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Friday, January 20, 2023
NYPD BOOBS
NYPD BLUE
ABC 1993-2005
NYPD BOOBS
MAD #329, July/August 1994
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
The cover has Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), Laura Kelly (Sherry Stringfield), John Kelly (David Caruso), Lt. Arthur Fancy (James McDaniel), Janice Licalsi (Amy Brenneman), and producer Stephen Bochco.
The conceit of NYPD Blue, and what made it stand apart from other police shows, was that it flouted regular TV standards and had profanity and nudity, hence the title, and featured a disclaimer at the beginning of each episode.
The man who accidentally walked in is Alan Rachins, who played a character on L.A.Law, a previous series of Steven Bochco. Rev. Donald Wildmon was the head of a Christian media watchdog group called the Americam Family Association, obsessed with filth on TV.
The Rodney King tape was one of the first home videos to show police brutality before such a thing was exposed every day. The background of the panel with Giuliani has his son Andrew who as a kid was known for upstaging his father on TV. “Only your own base matters” isn't a joke that ages well considering what's happened in the intervening thirty years.
Sipowicz was the swearing, bigoted “bad cop” of the show. John and Laura Kelly used to be husband and wife. Nicholas Turturro, who played James Martinez, is drawn in one panel because he isn't used anywhere else in the parody.
NYPD BLUE MOON
Cracked #293, October 1994
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan
The comedy world was obsessed the Lorena Bobbitt incident in the nineties. I guess the idea of someone cutting their husband's penis off does write jokes for itself.
Detective Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) was a character added to the cast later.
The neighbor Wilson on Home Improvement was a character you only saw on the other side of the fence from the eyes up.
Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) was a radio call-in psychiatrist whose father lived with him.
SeaQuest was a series that took place in the near future (i.e. now) about undersea exploration that focused mainly on a dolphin character. Terry Rakolta was head of Americans for Responsible Television (there were a lot of these groups in the eighties and nineties) that started with her offense at Married: With Children.
It's outside the scope of the blog, but I'll just note that Mad revisited this show five years later, in #382. I think the only other shows they did twice were M*A*S*H and Cheers.
It's outside the scope of the blog, but I'll just note that Mad revisited this show five years later, in #382. I think the only other shows they did twice were M*A*S*H and Cheers.
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