like the ones from the movies this one is parodying. Bobby and Ray, the equivalent to Billy and Stu are only copycat killers to the real Ghostface and have only killed people at the party, the revenge plot of ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'' is merely a RedHerring and has nothing to do with theirs or the real killer's motive--the guy that Cindy and her friends ran over was buried without issue. The real killer turns out to be Doofy (the film's equivalent of Officer Dewey Riley), who appears to kill people all around just for the pleasure of it and is faking his mental disability (as a spoof of ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'').]]

* NotHisSled: [[spoiler:The movie is a mix and match spoof of ''Film/{{Scream}}'' and ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'', and despite being entirely comedic, manages to do this by having neither murderer be like the ones from the movies this one is parodying. Bobby and Ray, the equivalent to Billy and Stu are only copycat killers to the real Ghostface and have only killed people at the party, the revenge plot of ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'' is merely a RedHerring and has nothing to do with theirs or the real killer's motive--the guy they accidentally ran over was buried without issue. The real killer turns out to be Doofy (the film's equivalent of Officer Dewey Riley), who appears to kill people all around just for the pleasure of it and is faking his mental disability (as a spoof of ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'').]]

Following the departure of the Wayans family from the series, the following two films were directed by [[Creator/ZuckerAbrahamsAndZucker David Zucker]] (who directed, wrote and produced the previously mentioned ''The Naked Gun'' and ''Airplane'' films alongside his brother Jerry and their partner Jim Abrahams). The third movie combined the storylines of ''Film/{{Signs}}'' and ''Literature/TheRing'', while it had a subplot spoofing ''Film/EightMile''. The "[[TrilogyCreep fourth and final chapter of the trilogy]]" mainly parodied ''Film/TheVillage'', ''Film/TheGrudge'' and ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'' while also incorporating a bit of ''Film/SawI''.

** The fourth is an amalgam of ''four'' pictures (''Film/TheVillage'', ''Film/TheGrudge'', ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'' and ''Film/SawI'').

* DelusionsOfEloquence: In ''Film/TheVillage'' parody, an entire series of jokes is built around this:

* DisguisedInDrag: Used for a gross-out gag with the high school sports coach "[[MeaningfulName Ms. Mann]]", a very muscular guy who is pretending to be a woman so he can get closer to the students. This becomes obvious when Cindy goes to her for advice and [[{{Squick}} sees a set of balls hanging out]]. (The person who played the coach was a woman).

* PlotInducedStupidity: Spoofed when Buffy doesn't believe that the killer exists, apparently forgetting that her boyfriend was murdered by the killer in front of her eyes earlier. After winning the pageant, nothing else seem to matter to her anyway.

* BeneathSuspicion: [[Doofy]] is the killer but never faces suspicion and gets away with the crimes due to [[spoiler:posing as a mentally disabled man no one would think capable of planning a murder spree.]]

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Shorty; after watching the gross butler Hanson shove his dirty deformed hand into the turkey (ruining everyone's appetites), reaches for a bottle of red wine and quickly polishes it off.
* LetsSplitUpGang: Averted then played straight with a side-helping of BlackDudeDiesFirst, as Buddy suggests splitting up, only for Brenda to call him out on how stupid the idea is. He then suggests two teams, conveniently calling the white people over to him.

* ParallelPornTitles: Actually, "ghetto" versions of Christmas songs -- "I'm Dreaming of a White Woman", "All I Want For Christmas Are The Charges Dropped", "Santa Clause Is Cumming On Mom", etc.

* TakeMyHand: Parodied when Dwight falls to the ground from a perilous window dangle because he refuses to take the disfigured hand of the filthy Hanson, despite Hanson insisting it's his "strong hand".

* VolleyingInsults: Hanson the caretaker (who has a deformed hand) and Dwight (who is a paraplegic) despise each other as soon as they meet, proceeding to throw a string of ableist insults at each other.

* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: The protagonists are shown boarding over a cellar door to keep aliens out (in a parody of ''Film/{{Signs}}''). Geortge says nobody could get through it...cue Cindy opening the door with no problem to join them. It turns out they'd just nailed some planks to it without fastening them to the wall.

* TakeThat: MJ, being a parody of Music/MichaelJackson and referencing current scandals and his extreme physical appearance in critical fashion.

