He's busted down to Janitor Second Class, and assigned to the SCS DeepShip 86 ( a parody of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ), commanded by Commander Kielbasa, a Cowardly Lion look-alike whose name is taken from the polish sausage as well as being a play on the names of both the feline Kilrathi from the video game series Wing Commander and of the character Mufasa from the animated motion picture The Lion King.

This is a parody of The Wizard of Oz when the Cowardly Lion gets scared and jumps out the window of the Wizard's throne room.

* The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz-( TV ) The Cowardly Lion / Fozzie Bear

MGM announces Bert Lahr has been cast as the " Cowardly Lion " on July 25.

Quests often appear in fantasy literature, as in Rasselas by Samuel Johnson, or The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, where Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion go on a quest for the way back to Kansas, brains, a heart, and courage respectively.

The Cowardly Lion and Truckle, the Wicked Witch of the Wests chief Flying Monkey, also get to wear them briefly.

In the novel, Dorothy, the Scarecrow ( the American farmer ), Tin Woodman ( the industrial worker ), and Cowardly Lion ( William Jennings Bryan ), march on the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, the Capital ( or Washington, D. C .), demanding relief from the Wizard, who is interpreted to be the President.

They meet with many of Dorothy's animal friends, including the Cowardly Lion and Billina the Yellow Hen.

From their importance to the play, a similar importance is given them this work, where neither Dorothy nor the Cowardly Lion appear.

Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger ; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein published on July 30, 1907, was the third book of L. Frank Baum's Oz series.

Cheerful reunions are had by the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion, and new introductions are made to Ozma and the Hungry Tiger, a massive tiger hamstrung by his conscience.

Dorothy is a forthright and take-charge character, exhibiting no fear when she slaps the Cowardly Lion, and organizing the Winkies ' rescue mission of her friends who have been dismembered by the Winged Monkeys, and more than willing to brazenly talk back to Princess Langwidere's threat to take her head for her collection --" Well, I b ' lieve you won't.

In The Cowardly Lion of Oz, circus clown Notta Bit More arrives in the Emerald City " disguised " as a traditional witch, and Dorothy immediately starts dumping bucket after bucket of water on him without provocation ( although she reacted this way on the assumption that the " witch " Notta appeared to be was an evil witch like her old enemy, the Wicked Witch of the West ).

The film also introduced the idea of the farmhands also being the Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman and Cowardly Lion, albeit as costumes they don in order to conceal themselves in Oz.

The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True ( 1995 ) starred Jewel as Dorothy and Nathan Lane as the Cowardly Lion.

Upon being welcomed in Oz, Hank, the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger, and the Saw-Horse debate who is the best mistress — Betsy ( for Hank ), Dorothy ( for the Lion and the Tiger ), or Ozma ( for the Saw-Horse ).

The Magic of Oz: A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, Together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap ' n Bill, in Their Successful Search for a Magical and Beautiful Birthday Present for Princess Ozma of Oz is the thirteenth Land of Oz book written by L. Frank Baum.

Dorothy and the Wizard arrive with the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger in the Forest of Gugu during this council of war with a request for monkeys to train in time for Ozma's upcoming birthday party.

Then the Wizard resumes his rightful form and changes Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger, and Gugu back to their forms, and he agrees to change the soldiers back into monkeys.

The Wizard uses " Pyrzqxgl " to change Cap ' n Bill and Trot into honeybees which narrowly avoid being eaten by the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger.

When the Cowardly Lion asks why, the Wizard recounts that he is a " very bad wizard.

" He states " case in point " as he forcefully takes back Scarecrow's brain, has Tin Man compacted into a square and eats his heart, and has the Cowardly Lion made into a lion-skinned rug.

With the Cowardly Lion a rug, the Tin Man his stool, and Scarecrow's remains made into a wall decoration, the Wizard is seen with them in his room as he quotes " It's good to be the Wizard.

Grandy's The Disenchanted Princess of Oz has been published by Tails of the Cowardly Lion and Friends.

* The 2000 episode of the cartoon Courage the Cowardly Dog titled " 1000 Years of Courage " takes place in the year 3001, where the human race has evolved into living bananas.

