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Anaximenes was hostile to Theopompus, whom he sought to discredit with a libelous parody, Trikaranos, published in Theopompus ' style and under his name, attacking Athens, Sparta, and Thebes.
Kmoch was in fact a great admirer of Nimzowitsch, and the subject of the parody himself was amused at the effort.
Capp was just as likely to parody himself ; his self-caricature made frequent, tongue-in-cheek appearances in Li ' l Abner.
The gag was often at his own expense, as in the above 1951 sequence showing Capp's interaction with " fans " ( see excerpt ), or in his 1955 Disneyland parody, " Hal Yappland.
Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.
* Another parody was used on the episode of Saturday Night Live William Shatner hosted in 1986, called " Ollie North, The Mute Marine.
Chaplin made 14 films for Essanay, the last of which was a parody of Carmen named Burlesque on Carmen ( 1916 ).
After quarterback Jay Cutler came down with an injury in 2011, where the Bears lost 5 straight games and was knocked out of playoff contention, his absence was bemoaned in a song parodying the hit Baby Come Back as a parody called Cutty Come Back.
The value of the ColecoVision as a 1980s pop culture icon was discussed on VH1's I Love The 80's Strikes Back .< ref name =" Ilove80s "> Several television series have aired episodes that reference or parody the console: South Park, Family Guy and Everybody Hates Chris.
Through the 1980s and 1990s, Jones was painting cartoon and parody art, sold through animation galleries by his daughter's company, Linda Jones Enterprises.
President King, the leader of Walden College, was originally intended as a parody of Kingman Brewster, President of Yale, but all that remains of that is a certain physical resemblance.
One long-running feature of the show was " Captain Fantastic ", featuring a parody superhero ( Jason ) in improbable, even macabre adventures against villainess Mrs. Black ( Coffey ).
The most notable example of these was Henry Fielding's Shamela ( 1741 ), written as a parody of Pamela.
It was not until February 1973 that The New York Times first used the term, describing how the " moods and tensions " in the British private-eye parody Pulp ( 1972 film ) | Pulp came " out of the collective depths of the film noir ".
The dim witted, egotistical host Mike Moore was a parody of current television hosts and journalists.
The 1982 Steve Martin comedy Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was shot in black-and-white as a parody of a 1940s film noir and included footage of actors from the film-noir era such as Humphrey Bogart, Burt Lancaster, and others spliced in with the modern actors.
MacFarlane has said that Lucasfilm was extremely helpful when the Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works.
Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia.
According to Murphy ’ s parody, when the television cameras were turned off, the sweet Gumby reverted to his true self: a cigar chomping, irascible celebrity who was highly demanding of the production executives.
The exaggerated walk, with one hand on the small of his back and his torso bent almost 90 degrees at the waist was a parody of a fad from the 1880s and 1890s.
Following retirement from professional football, he developed a career in the media, initially on BBC Radio 5 Live and as a football pundit before replacing Des Lynam as the BBC's anchorman for football coverage, including their flagship football television programme Match of the Day, and as a team captain on the acerbic sports game show, They Think It's All Over from 1995 to 2003, where he was heavily ( though affectionately ) ridiculed for being a " goal hanger ", described as " lethal from twelve inches "a parody of Lineker's short-range scoring prowess.
A federal appeals court denied the plaintiffs an injunction ( Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin ) against publication on the basis that the book was parody and therefore protected by the First Amendment.
Mr. Newman is listed as a comedian, so it is probable that this version was the first parody of the original Gospel song.

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The strip began as a specific parody of the comic book itself, set loosely within the office structure of Dilbert, with Hörnell doing an emulation of Adams ' cartooning style.
The game cover itself is a parody of Army of Darkness, while Duke poses as Ash Williams.
"itself a parody of John Cleese's " What have the Romans ever done for us?
