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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Friday, August 11, 2023
THE SIMPLESONS
THE SIMPSONS
FOX 1989-present
One of those “unless you've been living under a rock” shows I need not describe further. I've even used clips from it here as examples of parodies. It's a shadow of its former self but remains an anchor show for Fox, not only the longest-running prime time show but the only show that's been there since the beginning of the network if you include the interstitials from The Tracey Ullman Show. The first few years it was everywhere with Bart hyped as star of the show.
MAD never did a proper parody of it, but they did a special Simpsons issue.
The audience member in the Andrew “Dice” Clay panel is Saturday Night Live cast member Nora Dunn, who refused to be on the show the week he hosted.
Maggie eventually talked on one episode, voiced by Liz Taylor. The spread contains caricatures of both MAD staff and Simpsons crew members.
People with Facebook still “Simpsonize” themselves in their profile pictures twenty years after such a thing started as a fad.
Who these people are is pretty self-explanatory.
I'm always pointing out “things you couldn't do today”, and even The Simpsons has some of that and makes reference to it.
Some of the MAD staffers have pointed out that Al Jaffee was the only one who could do the Fold-In. They tried to have other artists do it and it never worked. In this issue his genius went further by setting you up to think the fold-in would be one thing...
...but turn out to be something else.
For a long time The Simpsons aired opposite The Cosby Show occasionally taking digs at it, and even basing a character on him.
CRACKED INTERVIEWS THE SIMPERSONS
Cracked #258, November 1990
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Gary Fields
The bylines are a play on Matt Groening's name.
THE SIMPLESONS
Cracked #257, October 1990
w: Rich Kriegel (Lou Silverstone)
a: Gary Fields
WHEN ALL TV REFLECTS THE SIMPSONS INFLUENCE
Cracked #260, January 1991
w: George Gladir
a: John Severin<
Letterman's NBC show had a segment called “Stupid Pet Tricks” where people would bring on their pets as problem solvers.
As everyone knows, the O.J. Simpson trial was also going on in the 90s, so it was inevitable that everyone and their mom would make this analogy.
THE SIMPSON
Cracked #295, December 1994
w: Greg Grabianski
a: Don Orehek
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