The Cowardly Lion is also the only character in the movie who has two solo song numbers -" If I Only Had the Nerve ," performed after his initial meeting with Dorothy, The Scarecrow, and The Tin Man in the forest, and " If I Were King of the Forest ," performed while he and the others are awaiting their audience with the Wizard.

Comisar's Cowardly Lion costume has been featured in the national media, including on The Oprah Winfrey Show, when it was then valued at $ 1. 5 million.

Aside from his roles in King of the Hill, he has played various characters in animated films, such as Ice Age, Finding Nemo, and Courage the Cowardly Dog.

In the scene, Dorothy Gale ( Judy Garland ) has reached the Emerald City with her companions, The Scarecrow ( Ray Bolger ), The Tin Woodsman ( Jack Haley ), and The Cowardly Lion ( Bert Lahr ), and are treated to the hospitality and technological comforts of the fantastic city.

Elphaba is also the creator of the Tin Woodman ( through a spell to save Boq, who had had his heart shrunken to apparent non-existence by Nessarose ), the Scarecrow ( through a spell with which she attempts to save Fiyero from being tortured to death on her account ) and the Cowardly Lion ( the Lion Cub she rescued from the class after Doctor Dillamond's removal ); in the book the former is a result of an axe bewitched by Nessarose, and the latter's existence has nothing to do with Fiyero, other than her slight suspicion that he might indeed be her love coming back to find her, which just proves to be a paranoid delusion.

In the story, the Cowardly Lion believes that he has depleted the reserve of courage imbued in him by the Wizard ( as told in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ).

He was the voice director for Courage the Cowardly Dog, which he has said was his favorite.

Upon arriving where she reunites with the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion, she learns from Glinda the Good Witch that the Wicked Witch of the West has been resurrected by evil winged monkeys and that the Emerald City has been taken over by the wicked witch.

The Cowardly Lion joins her so that he can ask The Wizard for courage, being ashamed that, in his cultural role as the King of the Beasts, he is not indeed brave.

The Cowardly Lion ( voiced by Milton Berle ) puts on his best brave act when he tells Dorothy and the others he will slay the elephants, saying he will " snap off their tusks and use them for toothpicks ", but, like the Tin Man, he is too afraid after hearing the elephants are magical, and he suggests they go to find Glinda ( voiced by Rise Stevens ), the Good Witch of the North.

* Ted Raimi as Cowardly Warrior / Second Supportive Villager / S-Mart Clerk

The Witch / Mom meets her fate when water splashes down on her from the ceiling, causing her to melt, to which the Cowardly Lobster / Zoidberg descends the stairs, mentioning " I think there's a problem with your upstairs toilet.

* And the Tears Washed Me, Wave After Cowardly Wave ( CD / LP, 2012 )

Her other television appearances included two appearances on the Perry Mason episodes, " The Case of the Black-Eyed Blonde ," ( 1958 ) and " The Case of the Cowardly Lion " ( 1961 ), The Cisco Kid, The Adventures of Kit Carson ( twice as June Sanders ), It's a Great Life, Frontier, The Abbott and Costello Show, The DuPont Show with June Allyson ( as Penny in the 1960 episode " The Trench Coat ", along with David Niven and Lyle Talbot ), Leave It to Beaver, Gunsmoke ( as a duplicitous villainess trying to have her husband murdered ), Rawhide ( Season 1 / 20 as Nora Sage ), General Electric Theater, The Lone Ranger, The Untouchables ( in Season 1 as a two-timing showgirl playing opposite Cameron Mitchell ), and The Patty Duke Show.

Courage the Cowardly Dog show, starring Courage, the cowardly dog!

In " The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger " in Little Wizard Stories of Oz, the Lion begins with cowardly bravado, intending to find a man to tear apart, and the Tiger a fat baby to devour.

Notta accidentally said the magic spell that sent Bob and him to the Munchkin land of Mudge, where the tyrannical and cranky ruler, Mustafa, sends them on their quest: two cowardly lion hunters hunting a Cowardly Lion.