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.

His cover of Chinga Chavin's " Asshole from El Paso ", a parody of Merle Haggard's " Okie from Muskogee " is, perhaps, his most famous song.

Hiding inside a giant wooden penguin, a parody of the famous Trojan Horse, they infiltrate the zoo, and set about rescuing the animals and undoing Feathers ' work.

* A French parody by Paul Scarron became famous in France in the mid-17th century, and spread rapidly through Europe, accompanying the growing French influence.

José Guadalupe Posada created a famous print of a figure he called La Calavera de la Catrina (" skull of the rich woman ") as a parody of a Mexican upper-class female.

" His most famous film, Le Voyage dans la lune ( 1902 ), a whimsical parody of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, featured a combination of live action and animation, and also incorporated extensive miniature and matte painting work.

Castellaneta chose the title I Am Not Homer as a parody of Leonard Nimoy's famous first autobiography I Am Not Spock, as well as to show that most of the comedy featured " is not the typical Homer comedy.

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.

In early episodes, she is shown as very sexually aggressive and promiscuous: in " Flaming Moe's ", she is shown with her arms around two sailors in the parody of the famous Cheers theme, and tries to pick up both Joey Kramer ( Aerosmith's drummer ) and Homer Simpson, even after learning he is married and Bart's father.

Also introduced was Morecambe's famous paper bag trick, as well as an original opening segment which saw the pair parody other series, such as The Man from U. N. C. L. E., Dixon of Dock Green and Take Your Pick.

If there is parody in the Satyricon it is not about the main characters — Encolpius, Giton and Ascyltos — but of the described social reality, and the literary genres of certain famous poets and writers, Homer, Plato, Virgil and Cicero included.

He appeared as himself in a parody of the famous Lakota-brand pain reliever commercials, on CBC Television's Rick Mercer Report.

Agrelot would also parody famous characters from film and cinema in his comedy program, " Ja Ja, Ji Ji, Jo Jo Con Agrelot ".

His most famous parody was that of Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather movie trilogy.

One of Bell's most famous caricatures is of John Major as a dire superhero wearing his Y-fronts on the outside of his clothes, in a parody of Superman.

Reed's most famous poem is Lessons of the War, a witty parody of British army basic training during World War II, which suffered from a lack of equipment at that time.

From early December 1940 to February 1941, during Operation Compass, the exploits of the Western Desert Force earned a parody of Winston Churchill's famous quote, " Never has so much been owed by so many, to so few.

In 1988 a humorous book called The Book of Revelations ( Mark Leigh and Mike Lepine ) printed a parody of both Beatrix Potter and Sven Hassel entitled Peter Rabbit-Tank Killer, lampooning the fashion of the period for unscrupulous publishers and literary estates to draft in famous authors to pen " continuations " of their most successful characters and series.

The commercial is actually a parody of another famous one from the 1970s produced by Pepsi's rival, Coca-Cola, in which a young boy meets football player " Mean " Joe Greene as he is leaving the field after a game.

Various other pop icons were parodied in the background, such as the Archie Comics gang playing nude volleyball, various incarnations of James Bond in the ship's casino ( itself an homage to Peter Sellers's famous Casino Royale parody ), a Sierra staffer dressed as Sailor Moon, and porn icon Ron Jeremy walking around naked.

One of the famous Morecambe and Wise routines was their 1976 Christmas Show parody of the scene from the film Singin ' in the Rain, where Gene Kelly dances in the rain, and sings the song " Singin ' in the Rain ".

The piece most famous in his own day was his Virgile travesti ( 1648-1653 ), a parody of the Aeneid, but the reputation of this work later declined.

" It portrays her as somewhat regretful of leaving country domesticity for London society, and includes an elaborate parody of a famous speech in Shakespeare's Othello.

These eight jobs were all given unique names, and the usual name for the original and top-most DDT was " HACTRN " (" hack-tran "); thus Guy L. Steele's famous filk poem parody of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Raven ," The HACTRN.

The most famous hardcore band though was St. Louis ' White Pride, whose parody of racist attitudes was often lost on their audiences.

Wolfcastle is a parody of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who launched Planet Hollywood along with Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg in 1991.

The dim witted, egotistical host Mike Moore was a parody of current television hosts and journalists.

A comic parody of Faust, it stars Cook as George Spigott ( The Devil ) who tempts Stanley Moon ( Moore ), a frustrated, short-order chef, with the promise of gaining his heart's desire – the unattainable beauty and waitress at his cafe, Margaret Spencer ( Eleanor Bron ) – in exchange for his soul, but repeatedly tricks him.

* In the 1960s British comedy revue Beyond The Fringe and in the 1970s Broadway revue Good Evening, Dudley Moore performed a satiric arrangement of the march in the style of a Beethoven piano sonata, in which the coda drags on for nearly two-and-a-half minutes as a parody of the style.

A parody of " Soul Man " created by Moore, " I'm a Dole Man ," was used in the 1996 Bob Dole presidential campaign until the copyright owners objected and requested the campaign stop using it.

Another parody, " I'm a Suns Fan ," was recorded by Moore and used for the Phoenix Suns basketball games.

The title can be seen as a parody of the titles Stupid White Men by Moore and Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot by Al Franken.

One of the characters, Detective Richard Moore ( Kogoro Mouri in the Japanese version ) is a persistent and courageous yet highly flawed and lecherous private detective — almost a parody of Kogoro Akechi.

She is last seen with her lair devoid of furnishings ( it is evident that they are nearly moved out ), attempting to dance and sing " It's a Long Way to Tipperary " with her cronies by the light of a lone light bulb in a parody of the final episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

It was also used by actor Roger Moore, as he played a James Bond parody character in the film The Cannonball Run.

Written by Bob Bendetson and directed by Steven Dean Moore, " Blame It on Lisa " features several references to popular culture, including a parody of the Brazilian children's television host Xuxa and an allusion to the film A Trip to the Moon.

When Pebbles becomes a teenager, Wilma ( along with Betty ) gains employment as a reporter for one of Bedrock's newspapers, the Daily Granite ( a spoof of the Daily Planet of Superman fame ), under editor Lou Granite ( a parody of The Mary Tyler Moore Show's Lou Grant ).

When Bamm-Bamm was a teenager, Betty gained employment as a reporter for one of Bedrock's newspapers, the Daily Granite ( presumably a parody of the Daily Planet of Superman fame ), under the editorial guidance of Lou Granite ( presumably a parody of Lou Grant of the contemporaneous eponymous series, and formerly of The Mary Tyler Moore Show ).

In 2010, Justin Moore was featured in Memphis sports radioman Chris Vernon's song, " Runaway Lane ," a parody of former University of Tennessee Head Coach Lane Kiffin.

Robert Kirkman's first comic book work was the 2000 superhero parody Battle Pope, which he co-created with artist Tony Moore, and self-published under the Funk-O-Tron label.

A pictorial parody in which the the slaves are white and the protagonists are black appeared in a 1995 issue of Vanity Fair titled, " Scarlett ' n the Hood ".

In 2007, Vanity Fair called it the show's fourth-best episode, because of its " masterful integration of filmic parody and a recurring character ".

Vanity Fair called it the show's fourth best episode in 2007, as " this episode's masterful integration of filmic parody and a recurring character puts it near the top.