'''Dwight''': She's right. Okay. You three, follow me! ''[Points to white people, leaving the three black people in another group]''\\

** Cody and Rachel. Apparently, David Zucker has a fetish for child abuse.

* GagPenis: In ''Scary Movie 2'', a monster clown doll tries to scare Ray Wilkins and drags him under the bed. A minute later, [[MuggingTheMonster the tables turn on the clown]] and he tries to escape... only for Ray's suddenly snake-like penis wrap around the clown's throat and drag him back under the bed!

* GenreBlindness: Most characters, most blatantly parodied in the first movie when a character sees two signs pointing towards "Safety" and [[ThisWayToCertainDeath "Death"]] while running from a killer. Guess which one she chooses?

* LampshadeHanging: Scores of them.

* LovableSexManiac: Brenda Meeks.

* OhNoNotAgain: Cindy keeps forgetting Cody.

* RunningGag: Several throughout the series and many in individual films, most notably Cindy constantly changing her career, Brenda's promiscuity, and the fact that someone ''always'' [[LookBothWays gets hit by a vehicle]] at the end of every movie[[note]]Apart from number 4; originally it was supposed to end with Creator/JamesEarlJones getting hit by a bus, but a postscript sequence parodying ''that'' interview with Oprah and Creator/TomCruise was filmed and added fairly close to the film's release.[[/note]] (and right after a BigNo, too!). Also, Cindy's many boyfriends and a powerful... uh, [[{{squick}} spooge]].
* SassyBlackWoman: Oh, ''Brenda''...
* SeinfeldianConversation: About issues such as whether one can wake up dead, the difference between mice and rats, or the paradox of turning up missing by Mahalik and CJ. It's pretty much their thing.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:

* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: Cindy is literally plastered to the ceiling by a veritable geyser that leaves her boyfriend visibly drained of all his body fat and fluids. The joke is that she had been keeping it off for so long that he was just that impossibly loaded up.

* AssPull[[invoked]]: Parodied at the end of the first movie, where the killer is revealed [[spoiler: to be the retarded Doofy, who has already gotten away and is shown taking off his disguise and is then picked up by his girlfriend and [[TheBadGuyWins drives off into the sunset]]. Earlier in the film, the girlfriend had no idea that he was even the mastermind, but they're revealed to have been working together in the ending.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: At the end [[spoiler:Doofy turns out to be the real Ghostface killer, and murders all of Cindy's friends and the two idiots copying him. He's then revealed to have been working together with the female reporter covering the story, and they both drive off before they can be caught.]]

* BerserkButton: Don't send Greg a picture of a small penis.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Buffy, especially to her parents.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: The film's crew is featured in one scene, and when the ''Series/DawsonsCreek'' theme song starts playing during another scene, James Van Der Beek shows up, only to realize he's on the wrong set.
* BreastAttack: Carmen Electra getting stabbed in the breast by Ghostface, and her breast implant popping out leaving her relatively unharmed and Ghostface rather perplexed.
* BrickJoke: Doofy tries to tell his sister Buffy that their mom told her to respect him while he's an "Officer of the law".
-->'''Buffy:''' Mom also said for you to stop sticking your dick in the vacuum cleaner!
** Later after the Killer calls Cindy on the phone while staying at their house, their mom calls Doofy who akwardly comes out of his room in his underwear dragging a vacuum cleaner with a hose attachment!
--->'''Doofy:''' I said, don't disturb me when I am cleaning my room!

* CreatorCameo: Keenan Ivory Wayans appears as a slave in the ''Film/{{Amistad}} 2'' trailer.

* DeathByGenreSavviness: Parodied with [[spoiler:Buffy]]'s death scene.

* DisguisedInDrag: Used for a gross-out gag with the high school sports coach "[[MeaningfulName Ms. Mann]]", a very muscular guy who is pretending to be a woman so he can get closer to the students. This becomes obvious when Cindy goes to her for advice and [[{{Squick}} sees a set of balls hanging out]]. (The person who played "him", by the way, is in fact a woman, just one who has obviously been abusing steroids).
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The ''Film/{{Scream|1996}}''-esque serial killer is actually revealed to be [[spoiler: Doofy, the apparently retarded police officer. Then again it is a parody.]]

