ADVISE AND CONSENT

ADVISE AND CONSENT(1962)
dir: Otto Preminger
Sick #16, October 1962
Another of Sick's movie reviews from stills, about the President nominaating a Secretary of State and Congress questioning his qualifications because of his communist past.

Forgive me for not knowing what a lot of these words mean. It's why we have Google.

THE ADNAUSEUM FAMILY

THE ADDAMS FAMILY (1991)
dir: Barry Sonnenfeld

Raul Julia- Gomez
Anjelica Huston- Morticia
Christopher Lloyd- Uncle Fester
Elizabeth Wilson- Abigail Craven
Judith Malina- Granny
Carel Struycken- Lurch
Christina Ricci- Wednesday
Jimmy Workman- Pugsley
Christopher Hart- Thing
Cousin Itt- John Franklin
Dan Hedaya- Tully

THE ADNAUSEUM FAMILY
#311, June 1992
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

“The Addams Family started
When Uncle Fester farted
And now they're all r-t-rd-d
The Addams Family”
[da-da-da-da *snap-snap*]
   --Anon

(I know we don't say that word anymore. Don't @ me!)

Movie based on the TV show from 25 years earlier, which was based on the Charles Addams cartoons from the New Yorker. The plot of the movie involves someone claiming to be the long-lost Uncle Fester coming to claim the Addams family fortune, but who is actually a con artist in disguise.

Madison Avenue is not only where all the advertising is but also co-incidentally where MAD was at the time.

In a scene not in the movie, Edward Scissorhands, who in his own movie is celebrated for his topiary skills, and here is inexplicably part of the Addams Family, gives the hirsute Cousin Itt a haircut. They also note the fact that talk show host Sally Jesse Raphael has a cameo in the movie.

Kirk and Spock beam into the mansion for one panel in MAD's oft-repeated joke “you're in the wrong movie”.

In the real movie, the actual Uncle Fester shows up at the last minute and here he's portrayed as the original Charles Addams drawing.

Saddam Hussein, Clarence Thomas, Leona Helmsley, Dan Quayle, and Al Sharpton are revealed to also be members of the family at the end. Those were the bogeymen of that year and were also an excuse for Mort Drucker to show his talent for caricature.

There was yet another remake last year, making it a reboot of a reboot of a reboot. I didn't see it but probably with almost all comedy for kids now, it contains the usual “jokes for adults that would go over kids heads” (meaning references to things from before 2000 and a few double entendres) that wouldn't be possible without MAD.

THE ADDLED FAMILY
Cracked #271, May 1992
w: Vic Bianco (Lou Silverstone)
a: Walter Brogan

The parody begins just how the movie begins.

Note that Jon Astin is one of the carolers, as are Mike Myers and Dana Carvey. I believe the others are supposed to be people but I'm not sure who.

This is actually taken from one of the original Charles Addams cartoons.

Present at the party are Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, Robert DeNiro as Max Cady, and Beauty and the Beast.

With their fortune legally taken away, they now have to live in a hotel until the real Uncle Fester shows up. In Parodyland, other monsters show up angry that they made a mockery of real movie monsters.


THE ADDAMS FAMILY
(1964-1966) ABC

Jon Astin- Gomez
Carolyn Jones- Morticia
Ted Cassidy- Lurch
Jackie Coogan- Uncle Fester


SICK VISITS A MONSTER FAMILY
Sick #38, August 1965
w: Jim Atkins
a: Angelo Torres

As I mentioned before, The Addams Family was a TV show before it was a movie. It wasn't done by MAD or Cracked but Sick had their version of it.

It is supposed to be Barry Goldwater in the plane, who ran for President with the slogan “AuH20”

The person in the final panel is Dr. Zorba from Ben Casey.

Besides originally being a series of gag cartoons, a TV show, a movie, a sequel, a Broadway musical, and a CGI movie, it was also a cartoon in 1973.
And there was a comic book of the cartoon.

