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
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.
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.
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.
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.
From TV Scenes That Make More Sense in Sick #47, September 1966, art by Angelo Torres
In the Mad parody, at the top of the last page, peeking through the window are Gomez and Morticia from the '60s TV show, as well as Munsters leads Al Lewis and Fred Gwynne. The "John Schmuck" Fred complains about is John Schuck, who starred as Herman Munster in a revival of the show in the late '80s called The Munsters Today. Al Lewis is also present at the banquet at the end, and behind him is pro wrestler The Undertaker.
ReplyDeleteIn the Cracked parody, also present in the background of the party on page 5 are Madonna and Michael Jackson.
In the Sick parody, all the rhyming couplets are also Goldwater references. In his presidential campaign in '64, one of Goldwater's slogans was "In your heart, you know he's right". LBJ retaliated with "In your guts, you know he's nuts", which stuck.
I'm not sure why they went so overboard with the Goldwater references. It could just be because they punned Lurch with Burch. The John Birch Society was a fringe ultra-right group that supported Goldwater. Lurch is wearing a Goldwater button in the panel where they mention his name.
Alfred Hitchcock is in the first panel, of course. Peyton Place was a new and scandalous soap opera.
Page 2 mentions some old ad campaigns: "Let Hertz Put You In The Driver's Seat" for car rentals, and the Jolly Green Giant for vegetables. I don't know what the washing machine campaign was, or why they link it to the Beatles.
On page 3 they mention the Munsters, and show Fred Gwynne and Yvonne DeCarlo as Fred and Lily Munster.
The Gunga Din reference at the end is because Sam Jaffe, the actor who played Dr. Zorba, also starred as Gunga Din in a movie of the same name back in 1939.