These shows often served to parody the conventions of the reality TV genre.

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.

Thrash metal band Megadeth covered Nancy Sinatra's " These Boots Are Made For Walkin ' on their 1985 debut album Killing Is My Business ... and Business Is Good !, but is more often recognized as a parody rather than a true cover, and is considered controversial because song writer Lee Hazelwood deemed Megadeth's version to be " a perversion of the original ".

These eight jobs were all given unique names, and the usual name for the original and top-most DDT was " HACTRN " (" hack-tran "); thus Guy L. Steele's famous filk poem parody of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Raven ," The HACTRN.

These segments typically showed Charles Firth, a member of the Chaser comedy team, presenting his opinion on topical issues, often through use of over-the-top comparisons ( such as dipping a paper heart in a can of black paint and claiming: " This is how black Saddam Hussein's heart is ") and outrageous statements in a parody of O ' Reilly and Australian current affairs personalities.

These include Lobocop ( a RoboCop parody ); Blazing Chain of Love ( in which he is sent on a job to a harem ); Paramilitary Christmas Special ( in which he is contracted by the Easter Bunny to assassinate Santa Claus ); Infanticide ( where he kills his daughter and all of his other bastard offspring that she has gathered to try to kill him ); Convention Special ( a send-up of comic book conventions ); and Unamerican Gladiators ( in which Lobo takes part in a deadly televised game show ).

These sections of the state are where jokes are often heard with punch lines of " Yep, I'm from L. A. too: Lower Alabama "; or references to natives of southeastern Alabama being " Born in East L. A ." ( better known as the title of a Cheech Marin song parody of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U. S. A .).

These initials were also popularly used to parody the name of the nationalized oil / gas company PETRO Canada ( founded during Trudeau's reign ) which was rendered as: Pierre Elliot Trudeau ripping off Canada — probably of Albertan origin.

These included The Toxic Revenger ( See below ), James T. Duck ( a parody of Captain Kirk in Star Trek ), Bat-Duck ( a parody of Batman Returns, with Hamton in Robin's red-and-green as " Decoy, the Pig Hostage "), and Pluck Hyerdahl of the Kon-Ducki ( in a parody of Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki ).

These parody stickers are a further extension of the original " joke ", and thus are most likely to be found in locations where the original André the Giant iconography is already familiar, such as SoHo, Manhattan, or South Street, Philadelphia.

These included services such as The Elvis Society ( a dating service for " pillows ") and products such as " The Totally Ian Roberts Bar ", a confectionery item ( referring to gay rugby league player Ian Roberts ), the HG Nelson Butchery -- " still doing things with meat other butchers only dream of " -- " Roy's Rectal Ring Balm " ( a rectal ointment ) and " Happy Jack's Ta-taa Packs " ( a body bag ) -- as well as innumerable parody books, films and TV series.

These sketches were, in part, a parody of the Fairness Doctrine, which at the time required broadcasters in the United States to present opposing viewpoints on public issues.

These " parody " epics are very rare.

It was written by the Klatchian mystic Achmed the Mad, who apparently preferred to be called Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches, ( a parody of H. P. Lovecraft's mad Arab Abdul Alhazred ) after drinking too much Klatchian coffee.

These include " Wrapping the Bear " ( 1985 Mike Elliott and Bud LaTour doing a Teddy Ruxpin parody ), " Hit Me Baby " ( original ), " School's Back " ( 1986 parody of School's Out by Alice Cooper ), " Nightmare on Sesame St ." ( 1986 original by Mike Elliott and Bud LaTour ), " Puka " ( 1987 parody of Suzanne Vega's " Luka " by Bud LaTour and Chicago radio deejay Scott Childers ), " The Way You Make Me Squeal " ( 1988 parody of Michael Jackson's " The Way You Make Me Feel "), and " You Always Poke My Eye " ( 1989 parody of The Pet Shop Boys " You Are Always On My Mind ").

These are used once again to further parody and send up Christie ’ s works.

These commercials parody the real life Sasquatch hunter René Dahinden, who appeared in the first Kokanee commercial of its kind ( NOT TRUE.

These lines are also a parody of a couplet in Alexander Pope's satire The Dunciad.

These songs usually have a very punctuated rhythm precisely for this reason, along with a call-and-answer format.

These early RPG fanzines were generally typed, sold mostly in an A5 format ( in the UK ) and were usually illustrated with abysmal or indifferent artwork.

These differed in the word sizes, the format of the representations, and the rounding behavior of operations.

These formats, along with the single precision ( decimal32 ) format, are intended for performing decimal rounding correctly.

These implementations originally come from NetBSD, and supports decompression of bzip2 and the Unix format.

These oral histories often contained folk-tale motifs and demonstrated a moral, yet they also contained substantial facts relating to geography, anthropology and history, all compiled by Herodotus in an entertaining style and format.

These format variations are often not distinguished, and are simply called JPEG.

These include endurance races, time trials, stake racing, bumps racing, and the side-by-side format used in the Olympic games.

These are illustrated above in the Cycle graph ( algebra ) | cycle graph format, along with the 180 ° edge ( blue arrows ) and 120 ° vertex ( reddish arrows ) rotation s that permutation | permute the tetrahedron through the positions.

These four stories were originally published separately by Fujimi Fantasia in mini-bunko format, and later they were included in different Special novels.

These stars will eventually receive names in the format described above.

These songs were available to purchasers of the box set in digital format only, with the use of a special download code.

These were later used in a revised version on the Sinclair QL, whose storage format was electrically compatible but logically incompatible with the Spectrum's.

These weather observations, predominantly in the METAR format, are available over the radio, through Automatic Terminal Information Service ( ATIS ), via the ATC or the Flight Service Station.

These scripts are installed by an entry in CVS's < tt > loginfo </ tt > file, which can trigger email notification or convert the log data into a Web-based format.

These types of bands feature a near ubiquitous show format of Patterns In Motion drill ( though French curves and Band Pageantry by former FAMU director of bands William P. Foster are also common ), a large amount of stand fast time where the band plays a one or two selections in place, and a physically demanding, thoroughly choreographed full band dance routine.

These elements do not cause the text to break when rendered in a paragraph format, but typically they cause the document processor to apply some kind of distinct typographical treatment to the enclosed text, by changing the font, size, or similar attributes.

These prayers often use rosary beads, but their words and format do not correspond to the usual mysteries.

These tournaments increasingly made various modifications to the College Bowl format, and came to be known as quiz bowl.

These notes are usually created using a predetermined pacenote format, from which a co-driver can optionally add comments or transpose into other pacenote notations.

These included 120 film providing 8, 12 or 16 exposures, 220 film providing 16 or 24 exposures, 127 film providing 8 or 12 exposures ( principally in Brownie cameras ) and 35 mm film providing 12, 20 or 36 exposures – or up to 72 exposures in the half-frame format or in bulk cassettes for the Leica Camera range.

These enterprise applications, or enterprise application integration ( EAI ), are built to certain constraints, namely storing data in a common format.

These zines are in pdf format.

These systems used the EIAJ digital format, which sampled at 44. 056 kHz at 14 bits.