THE BRAWL GUY

THE FALL GUY
ABC 1981-1988

THE BRAWL GUY
MAD #233, September 1982
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Angelo Torres

TV show about a stunt man who spent his days off as a bounty hunter.

This issue had Pac-Man as their cover story, so Pac-Man was eating panels and text throughout the issue.

The show would begin with Colt Seavers (Lee Majors) performing one of his stunts, then to his other job with fellow stuntman Howie (Douglas Barr), to got his assignment from Big Jack (Jo Ann Pflug).

The Six Million Dollar Man was Majors' previous show.

The pick-up truck they used was a form of product placement.

The grocery store clerks are Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaise from Fantasy Island, Villechaise was known for his catchphrase "The plane! The plane!"

Farrah Fawcett was Lee Majors' long-time wife.

Jody Banks (Heather Thomas) was another stuntman who occasionally joined them on cases but was mainly an excuse to be shown in a bikini. She's not in the other parodies.

Bosom Buddies was a sitcom on ABC with Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari as two men who dressed in drag because a womens' residence was the only place they could afford to live. And this was forty years ago when rent in Manhattan was about a tenth as much and housing was much more plentiful.

THE FALLING GUY
Cracked #188, August 1982
a: John Severin

Update: I originally only posted two Cracked parodies. They did three. Here's the second one:

Cracked #198, October 1983
a: John Severin

After the first season, Big Jack was replaces by Terri (Markie Post)

Cracked #208, November 1984
a: John Severin

"Don't Cry For Me, Argentina" was a song from the Broadway musical Evita.

Same punchline about how a stunt man uses a stunt man.

UPDATE:

THE FOUL GUY
Bananas #60, c. 1982 w: Jovial Bob Stine a: Samuel B. Whitehead

Note the bi-plane has the number of the Starship Enterprise and the reference to Six Million Dollar Man on Majors' hat.

The director is made to look like Steven Spielberg because after all director archetypes were Erich Von Stroheim they became Spielberg. Robert Young, who was then spokesperson for Sanka, is in the background.