TVSquad ranked Shatner's " Get a life " sketch alongside " The Last Voyage ..." as one of the most famous parodies of the show.

The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition.

The show was known for outrageous physical slapstick, sometimes absurdist comedy, and humorous parodies.

" The pre-empted shows were parodies of current TV shows ( e. g. The A-Team Makes One Cup of Coffee Last Five Hours, " Hanging Out " or " Malls ", 1984 ), movies ( e. g. Top Gun Gets Put on Latrine-Cleaning Duty, " Discipline ", 1986 ), or other pop culture icons ( e. g. Boy George Without Make-up, " Halloween ", 1984 ), and were often relevant to the theme of the current episode ( e. g. the pre-empted show for " Safety " ( 1981 ) was Hit and Run on Sesame Street ).

The show, as described by Anthony Hayward of The Independent, was " a cocktail of comedy sketches, playlets, songs and parodies, a long-winded Corbett monologue and a singing star, sandwiched between the opening and closing news summaries.

The show had its origins in the University of Oxford student drama community, especially in the musical parodies of Philip Pope, which were regularly featured on Radio Active.

The show regularly incorporates satirical parodies of adult-oriented topics and references to pop culture, including, but not limited to, parodies of South Park, Jeopardy !, The Sopranos, Beavis and Butt-head, the Indiana Jones adventures, the James Bond series of films, The Adventures of Tintin, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, The Jerry Springer Show, Oprah, Law & Order, Charlie Rose, Antiques Roadshow, Mystery !, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, Macbeth, and That ' 70s Show.

The show's production company TriStar Television refused, while Mirkin responded: " The thing about these parodies is they don't hurt a show.

While these shows continued to incorporate the broad range of television parodies the show was known for, they also had a strong narrative thread which set the show apart from other sketch comedy shows of the time.

The show contained his popular music parodies ( such as Unisex Chip Shop, a Billy Bragg tribute which he performed with Billy Bragg at the 2005 Glastonbury Festival ), " three men in a pub " jokes ( including one in the style of Geoffrey Chaucer ) and deconstructions of television themes such as Countdown and The Magic Roundabout.

In a segment that parodies the Popeye cartoons in the style of It's a Wonderful Life, Popeye and Bluto have opened up a bank together in shot that would show what the world would look like without Wimpy.

*" Off the Record ", a sketch that itself parodies TSN's Off The Record sports talk show, with Ferguson playing the role of host Michael Landsberg.

I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue is a panel game that spoofs many common elements of such shows, including the unimportance of scoring, while Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive is a scripted comedy series that parodies the workings of a panel show.

In later TV series of the show, there have been parodies of songs, parodying the song, the singer and the music videos.

The programme also parodies the daytime Channel 4 game show Deal or No Deal, with Culshaw impersonating Noel Edmonds and frequently mocking both the repetitive nature of the programme and fact that the show's excitement is derived entirely from the opening of boxes.

The third novel of the series, In Viriconium, whose working title was By Gas Mask and Fire Hydrant, parodies Arthurian motifs and deconstructs the whole series to show that Viriconium is just a fiction: the protagonist Audsley King realizes this and at last can paint the real world, which is our own.

Robot Chicken has done multiple parodies of the show since then.

Haight-Ashbury Golden-Gate park poet Ashleigh Brilliant, later known for his series of epigrams on cards and in books called " pot-Shots ", has recently released a CD of his songs, parodies of old movie and show tunes about " life in the Haight ".

The show also featured parodies of many celebrities including Celine Dion, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Tommy Tune, Joan Rivers, Britney Spears, Ellen DeGeneres, Renée Zellweger, Jodie Foster, Rachel Ray, and Short's wife, actress Nancy Dolman.

* In the cartoon show Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers episode " Double ' O Dale ", which parodies the Bond series, Dale is watching a spy movie, featuring a sidekick called Oddshoe, a small man but not allied with the villain nor sporting a hat and suit, but a Japanese traditional martial arts white robe with a black belt, also in the episode Throw Mummy in the Train, the villain throws his hat.

