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Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg are a pair of writer/directors that collaborate with each other on all of their projects. They create comedic movies that parody and reference pop culture in the [[Airplane!|Zucker, Abrams and Zucker]] style of [[Rapid
Their first official project was the 1996 film ''[[Spy Hard]]'' and they contributed one of the many scripts that was folded into the first ''[[Scary Movie]]'', but they did not gain notoriety until 2006 with ''Date Movie''. While panned by critics, the film made back triple its meager budget and secured them a contract to do a couple more films. While 2007's ''Epic Movie'', January 2008's ''Meet the Spartans'', and August 2008's ''Disaster Movie'' received worse critical reception and inspired a vocal [[Hatedom]], it wasn't until the last that the public rejected them (although it's unknown whether or not the film's failure was simply due to the different audience provided by its August release). In 2010, the duo released ''[[Vampires Suck (Film)|Vampires Suck]]'', a ''Twilight'' parody which was as poorly received as their previous works. See also [[Superhero Movie]] and [[Dance Flick]], which are often thought to be made by them.
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* [[Follow the Leader]]: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQJ5X4YhpFk Spanish Movie],'' ''[[Superhero Movie]]'', and ''[[Dance Flick]]''. Sometimes, these guys are mistakenly credited for the latter two.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: In ''Meet the Spartans''. It even has a TV screen on its chest playing [[Chris Crocker]]'s Britney Spears rant. For no reason.
* [[I Ate What?]]: In ''Epic Movie,'' Edward notices what he thinks is the chocolate river, and quickly gulps some "chocolate" up in enjoyment. After a beat, Willy points out, "That's actually the sewer line," causing Edward to gag in disgust.
* [[Informed Flaw]]: The main character of ''Date Movie'' is "389 pounds, smokes a thousand cigarettes a day, and drinks like Tara Reid". While the first one is quite visible (and gets quickly removed via magic liposuction), she is never shown smoking or binge drinking. At all. Maybe an unmentioned rehab session happened some time during the liposuction?
* [[Inherently Funny Words]]: ''Meet The Spartans'' was called ''[[Ratatouille|Spartatouille]]'' (pronounced "Sparta-too-eee") in France.
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* [[Parody Failure]]: Sometimes, they make jokes that were present in the original source material. For example, the Wolverine parody in ''Epic Movie'' uses his middle claw to flip Edward the finger. This would be a valid parody of the character... if the real Wolverine didn't do the ''exact same thing'' in the first ''[[X-Men (Film)|X-Men]]'' movie.
* [[Parody Names]]: Not often, but they're there. <s>[[Juno]]</s> Juney, the [[The Chronicles of Narnia|White]] <s>[[The Chronicles of Narnia|Witch]]</s> Bitch, [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Captain Jack]] <s>[[Pirates of the Caribbean|Sparrow]]</s> Swallows, etc.
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* [[Reclusive Artist]]: Other than the movies, we don't really know anything about these guys. All we have are two pictures circulating around the Internet, a couple of interviews, and some audio commentary on their movies' DVDs (which is apparently very cryptic and has almost nothing to do with their movie.)
* [[Reference Overdosed]]: Each film is kind of like seeing about a hundred different movies, TV shows, music videos, viral memes, and other pop culture artifacts squeezed into ~80 minutes. See the [[Narrow Parody]] entry above for a short list of examples from one film.
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