When asked by a reporter after getting struck by lightning why they were flying a kite in a thunderstorm, the duo explained that they were inspired by a documentary about Benjamin Franklin.

The duo were given the BPI's " Producer of the Year Award " in 1990.

The duo was named Vocal Group of the Year in 1968 by the Country Music Association, but Parton's solo records were continually ignored.

The show was pitched directly to the UK's Hat Trick Productions and Channel 4 by the duo, contrary to rumours that RTÉ ( the Irish national broadcaster ) were originally offered the series but rejected it.

Jan and Dean were a rock and roll duo, popular from the late 1950s through the mid 1960s, consisting of Jan Berry and Dean Torrence.

The poems were often performed by a duo, each person singing alternative verses or groups of verses.

The dynamic duo from years earlier were now gone and a new leader would eventually emerge.

Gell-Mann and Richard Feynman, working together, along with the independent duo of George Sudarshan and Robert Marshak, were the first to discover the vector and axial vector structures of the weak interaction in physics.

Though hired to be part of the live performance group rather than as band members, these four musicians were also included in the photograph alongside the core duo on the album cover of their first album to assist in projecting an image of a group rather than a duo.

The Righteous Brothers were the musical duo of Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield.

Simon & Garfunkel were an American music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

The two had become the NFL's most famous broadcast duo since they were paired together in 1981 on CBS.

These works, most in collaboration with the experimental Russian director Georges Pitoëff, were considered promising despite their lack of commercial profits, and the duo continued to work together until they had their first major success in 1937 with Le voyageur sans bagage ( Traveller Without Baggage ).

At the time, Eastland and Stennis were the longest-serving Senate duo in American history, though their record was subsequently surpassed by Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, who served together for 36 years.

On the later albums recorded by the remaining duo, the arrangements were sparse and heavily electronic, the singing evolved from abstract screams and mumbles to a very direct, rhythmic vocal style, and their live performances were delivered with such intensity that a 1980 concert in Düsseldorf had to be stormed by the police to bring the crowd under control.

Since the duo were still working on The Black Dossier at the time, it was agreed that it would become the last League project published by DC / WildStorm, with subsequent projects published jointly by Top Shelf Productions and Knockabout Comics in the US and UK respectively.

Voshon Lenard and Dan Majerle were also added to the team, becoming a dangerous backcourt duo for their tenacity on defense and their specialization at three-point shooting.

This was the first time that the Bulls had two all stars since 1997, when Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen were the duo.

Not knowing they were both essentially unemployed, although still contracted to Paradine, Cotton signed the duo up for their own show together, and a series each on their own ; he later joked he " must have offered them too much money.

The Comateens were originally a New Wave duo formed in 1978 in New York City by bassist / vocalist Nic North and guitarist Ramona Jan.

While Mario was originally portrayed as a carpenter in Donkey Kong, the duo of Mario and Luigi in Mario Bros. were styled as Italian plumbers by Miyamoto, on the suggestion of a colleague.

The Canadian comedy duo Wayne and Shuster parodied Julius Caesar in their 1958 sketch Rinse the Blood off My Toga.

The approach of the show, portraying a pathologist as having an active role in the crime investigation, was parodied by British comedic duo French and Saunders as " Witless Silence ".

Fetchit's stage name was parodied by the late 1960s / early 1970s counterculture comedy duo The Congress of Wonders, portraying a young Russian lad named Stepney Fetchnik on their September 1970 comedy album Revolting.

Handsome Boy Modeling School was a conceptual hip hop duo that parodied and acted as a commentary on vain, consumerist, materialistic, and self-absorbed members of upper class society, such as supermodels and people from old money.

The " egg portion " of the video was parodied by comedic duo French and Saunders in a collaborative effort, featuring a spoof of the " It's Oh So Quiet " and " Big Time Sensuality " videos as well.

At the time of their fame, the duo were often parodied in the British press and compared to the Fat Slags of the magazine Viz.

