Perhaps in the ultimate tribute to sitcoms, the script has a tendency to get merely silly.

The ultimate tribute to the power of the story is that so many groups want to reinterpret it 2,000 years later.

IT was the ultimate tribute to the power of talk radio: Bill Clinton was taking questions.

He called it the "ultimate tribute" to bassist Paul Gray.

And later that day came the ultimate tribute: afternoon classes at the college were canceled.

Rather, the fact of creation is a given, the ultimate tribute to God's awesome powers.

That's the ultimate tribute I can pay the man.

The crowd, from the highest authorities to schoolchildren, gave him the ultimate tribute on June 3, 1956.

That Docter made the Olympic team in 1988 was the ultimate tribute to her ability as an athlete.

She sat in silence, watching the clear, unpolluted water, while Cole gave the ultimate tribute to a cook by cleaning his plate.