While advertisers played up his habit of openly rooting for the Cubs from the booth ( for example, one Budweiser ad described him as " Cub Fan, Bud Man " in a Blues Brothers-style parody of " Soul Man "), he had been even less restrained about rooting for the Cardinals when he broadcast for them.

The 1982 parody song " Boogie In Your Butt " by comedian Eddie Murphy interpolates Soul Makossa's bassline and horn charts while " Butt Naked Booty Bless " by 1990s hip hop group Poor Righteous Teachers heavily samples its musical bridge and drum patterns.

This included the title piece, an obscene parody of Alexander Pope's " An Essay on Man "; " Veni Creator: or, The Maid's Prayer ", which is original ; the " Universal Prayer ", an obscene parody of Pope's poem of the same name, and " The Dying Lover to his Prick ", which parodies " A Dying Christian to his Soul " by Pope.

A parody can also be found within the PC game A Vampyre Story: a book titled Chicken Soup for Those Without a Soul is in the library.

In 1999, Jessica Zafra released a parody of the book called Chicken Pox for the Soul, full of cynical suggestions such as " While being madly in love is fun, perhaps one should aspire to be sanely in love ".

In a parody of old children's book-and-record read-along sets, Jeff finds a cassette tape copy of a De La Soul album in the garbage.

* The Seinfeld episode The Soul Mate appears to parody the balcony scene of Cyrano as Kramer attempts to win over Jerry's girlfriend Pam with Newman supplying the poetry.

* 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.

This is often the subject of parody, for example in the Simpsons episode " Radioactive Man " where the onomatopoeic words are replaced with snuh !, newt!

The narrative tone of television espionage ranged from the drama of Danger Man ( 1960 – 68 ) to the sardonicism of The Man from U. N. C. L. E ( 1964 – 68 ) and the flippancy of I Spy ( 1965 – 68 ) until the exaggeration, akin to that of William Le Queux and E. Phillips Oppenheim before the First World War ( 1914 – 18 ), degenerated to the parody of Get Smart ( 1965 – 70 ).

Intending to parody this, they wrote the original story The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest.

Also introduced was Morecambe's famous paper bag trick, as well as an original opening segment which saw the pair parody other series, such as The Man from U. N. C. L. E., Dixon of Dock Green and Take Your Pick.

He is a parody of Iron Man and Flash.

May also appeared as " Golden Oldie " ( this time an Iron Man parody ) as well as " The Astonishing Aunt Ant " and " Auntie Freeze " in an issue of What If ?.

In 1966, Coburn became a bona fide star following the release of the James Bond parody film Our Man Flint.

Wilkes and Thomas Potter wrote a pornographic poem entitled " An Essay on Woman " as a parody of Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man.

* The comic strip The Wizard of Id by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker features an attorney called " Larsen E. Pettifogger ", an obvious parody of Fields, named in allusion to Fields's character Larson E. Whipsnade from You Can't Cheat an Honest Man.

British animated series Danger Mouse was largely inspired by Danger Man, and is a broad parody of both this series and secret agent films and television in general.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End features a parody of the " Man With a Harmonica " theme on the soundtrack, as the film's protagonists parlay on a sandbar before the final battle.

The show is a loose parody of British spy fiction, particularly James Bond and the Danger Man series starring Patrick McGoohan.

B. L. E. E. P is one parody of the Man From U. N. C. L. E.

Glover is known for portraying eccentric people on screen such as George McFly in Back to the Future, Layne in River's Edge, unfriendly recluse Rubin Farr in Rubin and Ed, Andy Warhol in The Doors, the " Thin Man " in the big screen adaptation of Charlie's Angels and its sequel, Willard Stiles in the Willard remake, The Knave of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland, and as Phil in Hot Tub Time Machine, and as a Willy Wonka parody in Epic Movie.

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.

Both the film Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery ( 1997 ), and its sequel, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ( 1999 ) feature a parody / homage to Veruschka's photo shoot in Blowup.

Rees-Mogg's stand on drugs led to his being satirised as " Mogadon Man " by Private Eye, which also mocks the perceived inaccuracy of his economic and political predictions by referring to him as " Mystic Mogg ", a parody on " Mystic Meg ", a tabloid astrologist.

INTERCAL is an esoteric programming language that was created as a parody by Don Woods and James M. Lyon, two Princeton University students, in 1972.

In 1996, " Weird Al " Yankovic created a parody of the Presidents ' " Lump ", titled " Gump ".

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.

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.

In 2000, the modern artist Wang Qingsong created a parody of this painting with a long, horizontal photograph of people in modern clothing making similar facial expressions, poses, and hand gestures as the original painting.

In 1919, Marcel Duchamp, one of the most influential modern artists, created L. H. O. O. Q., a Mona Lisa parody made by adorning a cheap reproduction with a moustache and a goatee.

: An unofficial, very short-lived Australian parody of the programme was created by comedy troupe The T Team.

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.

When Idle and Innes created a parody of the Beatles, Idle suggested " Rutles ".

* Whitehouse. org, a parody website that Chickenhead Productions created in 2001

A parody in contemporary usage, is a work created to mock, comment on, or make fun at an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation.

" The two borrowed reel-to-reel recorders from a friend and created multi-track recordings of music spanning from parody songs to free-form jazz.

Blood Bowl is a Fantasy Football game created by Jervis Johnson for the British games company Games Workshop ( but now under the aegis of their Specialist Games division ) as a parody of American Football.

The show was created as a night-time parody of daytime soap operas, presented as a weekly half-hour prime time comedy.

In 2010, Cannon created a parody of hip hop pioneer " Slick Rick " entitled " Slick Nick ".

Garbage Pail Kids ( also known as " The Garbage Gang " in Australia and New Zealand and later United Kingdom versions, " La Pandilla Basura " Garbage Gang or " Basuritas " in Latin America, " Gang do Lixo " Gang in Brazil, " Sgorbions " in Italy, " Les Crados " Filthies in France and Belgium, and " Die total kaputten Kids " Totally Broken Kids in Germany ) is a series of trading cards produced by the Topps Company, originally released in 1985 and designed to parody the Cabbage Patch Kids dolls created by Xavier Roberts which were immensely popular at the time.

Sappy Stanley is not a pre-existing cartoon character, having been created for the episode, but a parody of Terrytoons character Sidney the Elephant, a. k. a. " Silly Sidney ," whose cartoon Sidney's Family Tree was indeed nominated for an Academy Award the same year as Knighty Knight Bugs.

The playwright David Turner had heckled her at the Birmingham Town Hall ; his work was criticised during the meeting, and within a few months Swizzlewick, a twice-weekly series he had created, featured a parody of her.

The commercials were so memorable that HBO's news parody series Not Necessarily the News created a parody TV commercial featuring a caricature of Oliver North ( from the then-infamous Iran-Contra affair ), known as " Crazy Ollie ", selling used weapons at bargain prices.

* Gary Jackson-President and founder of Hard Eight, Gary Jackson designed and created Hackmaster ( a parody of Dungeons & Dragons ; in the very early Shadis scripts, the game the group plays is apparently called Dung & Dragons, but renamed HackMaster shortly afterwards ).

He created a parody of the " 404 – page not found " browser error message in response to the war in Iraq.

* In 2003, Steven Lerner, creator of Albino Blacksheep, created a parody webpage titled " French Military Victories ".

During the 1960s, André Ribaud and the cartoonist Moisan created a series, La Cour, which was a parody of Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon's Memoirs on the Reign of Louis XIV.