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One of the earliest parodies of the whodunit genre in general is Englishman E. C. Bentley's ( 1875 – 1956 ) novel Trent's Last Case ( 1913 ), which introduced Philip Trent, a detective who gets everything wrong right from the start: assigned to investigate the murder of English millionaire Sigsbee Manderson, who is found shot in the library of his country house, Trent makes his first major mistake when he falls head over heels in love with the main suspect.
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" The pre-empted shows were parodies of current TV shows ( e. g. The A-Team Makes One Cup of Coffee Last Five Hours, " Hanging Out " or " Malls ", 1984 ), movies ( e. g. Top Gun Gets Put on Latrine-Cleaning Duty, " Discipline ", 1986 ), or other pop culture icons ( e. g. Boy George Without Make-up, " Halloween ", 1984 ), and were often relevant to the theme of the current episode ( e. g. the pre-empted show for " Safety " ( 1981 ) was Hit and Run on Sesame Street ).
For example, Santa's Little Helper fathering 25 puppies in " Two Dozen and One Greyhounds " is a parody of the Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and Mr. Burns ' technique of brainwashing him into an attack dog in " Dog of Death " parodies A Clockwork Orange.
* Major Asshole and Gunner's Mate First Class Philip Asshole are two cross-eyed Spaceballs serving aboard the Spaceball One, both being generic parodies of Imperial personnel from the Star Wars films.
The album was so successful that it was quickly followed by My Son, the Celebrity, which ended with " Shticks of One and Half a Dozen of the Other ," fragments of song parodies including Robert Burns ' " Comin ' Thro ' the Rye ": " Do not make a stingy sandwich, pile the cold cuts high ;/ Customers should see salami comin ' thru the rye " and " All day, all night Cary Grant ," a takeoff on " Marianne.
Notable in the composition of the music is the variety of styles used by Lloyd Webber, including parodies of French ballads (" Those Canaan Days "), Elvis-inspired rock and roll (" Song of the King "), western (" One More Angel In Heaven "), 1920s Charleston (" Potiphar "), Calypso (" Benjamin Calypso ") and disco (" Go, Go, Go Joseph ").
One difficulty with this position, however, is that if there is no single character posing as the author, then it is at least clear that nearly all of the " personae " employed by Swift for the parodies are so much alike that they function as a single identity.
One of the first parodies he produced was " Breakin ' Up Is Hard On You ", about the lawsuit and the resulting Bell System divestiture, the court ordered split up of U. S. telecommunications company AT & T's Bell System.
One of Homer Price's adventures, " The Case of the Cosmic Comic ", parodies the Superman phenomenon, with Homer and his best friend Freddy attending the local personal appearance of Freddy's favorite superhero.
One of the movie trailers parodies the trailer of Poltergeist II: The Other Side where they pan the inside of a house, then the phone rings, and the person sitting in the chair facing away from the camera picks up, then the person turns to reveal it's Heather O ' Rourke's character, Carol-Ann, who says " They're Back.
* In the One Thousand and One Nights, the fictional storyteller Sheherezade sometimes tells folk tales with similar themes and story lines that can be seen as parodies of each other.
One of the first Intervention parodies to appear anywhere, Kristin Chenoweth's short " Intervention with Kristin Chenoweth ", was released August 27, 2008.
* One scene presenting Ryan dressed in kilt parodies the William Wallace character from the film Braveheart.
One of the most successful imitations / parodies was Terrytoons ' Mighty Mouse series, which became the flagship property of the studio.
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