Both the playwright and his work were travestied by comic poets such as Aristophanes, the known dates of whose own plays thus serve as a terminus ad quem for those of Euripides, though sometimes the gap can be considerable ( e. g. twenty-seven years separate Telephus, known to have been produced in 438 BC, from its parody in Thesmophoriazusae in 411 BC!

This form is often used as a parody of metaphor itself: " If we can hit that bull's-eye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards ...

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 sociopathic tendencies are made the subject of humour in " Burns ' Heir ", where he can be seen in his own home preparing a dialogue for some kind of confrontation in front of a mirror, and using a home-made sliding action pistol holster ( which comically smashes the mirror ) in a parody of Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle character from Taxi Driver.

However, jokes also can have an element of misunderstanding: This parody is the shortest possible example of an erroneous recursive definition of an object, the error being the absence of the termination condition ( or lack of the initial state, if looked at from an opposite point of view ).

Several songs, films and other television programs, including The Simpsons, reference or parody characters and events from the show, including the memorable "... can turn the world on with her smile " line from the title song.

So the revolution of our own day can do nothing better than parody, in turn, the October Revolution of 1917 and the civil war of 1918-1920, with its ' class line ,' its Bolshevik Party, its ' proletarian dictatorship ,' its puritanical morality, and even its slogan, ' soviet power '".

The content of webcomics can still cause problems, such as Leisure Town artist Tristan Farnon's legal trouble after creating a homoerotic Dilbert parody, or the Catholic League's protest of artist Eric Monster Millikin's " blasphemous treatment of Jesus.

" You can forgive Gervais a certain arrogance after the success of The Office, but ..." He remarks on the confused tone of the series, taking in the clash between the broad comedy of characters Barry ( Shaun Williamson ) and Darren ( Stephen Merchant ), and the apparent parody of this style with When The Whistle Blows, and " given their total indulgence of Gervais, the BBC is portrayed as interfering, its comedy department run by a rather crudely stereotyped gay couple ".

He receives the brain of the late Milt Appleday ( a parody of Walt Disney ), and can see cartoon characters with his new brain.

Muller is a German villain and can be read as a clear parody of the Germans at the time.

He also performs two solo routines: one as Chef Gormanda, a four-armed parody of Julia Child ( the four arms allow her to work much faster than Malla can keep up with ), and one as a malfunctioning Amorphian android in an instruction video watched by Lumpy.

A black mass is essentially a parody on the religious service of the Roman Catholic Church, but can be loosely applied to a satire on any religious ceremony.

Pottsylvania is a parody of a Cold War-era eastern European country ( possibly intended as a satire on East Germany: Pottsylvanian characters often use German words, and the Iron Cross can be seen on military aircraft ).

She is a parody of Queen Victoria and the setting for this film coincides with the real Victoria's Diamond Jubilee ( as can be seen with humans entering Buckingham Palace at the same time the mice are ).

The name also refers to Fireside Theatre, an early television series that ran on NBC from 1949 to 1955, followed by Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre ( 1955 – 58 ); it may also refer to the Fireside Chats radio broadcasts made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a parody of which can be heard in one of the Theatre's Nick Danger adventures.

These segments typically showed Charles Firth, a member of the Chaser comedy team, presenting his opinion on topical issues, often through use of over-the-top comparisons ( such as dipping a paper heart in a can of black paint and claiming: " This is how black Saddam Hussein's heart is ") and outrageous statements in a parody of O ' Reilly and Australian current affairs personalities.

Goombas from Super Mario Bros also appear in underground side-scrolling sections which as well as being able to be defeated by some of Link's items, he can also land on top of them much as with Super Mario Bros. Director Takashi Tezuka said that the game's " freewheeling " development made Link's Awakening seem like a parody of the Legend of Zelda series.

Most of these poems parody the style (" chatty comfortable rhymes " that were " the delight of the enlightened bourgeois of the day ") and form ( Alexandrine couplets arranged in ten line verses ) of some short poems by Coppée ( examples can be found in the collection Promenades et Intérieurs ).

