The term " Last Spike " has been used to refer to one driven at the usually ceremonial completion of any new railroad construction projects, particularly those in which construction is undertaken from two disparate origins towards a meeting point.

For this reason, the First usually appears as Buffy Summers ( Sarah Michelle Gellar ) to the Slayer and her allies, but it also assumes the forms of Warren Mears, Spike, Drusilla and Jonathan Levinson on multiple occasions, among a variety of other forms taken less frequently.

Originally, Spike was unnamed and mute ( aside from howls and biting noises ) as well as attacking indiscriminately, not caring whether it was Tom or Jerry though usually attacking Tom.

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 " Tabula Rasa " ( season six ), when the characters lose their memories, Spike wears the same tweed jacket and believes Giles is his father.

* When Spike says Angel wears lifts, it's reference to his own character who wore lifts in Season two when filming with Angel to minimize the height difference.

Spike wears brown shorts and a yellow belt.

* The football helmet that Andrew wears while riding behind Spike on Spike's motorcycle is the same helmet that Dawn wore in " Bargaining, Part Two ".

Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean and Spike Lee, son of jazz bassist Bill Lee and a long time critic of Eastwood, criticized the characterization of Charlie Parker remarking that it did not capture his true essence and sense of humor.

Notably, Spike's first act in Sunnydale is to attack Buffy and a large group of people at her school, making his first appearance the deadliest of any of Buffys " Big Bads ", as he very nearly kills Buffy, but Buffy's mother distracts Spike long enough for Buffy to recover.

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 often displays insight and skills in perception and observation, especially with regard to relationships and personalities, so long as the relationship in question does not concern him personally.

* Spike Strips: The lower walls of the arena are lined with inward pointing 6-inch long sharpened steel spikes.

Spike length depends on race conditions, with a muddy course appropriate for spikes as long as.

The notion of well-known or predictable music pieces gone awry has long been practiced by artists as diverse as Stan Freberg, Spike Jones or P. D. Q. Bach.

Wall Street bears attacked the stock shortly after the Gold Spike, after the realization that the Northern Pacific was a very long road with very little business.

Despite the best efforts of Angel, Spike, and Wesley Wyndam-Pryce, she manages to fight off all three of them and open the portal to where her army is waiting, but soon she discovers it was destroyed long ago.

Several episodes make comedy of her subpar fighting skills, though after later training she holds her own against Riley and Spike, and in " Harm's Way " she kills another vampire after a long battle.

Giant ( Spike Lee, one of his boyhood friends from the previous scene ), is waiting in the wings, and advises him to stop allowing his saxophone player Shadow Henderson ( Snipes ) to grandstand with long solos.

The 8 minutes long hoax film credited to ( fictitious ) Venezuelan filmmaker Carlos Soto – in reality, as was disclosed later, it was directed by Spike Jonze – deals with the fact that on 25 October 2003 32 people supposedly purchased a Volvo S40 at the same local Volvo dealership in Dalarö, a small village to the south-east of Stockholm.

Spike: " Well as long as it's not you.

Back at the Bronze, Spike tells of killing the Chinese Slayer during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, defeating her after a long and brutal fight, describing her as " all business " and getting nostalgic about how Drusilla was excited afterward, calling the event " the best night of my life " ( much to Buffy's disgust ).

Rita does not like Roddy initially, but ends up taking him along, while her arch enemy The Toad ( Ian McKellen ) sends his rat henchmen, Spike ( Andy Serkis ) and Whitey ( Bill Nighy ), after her because she had stolen back her father's prized ruby a long time ago.

Soon after, Snoopy decides to get married, and wants his brother Spike to be the " Best Beagle " ( Best Man ) at his wedding, resulting in Spike traveling a long way from Needles, California and trying to earn money by competing in a dog race, only to be disqualified for being a beagle and not a greyhound.

Spike Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Jacqueline Carroll ( née Shelton ), a teacher of arts and black literature, and William James Edward Lee III, a jazz musician and composer.

* Spike Lee as Mookie, a young black man working in Sal's Famous Pizza

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.

In 1952's Tree for Two by Friz Freleng, Sylvester is cornered in the back alley and this would result in Spike getting mauled by a black panther that had escaped from a zoo.

The 2000 Spike Lee movie Bamboozled alleges that modern black entertainment exploits African American culture much as the minstrel shows did a century ago, for example.

Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the violent fall-out from the show's success.

He introduced a new generation to the manic big-band parodies of Spike Jones, the musical black humor of Tom Lehrer, and the many novelty records recorded by satirist Stan Freberg in the 1950s.

Spike Lee's film School Daze satirized this practice at historically black colleges and universities.

Morehouse is one of two black colleges in the country to produce Rhodes Scholars, and it is the alma mater of many African-American leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., theologian Howard Thurman, filmmaker Spike Lee, actor Samuel L. Jackson, Olympic gold medalist Edwin Moses, musician Lil Jon, former Bank of America Chairman Walter E. Massey, the first African-American mayor of Atlanta, Maynard Jackson, former Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan, and former United States Surgeon General David Satcher, among others.

It was a cast of stereotypes, featuring a blacked-up Spike Milligan as Kevin O ' Grady ( who was supposed to be half Irish, half Pakistani ), Eric Sykes as a liberal, Kenny Lynch as a black man who was prejudiced against Asians, and Norman Rossington and Geoffrey Hughes as racist Liverpudlians.

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: Spike has black hair with a small trademark spike.

The young black protagonist Mookie in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing declares that " slave days are over, my name ain't Kunta Kinte " while complaining about his boss and his job delivering pizza.

At the time of his death in 1971, Arnold Perl was working on a screenplay about assassinated black activist Malcolm X, which would later become the basis for Spike Lee's 1992 film, Malcolm X. Daniel Melnick, the show ’ s executive producer, was a partner with Susskind in Talent Associates and had brought Mel Brooks and Buck Henry together to create the TV comedy Get Smart in 1965.

Chaz and Kira fall in love and get married upon returning to America, Spike and Fifi become a couple, and Chuckie now not only having a new mother but a new sister in the form of Kimi, completing one of Rugrats longest-running storylines, The film ends the Rugrats and the grown-ups having a cake fight, the camera backs up, a piece of cake is thrown at the camera, the screen fades to black and the movie ends.

He explains that the “ black macho ” image is sustained through performances such as rap music, television shows, the films of Spike Lee, and the comedy routines of Eddie Murphy.

The Spike Lee biographic film Malcolm X portrays some of the revolutionary black leader Malcolm X's early days in Harlem, where he worked as a numbers runner for a man named " West Indian Archie ".

( Spike took a black leather duster from Nikki's body, and it became his trademark.

The spirit turns into a large black bear, which Spike desperately tries to get away from and ends up knocking the chair over.

This fit in well with Alicar's fears of being doomed now they had a new black member on the team, named Spike.

Perry has been accused of minstrelsy and playing into black stereotypes with the Madea character, most notably by fellow black director Spike Lee.

The second incarnation in the early 2000s ( decade ) was drawn by David Sutherland, who drew Jak's dad with black hair and a beard, and introduced a cat called Spike.