Coleman is parodied in the hit Broadway musical Avenue Q, which won the 2004 Tony Award for best musical.

The marble's pose is parodied in the comic book Asterix and the Laurel Wreath.

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 commentating is frequently parodied on the Australian comedy series Comedy Inc. and The Twelfth Man.

The origins of this was parodied in a famous scene from the movie Forrest Gump when Forrest is on his multiple jogs across America, and wipes his face on a T shirt given him by a struggling salesman, and on the shirt, as if transferred there by Forrest's face, is the image of the happy face, whereupon the man gets his idea.

Sometimes it appears as a genuine tool, but often it is parodied – for example, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game included tools such as the ultra-plasmic awl, and the BBC Radio 4 science-fiction comedy Nebulous offered the sonic crowbar.

Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.

Night of the Living Dead is parodied in films such as Night of the Living Bread and Shaun of the Dead, and in episodes of The Simpsons (" Treehouse of Horror III ", 1992 ; " Treehouse of Horror XIII ", 2004 and " Treehouse of Horror XX ", 2009 ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, South Park (" Pink Eye ", 1997 ; " Night of the Living Homeless ", 2007 ), Medium (" Bite Me ", 2009 ) and Invader Zim (" Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom " 2001 and " FBI Warning of Doom " 2002 ).

The group is parodied in Doris Lessing's The Good Terrorist ( 1985 ), in which a group of naive, young, communist squatters splits over whether or not to join the IRA.

Because of Jacques Chirac's long career in visible government positions, he has often been parodied or caricatured: Young Jacques Chirac is the basis of a young, dashing bureaucrat character in the 1976 Asterix comic strip album Obelix and Co., proposing methods to quell Gallic unrest to elderly, old-style Roman politicians.

Voters increasingly viewed Goldwater as a right wing fringe candidate — his slogan " In your heart, you know he's right " was successfully parodied by the Johnson campaign into " In your guts, you know he's nuts ", or " In your heart, you know he might " ( as in push the nuclear button ), or even " In your heart, he's too far right " ( some cynics wore buttons saying " Even Johnson is better than Goldwater!

* 7-Eleven is parodied in The Simpsons television series, as a convenience store called Kwik-E-Mart.

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* 7-Eleven is also parodied in the Grand Theft Auto series of video games as a chain of convenience stores called 24 / 7

* 7-Eleven is parodied in Beavis and Butt-head as a convenience store called the Maxi Mart.

* 7-Eleven is parodied in the Mindless Self Indulgence song ' Seven Eleven ':

* 7-Eleven is parodied in the Ramones song ' 7-11 ':

This is parodied in A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court, where Bugs Bunny struggles to pronounce the word " porcupine ", which Porky pronounces with no trouble.

This is parodied famously in Cervantes ' Don Quixote, when the title character attacks a windmill, believing it to be a giant.

* In the Tintin album The Broken Ear, Zaharoff is parodied as the weapon trader Basil Bazarov, who sells to both parties of a single conflict that he helps provoke.

In the Family Guy episode " Blue Harvest ", Obi-Wan is parodied by the character Herbert.

In the short film Thumb Wars Obi-Wan is parodied as the character Oobedoob Benubi.

In the 1977 Star Wars parody Hardware Wars, Obi-Wan is parodied by the character " Augie Ben Doggie ".

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

The two main charges levelled against the Bourbons by liberals is that they are racists and social reactionaries.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Ratified in the Republican Party victory in 1952, the Positive State is now evidenced by political campaigns being waged not on whether but on how much social legislation there should be.

He was, and is, with the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit pool of thinkers financed by the U.S. Air Force.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

It is softened by the saltbush and the bluebush, has a peaceful quality, the hills roll softly.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

Westbrook further bemoans the Southern writers' creation of an unreal image of their homeland, which is too readily assimilated by both foreign readers and visiting Yankees: `` Our northerner is suspicious of all this crass evidence ( of urbanization ) presented to his senses.

As his disciples boast, even though his emphasis is elsewhere, Faulkner does show his awareness of the changing order of the South quite keenly, as can be proven by a quick recalling of his Sartoris and Snopes families.

The unit of form is determined subjectively: `` the Heart, by the way of the Breath, to the Line ''.