The program contained spoofs of I Love Lucy and The Untouchables.

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 a 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by both Desi Arnaz and Desi Arnaz, Jr., the younger Arnaz played Ricky Ricardo and Gilda Radner played Lucy in spoofs of supposed ill-fated pilots for I Love Lucy.

The game spoofs James Bond movies with levels mimicking their titles, with level names like " License to Bubble " ( after Licence to Kill ), " A View to a Spill " ( after A View to a Kill ), " Leak and Let Die " ( after Live and Let Die ) and " From Three Mile Island with Love " ( after From Russia with Love ).

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

Fred appears in a 2007 GEICO Insurance commercial which spoofs the money-saving methods of a blue-collar working man and how he and wife, Wilma, were able to afford a necklace " with huge rocks.

Such a portrayal spoofs the cat-stroking James Bond villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, whose forearms and hands were initially the only features that were revealed to the audience, while the rest of the body was obscured ( M. A. D.

Although there were several videos with original characters, there were also spoofs of Rambo, James Bond, and Dirty Harry.

Some were obviously spoofs:

His demeanor is a send up of Basil Fawlty, just as all the hotel segments were direct spoofs of the British sitcom Fawlty Towers.

There were also spoofs from TV programs such as Baywatch and The X-Files.

The Water Pistols were a rock band whose one novelty record released in 1976 spoofs the then-current punk rock movement.

Some plots were familiar Flintstones stories while others consisted of new misadventures with witches and werewolves, as well as spoofs of late 1970s fads.

The initial lineup includes Star Wars XXX: A Porn Parody, to be followed by spoofs of the popular TV shows Law & Order, Starsky & Hutch, and The Addams Family, as well as classic movies like Grease, A Clockwork Orange and The Godfather.

An easter egg is to be found in the tutorial level for Doc McCoy: When he builds his scarecrow on the pier, a sequence occurs which spoofs a scene from The Empire Strikes Back.

Judy Garland spoofs a movie star who can only be cast in Oscar winning dramas, but wants to play " sexy " roles ( a la Greer Garson, or Katharine Hepburn ) giving an interview to dancing reporters about " her next picture ": a bio-pic of Madame Cremantante ( the " inventor of the safety pin ").

The other change, born in the Texaco days and evolving from his earlier news spoofs, proved his most enduring, premiering December 6, 1942.

These film titles reflect earlier horror spoofs by Abbott and Costello.

The play itself spoofs Shakespeare's own Romeo and Juliet, written earlier.

* List of television show spoofs in Mad

These pirated performances took many forms, including burlesques, productions with men playing women's roles and vice-versa, spoofs, variety acts, Minstrel show versions, all-black and Catholic productions, German, Yiddish and other foreign-language versions, performances on boats or by church choirs, and productions starring casts of children.

Widely popular in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, the show was given one of the highest budgets in BBC history to create detailed spoofs and satires of popular culture, movies, celebrities and art.

The show also regularly featured spoofs of BBC children's programming.

He includes offensive jokes in his speeches and his opponent, John Armstrong, shows a sketch from Krusty's show making fun of the UN, in which he spoofs the French, Jamaicans, and San Francisco's gay community.

References to The Alamo show up in spoofs or homages.

Forbidden Broadway, Volume 3 is the third album released to accompany Gerard Alessandrini's off-Broadway show Forbidden Broadway, which spoofs Broadway's latest musicals.

The 2 disc DVD edition has a wealth of bonus material and footage shot over the past 20 years in a 388 minute extravaganza that includes spoofs and tributes, famous fan favorites, the history of the show and various specials and spinoffs.

The extensive use of trick gadgets in Alphonse's hairdressing salon ( used to communicate with the gang's mastermind ) spoofs the secret gadgets used in the James Bond spy films of the Sixties, while the gimmick of having the mastermind conceal his identity throughout the film ( he is never seen on screen ) spoofs the character of Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who was originally only an unseen voice.

Due to the success of the James Bond film series the Italian film industry made large amounts of imitations and spoofs in the Eurospy genre from 1964-1967.

