Paddy Chayefsky's Academy Award-winning Marty was the most notable examination of working class Bronx life was also explored by Chayefsky in his 1956 film The Catered Affair, and in the 1993 Robert De Niro / Chazz Palminteri film, A Bronx Tale, Spike Lee's 1999 movie Summer of Sam, centered in an Italian-American Bronx community, 1994's I Like It Like That that takes place in the predominately Puerto Rican neighborhood of the South Bronx, and Doughboys, the story of two Italian-American brothers in danger of losing their bakery thanks to one brother's gambling debts.

Spike is a master in firearms and hand-to-hand combat, practicing Jeet Kune Do, and is also a skilled pilot.

Other visual and aural cues are also taken from film noir, in ‘ Pierrot Le Fou ’ for instance, Spike battles an enraged homicidal clown across a fairground, accompanied by lighting and camera angles any film noir would be proud of.

The film, which starred Chapman as the eponymous pirate, also featured appearances from Peter Cook, Marty Feldman, Cleese, Idle, Spike Milligan, and Cheech & Chong.

The supporting cast included Olga Sosnovska, Stephen Fry and Eric Sykes and the series is also notable as the last screen performance by comedy legend Spike Milligan ( as the Headmaster ).

These include Puzzle Bobble, Janshin Densetsu ( a Mahjong game also released for the PC Engine ), Power Spike II, Neo Drift Out and Futsal-5-on-5 Mini Soccer.

The War ( and Peace ) Memoirs ( The seven memoirs were also recorded as talking books with Spike reciting them in his own inimitable style )

TMBG also contributed a track to the 2004 Future Soundtrack For America compilation, a project compiled by John Flansburgh with the help of Spike Jonze and Barsuk Records.

( A second " Lost " Golden Spike is also on display at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.

She also confesses her love to a disbelieving Spike before he sacrifices himself to save the world ; as he dies, Buffy escapes Sunnydale's destruction with the surviving characters.

Spike also leaves San Francisco after it becomes difficult for him to be around Buffy anymore.

It also made a notable appearance during the opening credits of Spike Lee's 2002 film 25th Hour.

During this period he found time to model for She magazine and also appear in a 1967 stage production of Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney, alongside Spike Milligan and Barry Humphries at the Mermaid Theatre in London.

Miller also famously flashed the choke sign to the Knicks ' number one fan, Spike Lee, while leading the Pacers to the improbable come from behind victory.

Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American drama film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee, who is also a featured actor in the film.

At some point, Spike also became rivals with famous vampire Dracula.

Spike also notes that Dracula's fame has done more damage to vampires than any Slayer.

Spike decides to ally himself with Buffy against Angelus ; as he explains to Buffy, in addition to wanting Drusilla back, he also wants to " save the world ":

Scott Tipton's 2006 comic Spike: Old Wounds is detective fiction set during Season Five, and also features allusions to Spike's activities in the late 1940s.

Lynch and Urru also penned Spike: Shadow Puppets, featuring Spike and Lorne doing battle with the muppet demons of Angel episode " Smile Time " in Japan.

" How Spike and Illyria got to be Lords of Los Angeles is detailed in the Spike: After the Fall ( 2008 ) miniseries, which also introduces a human friend for Spike in Jeremy Johns.

As part of its After the Fall franchise, IDW also published Bill Williams ' miniseries, Spike: The Devil You Know in 2010.

** Although Buffy retains many of her Slayer instincts, she and Spike feel no instinctive animosity towards each other, foreshadowing the significant change in direction of the relationship between the two in that season.

When Buffy rejects his advances, Spike attempts to prove his love by kidnapping her so that she can witness him killing Drusilla for her, to little avail ; in her disgust, Buffy un-invites him from her house ( something she had not bothered to do in the almost three years since their alliance against Angelus ) and alienates him from the group.

Spike is seen as something of a paradox amongst vampires in the series, and frequently challenges vampire conventions and limitations.

Kip grabbed the mic and tried to say something to the TNA administration and Spike TV, but each time his mic was cut off.

Xander enters Giles ' apartment as Spike, his mouth wet with blood, bends down to pick up something that he dropped in front of the sofa where Anya sleeps.

Quicker than the others to understand that something is wrong, he confronts Spike, who is posing for a photo-shoot in his crypt.

This was inspired by the BBC comedy Hi-de-Hi !, in which the character Spike used to say " oh dear, oh dear, oh dear " when something bad had happened.

