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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IN THE OUT EXIT
MAD #118, January 1968
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
The film is called that because the teacher the movie focuses on, Sylvia Barrett (Sandy Dennis), enters the school the wrong way on her first day. She's immediately burdened with forms and regulations by the front officer (Jean Stapleton) and is inexperienced dealing with the problem children of her classroom.
The bottom panel has James Franciscus as Mr. Novak and Sidney Poitier from To Sir, With Love, two other actors from the “cool teacher” genre prevalent in the sixties.
Miss Barrett makes friends with the other teachers during lunch, such as Henrietta Pastorfield (Eileen Eckhardt) and the principal Dr. Bester (Sorrell Booke). Mr. McHabe (Roy Poole), brings in Joe Ferone (Jeff Howard), a truant under-achieving delinquent.
Paul Berringer (Patrick Bedford) is a teacher that hits on Miss Barrett. She has a student who's abused at home who she takes to the nurse, who isn't allowed to touch the students.
Miss Barrett sees potential in Joe Ferone and tries to get through to him but he only pulls weapons on her, and she later looks up his school record.
Alice (Ellen O'Mara) is a student in love with Mr. Barringer and tries to express it through a poem, but he only corrects her grammar, so she jumps out a window. Miss Barrett has an open house and Joe is the only one to show up without parents.
Joe tries to move in on Miss Barrett after all the parents leave but she rebuffs him and the incident scares her into resigning after the semester ends. After continuing and finding she changed the lives of the rest of her students, she decides to stay after all.
MAD never actually did a parody of The Tonight Show, but everyone caricatured here has a show that was parodied by them which has been or will be posted here. Featured are Alan Alda (M*A*S*H), Tom Selleck (Magnum, P. I.), Larry Hagman (Dallas), Dan Rather (60 Minutes), Mary Tyler-Moore, Joan Collins (Dynasty), Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd (Moonlighting), Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas (Miami Vice), Bob Denver(Gilligan's Island), Ted Danson (Cheers), Bob Newhart (Newhart), Alan Thicke (Growing Pains), Pat Sajak and Vanna White (Wheel of Fortune), Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Tony Danza (Who's the Boss?), Bill Cosby (The Cosby Show), and Joan Rivers, an occasional guest host who later had her own talk show on Fox, The Muppets are all nondescript.
THE TONAUGHT SHOW WITH JOHNNY CARESNONE
Crazy #85, April 1982
w: Murad Gumen
a: Kent Gamble
At the time this was written, this was basically the only late night talk show in existence. The ones that exist now with a monologue, a comedy sketch, celebrity interviews, and a comedian or musician, were basically patterned after this.
Ed McMahon was the announcer of the show, Doc Severinsen usually was bandleader, but Tommy Newsome ocassionally filled in as announcer and bandleader. Carson himself often had guest hosts when he took a day off, one of his more frequent hosts was comedian David Brenner.
Stump the Band was a regular routine they did, where an audience would mentiona song title and the band would play it. The bit was that they almost never knew the song and would make one up.
Ed McMahon often did commercials built into the show. Usually for Alpo dog food. Joan Embry of the San Diego Zoo was a frequent guest that would bring on a species unfamiliar to Carson that he'd usually be scared of.
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Being a comedian on a talk show used to be a bigger deal than it was when 15% of the country actually saw you on TV. Back then, several guest would sit with the host at once and getting to sit at the desk next to Carson meant you were “made”.
Loni Anderson was the 15-minute sex symbol then.
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE HAPPENING
Cracked #65, November 1967
a: John Severin
A weird time when middle-age people were trying to relate to this hippie stuff. Here's Liberace playing a beat club with Jimmy Durante in attendance.
The comedy stylings of Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, and Soupy Sales were somehow different from what Carson's sketches. Cracked must have known some subtlties that were way over everyone's heads.
COMEDIAN OF THE MONTH: JOHNNY CARSON
Sick #99, August 1974
artist and writer unknown
MAD again. From TV Theme Songs by Frank Jacobs and Sam Viviano from #266, October 1986. The article had lyrics to theme songs that didn't have them, though it did before becoming the show's theme.
STAR BLECCH
MAD #115, December 1967
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker
Welcome to part one of twelve days we look at MAD, Cracked, and co,'s versions of the Star Trek franchise. We start with The Original Series that the spinoffs and movies evolved from. There are even more series than the ones parodied in the two weeks ahead and there continue to be more.
The premise of the show is explained in the opening. It's basically the first week of first year nerdspeak at this point, though I may explain aspects as if nobody's ever heard of the show before. It took place three hundred years into the future aboard the Starship Enterprise, exploring and discovering new worlds. Part of the main crew mas Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), executive officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols)
Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is the ship's doctor.
Scotty (James Doohan), Sulu (George Takei), Chekhov (Walter Koenig), and Nurse Chapel (Majel Barrett) are not in this parody but were used years later in MAD's musical.
Barbary Coast was a short-lived Western series starring Shatner.
Another appearance by Don Martin characters in this too.
Shatner covered Beatles and Bob Dylan songs as well on some of the vanity albums he and Nimoy made.
from Obituaries for TV Characters in #194, October 1977.
from When TV Programs Are Shown in Russia in #272, July 1987.
STAR WREK
Sick #120, April 1978
a: Jack Sparling
Now back to make things make of sense again... by comparison I mean. Here's a drawing that was in Starlog, art by MAD's Jack Rickard no less.
STAR CLUCK
Muppet Magazine #15, Summer 1987
w: Louise Gikow and Jim Lewis
a: Nate Butler
But that's not all. Stay tuned tomorrow for all the parodies Cracked did of the show.
THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR
CBS 1967-1969, 1988-1989
Tom and Dick Smothers came to prominence in the mid-sixties as a comedy team/folk duo with several hit records and then a TV show. Most of their act consisted of them starting a song and, Tom, the dumber one, interrupting, and often it would evolve into sibling rivalry.
This was the back cover for Cracked #76, May 1969.
THE SMOTHERED BROTHERS SHOW
Cracked Collectors Edition #77, January 1989
w: Peter Bagge
a: Rob Orzechowski
They brought the show back with a few specials twenty years later, recycling a lot of the same material they did then.
In the late 80s much of Paul Simon's material was co-opted from native African songs.
Pat Paulsen for President was a recurring bit they had with one of their regular cast members. Here they show a comedy sketch is no different from the campaigns of Pat Robertson, George H.W. Bush, Jerry Brown, or Jesse Jackson. Tea Time with Goldie was a bit they did with one of their cast members (Leigh French) giving a monologue with marijuana innuendos.
SUNDAY NIGHT RATING BATTLE
Cracked #65, November 1967
a: John Severin
When the show premiered, it was on opposite long-running series Bonanza.
At one time Woody Allen was just a guy who made films, but before that he was just a comic.
They were always in danger of being kicked off the air for digs at religion and Vietnam and the Nixon administration that wouldn't even register with anyone today, This is from MAD #122, August 1968.
This is one of the controversial jokes they were suspended for. Beware, you and your entire family could be jailed for life without trial just for your knowing it exists.
The Brothers Brothers was a recurring bit on In Living Color.