* In the Not The Nine O ' Clock News sketch on the new film The Life of Christ ( itself a reference to Python's 1979 Life of Brian ), the Bishop ( Rowan Atkinson ) who is being harangued for this parody of Pythonism professes himself surprised at the furor, saying: " Well, I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
This form is often used as a parody of metaphor itself: " If we can hit that bull's-eye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards ...
Teasing is the reactionary side of the comic, it limits itself to a shallow parody of physical appearance ; the side-effect of teasing is that it humanizes and draws sympathy for the powerful individual towards which is directed.
In their defense, the Social Text editors said they believed that " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity " " was the earnest attempt of a professional scientist to seek some kind of affirmation from postmodern philosophy for developments in his field " and that " its status as parody does not alter, substantially, our interest in the piece, itself, as a symptomatic document.
Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.
Aside from the text itself, the book includes five elements that parody common features of mass-market books:
In February 1995, a parody website calling itself " People Eating Tasty Animals " registered the domain name " peta. org ".
F. W. Dupee ( 1990, p. IX ) defines " Steinese " as " gnomic, repetitive, illogical, sparsely punctuated ... a scandal and a delight, lending itself equally to derisory parody and fierce denunciation.
These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictitious setting, or to parody the documentary form itself.
He only appeared in the episode " In Like Blunt " ( the title itself is a parody of In Like Flint ).
The segment's title likely derives from the DC Comics superhero organization The Justice League and its sanitized animated cartoon version, Super Friends, though the team itself was clearly a parody of Marvel's Avengers as the three main characters were loosely based on Marvel Comics characters.
Each year, a local sporting group which calls itself " Coots Unlimited " -- a parody of Ducks Unlimited — holds a fundraising event with proceeds to rebuild local wildlife habitat.
Little Orphan Annie lent itself easily to parody, which was taken up by both Walt Kelly in Pogo ( as " Little Arf ' n Nonnie " and later " Lulu Arfin ' Nanny ") and by Al Capp in Li ' l Abner, where Punjab became Punjbag, an oleaginous slob.
This event was subsequently referenced in The Rutles song Shangri-La off their 1996 album The Rutles Archaeology, itself a parody of The Beatles Anthology.
While the Sledge-O-Matic act is an example of physical prop comedy, the act itself ( and even its name ) is a parody of ads for the Ronco Veg-O-Matic, a kitchen appliance that was heavily advertised on American television from the mid-1960s through the 1970s.
This featured his most successful chart single, " Amityville ( The House on the Hill )," a parody song named in reference to the film The Amityville Horror ( itself based on alleged supernatural activities surrounding the DeFeo murder case ) was a # 12 hit in the UK Singles Chart, and hit the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U. S. in 1986.
The first of several key Turtles singles co-written by Garry Bonner and Alan Gordon, " Happy Together ", seemed almost a parody of itself, and had already been rejected by countless performers.
* In author Zee Edgell's Beka Lamb, the title character and her friend Toycie Qualo sing the full version of the original song, Land of the Gods ( of which the two opening and closing lines are mentioned in the story ), while parodying the political meetings then being held by the PIP ( itself a parody of the PUP ) in Belize City.
Various other pop icons were parodied in the background, such as the Archie Comics gang playing nude volleyball, various incarnations of James Bond in the ship's casino ( itself an homage to Peter Sellers's famous Casino Royale parody ), a Sierra staffer dressed as Sailor Moon, and porn icon Ron Jeremy walking around naked.
A few operettas exhibit melodrama in the sense of music played under spoken dialogue, for instance, Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore ( itself a parody of melodramas in the modern sense ) has a short " melodrame " ( reduced to dialogue alone in many productions ) in the second act ; Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld opens with a melodrama delivered by the character of " Public Opinion "; and other pieces from operetta and musicals may be considered melodramas, such as the " Recit and Minuet " in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer.
Another episode of The Honeymooners, delivered one of the best known Question references – a parody of the show itself, in one of the so-called " Original 39 " episodes of the timeless situation comedy.

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