Partly a parody of the then ubiquitous advertisements for the Saba furniture warehouse, and other cut-rate advertisements of its ilk.

Professional wrestling is often portrayed within other works using parody, and its general elements have become familiar tropes and memes in American culture.

It is a parody of opera in general, and the title is a play on two operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio and The Marriage of Figaro.

Although The Naked Gun series parodied police dramas in general, Nielsen's later parody films focused on specific targets.

The ideas of general semantics became a sufficiently important part of the shared intellectual toolkit of genre science fiction to merit parody by Damon Knight and others ; they have since shown a tendency to reappear ( often without attribution ) in the work of more recent writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Suzette Haden Elgin and Robert Anton Wilson.

Joe Quimby is a parody of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy and the Kennedy Family, as well as of corrupt politics in general.

The parody is also an erroneous example of the activity of giving a definition in a dictionary, where the more general error it makes is in mistaking dictionaries to involve procedures that are found in logical or mathematical contexts.

Parks composed the faux-psychedelic song " Black Sheep " ( a parody of SMiLE and Brian Wilson's style in general ) for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, sung by John C. Reilly, who portrays the titular character.

Launched in 1993 during Canada's 35th general election, the show focuses on Canadian politics, combining news parody, sketch comedy and satirical editorials.

British animated series Danger Mouse was largely inspired by Danger Man, and is a broad parody of both this series and secret agent films and television in general.

In his colossal 22-volume El melopeo y maestro of 1613, Italian music theorist Pietro Cerone gave some general guidelines for writing a parody mass: each of the main sections of the mass should start with the beginning of the source ; the interior section of the Kyrie should use a secondary motive ; and some portions, for example the second and third Agnus Dei, should not be chained to the model but be freely composed.

Like Excel Saga, it is a parody of other anime, manga and various aspects of popular culture, though in this case with the magical girl genre providing its primary focus and general structure.

In general, DC Comics has lead a parody of its own teams and organizations after the Watchmen storyline and Batman run from a dark humor style which began during the 1980s and ended in the early 90s.

* Superhero comics, featuring superheroes with names and traits that parody superheroes in general.

Postmodern art, for instance, places a strong emphasis on irony, parody and humour in general ; modern art started to develop a more ironic approach to art which would later advance in a postmodern context.

By the time of Pope, however, the mock-heroic was giving ground to narrative parody, and authors such as Fielding led the mock-heroic novel into a more general novel of parody.

After completing the book, Sellar worked with Yeatman again on a sequel, And now all this, a parody of general knowledge, including subjects as diverse as geography, knitting and topology, which is relatively little remembered.

* Pastafarianism, or the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a parody of intelligent design Creationism, and religion in general as a modern version of Russell's teapot.

* Church of the SubGenius, often regarded as a parody of religion in general, with elements of fundamentalist Christianity, Scientology, new-age cults, pop-psychology, and motivational sales techniques amongst others, has become a movement in its own right, inspiring several books, art exhibits, rock albums, conventions, and novelty items.

Bhangraman-A parody of superheroes in general, he always saves the day using his " uncanny bhangra powers ", which usually consist of bhangra dance moves.

Clevinger also created two mini-comics: Dynasty Memory was created in 2002 as a parody of the Dynasty Warriors series, and Field of Battle was created in August 2005 as a parody of FPS games in general and Battlefield 2 in particular.

* Grivo ( Bruce McCulloch ) is a rock star ( evidently a parody of Glenn Danzig ) famous for his bleak lyrics, as well as a general indifference toward his audience, fame, and music.

Despite the general idea of Pastis attempting to parody his history of offensive comic strips, an angry letter ran in an Oklahoma newspaper ( The Stillwater Newspress ), outraged that it was supposed to be considered humorous that someone would propose throwing a midget off a pier.

* Yogurt, a parody of Frank Oz ’ s Jedi master Yoda ( named after the food yogurt ), is a sage with deep knowledge of the mysterious power called The Schwartz.

On the other hand, Ellsworth is also a bonafide genius with awesome tech and scientific knowledge — the " Y " on his shirt in earlier stories stands for " Yarvard " ( a parody of Harvard ), his alma mater.