* EurekaMoment: Sherrif Burke and Cindy in the penultimate scene after [[spoiler: David Keegan]] is confirmed to be dead and thus couldn't have been the killer. With her lead suspect cleared, Cindy has no idea who else it could possibly be. Going off the evidence they have, Burke theorizes it has to be someone who's connected to all the victims, who knew about the accident, and who could move around without being noticed. Cindy mulls that over for a moment...and then she slowly realizes that [[spoiler: Doofy]] meets all of Burke's criteria.

** Ghostface, who actually gets visibly stoned.

** [[spoiler:By far the biggest sign is early on in the film, when the killer calls Cindy, while she is staying at Buffy's house. As Cindy realises that the voice on the other end of the line is the killer, Buffy's mother calls for Doofy to come to the phone. After she calls his name, the killer says "No, it isn't me", before hanging up]]

** [[spoiler:The extra work he puts into killing Buffy could have only being personal, like revenge against a sister who has bullied him for years.]]

* HerBoyfriendsJacket: Parodied. While Ray and Brenda are chilling out she's wearing his football shirt, which turns him on. He asks her to wear more of his football clothing, ''including his pads and helmet'' to Brenda's increasing confusion. Though he does [[WrongNameOutburst accidentally call her "Brendan"]] at one point.

** Brenda starts complaining to Cindy about her dislike of Buffy, insulting her and claiming that the worst part is how “fake” Buffy is— until Buffy arrives and Brenda cheerfully greets her. Brenda later does the same thing with Buffy’s competition.

* ISeeDeadPeople: The movie parodied the line as used in ''Film/TheSixthSense''. Shortie says "I See Dead People" to his buddies. They all laugh and agree with each other that they scored some ''really'' good weed.

** [[spoiler: Gail herself also, [[DisproportionateRetribution she kills a student for being annoying]], abuses Kenny and is partially responsible for his and Heather’s death. She also helps Doofy run away together to escape the police.]]

** Carmen Electra is stripped to her bra and panties in the opening scene.

* NostrilShot: Parodied, where the character [[Film/TheBlairWitchProject talking to the camera]] has a runny nose that just keeps running.
* NotQuiteDead: The guy they ran over in the flashback.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Can you believe Doofy?]]
* OffingTheAnnoyance: Played for laughs when a reporter of the killing spree in the town is annoyed by a teenager who pops up behind her to goof off in front of the camera. She pulls out a gun and shoots him, then immediately changes her report from "1 dead teen" to "2 dead teens".

* OnceMoreWithClarity: Once Cindy realizes that [[spoiler: Doofy]] was the killer all along during her EurekaMoment, [[spoiler: several Doofy or Doofy-centric scenes from earlier in the film are replayed with the new context to confirm her suspicions.]] This is also of course parodying the similar 'Once More' sequence from ''The Usual Suspects''.

** [[spoiler:Subverted by the reveal though.]]

* SexComedy: Not officially, but since the HormoneAddledTeenager is a key component of the SlasherMovie formula being parodied, there are plenty of sex gags that [[CrossesTheLineTwice redefines "over the top"]].
* SexyShirtSwitch: Parodied. Ray liked seeing Brenda in his football jersey and had her put on his pads and helmet (to her mild confusion) before having sex with her. But then again, this is [[AmbiguouslyGay Ray]] we're talking about.

*** This one scene is also the only time where The Killer is wearing the [[https://imgur.com/a/V3bPzT1 actual]] [[Film/{{Scream}} Ghostface]] mask.

* TakeThat: Doofy, a parody of David Arquette's character Dewey from ''Film/Scream1996''. While Dewey is a [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass dorky yet genuinely competent officer]] when push comes to shove, Doofy exaggerates this into being a retarded buffoon [[spoiler:who's actually the villain.]]

* TeacherStudentRomance: A teacher is shown breastfeeding her baby, she then hands him to a student, saying "Here, spend some time with your Daddy." She then points to another student and says "I'll see you after class," rather provocatively.

* UnexplainedRecovery: Even prior to the sequels, the first movie has Ray [[InOneEarOutTheOther impaled through the head]], but he turns up a few scenes later entirely unharmed save for [[OnlyAFleshWound a small bandage]] over one ear.

* AnatomicallyImpossibleSex: Once again, Cindy making her boyfriend climax causes her to be splashed against a door by several buckets of cum. Another girl is raped in her sleep by a ghost, with his penis creating a visible bulge on the back of her neck.

