A-Z GUIDE TO MOVIES AND TV SHOWS PARODIED BY MAD, CRACKED, CRAZY, ETC. UP TO 1996. THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. SPOILERS AND OTHER NON-SEQUITURS, TOO. SOMETIMES THESE THINGS HAVE WORDS OR SITUATIONS WE DON'T USE ANYMORE. YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THEY'RE OLD.
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Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) is having a party to watch the moon landing. Here it is just him and his wife, probably because it was easier to draw only two people. He is also an astronaut and has been chosen for their next flight to the moon.
Other characters in the theater are the apteryx and Tom Servo and Crow from Mystery Science Theater 3000. The button on the wife refers to The Right Stuff, another film about astronauts. “Max Korn” was one of the background gags they used in the 90s similar to “axolotl”. I didn't find it as funny, probably because I'm older.
There are problems with the flight. They have to make cutbacks and Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise) has come down with jock itch (actually the measles but I guess jock itch is funnier to them).
His wife Marilyn (Kathleen Quinlan) loses her wedding ring in the shower, symbolizing predictions of dangers to come.
His family is worried the landing won't be successful as they watch news about the flight on television.
In space, the other astronauts Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) don't get along.
MAD would use any excuse they could to use Richard Nixon, well into the 90s (I don't blame them). Though if they are to be accurate about 1970, it's kind of out of place for Dan Rather and Ted Koppel to be prominent reporters.
Mattingly, since his illness removed him from the flight, was re-assigned to simulate the conditions on Earth and command the ship from the ground. Here's how MADended their version.
APOLLOGY 13
Cracked #302, October 1995
w: Lou Silverstone
a: John Severin
They make a few references to Hanks' previous film Forrest Gump (which also co-incidentally co-starred Gary Sinise).
Like this reference to his “Life is like a box of chocolates” line in the first panel with Tom Hanks.
The newscaster is Walter Cronkite.
Energizer batteries had a campaign with a drumming rabbit.
UPDATE:
Cover to Mexican edition. They liked to do their own covers.
"it's kind of out of place for Dan Rather and Ted Koppel to be prominent reporters." Equally so for the reporter on the doorstep a few panels later to be Tom Brokaw.
The guys with Nixon are H.R. Haldeman and John Dean.
On that same page, the grandma, instead of resembling the actress in the movie, is actually... director Ron Howard?
"it's kind of out of place for Dan Rather and Ted Koppel to be prominent reporters." Equally so for the reporter on the doorstep a few panels later to be Tom Brokaw.
ReplyDeleteThe guys with Nixon are H.R. Haldeman and John Dean.
On that same page, the grandma, instead of resembling the actress in the movie, is actually... director Ron Howard?