i've always found it so interesting how similar the police academy movies are to the friday the 13th films

the police academy movies were made by Paramount. i remember before part 4, citizens on patrol seeing the Paramount sign. they both have the same atmosphere, comedy style and tone, campiness to extreme, goofy, over the top characters played for laughs, they both made a lot of movies, both pretty consistently made a sequel in every year in the '80s, and they both to me are the epitomes of '80s movies, meaning they both utilized every outlandish, '80s humor style and had all the character types you find in '80s teen movies/'80s slasher movies, along with the campiest atmospheres that any movie has ever had which you can only achieve if you could make a movie in the '80s. oh, and another interesting fact is both series happened to stop making movies suddenly at the exact same time in 1989 and finally they both came back 4 and 5 years later which doesn't seem coincidental to me as '80s friday the 13th films were by the '90s not considered relevant anymore to theater companies and maybe they thought the same of the police academy series by then also.