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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The Broadway musical that became a movie (and remade a couple years ago) was parodied a few times. The premise, based on Romeo and Juliet, about members of two rival gangs falling in love, lent itself to the issues of other then-current rivalries.
EAST SIDE STORY
MAD #78, April 1963
w: Frank Jacobs
a: Mort Drucker
When Mort Drucker died a few years ago, this was cited as one of the pieces he was the most proud of. Instead of the Sharks and the Jets in a pre-gentrified Upper West Side, the backdrop is the newly-founded United Nations and the leaders of the Western World versus leaders of Eastern bloc countries. Here we have Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia, Wladyslaw Gomolka of Poland, and Fidel Castro of Cuba among other communist nations representing a gang led by Nikita Kruschev. A lot of the world leaders aren't likenesses of anyone in partocular.
The Western nations are a gang led by JFK that included Charles DeGaulle of France and Harold MacMillan of the United Kingdom,
Barry Goldwater is in the Western gang as well.
WEST COAST STORY
MAD #142, April 1971
w: Frank Jacobs
a: Jack Davis
With campus protests in the news just this week, this article is another example of history repeating itself.
CURLYLOCKS AND THE THREE HOODS
Sick #12, March 1962
BEST SIDE STORY
Not Brand Ecch #6, February 1968
w: Gary Friedrich
a: Tom Sutton
This takes on the rivalry between Marvel and DC (or “Distinguished Competition” as Marvel called them). Dr. Strange and Wonder Woman fall in love.
Leonard Bernstein composed the music for West Side Story.
Here are a couple parodies very loosely based on The Untouchables I didn't use before. I posted parodies of the TV show and the movie in March. Both were based on the true story of Prohibition Agent Elliott Ness and his battle against Al Capone.
THE UNMENTIONABLES
Little Dot Dotland #10, January 1964
artist and writer unknown
This was on after the show so it's possible the story was reprinted from somewhere. Little Lotta could be fat-shaming or body-positive depending on how you look at it.
THE UNMENTIONABLES
Help! V2 #7, October 1963
w: Charles Alverson
Help! was about 75% filler, a lot of reprints and stock photos, but among the remaining 25% you can find gems on a par with any of the other projects Harvey Kurtzman worked on. A lot of Robert Crumb's first work appeared there as did that of many of his underground peers. Gloria Steinem and Terry Gilliam were two of Kurtzman's assistants at different times. Early on he did some collaborations with Will Elder. It's not a big deal now that they reprinted Krazy Kat and The Spirit, but its a different perspective when you realize there were no collections of them in the mid-sixties.
Kurtzman had a budget of virtually nothing and instead of hiring artists for some articles did photo fumettis that he directed, based on an idea he'd seen in Italian and Spanish comics, and had actors that worked for free, often lured into it by Steinem. In this fumetti you can spot a young Woody Allen and a young Terry Gilliam among others.
