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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Monday, April 22, 2024
THE DULLTONS
THE WALTONS
CBS 1972-1981
THE DULLTONS
MAD #165, March 1974
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Angelo Torres
The Waltons was a long-running show about a family during the Depression, opening each week with the family getting together on the porch bringing home a newfangled radio.
It starred John “John-Boy” Walton (Richard Anderson), a writer, his father John Sr. (Ralph Waite), mother Olivia (Michael Learned), grandfather Zebulon (Will Geer), and a lot of siblings.
Ike Godsey (Joe Consley) ran the general store.
Each show ended with an exterior shot of the house with each member of the family saying goodnight. Besides the aforementioned cast members, there was Grandma (Ellen Corby), “Jim-Bob” (David Harper), Mary Ellen (Judy Norton), Erin (Mary Elizabeth McDonough), Jason (John Walmsley), Ben (Eric Scott). Kami Cotler. Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy are on the radio here.
From Obituaries for TV Show Characters in MAD #194, by Frank Jacobs.
From The MAD TV Coroner's Report by Stan Hart in #227, December 1981.
Cover for German edition.
THE WALLED-INS
Cracked #115, January 1974
a: John Severin
Often a present-day John-Boy (Earl Hamner, creator of the show) would narrate the episode.
The TVA, The Tennessee Valley Authority is what brought electricity and plumbing to rural areas. John-Boy was Earl Hamner's alter ego.
From What Today's Program's Would Look Like if They Appeared in 2001 A.D. in Cracked #132, May 1976, also drawn by John Severin
From If The Fonz Guest Starred on Other Shows in #137, November 1976, illustrated by Don Orehek.
From If Frankenstein Did Guest Appearances on TV from #151, July 1978, drawn by Howard Nostrand.
Carol Burnett's take on the show.
THE WALNUTS
Crazy #3. March 1974
a: Marv Wolfman
w: Marie Severin
Dusty's Trail was a sitcom with Bob Denver that was basically Gilligan's Island set in the Wild West.
THE BRAWLTONS
Sick #118. December 1977
a: Jack Sparling
From an issue-length look at TV narrated by various TV personalities, including Dr. Joyce Brothers.
In the Mad parody, in the fifth panel of the second page, there's a cameo by the leads of the movie adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath: John Carradine, Jane Darwell, and Henry Fonda.
In the Cracked parody, page 3 ends with a joke about Clifford Irving. He was infamous for having written a fraudulent 'autobiography' of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.
The last page of the Crazy parody makes mention of the Loud family. They were the subjects of the PBS documentary series An American Family, sort of a prototype of reality TV.
In the Mad parody, in the fifth panel of the second page, there's a cameo by the leads of the movie adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath: John Carradine, Jane Darwell, and Henry Fonda.
ReplyDeleteIn the Cracked parody, page 3 ends with a joke about Clifford Irving. He was infamous for having written a fraudulent 'autobiography' of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes.
The last page of the Crazy parody makes mention of the Loud family. They were the subjects of the PBS documentary series An American Family, sort of a prototype of reality TV.