Parodies of Popeil's infomercials were done on the comedy show Saturday Night Live by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy and the " Veg-O-Matic " may have provided comedian Gallagher inspiration for the " Sledge-O-Matic " routine since the 1980s.

Parodies of Canadian television ensued, such as Hinterland Who's Who, Front Page Challenge, and It's a Fact, as well as promos for Monday Night Curling, hosted by two orange-jacketed sportscasters who were both named Gord, and Magnum, P. E. I., with John Candy as a private detective chasing his quarry through the scenic potato patches of Prince Edward Island.

* Parodies by Peter Schickele:

Parodies of the ideal woman are often selfish and become involved with the male lead because of their own selfish desires which are not ( initially ) shared by their mate.

" Phone Taps " ( prank calls to an unsuspecting friend or relative of a listener ), stunts performed by Greg T, Song Parodies, various contests, news and traffic reports.

Parodies early-era sci-fi radio serials, by having a large starting and ending narration, with the ' actual ' episode consisting of a single audio clip of a goat, roughly a second long.

Parodies of 1941 have cropped up in a number of unusual ways, including one by Spielberg himself.

Parodies of Wagner range from Souvenirs de Bayreuth by Fauré and Messager ( sending up music from the Ring cycle by turning the themes into dance rhythm ) to Anna Russell's Introduction to the Ring, which parodies the words and music of the cycle by presenting their supposed absurdities in a mock-academic lecture format.

The group began releasing music videos in 2010, starting with the oil-spill satire BP is Creepy, followed by the Lady Gaga parody Bedroom Ants, the TSA-mocking Rocky-Horror parody Touch-A Touch Me, TSA Security, follow by Twisted Christmas Parodies, Things You Shouldn't Say, and I Must Watch YouTube.

Parodies are a staple of their performances, and their parodies ( well-known songs set to different words ) often have Barbershop " in-jokes " where they poke fun at other quartets and singers ( by name!

* Parodies of comic strips, primarily drawn by Ryan Dunlavey, usually placing toy or other pop culture characters in the roles of an established comic strip, such as " Cringerfield ", which placed the feline character Cringer from the Masters of the Universe mythos into a setting similar to that of the comic strip character Garfield ( with He-Man in the role of Jon Arbuckle ).

Parodies, such as the Chinese robot Xianxingzhe ridiculed by a Japanese website, were marked as kuso.

Parodies or pastiches of the song have been sung in a number of television programs.

Parodies of the movement quickly arose, as well: in Switzerland in 1350 a description survives of a group singing Geisslerlieder fitted with new words, as a bawdy drinking song ; whether the drinkers flogged themselves is not known.

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He is also helping to take down the " Downfall Parodies " internet meme off of YouTube alongside Abraham Foxman and Martin Moskowicz through the use of DMCAs.

Parodies the elephantine sports utility vehicles that were commonplace on American roads in the 2000s ( decade ), there is also an advertisement in the GTA 3 handbook for the Maibatsu Monstrosity showing a larger Landstalker.

The following example comes from Immortalia: An Anthology of American Ballads, Sailors ' Songs, Cowboy Songs, College Songs, Parodies, Limericks, and other humorous verses and doggerel, published in 1927.

* Skarda, Patricia, ( 1986 ) " Gothic Parodies " in Jack Sullivan ed.

Parodies of Japanese became popular when a Japanese acrobat troupe toured the U. S. beginning in 1865.

Parodies of innovative defenses are sometimes seen in entertainment, for example the Chewbacca Defense.

A discussion category on Yahoo !, " Entertainment > Humor, Jokes, and Fun > Parody > Usenet Parodies > MiSTings " ( no longer active in 2007 ), was created for discussions there.

* Selected Poems and Parodies, Harcourt, 1935.

Parodies of disaster films ( That's Armageddon ), blaxplotation ( Cleopatra Schwartz ) and softcore porn / women-in-prison films ( Catholic High School Girls in Trouble ) are presented as " Coming Attraction " trailers.

His three main volumes of poetry, Balade vesele şi triste (" Ballads, Merry and Sad "), Parodii originale (" Original Parodies ") and Migdale amare (" Bitter Almonds "), are a compelling mixture of humor and delicate lyricism.

BrockTV provides all facets of student-made content from News Briefs and Guest Lectures, to Varsity Highlights, Musician Interviews and Entertainment Parodies.

Parodies the aggressive, somewhat overboard use of the instruments in the 80's.

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Parodies, such as " I Spayed My Pets " ( using a ♠) or " I Club Seals " ( using a ♣), have also appeared.

* Ignes Fatui-A Book of Parodies ( Oxford: B. H.

A tragedy, by his definition, is an imitation of an action that is serious, of a certain magnitude, and complete in itself.

Throughout the rest of the Poetics, Aristotle continues to discuss the characteristics of these six parts and their interrelationship, and he refers frequently to the standards suggested by his definition of tragedy.

The poet was by definition a realist, his imaginings and parables being natural organizations of reality.

First, we can encourage responsibility by establishing as conditions for assistance on a substantial and sustained scale the definition of objectives and the assessment of costs.

But contest definition -- that dramatic muscular separation of every muscle group that seems as though it must have been carved by a sculptor's chisel -- is something quite different.

If Af is the operator induced on Af by T, then evidently Af, because by definition Af is 0 on the subspace Af.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.

It has to, by virtue of the very dictionary definition of the word `` few ''.

these, almost by definition, are spokesmen for an alienated ideology.

Finally, when the accelerometer output is zero, the entire system remains stationary, and the platform is, by definition, leveled.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

According to the definition by IUPAC, the former two are alkanes, whereas the third group is called cycloalkanes.

The appellate court will typically be deferential to the lower court's findings of fact ( such as whether a defendant committed a particular act ), unless clearly erroneous, and so will focus on the court's application of the law to those facts ( such as whether the act found by the court to have occurred fits a legal definition at issue ).

In the narrowest definition, the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto is characterized by an umbellate inflorescence with an inferior ovary.

Under this definition, Anatolia is bounded to the East by the Armenian Highland, and the Euphrates before that river bends to the southeast to enter Mesopotamia.

This wider definition of Anatolia has gained widespread currency outside of Turkey and has, for instance, been adopted by Encyclopedia Britannica and other encyclopedic and general reference publications.

* Identity: the identity is the identity morphism from an object to itself which exists by definition.

* Inverses: by definition every isomorphism has an inverse which is also an isomorphism, and since the inverse is also an endomorphism of the same object it is an automorphism.

Partial and total orders are antisymmetric by definition.

The latter definition ignores the direction of the vectors and thus describes the angle between one-dimensional subspaces and spanned by the vectors and correspondingly.

The definition of the angle between one-dimensional subspaces and given by

This definition was adopted by the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in The Despouy Report on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty.