Talk:List of artistic depictions of Mahatma Gandhi/Archive 1

Seinfeld?

Gandhi was, of course, featured in an episode of Seinfeld. Surely worthy of mention? Leeborkman 10:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Book section

There seems to be a need for a section on book in the article. LegalEagle (talk) 07:30, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced and trivia

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Parodies and computer games

Mahatma Gandhi, a symbol of peace and non-violent resistance, has ironically been depicted in most instances of games and parodies in roles which were antithetical to his beliefs.

Computer games

• Mahatma Gandhi has been featured in the video game series Civilization, as a civilization leader of the Indian Civilization. He has appeared through the first three Civilization games as a lone Civilization leader, but in Civilization IV, Gandhi is a civilization leader alongside Asoka, the famous Indian Emperor.
• In Celebrity Deathmatch, Gandhi is pitted against Genghis Khan.
• In the online flash-based game "World Domination Battle" by Shlubby Interactive, players can select to play as Mahatma Gandhi, called Mahatman Gandij in the game, and battle 12 other world leaders, past and present, for global supremacy.

Parodies

• The short-lived MTV cartoon Clone High featured 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 Faison's 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 referenced 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! The forbidden pleasure!...He used to dip his bald head in oil...and rub it all over my body," 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.

Postage stamps depicting Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi has been depicted in postage stamps of over eighty countries besides India, his country of origin as well as the United Kingdom and South Africa where he spent part of his life. Gandhi has featured on commemorative stamps of major powers such as the U.S.A., U.S.S.R. and West Germany. European countries having published stamps on Gandhi include Eire, Greece, Romania, Hungary and Cyprus. Four of the Central Asian republics, namely Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan have issued Gandhi stamps. South Asian countries which released Gandhi stamps were Afghanistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Maldives.

Gandhi's leadership and nonviolent methods had a deep impact on countries which were involved in a similar struggle of gaining independence from colonial powers. The list of African states which have released Gandhi stamps is large and includes Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Congo, Djibouti, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tchad, Togo, Uganda, Upper Volta and Zambia.

In South and Central America, Gandhi has been a subject of stamps from Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Guyana, Costa Rica, Mexico and Suriname.

Many islands in the Caribbean and Atlantic Ocean such as Trinidad & Tobago, St. Vincent, Grenada, Grenadines, Montserrat have issued Gandhi stamps. Mahatma Gandhi can even be found depicted on stamps issued by small island states in the Pacific such as Marshal Islands, Micronesia and Palau.

Musical Mentions

• Gandhi is mentioned in the song Cult of Personality by Living Colour, alongside such leaders as Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini, as being the leader of a cult of personality.

I consider the following page appropriate as an external link to this page. Please view page and consider if appropriate to add as external link.

http://www.indiapicks.com/stamps/Gandhi_Nehru/Gandhi_Main.htm

59.95.161.81 (talk) 16:55, 25 May 2010 (UTC)Venkat