JAWS 3, PEOPLE 0

JAWS 3-D (1983)
dir: Jose Alves

+ With the successes of the first two movies, the first one then being the highest-grossing movie of all time behind Star Wars and later E. T., and Jaws 2 being the highest grossing sequel at that point, it was inevitable there'd be a third one. None of the people from the first two were involved, it didn't even take place in the same location for that matter, and was shot in 3-D to cash in on the 3-D revival that was being used then, most notably for “threequels” (Friday the 13th Part 3-D, Amityville 3-D).

This is similar to Cracked's Godfather, Part 2 parody of a few years earlier, which parodies the idea of movies having sequels more than the actual plot, and uses the same number.

THE MAKING OF JAWZ #23
Cracked #198, October 1983
a: John Severin

Nanny Dickering was the reporter for the magazine. Originally she looked like however the artist who drew her depicted her, then when pin-up artist Bill Ward drew her looking all dolled up like all his women, that's how she looked thereafter.

This version used an old Sheriff Brody (Roy Scheider) even though the franchise moved on from the character by then.

They just reprinted their Godfather mash-up from a few years earlier.

An older Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) is used as well.

SICK TAKES YOU ON THE SET OF JAWS 3
Sick Special #1, 1980
a: Bill Burke

Jaws 3 was originally meant to be a comedy and titled Jaws 3, People 0, produced by National Lampoon, written by John Hughes, and directed by Joe Dante, about a real shark attack on the set of a Jaws sequel. After Animal House became the biggest comedy of all time, Universal thought this would be a sure thing, but apparently didn't want to risk it and pulled the plug. Sometimes you can find the script online, but the studio often finds it and gets it taken down. Judging from the next two movies National Lampoon made (one closed after a week, the other went direct-to-video three years later with twenty minutes cut), who knows if it would have been any good?

Another Land-Shark sketch from Saturday Night Live.