Li ' l Abner also features a comic strip-within-the-strip: Fearless Fosdick is a parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy.

In a dual performance he also plays the dictator " Adenoid Hynkle ", a parody of Hitler which Maland sees as revealing the " megalomania, narcissism, compulsion to dominate, and disregard for human life " of the German dictator.

* John Woo directed a parody film of Chaplin's " The Kid " called Hua ji shi dai ( 1981 ), also known as " Laughing Times.

Love is also self-identified feminist, and has been noted throughout her career for her subversive feminism and " self-conscious parody of female sex roles ".

The unbalanced and unpolished poetic meter and line length parody the limerick, and the clerihew in form also parodies the eulogy.

The country is supposedly capitalist, shares a border with a totalitarian regime, North Elbonia " a parody of North Korea and Iran ," and is also shown to share a border with a country called " Kneebonia " with which relations are bad.

Discordianism is a religion and parody religion based on the worship of Eris ( also known as Discordia ), the Greco-Roman goddess of chaos.

Fickman also worked on the musical Reefer Madness, a parody of the anti-marijuana propaganda film of the same name which was turned into a feature film on Showtime.

Having a predilection for self-deprecating parody, he once appeared in an advertisement for Kit Kat chocolate bars, miming a piece of chamber music on the violin, in an upper-class tea-room, and he also appeared in an ad for Walkers where he gets his crisps stolen.

" A number of original recordings also were released in this way in the 1970s and early 1980s, such as " Gall in the Family Fare " ( a parody of All in the Family ), a single entitled " Makin ' Out ," the octuple-grooved track " It's a Super Spectacular Day ," which had eight possible endings, the spoken word Meet the Staff insert, and a six-track, 30-minute Mad Disco EP ( from the 1980 Special of the same title ) that included a disco version of " It's a Gas.

During the magazine's most successful years, parody of every kind was a mainstay ; surrealist content was also central to its appeal.

MIT also had developed their own influential system, the Incompatible Timesharing System ( named in parody of the Compatible Time-Sharing System, developed at MIT for a modified IBM 7094 ).

Such a title can immediately communicate both that what follows is a parody and also which work is about to be parodied, making any further " setup " ( introductory explanation ) unnecessary.

He also helped to design a computer-based parody of himself available for download off Channel 4's website called Desktop Richie.

With his brother Ivan Raimi ( and crediting himself as Celia Abrams ), Sam Raimi also wrote Easy Wheels ( 1989 ), a parody of the Outlaw biker film genre.

Roger also visits Space Quest X: Latex Babes of Estros ( whose title is a parody of Infocom's game Leather Goddesses of Phobos ) and Space Quest I ; in the latter, the graphics and music revert to the style of the original game and Roger is threatened by a group of monochromatic bikers who consider Roger's 256 colors pretentious ( or comment on other graphics modes if played in EGA or Monochrome ).

He also wrote comedy songs, including " Purple Aeroplane ", which was a parody of The Beatles ' song " Yellow Submarine ".

The play is similar to the film The Great Dictator ( 1940 ), which also featured an absurd parody of Hitler by Charlie Chaplin.

New supplements covering new genres and specific objects of parody were also added.

Gombrowicz's work is also well known for its playful allusions and satire, as when in " Trans-Atlantic ", a section of the text takes the form of a stylized 19th century diary, followed by a parody of a traditional fable.

Gilbert and Sullivan also inserted into Act II an idea they first considered for a one-act opera parody in 1876 about burglars meeting police, and their conflict escaping the notice of the father of a large family of girls.

Fionn also appears as a character in Flann O ' Brien's comic novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, in passages that parody the style of Irish myths.

A longtime critic of the Huntingtonian paradigm, and an outspoken proponent of Arab issues, Edward Said ( 2004 ) also claimed that not only is the Clash of Civilisations thesis a " reductive and vulgar notion " ( p. 226 ), but it is also an illustration “ of the purest invidious racism, a sort of parody of Hitlerian science directed today against Arabs and Muslims ” ( p. 293 ).

" His most famous film, Le Voyage dans la lune ( 1902 ), a whimsical parody of Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, featured a combination of live action and animation, and also incorporated extensive miniature and matte painting work.

A parody of Metastasian opera-seria it featured dazzling parodies of the high flown and emotive aria's found in that genre, as well as bold and innovative orchestrations, including the first known use of three tympani.

