It was this detachment which gave the Private Eye spoof Mrs Wilson's Diary, the supposed diary of Mary Wilson, written in the style of the BBC's daily radio serial Mrs Dale's Diary, a spurious look of authenticity.

In 1976 she played the role of Mae Olinski on the soap spoof Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

Damon became familiar to television viewers as middle-class Mary Campbell on the primetime spoof of daytime soaps aptly entitled Soap from 1977 until 1981, followed by her role of Cassie Parker on Webster from 1984 until 1986.

When Pebbles becomes a teenager, Wilma ( along with Betty ) gains employment as a reporter for one of Bedrock's newspapers, the Daily Granite ( a spoof of the Daily Planet of Superman fame ), under editor Lou Granite ( a parody of The Mary Tyler Moore Show's Lou Grant ).

" Superstar " can be seen as a spoof on Mary Sue fanfiction, in which an idealized version of the writer is inserted into a fictional universe and upstages the established characters.

( 2003 ) with Mary Woronov and Rhonda Shear is a broad spoof of prison films.

The plot of the episode is a reference to Mary Poppins ; Shary Bobbins is based on the character Mary Poppins and the episode title is a spoof of the word " Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ".

Roger Ebert praised the ability of the film to spoof the " illogic of the TV show ".

Whitehouse and Charlie Higson produced and appeared in a spoof phone-in show Down the Line on BBC Radio 4.

This style of show was the prototype for many later American TV series, such as Alias Smith and Jones, The Incredible Hulk, Run For Your Life, Renegade, and the spoof Run, Buddy, Run.

On occasion, this is explicitly recognised: the one-off strip Whitley Baywatch, a spoof of the popular American TV show Baywatch, is based in the North East coastal resort of Whitley Bay.

The comedian Tony Hancock parodied the show in a spoof called The Bowmans.

* Wild Guess: Game show spoof ( similar to You Bet Your Life ) with announcer Ken Kane ( Bill Cosby ) and host Bess West ( Rita Moreno ) in which the contestant would take a wild guess at what the day's secret word was.

Their show began humbly, but immediately established its own niche as a spoof on other types of shows.

* Mornington Crescent is a spoof game, featured in the BBC Radio 4 comedy panel show I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, which satirises complicated strategy games.

Caesar was duped into appearing on Channel 4 spoof show Brass Eye in the episode " Science ", where he warned viewers about the dangers of " heavy electricity ".

This included a sketch of a trailer for " Darwin ", a mock movie in which he played the evolutionary biologist, as well as a spoof of the hit show Lost.

Playing on a stereotype of his famous TV role, he wore the trademark fedora and black suit when he made an appearance as guest host of a 1977 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live that included a spoof of Highway Patrol, featuring Dan Aykroyd, a longtime fan of the original show, and one in which he portrayed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, in a humorous send-up of Hoover's suspect sexuality.

Alan got his first starring role in 1992 as host of BBC Radio 4's Knowing Me, Knowing You ... with Alan Partridge ( a spoof chat show with fictional guests ).

* Seán Cullen-Cullen has appeared several times on the show, initially as the leader of Corky and the Juice Pigs for a musical number comparing the 1993 Federal election to Gilligan's Island ; he also appeared as " Quint " in a spoof of the movie Jaws.

He also appeared as a guest on the Cartoon Network talk show spoof Space Ghost Coast to Coast in the episode ' Hungry '.

The final episode of the first series was to have been a spoof chat show called " Back to Normal with Eddie Monsoon " ( referred to as " An Evening with Eddie Monsoon " by some sources ).

* In the 1950s, Stan Freberg and Daws Butler wrote and performed St. George and the Dragon-Net ( a spoof of the tale and of Dragnet ) for Freberg's radio show.

* The Triangle Is Right — A spoof on the title The Price Is Right — Every question is answered with the response, " A triangle " ( a possible indirect reference to the real-life quiz show scandals of the ' 50s ).

Earlier episodes of the show featured a number of spoof episodes of the TV programme The Weakest Link, variously featuring Jesus's disciples, Robert Falcon Scott and his Antarctic explorers, and monks who had taken a vow of silence.

The group stayed together to later write, direct and produce The Late Show, a comedy sketch show, and Frontline, a widely-acclaimed spoof of television current affairs in which Kennedy played an ambitious reporter.

A Pikachu spoof called Ling-Ling was a main character in the Comedy Central show Drawn Together.

Despite the show's relative failure, fans of the former UK Play spoof interviews show Rock Profile, often recall the creators and future stars of Little Britain, Matt Lucas and David Walliams's, appearance on the show as Danny and Noel from Hear ' Say, in which they constantly sang " Monday, Monday " after Theakston asked them a question.

" This was followed later in the same year by a spoof on another BBC radio comedy show, That Man Chester, which launched a regular strand entitled " The Quite-a-Mess Three Saga ", with Deryck Guyler as " Professor Quite-a-Mess ".

A television spoof appeared in a 1986 episode of the BBC sketch show The Two Ronnies, which featured a sketch entitled " It Came From Outer Hendon ", written by David Renwick.

Her last line in the show was a spoof from Star Wars: " Help me Liz Lemon, You're my only hope !".

As a result, the film's plot and scenes were heavily parodied in the 2001 spoof Not Another Teen Movie.

The music for 1988's flight simulator computer game F / A-18 Interceptor from Electronic Arts was obviously inspired by the " Top Gun Anthem " and many film scenes, spoof or serious, have been scored in a faux-Top Gun fashion.

The spoof features stylized versions of the Lego Star Wars Episode III building toys in fantasy situations, portraying the interactivity of Lego in various scenes.

To spoof the " Special Edition " re-release of Star Wars in 1997, which included additional scenes and more advanced digital special effects, Hardware Wars was re-released on VHS as a twenty-minute " Special Edition ," with new digital " special defects.

Rita Kempley in the Washington Post wrote: " Director Michael Hoffman, whose idiosyncratic portfolio includes the period comedy Restoration and the spoof Soapdish, sets a mellow pace and alternates old-fashioned split screen with crosscutting to enliven the many phone scenes.

When his entire family is seen together, they appear to be a spoof of The Cosby Show.

( This can also be a spoof of Trish herself, since she has refused several offers to appear in Playboy )

The use of Unicode in domain names makes it potentially easier to spoof web sites visited by World Wide Web users as the visual representation of an IDN string in a web browser may appear identical to another, depending on the font used.

In 1997, Edmonds was involved in an episode of the Chris Morris spoof documentary series Brass Eye, in which he unwittingly pledged his allegiance on camera to a campaign to rid the country of a new killer drug, the entirely fictitious ' cake ', which apparently made 10 seconds appear as a few hours to a user.

After a 2000 spoof documentary with Cash entitled Back Passage to India, Aherne said The Royle Family would end in December 2000 after a Christmas special, and that she would not appear on television again, although she would continue to write.

The show was designed to appear as if the viewer was channel surfing through a multi-channel wasteland, happening upon spoof adverts, short sketches, and recurring show elements.

Commonly all three brides appear in film adaptations of the novel, though some adaptations show fewer than three, such as the 1995 spoof Dracula: Dead and Loving It, in which two appear, and Dracula ( 1958 ) and Drakula İstanbul ' da, where a single bride appears.