Mad magazine had published a special edition titled More Trash from Mad No. 4, which featured 25 parody lyrics to existing songs, including Irving Berlin's " A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody " ( Mad's version was " Louella Schwartz Describes Her Malady ").

:" I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine ... Mad's parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin — of the way a movie might look original on the outside, while inside it was just recycling the same old dumb formulas.

He was later replaced by a mascot named Huckleberry Fink, whose design was similar to that of Mad's Alfred E. Neuman, and whose motto, instead of Neuman's " What, me worry?

One publisher who looked into buying the Cracked operation felt that Mad was " in a class by itself " and that " Cracked couldn't top Mad's lineup ".

His popularity and prominence was such that the magazine promoted Martin as " Mad's Maddest Artist.

With the exception of the first three song tracks, as well as the tracks " Mad's theme " and " Penny's theme ", all the music on this album is background scores for the TV series.

However, 5 tracks were exclusive to the Australian LP: " Inspector Gadget Theme " ( an extended version of Inspector Gadget's American opening theme ), " Brain The Dog " ( an instrumental background music version of Brain's theme ), " Max's theme " ( a misspelling of " Mad's theme ", this is an alternate version of the same composition on the French LP, with slightly different orchestrations ), " Italian Gadget " ( a piece of background music ) and " Gadget Closing " ( the American end credits theme for the show ).

Of all the competition, only the National Lampoon ever threatened Mad's hegemony as America's top humor magazine, in the early-to-mid-1970s.

In print, Cracked conspicuously copied Mad's layouts and style, and even featured a simpleminded, wide-cheeked mascot named Sylvester P. Smythe on its covers ( see Alfred E. Neuman ).

* Mad's Big Book of Spy vs. Spy Capers and Other Surprises, Warner Books, 1982.

According to Frank Jacobs's biography The Mad World of William M. Gaines, Mad's parodies of real advertisements generated so much attention that Mad publisher William Gaines received requests from the promotional departments of many real products, asking Mad to run parodies of their advertisements.

Anaximenes was hostile to Theopompus, whom he sought to discredit with a libelous parody, Trikaranos, published in Theopompus ' style and under his name, attacking Athens, Sparta, and Thebes.

Kmoch was in fact a great admirer of Nimzowitsch, and the subject of the parody himself was amused at the effort.

Capp was just as likely to parody himself ; his self-caricature made frequent, tongue-in-cheek appearances in Li ' l Abner.

The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

* Another parody was used on the episode of Saturday Night Live William Shatner hosted in 1986, called " Ollie North, The Mute Marine.

Chaplin made 14 films for Essanay, the last of which was a parody of Carmen named Burlesque on Carmen ( 1916 ).

After quarterback Jay Cutler came down with an injury in 2011, where the Bears lost 5 straight games and was knocked out of playoff contention, his absence was bemoaned in a song parodying the hit Baby Come Back as a parody called Cutty Come Back.

The value of the ColecoVision as a 1980s pop culture icon was discussed on VH1's I Love The 80's Strikes Back .< ref name =" Ilove80s "> Several television series have aired episodes that reference or parody the console: South Park, Family Guy and Everybody Hates Chris.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Jones was painting cartoon and parody art, sold through animation galleries by his daughter's company, Linda Jones Enterprises.

President King, the leader of Walden College, was originally intended as a parody of Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, but all that remains of that is a certain physical resemblance.

One long-running feature of the show was " Captain Fantastic ", featuring a parody superhero ( Jason ) in improbable, even macabre adventures against villainess Mrs. Black ( Coffey ).

The most notable example of these was Henry Fielding's Shamela ( 1741 ), written as a parody of Pamela.

It was not until February 1973 that The New York Times first used the term, describing how the " moods and tensions " in the British private-eye parody Pulp ( 1972 film ) | Pulp came " out of the collective depths of the film noir ".

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

The 1982 Steve Martin comedy Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was shot in black-and-white as a parody of a 1940s film noir and included footage of actors from the film-noir era such as Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, and others spliced in with the modern actors.

MacFarlane has said that Lucasfilm was extremely helpful when the Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works.

Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia.

According to Murphy ’ s parody, when the television cameras were turned off, the sweet Gumby reverted to his true self: a cigar chomping, irascible celebrity who was highly demanding of the production executives.

The exaggerated walk, with one hand on the small of his back and his torso bent almost 90 degrees at the waist was a parody of a fad from the 1880s and 1890s.

Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches " – a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.

A federal appeals court denied the plaintiffs an injunction ( Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin ) against publication on the basis that the book was parody and therefore protected by the First Amendment.

Mr. Newman is listed as a comedian, so it is probable that this version was the first parody of the original Gospel song.

* John Woo directed a parody film of Chaplin's " The Kid " called Hua ji shi dai ( 1981 ), also known as " Laughing Times.

The country is supposedly capitalist, shares a border with a totalitarian regime, North Elbonia " a parody of North Korea and Iran ," and is also shown to share a border with a country called " Kneebonia " with which relations are bad.

Levels in this episode include a fast-food restaurant ( Duke Burger ), a supermarket, a Disneyland parody called " Babe Land ," a police station, the Exxon Valdez, and Area 51.

A 2005 episode of the satirical New Zealand news show Eating Media Lunch depicted newsreaders fornicating in a parody of Naked News called " Fuck News ".

* Oliver Herford released a parody of the Rubaiyat called " The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten " in 1904, which is notable for its charming illustrations of the kitten in question on his philosophical adventures.

He also helped to design a computer-based parody of himself available for download off Channel 4's website called Desktop Richie.

The Greeks had no word for what later would be called " satire ", although the terms cynicism and parody were used.

* The Worst ... Album in the World ... Ever ... EVER !, a parody of the long string of compilation albums released in the UK since the 1990s called The Best ( genre ) Album in the world ever !.

There were Carry On films in which James played characters who were not called Sid or Sidney, namely, Carry On Henry ( a parody of Henry VIII ) and Carry On Dick ( a spoof of legendary highwayman Dick Turpin ), in both of which he played the title roles, and Carry On Cleo, in which he played Mark Antony.

Notable exceptions to this pattern are a fictional scotch brand called " Hennigan's " ( a portmanteau of " Hennessy " and " Brannigans ") and a canned meat product called " Beef-a-reeno " ( a parody of " Beef-a-roni ").

Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.

* MAD Magazines X-Men parody " ECH !- Men " featured a Sentinel ( called " Sentinent ") with a huge posterior.

On 16 December 2010, Variety reported that Gilliam is to " godfather " a film called 1884 which is described as an animated steampunk parody of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, with several former Pythons lending their voice talents to the project whereas Gilliam will be credited as " creative adviser ".

The spacecraft is called USS Swinetrek and the title voice-over is a parody of Lost in Space.

During the 2001 / 02 season when Feyenoord won the UEFA Cup a parody was launched of the song " Put your hands up " by Black and White Brothers called " Put your hands up for Pi-Air " as a tribute to Pierre ( Pi-Air ) van Hooijdonk.

The genre featured in a parody hit song by Jasper Carrott called, " Funky Moped ".

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.

episode " Star Koopa ", being a spoof of Star Wars, also had its own parody of Obi-Wan Kenobi called Obi-Wan Toadi.

A later parody, based on a 1960s television commercial which used the melody, sung by schoolchildren in the United States, is called " Comet ", and deals with the effects of consuming a popular brand of household cleanser.

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