Henry storyThe Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988),directed by David Zucker, co-written and co-produced by ZAZThe Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991), by writer/director David Zucker, co-produced by ZAZOther comedy spoof films had been madebefore 1980:Westerns spoof:Cat Ballou (1965)Japanese Monster Films spoof:Woody Allen""sWhat""s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)Mel Brooks"" spoofs of various genres (beforeAirplane!):Westerns:Blazing Saddles (1974)Horror:Young Frankenstein (1974)Silents:Silent Movie (1976)Hitchcockian Thrillers:High Anxiety (1977)ButAirplane!was responsible for unleashing a flurry of lampooning comedies (for many subgenres and film styles) - all trying to capitalize on its whopping success - including:Biblical Stories spoof:Wholly Moses! (1980)Mel Brooks"" spoofs (afterAirplane!):Historical Eras:History of the World, Part I (1981)Science-Fiction andStar Wars:Spaceballs (1987)Swashbucklers:Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993)DraculaFilms:Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)Serial Killer/Slasher and Stalker Movies spoof:Student Bodies (1981)Hospital Soap Operas spoof:Young Doctors in Love (1982)Film Noir - Crime/Detective spoof:Dead Men Don""t Wear Plaid (1982)1930s Gangster Movies spoof:Johnny Dangerously (1984)1950s Sci-Fi Movies spoof:Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)TV""sPolice Squad (1982)spoofs:The Naked Gunfranchise (from 1988-1994)The Exorcistspoof:Repossessed (1990), starring Linda Blair and Leslie NielsenTop Gunspoof:Hot Shots! (1991), from co-writer/director Jim AbrahamsRambospoof:Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993), also from co-writer/director Jim AbrahamsLate 80s-Early 90s Suspense-Mystery Thrillers spoof:Fatal Instinct (1993)Lethal Weaponspoof:Loaded Weapon (1993)Die Hard/Bondspoof:Spy Hard (1996), starring Leslie NielsenJames Bondfranchise spoofs:TheAustin Powersfranchise (from 1997-2002)Sports spoof:BASEketball (1998), from co-writer/director David ZuckerHorror movie spoofs:TheScary Moviefranchise (from 2000-2013)In the flimsy, sophomoric, tongue-in-cheek story, dumped, shell-shocked ex-military flyer-pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays in his screen debut) pursued ex-girlfriend Elaine (Julie Hagerty in her screen debut) - a Trans American Airlines stewardess on an ill-fated, crippled plane flight from Los Angeles to Chicago with food poisoning-stricken pilots, while a drug-using air traffic control ower chief-supervisor attempted to help land the troubled airliner.] Davis plays the role of a spoiled, willful, coquettish Southern belle who spitefully and stubbornly ruins her relationship with leading men Henry Fonda and George Brent.Luthor stabbed Superman twice in the side with his sharp shard of Kryptonite, taunted: "Now, fly!", raised his arms to the side, and let the decimated superhero fall off a cliff into the ocean to drown: "So long, Superman.In closeup as she slowly looked up, she smiled an evil grin at an hallucinatory vision of Deborah leading a white horse oward her, as the film went black.