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* Another parody was used on the episode of Saturday Night Live William Shatner hosted in 1986, called " Ollie North, The Mute Marine.
* John Woo directed a parody film of Chaplin's " The Kid " called Hua ji shi dai ( 1981 ), also known as " Laughing Times.
After quarterback Jay Cutler came down with an injury in 2011, where the Bears lost 5 straight games and was knocked out of playoff contention, his absence was bemoaned in a song parodying the hit Baby Come Back as a parody called Cutty Come Back.
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.
Levels in this episode include a fast-food restaurant ( Duke Burger ), a supermarket, a Disneyland parody called " Babe Land ," a police station, the Exxon Valdez, and Area 51.
Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia.
A 2005 episode of the satirical New Zealand news show Eating Media Lunch depicted newsreaders fornicating in a parody of Naked News called " Fuck News ".
* Oliver Herford released a parody of the Rubaiyat called " The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten " in 1904, which is notable for its charming illustrations of the kitten in question on his philosophical adventures.
He also helped to design a computer-based parody of himself available for download off Channel 4's website called Desktop Richie.
The Greeks had no word for what later would be called " satire ", although the terms cynicism and parody were used.
* The Worst ... Album in the World ... Ever ... EVER !, a parody of the long string of compilation albums released in the UK since the 1990s called The Best ( genre ) Album in the world ever !.
There were Carry On films in which James played characters who were not called Sid or Sidney, namely, Carry On Henry ( a parody of Henry VIII ) and Carry On Dick ( a spoof of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin ), in both of which he played the title roles, and Carry On Cleo, in which he played Mark Antony.
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 ").
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.
* MAD Magazines X-Men parody " ECH !- Men " featured a Sentinel ( called " Sentinent ") with a huge posterior.
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 ".
Mad's parody was called " How-Are-Ya Five-O ", with the characters renamed Steve " McGarrish " and " Dummy " Williams.
The spacecraft is called USS Swinetrek and the title voice-over is a parody of Lost in Space.
During the 2001 / 02 season when Feyenoord won the UEFA Cup a parody was launched of the song " Put your hands up " by Black and White Brothers called " Put your hands up for Pi-Air " as a tribute to Pierre ( Pi-Air ) van Hooijdonk.
The genre featured in a parody hit song by Jasper Carrott called, " Funky Moped ".
José Guadalupe Posada created a famous print of a figure he called La Calavera de la Catrina (" skull of the rich woman ") as a parody of a Mexican upper-class female.
episode " Star Koopa ", being a spoof of Star Wars, also had its own parody of Obi-Wan Kenobi called Obi-Wan Toadi.
A later parody, based on a 1960s television commercial which used the melody, sung by schoolchildren in the United States, is called " Comet ", and deals with the effects of consuming a popular brand of household cleanser.
In 2007, Vanity Fair called it the show's fourth-best episode, because of its " masterful integration of filmic parody and a recurring character ".

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* Lobster Man from Mars ( 1989 ) is a parody of 1950s science fiction films, and tells of a race of Martians who are dying due to a rapidly thinning atmosphere, and send an anthropomorphic lobster to investigate the possible colonisation of Earth.
" His most famous film, Le Voyage dans la lune ( 1902 ), a whimsical parody of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, featured a combination of live action and animation, and also incorporated extensive miniature and matte painting work.
William S. Donnell drew the " parody map " of Lower Middle Earth.
They all originated from " Turtle-Prime ", which is a parody of Earth Prime.
The strip occasionally visits a parallel Earth, a deliberate parody of our own world.
Other plot lines include Jessica's adopted daughter Corinne courting Father Tim Flotsky, who ended up leaving the priesthood, and the two eventually marrying and having a child who is possessed by the Devil ; Chester being imprisoned for Peter's murder, escaping with his prison roommate Dutch, and being afflicted with amnesia after a failed operation ; Jessica's other daughter, Eunice, sleeps with a married congressman, and then falls in love with Dutch ; Mary's stepson Chuck, a ventriloquist whose hostilities are expressed through his alter ego, a quick-witted dummy named Bob ; Jessica's love affairs with several men, including Donahue, a private investigator hired to find the missing presumed-dead Chester, her psychiatrist, and a Latin American revolutionary known as " El Puerco " (" The Pig "; his friends just call him " El "); Billy Tate's confinement by a cult called the " Sunnies " ( a parody of Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, called the " Moonies " by its critics ), and then his affair with his school teacher who becomes unhinged ; Danny and his romantic trials with the daughter of a mobster, a black woman, a prostitute, and Chester's second wife, Annie ; and Burt's confinement to a mental institution, his abduction by aliens while being replaced with an oversexed alien look-a-like on Earth, and getting blackmailed by the Mob after becoming sheriff of their small town.
In November 2006 Jackanory returned with comedian John Sessions as the revived programme's first narrator reading The Lord of the Rings parody Muddle Earth, written by Paul Stewart ( and illustrator Chris Riddell ).
This verse is a parody of God's creation of Earth described in Genesis 1: 4, 1: 10, 1: 12, 1: 18, 1: 21, 1: 25, 1: 31 of the Bible.
Eventually, readers ( and the Zoo Crew ) were introduced to the parallel Earth of " Earth-C-Minus ," which turned out to be the home of " Just ' a Lotta Animals " ( a parody of the Justice League of America ) and whose world was an all-animal reflection of the mainstream DC Universe.
In the 1974 film Flesh Gordon, a ribald parody of the science fiction adventures of Flash Gordon, the villain " Emperor Wang " directs a " sex ray " at Earth which causes the planet's inhabitants to become uncontrollably sexually aroused.
* The logo for " Drizzlers Gravies " is a parody of Sherwin Williams's sign with a picture of a can of red paint being poured over the Earth.
In War of the Wenuses, an 1898 parody of The War of the Worlds, one of the main battles between Earth women and Venusian women takes place outside the original store in Westbourne Grove.
They arrive safely and are accosted by the Collectors of Helios, a parody of Earth monks.
A parody of the original film, where a satellite crashes to Earth bringing radiation that promptly animates – as opposed to re-animating – all manner of homicidal bread, from buns to biscuits to Communion wafers.
This is the case in " El Señor de los Chupetes " (" Lord of the Pacifiers ", a parody for Lord of the Rings ) or " Al centro de la Tierra " ( after Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth )
They travel through two universes and encounter planets including a parody of the Earth.

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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 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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