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A parody advertisement is a fictional advertisement for a non-existent product, either done within another advertisement for an actual product, or done simply as parody of advertisements — used either as a way of ridiculing or drawing negative attention towards a real advertisement or such an advertisement's subject, or as a comedic device, such as in a comedy skit or sketch.
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Having a predilection for self-deprecating parody, he once appeared in an advertisement for Kit Kat chocolate bars, miming a piece of chamber music on the violin, in an upper-class tea-room, and he also appeared in an ad for Walkers where he gets his crisps stolen.
Another staple of Viz advertisement parody are the adverts for public and government services which one would normally not expect to find advertised ; for example, one ad consisted of the words " Raped?
This was followed by what appeared to be another advertisement: viewers were oblivious to the fact that the following " advertisement " was actually a parody of other well-known advertisements until the Energizer bunny suddenly intrudes on the situation, with the announcer saying " Still going ..." ( the Energizer Battery Company's way of emphasizing that their battery lasts longer than other leading batteries ).
Even if Nast's cartoons were not particularly offensive, Falwell argued that the Hustler parody advertisement in this case was so " outrageous " as to take it outside the scope of First Amendment protection.
The plaintiff sued the defendants for a television advertisement which was easily recognizable as being a parody of a scene from the plaintiff's film " Crocodile Dundee ".
In a 1983 parody of an advertisement for Campari, Hustler described the then-prominent fundamentalist Protestant minister Jerry Falwell having a drunken, incestuous encounter with his mother in an outhouse.
The " Happy Fun Ball " was the subject of a parody advertisement on Saturday Night Live.
At the end of the episode, a false advertisement features a three-tape VHS set of the war produced by The Day Today, featuring footage of the war and its origins, set against a backdrop of inappropriate pop music, a parody of tabloid television's tendency to " dumb down " stories and present serious events in a light-hearted manner.
The debut episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975 included a parody advertisement for the Triple Trac Razor, shortly after the first two-blade cartridge for men's razors was advertised.
The most famous television advertisement featured a glamorous couple on-board gondolas on Manchester's River Irwell, in a parody of a well-known Cornetto ice cream advertisement.
A parody advertisement should not be confused with a fictional brand name used in a program to avoid giving free advertising to an actual product, or to the use of a fictional brand name in an actual advertisement used for comparison, which is sometimes done as opposed to comparing the product to an actual competitor ( in some countries, ( Germany or Norway for example ) it is illegal to make disparaging comments about a competitor's product in an advertisement, even if the statements are proven to be true.
A parody advertisement can be one in which the advertisement appears to actually be a real ad for the false product, but then the advertisement is somehow exposed to be a parody and if it is an actual advertisement the actual brand becomes clear.
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For the present it is enough to note that in the grotesque figure of Jacoby, at the moment of his collapse, all these elements come together in prophetic parody.
Piepsam is grotesque, a disturbing parody ; ;
The vulture-like attendance of the Pocket family upon Miss Havisham is summed up in the hypocritical gestures of Miss Camilla Pocket, who puts her hand to her throat in a feigned spasm of grief-stricken choking, then lays it `` upon her heaving bosom '' with `` an unnatural fortitude of manner '', and finally kisses it to Miss Havisham in a parody of the lady's own mannerism toward Estella.
He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.
He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".
Li ' l Abner also features a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick is a parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy.
The title of Nicholas Blake's 1949 detective novel Head of a Traveller is a quotation from Housman's parody Fragment of a Greek Tragedy.
* Though its usage here is not a parody, in an episode of Cheers, Cliff aborts his plans to emigrate to Canada with his love interest when Sam, Woody, and Frasier appeal to his patriotic side by singing this song.
* In an SCTV parody commercial for fictional Poochare dog food, a borzoi dog is seen being taken for a walk by Eugene Levy.
A parody or spoof film is a comedy that satirizes other film genres or classic films.
Love is also self-identified feminist, and has been noted throughout her career for her subversive feminism and " self-conscious parody of female sex roles ".
Here is a Pope parody of the predictable rhymes of his era:
Big Shot, the fictional news source within Cowboy Bebop which provides information on various bounty heads, is a parody of the Western genre.
The country is supposedly capitalist, shares a border with a totalitarian regime, North Elbonia " a parody of North Korea and Iran ," and is also shown to share a border with a country called " Kneebonia " with which relations are bad.
The scene then cuts away to a parody of Dilbert, after which Peter remarks, " Well, sometimes the business world is funny.
President King, the leader of Walden College, was originally intended as a parody of Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, but all that remains of that is a certain physical resemblance.
Discordianism is a religion and parody religion based on the worship of Eris ( also known as Discordia ), the Greco-Roman goddess of chaos.
