GUESS WHO'S THROWING UP DINNER?

GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER? (1967)
dir: Stanley Kramer

GUESS WHO'S THROWING UP DINNER?
MAD #122, October 1968
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker

from MAD Mini-Movies

Sorry that I keep belaboring things like this, but it's important to point out that at one time interracial marriage was actually considered controversial at one point, even illegal in some states, and races that weren't white were considered "other". Sort of still is looked down on, just more so even then, even within the coastal bubble. Not my fault, I wasn't even born yet.

Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton), returns from a vacation and introduces Dr. John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) the man she's going to marry. The mother (Katherine Hepburn) is shocked finding her daughter is going to marry a black man, but only worried about what her husband (Spencer Tracy) will think. He meets him and is impressed by Dr. Prentice's credentials, but is worried about what society will think. He's a newspaperman and social justice crusader but secretly doesn't approve. Father Ryan (Cecil Kellaway) comes to visit and doesn't even blink finding out about the marriage. John's parents (Roy Glenn Sr. and Beah Richards, who look nothing like this) come for dinner and his father feels the same way. Mr. Drayton gives a big speech at the end about how he's come around to accepting the marriage and gives his blessing.

There's a subplot not used here where the maid (Isabel Sanford a/k/a TV's Weezy) doesn't like it at all.

GUESS WHAT'S COMING TO DINNER!
Not Brand Ecch #13, May 1969
w: Stu Schwartzberg
a: Stu Schwartzberg & Tom Sutton

Marvel's known now for its diversity but they were just as white as everyone else at one time.

Spencer Tracy had previously been in Old Man and the Sea.

   -Tracy also starred in Judgement at Nuremberg.
   -"Heah come de judge" was a common phrase used by various comedians, at that time it would have been common with Flip Wilson and on Laugh-In.
   -Merry Marvel Marching Society was their in-house fan club and through their letters pages many fans became penpals.
   -"Is this the little girl I carried?" is a line from 'Sunrise, Sunset' in Fiddler on the Roof.

The daughter's fiancee here is Bruce Banner, alias the Incredible Hulk.

Here Hulk's parents are the Jolly Green Giant and Phyllis Diller. I guess Phyllis Diller because she made herself unattractive as part of her act.

In the movie there's a scene where the father relieves stress by going for a drive, stops over at an ice cream stand, and can't remember what flavor it is he likes. It's only about two minutes of the movie but they made a whole page out of it.

The new guy is Mangog (see illo below this page), a Thor villain who has yet to be in any of the movies. The other titles on the marquee are parodies of In the Heat of the Night and For the Love of Ivy, two other Sidney Poitier films.

This scene cracks me up because it has nothing to do with anything and has people you never see again and the only reason I can see for it being there is to further emphasize the changing times with young people and their miscegenation.