Another example of Gothic parody in a similar vein is The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett ( 1813 ).

A parody of a popular song, movie, etc., may be given a title that hints at the title of the work being parodied, substituting some of the words with ones that sound or look similar.

Dirty Sexy Money was in a way a soap opera parody but, in actuality more of a satire that operated in a humorous way that similar to a parody.

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

A long-running segment has been the Top Tips, reader-submitted suggestions which are a parody of similar sections found in women's magazines offering domestic and everyday tips to make life easier.

Another indication of the popularity of " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus " is the use of " Yes, Virginia, there is ( a ) ( subject – person, object, activity, and / or concept )" ( or similar phrase ) in satire, parody, and as an idiomatic expression to insist that something is true, without the expression becoming a cliché.

He survived his car blowing up, catching on fire due to the powerful magnifying effect of his glasses, a hallucinating Montgomery Burns drilling into his brain, capital punishment ( in a local jail ) after Homer eats his last meal, left inside a fluoroscope for possibly an entire weekend, being buried alive, being left forgotten and alive in a purgatory and being engulfed by an " anti-escape bubble " that was attempting to catch Marge ( a parody of a similar device from the ' 60s show The Prisoner ), and he also was run over by Homer in The Parent Rap, after the whole family promised they would not commit any crimes for a whole year.

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.

* Deface the Music, a similar Beatles parody by the group Utopia

Though the term is applied to a wide range of plays, some characteristics coincide in many of the plays: broad comedy, often similar to Vaudeville, mixed with horrific or tragic images ; characters caught in hopeless situations forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions ; dialogue full of clichés, wordplay, and nonsense ; plots that are cyclical or absurdly expansive ; either a parody or dismissal of realism and the concept of the " well-made play ".

The slasher genre resurfaced into the mainstream in the mid 1990s, after being deconstructed in Wes Craven's Scream ( 1996 ), which was a parody of Halloween which had a similar effect on the movie industry.

Détournement is similar to satirical parody, but employs more direct reuse or faithful mimicry of the original works rather than constructing a new work which merely alludes strongly to the original.

This is a parody of similar theistic claims about God — that God, as creator of the universe, is not subject to its laws and thus not physically detecting him tells us nothing about his existence or lack thereof.

A similar parody was the Feast of Fools.

A more likely inspiration was the similar rhythmic parody of Joseph Haydn's " Clock " Symphony.

A parody of the Tim Burton film " Edward Scissorhands ", which featured a similar character but with colanders for hands instead of scissors.

The story ( which is a parody of the Dungeons and Dragons genre ) is very tongue-in-cheek, and pokes fun at a number of anime clichés, most notably its overuse of super deformation and its wide range of genres in a similar way to anime such as Excel Saga.

The game also includes many subtle pop-culture references: the fight against the neighborhood gangster backdropped by a song very similar to Chuck Berry's " Johnny B Goode " is one of several, as well as a band called ' The Runaway Five ', that is a parody of The Blues Brothers.

episode " On Her Majesty's Sewer Service ", a parody of the James Bond series, the character Mouser gains an appearance similar to Oddjob, even throwing his bowler derby hat as a weapon in one scene.

This was followed by a similar segment entitled " Goo's Got Talent ", a parody of Britain's Got Talent in which the winner was determined by a vote on Youtube.

The series was both produced by and a parody of Salter Street Films and Island Edge Inc, and Pyramid's logo is very similar to that of Salter Street parent company Alliance Atlantis.

Brannigan also wears a girdle to appear thinner and in another episode nearly loses his toupee, seemingly a parody of similar accusations aimed at Shatner.

The original strip, originated by Dave Donaldson, written by Steve Bright and mostly drawn by John Geering until his death in 1999, is essentially a parody of Superman with shades of Captain Marvel and his British twin, Marvelman and occasionally other Silver Age characters, while also combining comic slapstick with a heavy dose of eccentric British humour similar to Alan Moore's contemporary work on Captain Britain.

Drucker spent several decades in an insane asylum tortured by guilt for having killed Promethea, while Bill / Promethea spent similar time in the Immateria blaming herself for not having told him the truth.

