OLD YALLER

OLD YELLER (1957)
dir: Robert Stevenson

If there's anything anyone remembers about Old Yeller, it's the ending, where a beloved dog has to be killed by the family because it was rabid. The ending has been parodied a few times.

THE CHICKEN KILLER
Cracked #30, July 1963
w: Jay Lynch
a: Bill Ward

Lynch will be remembered for his legacy as one of the undergrond pioneers, a contemporary of Crumb and Spiegelman, but as a teenager he started with Cracked and Sick. He theorized that they had nothing but the camera-ready page which they had worn out by taking the glued page on and off boards so many times from reprinting it again and again, they had no choice but to redraw it. Here it is again as the back cover for Cracked #168, May 1980, redrawn by Howard Nostrand.

Humbug did their version as well.

OLD YALLER
Humbug #10, June 1958
w: Larry Siegel
a: Will Elder

Kids in the Hall did more than one version of just the ending.