Hey, didn't Bon Jovi actually PLAY James Woods once?
(well, sort of: Bon Jovi took over the lead in VAMPIRES 2)

But the point is, that movie was literally a prototytpe for the AIRPORT movies (both were written by Arthur Hailey), so it makes the PARODY work better.
It's similar to how their TV series POLICE SQUAD! just cribbed generic plots from old cop shows- the simpler and more recognisible the plot, the crazier the gags can…

In the comic book BLUE DEVIL, one of BD's friends suggests that one of his newly aqquired super-powers might be "weirdness magnet", because crazy stuff sure seems to be happening around him with an unusual frequency.

Or the gag about how the (fake) videophone in the 1960s sequences has MUCH better picture quality than the (real) one in the 1990s sequences

(Brainiac attempts to vaporize Batman; Bat-costume burns away, revealing Superman underneath)
BRAINIAC (VERY slight hint of surprise) Batman and Superman are the same person? This is literally the most improbable thing I have ever encountered.

I have reason to believe that the makers of TEAM AMERICA might, indeed, be familiar with the work of Gerry Anderson.

I think it's AIRPLANE's equal in terms of actual GAGS; it just doesn't have as clear a focus storywise- TOP SECRET is "spy movie/WWII movie/rock and roll musical/ ah what the heck, let's just throw in a BLUE LAGOON parody"; whereas AIRPLANE! is "let's spoof the AIRPORT movies, and let's use an actual plot borrowed…

In one of the movies (can't remember which one off the top of my head), when Bond is reluctant to take a case, M tells him point blank "If 007 won't do his job, there's always 006".
And we briefly meet 009 at the beginning of OCTOPUSSY (he's the guy in the clown makeup being hunted by the twin knife throwers).

It's also repeatedly mentioned that Bond has a distinctive facial scar, but no movie version has.

That reminds me of an old BULLWINKLE bit where natives are getting ready to roast Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Rocky is confidentthey'll be rescued because cannibalism isn't allowed on network TV… and then one of the natives points out that EATING them is forbidden, but COOKING them is technically allowed.

Or the caveman episode, which is actually ABOUT the DISCOVERY OF FIRE.

When Diana Rigg left THE AVENGERS, the given explanation was that her husband, "Mr. Peel", had been lost in the jungles all this time, and now he had returned. We never get a really good look at Mr. Peel… but he seems to be played by Patrick Macnee in a big fake mustache.

GaryX just shot himself? oh don't be naive. It was a false flag operation!
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metaphoroically, that would have made more sense- love winning out over hate.

Doesn't at one point just grab a machine gun and mow a bunch down?

Also, strangling a fantasy version of yourself doesn't count.
Although it's kind of messed up, sure.

Lex's lack of winterwear argues differently.

(Superman watching Macgyver disarm bomb with paper clip): Boy, that's WAY easier than throwing them into the sun.

Great Job, Alfred E. Newman!

The Kryptonian villains were NOT killed in SUPERMAN 2: the scene where they were handed over to the authorities was edited out of the theatrical cut… but even so, all we see in that version is them getting dunked into water inside the Fortress Of Solitude which is clearly not much colder than room temperture.
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