** Quite literally, particularly the ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'' spoof involving [[MuggingTheMonster Ray and the Clown Doll]].

** At the beginning of the movie, [[Creator/JamesWoods Father [=McFeely=]]] going to help exorcise the demon from the little girl. When the demon starts screaming "FUCK ME!" a la ''Film/TheExorcist''. Cut to [[Creator/AndyRichter his partner]] looking on in shock as [=McFeely's=] ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice actually fucking her and has to be told to stop.]]'' Of course, the little girl (or rather the demon) seemed to be into it. It's kind of hard not to laugh.
* BodilyFluidBlacklightReveal: Dwight, despite being a cripple, is somehow able to perform a blowjob on himself. A few scenes later when the ghost of Hugh Craine is on the loose and everyone has to put on Infra-Red Goggles, Alex looks through her own goggles and can see traces of blacklight around Dwight's mouth, prompting Dwight to ask what she's giggling at.
* BoyMeetsGhoul: Parodied when Shorty encounters a ghoul who's a real {{Butterface}}... but he immediately jumps into bed with her by solving the problem with a paper bag.

* TheButlerDidIt: The creepy, depraved butler turns out to be in league with the evil ghost inhabitating the haunted house.

* DemBones: Parodied when Cindy is being chased by a skeleton, only to be reprimanded by Brenda for being afraid of a skeleton. To illustrate her point, Brenda pulls the skeleton apart and reassembles him badly.

* DontYouDarePityMe: Parodied with Dwight, a wheelchair-bound cripple, who gets offended every time someone offers to help him with anything. He does this even when it would be ridiculously hard to do by himself, like crawling up two flights of stairs. When the BrainlessBeauty offers to "help him out downstairs" to get his keys, he responds by auto-fellating himself.
* FavorsForTheSexy: Parodied. As soon as the sultry Theo enters the mansion's dinner room and catches the attention of all the guys in the room, she demands that they give her a chair. The more plain Cindy gets thrown out of her own chair and Theo ends up with about four places to sit, including the paraplegic giving her his own wheelchair.
* GagPenis: [[spoiler:Ray Wilkins elongates his member to grab the Clown Doll by the neck as it tries to crawl away from him in terror. And it's strong enough to drag the Clown Doll back under the bed as it leaves clawmarks on the wooden floor.]]
* TheGlassesGottaGo: Subverted and parodied. When [[TheVamp Theo]] tries to seduce the nerdy graduate assistant into giving her the keys out of the HauntedHouse, she takes off his glasses in hopes that it makes him prettier. All it does is make his eyes cross.
* HollywoodExorcism: It opens with an extended parody of ''The Exorcist''. The exorcism is even wackier, one of the priests is an unprofessional pervert, they all projectile vomit on each other, and eventually the priests just say "screw this" and [[KillTheHostBody pull out a gun]].

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Shorty; after watching the deformed butler molest the turkey (ruining everyone's appetites), he reaches for a bottle of red wine and quickly polishes it off.
* LetsSplitUpGang: Averted then played straight with a side-helping of BlackDudeDiesFirst, as Buddy suggests splitting up, only for Brenda to call him out on how stupid the idea is. He then suggests two teams, comprised of the three black people on one and all the white people on the other.
-->'''Shorty''': (''With an AsideGlance'') Ain't that a ''bitch''?\\

* TakeMyHand: Parodied when Dwight falls out of a two-story window because he refuses to take the disfigured hand of the perverted Hanson, despite Hanson insisting it's his "strong hand".
* TongueOnTheFlagpole: During a parody of ''Film/TheExorcist'', the priest played by Andy Ritchter enters the room with the possessed girl inside and complains about how cold the room is. He then kisses the small metal cross he has with him, only for his lips to get stuck to it.

* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: The protagonists are shown boarding over a cellar door to keep aliens out (in a parody of ''Film/{{Signs}}''). Cue Cindy opening the door with no problem. It turns out they'd just nailed some planks to it without fastening them to the wall.
* AchillesHeel: The aliens are fighting the group (though just because strangling is how they say hello), when Mahalik decapitates one with a shovel and says:

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: The aliens apparently can talk to humans.

