Parodies of Superman did not take long to appear, with Mighty Mouse introduced in "The Mouse of

Tomorrow" animated short in 1942.[158] While the character swiftly took on a life of its own, moving
beyond parody, other animated characters soon took their turn to parody the character. In
1943 Bugs Bunny was featured in a short, Super-Rabbit, which sees the character gaining
powers through eating fortified carrots. This short ends with Bugs stepping into a phone booth to
change into a real "Superman" and emerging as a U.S. Marine. In 1956 Daffy Duck assumes the
mantle of "Cluck Trent" in the short "Stupor Duck", a role later reprised in various issues of
the Looney Tunes comic book.[159] In the United Kingdom Monty Python created the character
Bicycle Repairman, who fixes bicycles on a world full of Supermen, for a sketch in series of their
BBC show.[160] Also on the BBC was the sitcom My Hero, which presented Thermoman as a
slightly dense Superman pastiche, attempting to save the world and pursue romantic aspirations.
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In the United States, Saturday Night Live has often parodied the figure, with Margot
Kidder reprising her role as Lois Lane in a 1979 episode. The manga and anime series Dr.
Slump featured the character Suppaman; a short, fat, pompous man who changes into a thinly
veiled Superman-like alter-ego by eating a sour-tasting umeboshi. Jerry Seinfeld, a noted
Superman fan, filled his series Seinfeld with references to the character and in 1997 asked for
Superman to co-star with him in a commercial for American Express. The commercial aired
during the 1998 NFL Playoffs and Super Bowl, Superman animated in the style of artist Curt
Swan, again at the request of Seinfeld. [162] Superman was featured in the ScrewAttack's web
series Death Battle, where he fought a hypothetical battle similar toDeadliest Warrior with the
character Son Goku and won. Superman was voiced during the battle simulation by the voice
actor ItsJustSomeRandomGuy.[163]