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===Television parodies and cameos: 1990β1993=== In television comedy programs during the early 1990s, Smith was sometimes the subject of [[Parody|lampooning]]. MTV's ''Half Hour of Comedy Hour'' (1990β1991), featured a mock episode of ''[[This Old House]]'' in which a parody of Smith's ''Disintegration''-era persona is seen asking building contractors to leave his house in a semi-demolished state to retain the sense of "[[urban decay]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-J75sp6bcI |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/5-J75sp6bcI |archive-date=2021-10-30 |title="Robert Smith of The Cure on "This Old House" |work=YouTube |date=7 March 2009 |access-date=28 September 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> ''[[The Mary Whitehouse Experience]]'' (1992) poked fun at Smith's attempts to use lighter pop music to "show his happier side", by presenting a series of sketches in which Smith (played by [[Robert Newman (comedian)|Rob Newman]]) performs comedic novelty songs "[[The Laughing Policeman (song)|The Laughing Policeman]]", "[[Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport]]", "[[Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)|Ernie]]", "Crash Bang Wallop", the theme to the children's programme ''[[Play Away]]'', and the WWI soldiers' "Chinese crackers in your arsehole" parody version of the patriotic anthem "[[Rule, Britannia!]]". Newman portrayed Smith dolefully wailing the lyrics over a backdrop of gloomy Cure-styled mope-rock. Another of the series' regular characters, [[The Mary Whitehouse Experience#Parodies|Edward Colanderhands]], appears in one episode as a member of the Cure's audience.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itvPVd6fwwM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/itvPVd6fwwM |archive-date=2021-10-30 |title=The Mary Whitehouse Experience β The Cure |work=YouTube |date=6 April 2011 |access-date=4 August 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Another sketch on ''The Mary Whitehouse Experience'' revolved around "Ray: a man afflicted with a sarcastic tone of voice", also portrayed by Newman, and presented in the style of a [[Medical history|medical case history]]. Ray's catchphrase was "oh no, what a personal disaster". In the series' final episode, Ray is given a copy of the Cure's ''Disintegration'' LP as a present, and is so overwhelmed that he can no longer speak in a sarcastic tone, and spontaneously begins speaking [[Flemish dialects|Flemish]]. In the closing scene, Ray has a chance meeting with the real Robert Smith in a cameo appearance, who punches Ray in the face and declares "oh no, what a personal disaster".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyujQctZ9hw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/PyujQctZ9hw |archive-date=2021-10-30 |title=The Cure β The Mary Whitehouse Experience (Part 2) |work=YouTube |date=29 June 2006 |access-date=28 September 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Rob Newman and [[David Baddiel]]'s live comedy video, ''[[The Mary Whitehouse Experience#History Today|History Today]]'' (1992), also features Newman's Robert Smith character, singing the children's songs "[[Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes]]" and "[[I'm a Little Teapot]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2rPpjctNlk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/t2rPpjctNlk |archive-date=2021-10-30 |title=History Today β Robert Smith Parody |work=YouTube |date=27 September 2006 |access-date=28 September 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Smith later made another cameo in the comedy duo's spin-off series ''[[Newman and Baddiel in Pieces]]'' (1993). In a scene where David Baddiel fantasizes about his own funeral, Smith appears graveside, saying: "I've never been this miserable. I always preferred him to the other one" before leading a [[conga]] of mourners in party-hats around the graveyard.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5h2HaYraEY |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/Z5h2HaYraEY |archive-date=2021-10-30 |title=The Cure β Newman and Baddiel TV sketch (1993) |work=YouTube |date=10 March 2006 |access-date=28 September 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
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