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The play hits a number of satirical and parodic points.

However, the original has, in its own small way, become a classic, and parodic versions are common.

These are like jazz, too, in the way they take a simple idea and work it through all sorts of parodic changes.

The style is often parodic and burlesque, sometimes also erotic.

The parodic intent is evident, especially since the letters grow wilder.

Another possible parodic target is the polite speech with which the English are usually credited.

This kind of parodic work could not have existed before the development of modern technology.

The play is also one of the first examples of a parodic opera.

Differently from his previous western films, this is openly parodic.

Some have taken the convoluted plot as evidence of the play's parodic origins.

But the language she uses to describe this process demonstrates her parodic attitude toward it.

Parodic works are not automatically fair use of the material parodied, however.

For one thing, the parodic structure allowed an author to indict another without directly mentioning a name.

The Outline of History has inspired responses from the serious to the parodic.

Others are clever: the love of herring, parodic Wagner.

These always pretty and sometimes parodic pictures are the whole of this ambitious and chaotic film.

"But is the femme sensibility supposed to be parodic?"

One difference is that Miller and the agency have refocused the characters' parodic aim.

The film has a parodic tone, with numerous references to earlier samurai films.

The film's plot is a combination of famous science fiction movies, done in a parodic manner.

These artistic choices on the part of Paramount's designers heighten the parodic effect.

She takes a parodic deep breath, and then continues before she has exhaled.

Saunders pulls out all the parodic stops in "The Falls."

It is renowned for its parodic inserts, some of the best film-making on the channel.

As other commentators have pointed out, the script was subtle, parodic and appealed to all ages.