The name is mainly associated with Morton who has been credited as an influence by Spike Milligan amongst others.

Watanabe, however, made no secret that, in addition to Lupin III, the series paid subtle tribute to his favorite American films and series, which were shown in Japan during the 1970s and ' 80s including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( the relationship between Spike and Jet ), Bruce Lee films ( Spike's martial-arts practice ), films with blues or jazz soundtracks ( the music of the series ), as well as Blaxploitation films ( the series has a very racially diverse supporting cast ).

The image has been mentioned on some television shows such as a sketch on Talkshow with Spike Feresten, and dialogue on Archer, The Simpsons, The Cleveland Show and 30 Rock.

Spike Jones, Jr., whose father's orchestral recordings had a deep and indelible effect on me as a child, said once in an interview, ' One of the things that people don't realize about Dad's kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.

* 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.

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.

She unexpectedly becomes emotionally close with Spike, who has sought out his soul in an effort to prove himself to her.

Spike Lee has remarked that he himself has only ever been asked by white viewers whether Mookie did the right thing ; black viewers do not ask the question.

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

* " Fool for Love " 2nd flashback: Months after being sired, William, now called Spike, has through acts of public mayhem forced Angelus ' vampire group ( himself, Spike, Drusilla, and Angelus ' sire / paramour Darla ) to flee London ; Spike first learns of the existence of the Vampire Slayer.

He reunites with Angel and seems genuinely pleased to see him, but is disgusted to find that Angel has a soul ( whether or not Spike in fact knew that Angel's acquisition of a soul is why he left the group nearly a century before has never been made clear ) and is in love with the current Slayer, Buffy Summers.

In Season Five, after some erotic dreams, Spike becomes aware to his horror that he has fallen in love with Buffy.

Spike then has Warren Mears make a robot in Buffy's likeness, programmed to love and obey him.

Believing he still has a chance with Buffy after seeing her reactions of jealousy and hurt when he has a drunk sexual encounter with Anya, Spike corners her and makes aggressive sexual advances.

In Angel: After the Fall, Spike has adjusted to Los Angeles ' new status as a literal hell on Earth ; he and Illyria both serve together as the Demon Lords of Beverly Hills, living in the Playboy Mansion after the death of Hugh Hefner and served by a harem of human and demon females known collectively as the " Spikettes.

Lynch introduces a new nemesis for Spike, John, a human whose soul was taken when Spike earned his ; when John removes Spike's soul, Spike realises his redemption had begun long before his soul, and charitably has Willow return it to Drusilla instead, however shortly after Drusilla kills John prompting Spike to realize that she can't handle having a soul and so agrees to take it back from her.

Spike had previously appeared in the season 1 episode of Angel " In the Dark ", Spike goes to Los Angeles at the same time as Oz arrives to give Angel the Gem of Amarra, Spike's objective was to get the ring and kill Angel.

The origin of Spike is unknown but presumed to predate the Devil Rays, as the club was previously controlled by the Cubs as well as the Twins ( who have a bear mascot, T. C.

The bulk of Liquid Television < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s material was created by independent animators and artists specially for the show, and some previously produced segments were compiled from festivals such as Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation.

They have three sons and a daughter: the journalist Daniel Johnson, a freelance writer, editor of Standpoint magazine, and previously associate editor of The Daily Telegraph, who is married to the writer and birth educator Sarah Johnson née Thompson ; Luke Johnson, businessman and former chairman of Channel 4 Television ; Cosmo Johnson ; and Sophie Johnson-Clark, who has worked as a television script editor and now resides in the US and is married to Spike Vrusho ( aka Mike Clark ), the underground sportswriter and author.

The military organization, named The Initiative, has previously captured a vampire named Spike ( James Marsters ) and implanted a microchip in his head that causes him extreme pain when he tries to hurt humans.

The same concept had been previously used for Spike Jonze's 1996 music video for The Pharcyde's " Drop.

It previously aired for fourteen seasons on Spike TV.

In the final scene of the episode, the First shows itself to Wood in the guise of his dead mother ( she is the Slayer seen previously during the 1977 flashback in " Fool for Love ") and, though it does not say so explicitly, leads him to conclude that it was Spike who murdered her.

* This episode reunites Faith and Spike, who had met once previously ( while Faith was in Buffy's body ).

In 1992, Sugar and Spike # 99 was published as part of the DC Silver Age Classics series ; this featured two previously unpublished stories by Mayer.

In the closing credits montage of Yeah Right !, Spike is shown doing a nollie heelflip in loafers.

This short, along with a few of McCracken's No Neck Joe shorts, was selected to be shown at Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation in 1994.

While many vampires cling to the mannerisms and speech patterns prevalent at the time they were sired, Spike has been shown to easily adjust to changing fashions and styles over the decades and displays an impressive knowledge of both British and American popular culture, demonstrating another aspect of his potential for analysis and adaptability.

Anderson described it as not being a raunchy show, despite obvious double entendres and topless nudity ( which was blurred out when shown on Spike TV ).

When Wolverine invades the forest base of the Brotherhood, Spike is one of the characters that attacks him, demonstrating abilities identical to those shown by the Spyke character before he lost control of his mutation.

Two series were produced in the US for the TNN ( now Spike and Adult Swim ) network, and a version was also shown on Nickelodeon.

In the first Transformers miniseries by Dreamwave, Spike was shown having a wife and a son, and later mentions them both by name.

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.

In September 2000, Blum voiced the role of TOM, the robotic host of Toonami shown on Cartoon Network ( replacing Sonny Strait ), as the second through 4th incarnations of the character right up to the block's cancellation on September 20, 2008 delivering the final lines uttered on the block, echoing his early role of Cowboy Bebop's Spike Spiegel, to recent revival of the block on May 27, 2012.

Games of Strat-O-Matic were shown being played in the Spike Lee film Crooklyn.

The single's video, directed by Spike Jonze, shows a group of Japanese youths dancing and miming to the track at a party, whilst the band are shown briefly, looking on.

A new trailer shown at Captivate ' 08 debuted on Spike TV's show Gametrailers TV, on May 31, 2008, as well as the GameTrailers. com website.

Takeshi's Castle would later be shown in the US on the cable network Spike TV as Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, later shortened to MXC.

Spike is then shown viciously fighting Tom as the cat attempts to escape.

The video was made available to download on iTunes ( UK ), Spike ( US ), MuchMusic and MusiMax ( Canada ) and shown on many music channels.

It is a companion to the Angel episode " Darla ", which first aired later the same night on The WB network ; both episodes include multiple flashbacks to the history of Spike and Darla, shown from their respective viewpoints.