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 Gandhi in Parodies

The MTV cartoon ‘Clone High’ depicts the clone of Gandhi as one of the main characters. The Family Guy movie features a cutaway of a portrayed Gandhi unsuccessfully doing stand-up comedy at a club. The cartoon ‘Time Squad’ on Cartoon Network has an episode where Gandhi is portrayed as wanting to do tap dancing as a career, instead of leading India to independence. In the TV-show ‘Scrubs Dr.Cox’ constantly refers to Donald Faisons character as 'Gandhi'. A gun-toting Gandhi is shown briefly in a parody trailer for "Gandhi II" in the comedy movie UHF in which he is described as "No more Mr. Passive Resistance". Gandhi is referred in three episodes of the sitcom Seinfeld. In the second season episode called "The Chinese Restaurant," Elaine Benes asks Jerry "Did Gandhi get this crazy?!", after George Costanza becomes verbally aggressive when beaten to a pay phone. The following season, in the episode "The Suicide", Elaine wonders aloud what Gandhi must have eaten before he fasted. Jerry responds "Oh, yeah. Gandhi loved Triscuits." The final reference to Gandhi comes in the Show's 4th season in the episode "The Old Man", when Elaine visits an old woman, Mrs. Oliver, played by Edie McClurg, who claims to have had an "affair with Mohandas." Mrs. Oliver recounts "Oh...the passion!  and proceeds to show a picture of her with Gandhi to Elaine. In ‘The Simpsons’ episode ‘Mountain of Madness’ Montgomery Burns hallucinates seeing Homer Simpson conspiring against him with Mahatma Gandhi and other historical characters. Also the episode ‘Homer and Apu’ reveals Apu has a unique prayer said prior to eating: Good rice, good curry, good Gandhi, let's hurry. In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, during the scene where Kenny goes to hell, Gandhi is one of the ghosts seen speaking to Kenny (along with George Burns and Adolf Hitler). In Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood Jimini is seen viewing the movie "Growing up Gandhi" which depicts Gandhi as a boxer in his younger days, at the Toranto film festiville. The stop-motion animated series Robot Chicken has Gandhi saving Benjamin Franklin from the Wright Brothers in the skit "Educational Wrestling Federation" (Parody of WWE). In a monologue, Robin Williams jokingly suggested that there should be a clothing brand called Gandhi jeans (sizes 1 and below). The Warner Bros. cartoon ‘Bugs Bunny Rides Again’ originally featured Yosemite Sam calling himself "The roughest, toughest, he-man stuffest hombre as ever crossed the Rio Grande -- and I don't mean Mahatma Gand-ee!" However, due to Gandhi's assassination, Mel Blanc later changed the second half of the line to "I ain't no namby-pamby!", and it has remained such ever since.35

Gandhi in Computer Games

Gandhi has been casted in the video game series ‘Civilization’, as a lone leader of the Indian Civilization. He has appeared in the first three games as a lone Civilization leader, but in ‘Civilization IV’, he has been shown alongside Asoka. In Celebrity Deathmatch, Gandhi is casted opposite Changej Khan.

Gandhi in Music

Musicians all over the world had tried to capture the essence of Gandhi or Gandhi’s idea in different forms. In India Some great classical singers had composed new Ragas on Gandhi like ‘Gandhi Bilaval’ by Allauddin Khan, ‘Mohan Kauns’ by Ravi Shankar, ‘Mohan Gandhi’ by Bala Murlikrishna, ’Gandhi Malhar’ by Kumar Gandharva, and ‘Bapu Kauns’ by Amjad Ali Khan. These ragas are meant to reflect upon the personality or ideas of Gandhi in musical terms; in this way, each raga is an individual interpretation of Gandhi or Gandhism.

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