The Family Guy episode " North By North Quahog " not only parodies the film's title but also recreates a few of the film's iconic scenes including the biplane attack and the chase across Mt Rushmore.

AC / DC has a song in the Australian version of their 1977 album Let There Be Rock, the title of which parodies Rhapsody in Blue, called " Crabsody in Blue.

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.

* The title " Curse of Fatal Death " is a tautology ( it being impossible to have a death that is not fatal ), which parodies the sometimes melodramatic and tautological titles of the original series ( an example being the 1976 serial The Deadly Assassin ).

This included the title piece, an obscene parody of Alexander Pope's " An Essay on Man "; " Veni Creator: or, The Maid's Prayer ", which is original ; the " Universal Prayer ", an obscene parody of Pope's poem of the same name, and " The Dying Lover to his Prick ", which parodies " A Dying Christian to his Soul " by Pope.

Most of the title banners consisted of parodies of famous films such as Rocky and Fight Club and a tagline was introduced ; Be thankful she's not your little sister.

The title parodies that of Vonnegut's 1965 novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater.

In the animated prime time series, The Critic, Jay Sherman reviews a sub par movie titled " Dirty Harry K-9-Robo-Cop-and-a-half 2 " in which the title parodies numerous " buddy cop " films.

More pieces appeared in Punch, such as the series titled " Modern Types ", and parodies of well-known contemporary authors under the title of " Mr Punch's Prize Novels ", and within four months he had been appointed as one of the editorial staff and regular contributors, his writings for Punch stretching over thirty years, from 1889 to 1919.

Along with the film's title and its central characters, there are other characters seen briefly who are parodies of real-life prominent figures in hip-hop:

* My Bunny Lies Over The Sea, a short ‘ Bugs Bunny ’ cartoon film whose title parodies the song, was released by Warner Brothers in 1948.

* In his late-1980s anti -“ sellout ” anthem, “ This Note ’ s for You ” ( the title of which parodies Budweiser ’ s “ This Bud ’ s for You ” ad campaign ), Neil Young says he “ ain ’ t singing for Spuds ” in the title track.

The scene parodies the title sequence of the American television drama series The Sopranos, and features Alabama 3's song " Woke Up This Morning ," which is also used in The Sopranos < nowiki >'</ nowiki > title sequence.

The character appears in a graphic novel detailing the eventual death of former ally Mar-Vell due to cancer, humorous parodies of the Marvel Universe in a one-shot publication and the title What If ?, and aids superheroine Dazzler against the villain the Absorbing Man.

The title parodies previous claims that the college was like a moth, burning its wings as it tried to escape the light of the University of Wales.

The series ' popularity has led to parodies of it in other media, including being referenced in the title of a controversial South Park episode of the same name, which also featured an animated depiction of Kelly.

Much of the plot and many of the technical aspects of the episode, as well as the title, are direct parodies of the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock movie North by Northwest ; in addition, the episode makes use of Bernard Herrmann's theme music from that film.

The title of the show parodies the title of the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond.

The title parodies Broadcast News, which was written by Simpsons executive producer James L. Brooks.

These parodies were given titles like Son-Am-Bull-Ole for a parody of Bellini's La somnambula, the invented title being a humorous reference to the violinist Ole Bull.

About this time, in conjunction with his brothers John Wedderburn and Robert Wedderburn, he wrote a number of sacred parodies on popular ballads, which were published apparently at first as broadsheet ballads, and were afterwards collected and issued in 1567, under the title Ane Compendious Booke of Godly and Spirituall Songs collected out of sundrie partes of the Scripture, with sundrie of other Ballates changed out of prophaine sanges, for avoyding of sinne and harlotrie, with augmentation of sundrie gude and godlie Ballates not contenit in the first editioun.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

New music and title sequences accompanied this set change, following the look of newly relaunched BBC One bulletins.

Bulletins on BBC World News and BBC One also introduced similar graphics and title sequences on the same day.

News 24 updated the title colours slightly to match those of BBC One bulletins in time for the 50th anniversary of BBC television news on 5 July 2004.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

A BBC history series What the Romans Did for Us, written and presented by Adam Hart-Davis and first broadcast in 2000, takes its title from John Cleese's rhetorical question " What have the Romans ever done for us?

In 1964, the BBC filmed a 6-episode TV adaptation under the title Smuggler's Bay, starring future Doctor Who stars Frazer Hines and Patrick Troughton as John Trenchard and Ratsey, respectively.

Star Trek: The Animated Series was the only Star Trek series not to feature a cold open (" teaser ") and started directly with the title sequence ( although some overseas versions of the original live action series, such as that run by the BBC in the U. K. in the 1960s and 1970s, ran the teaser after the credits ).

* Sweeney Todd ( 2006 ), a BBC television drama version with a screenplay written by Joshua St Johnston and starring Ray Winstone in the title role and Essie Davis as Mrs Lovett.

" The Sentinel " was written in 1948 for a BBC competition ( in which it failed to place ) and was first published in the magazine 10 Story Fantasy in 1951, under the title " Sentinel of Eternity ".

By the late fifties, he regularly appeared on television: as Sean Connery's trainer in boxing drama Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1957 ), with Charlie Drake in the sitcom Drake's Progress ( BBC, 1957 ) and a title role in Three ' Tough ' Guys ( ITV, 1957 ), in which he played a bungling criminal.

In 2002 Enfield returned to the BBC with Celeb, a new series based on the comic strip of the same title in Private Eye, as the ageing rockstar Gary Bloke.

The retrospective show Before the Fringe, broadcast during the early years of BBC 2, took its title from this production.

He played the title role in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of The Life and Death of King John ( 1984 ).

From these events, Grenoble was styled by the Free French Forces the title of Capital of the Maquis on the antennas of the BBC.

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On the strength of this he was invited by the BBC to take part in a programme for the armed forces, Ack-Ack, Beer-Beer ( the title taken from the then-current phonetic alphabet ), which he compered.

Pertwee is best known for a series of famous roles, firstly his 18-year stint on BBC Radio as Chief Petty Officer Pertwee in The Navy Lark, secondly his role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, in which he played the third incarnation of the Doctor from 1970 to 1974 and thirdly as the title character in the series Worzel Gummidge.

) Troughton's other notable film and television roles included Kettle in Chance of a Lifetime ( 1950 ), Sir Andrew Ffoulkes in The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1955 ), Vickers in the episode entittled Strange Partners in the Invisible Man ( the ITP Series also starred one of Pat's future Doctor Who co-stars, Deborah Watling, as Sally ) ( 1958 ), Phineus in Jason and the Argonauts ( 1963 ), Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop ( 1962 ), Paul of Tarsus ( BBC 1960, title role ), Dr. Finlay's Casebook ( BBC 1962, semiregular ).

The title of the show comes from a sentence commonly used by BBC newsreaders following an on-air flub: " I'm sorry, I'll read that again.

Jonathan Miller has twice directed Michael Hordern in the title role for English television, the first for the BBC's Play of the Month in 1975 and the second for the BBC Television Shakespeare in 1982.