Most cartoons with Spike in it have a system ; usually Spike is trying to accomplish something ( such as building a dog house or sleeping ) when Tom and Jerry's antics stop him from doing it, Spike then ( presumably due to prejudice ) singles out Tom as the culprit and threatens him that if it ever happens again, he will do " something horrible " to him ( effectively forcing Tom to take the blame of anyone else ) while Jerry overhears, afterwards Jerry usually does anything he can to interrupt whatever Spike is doing while Tom barely manages to stop him ( usually getting injured in the process ), usually Jerry does eventually wreck whatever Spike is doing in spectacular fashion and leaving Tom to take the blame, forcing him to flee from Spike and inevitably lose ( usually due to the fact that Tom is usually framed by Jerry and that Spike just doesn't like Tom ) off-screen, Spike does something to Tom and finally Tom is generally shown injured or in a bad situation while Jerry smugly cuddles up to Spike unscathed.

Among the better known online literary magazines are Evergreen Review, World Literature Today, New World Writing, The Applicant, Lantern Journal, Drunken Boat, Blackbird, Painted Bride Quarterly, 3: AM Magazine, 20x20 magazine, The Barcelona Review, Eclectica Magazine, ĕm, Failbetter, Guernica Magazine, Identity Theory, Literary Mama, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Monkeybicycle, Narrative Magazine, Sensitive Skin Magazine, Spike Magazine, StorySouth, The Washington Pastime, and Word Riot, Parabaas ( in Bengali ) but there are higher quality smaller markets like Literarily, Unlikely Stories, Pank, Fleeting, La Petite Zine, Fringe and Cha and literally thousands of online literary publications so it is difficult to judge the quality and overall impact of this relatively new publishing medium.

Litblogs can also serve as adjuncts to literary journals or organizations, such as those of 3: AM Magazine, Inside Higher Ed, Spike Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Poetry Foundation.

The sound can be heard, for example, when Spike Jones sings " Der Fuehrer's Face " ( from the 1942 Disney animated film of the same name ), repeatedly lambasting Adolf Hitler with: " We'll Heil!

Kung fu films are an obvious influence – Spike practises the martial arts and philosophies of Bruce Lee and some of the kung fu fights in the series seem to be lifted directly from Bruce Lee ’ s films.

In ‘ Stray Dog Strut ’ the final fight between Spike and Hakim is influenced by Bruce Lee ’ s Game of Death while in ‘ Waltz for Venus ’, Spike ’ s kung fu lesson is eerily similar to a scene from Lee ’ s Enter the Dragon.

He co-founded The Goon Show radio show with Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe, but appeared in only the first 38 shows on the BBC Light Programme from 1951 to 1953.

At the time, Public Enemy enjoyed unprecedented mainstream attention with the single " Fight the Power " from the soundtrack of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.

In June 2003 Lee sought an injunction against Spike TV to prevent them from using his nickname.

His appearance on stage always brought a roar of delight from the kids in the audience and Spike had soon left the text far behind as he went off into a riff of sublime absurdity.

The Last Spike by Thomas Hill ( 1881 ) Six years after the groundbreaking, laborers of the Central Pacific Railroad from the west and the Union Pacific Railroad from the east met at Promontory Summit, Utah.

* Spike — A punk vampire who has killed two previous Slayers, Spike took his nickname from one of his former killings which involved a railroad spike.

Although he enters the series as a villain, Spike allies briefly with the Scoobies during Season Two to save his vampire lover Drusilla and stop Angel from destroying the world.

When Spike tries to return for good in Season Four, the Initiative promptly captures him and fits him with a tracking device and a microchip that prevents him from harming humans.

** Spike, reluctantly and unreliably from the episode " Pangs " until the episode " The Yoko Factor ".

Buffy suffers emotional turmoil throughout this season, including the realization Dawn is not actually her sister, the deterioration of her relationship with Riley, the discovery that Spike has become obsessed with her, and her mother's death from a brain aneurysm.

Forced to take a mundane and degrading job slinging burgers at the Doublemeat Palace, she begins suffering from extreme depression and self-loathing, embarking on a violent sexual relationship with the vampire Spike which leaves neither satisfied and spawns dire consequences for the both of them.

* Pays inconnu Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop.

Referred to as “ The Canadian Washboard King ”, his percussion set-up was created with personal help from members of the Hoosier Hot Shots and Spike Jones and the city slickers.

This decision received criticism from Spike Lee, who in a letter to the Hollywood Reporter accused the film ’ s portrayal of slavery as being " a complete whitewashing of history ".

Spike is a vampire and played various roles on the shows, ranging from villain to anti-hero.

* Lies My Parents Told Me 1st flashback: In 1977 New York, Spike fights Vampire Slayer Nikki Wood while her young son Robin watches from a hiding place.