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The possible existence of a genuine Atlantis was discussed throughout classical antiquity, but it was usually rejected and occasionally parodied by later authors.
Gould was personally parodied in the series as cartoonist " Lester Gooch "— the diminutive, much-harassed and occasionally deranged " creator " of Fosdick.
Another target was Senator Ted Kennedy, parodied as " Senator O. Noble McGesture ," resident of " Hyideelsport.
Various images, originally ivory numbers fully animated against a deep red background, were designed to fit the pace of the channel, and the music soon gained notoriety, and was often satirised and parodied in popular culture, perhaps most famously by comic Bill Bailey who likened the theme music to an " apocalyptic rave ".
His first European film, A King in New York ( 1957 ), was also a political satire that openly parodied the HUAC.
Other tragedians also used recognition scenes but they were heroic in emphasis, as in Aeschylus's The Libation Bearers, which Euripides parodied with his mundane treatment of it in Electra ( Euripides was unique among the tragedians in incorporating theatrical criticism in his plays ).
Over the years, the film would be a cult classic and was reworked and parodied on YouTube and other media.
Nevertheless, Pirates was a hit both in New York, again spawning numerous imitators, and then in London, and it became one of the most frequently performed, translated and parodied Gilbert and Sullivan works, also enjoying a successful 1981 Broadway revival by Joseph Papp.
Private Eye parodied Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, age 13¾ to write The Secret Diary of John Major, age 47¾, in which Major was portrayed as a naive nincompoop ( e. g. keeping lists of his enemies in a Rymans Notebook called his " Bastards Book ") and featuring " my wife Norman " and " Mr Dr Mawhinney " as recurring characters.
It was around this time that J. R. R. Tolkien was employed by the OED, researching etymologies of the Waggle to Warlock range ; he parodied the principal editors as " The Four Wise Clerks of Oxenford " in the story Farmer Giles of Ham.
( This scene was later parodied in The Simpsons episode " Marge Gets a Job ".
This concept was parodied in She-Hulk ( vol.
This image of Orbison as immovable was so associated with him it was parodied by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, as Belushi dressed as Orbison falls over while singing " Oh, Pretty Woman ", and continues to play as his bandmates set him upright again.
The origins of this was parodied in a famous scene from the movie Forrest Gump when Forrest is on his multiple jogs across America, and wipes his face on a T shirt given him by a struggling salesman, and on the shirt, as if transferred there by Forrest's face, is the image of the happy face, whereupon the man gets his idea.
The series has also been parodied on The Simpsons and notably in the Futurama episode " Where No Fan Has Gone Before ", which was described by Wired magazine as a " touchstone " for fans.
* Peckinpah's use of violence was parodied by Monty Python in Sam Peckinpah's " Salad Days ", one of the more controversial episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which a lovely day out for an upper-class English family turns into a blood-soaked orgy of severed limbs and gushing wounds.
In two years of acrimonious public dispute that Charles Kingsley satirised as the " Great Hippocampus Question " and parodied in The Water-Babies as the " great hippopotamus test ", Huxley showed that Owen was incorrect in asserting that ape brains lacked a structure present in human brains.
References to the show in popular culture began during its original broadcast when it was parodied in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, fittingly titled " The Man from My Uncle ", References in other televison shows have continued over the years, including a 2011 episode of Mad Men, " The Chrysanthemum and the Sword ".
* In the 6 June 2007, second season, eleventh episode of The Chaser's War on Everything, the possibility of Tinky Winky being homosexual was parodied when the Chaser's tested the Peel Hotel ( in Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia )' s gaydar ( the hotel's Peel dancebar was given the right to ban heterosexual patrons ) with a Tinky Winky costumed figure that acted in a stereotypical homosexual fashion.
The New Yorker Obama cover was later parodied by Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the October 3, 2008 cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine, with Stewart as Obama and Colbert as Michelle, photographed for the magazine in New York City on September 18.
* Champion was once parodied in the Dial M For Monkey segment of the cartoon Dexter's Laboratory.
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After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.
Additional theater credits include Mister Roberts, The Teahouse of the August Moon, Camino Real, Major Barbara, Luv, and Staircase, co-starring Milo O ' Shea, which was a serious depiction of an aging homosexual couple.
This was a front, however, as Mystique was using Iceman and the X-Men as a Marauder spy for Mister Sinister.
Lemmon was awarded the Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1956 for Mister Roberts ( 1955 ) and the Best Actor Oscar for Save the Tiger ( 1973 ), becoming the first actor to achieve this double.
Cagney's next film was Mister Roberts, directed by John Ford and slated to star Spencer Tracy.
When the flamethrower that Gustav was using to attack Mister Fantastic with nearly endangered his art collection, Doctor Doom reversed the sonic weapon he planned to use on the Fantastic Four and ended up using it to kill Gustav Hauptmann.
Guralnick's first two books, Almost Grown ( 1964 ) and Mister Downchild ( 1967 ), were short story collections published by Larry Stark, whose small press in Cambridge, Larry Stark Press, was devoted to stories and poems.
Gell-Mann got around that " by supposing that one ingredient of the line ' Three quarks for Muster Mark ' was a cry of ' Three quarts for Mister.
The first diving dress using a compressed air reservoir was successfully designed and built in 1771 by Sieur ( old French for " sir " or " Mister ") Fréminet, a Frenchman from Paris.
In the 1989 crossover Inferno, Madelyne Pryor was revealed to be a clone of Jean Grey created by the nefarious mutant geneticist Mister Sinister.
Wondering how he and his friends will spend their nights from now on, he takes a small triumph in the fact that Silly always addressed him as " Mister " even as he was leaving.
Ransohoff gave Tate small parts in Mister Ed and The Beverly Hillbillies to help her gain experience but was unwilling to allow her to play a more substantial role.
A sequel to Scotland Yard was released called " Mister X ".
DuMont was the first television network to broadcast a film production for television: Talk Fast, Mister, produced by RKO in 1944.
A much shorter animated version of the poem and film was made as an episode of The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, with the ultra-myopic Mister Magoo in the title role.
The character Mister Roberts was based on the Rotanin Executive Officer, Donald House.
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol was produced by Henry G. Saperstein and the UPA animation studio in its declining days.
As recently as December 25, 2006, many listeners told the National Public Radio program Talk of the Nation that Mister Magoo was their favorite Ebenezer Scrooge.
Fred Rogers was a puppeteer and musician on her show for seven years before creating Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood.
Rogers was most famous for creating and hosting Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood ( 1968 – 2001 ), which featured his gentle, soft-spoken personality and directness to his audiences.
This was followed by the back-to-back releases of her albums Mister Heartbreak and United States Live, the latter of which was a five-LP ( and, later, 4-CD ) recording of her 2-evening stage show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
In 1941 they released Mister Bug Goes to Town, unfortunately it was released a few days before the attack on Pearl Harbour, which caused Mister Bug to fail at the box-office.
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