Coleman is parodied in the hit Broadway musical Avenue Q, which won the 2004 Tony Award for best musical.

The marble's pose is parodied in the comic book Asterix and the Laurel Wreath.

Such a title can immediately communicate both that what follows is a parody and also which work is about to be parodied, making any further " setup " ( introductory explanation ) unnecessary.

His commentating is frequently parodied on the Australian comedy series Comedy Inc. and The Twelfth Man.

The origins of this was parodied in a famous scene from the movie Forrest Gump when Forrest is on his multiple jogs across America, and wipes his face on a T shirt given him by a struggling salesman, and on the shirt, as if transferred there by Forrest's face, is the image of the happy face, whereupon the man gets his idea.

Sometimes it appears as a genuine tool, but often it is parodied – for example, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game included tools such as the ultra-plasmic awl, and the BBC Radio 4 science-fiction comedy Nebulous offered the sonic crowbar.

Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.

Night of the Living Dead is parodied in films such as Night of the Living Bread and Shaun of the Dead, and in episodes of The Simpsons (" Treehouse of Horror III ", 1992 ; " Treehouse of Horror XIII ", 2004 and " Treehouse of Horror XX ", 2009 ), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, South Park (" Pink Eye ", 1997 ; " Night of the Living Homeless ", 2007 ), Medium (" Bite Me ", 2009 ) and Invader Zim (" Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom " 2001 and " FBI Warning of Doom " 2002 ).

The group is parodied in Doris Lessing's The Good Terrorist ( 1985 ), in which a group of naive, young, communist squatters splits over whether or not to join the IRA.

Because of Jacques Chirac's long career in visible government positions, he has often been parodied or caricatured: Young Jacques Chirac is the basis of a young, dashing bureaucrat character in the 1976 Asterix comic strip album Obelix and Co., proposing methods to quell Gallic unrest to elderly, old-style Roman politicians.

Voters increasingly viewed Goldwater as a right wing fringe candidate — his slogan " In your heart, you know he's right " was successfully parodied by the Johnson campaign into " In your guts, you know he's nuts ", or " In your heart, you know he might " ( as in push the nuclear button ), or even " In your heart, he's too far right " ( some cynics wore buttons saying " Even Johnson is better than Goldwater!

* 7-Eleven is parodied in The Simpsons television series, as a convenience store called Kwik-E-Mart.

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* 7-Eleven is also parodied in the Grand Theft Auto series of video games as a chain of convenience stores called 24 / 7

* 7-Eleven is parodied in Beavis and Butt-head as a convenience store called the Maxi Mart.

* 7-Eleven is parodied in the Mindless Self Indulgence song ' Seven Eleven ':

* 7-Eleven is parodied in the Ramones song ' 7-11 ':

This is parodied in A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court, where Bugs Bunny struggles to pronounce the word " porcupine ", which Porky pronounces with no trouble.

* In the Tintin album The Broken Ear, Zaharoff is parodied as the weapon trader Basil Bazarov, who sells to both parties of a single conflict that he helps provoke.

In the Family Guy episode " Blue Harvest ", Obi-Wan is parodied by the character Herbert.

In the short film Thumb Wars Obi-Wan is parodied as the character Oobedoob Benubi.

In the 1977 Star Wars parody Hardware Wars, Obi-Wan is parodied by the character " Augie Ben Doggie ".

In air, where oxygen is more concentrated, some small species can rely solely on cutaneous gas exchange, most famously the plethodontid salamanders, which have neither lungs nor gills.

In a chapter-long essay reprinted in In Search of Wonder, entitled " Cosmic Jerrybuilder: A. E. van Vogt ", Knight famously remarked that van Vogt " is no giant ; he is a pygmy who has learned to operate an overgrown typewriter.

This technique, famously practiced by Eddie Stanky of the Brooklyn Dodgers, is where the runner does not break immediately for second when the pitcher commits to the plate.

For instance, John Stuart Mill famously suggested that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".

Cerberus featured in many prominent works of Greek and Roman literature, most famously in Virgil's Aeneid, Peisandros of Rhodes ' epic poem the Labours of Hercules, the story of Orpheus in Plato's Symposium, and in Homer's Iliad, which is the only known reference to one of Heracles ' labours which first appeared in a literary source.

To be truly human, one had to be an active citizen to the community, which Aristotle famously expressed: “ To take no part in the running of the community's affairs is to be either a beast or a god !” This form of citizenship was based on obligations of citizens towards the community, rather than rights given to the citizens of the community.

The Centauromachy is most famously portrayed in the Parthenon metopes by Phidias and in a Renaissance-era sculpture by Michelangelo.

This personality is typically described as " mild-mannered ", perhaps most famously by the opening narration of Max Fleischer's Superman animated theatrical shorts.

This argument, made in Jules Feiffer's series of articles published in The Great Comic Book Heroes, is famously cited in a climactic scene of Kill Bill Vol.

Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.

In the Epic poetry | epic poem Nibelungenlied ( Song of the Nibelungs ), Siegfried is famously stabbed in the back by Hagen ( legend ) | Hagen.

In the run up to the 2002 election the CSU / CDU held a huge lead in the opinion polls and Stoiber famously remarked that "... this election is like a football match where it's the second half and my team is ahead by 2 – 0.

Most famously, he is the subject of the Boy Carrying a Sword of 1861 ( Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ).

" The tension between reason and passion is symbolized by his character's relationship with the gods, as in Hecuba's prayer, answered not by Zeus, nor by the Law of Reason, but by brutal Menelaus as if speaking on behalf of the old gods, and most famously in Bacchae, where the god Dionysus savages his own converts.

In 1738, while hearing Luther's Preface to the Epistle to the Romans read at St. Botolph Church on Aldersgate Street in London, John Wesley famously felt his heart " strangely warmed ", a conversion experience which is often seen as the beginning of Methodism.

Therefore, as Epicurus famously said, " death is nothing to us.

Locke is famously attributed with holding the proposition that the human mind is a tabula rasa, a " blank tablet ," in Locke's words " white paper ," on which the experiences derived from sense impressions as a person's life proceeds are written.

This process is called theosis, or deification, and is a spiritual pilgrimage in which each person strives to both become more holy through the imitation of Christ and cultivation of the inner life through unceasing prayer ( most famously, the Jesus Prayer ) or hesychasm, until united at death with the fire of God's love.

Rail fins evolved into being and surged into popularity as riders ( Simon Anderson, most famously ) sought a solution to two major performance issues of a central " single " fin-both related to engagement of the foil: For one, a centrally-mounted fin is tilted up out of the water as the board is leaned over, and thus it loses more and more of its lift as the lean angle increases-if the lean angle is acute enough, the fin's tip can be the only area left in the water ; the tip may then rapidly stall and, having lost its lift, become disengaged from the water, leaving the board's bottom as the only control surface still operating.