Though his career overlapped that of Willis in 1971-76, injuries and selection problems prevented them from forming the impressive duo that they might have been.

* Walls ( band ), an electronic indie duo based out of London consisting of Alessio Natalizia and Sam Willis

" In one episode of the series, when another student threatens to kill them, the duo uses this to their advantage, pretending to be exchange students named " Crevis and Bung-Head ".

During the first Peel series, each episode would end with a short, comedic scene of the duo leaving the scene of their most recent adventure in some unusual vehicle.

* Each episode of the Irwin Allen series The Time Tunnel ( less the few set in the future ) depicted the time-traveling duo arriving at the scene of an historic tragedy, days or hours before the event, and invariably failing in their attempts to prevent it.

For example, in one episode, the Muppets of Sesame Street appeared behind the duo, who told them, " How should we know how to get to Sesame Street?

He is more of a " shoot first, ask questions later " type, and is often the one to get the duo into the various scrapes in which they find themselves, although the character did mature slightly as the seasons passed ; he is also the one more likely to have his eye, or heart, distracted by a pretty girl, which proves to be the Achilles ' heel that leads the Dukes into trouble in several episode plots.

In December 2009, the duo guest starred in a 21st-season episode of The Simpsons that also featured Cooper, Peyton and Eli Manning.

( Martin Clunes could be considered the fourth person to have done all three roles, after sitting in Merton's usual seat in series 11, episode 4, but with his teammate being Men Behaving Badly co-star Neil Morrissey, the duo were given equal billing, with no captain.

The duo claimed they grew tired of upholding the tradition of having Kenny die in each episode, and regarded the character as a " prop ".

To promote the film they also appeared with several other Muppets on the 2011 Halloween episode of WWE Raw, with the duo offering their usual commentary from a skybox.

On the March 24, 2003 episode of Raw, Chief Morley announced that since the belts had not been defended in 30 days due to William Regal's health problems, the duo would be stripped of the title.

* In one episode of the MTV series Beavis and Butt-head, when the duo are watching a music video with people riding motorcycles, they say it's like a James Bond film with Beavis adding " They need that short guy Handjob to come out.

Created by the Uncanny X-Men writer / artist duo of Chris Claremont and John Byrne, they were heavily influenced by a 1966 episode of the British television series The Avengers (" A Touch of Brimstone ").

* George and Donald McDiarmid ( played by Docherty and Hunter ) were a surreal duo who would appear in almost every episode.

In 2006, the first episode of series five saw the duo abseil down the side of the 22-storey high London Studios, where the show was filmed.

Crag sets out, because he has not had his own episode yet, to foil the duo and save Boyboy by dressing himself up as Man Friend and Jimmy as Boy Pal to save Boyboy.

* Appeared in the Chuck episode " Chuck Versus the Fake Name ", playing half of the mobster duo Matty and Scotty with fellow Sopranos actor Louis Lombardi.

In the second season episode " Don't Mess Around with Jim ," Ralph and Maxwell learn that they are not the first duo who received a uniform.

On 8 January 2011 5 years after the end of Da Bungalow was smashed and blow into bits and pieces, The duo return to Saturday morning to host a new look 13 part series called Dick and Dom's Funny Business shown on BBC2 and each episode a star guest appears on each show.

The duo also appeared together in an episode of Sister, Sister with Tia and Tamera Mowry, a few episodes of The Steve Harvey show, and they appeared in a special two-part episode of Cousin Skeeter.

The duo wrestled as a tag team during a dark match before the January 9, 2006 episode of Raw.

The duo was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where they sang their most famous song on an episode in which Oprah featured the top hits of the 1970s.

The climax is set upon a stage dramatization of the Mahabharata, particularly the enactment of the Draupadi Cheer-Haran episode, which is turned on its head with the duo and the group following them inserting themselves into the scene.

This episode spawned several " sequels " ( II, III, IV, V, and VI ), all of which featured the duo.