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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Showing posts with label 77 SUNSET STRIP. Show all posts
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AROUND THE WORLD WITH U. S. TELEVISION
MAD #54, July 1960
w: Larry Siegel
a: Wallace Wood
Remember that at one time, it was okay to make fun of ethnic groups.
Actually, this isn't that bad. It's basically first-world stereotypes anyway. But what do I know? Being a 52-year-old-white guy means I'm not as hip to the twitter wokeverse as a lot of people. Maybe I'm making too big a deal.
We begin with a parody of the long-running sitcom Father Knows Best, its premise was just a family with three kids. It all took place at the home. The husband, Jim (Robert Young) would come home to his wife Margaret (Jane Wyatt). His oldest daughter was Betty (Elinor Donahue), The son, Bud, here modeled after Marlon Brando in The Wild One was played by Billy Gray. The youngest daughter is Cathy (Lauren Chapin). Here, the wife leave him for Riley (William Bendix) of Life of Riley.
The picture in the third panel is of Prime Minister Harold McMillan. The wife leaves Jim for a British version of Kookie from 77 Sunset Strip.
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The oldest daughter in this doesn't look like her, but is modeled after Brigitte Bardot, French actress known for appearing scantily clad in films. The picture on the wall is of Charles DeGaulle and if you look closely you will notice Toulouse-Lautrec out the window.
I don't know the reason for the picture of Gen. MacArthur in the last panel. Maybe they didn't know who the leader of Japan was. The man in the last panel is a Japanese version of Paladin from Have Gun, Will Travel
The copyright holders are really protective, so it's hard to find clips.
TV series about detective (Peter Falk) whose unassuming appearance makes suspects think he's not as smart as he looks. The fact that he appears “stupid” is comedy gold for the parody magazines.
Peter Falk was one of a long line of celebrities who wrote in showing themselves reading their appearance in the magazine.
One of his ways of solving a crime was his line “Just one more thing...” after what seemed like the end of his questioning.
Columbo had no words to his theme song, so one was written for him in Singable Theme Songs for TV Shows by Frank Jacobs and Angelo Torres in MAD #168, July 1974.
COLUMBORE
Cracked #110, August 1973
a: John Severin
The other two detectives in the last panel are Clint Eastwood and Jack Webb.
The two cops in the middle panel are Don Knotts and Fred MacMurray.
WHAT ARE THE OLD TV AND MOVIE DETECTIVES DOING TODAY?
Cracked #121, November 1974
a: John Severin
Cracked also did a piece about Columbo's retirement.
COLUMBOOB
Sick #96, December 1973
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Tony Tallarico
The woman entering the office is feminism spokesperson Gloria Steinem.
Steinway is a piano brand.
“Should a gentlemen offer a women a Tiparillo” was a cigarette ad campaign.
There was an ad campaign for Right Guard deodorant where two people shared a medicine cabinet.
Back then feminism was even more misunderstood than now and people who wrote things like this believed women really wanted to stay stereotypical housewives underneath it all.
UPDATE:
COLUMBO
cover for Kaputt, German version of Cracked,
Stu Bailey- Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
Jeff Spencer- Roger Smith
Gerald “Kookie” Kookson- Edd Byrnes
777 SUNSET STRIP
MAD #52, January 1960
w: Larry Siegel
a: Mort Drucker
Kookie was the breakout star, not given top billing yet, but would by the end of the show. Kind of the Fonz of his time.
Maybe that's an equally dated reference. Who would be the equivalent now?
The main stars were intended to be heart-throbs.
Because the client for their newest case is not attractive by Hollywood standards, they pawn her off on Paladin (Richard Boone), mercenary from Have Gun, Will Travel.
Kookie parked cars next door at Dino's Lodge, the real life lounge of Dean Martin.
Peter Gunn tells them they'd better shape up.
There were five issues of a comic book of this series published, drawn by Alex Toth.
UPDATE:
77 PENNSY STRIP
Help! #10, May 1961
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Bill Elder
The premise here is that the New Frontier of the Kennedys has glamourized the Presidency the same way everthing else on television is glamourizesd.
The secretary is meant to be Jackie Kennedy. During Kennedy's election ballots in Illinois were disposed of. The names are being removed from the door because they were the former President and V.P.
Police chief Hammerhold is meant to be UN Secretary-General Dag Hammorskjold. Fidel Castro's Beard is compared to that of the Smith Brothers' Cough Drops mascot. Krushchev is carrying an ice skate because he was often portrayed holding a shoe, known for banging it on a table at a United Nations meeting and shouting “We will bury you!”.