Braun's movies differ markedly from the traditional so-called stag films made from 1916 onwards ; storylines featuring Viking invasions, James Bond spoofs, and exotic locales such as Caribbean islands, the Dutch castle of Groeneveld and an Amsterdam art gallery, not to mention props such as chocolate cake, champagne and bananas contribute to a more playful and relaxed atmosphere than commonly seen in this inherently limited genre.

The film spoofs the cult of celebrity and experiences film producers can undergo when attempting to get a movie made in Hollywood.

The film is one of several spoofs that have been made of the canonical Sherlock Holmes.

A lifelong fan of science fiction " B-movies ", Ackerman had cameos in over 210 films, including bit parts in many monster movies and science fiction films ( The Howling, Innocent Blood, Return of the Living Dead Part II ), more traditional " imagi-movies " The Time Travelers, Future War, spoofs and comedies ( Amazon Women on the Moon, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold, The Wizard of Speed and Time ), and at least one major music video ( Michael Jackson's Thriller ).

The piece is one of Gilbert's humorous spoofs of the law and the legal profession, based on his short experience as a barrister.

John Scalzi's novel Redshirts ( 2012 ) both spoofs and pays homage to the notion of disposable low-ranking crew members on a Star Trek-style starship.

A Donald Duck cartoon that spoofs the severity of the Nazi dictatorship and the effect it had on the people directly affected by it

) to spoofs on popular music artists ( Madonna, Bananarama, ABBA, and The Corrs being favourites ).

He often wears a jacket without lapels, based loosely either on the Nehru jacket or on the Mao suit, a feature which is used in spoofs like the Austin Powers series, though in his early two appearances on film he wore a black business suit.

He formed a double act with Neil Mullarkey, another former Footlights member, and the duo mostly did satirical spoofs of television shows ' title sequences to accompanying music, several times on television.

As the website announces, the comic strip " spoofs suburbia, trashes tacky TV shows and offers absurdist commentary on everything from hosing down spider monkeys to the latest conspiracy theory.

In the 1970s and ' 80s the comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre released a number of satirical record albums ; several featured spoofs of old-time radio featuring the character Nick Danger, Third Eye, who was loosely based on Sam Spade and Johnny Dollar.

Between 1983 and 1984, Kaufman wrote comedic articles and spoofs on spec for National Lampoon, along with colleague and friend Paul Proch.

The 2008 video game Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space spoofs on the Bad Dudes intro in the episode " Chariots of the Dogs ".

The name of the film is a play on the 1959 World War II drama Up Periscope and the film spoofs several titles in the genre of films about submarines including The Hunt for Red October.

The film received a 64 % ' Fresh ' rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on a total of 116 compiled reviews, with the consensus being " Despite the formulaic, fluffy storyline, this movie is surprisingly fun to watch, mostly due to its high energy and how it humorously spoofs cheerleading instead of taking itself too seriously.

The Simpsons characters, Itchy & Scratchy, the featured cartoon on the Krusty the Clown Show, are spoofs of Tom and Jerry – a " cartoon within a cartoon.

A satire on politics and foreign affairs that spoofs America's penchant for lending billions of dollars to needy countries, it centers on Sally Adams, a well-meaning but ill-informed socialite widow who is appointed United States Ambassador to the fictional European country of Lichtenburg.

In 2002 the critically acclaimed Look Around You, a series of 10-minute 1970s school science video spoofs, debuted on BBC Two in which Serafinowicz played a scientist.

The complaints are legion and have inspired spoofs on the voicemail experience.

The sketch also spoofs Elaine Stritch Live at Liberty in which she refers to her feat, as a young stage actress and understudy for Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam, where she had to check in with Merman at half hour to curtain in New York, then commute to Connecticut for the out of town tryout of Pal Joey, and on some days make the round trip twice when there was a matinee and evening performance of both shows.

The story uses a style typical to many parodies and spoofs of the genre, most notably Bored of the Rings, encompassing not only high and sometimes abstruse humor but middle and low as well, through punning references and plays on words designed to either make light of the original characters ' names or referencing pop-culture touchpoints.