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Saturday, October 22, 2022
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MAD #261, March 1986
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Mort Drucker
If one were to ask what the eighties was like, this would be it. The colors, the fashions, the music, etc. It was just the eighties personified. That's all I have to say about that.
As the title says, it was about the police department, specifically the vice squad, in the city of Miami. The main characters were Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Ricardo Tubbs (Phillip Michael Thomas). Their supervisor was Lt. Marty Castillo (Edward James Olmos). Other detectives were Gina (Saundra Santiago) and Trudy (Olivia Brown)
Snoopy was used as the mascot for the Metropolitan Life bank in the eighties. It seems every time someone has a name similar to 'Ricardo', the pun for their name is something that's considered a slur now but wasn't 35 years ago and I have to explain that to people who weren't born yet, so here I go again. I'm not going to comb over posts again in 2040 for what will be problematic in the future. That's something people will have to figure out for themselves.
The show was an unofficial commercial for fashions.
The program often used the latest hits to carry scenes, similar to music videos, another element epitomizing the eighties.
From When American TV Programs Are Shown in Russia in MAD #272, July 1987, by Silverstone and Angelo Torres.
Cover to Mexican edition. I guess the joke is how they go undercover and Florida is full of alligators. I don't know if it's also a pun on how the Don Johnson character's name is similar to Croc. Crocodiles are on the other hemisphere though.
Same with the German edition.
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Cracked #216, November 1985
a: John Reiner
In the office are detectives Cagney and Lacey, and the Mort Drucker newspaper character Benchley. John Reiner was an assistant to Drucker at the same time he was imitating him.
On page 3 of the Mad parody, the guy in the Spy Vs. Spy t-shirt is a reader who won a contest.
ReplyDeleteMark Bode, son of Vaughn, did a funny animal comics series parodying the show, called Miami Mice.