At the beginning of each show aired after the 1981 season, a title card would appear featuring a parody title of a TV show, with a silly ( often macabre ) picture and the announcer making the following announcement: "( TV show ) will not be seen today in order for us to bring you this ( adjective in character with the picture ) production.

* In Fable II, a parody of the card is found in the video option screen.

In September 1999, Editorial Director Jon Phillips authored a product parody of an imaginary videocard called the Bitchinfast3D < sup > 2000 </ sup >, an absurdly long graphics card running five competing 3D chipsets.

Marcel Duchamp, Mona Lisa parody " LHOOQ " ( 1919 ), post card reproduction with added moustache, goatee and title in pencil ( 19. 7 x 12. 4 cm )

Frank also appeared as a test card shown late at night on Channel M, where he and Little Frank ramble on and sing songs whilst framed in a parody of the classic Test Card F. On 6 March 2007, in an episode of the Podge and Rodge Show, he appeared in their ' Sham-Rock ' talent section, performing a medley of songs by The Smiths.

The Blacker Lotus was a satirical card in the parody Unglued set which produced four mana, although it required the user to physically tear the card up after use.

Both the playwright and his work were travestied by comic poets such as Aristophanes, the known dates of whose own plays thus serve as a terminus ad quem for those of Euripides, though sometimes the gap can be considerable ( e. g. twenty-seven years separate Telephus, known to have been produced in 438 BC, from its parody in Thesmophoriazusae in 411 BC!

This form is often used as a parody of metaphor itself: " If we can hit that bull's-eye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards ...

Such a title can immediately communicate both that what follows is a parody and also which work is about to be parodied, making any further " setup " ( introductory explanation ) unnecessary.

His sociopathic tendencies are made the subject of humour in " Burns ' Heir ", where he can be seen in his own home preparing a dialogue for some kind of confrontation in front of a mirror, and using a home-made sliding action pistol holster ( which comically smashes the mirror ) in a parody of Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle character from Taxi Driver.

However, jokes also can have an element of misunderstanding: This parody is the shortest possible example of an erroneous recursive definition of an object, the error being the absence of the termination condition ( or lack of the initial state, if looked at from an opposite point of view ).

Several songs, films and other television programs, including The Simpsons, reference or parody characters and events from the show, including the memorable "... can turn the world on with her smile " line from the title song.

So the revolution of our own day can do nothing better than parody, in turn, the October Revolution of 1917 and the civil war of 1918-1920, with its ' class line ,' its Bolshevik Party, its ' proletarian dictatorship ,' its puritanical morality, and even its slogan, ' soviet power '".

The content of webcomics can still cause problems, such as Leisure Town artist Tristan Farnon's legal trouble after creating a homoerotic Dilbert parody, or the Catholic League's protest of artist Eric Monster Millikin's " blasphemous treatment of Jesus.

" You can forgive Gervais a certain arrogance after the success of The Office, but ..." He remarks on the confused tone of the series, taking in the clash between the broad comedy of characters Barry ( Shaun Williamson ) and Darren ( Stephen Merchant ), and the apparent parody of this style with When The Whistle Blows, and " given their total indulgence of Gervais, the BBC is portrayed as interfering, its comedy department run by a rather crudely stereotyped gay couple ".

He receives the brain of the late Milt Appleday ( a parody of Walt Disney ), and can see cartoon characters with his new brain.

Muller is a German villain and can be read as a clear parody of the Germans at the time.

He also performs two solo routines: one as Chef Gormanda, a four-armed parody of Julia Child ( the four arms allow her to work much faster than Malla can keep up with ), and one as a malfunctioning Amorphian android in an instruction video watched by Lumpy.

A black mass is essentially a parody on the religious service of the Roman Catholic Church, but can be loosely applied to a satire on any religious ceremony.

Pottsylvania is a parody of a Cold War-era eastern European country ( possibly intended as a satire on East Germany: Pottsylvanian characters often use German words, and the Iron Cross can be seen on military aircraft ).

She is a parody of Queen Victoria and the setting for this film coincides with the real Victoria's Diamond Jubilee ( as can be seen with humans entering Buckingham Palace at the same time the mice are ).

The name also refers to Fireside Theatre, an early television series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1955, followed by Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre ( 1955 – 58 ); it may also refer to the Fireside Chats radio broadcasts made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a parody of which can be heard in one of the Theatre's Nick Danger adventures.

These segments typically showed Charles Firth, a member of the Chaser comedy team, presenting his opinion on topical issues, often through use of over-the-top comparisons ( such as dipping a paper heart in a can of black paint and claiming: " This is how black Saddam Hussein's heart is ") and outrageous statements in a parody of O ' Reilly and Australian current affairs personalities.