Browne's miscellaneous tract can be read as a parody of the rising trend of private museum collections with their curios of doubtful origin, and perhaps also of publications such as the so-called Museum Hermeticum ( 1678 ) one of the last great anthologies of alchemical literature, with their divulgence of near common-place alchemical symbols and secrets.

* In Gröûp X's song Too Many Guys, the lyrics make a reference to HIQ, a virus that can be caught via sexual intercourse ; HIQ has also been showed many times in the Flash animation for the song ; the name HIQ is most likely a parody of HIV

* A parody of the card can be accessible from the Extras menu of the videogame MotorStorm, but with the girl changed to a Motocross rider.

Often created to achieve a specific purpose related to another belief system, a parody religion can be a parody of several religions, sects, gurus, cults, and or new religious movements at the same time or a parody of no particular religion, instead parodying the concept of religious belief.

Li ' l Abner also features a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick is a parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy.

In a dual performance he also plays the dictator " Adenoid Hynkle ", a parody of Hitler which Maland sees as revealing the " megalomania, narcissism, compulsion to dominate, and disregard for human life " of the German dictator.

* John Woo directed a parody film of Chaplin's " The Kid " called Hua ji shi dai ( 1981 ), also known as " Laughing Times.

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 ".

The unbalanced and unpolished poetic meter and line length parody the limerick, and the clerihew in form also parodies the eulogy.

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.

Discordianism is a religion and parody religion based on the worship of Eris ( also known as Discordia ), the Greco-Roman goddess of chaos.

Fickman also worked on the musical Reefer Madness, a parody of the anti-marijuana propaganda film of the same name which was turned into a feature film on Showtime.

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.

" A number of original recordings also were released in this way in the 1970s and early 1980s, such as " Gall in the Family Fare " ( a parody of All in the Family ), a single entitled " Makin ' Out ," the octuple-grooved track " It's a Super Spectacular Day ," which had eight possible endings, the spoken word Meet the Staff insert, and a six-track, 30-minute Mad Disco EP ( from the 1980 Special of the same title ) that included a disco version of " It's a Gas.

During the magazine's most successful years, parody of every kind was a mainstay ; surrealist content was also central to its appeal.

MIT also had developed their own influential system, the Incompatible Timesharing System ( named in parody of the Compatible Time-Sharing System, developed at MIT for a modified IBM 7094 ).

He also helped to design a computer-based parody of himself available for download off Channel 4's website called Desktop Richie.

With his brother Ivan Raimi ( and crediting himself as Celia Abrams ), Sam Raimi also wrote Easy Wheels ( 1989 ), a parody of the Outlaw biker film genre.

Roger also visits Space Quest X: Latex Babes of Estros ( whose title is a parody of Infocom's game Leather Goddesses of Phobos ) and Space Quest I ; in the latter, the graphics and music revert to the style of the original game and Roger is threatened by a group of monochromatic bikers who consider Roger's 256 colors pretentious ( or comment on other graphics modes if played in EGA or Monochrome ).

He also wrote comedy songs, including " Purple Aeroplane ", which was a parody of The Beatles ' song " Yellow Submarine ".

The play is similar to the film The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), which also featured an absurd parody of Hitler by Charlie Chaplin.

New supplements covering new genres and specific objects of parody were also added.

Gombrowicz's work is also well known for its playful allusions and satire, as when in " Trans-Atlantic ", a section of the text takes the form of a stylized 19th century diary, followed by a parody of a traditional fable.

Gilbert and Sullivan also inserted into Act II an idea they first considered for a one-act opera parody in 1876 about burglars meeting police, and their conflict escaping the notice of the father of a large family of girls.

Fionn also appears as a character in Flann O ' Brien's comic novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, in passages that parody the style of Irish myths.

A longtime critic of the Huntingtonian paradigm, and an outspoken proponent of Arab issues, Edward Said ( 2004 ) also claimed that not only is the Clash of Civilisations thesis a " reductive and vulgar notion " ( p. 226 ), but it is also an illustration “ of the purest invidious racism, a sort of parody of Hitlerian science directed today against Arabs and Muslims ” ( p. 293 ).

" 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.