THE FOWL AND THE PRISSY CATS

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT (1970)
dir: Herbert Ross

THE FOUL AND THE PRISSY CATS
MAD #145, September 1971
w: Stan Hart
a: Angelo Torres

The parody concentrates on the fact that Streisand's character is profane throughout the movie and how movies in general have become more profane because of the recent ratings system.

Doris (Barbara Streisand) is a sex worker in New York caught in the rain coming home and gets a ride in a nearby car.

A dirty old man is in the car and Doris picks him up. Meanwhile, Felix Sherman (George Segal), an aspiring writer, lives in the same building and is coming home. His landlord is there and tells him of complaints his typewriter is making too much noise. At his apartment he hears the TV next door and looks out the window seeing Doris with the man and sees who she is. The landlord isn't there in the movie.

If you look closely, the newspaper has a picture of MAD art director Leonard “The Beard” Brenner

Doris has been evicted and seeks sanctuary in Felix's apartment in the middle of the night, despite not knowing him. She knows he was the one who ratted her out, though. He has a recording of attack dogs in case of a home invasion.

Doris gets a bad case of the hiccups and Felix scares her with a skeleton costume (he continues the scaring someone in a suit theme in Where's Poppa.) She flirts with him and talks really loud, and they both get evicted. He goes to his friend Barney (Robert Klein) to stay overnight.

Doris can't sleep without the television on, Felix reenacts a show through a fishtank, she gets offended by a story he's working on and they end up having sex.

not shown: Felix just wants to sleep and he gives Doris money to sleep at a Y. Barney and his wife can't stand overhearing their arguing, and it's now morning, so THEY leave.

Actually, there's a lot in the movie not used in the parody. Doris, working at a strip club, tries to turn off the volume of a football game at the club and gets kicked out. Felix discovers Doris in an X-rated movie and becomes intrigued with her even though they agreed they never want to see each other again. He works at a bookstore with Barney and Doris' friend Eleanor comics in to reimburse him for he money he gave her for the YMCA. Eleanor reiterates that Doris never wants to see him again but hints at where she is now and he runs to meet her. Then they have a conversation in a scene YouTube says is deleted (below) but it wasn't from the version I saw. Maybe it just means deleted from the MAD parody.

Earlier, Doris is annoyed by Felix's big vocabulary but has come around to trying to improve it. He shows her where he's been staying, the home of his fiancee's family while they're out of town. Felix is coming down with a fever, Doris nurses him back to health, then gets him stoned and they take a bath together. While in the bath, she tells him of her tricks. The family comes home early, sees them taking a bath together, and it turns out the father is one of her clients. The engagement is off, he's homeless again, he quits writing, and decides to start life all over again.