Saturday, September 19, 2020

21 JUNK HEAP

21 JUMP STREET
(1987-91) FOX

Captain Fuller- Steven Williams
Judy Hoffs- Holly Robinson Pete
Tom Hanson- Johnny Depp
Harry Ioki- Dustin Nguyen
Doug Penhall- Peter DeLuise

21 JUNK HEAP
MAD #286, April 1989
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Angelo Torres

Series about undercover police team uncovering cases in schools, which we commonly refer to as "narcs". It was where Johnny Depp got his start.

There was occasionally a character named "Blowfish" Banducci who's not included in this.
John Travolta was considered a has-been through most of the 80s.

Rydell High was the school in Grease.
Dan Quayle was Vice President 1988-1992
The student in the foreground in the Drivers' Ed class is Robin Givens, who was the star of the TV series Head of the Class and was married to boxer Mike Tyson.

The print teacher is Dustin Hoffman in Papillon.
As with many of the shows that were parodied in MAD, the cast showed their appreciation of the article in the letters column a few issues later.
UPDATE:
21 DUMP STREET
Cracked #242, January 1989
w: Joe Catalano
a: Rob Orzechowski

Don't get a lot of the sight gags. Not sure if the misspelling of 'mousse' is intentional. The puns seem to be jokes on jokes, something you're told never to do in comedy.
Talking Blob was a recurring character in Cracked.
Guns N Roses had been around for three years by then.

1 comment:

  1. In the Cracked story, "the Principal" at the end of page 2 is Jim Belushi, who had starred in a movie by that name a couple years before.

    Freddy Krueger shows up on page 3 because Johnny Depp's first film role was in Nightmare on Elm Street.

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