The Firm, a British novelty band, not to be confused with the supergroup that featured rock legend Jimmy Page, released a satire/homage to Star Trek with 1987's "Star Trekkin'", a mix of puppets and stop motion animation, the latter of which looks like some prototypes for the current Robot Chicken. The band members chose not to appear on television to maintain some anonymity, so this video premiered on Top of The Pops:
Fascinating, isn't it?
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@hobbyfan: believe it or not, this actually got some radio airplay... at least, in Seattle...
Not when it came out originally, but around 2003 or so, I remember listening to a show called Music With Moskowitz on a local AM station(1090 AM; at the time it was Classic Country) on Sunday nights... the first half of the show was similar to Dr. Demento, in that comedy/novelty type songs such as this were played.
Usually around the last two hours of the five hour show was classic country(albeit songs that the station didn't usually play during the week)...
As I recall, the host of the show was also a middle school teacher during the school year for a local district, which I always thought was kind of funny, as who would expect a teacher, to also be a radio host? Namely one who played records like Godzilla Ate Tukwila(Tukwila is a suburb of Seattle), Shel Silverstein songs, Weird Al Yankovic records, and so on...
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