* 1918 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian ( d. 2002 )

The name is mainly associated with Morton who has been credited as an influence by Spike Milligan amongst others.

In 1969, Spike Milligan based a BBC television series named The World of Beachcomber on the columns.

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The film, which starred Chapman as the eponymous pirate, also featured appearances from Peter Cook, Marty Feldman, Cleese, Idle, Spike Milligan, and Cheech & Chong.

* Spike Milligan – Spike

Spike Milligan plays a prophet, ignored because his acolytes are chasing after Brian.

In his published Diary, Michael Palin recalls that during the filming of Monty Python's Life of Brian in Tunisia, Spike Milligan ( who happened to be there on holiday ) regaled the Pythons with his own version of the Dead Parrot sketch, but changed " Norwegian Blue " to " Arctic Grey ".

The supporting cast included Olga Sosnovska, Stephen Fry and Eric Sykes and the series is also notable as the last screen performance by comedy legend Spike Milligan ( as the Headmaster ).

He co-founded The Goon Show radio show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, but appeared in only the first 38 shows on the BBC Light Programme from 1951 to 1953.

* Spike Milligan

Terence Alan Patrick Seán " Spike " Milligan KBE ( 16 April 191827 February 2002 ) was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor of English and Irish parentage.

In 1961, Milligan co-wrote two episodes of the popular sitcom Sykes and A ..., co-starring Sykes and Hattie Jacques, and the one-off " Spike Milligan Offers A Series Of Unrelated Incidents At Market Value ".

Director John Goldschmidt's film The Other Spike dramatised Milligan's nervous breakdown in a film for Granada Television, for which Milligan wrote the screenplay and in which he played himself.

Four of his children collaborated with documentary makers on a new multi-platform programme called I Told You I Was Ill: The Life and Legacy of Spike Milligan ( 2005 ), which includes an accompanying website.

Lynsey De Paul is a patron of the Spike Milligan Statue Memorial Fund.

There is a plaque and bench located at the Wadestown Library, Wellington New Zealand in an area called " Spike Milligan Corner ".

In a 2008 stage play, Surviving Spike, Milligan was played by the entertainer Michael Barrymore.

Spike Milligan plays an inventor, Mr. Pym, and acts as a butcher in a sketch.

* Badjelly's Bad Christmas A play created and performed by the Chickenshed Theatre Company using the works of Spike Milligan and his characters.

The role of the young Spike Milligan was played by Jim Dale.

* The Bible — the Old Testament According to Spike Milligan ( 1993 )

* Lady Chatterley's Lover According to Spike Milligan ( 1994 )

The sound can be heard, for example, when Spike Jones sings " Der Fuehrer's Face " ( from the 1942 Disney animated film of the same name ), repeatedly lambasting Adolf Hitler with: " We'll Heil!

This becomes a recurring joke in the penultimate episode of Season Five, where Spike finds himself repeatedly having to explain to the Scooby Gang that Ben and Glory are the same person, only for them either to misunderstand him or to instantly forget.

She punches Spike repeatedly in the face, declaring that he is evil and soulless, and that there is " nothing clean in ( him )".

In the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike refers to a scythe as the Holy Hand Grenade

In an episode of the 2010 My Little Pony series, the character Fluttershy refers to Spike as " Huffy the Magic Dragon ".

Spike timing-dependent plasticity ( STDP ) refers to the timing of presynaptic and postynaptic action potentials.

In Angel: After the Fall # 3, Spike also refers to Illyria as Fred Sonja while she was battling Angel's dragon.

In the Cyborg's debut episode, Annie refers to Spike as a female.

Spike grimly refers to it as a suicidal, " burn the house down, while we're still in it " strategy.

* Spike refers to Illyria as ' The Blue Meanie.

Spike, in a pun on the word " tiny ", refers to her as " Appletini ".

* In one scene, the bouncer refers to Spike as " a Billy Idol wannabe ," and Buffy starts to say that Billy Idol actually stole the look from him ( implying Spike had told her this in conversation at some point ).

* The title, " Lies My Parents Told Me ", also refers to the lies that Giles tells to arrange for Robin Wood to kill Spike.

* Johnny Depp: Confronting Spike as he tosses Angel's apartment in search of the Gem of Amarra, Cordelia refers to a 1994 incident in which the famous actor was arrested in ( alleged ) connection with some serious damage to an NYC hotel suite.

* Spike and Buffy's future relationship is foreshadowed when Spike steps in to help in the final fight and Glory refers to him as Buffy's boyfriend

* Xander refers to Spike as " Evil Dead ".

Spike Lee refers to his movies as " joints " and not just as a " movie ", mostly because he considers them a collaboration.

Spike: After the Fall, a companion piece to Angel: After the Fall, shows how Connor came about to form his alliance with Spike shortly after Los Angeles went to hell.

Among the biggest hype this movie received was Bruce Willis voicing Spike, and the use of " Odorama " cards to enhance the viewing experience, Burger King and Blockbuster released a scratch and sniff piece of cardboard that was to be scratched and sniffed during the run of the movie.

Chaz and Kira fall in love and get married upon returning to America, Spike and Fifi become a couple, and Chuckie now not only having a new mother but a new sister in the form of Kimi, completing one of Rugrats longest-running storylines, The film ends the Rugrats and the grown-ups having a cake fight, the camera backs up, a piece of cake is thrown at the camera, the screen fades to black and the movie ends.

So Spike vamps and attacks Buffy, cutting her arm with a piece of broken glass.

* Aimee Mann-" Pavlov's Bell "-The second song performed by Mann at the Bronze when Spike meets a vampire that claims to be sired by him, and a fight breaks out between the two until she is staked with a piece of bamboo.