Parodying
Send-up
Send-up noun - A work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effect.
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It was written by Wain and Showalter.It is in many ways a send-up of the goofy teen comedies (often set at college or camp) that were quite popular around the time period the movie is set in, without ever parodying individual scenes.
Source: Film / Wet Hot American Summer
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