The "Major-General's Song" is frequently parodied, pastiched and used in advertising. Its challenging patter has proved interesting to comics, as noted above, and has been used in numerous film and television pastiches and in political commentary. In many instances, the song, unchanged, is simply used in a film or on television as a character's audition piece, or seen in a "school play" scene. For example, in the 1983 film "Never Cry Wolf", the hero sings the song. Similarly, in "Kate & Leopold", Leopold sings the song while accompanying himself on the piano; however, the scene is anachronistic in that "The Pirates of Penzance" premiered in 1879, "after" Leopold had already left his own time of 1876. In the "Two and a Half Men" episode "And the Plot Moistens" (Season 3, Episode 21), Alan sings a verse of the song to encourage Jake to join a school musical. Similarly, in season 2 of "Slings & Arrows", Richard Smith-Jones uses the song as an audition piece for a musical. In the "Mad About You" episode "Moody Blues", Paul directs a charity production of "Penzance" starring his father, Burt, as the Major-General. Parts of rehearsal and performance of the song are shown. When the lyrics slip Burt's mind, he improvises a few lines about his son.