Perhaps the use of SparkNotes can be seen as a sendup of the prestige-prize economy, said Pitzer.

Now this outstanding Rachel-from-Friends sendup is making us really look forward to a Friends bit in Season 41 of the sketch comedy show.

His sendup of people combing back through old tweets and movies and TV shows for inevitable signs of moral impurity are similarly sharp.

The Faustian bargain of high-profile, publicist-driven journalism is ripe for sendup, but with so many broadly drawn characters, the film has no satiric bite.