Its appearance is more similar to a demon or ghost than an actual wolf and the mere sight of it can drive a human being insane.

The verdict prompted the Queen to ask for a change in English law so that those implicated in cases with similar outcomes would be considered as " guilty, but insane.

Judging by Castiel's drastically altered and maniacal mental state as they take control of him, they are similar to the Great Old Ones of H. P Lovecraft, as they appear insane and incredibly vicious.

Callisto's fighting style is very similar to Xena's with the exception that she often becomes unfocused and carried away in a blind insane rage while fighting.

He is an insane man who wears an ever-smiling mask similar to a doll's head, which he is never seen without.

After being made insane, Martin took over the lab and brainwashed Dr. Valentine with a device similar to the one Valentine used on him and made him think he was a dog.

At the end of the series, it is revealed that she along with Karei, Kazuki's dorm manager, were in a similar situation as Yuna, Rin, and Kuriko and tries her best to convince them that restoring Kazuki's body is pointless.

These debates about authorship are somewhat pointless because a much older British patriotic song, entitled " Britannia, the Pride of the Ocean ", used the same melody and had very similar lyrics, resulting in mutual accusations of plagiarism.

" One of the discussants said she believes everyone has experienced similar situations in their school years, and she thinks the thought that " an educator could ever do something so useless and pointless with the children's time " is " frightening ".

In a manner similar to the typographic experimentation by Herbert Bayer at the Bauhaus, and Jan Tschichold's Die neue Typographie, Schwitters experimented with the creation of a new more phonetic alphabet in 1927.

His policies were characterized by political and economic experimentation that was similar to simultaneous reform agenda undertaken in the Soviet Union.

In 1995, Smith's self-titled album was released on Kill Rock Stars ; the record featured a similar style of recording to Roman Candle, but with hints of growth and experimentation.

Al-Biruni's scientific method was similar to the modern scientific method in many ways, particularly his emphasis on repeated experimentation.

The terms animal testing, animal experimentation, animal research, in vivo testing, and vivisection have similar denotations but different connotations.

Collections of études by Charles-Valentin Alkan, marked by harmonic and structural experimentation, are similar in this aspect.

Archaeological excavations also indicate that, by the 6th century BC, similar experimentation had taken place among the Iranian peoples inhabiting the Khwarezm region and Aral Sea basin, such as the Massagetae, Dahae and Saka.

The comprehensive model was born out of similar experimentation as Brown and Kulik's, but with a larger participant sample.

Simple experimentation can test the theory: cook two similar cuts of meat, searing one first and not the other.

This typeface anticipates similar later experimentation by Kurt Schwitters in his typeface Architype Schwitters.

While there, he became somewhat well known for his experimentation with happenings, similar to those used by members of the Fluxus art movement.

In other French wine regions, there has been experimentation in producing similar style wines from Chardonnay and other local grape varieties using cultured yeast such as the vin de voile wine produced in the Gaillac.

Having similar interests in musical experimentation, specifically in textural music, the two started recording in Heemann's studio.

When originally formed in January 1933, the BIS aimed not only to promote and raise the public profile of astronautics, but also to undertake practical experimentation into rocketry along similar lines to the organisations above.

Mats Levén later appeared as the singer of the band Krux, another band by Edling, which has a similar take on the experimentation Edling started with Abstrakt Algebra.

The French novel from the 1950s on went through a similar experimentation in the group of writers published by " Les Éditions de Minuit ", a French publisher ; this " Nouveau roman " (" new novel "), associated with Alain Robbe-Grillet, Marguerite Duras, Robert Pinget, Michel Butor, Samuel Beckett, Nathalie Sarraute, Claude Simon, also abandoned traditional plot, voice, characters and psychology.

Holocaust deniers have come forth with evidence claiming that the Mengele-esque " experimentation " documents used in the film by Renee Firestone against Dr. Hans Munch are actually almost identical to similar documents discovered featuring Irene Zisblatt, which describe the results of a stool sample.