In 1960, Stan Freberg did a parody on the Payola Scandal, by calling it " Old Payola Roll Blues ", a two sided single, where the promoter gets an ordinary teenager, named Clyde Ankle, to record a song, for Obscurity Records, entitled " High School OO OO ", and then tries to offer the song to a Jazz radio station with phony deals that the Disc Jockey just won't buy it.

Meanwhile, films such as The Big Lebowski, which plucked actor Sam Elliott out of the Old West and into a Los Angeles bowling alley, and Midnight Cowboy, about a Southern-boy-turned-gigolo in New York, transplanted Western themes into modern settings for both purposes of parody and homage.

The Jon Holmes radio show on BBC Radio 6 Music has a feature called the Old Gay Whistle Test, a parody where a homosexual pensioner whistles a tune for the listeners to guess.

Hoare used a parody tale, The Emperor's Old Clothes, to advocate simplification over embellishment, for clothing or computer sorting algorithms.

In 2010, Grover starred in a parody of an Old Spice Commercial called " Smell Like a Monster ", where a clam with " two tickets to the thing you love " bit his nose and he rode a cow rather than a horse.

Thus, there was a mass parody called " The Feast of Asses ", in which Balaam's Ass ( from the Old Testament ) would begin talking and saying parts of the mass.

Actor Neil Patrick Harris has appeared in Old Spice TV commercials as a parody of his Doogie Howser, M. D.

His greatest commercial success came with his original recording of the song parody " On Top of Spaghetti " based on the tune of On Top of Old Smoky.

Old style poetic parody involved imitation of the style of an author for the purposes of providing amusement, but not for the purpose of ridicule.

Years later, people would sing a parody to the minstrel song There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight:

In 1990 Voodoo Glow Skulls released their first 7 " EP The Old of Tomorrow, a parody title inspired by the straight edge band named Youth of Today, with the help of local band Public Humiliation ; and also booked their own DIY US tour.

Hip hop musician Shad is also known for using comedy and humour in his music ; for one of his most successful singles to date, " The Old Prince Still Lives at Home ", he filmed a video in which he essentially played Will Smith in a parody of the opening credits to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

Later that year, he was cast in the costume comedy The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, a parody of Charles Dickens ' works, alongside Stephen Fry, Katherine Parkinson and David Mitchell.

Bugs then goes to Cecil's tree home disguised as an old man ( a parody of Bill Thompson's " Old Timer " character from Fibber McGee and Molly ) to ask the turtle his secret.

And there's a clip in the show called " This Old Clip " ( a parody on the home-improvement show This Old House ) where it shows a regular clip.

" Among her movie credits are an appearance in the Steve Martin film My Blue Heaven ; as an extremely foul-mouthed clown in Bobcat Goldthwait's 1991 comedy Shakes the Clown ; a cameo appearance in the hit movie Friday, stealing the opening scene with a salty one-liner ; and a role in the ' hood parody film Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood as the overbearing mother of aging gangsta " Old School.

As part of his album, My Name is Allan, Allan Sherman sang a parody of this song called " That Old Back Scratcher ".

The Movie, Shnitzel from Chowder ( The first episode ; later replaced by John DiMaggio ), Goro in Mortal Kombat, the second voice of Skulker on Danny Phantom, Sarevok in the Baldur's Gate series, Jolee Bindo in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Crunch Bandicoot in the Crash Bandicoot games, Tartarus from Halo 2, Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek in Ratchet & Clank, Antauri in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go !, Openly Gator from Queer Duck, Doctor Payne and other characters on The Proud Family, Darth Laser ( an obvious parody of Darth Vader ) on Fairly Oddparents, Maurice the Aye-Aye from The Penguins of Madagascar, and the voice of Exile in the late 1990s cartoon Road Rovers.

This is a parody of " The Old Lamp-Lighter " by Charles Tobias and Nat Simon, which was a hit for Kay Kyser in 1947.

Other possibilities include Fictional Sponsors ( including Grandma Jigaboo's Old Negro-Style Waffle Batter, a parody of Aunt Jemima or the unfortunate Levenge Group legal firm ), a bizarre or satirical song.

