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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TV detective show about Det. Theodopolus Kojak (Telly Savalas). One of the other detectives was Stavros (George Savalas). His boss was Capt. McNeil (Dan Frazer).
His partner was Bobby Crocker (Kevin Dobson).
Being bald and sucking lollipops were his trademarks as well as saying “Who loves ya, baby?”. In this parody, Detective Rizzo (Vince Conti) is murdered.
The actor who played Stavros was Telly Savalas' brother in real life.
From If Today's Sex Symbols Weren't In Show Biz in MAD #194, October 1977, by Lou Silverstone and Harry North.
From TV Spinoffs Yet to Comein #206, April 1979, by Tom Koch and Harry North.
German edition of MAD
BEAUJACK
Cracked #122, January 1975
a: Charles Rodrigues (John Severin)
This cover is referencing Serpico, an undercover cop played by Al Pacino. I'm not sure if his beard is about to be shaved off as well.
Yet another attempt to fit in Marlon Brando as the Godfather.
The suspect is Yul Brynner, another well-known follicularly challenged actor. His son is Grasshopper from Kung Fu.
From The Effect of the Energy Crisis on the Entertainment World in Cracked #119, September 1974.
From What Today's TV Programs Would Look Like If They Appeared in 2001 A. D. in #132, May 1976.
I thought this was a parody of the rerun, but there was apparently a reboot in 1990 I didn't know about.
KOJERK
Cracked #255, August 1990
w: Tony Frank (Lou Silverstone)
a: Walter Brogan
TYPICAL SPORTS MOVIE OF THE PAST/FUTURE
Mad #153, September 1972
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Jack Davis
Knute Rockne was a sports bio-pic about rponymous Notre Dame football player (Pat O'Brien) and eventually becomes coach for their Fightin' Irish team. George Gipp (Ronald Reagan) becomes their star player but gets struck with an illness, and as he's dying, tells his coach to “win one for the Gipper”, making the team even more legendary.
The new version is about how the players are all drug-using hippies in it for sex, money, and fame. This story was imitated by Crazy.
KNUT RIDER
MAD #241, September 1983
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Angelo Torres
Show about Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff) and his car KITT (voiced by William Daniels), a super-intelligent, talking car that solved crimes together. Knight was a policeman named long shot in the line of duty and given a new identity by Knight Industries Two Thousand (What KITT is an acronym for).
Knight's boss was Devon (Edward Mulhare), head of FLAG, Foundation for Law and Government. His love interest was KITT's technician Bonnie Barstow (Patricia McPherson)
The Dukes of Hazzard and The Fall Guy were other concurrent shows with high-speed car chases that often had the cars flying through the air.
Cover for Mexican edition.
KNUT RIDER
Cracked #193, March 1983
a: John Severin
They did a crossover with Dukes of Hazzard but this was the one time they just parodied this show alone.
Another Dukes of Hazzard comparison. And Laverne and Shirley on the television.
KNUT RIDER
Bananas #62, c. 1983
w: Jovial Bob Stine
a: Samuel B. Whitehead
KISS ME STUPID (1964)
dir: Billy Wilder
Sick #37, June 1965
This was in the same issue as the magazine's Playboy parody, so it must have been considered a part of that. It was weird for Sick to always do parodies of movies that were straight comedies, but that's what they got publicity stills from.
The joke in the first photo was that Walston played a martian in My Favorite Martian.
