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.

DRAG UPDATES

Came across a bunch of spoofs from Drag Cartoons, most of which were not parodied by other magazines. Drag Cartoons was a spinoff of CARToons, which published a slew of auto-themed humor magazines, and was published out of the West Coast by Petersen Publishing, using artists primarily based in California.

ONE STEP BEYOND
ABC 1959-1961

ONE SHIFT BEYOND
Drag Cartoons #1, June-July 1963

Hosted by John Newland, this was an anthology series dealing with short stories about the supernatural similar to Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.

CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU?
NBC 1961-1963
CAR FORTY, WHERE ARE YOU?
Drag Cartoons #1, June-July 1963

Gunther Toody (Joe E. Ross) and Francis Muldoon (Fred Gwynne) were two New York City cops in this sitcom, Muldoon the more bookish one and Toody more working class and known for his catchphrase “Oo! Oo!”

DR. KILDARE
1961-1966 NBC

DR. KILDEAR
Drag Cartoons #2, December 1963
a: Alexander Toth

Dr. Kildare (Richard Chamberlain) is the young intern working in the shadow of Dr. Gillespie.

Raymond Massey had previously plated Abraham Lincoln.

Ben Casey (Chad Everett) was the other “Dr. McDreamy” on TV at the time and also had a mentor (Sam Jaffe).

HIGH NOON (1952)
dir: Fred Zinneman

HIGH GEAR
Drag Cartoons #5, July 1964
a:Dennis Ellefson

Western about a marshal (Gary Cooper) conflicted between facing a gang of killers or abandoning them to leave town with his wife. The team here seems to have taken this more from the Kurtzman/Davis MAD parody Hah! Noon than the movie itself.

MOVIE SPOOF: THE PINK PANTHER

THE PINK PANTHER (1963)
dir: Blake Edwards

THE PINK PANTHER
Sick #31, September 1964

The original poster was drawn by MAD artist Jack Rickard.

The Pink Panther spawned several sequels and two different cartoon series, and two remakes. The Pink Panther was the name of a diamond, not the nickname for Inspector Clouseau as many erroneously believe. The first few had the character of Inspector Clouseau played by Peter Sellers, and after his death there were a similar characters played by other actors, and after the death of director Edwards, the series was remade with Steve Martin.

Each movie had a long opening animated sequence of Inspector Clouseau chasing an anthropomorphised Pink Panther. The Panther itself was in a series of theatrical shorts, the first of which won an Academy Award.
The Inspector had a cartoon series as well.

ONE MAN'S WAY

ONE MAN'S WAY (1963)
dir: Denis Sanders
Sick #28, May 1964

Another instance where I couldn't find the trailer but the whole movie's on YouTube.

ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE A FUNNY GIRL SINGING "HELLO DOLLY" FOREVER

ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (1970)
dir: Vincente Minelli

FUNNY GIRL (1968)
dir: William Wyler

HELLO,DOLLY (1969)
dir: Gene Kelly

ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE A FUNNY GIRL SINGING “HELLO DOLLY” FOREVER
MAD #143, June 1971
w: Frank Jacobs
a: Mort Drucker

Parody not of one particular movie but a compilation of the three movies Barbara Streiand had done to date.

In On a Clear Day..., Marc Chabot (Yves Montand) is a psychiatrist that uses hypnosis on his clients. He gets Daisy Gamble (Barbara Steisand) to quit smoking and in doing so.reveals she was a noblewoman in a past life. In this, her past lives are characters from her previous movies. The first one was Funny Girl, a biopic about Fanny Brice.

Fanny Brice is a vaudeville performer who falls for gangster Nicky Arnstein (Omar Sharif). He eventually takes her to meet Flo Ziegfield (Walter Pidgeon) who makes her a part of his troupe.

They separate after Nicky becomes involved in a bonds scheme.

Sharif had been in Lawrence of Arabia. Streisand was married to Elliott Gould at the time.

Hello, Dolly was a musical that took place in 1890 and was about matchmaker Dolly Levi (also Streisand) who, while trying to find a wife for Horace Vandergelder(Walter Matthau) ends up falling for him.

The big number in the movie is Louis Armstrong singing the title song.
Directors Vincente Minelli, William Wyler, and Gene Kelly are feature in the next to last panel.

Come Back to Me was actually sung by Montand's character but whatever.

From MAD's Celebrity Feature Merchandising Gimmicks by Phil Hahn and Jack Rickard in MAD #90, October 1964. The guy with the nose slightly resembles Saturday Night Live cast member James Austin Johnson, though he wouldn't be born until almost 35 years later.

NEVER ON SAT., SUN., OR HOLIDAYS

NEVER ON SUNDAY (1960)
dir: Jules Dassin

NEVER ON SAT., SUN., OR HOLIDAYS
MAD #87, June 1964
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker

Never On Sunday was a film about a scholar in Greece (Jules Dassin) who set about to tame a prostitute (Melina Mercouri) and she ends up taming him as well. Here she is a football player and he tries to get her to settle down and make her into a cheerleader.

From Kids' Versions of Adult Movies in MAD #87.

MR. NUDNIK

MR. NOVAK
NBC 1963-1965

MR. NUDNIK
MAD #91, December 1964
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Mort Drucker

I guess it's inspirational teacher week. That's only because we have several shows in a row with “Mr.” in their title. Anyway, this was a TV drama about John Novak (James Fransiscus), a first-year English teacher at Jefferson High that often addressed issues of the day.

The assistant principal was Jean Pagano (Jeanne Bal) and the principal was Albert Vane (Dean Jagger)

Vince Edwards, Dick Chamberlain, and Robert Reed were the stars of Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, and The Defenders.

From The Comedy Trend on TV in Cracked #50, March 1966, art By Bill Ward

MOE GUMBO/ MONDO CANDY CANE

MOGAMBO (1953)
dir: John Ford


MONDO CANE (1963)
dir: Pietro Jacopetti

Here we have a racist two-fer. Even though I never put two unrelated movies in one post I'll make an exception this time, since the white guilt in me doesn't want people to assume this is just a blog with comics about cannibals. I say things like this all the time, and some of you probably ask “Why not just omit things you think are racist?” People have their own levels of tolerance and there'd be other ones that aren't so blatant that people would say “well what about this or this” so I figured deciding what the restrictions should be would be even more of a bother. The films themselves have a condescending colonialist attitude about them but aren't specifically reliant on African stereotypes, it's the parodies that concentrate on those aspects.

MOE GUMBO
Crazy #6, May 1954
w: Stan Lee
a: Howie Post

Mogambo was about a love triangle between safari explorer Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, and showgirl Ava Gardner, with the safari setting as a backdrop. This appears to be a story that uses the title of a successful movie and doesn't caricature likenesses of the actors.

MONDO CANDY CANE
MAD #87, June 1964
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker

Mondo Cane is an Italian documentary about the weirdest and most shocking parts of the world. “Primitive” Africa only makes up some of the scenes, but this parody concentrates only on those parts.

From the article Kids' Versions of Adult Movies.

This quotes pop songs Witch Doctor, The Hut-Sut Song, and Flat Foot Floogie (With a Floy Floy).