Housman also wrote a parodic Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, in English, and humorous poems published posthumously under the title Unkind to Unicorns.

It was written by " Scribblerus Secundus ," its title page announced, and it was the Tragedy of Tragedies, which functioned as a clearly Swiftian parodic satire.

Many plays had satirical scenes or characters, but some plays, like Gay's Beggar's Opera, were parodic satires early in the period ( 1728 ), and others, like Fielding's Tragedy of Tragedies ( 1731 ) were in the next generation.

In 1542 he published a prose satire to which Luther wrote the preface, Der Barfusser Monche Eulenspiegel und Alkoran, a parodic adaptation of the Liber conformitatum of the Franciscan Bartolommeo Rinonico of Pisa, in which the Franciscan order is held up to ridicule.

Miller argues that although some may be over familiar, there is a parodic element at work, " making good on film's encouragement that viewers look closer ".

Ludwig Tieck's The Topsy-Turvy World ( 1798 ) is an early — and highly successful — example of the introduction of the Commedia dell ' Arte characters into parodic metatheater.

The second one is a side scrolling action game called Manos: The Revenge of Torgo which is a parodic sequel to the events of the movie.

This occurrence can arise from legal agreements between the relevant copyright holders, or because of unauthorized efforts by fans and is intended for promotional, parodic or other purposes.

It is the only parodic story to be covered by " DWM Archives ", a section of DWM normally reserved for discussion of past episodes of the regular series.

The villain may simply be too insane to recognize the impracticality of the situation, although this characterization is rarely seen outside of deliberately parodic characters such as Dr.

Critic Harold Bloom remarked several years later that Fields ', " croaking his ghastly dirge to the uncertain sound of his dulcimer, is a parodic version of the Bard of Sensibility, a figure out of the primitivism of Thomas Gray or William Blake.

Ubu Roi follows and explores his political, martial and felonious exploits, offering parodic adaptations of situations and plot-lines from Shakespearean drama, including Macbeth, Hamlet and Richard III: like Macbeth, Ubu — on the urging of his wife — murders the king who helped him and usurps his throne, and is in turn defeated and killed by his son ; Jarry also adapts the ghost of the dead king and Fortinbras's revolt from Hamlet, Buckingham's refusal of reward for assisting a usurpation from Richard III and The Winter's Tale's bear.

The title is a parodic reference both to Frank Sinatra's Ol ' Blue Eyes Is Back and the Data character, whose eyes are golden yellow.

* Perhaps the most obvious parodic crossover is found when characters from two series interact outside of either series.

" One writer commented, " There will never be an advertisement for ' a very special episode ' of Seinfeld, for its humor is of a more practical and parodic nature.

The somewhat comedic background material of Blood Bowl is, in any case, not considered canonical to the Warhammer world proper but instead forms a light-hearted parodic version of it.

The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon ( in Greek ), written by Achilles Tatius, is one of the five surviving Ancient Greek romances, notable for its many similarities to Longus ' Daphnis and Chloe, and its apparent mild parodic nature.

Given the nature of Usenet forums, parodic translation is prevalent in flame wars, where remarks such as " Translation: ' I do not have a clue and am throwing mud '" are used to imply — on very little ground — that another poster is not making any appreciable contribution to the subject.

* Myles na gCopaleen's parodic novel An Béal Bocht is published.

Segundo Asalto ( Spanish for Second Round ) is a record by Spanish parodic rock rap band Def Con Dos.

The style is frequently emulated, often in a parodic manner, in contemporary sports news, advertising, and even other sports-themed entertainment ( for example, Green Day's music video for the 1999 song Nice Guys Finish Last ).

Rabener is especially notorious for his parodic dissertation, Hinkmars von Repkow Noten Ohne Text, which levels a snide charge against the futility and bankruptcy of the practice of footnoting, by consisting entirely of footnotes itself.

The nature of the manga is usually considered by the readers as a comical, or even parodic view of Japanese nationalism.

The film also includes a scene in which Mrs Walker watches a parodic TV advertisement for the fictional product " Rex Baked Beans "; the costumes in this segment were originally made for the lavish masked ball sequence in Richard Lester's version of The Three Musketeers, and the dress worn by the Queen in the Rex ad is that worn by Geraldine Chaplin in the earlier film.

Acorn Antiques is a parodic soap opera written by Victoria Wood as a regular feature in the two seasons of Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, which ran from 1985 to 1987.

