The possible existence of a genuine Atlantis was discussed throughout classical antiquity, but it was usually rejected and occasionally parodied by later authors.

Gould was personally parodied in the series as cartoonist " Lester Gooch "— the diminutive, much-harassed and occasionally deranged " creator " of Fosdick.

Another target was Senator Ted Kennedy, parodied as " Senator O. Noble McGesture ," resident of " Hyideelsport.

Various images, originally ivory numbers fully animated against a deep red background, were designed to fit the pace of the channel, and the music soon gained notoriety, and was often satirised and parodied in popular culture, perhaps most famously by comic Bill Bailey who likened the theme music to an " apocalyptic rave ".

His first European film, A King in New York ( 1957 ), was also a political satire that openly parodied the HUAC.

Other tragedians also used recognition scenes but they were heroic in emphasis, as in Aeschylus's The Libation Bearers, which Euripides parodied with his mundane treatment of it in Electra ( Euripides was unique among the tragedians in incorporating theatrical criticism in his plays ).

Over the years, the film would be a cult classic and was reworked and parodied on YouTube and other media.

Nevertheless, Pirates was a hit both in New York, again spawning numerous imitators, and then in London, and it became one of the most frequently performed, translated and parodied Gilbert and Sullivan works, also enjoying a successful 1981 Broadway revival by Joseph Papp.

Private Eye parodied Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, age 13¾ to write The Secret Diary of John Major, age 47¾, in which Major was portrayed as a naive nincompoop ( e. g. keeping lists of his enemies in a Rymans Notebook called his " Bastards Book ") and featuring " my wife Norman " and " Mr Dr Mawhinney " as recurring characters.

It was around this time that J. R. R. Tolkien was employed by the OED, researching etymologies of the Waggle to Warlock range ; he parodied the principal editors as " The Four Wise Clerks of Oxenford " in the story Farmer Giles of Ham.

( This scene was later parodied in The Simpsons episode " Marge Gets a Job ".

This concept was parodied in She-Hulk ( vol.

This image of Orbison as immovable was so associated with him it was parodied by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, as Belushi dressed as Orbison falls over while singing " Oh, Pretty Woman ", and continues to play as his bandmates set him upright again.

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.

The series has also been parodied on The Simpsons and notably in the Futurama episode " Where No Fan Has Gone Before ", which was described by Wired magazine as a " touchstone " for fans.

* Peckinpah's use of violence was parodied by Monty Python in Sam Peckinpah's " Salad Days ", one of the more controversial episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which a lovely day out for an upper-class English family turns into a blood-soaked orgy of severed limbs and gushing wounds.

In two years of acrimonious public dispute that Charles Kingsley satirised as the " Great Hippocampus Question " and parodied in The Water-Babies as the " great hippopotamus test ", Huxley showed that Owen was incorrect in asserting that ape brains lacked a structure present in human brains.

References to the show in popular culture began during its original broadcast when it was parodied in an episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, fittingly titled " The Man from My Uncle ", References in other televison shows have continued over the years, including a 2011 episode of Mad Men, " The Chrysanthemum and the Sword ".

* In the 6 June 2007, second season, eleventh episode of The Chaser's War on Everything, the possibility of Tinky Winky being homosexual was parodied when the Chaser's tested the Peel Hotel ( in Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia )' s gaydar ( the hotel's Peel dancebar was given the right to ban heterosexual patrons ) with a Tinky Winky costumed figure that acted in a stereotypical homosexual fashion.

The New Yorker Obama cover was later parodied by Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the October 3, 2008 cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine, with Stewart as Obama and Colbert as Michelle, photographed for the magazine in New York City on September 18.

* Champion was once parodied in the Dial M For Monkey segment of the cartoon Dexter's Laboratory.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

Over the next few years the kingdom was threatened not only by Saladin and Nur ad-Din, but also by the Hashshashin ; in one episode, the Knights Templar murdered some Hashshashin envoys, leading to further disputes between Amalric and the Templars.

The episode at Blake Hall was so traumatic that she reproduced it in almost perfect detail in her novel, Agnes Grey.

The first a pastoral opera, L ' amore innocente ( Innocent Love ) was a light hearted comedy set in the Austrian mountains, and the second was based on an episode from Cervantes Don Quixote – Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace ( Don Quixote at the Marriage of Camacho ).

* In episode 13, season 2 of 30 Rock entitled Succession Tracey Jordan says that he is Mozart and Frank is the guy who was always jealous of Mozart.

* The musical was also referenced in an episode of Glee.

Paul of Tarsus sailed for Europe for the first time from Alexandria Troas and returned there from Europe ( it was there that the episode of the raising of Eutychus later occurred ).

In 1997, the episode " Hedda Hopper's Hollywood " was ranked # 62 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.

Although none of the characters from The Beverly Hillbillies ever appeared on Green Acres, an episode of Green Acres was named after The Beverly Hillbillies.

The song was sung by Jerry Scoggins ( backed by Flatt and Scruggs ) over the opening and end credits of each episode.

In the summer of 1993, Dick Zimmerman, a 44-year-old retired broadcasting executive from Larkspur, California, happened to see the episode in which Butt-head joked, “ Hey, Beavis, let ’ s go over to Stewart ’ s house and light firecracker in his cat ’ s butt .” Five days later, a cat was found killed by a firecracker in nearby Santa Cruz.

The group said that Settle was influenced by the episode titled " Ball Breakers ," in which Beavis and Butt-Head loaded a bowling ball with explosives and dropped it from a rooftop.

Later, in a Rolling Stone interview, Mike Judge was asked if Daria is coming back and he said, " No. There's sort of a cameo in one episode.

A preview of the episode " Holy Cornholio " was also shown.

Another Eartha Kitt collaboration, " My Discarded Men ," was choreographed on the episode " Top 14 Perform " of So You Think You Can Dance season 8.

Holly was depicted in the Quantum Leap episode entitled " How the Tess Was Won " although his identity isn't revealed until the very end of the episode.

An episode involving Taco Bell taco shells was particularly well publicized.

* Another parody was used on the episode of Saturday Night Live William Shatner hosted in 1986, called " Ollie North, The Mute Marine.

The NOVA / Horizon episode The Case of the Bermuda Triangle, aired on June 27, 1976, was highly critical, stating that " When we've gone back to the original sources or the people involved, the mystery evaporates.

Mumy also played the character of young Pip, a boy who enjoyed playing with his father but was always ignored, in the episode " In Praise of Pip " ( September 1963 ), and the character of Billy Bayles, a boy who talks to his dead grandmother through a toy telephone, in the episode " Long Distance Call " ( March 1961 ).

A customized 1969 American Motors AMX was built by George Barris for the second regular season episode.