Chris Morris frequently parodies entirely separate channels, including " RokTV " ( spoofing MTV ); reporting on the fictitious and psychotically violent African-American rapper " Fur-Q "; and " Genutainment ", a segment which reports on a sheepdog averting a helicopter disaster ( a parody of the real-life rescue show 999 ).

Regarded as one of the Golden Age of Television's best quiz show parodies, the Honeymooners episode depicted Kramden spending a week intensively studying popular songs, only to blow the first question on the subject when he returned to play on the show.

Schools and community groups turn to the headquarters film library for documentary, art, and experimental films to show at libraries that sponsor local programs, and to organizations in member communities.

* 1974 – Punk Rock pioneers The Ramones play their first show in a local New York club named CBGB.

The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement for example, show the church used two terms for local church offices — presbyters ( seen by many as an interchangeable term with episcopos or overseer ) and deacon.

* Howie Carr writes extensively on local politics and is a radio talk show host and frequent TV commentator.

Holly's transition to rock continued when he opened for Bill Haley & His Comets at a local show organized by Eddie Crandall, the manager for Marty Robbins.

The parameters of each show must be tailored in accordance with local weather conditions at showtime: in clear weather the high show is performed ; in overcast conditions a low show is performed, and in limited visibility ( weather permitting ) the flat show is presented. The high show requires at least an ceiling and visibility of at least from the show's centerpoint.

It was recorded for years in the local history books that the land on which Columbus sits was donated by General Tipton ; however, a deed purporting to show a sale of the land was acquired in 2003 by Historic Columbus Indiana.

theory, do show the phenomena of Bell-inequality violations that are considered to invalidate EPR's preferred " local hidden-variables " type of explanation for the correlations

These experiments appear to show that the local realism idea is false.

To illustrate how this leads to the violation of local realism, we need to show that after Alice's measurement of S < sub > z </ sub > ( or S < sub > x </ sub >), Bob's value of S < sub > z </ sub > ( or S < sub > x </ sub >) is uniquely determined, and therefore corresponds to an " element of physical reality ".

The Cinematograph Films Act 1927 was passed in order to boost local production, requiring that cinemas show a certain percentage of British films.

K. is asked by the bank to show an Italian client around local places of cultural interest, but the Italian client, short of time, asks K. to take him only to the cathedral, setting a time to meet there.

Examples of other UK football fanzines include A Love Supreme, TOOFIF, 4000 Holes and War of the Monster Trucks ( a Sheffield Wednesday fanzine named after a local TV station elected not to show the final scenes of an unlikely cup victory ).

Anderson said that Bob Bell got arrested while getting shrubs and trees for the show by taking cuttings in a local park.

The title, however, caused problems in other countries, and so alternative, neutral names were chosen by local distributors: Raus aus Åmål (" getting out of Åmål "), Descubriendo el Amor (" discovering love "), Amigas de Colégio (" school friends "), Láska je láska (" love is love "), and Покажи мне любовь ( Pokazhi mne lyubov, " show me love ").

Around the same time he was living in Denver, Colorado, where he hosted a show at local radio station KHIH on Sunday nights called " Gary Coleman's Colorado High ", where he played light jazz and new age music.

The exhibits on show illustrate what Guernica has represented throughout its history for the Basques ( democracy, local legal system, freedom ) and what it stands for today all over the world ( human rights, peace ).

He appears on several Leon Russell recordings, credited as playing drums under the names " Teddy Jack Eddy " and " Sprunk ", a character he created when he was a cast member of a local television comedy show in Tulsa, Oklahoma, called The Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting on station KTUL ( which starred fellow Tulsan Gailard Sartain as " Dr. Mazeppa Pompazoidi ").

Samos excavations have revealed votive offerings, many of them late 8th and 7th centuries BC, which show that Hera at Samos was not merely a local Greek goddess of the Aegean: the museum there contains figures of gods and suppliants and other votive offerings from Armenia, Babylon, Iran, Assyria, Egypt, testimony to the reputation which this sanctuary of Hera enjoyed and to the large influx of pilgrims.

A local drummer in the audience, Scot Halpin, came up and played the drums for the rest of the show.

Craig's orchestra was also the first to broadcast over local radio station WSM-AM and enjoyed phenomenal success with a 12-year show on the NBC Radio Network.