BEVERLY HILLS SLOP, TOO

BEVERLY HILLS COP II (1987)
dir: Tony Scott

BEVERLY HILLS SLOP, TOO!
MAD #275, December 1987
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

The title was a play on the tagline “The heat is on!” Axel Foley is working as an undercover detective in Detroit when he gets a call that something is going on in Beverly Hills. A series of robberies called the Alphabet Case has occurred and they need his help, but they can't tell their supervisors. This reunites him with Taggart (John Ashton) and Rosewater (Judge Reinhold) from the first movie.

He returns when he found the Chief has been shot. His bosses in Detroit don't know he left and has asked his co-workers to continue the case without him. To get a place to stay, he drives past a building under construction, convinces them he's a building inspector, the plans need to be changed and they have to take a week off. I don't know how it got past the editing stage, but in this panel Drucker made Murphy look like Chris Rock (who has a bit part in another scene), complete with goatee.

It's just “The Alphabet Case” in name, but here they continually emphasize letters of the alphabet all throughout the parody.

I think this is supposed to be Dan Aykroyd in the last panel. I don't know why he's here other than he was another Saturday Night Live alumnus and co-star in Trading Places.

Axel Foley doesn't really look like Eddie Murphy in the panel with the Playboy bunnies either. After not getting info that way, they need to get info through a computer. In order to access a computer, they go to the office of an accountant, telling him he has lots of unpaid parking tickets, but will let him off if they can use his computer. It's superfluous to the plot, but it's an excuse to give a role to comedian Gilbert Gottfried.

On the podcast Gottfried co-hosts, he mentions this movie frequently as his big breakthrough role, and his highlight from it all was being portrayed in MAD. The Germans did their own cover for their edition. Maybe they don't have shooting ranges there.

Cracked also called it
BEVERLY HILLS SLOP II
Cracked #233, January 1988
w: Joe Catalano
a: Walter Brogan

Again beginning with Axel called back to Beverly Hills from Detroit to help them solve the Alphabet Case.

The lightness of some of the panels isn't my fault. I tried to darken them. I think this was drawn (at least partly) in crayon.

One of the people they question is presently at the shooting range, played by Brigitte Nielsen.

I guess when they did the parody they hadn't decided on the name yet.

In disguise at the Playboy mansion.

They find a clue to the next robbery and rush over there. Sorry, no Gilbert Gottfried in this one.

They catch the thief but have just one more arrest to make.