Goombas from Super Mario Bros also appear in underground side-scrolling sections which as well as being able to be defeated by some of Link's items, he can also land on top of them much as with Super Mario Bros. Director Takashi Tezuka said that the game's " freewheeling " development made Link's Awakening seem like a parody of the Legend of Zelda series.

Most of these poems parody the style (" chatty comfortable rhymes " that were " the delight of the enlightened bourgeois of the day ") and form ( Alexandrine couplets arranged in ten line verses ) of some short poems by Coppée ( examples can be found in the collection Promenades et Intérieurs ).

Browne's miscellaneous tract can be read as a parody of the rising trend of private museum collections with their curios of doubtful origin, and perhaps also of publications such as the so-called Museum Hermeticum ( 1678 ) one of the last great anthologies of alchemical literature, with their divulgence of near common-place alchemical symbols and secrets.

* In Gröûp X's song Too Many Guys, the lyrics make a reference to HIQ, a virus that can be caught via sexual intercourse ; HIQ has also been showed many times in the Flash animation for the song ; the name HIQ is most likely a parody of HIV

Often created to achieve a specific purpose related to another belief system, a parody religion can be a parody of several religions, sects, gurus, cults, and or new religious movements at the same time or a parody of no particular religion, instead parodying the concept of religious belief.

Later writers sometimes preface Alhazred with words such as " monk " ( such as in the Chick parody tract " Who will be Eaten First?

Such an anagram may be a synonym or antonym of its subject, a parody, a criticism, or praise ; e. g. George Bush = He bugs Gore ; Madonna Louise Ciccone = Occasional nude income or One cool dance musician ; William Shakespeare = I am a weakish speller, Roger Meddows Taylor = Great words or melody.

In a genre such as farce or parody, anagrams as names may be used for pointed and satiric effect.

Bush placing his manhood in a blind trust — in parody of Bush ’ s using that financial instrument to fend off concerns that his governmental decisions would be influenced by his investment holdings — brought the politician to complain, " Doonesbury ’ s carrying water for the opposition.

There is some division as to whether it should be regarded as a parody religion, and if so to what degree.

Formula fiction should not be confused with pastiche ( the mimicking of another work or author's style ), though the latter by its nature may include elements of the former ; the same holds true of some parody and satirical works as well, which may well include formulaic elements such as common stereotypes or caricatures, or which may use formulaic elements in order to mock them or point out their supposedly cliché or unrealistic nature.

The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.

Some listeners, such as Digby Pearson, considered them to be simply an in-joke or parody of grindcore.

* Blue World Order, a professional wrestling stable meant to be a parody of the stable above

A parody of a popular song, movie, etc., may be given a title that hints at the title of the work being parodied, substituting some of the words with ones that sound or look similar.

This modern meaning of the term should not be confused with the traditional ( pre-1970s ) meaning of " fan fiction " within the community of fandom, where the term meant original or parody fiction written by fans and published in fanzines, often with members of fandom as characters therein (" faan fiction ").

The Greeks had no word for what later would be called " satire ", although the terms cynicism and parody were used.

* Munchkin, a card-game parody of hack-and-slash roleplaying with many spinoffs ( all able to be mixed with the original ).

On 16 December 2010, Variety reported that Gilliam is to " godfather " a film called 1884 which is described as an animated steampunk parody of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, with several former Pythons lending their voice talents to the project whereas Gilliam will be credited as " creative adviser ".

Much of his attitude toward relationships could be a parody of Bond's lack of reflection with regard to the loss of a woman.

The work is a parody of classical opera, although some critics consider it to be the equal of many classical works in technical ability.

Austen biographer Claire Tomalin speculates that Austen may have begun this book, which is more explicitly comic than her other works and contains many literary allusions that her parents and siblings would have enjoyed, as a family entertainment — a piece of lighthearted parody to be read aloud by the fireside.

When Shaw gave Leopold Jacobson the rights to adapt the play into what became the 1908 operatta The Chocolate Soldier with music by Oscar Straus, he provided three conditions: none of Shaw's dialogue, nor any of his character's names, could be used ; the libretto must be advertised as being a parody of Shaw's work ; and Shaw would accept no monetary compensation.

A similar parody of insane and pointless experimentation may be found in the Academy of Lagado in Gulliver's Travels ( 1726 )

This article was what Sokal thought would be a parody of what he perceived to be the " fashionable nonsense " of postmodernists working in Cultural Studies.