" 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.

Wedlock's albums include The Folker ( 1971 ) ( notable for the title track parody of " The Boxer " by Simon and Garfunkel ), Frolicks ( 1973 ), Out of Wedlock ( 1978 ), The Oldest Swinger in Town ( 1981 ) and Fred Wedlock Live ( 1982 ).

There are two theories behind the title ( which occurs in the lyrics of the opening track ), the first being a play on words, as it is easily noticed as a parody of The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.

A parody of Why This Kolaveri Di, a track from a Tamil movie ' 3 ' which is honored by YouTube with a Gold Award for getting the most number of hits, based on the Sharad Pawar slapping incident, known as " Chamaat Song " ( Slap Song ) was posted on YouTube.

After arriving at KISW in Seattle in 1989, Rivers released a second album of humorous holiday-themed music in 1993 entitled I Am Santa Claus ( the title track was a parody of Black Sabbath's song " Iron Man ").

" All Things Dull and Ugly " was also the title of an unrelated track on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album ( released only a few months later ), which is a parody of the popular hymn " All Things Bright and Beautiful ".

The title comes from a repeated line in the " Oh Mom ..." track that appears on the album, which is itself a parody of a scene in the film Carrie.

* Alternate audio tracks, including the " What they are really saying " track, which includes the original Chinese and the speech Oedekerk uses to parody the bad dubbing in old kung-fu movies.

When the announcers for the final stretch of the countdown, Adam Spencer and Wil Anderson got to the number one track, they first played their own parody track Matt Hayden, named after the Australian cricketer and set to the tune of " Ms Jackson " by OutKast.

On the track " Twang Bar King ", from the album of the same title, he deliberately overuses the " twang bar " to create a camp parody of the technique.

The track was also included on a 1996 ChildLine charity album release, whose cover-art featured a parody of the Post cover.

The song later appeared in the Cameron Crowe film Say Anything .... " Mr. Whirly " is a pseudo-cover / parody of the Beatles track " Oh Darling " ( with the opening bars of " Strawberry Fields Forever ") and bears the writing credit " mostly stolen " on the record label.

The opening track, " Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs ", is actually meant as a tribute to Dylan ( a hero of Watt's since his childhood ) as well as a tongue-in-cheek parody of Dylan's classic early lyrical style.

* Another parody was used on the episode of Saturday Night Live William Shatner hosted in 1986, called " Ollie North, The Mute Marine.

Chaplin made 14 films for Essanay, the last of which was a parody of Carmen named Burlesque on Carmen ( 1916 ).

However, his next films, The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), a parody on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini that ended in a dramatic speech criticising the blind following patriotic nationalism, and Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ), which criticised war and capitalism, as well as his first European film A King in New York ( 1957 ), which ridiculed the U. S. House Un-American Activities Committee, were more clearly political and caused controversy.

Most fantasy comedy includes an element of parody, or satire, turning many of the fantasy conventions on their head such as the hero becoming a cowardly fool, the princess being a klutz.

The value of the ColecoVision as a 1980s pop culture icon was discussed on VH1's I Love The 80's Strikes Back .< ref name =" Ilove80s "> Several television series have aired episodes that reference or parody the console: South Park, Family Guy and Everybody Hates Chris.

Big Shot, the fictional news source within Cowboy Bebop which provides information on various bounty heads, is a parody of the Western genre.

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

In Britain, his pamphlet Protest and Survive, a parody on the government leaflet Protect and Survive, played a major role in the revived strength of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

ELO had reached the peak of their stardom, selling millions of albums and singles, and even inspiring a parody / tribute song on the Randy Newman album Born Again, titled " The Story of a Rock and Roll Band ".

Indeed, between parody, satire and such subgenres as romantic comedy, comedy as a whole often relies on either formulaic elements, or the mocking of such elements.

Beginning in 1982, Eddie Murphy began a parody of Gumby on Saturday Night Live.

The exaggerated walk, with one hand on the small of his back and his torso bent almost 90 degrees at the waist was a parody of a fad from the 1880s and 1890s.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

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.

A federal appeals court denied the plaintiffs an injunction ( Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin ) against publication on the basis that the book was parody and therefore protected by the First Amendment.

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.

Ice-T made an appearance on the comedy television series Chappelle's Show as himself presenting the award for " Player Hater of the Year " at the " Player-Haters Ball ", a parody of his own appearance at the Players Ball.

The play is a wild parody of detective fiction, adding the blackest farce and jabs at established ideas on death, the police, religion, and justice.

His exploits have earned him a multitude of enthusiasts, who celebrate him as the head deity of the parody religion kibology, centered on the humor newsgroup alt. religion. kibology.

The song " All Things Dull and Ugly " and the parody scripture reading " Martyrdom of St. Victor " were performed on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album ( 1980 ).

The laws are a parody on the first and second of Newton's laws of motion in the spirit of Murphy's law.

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.

The title of the fourth Roxy album, Country Life, was intended as a parody of the well-known British rural magazine of the same name, and the visually punning front cover photo featured two models ( two German fans, Constanze Karoli — sister of Can's Michael Karoli — and Eveline Grunwald ) clad only in semi-transparent lingerie standing in a forest.

The album cover of their record Nagelbett ( nail bed ) is a parody of the Kraftwerk album cover for The Man-Machine and the group name Autobahn shares the name of a Kraftwerk song and album.

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.

After an 18-year hiatus, The Rutles ( Innes, Halsey and Fataar ) reconvened to record the 1996 album Archaeology ( parody of the Beatles Anthology ).

* The album title is a parody of Bob Dylan's album, " Highway 61 Revisited ".

* The album cover image is a parody of The Rolling Stones album " Their Satanic Majesties Request "

In December 1968, Frank Zappa's band The Mothers of Invention released a doo-wop parody / tribute album called Cruising with Ruben & the Jets.

* Musician " Weird Al " Yankovic has a song " Twister " on his Even Worse album about the board game, done in a style parody of early Beastie Boys.

Tomlin's third comedy album, 1975's Modern Scream, a parody of movie magazines and celebrity interviews features her performing as multiple characters, including Ernestine, Edith Ann, Judith, and Suzie.

" Weird Al " Yankovic's debut album features a song called " Ricky " ( a parody of Toni Basil's " Mickey "), detailing the plot of I Love Lucy.

The back cover of the album contains a parody picture of the band drawn by Mort Drucker, a caricaturist best known for his artwork in Mad Magazine.

Sherman would later parody this same song as " Little Butterball " – with the same subject matter – on his album Allan in Wonderland.

Thrash metal band Megadeth covered Nancy Sinatra's " These Boots Are Made For Walkin ' on their 1985 debut album Killing Is My Business ... and Business Is Good !, but is more often recognized as a parody rather than a true cover, and is considered controversial because song writer Lee Hazelwood deemed Megadeth's version to be " a perversion of the original ".

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.

She also recorded a number of parody songs including " Santa, Come Up to See Me " on the album Wild Christmas.

This event was subsequently referenced in The Rutles song Shangri-La off their 1996 album The Rutles Archaeology, itself a parody of The Beatles Anthology.

The title is a parody of a Jimi Hendrix album Axis: Bold as Love.

" Eric Idle's Beatles spoof, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, features an album cover parody of Magical Mystery Tour in which the song Strawberry Fields Forever is renamed " W. C. Fields Forever.

The 1996 release Illadelph Halflife was the group's first album to break the Top 40 on the Billboard 200 chart, spurred in part by MTV's airplay of the video for " What They Do " ( a parody of rap video clichés ) and " Clones ", which was their first single to reach the top five on the rap charts.