10 Most Underrated Comedy Films Of The 90s

Somewhere between the raw ridiculousness of Orgasmo and the overachieving political rants of Team America: World Police, South Park creators Trey Park and Matt Stone tossed out a perfect time capsule of the late 90s with BASEketball.

It's really just a bunch of dopey, irreverent slapstick centered around two losers who accidentally create America's new favorite pastime by mixing together the core concepts of baseball and basketball. But hot damn is it all so satisfying.

Although David Zucker will always be remembered for his other, more iconic parodies such as Airplane! and The Naked Gun series, BASEketball deserves more love than it's received over the last couple of decades. It's the last movie he written and directed that can still be classified as a comedy and not simply a painful exercise in cataloging obvious movie references.

For whatever reason, though, this one slipped through the crevices of time and into the bargain bin of pop culture.

Maybe it's because this style of slapstick comedy had fallen out of favor by the time 1998 rolled around, or maybe it's because South Park was still just a weird little cult program that hadn't yet reached Simpsons-level proportions.

Whatever the reason, too many people missed out on the Psych Outs, on-field meltdowns, and on-the-nose genre parodies.