* BoobBasedGag: Cindy, when flashing her chest to the office, suddenly has comically huge breasts. Amusingly, in the prior movies she had been mocked for [[HollywoodHomely supposedly]] having a small and unimpressive chest. Given it follows her being ordered to do a fluff news report [[SexSells on breast implants]], it may also be a gag that she has bought new boobs between films.
* BreakingBadNewsGently: Parodied when George informs Sue about the death of Brenda, who was her teacher. It seems like he'll be considerate in telling her this news, since she's only a child. Instead he just loudly screams in her face and tells her he ran over her dog too. ("EVERYONE you love around you is DYING!")

** A black janitor typed that he's having sex with a newscaster's wife and bragging about how she loves it. This is being repeated by said newscaster [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UENAvJuClHU on live broadcast]].

* DisasterDominoes: One at Brenda's funeral begins with "George, it's a wake" and ends with Brenda's body exploding when George and Mahalik try to bring her back to life.

* DramaticGunCock: Parodied. One of the characters dramatically cocks... a shovel. A shell falls out.

* ExtraYExtraViolent: Mentioned.
* EyeLightsOut: Parodied.
* FanserviceFauxFight: The film opens with a pillow fight between Katie (Jenny [=McCarthy=]) and Becky (Pamela Anderson).
* ForgotToMindTheirHead: Cindy comes home to find George passed out at a table. She asks him what happened he says that he doesn't know. He and Cody were playing a fun game when he looked down and...

* GoIntoTheLight: Played for laughs, when Creator/CharlieSheen's character urges his dying wife to go into the light as he doesn't want to answer to her [[LastRequest dying wish]] for [[VowOfCelibacy celibacy]].

* MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome:

* MistakenForFlatulence: PlayedForLaughs. Cindy sits on a vinyl chair. What follows is a squeaking sound that she quickly claims was the chair. Someone sits on another chair, resulting in a very loud fartlike noise (implied to ''not'' be a result of the chair).
* MistakenForRacist: George puts on a KKK-esque hoodie and does what looks like a Heil Hitler salute in front of a predominantly black audience at a rap battle.

* OnlySaneMan: The President's aide.
* OracularUrchin: Cody.
* OtherworldlyCommunicationFailure: The main plot centers on a perceived invasion from a hostile alien race. However it turns out that the aliens are actually friendly and are on Earth to find Samara from ''Film/TheRing'' as their entire population accidentally watched the cursed tape and are now slated to die in seven days. When asked why they were attacking the humans, the aliens explain that to say "hello" in their language, you [[CrossCulturalHandshake grab someone in a chokehold]]. To say "goodbye", you [[GroinAttack kick the other person in the nuts]].

* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: George.

* ScriptSwap: [[https://youtu.be/D9FBXb4G4GI?t=29s Funny moment]] when the news anchor reads the messages typed into the teleprompter by Cindy and the janitor.
* SeriousBusiness: The news Cindy works at, all it talks about is boobies. The boss threatens to fire her if she wants to do a story about anything else.

* TakeThat: MJ, being a parody of Music/MichaelJackson, albeit implied to be gay rather than a pedophile in order to try and avoid pissing off Jackson too much. It didn't work and Jackson threatened a lawsuit anyway, so when the next movie came around the character was actually called "Michael Jackson" and shown to be a full-on pedophile.

* UncleTomfoolery: Shorty Meeks takes this role up to eleven. Mahalik and CJ play this role to a certain extent, though the characters themselves seem aware of it and Lampshade it.

** Cindy spots The Killer outside her classroom, much like Laurie spotted Michael in the first ''[[Film/{{Halloween}} Halloween]]''.

** [[spoiler:The fact that the filmmakers continually show us a character who's supposed to be mentally-challenged
repeatedly giving a bunch of creepy {{Kubrick Stare}}s is a dead giveaway the he's faking the mental disability.]]

* ShoutOut: "Hell House" is a shout-out to Hill House, the main location in both versions of ''[[Film/TheHaunting1963 The]] [[Film/TheHaunting1999 Haunting]]'' (and '''not''' the Creator/RichardMatheson novel ''Hell House'', as some have claimed -- the Wayans Brothers had never heard of that novel when they made the film).

* FreezeFrameBonus: One of the previews for the movie Brenda and Ray watch is rated I for "Immature", with the description "We thought it would be funny to put this here. [[TakeThatAudience Kiss our asses take it off pause]].