UNCLE NUTZY CLUBHOUSE

MAD LOOKS AT A TYPICAL KIDDIE TV SHOW
MAD #93, March 1965
w: Larry Siegel
a: Mort Drucker

From the 50s to the 90s, just about every independent and UHF channel had their own kiddie TV show, whether nationally syndicated like Howdy Doody and Soupy Sales, or locally, the type of show SCTV's Count Floyd or Simpsons' Krusty the Klown are parodies of. It was often a host in front of a live audience of children, built-in commercials, and some cartoons or shorts. Ask any baby boomer and they'll fondly remember growing up with one of these shows. They still exist today in some form on Nickelodeon.

MAD's version has the host caricatured as Phil Silvers.

In the trench is most likely senator Barry Goldwater, possibly Everett Dirksen. Parodies of kiddie shows usually ended with the host as a more cynical angry adult. On SCTV, the original premise was that they were a low-budget UHF channel in a local community, and the man who did their kiddie show was their anchorman as well.

THE MAJOR MOOSE SHOW
Cracked #126, August 1975
a: John Severin

This Cracked article used the same premise, and also had the host wearing the same pants as Uncle Nutzy.

The dartboard is Bob Keeshan a/k/a Captain Kangaroo.