* Space Quest: Incinerations-another original hi-res installment, with a more action-oriented approach in the traditional adventure genre and with a modern sensibility, which " completely re-imagines the whole Space Quest series as a sci-fi action thriller, focusing hard on character and drama while still managing to be just as tongue-in-cheek and funny as anything else that bears its name.

It was followed by Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger ( 1977 ), which disappointed some fans because of its tongue-in-cheek approach.

A 1946-1951 radio show called The Adventures of Sam Spade ( on ABC, CBS, and NBC ) starred Howard Duff ( and later Steve Dunne ) as " Sam Spade " and Lurene Tuttle as Spade's devoted secretary " Effie Perrine ", and took a considerably more tongue-in-cheek approach to the character.

The series starred Howard Duff ( and later, Steve Dunne ) as Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as his secretary Effie, and took a considerably more tongue-in-cheek approach to the character than the novel or movie.

Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat ( 1974 ) is one of the better known WiP films and has a cult following due to its tongue-in-cheek approach and casting of horror icon Barbara Steele as the warden.

A more recent Time Out Film Guide review states that Welles simply didn't care enough to make the narrative seamless: " the principal pleasure of The Lady from Shanghai is its tongue-in-cheek approach to story-telling.

Cuse said, " We were biting off more than we could chew ... we were trying to do a comedic action adventure Western, with tongue-in-cheek humor, genuine drama, plus science fiction.

A tongue-in-cheek bumper sticker associated with the school states, " We came for the sports.

His third single, a novelty song called " Over The Wall We Go " ( 1967 ) was written and produced by a young David Bowie, and it gained a degree of notoriety because of Bowie's tongue-in-cheek lyrics concerning escaped prisoners and incompetent cops, which satirised a rash of highly-publicised prison break-outs in the UK.

The song includes the lyric " We don't like Michael Jackson, we hate Depeche Mode, we don't care for Madonna or Kylie Minogue ", a tongue-in-cheek reference to the various ( false ) interpretations of the initialism " KMFDM " at the time, including " Kill Mother-Fucking Depeche Mode ", " Kidnap Madonna For Drug Money " and " Kylie Minogue Fans Don't Masturbate ".

" The concept came from director Jesse Peretz, who had originally pitched the idea to another band, and the Foo Fighters accepted as according to Grohl, " We had some difficulty finding a treatment that would suit the song, which is this short, tongue-in-cheek, ridiculously candy-coated pop tune.

On April 21, 2006, fans of David Hasselhoff launched a tongue-in-cheek website " Get Hasselhoff to Number 1 " in an attempt to get the 1989 hit " Looking for Freedom " to the top of the UK music charts through Internet downloads of the single.

1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates is a tongue-in-cheek reworking of the history of England.

On August 2, 2006, Hasselhoff proclaimed himself " King of the Internet " in a tongue-in-cheek advertisement commercial for Pipex.

Maltin actually made a tongue-in-cheek appearance in Gremlins 2, repeating his criticisms of the original on film, as an in-joke, before being throttled by the creatures ; he later gave the second film a more positive rating, three out of four stars.

Dungeon Keeper 2 tends to be much more tongue-in-cheek with various fourth wall-breaking jokes.

One of the major concepts of Postal 2 is that it is meant to be a " living world ", a simulation of a tongue-in-cheek off-kilter town.

I asked Quasimodo recently how he accomplished this, and he replied that he had painted his model `` a beautiful shade of red and then had her breathe on the canvas '', which was his typical tongue-in-cheek way of chiding me for my lack of sensitivity.

Capp was just as likely to parody himself ; his self-caricature made frequent, tongue-in-cheek appearances in Li ' l Abner.

Latifah's rap was decidedly anti-drug, while Coldcut's reggae dub-ish instrumental had tongue-in-cheek connotations of marijuana appreciation by virtue of its title.

