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
There was another spoof of Kojak in Sick, also called Kojerk but drawn by Jerry Grandenetti. It first ran in #103, and then again in the 1975 Yearbook.
Also, in the first issue of International Insanity (which is the only one currently in the Archive), Paul Laikin had a story called A Poke In Your Private Eye. It references a whole bunch of cop shows, but Kojak is the main character. (Weirdly, it's a four-page story that credits six inkers.)
In the Mad parody, at the end of page 2, the "out-of-towner from San Francisco" is Karl Malden, who starred as a cop in The Streets of San Francisco, and also did commercials for American Express travelers checks.
In the first Cracked parody, the guy referenced in the introduction is Edd "Kookie" Byrnes from 77 Sunset Strip.
Severin made a couple substitutions to the cast. For the chief, he drew J.D. Cannon, who played the chief in McCloud. (Oddly, he hadn't included the guy when he'd drawn the spoof of McCloud.) And for the other, non-Savalas detective, Severin drew Michael Douglas, who had also starred on The Streets of San Francisco.
In the first panel of page 5, the other cop is Richard Widmark, from the movie and TV series Madigan.
When Cracked did their second Kojak parody, his partner was played by Andre Braugher.
There was another spoof of Kojak in Sick, also called Kojerk but drawn by Jerry Grandenetti. It first ran in #103, and then again in the 1975 Yearbook.
ReplyDeleteAlso, in the first issue of International Insanity (which is the only one currently in the Archive), Paul Laikin had a story called A Poke In Your Private Eye. It references a whole bunch of cop shows, but Kojak is the main character. (Weirdly, it's a four-page story that credits six inkers.)
In the Mad parody, at the end of page 2, the "out-of-towner from San Francisco" is Karl Malden, who starred as a cop in The Streets of San Francisco, and also did commercials for American Express travelers checks.
In the first Cracked parody, the guy referenced in the introduction is Edd "Kookie" Byrnes from 77 Sunset Strip.
Severin made a couple substitutions to the cast. For the chief, he drew J.D. Cannon, who played the chief in McCloud. (Oddly, he hadn't included the guy when he'd drawn the spoof of McCloud.) And for the other, non-Savalas detective, Severin drew Michael Douglas, who had also starred on The Streets of San Francisco.
In the first panel of page 5, the other cop is Richard Widmark, from the movie and TV series Madigan.
When Cracked did their second Kojak parody, his partner was played by Andre Braugher.
The Mexican edition of Mad did their own parody of the show in #7, called "Cocojack".
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