UPDATE:

From TV Scenes That Make More Sense in Sick #47, September 1966, art by Angelo Torres

BOREDOM-12

ADAM-12
(1968-1975) NBC
Pete Malloy- Martin Millner Jim Reed- Kent McCord
BOREDOM-12
MAD #131, December 1969
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

The show follows the day-to-day adventures of two police officers. Almost all takes place from the view of working the beat in their cars and responding to calls through their radio. Most of it took place on the same street in the same city.

The show was also parodied in issue #158 of the magazine in April 1973 in the article When All of TV Must Grant Equal Time by Tom Koch and Angelo Torres.

These two panels are from The Effect of the Energy Crisis on the Entertainment World illustrated by John Severin in Cracked #119, September 1974

ACNE-12!
Sick #97, June 1974
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Tony Tallarico

I think the idea is supposed to be that the car has zits.

Typical in these magazines, “bomb”, usually means bad entertainment.

I think a lot of the writers wish orgies were more common than they actually were.

I think the artist would quit as soon as he won the lottery too, seeing as he was too lazy to draw them in the last panel.

And let us not forget the show was a comic series during its last season.

ASS VENTORO, PEST DEFECTIVE

ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE (1994)
dir:Tom Shadyac

Ace Ventura- Jim Carrey
Melissa- Courteney Cox
Lt. Einhorn- Sean Young
Emilio- Tone-Loc
Ray Finkle- Dan Zuckert
Dan Marino- Himself

ASS VENTORO, PEST DEFECTIVE
CRACKED #291, August 1994
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan

Lou Silverstone was a long-time MAD writer. He had been writing for Cracked for a while pseudonymously and after he stopped getting calls from MAD defected to Cracked full-time, eventually becoming editor.

Everybody knows who Jim Carrey is. This was the movie that put him on the map. He had been doing stand-up comedy and bit parts for years before this and was one of the featured players of In Living Color (MAD parody coming up when I get to the Is). This gave him a chance to do his whole mugging slapstick bit.

The mascot's name is Snowflake.

Nancy Kerrigan was an Olympic skater whose career was sabotaged when her leg was broken by her rival's boyfriend. An imitation of her was part of Jim Carrey's budget Robin Williams act.

The punchline of the actual movie is that all along Finkle has had his penis tucked between his legs and was pretending to be the female police lieutenant. A somewhat transphobic ending, but I guess in this parody Ace is bi? You decide.

MAD rarely did parodies of broad comedies like this, but Cracked aimed towards a younger audience.

THE ABYSSMAL

THE ABYSS (1989)
dir: James Cameron

Bud- Ed Harris Lindsay- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio The ABYSSMAL
CRACKED #252, March 1990
w: Terry Gentile
a: John Severin

Another film that takes place in "the future" which has happened already.

The reference here is to an accident the Exxon Valdez had at the time with one of their ships spilling gallons of oil into the ocean which they put a positive spin on.

The ship is called Deepcore.

The alien here is anthropomorphized.

201 MIN. OF A SPACE IDIOCY

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
dir: Stanley Kubrick

William Sylvester- Dr. Heywood Floyd Poole- Gary Lockman Bowman- Keir Dullea
201 MIN. OF A SPACE IDIOCY
MAD #125, March 1969
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

Yes, it was 33 years into the future when this came out, it's now 19 years in the past. I'll just say "the present"

This was one of the first examples of product placement.

Habeus Corpus is what they call the Clavius station here.

In the movie, it's his daughter he talks to on the phone.

The names in the panel after that are comedians known for telephone routines.

Misadventure One is the Discovery One. SID 5000 is HAL 9000.

I bet like most people my age, before ever knowing anything about 2001: A Space Odyssey, I used think all the monolith/Richard Strauss references I'd see places originated with The Electric Company.

UPDATE:

2001½: A SPACE ODDITY
Sick #98, June 1974
w: Paul Laikin
a: Tony Tallarico

For some reason, this was done six years after the film's release. Probably because of either its TV airing or theatrical re-release.

The artist must have gotten the caricatures wrong and added in the caption at the last moment.

The urban legend was that the computer was named HAL because each initial was one letter off from IBM but that was only a coincidence.

In the movie, when HAL is dismantled, it deliriously sings the lyrics to Daisy Belle.