The 1989 film UHF featured a " Weird Al " Yankovic parody music video, " Money for Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies *," combining " The Ballad of Jed Clampett " and Dire Straits ' " Money for Nothing.

A parody of a track on the album was that by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band's 1968 song " We Are Normal ", which featured a line from " The Red Telephone ", viz ' We are normal and we want our freedom / We are normal and we dig Bert Weedon '.

The title of the fourth Roxy album, Country Life, was intended as a parody of the well-known British rural magazine of the same name, and the visually punning front cover photo featured two models ( two German fans, Constanze Karoli — sister of Can's Michael Karoli — and Eveline Grunwald ) clad only in semi-transparent lingerie standing in a forest.

Non-candy products featured in Seinfeld include Rold Gold pretzels ( whose advertisements at the time featured Jason Alexander ), Kenny Rogers Roasters ( a chicken restaurant chain ), Oreo Cookies, Triscuits, Ben & Jerry's, H & H Bagels, Baskin-Robbins, Dockers, Drake's Coffee Cakes, Ring Dings, Pepsi, Mello Yello, Snapple, Clearly Canadian, Bosco Chocolate Syrup, Kix ( cereal ), Cadillac, Saab, Ford Escort, Tyler Chicken ( a parody of Tyson Chicken ), Specialized Bicycles, Nike, BMW, Volvo, Toyota, Tupperware, Calvin Klein, Klein Bicycles, Ovaltine, Yoo-hoo, Arby's, TV Guide, Trump Tower, Glide Floss, Gore-Tex, Entenmann's, J. Peterman clothing catalog, and the board games Risk, Boggle, Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, and Battleship.

* MAD Magazines X-Men parody " ECH !- Men " featured a Sentinel ( called " Sentinent ") with a huge posterior.

Round the Horne featured a parody a week, several catchphrases, and many memorable characters.

The genre featured in a parody hit song by Jasper Carrott called, " Funky Moped ".

The 1998 Animaniacs episode " Star Warners ", which spoofed Star Wars, featured Slappy Squirrel portraying a parody of Obi-Wan Kenobi as " Slappy Wanna Nappy ".

Mystery Incorporated episode " Art of Darkness " featured a parody of Nico named Eeko.

magazine featured his parody of the Archie characters in its Goodman Beaver story, Goodman Goes Playboy, which was illustrated by frequent collaborator, Will Elder.

A parody of the sybaritic Playboy lifestyle, the article featured various characters drinking, living out of wedlock, stealing cars, becoming pregnant, attending an orgy, and selling their soul to Satan.

Castellaneta chose the title I Am Not Homer as a parody of Leonard Nimoy's famous first autobiography I Am Not Spock, as well as to show that most of the comedy featured " is not the typical Homer comedy.

All You Need is Cash, a 1978 American-British mockumentary film written and directed by Eric Idle, featured the satirical history of the The Beatles | Beatles parody " The Rutles ".

The show also featured meta references: an awareness that the viewer was actually watching a parody.

The segment " Dial M for Monkey: Barbequor ", aired during the first season, was banned by Cartoon Network shortly after its first broadcast in the United States, because it featured a character called the Silver Spooner ( a parody of the Silver Surfer ) that stereotyped gay men.

TV-69 featured many videos by punk and indie-label bands and had several locally produced videos (" Clone Love " by a local parody band, and a Dinosaur Jr song ).

* The 1960s animated television series The Flintstones once featured a parody of Sullivan as " Ed Sulleyrock / Sulleystone ".

One technique they used was to build premises into " promos " for shows that would never run ( such as " Melvin and Howards ", a parody of the movie Melvin and Howard which featured Melvin Dummar, Howard Hughes, Howard Cosell, Curly Howard, and Senator Howard Baker on a road trip singing old tunes ).

Later shows built a tight theme, sometimes acting as a metaparody — such as the Emmy-winning " Moral Majority " episode where advertisers and special interest groups forced significant changes to SCTV's programming ; " Zontar ", a parody of the Larry Buchanan film Zontar, The Thing from Venus which featured an alien race seeking to kidnap SCTV's on-air talent for " a nine-show cycle plus three best-ofs " ( which was the actual deal NBC worked out with SCTV that season ); and an ambitious parody of The Godfather featuring an all-out network war over pay television between SCTV, CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS-the last featured mafia-style hits on the sets of The Today Show, Three's Company, and The NFL Today as well as an extended sequence with guest star John Marley as an off-beat Leonard Bernstein, spoofing his Godfather role of Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz.