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It's been a running joke for decades to have monster movies with titles like "The Thing that Ate Pittsburgh" or "The Monster That Stepped On Cincinnati".  The joke started sometime in the 1950s - monster movies were common on TV and the whole thing has the feel of the quasi beatnik comedy albums of the time.  The earliest use I could pin down was December, 1959's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, beginning the running gag of Maynard G. Krebs watching "The Monster That Devoured Cleveland".  Sid Ceasar had "The Creature that Ate the Monster", probably earlier but I don't know when.

The late 60s saw a musical variation of giant food items eating cities, spinning out of "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" by Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band.

Growing up I always assumed that the joke was based on films of similar names, and also that there would be parody films using that name construction, but it turns out there's not much of either.

There may be more, but the only actual scifi movie coming to mind that has this title setup is "The Monster That Challenged the World" from 1957.

Even later parody film titles are slim: the only two I could find were 1974's "The Car that Ate Paris", and 1996's "The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati", which wasn't a scifi parody.  The movie that should have had this kind of title but didn't was "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" in 1978.  Around 1974 or 1975 there was filming on "The Tomato That Ate Cleveland", but I'm not sure it was releaseded or finished.