For example, a dream sequence includes a music video for Yankovic's " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *" in both the audio and visual style of the Dire Straits ' " Money for Nothing ", and fake commercials for Plots ' R Us Mortuary Service, Gandhi II, Conan the Librarian and Spatula City are shown throughout the film.

Conan the Librarian is a perennial parody of R. E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian that has appeared in film, television, comics, and fan fiction.

The first known reference to Conan the Librarian is on the comedy show Monty Python in a 1970's sketch featuring Michael Palin as a film director who specialised in non-violent films, such as Conan the Librarian and others.

The first known appearance of Conan the Librarian is on the comedy show You Can't Do That on Television in the 1982 episode " Heroes.

Probably the first printed Conan the Librarian reference is in a 1987 Mother Goose and Grimm comic.

A pig returning a book to the " Overdue Books " section faces across the desk a scowling and muscle-bound librarian, in typical Conan the Barbarian dress, who from the placard on the desk we know is " Conan the Librarian.

Unlike the UHF Conan ( see below ), Conan the Librarian is helpful and shows someone how to get a library card.

Conan the Librarian also appears in a brief segment of the 1989 " Weird Al " Yankovic film UHF.

In 1987, William Mitchell College of Law library staff created the character Conan the Librarian for a talent show performance, and subsequently wrote The Adventures of Conan the Librarian.

This was followed by The Return of Conan the Librarian and Conan the Librarian on the Information Highway.

She writes that male librarians will often use " Conan the Librarian " cartoons to assert their masculinity and reaffirm male hegemony.

* UHF: The Weird Al Yankovic film UHF has a few fake ads within the film, such as " Spatula City ", a store that sells nothing but spatulas, as well as promos for fake TV shows and movies like " Conan the Librarian " and " Gandhi II ".

* June 25 – Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine for the first time.

The name " Turan " also appears in the fictional geography of the Conan the Barbarian stories.

Manga also has its locked-room adherents, such as the series Detective Conan written by Gosho Aoyama, which appears in English as Case Closed ; notable locked-room issues are # 3, # 6, # 7.

There were enough holes in eyewitness accounts to allow Conan Doyle to plausibly resurrect Holmes ; only the few free surviving members of Moriarty's organisation and Holmes ' brother Mycroft ( who appears briefly in this story ) know that Sherlock Holmes is still alive, having won the struggle at Reichenbach Falls and sent Moriarty to his death – though nearly meeting his own at the hands of Moriarty's henchmen.

Louhi was the main antagonist in the Finnish-Soviet film Sampo, and was also an inspiration for a foe of Conan the Barbarian's in the Marvel comics version of the character ( no such foe ever appears in Howard's stories ), the Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light boss character Louhi the Witch of the North, the Final Fantasy XI item Louhi's Mask, and the orchestral work Louhi by the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho.

The " black-faced " langur appears in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story, The Adventure of the Creeping Man.

Triumph appears in a prerecorded bit on O ' Brien's 2010 Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour mocking the town Conan is performing in, even though NBC supposedly retained Triumph's rights in the settlement that allowed O ' Brien to leave NBC.

Although the manga series is on hold, Kaitou Kid still appears regularly in Detective Conan, another manga series by Aoyama.

A highly-visible and distinctive Dublin character during his lifetime, Gogarty appears in a number of memoirs penned by his contemporaries, notably George Moore's Hail and Farewell, where he goes both by his own name and by the pseudonym " Conan.

Taking in consideration that the Conan character was created almost 50 years prior to the development of the He-Man franchise, it is likely that the Masters of the Universe borrowed many aspects from Conan, but it appears that it was not intended to be a toyline for the film after legal agreements were dissolved.

Windsor-Smith returned to mainstream comics work for Marvel in 1983 with two pieces, a short mystical tale of love, " The Beguiling ", and a dark, humorous 2-page black-and-white story, " A Path of Stars ", both in Epic Illustrated # 16 ( February 1983 ), which also featured a page and a half Windsor-Smith spread accompanying an Archie Goodwin text story called " The Horde " ( which appears to be a drawing of Conan and Valeria in battle ).

Sigmar appears to be inspired by a series of heroes from myth, fantasy literature, especially Robert E. Howard's Conan the Cimmerian, as well as historical figures, particularly Charlemagne and Charles Martel.

Both Conan and Ator are heavily muscled, scantily clad Western European men ( Ator is meant to be Scandinavian, whereas Conan, portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, appears to be Eastern European ) who do battle against bizarre monsters and fantasy villains in unspecified time periods based on the Middle Ages.

* A Hotspur appears in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short story The Adventure of the Gloria Scott

Although Yaiba has now become a little known anime, it still appears as cameos in other works such as Detective Conan.

The earliest undisputed evidence connecting Conan to the foundation of Brittany appears in the Life of Saint Gurthiern, included in the Kemperle Cartulary compiled between 1118 and 1127.

Conan Meriadoc also appears in the prologue to the Latin Life of Saint Goeznovius, though the date of this text is disputed.

In the wake of Geoffrey and the The Dream of Macsen, Conan subsequently appears as a founder-figure in several genealogies of Breton aristocratic families.

In the 15th century the Bretons used the Conan story as it appears in the Life of Saint Meriadoc to establish precedence for the Breton aristocracy over the kings of France.

Also, as a result, a skit was born that whenever Max appears on his last show before leaving, Conan would note that Max deserves a ' proper send-off ' and the band would start playing, as suddenly his pedestal would begin to drive itself outside the studio with Max still playing.

He appears to be the brother " according to the flesh " who received, in Nantes, the then abbot Peter Abelard, when he came to return the visit of the count Conan III.

The issue of Nabisco's choice to release Mallomars seasonally became a parodied topic on a sketch delivered by graphic artist Pierre Bernard on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien.

He once appeared with the 6 ft 4 in ( 193 cm ) Conan O ' Brien in a sketch on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien.

A joke about the name became the subject of a sketch on Conan.

Immediately after moving to New York, the group quickly scored a TV gig, appearing as sketch regulars on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien.

After one-year stints of doing sketch comedy on Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, Koechner began taking minor roles in the films Wag the Dog, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and Man on the Moon.

After his one season on SNL, Koechner joined the 1996 – 97 sketch cast of Late Night with Conan O ' Brien, where he was perhaps best remembered in the NBC Gargoyles recurring sketches, pairing Koechner with Conan regular Brian McCann as two obnoxious Gargoyle statues often perched outside Conan's desk window.

A semi-regular sketch on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien featured Conan having a staring contest with his sidekick, Andy Richter.

In July 2011, LCC posted a video on YouTube showing the similarities between a sketch on Conan and a sketch the group performed in 2008.

Cue cards are still currently being used on many late night talk shows including Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O ' Brien as well as variety and sketch comedy shows like Saturday Night Live due to the practice of last minute script changes.

Roberts, along with his other UCB castmates, has regularly appeared in sketch comedy segments on Late Night with Conan O ' Brien for many years.

Late-night talk show Conan features a sketch called " Coffee Table Books That Didn't Sell ", in which Conan O ' Brien reviews several ( fake ) coffee table books with odd and nonsensical premises, such as " Animals on Meth " or " Movie Stars With Their Eyes Pushed Closer Together ".

Huebel's early work was as a sketch actor on shows such as Late Night with Conan O ' Brien and Upright Citizens Brigade.

* On a sketch from Late Night with Conan O ' Brien featuring Triumph, the Comic Insult Dog, Triumph recruits some second-rate Grammy winners to trash John Mayer's hotel room while " Master of Puppets " plays.