There is some division as to whether it should be regarded as a parody religion, and if so to what degree.
The game cover itself is a parody of Army of Darkness, while Duke poses as Ash Williams.
The audience is taken by surprise, by the parody or satire of an unexpected effect or an opposite expectations of their cultural beliefs.
In Act II, Scene III of Henry V, his death is described by the character " Hostess ", possibly the Mistress Quickly of Henry IV, who describes his body in terms that parody Plato's description of the death of Socrates.
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.
Another example of Gothic parody in a similar vein is The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett ( 1813 ).
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Notable exceptions to this pattern are a fictional scotch brand called " Hennigan's " ( a portmanteau of " Hennessy " and " Brannigans ") and a canned meat product called " Beef-a-reeno " ( a parody of " Beef-a-roni ").
* Dunder Mifflin, the fictional paper distribution company, is a parody of the large number of entities named after Mifflin.
One particularly memorable piece of tabloidesque worldplay parody, involving a fictional plot to assassinate Paul McCartney by a disgruntled former roadie, read ' Mop Top Pot Shot Plot Flops ', or with a gonad-focussed violent encounter with Mr T and a 70's playground toy, ' BA Baracus in Macca's clackers knackers fracas '.
The fictional character Millie Tant, a parody of a radical feminist who appears in Viz comic, always uses the spelling " wimmin " for women.
A third example showing a different version of metonymy is the fictional character Scrooge McDuck's " money bin " or indeed Scrooge himself, often used in Disney works and parody works as metonymous with wealth-most currency in the modern era is now stored electronically, but the money bin is still drawn in comics and persists as a pop culture metonym for any financial holding of great value.
This originally fictional band, created by Eric Idle and Neil Innes for 1970s television programming, became an actual group ( while remaining a parody of The Beatles ) and toured and recorded, releasing two UK chart hits.
In Der Todesking one of the character watches a video of the fictional nazi exploitation film Vera-Todesengel der Gestapo and in Nekromantik 2, the characters go to see a movie called Mon dejeuner avec Vera which is a parody of Lois Malle's My Dinner with André.
The fictional city of St. Canard is a direct parody of Gotham City.
Stylistically the movie is a parody of rock documentaries, purportedly filmed and directed by the fictional Marty DiBergi ( Rob Reiner ).
A parody of the show as part of Rutland Weekend Television in 1975, featuring Eric Idle as Harris, is the first known mention of fictional band, Toad The Wet Sprocket-a later reference on a Monty Python album gave rise to the band of the same name.
In the late 1960s / early 1970s, the Bob and Ray comedy parody radio show Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife centered around the Backstayge's stage production of the fictional play " Westchester Furioso ", an updating of Orlando Furioso that somehow involved musical numbers, tap dancing and ping pong.
The Hustler parody featured a picture of Falwell, and a fictional " interview " in which " Falwell " describes his first sexual experience as occurring " with Mom " in an outhouse while both were " drunk off our God-fearing asses on Campari.
In the episode, he governed the sale of NBC Universal to a fictional Philadelphia-based cable company, Kabletown, a parody of the actual acquisition of NBC Universal from General Electric by Comcast in November 2009.
Orwell's fictional " Newspeak " ( 1949 ) is a parody of ideologically motivated linguistic prescriptivism.
* In the 1992 video game OutRunners, an anthropomorphic broad bean character is featured on billboards, and the start of the game is called " Broad Bean ," a parody of Bibendum ( the Michelin man ), presumably the mascot of the fictional company sponsoring the race, Sam Spree.
In Pixar's Cars ( 2006 ), sponsors of the original NASCAR vehicles were replaced with fictional or parody brands.
Originally published in 2001, it began as a fictional game, a parody of the most ludicrous aspects of D & D played by the characters of the Knights of the Dinner Table comic strip by Jolly R. Blackburn.
The clearest evidence that the parody, which advertised various fictional " Icelandic Ultra Blue " products, was not real was the use of profanity and the fact that Adult Swim does not air infomercials.
* Concerto for Horn and Hardart is a classical music parody written by Peter Schickele, one of many which he attributes to the fictional composer P. D. Q.
The show traditionally opens with a parody reading of " All the News that Isn't ," a list of fictional headlines taken from real current events.
* Spinal Tap ( band ), a parody fictional heavy metal band
In a parody of the fembots from The Bionic Woman, attractive fembots in fuzzy see-through night-gowns were used as a lure for the fictional agent Austin Powers in the movie Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery.
Carl Kasell reads postings from the fictional Internet site " Carlslist " ( a parody of Craigslist ) based on recent news events.
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