JURASS-HAS-HAD-IT PARK

JURASSIC PARK (1993)
dir: Steven Spielberg

JURASS-HAS-HAD-IT PARK
MAD #323, December 1993
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker

Paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam McNeil) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) have been invited by John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), a wealthy industrialist, to be a part of his team developing Jurassic Park, a dinosaur theme park in an island off Costa Rica.

Rounding out the team are Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), a mathematician and chaos theorist, their lawyer Gennaro (Martin Ferrero), game warden Muldoon (Bob Peck), and Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight), an employee who tries to betray them. Joining them are John's grandchildren Lex (Ariana Richards) and Tim (Joseph Mazzello).

Given a tour, Alan and Ellie see dinosaurs up close. They are shown the film that parkgoers would also see during the orientation, explaining the dinosaurs are cloned from DNA obtained from prehistoric mosquitoes preserved in amber. When they are given a tour of the laboratory where the dinosaurs are developed, they are told that to make sure the dinosaurs don't reproduce, only females are cloned.

The meat eating dinosaurs are fed live cows and goats to sate their appetites. Raptors, or velociraptors, are also being bred there, a species of flesh-eating dinosaur of a higher intelligence that can solve problems like opening doors and figuring where objects are placed. One of the stegosauruses is sick and Ellie examines its stool to determine its diet and illness. Nedry tells the other employees he needs to fix the security system but he's really shutting it down so he can leave and sell dinosaur embryos to a rival business.

The crew and children are going on a preliminary tour in self-driving cars. Nedry's shutting off the electricity shut off the cars. It also cut off the electric fence protecting a Tyrannosaurus Rex from humans, so it escapes and attacks the cars. On his way out, Nedry gets caught in the mud and while trying to tow his car out, is attacked and killed by a dilophasaurus. One of the tour cars, which contains the children, goes off the rails and falls down a hill, and Alan runs out and saves them. In the beginning of the movie, it's established he hated kids, but bonds with these as he's stuck with them. At the main lab, one of the workers (Samuel Jackson) warns that the dinosaurs are all on the loose.

Alan and the kids return to safety to the main building, and leaves them alone for a second while he tries to find everyone and get them all back together. While he's gone, velociraptors descend on the main building and the children haveto hide in the building's kitchen. Alan return and they all crawl through the air vents to escape. They're saved at the last minute when the raptors are eaten by a T-Rex. Everyone escapes the island realizing Jurassic Park was never meant to be.

“Weird Al” Yankovic did a parody of MacArthur Park called Jurassic Park that was also used in MAD.

This was Sergio Aragones' take on the movie in the same issue.

Is that Dave Berg in the second strip?

This includes a couple scenes that weren't in the main parody-- Gennaro hiding in an outhouse to try to escape a T-Rex, and Tim being fried by the electric fence when the power goes back on.

Cracked #283, September 1993
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan

The MAD parody doesn't include the exposition used at the beginning, like Jurassic Park being developed, the doctors' paleontology work before meeting Mr. Hammond, and Dennis Nedry's arrangement to sell eggs to a competitor.

Ivan Boesky was a stock trader convicted of insider trading.

This was Don Martin's take a couple issues later. He probably hadn't seen the movie.

Cover to Brazilian edition.

And of course every Jurassic Park parody had to include Barney.