He is also known as Ridcully the Brown, possibly as a parody of J. R. R. Tolkien's wizards by color like Gandalf the Grey, Saruman the White or Radagast the Brown.

She appeared in Ben Bagley's revue The Littlest Revue ( and on its cast album ) in 1956, appearing alongside Joel Grey and Tammy Grimes, among others, and singing songs by Sheldon Harnick (" The Shape of Things "), Vernon Duke (" Summer is a-Comin ' In "), and Charles Strouse & Lee Adams (" Spring Doth Let Her Colours Fly "), a parody of opera singer Helen Traubel's Las Vegas night club act ), among others.

" 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 ".

The parody also featured " all-dead " musician Stan Fitch, whose silent, motionless performance was treated with quick zooms, closeups, and other visual effects typical of shows like Whistle Test.

They noted, " An indication of the particular sexual activities that are valued is provided by various versions of a questionnaire parody entitled ' Virtue Test ' or ' Official Purity Test ' or the like.

* The Weebl and Bob cartoon " merchandise " features a parody of Test Card F, in which Carole is replaced by Weebl and the clown is replaced by Bob wearing a clown's hat and makeup.

* Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding of BBC Three's cult comedy programme The Mighty Boosh posed for a parody of Test Card F for Guardian Unlimited in 2006.

* Nick UK showed a parody of Test Card F during off-time circa 1997, using Test Card N. It features a big Nick splat logo in the center, and pictures of stars ( like Tommy from Rugrats, or Stimpy from Ren & Stimpy ) on other areas.

* In the sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look, there is a series of sketches portraying the aftermath of " The Event " which feature a parody of Test Card F, featuring Bubbles with a sad face, Carole wearing a gas mask, and depressing phrases such as " Mummy won't wake up " written on the blackboard.

* Sun television columnist Ally Ross uses a parody of Test Card F, replacing Carole Hersee with himself, the blackboard text always referencing an event from that weeks popular TV programmes.

* A parody of Test Card F appears numerous times in the music video of Moving to New York by the band The Wombats.

* In 2000 a sketch group called The Benders parody Test Card F in a short film sequence where Carole Hersee is kidnapped by a hooded figure and taken round various locations in a wheelbarrow before meeting with a sad demise.

* Interview about the Mighty Boosh's Test Card F parody

Test Your Might, the original minigame of the Mortal Kombat series, returns for the first time since the original game, and a parody, Test Your Sight, is also included.

It is a parody of the Crash Test Dummies's 1993 hit " Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm ".

The song was never officially released on a studio album and was formerly available as a CD single, the cover of which was a parody of the Crash Test Dummies album God Shuffled His Feet.

Frank also appeared as a test card shown late at night on Channel M, where he and Little Frank ramble on and sing songs whilst framed in a parody of the classic Test Card F. On 6 March 2007, in an episode of the Podge and Rodge Show, he appeared in their ' Sham-Rock ' talent section, performing a medley of songs by The Smiths.

By the time Army of Darkness turns into a retread of Jason and the Argonauts, featuring an army of fighting skeletons, the film has fallen into a ditch between parody and spectacle ".

One long-running feature of the show was " Captain Fantastic ", featuring a parody superhero ( Jason ) in improbable, even macabre adventures against villainess Mrs. Black ( Coffey ).

At the beginning of each show aired after the 1981 season, a title card would appear featuring a parody title of a TV show, with a silly ( often macabre ) picture and the announcer making the following announcement: "( TV show ) will not be seen today in order for us to bring you this ( adjective in character with the picture ) production.

), Rambo Amadeus recorded a Laibach parody song " Samit u burekđinici Laibach " (" Summit in the burek-bakery Laibach "), featuring the song lyrics from the poems " Santa Maria della Salute " (" Saint Mary of Health ") by Laza Kostić and " Ne, nemoj mi prići " (" No, Do Not Come Near Me ") by Desanka Maksimović and the chorus from the turbo folk singer Šaban Šaulić song " Čaše lomim, ruke mi krvave " (" I Break the Glasses, My Hands are Bleeding ").