Newport-based rap group Goldie Lookin Chain released a ' parody of a parody ' video in response, alleging that their rivals lacked local knowledge.

The Thargoids-Based on their synthetic homeworld of Thargoidia, the Thargoids are a race of beings led by Gort ( a parody of a movie character with the same name ), who drain all other beings of their knowledge so that they will be the most intelligent beings in the universe.

However, Esplin 9466 Lesser uses his Yeerk knowledge to create Web Access America ( a parody of America Online ) and becomes a multi-billionaire.

Denham's career started at school, where he was active in producing pop music productions in school concerts, organizing pop quizzes and writing and performing parody songs.

In the final years of his life, Nielsen appeared in numerous spoof and parody films, many of which were met poorly by critics, but performed well in box office and home media releases.

In 1999 she appeared in the Comic Relief Doctor Who parody The Curse of Fatal Death as the final incarnation of the Doctor.

The first three series opened with a parody of The Prisoner while the fourth and final series was re-titled Still In Bed With Medinner, and the opening sequence changed to be a parody of the classic Avengers Series Five title sequence.

1 ( the opening march ), 2, 15, 23 ( sometimes called a parody of a Cramer finger exercise ), 24 ( a lyrical fughetta ), 25, 26, 28, 29 ( the first of the series of three slow variations leading to the final fugue and minuet ), 31 ( the third, highly expressive slow variation leading directly into the final fugue and minuet ) and 33 ( the concluding minuet ).

The final episode of the children's television series Count Duckula, titled " The Zombie Awakes ", is a parody of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Bugs Bunny was pitted against Witch Hazel in one final cartoon, A Witch's Tangled Hare ( 1959 ), a parody of Macbeth.

The saloon brawl scene was a parody of the western film genre, and a plot detour launched during the final third of the film was a direct parody of The Prisoner of Zenda, wherein a traveler is a lookalike for the king and stands in for him.

He would parody that part one final time, in his last live-action television appearance, an episode of That ’ 70s Show, (" Stone Cold Crazy ").

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End features a parody of the " Man With a Harmonica " theme on the soundtrack, as the film's protagonists parlay on a sandbar before the final battle.

The third and final one showed Satchel and Bucky as trading cards, with Satchel being " Mario Lepooch " ( a parody of Pittsburgh Penguins owner and star Mario Lemieux ) and Bucky being " Buck Tekulve " ( after former Pirates reliever Kent Tekulve ).

Each episode is brought to an interrupted ending with just enough time to quickly overview the following day's newspapers ( a parody of Jeremy Paxman on BBC2's Newsnight ) printed with absurd headlines such as Lord Mayor's pirouette in fire chief wife decapitation, and a final humorously misused video.

Ebert also believed the rule in which a mogwai cannot eat after midnight was inspired by fairy tales, and that the final scenes parody the classic horror films.

Frey also explains: “ The whole pattern of this final soliloquy is thus a grim parody of the opening one, where decision is reached after, not prior to, the survey ”.

* In the November 27th, 2011 Family Guy episode Amish Guy, a spoof of National Lampoon's Vacation final rollercoaster shot, then it goes on to parody its end credit sequence with " Dancin ' Across the USA " being played by Lindsey Buckingham.

However, this final movement, often being criticized for sounding shrill, is declared in Testimony to be a parody of shrillness, representing " forced rejoicing ".

As a note, the final rhyme of " Harvard " and " discovered " is delivered in an exaggerated parody of a Boston accent.

The work became his first novel, Triste, solitario y final (), a melancholic parody set in Los Angeles with the famed fictional Philip Marlowe detective as his joint investigator.

Lehrer was a Harvard Mathematics lecturer, and the final rhyme of " Harvard " and " discovered " is delivered in a parody of a Boston accent — a non-rhotic manner — so that the two words rhyme.

For example, the final shot of Keaton is a reference to Ingmar Bergman's Persona, the sequence with the stone lions is a parody of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin.

Finally, Aristophanes overtly parodied Helen and Andromeda in his comedy Thesmophoriazusae, produced in 411, and Wright sees a more subtle parody of Iphigenia in Tauris in the final escape plan attempted in Thesmophoriazusae as well.

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.