Their reception of this element varied: Tim Soete of GameSpot felt that it was " morally questionable ", while the Game Revolution reviewer noted that it was " done in a tongue-in-cheek manner ," and he was " not personally offended ".

The idea of the Erdős number was created by friends as a humorous tribute to the enormous output of Erdős, one of the most prolific modern writers of mathematical papers, and has become well known in scientific circles as a tongue-in-cheek measurement of mathematical prominence.

This tongue-in-cheek attitude was carried over in humorous self-references in its games.

Though not a commercial success, Gilded was measured by rock critic Robert Christgau as " an ominous, obsessive, tongue-in-cheek country-rock synthesis, absorbing rural and urban, traditional and contemporary, at point of impact.

In 2004, Daisuke Inoue was awarded the tongue-in-cheek Ig Nobel Peace Prize for inventing karaoke, " thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other.

Science fiction writer Larry Niven has tongue-in-cheek theorized that, based on such abundance, Krypton was actually a Dyson sphere with a surface hundreds of times that of a mere planet.

According to the band's official website, this was intended as part of a tongue-in-cheek album called Nirvana Sings Nirvana that was aborted when Cobain died.

The path linking the north colleges to the center of campus was given the tongue-in-cheek name of " Virgin's Walk ".

In reference to this, one of Dial-A-Song's many slogans over the years was the tongue-in-cheek " Always Busy, Often Broken ".

A Taco Bell had long been a presence at the U. S. Army's Yongsan Garrison, which is off-limits to non-military people, and for a time there was a tongue-in-cheek grassroots campaign by non-Korean, non-military foreigners in Seoul to get another Taco Bell location.

The affair was referenced, tongue-in-cheek, in an episode of Moonlighting where Bogdanovich, being interviewed as himself, claims to have had an affair with Maddie Hayes, Shepherd's character.

Right before this happened, one of the cast would generally be giving a monologue ( or several would be having a group conversation ) that was interrupted by another cast member with something that would ( generally ) be opposite what the monologue ( or dialogue ) was about, all present cast would say, " It must be the introduction to the opposites ", and then the inversion fade would happen ; several sketches would follow that were a tongue-in-cheek reversal of the show's subject of the day, and also in which the normal principles of daily life were reversed, often with children having authority over adults or with adults encouraging children to behave badly ( for example, eating sweets instead of vegetables, or wasting money on something frivolous rather than putting the money in the bank ).

This was widely criticized as " absurd and unresearched " by the gaming community, prompting PETA to claim that it was a tongue-in-cheek effort to draw attention to the real-life issue of tanuki being skinned alive.

( This quip is obviously tongue-in-cheek as the film One Hundred and One Dalmatians was not made until seven years later in 1961 and thus the title would not have been seen by him on a Leicester Square cinema marquee in 1954.

A soundtrack album entitled The Rutles containing 14 tongue-in-cheek pastiches of Beatles songs was also released.

A tongue-in-cheek psychological study of Roo was published in the year 2000, by pediatricians at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

This was a tongue-in-cheek challenge to BA's traditional role as the UK's flag carrier.

He ran the supposed campaigns using obvious lies, double talk, and tongue-in-cheek attacks on the major candidates, and responded to all criticism with his catchphrase " Picky, picky, picky ".

He was secretary of the Army and Navy Club, and had a major role in founding the Military Order of the Carabao ( a tongue-in-cheek spoof of military fraternal organizations that is still exists as of 2012 ).

When, three years later, 3D Realms released Duke Nukem 3D, a tongue-in-cheek science fiction shooter based on Ken Silverman's technologically similar Build engine, id Software had nearly finished Quake, its next-generation game, which mirrored Dooms success for the remainder of the 1990s and significantly reduced interest in its predecessor.

Welsh rap group Goldie Lookin ' Chain also achieved chart success with their tongue-in-cheek take on hip-hop.

The band continued in the vein of tongue-in-cheek pop, leaving behind their early harder sound, but they failed to repeat the success of " Poison " on a commercial level.