In the late 1980s, Willis enjoyed moderate success as a recording artist, recording an album of pop-blues titled The Return of Bruno, which included the hit single " Respect Yourself ", promoted by a Spinal Tap – like rockumentary parody featuring scenes of him performing at famous events including Woodstock.

Shot in a quasi-documentary style, with a cast featuring not more than two or three professional actors, the absurd plot parodies life in the People's Republic of Poland, reducing a weekend river cruise to a hilarious parody of the entire communist system.

The first panel of a comic featuring I. H. O. T. F. M-Man is usually a parody of the cover of Action Comics 1.

Crumb's contribution was a parody of an editorial cartoon featuring John Q.

Greenpeace was sued in France by Esso, who alleged that the company's reputation was damaged by the campaign's use of a parody Esso logo featuring dollar signs in place of the letters " ss ".

Later shows built a tight theme, sometimes acting as a metaparody — such as the Emmy-winning " Moral Majority " episode where advertisers and special interest groups forced significant changes to SCTV's programming ; " Zontar ", a parody of the Larry Buchanan film Zontar, The Thing from Venus which featured an alien race seeking to kidnap SCTV's on-air talent for " a nine-show cycle plus three best-ofs " ( which was the actual deal NBC worked out with SCTV that season ); and an ambitious parody of The Godfather featuring an all-out network war over pay television between SCTV, CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS-the last featured mafia-style hits on the sets of The Today Show, Three's Company, and The NFL Today as well as an extended sequence with guest star John Marley as an off-beat Leonard Bernstein, spoofing his Godfather role of Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz.

During their period of greatest celebrity, the band's influence on aspiring R & B-flavored white acts was without equal, especially in the northeastern U. S. Notable bands that incorporated ( sometimes to the point of parody ) the Rascals ' full-on stage demeanor and energy as well as the intense, hyper-dramatic vocalizing, drumstick-spinning gyrations and heavy bottom-end rhythm also achieved some prominence: the Vagrants ( featuring Leslie West, later of Mountain ), the Rich Kids, and the epitome of over-the-top funky psychedelia, the Vanilla Fudge, all owed their styles to the Rascals ' synthesis of show-biz and soul.

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 a 1973 episode of The Two Ronnies, a musical sketch, " The Short and Fat Minstrel Show ", was performed as a parody of The Black and White Minstrel Show, featuring spoofs of various songs.

They put together a pilot film, The Comic Strips of Television, featuring Crusader ; a parody of Sherlock Holmes named " Hamhock Bones "; and a bumbling Mountie named Dudley Do-Right.

The series also featured Die Fledermaus as a shallow, self-absorbed Batman parody ; Sewer Urchin, a Rain Man-like version of Aquaman ; and American Maid, a more noble superheroine featuring aspects of Wonder Woman and Captain America.

* The BC, a widely-acclaimed parody of The OC featuring students, Jesuits, and administrators

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.

In the show Dinosaurs ( TV series ), one of Earl Sinclair's favorite show is " Mister Ugh ", a parody of Mister Ed featuring a caveman instead of a horse.

Caray's style became fodder for pop culture parody as well, including a memorable Saturday Night Live recurring sketch featuring Caray ( played by Will Ferrell ) as a host of a space and astronomy TV talk show, in which his questions to scientists and professors included whether or not they would eat the moon if it were made of spare ribs and turning hot dogs into currency ( 20 hot dogs would equal roughly a nickel, depending on the strength of the yen ).

* An 8-minute parody appeared in 1995 on the animated series Freakazoid !, under the title Toby Danger, featuring the voices of Scott Menville, Don Messick ( in his last role before he died ), and Granville Van Dusen ( all of whom provided voices for the original series ).

* Superhero comics, featuring superheroes with names and traits that parody superheroes in general.

One episode presents false adverts featuring depictions of The Day Today being broadcast in bizarre locations ; the night sky over Paris, the sides of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, the International Hackenbacker Building in Chicago, and the handles of 400 million petrol pumps across the globe ; this is a parody of CNN International's promotions advertising the hotels in which the channel could be seen.

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.