The term is often attributed to Rudolf Erich Raspe's story The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, where the main character pulls himself out of a swamp by his hair ( specifically, his pigtail ), but the Baron does not, in fact, pull himself out by his bootstraps.

Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil ( 1985 ), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ), The Fisher King ( 1991 ), 12 Monkeys ( 1995 ), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( 1998 ).

The 1980s saw Gilliam's self-written Trilogy of Imagination about " the ages of man " in Time Bandits ( 1981 ), Brazil ( 1985 ), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ).

After the lengthy quarreling with Universal Studios over Brazil, Gilliam's next picture, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, cost around US $ 46 million, and then earned only about US $ 8 million in US ticket sales.

On the other hand, Gilliam's first successful feature, Time Bandits ( 1981 ), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone ; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) was nominated for four Academy Awards ( and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards ); The Fisher King ( 1991 ) ( his first film not to feature a member from Python ) was nominated for five ( and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ); and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US $ 168 million worldwide ; whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US $ 105 million worldwide.

* Jack Purvis ( Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen )

* Charles McKeown ( Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus )

* Jonathan Pryce ( Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Brothers Grimm )

* Robin Williams ( The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King ; also was to play Cavaldi in The Brothers Grimm until objections by producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein )

Other recurring collaborators include Gilliam's cinematographers Roger Pratt ( Brazil, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys ) and Nicola Pecorini ( Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Brothers Grimm, Tideland, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus ), and his co-writer McKeown ( Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus ).

She worked on Monty Python's Flying Circus, many of the Python movies, and Gilliam's movies up to The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.

* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 )

* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 )

Terry Gilliam has dubbed his films Time Bandits, Brazil and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen as " The Imagination Trilogy ", in that each movie has to do with the imagination of humans in the three stages of life: child, man, older man.

* Rudolf Erich Raspe ( 1736 – 1794 ), a University of Kassel librarian who fled to England after embezzling significant funds from Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and wrote ( or compiled ) The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchhausen.

In December 2007, producer Thomas Schühly ( Alexander, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ) gained the remake rights to Metropolis.

Idle received good critical notices appearing in projects written and directed by others – such as Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1989 ), alongside Robbie Coltrane in Nuns on the Run ( 1990 ) and in Casper ( 1995 ).

The syndrome name derives from Baron Münchhausen ( Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, 1720 – 1797 ), a German nobleman, who purportedly told many fantastic and impossible stories about himself, which Rudolf Raspe later published as The Surprising Adventures of Baron Münchhausen.

* The Surprising Adventures Of Baron Munchausen Terence Blacker ( Rushton illustrations only ) ( Hodder Stoughton, 1989 )

* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 )-A " heroic officer "

In 1988 Pryce worked once again with Gilliam in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, playing " The Right Ordinary Horatio Jackson ".

Baron Munchausen is a character from The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( or Baron Münchhausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels ) by Rudolf Erich Raspe — a collection of tall tales published in 1785, based on the German adventurer Karl Friedrich von Münchhausen.

When The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was finally completed, David Puttnam, who had originally got the film's distribution rights in the US for Columbia Pictures, had been replaced as CEO of Columbia ; coupled with Gilliam's prior quarrels with major studios over Brazil, the film saw only very limited distribution in the US, earning $ 8 million in US box office.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen features an 89 % positive review status, even 100 % by professional film critics, on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic counts 69 favorable reviews out of 100 ( out of 15 reviews on display, 11 give it a favorable 70-100 % rating ).

In 1990, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was nominated for four Oscars:

RCA Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called `` Adventures In Music '', which is an instructional record library for elementary schools.

Week in, week out, there is more sex to be seen in `` The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet ''.

Sir John Tenniel's illustration of the Caterpillar ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ) | Caterpillar for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is noted for its ambiguous central figure, whose head can be viewed as being a human male's face with a pointed nose and pointy chin or being the head end of an actual caterpillar, with the first two right " true " legs visible.

Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a well-known example of a fantasized adventure story.

* A similar setting is used by Sydney Padua in the webcomic The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage.

The Dodo is a fictional character appearing in Chapters 2 and 3 of the book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ( Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ).

The Eaglet is a character appearing in Chapter 2 and 3 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, a reference to Edith Liddell, Alice's sister.

Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (, ) is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo ( Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series after the death of Goscinny in 1977 ).

All of the characters in Herman Wouk's City Boy: The Adventures of Herbie Bookbinder ( 1948 ) live in the Bronx, and about half of the action is set there.

The Beano is so popular that it had its own section of the Chessington World of Adventures theme park, " Beanoland ".

In television, Campbell is known for his lead role in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., his portrayal of Autolycus ( the King of Thieves ) in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, and notably for his role as Sam Axe on the USA Network series Burn Notice.

The CBS Saturday morning series The New Adventures of Superman produced by Filmation Studios — as well as The Adventures of Superboy from the same animation house — featured the iconic " shirt rip " to reveal the " S " or Clark Kent removing his unbuttoned white dress shirt in a secluded spot, usually thanks to stock animation which was re-used over dozens of episodes, to reveal his costume underneath while uttering his famed line " This is a job for Superman!

Clark Kent's character is given one of its heaviest emphases in the 1990s series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

For instance, Martin L Friedland, in his book My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures, contends that the rule should be changed so that a retrial is granted only when the error is shown to be responsible for the verdict, not just one of many factors.

This is essentially a reworking of Further Adventures of Doctor Syn with a different conclusion and some conflation and renaming of the supporting characters.

This version generally followed the storyline of The Further Adventures of Dr. Syn and made it clear that Syn did not die or stage his own death: at film's end, he is having a cup of tea with the Squire, who admits to now owing a debt of gratitude to the Scarecrow.

* 1884 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.

Terror Firma seemed to contradict the events of the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel War of the Daleks by John Peel, in which an unmerged Davros is placed on trial by the Dalek Prime, a combination of the Dalek Emperor and the Dalek Supreme.

Çelebi is one of main characters in novel Capitan Bathory's Adventures ( Dobrodružství kapitána Báthoryho ) by Slovak writer Juraj Červenák.

In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, Gallifrey is destroyed as a result of the Eighth Doctor's desire to prevent the voodoo cult Faction Paradox from starting a war between the Time Lords and an unnamed Enemy.

He is referenced in Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin, The Seven Crystal Balls published in 1944 by Le Soir.