H. Bustos Domecq was the original credited author of the parodic detective stories in Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi, 1942 ( translated 1981 as Six Problems for Don Isidro Parodi ) and Dos fantasías memorables, 1946 ( Two noteworthy fantasies ).

To re-connect with its audience, horror became more self-mockingly ironic and outright parodic, especially in the latter half of the 1990s.

His jazz trio backed Cook on the theme, a parodic anti-love song, which Cook delivered in a monotonous deadpan voice and included his familiar put-down, " You fill me with inertia.

Well-known academic Fredric Jameson has a somewhat more critical view of pastiche, describing it as " blank parody ", especially with reference to the postmodern parodic practices of self-reflexivity and intertextuality.

In Isocrates ' rhetorical use of a theme that he considers unworthy of serious treatment, the villainous king of Egypt named Busiris, a son of Poseidon and Anippe, daughter of the river-god Nilus, was the ancient founder of Egyptian civilization, with an imagined " model constitution " that Isocrates sets up as a parodic contrast to the Republic by Plato.

In many versions, even the stroking of his white cat has been retained as a parodic allusion to Blofeld's character, as seen in the Austin Powers film series with the character of Dr.

Many of the real politicians also made guest appearances on the show, often interacting directly with their parodic counterparts.

Ashbery's works are characterized by a free-flowing, often disjunctive syntax ; extensive linguistic play, often infused with considerable humor ; and a prosaic, sometimes disarmingly flat or parodic tone.

The webcomic Sluggy Freelance also falls in this category because while ( and perhaps due to ) it's several earlier strips were of parodic nature, shows a rich multiverse filled with demons, high technology, parallel dimensions ( whose nature varies from alternative realities to more bizarre, law-physics-bending dimensions and spiritual realms ) aliens and magic in a very similar vein of Marvel's and DC's multiverses.

") and parodic, and just as often laced with a profoundly questioning spirituality ; their music blended elements of polka, country, cocktail jazz, blues, rockabilly, Tex-Mex, rock & roll and other genres.

In keeping with the parodic nature of the show, the lyrics of the new theme song make a number of references to American pop culture.

He also characterizes Solovyov's writings on theocracy as a " parodic hybrid of slavophilic nationalism with Western nihilism.

Manthia Diawara, author of the article " Homeboy Cosmopolitan ", writes, " Hip-hop culture gives aesthetic pleasure through ironic and parodic play with mainstream images of black people ".

However the duo maintained an enduring relationship with actor Robbie McGregor who, in the guise of " King Wally Otto In The Soundproof Booth ", provided the introduction, links and a wide variety of parodic fake advertisements.

The Ray Ellington Quartet had a regular musical segment on the show, and Ellington also had a small speaking role in many episodes, often as a parodic African, Native American or Arab chieftain ( but also often, with no attempt to change his normal accent, as a female secretary or a Scotsman ).

The novel begins with an inflated and parodic but reasonably accurate portrayal of Ellis ' early fame.

The parodic use of well-known tunes with new lyrics is a common feature of Victorian burlesque and pantomime, British theatrical styles popularised in the 19th century.

In 1967, Fred and band member Andrew Bernard co-wrote " Judy in Disguise ", whose name is a parodic play on the title of The Beatles ' song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ".

It will imbue its model with lightning pacing and frequent shifts in tone to accommodate slapstick and toilet humor, sentimental heart-tugging, cartoonish violence, sexual titillation, and parodic references to well-known Hong Kong and Hollywood films.

First along with other SVA graduates and students and Club 57 " Sex developed a persona that simultaniously masked and amplified his polymorphous self, elaborating a mythinc yet parodic rock-star figure of mercurial presence " ( Frank & McKentie, 1987 ).

The film has a parodic tone, with numerous references to earlier samurai films.

After making The Beast Within, his first film in America, Mora's next project was the parodic superhero musical, The Return of Captain Invincible, starring Alan Arkin, Christopher Lee, Kate Fitzpatrick and an all-star Australian cast, with songs by Rocky Horror Show creator Richard O ' Brien.

His acts include British electronic pop / rock band Zoot Woman ( with Adam Blake and Johnny Blake ), Les Rythmes Digitales, Paper Faces, Man With Guitar, Thin White Duke, and the parodic French moniker Jacques Lu Cont, though he actually grew up in Reading, England.

The CD was met with a fair amount of controversy over its parodic cross-referencing of both German and American stereotypes set against a surreal and spaced-out WWII backdrop but nevertheless attained a four out of five star review in Kerrang!