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There are also more sophisticated, interlocking parodies, as when grim-faced NORAD radar operators tune in Jerry Springer and find Seth and Dr. Evil in the middle of a show called "My Father Is Evil and Wants To Take Over the World"--a segment that degenerates into bleeping and fisticuffs when the archvillain rushes an indignant Klansman.
Curiously, if you look at the wonderful anthology of parodies that Dwight Macdonald put together long ago, you will find a burlesque of sociologese by Daniel Bell, called "The Parameters of Social Movements: A Formal Paradigm," which was allegedly a revision of an earlier scheme titled "The Configurative Patterning of Social Movements."
South Park abounds in screamingly campy parodies, from the opening ensemble to Terrance and Phillip's peppy rap duet "Shut Your Fucking Face, Uncle-Fucker" to the principal's exhortation to substitute "bum," "poo," and the phlegmatic "M'kay" for, respectively, "ass," "shit," and "fuck" while leading a Busby Berkeley-ish dance line.
Mark Twain parodies this custom in the opening paragraph of Huck Finn , when he has Huck assure the reader that The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was true, even though written by this other fellow, Mark Twain: "There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth."
The sketch in question parodies a recent CBS Christmas special And So This Is Christmas . The idea is to do a promotional spot for the forthcoming CBS special "And So This Is Hanukkah ." For those who didn't tune in on Dec. 4, it went like this:
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