Took a while longer than I thought to comeback but here I am again. And having been gone for so long I have a buttload of updates that'll last a whole month now. So let's start, shall we?
Usually, I start with a trailer or clip to the show or movie being parodied, but in these cases I already did that, so each heading is a link to the post it's updating. The post also summarizes the plots and premises, which I usually do, but since the link has most of the info, I won't get into it much here.
THE A-TEAM
1983-1987 NBC
THE F-TEAM
Bananas #66, circa 1983
w: Jovial Bob Stine
a: Sam Viviano
ALIEN NATION
1989-1990 FOX
ALIEN RATION
Barf #2, July 1990
w: Herb Shapiro
a: Ken Landgraf
Barf was Revolutionary Comics' short-lived entrance into the humor magazine field. They were primarily known for
Rock n Roll Comics and various spin-offs. They were cut short when the publisher Todd Loren was mysteriously murdered in the early nineties, further fueling conspiracies they were known for espousing as well.
Alien Nation was both a movie and TV show. This loosely parodied the latter.
ALIEN³ (1992)
dir: David Fincher
Australian MAD #319, June 1993
w & a: Andrew Goodall
The Australian version of
MAD, in addition to parodying their own movies and TV shows (a lot coming down the pipe soon), did a few parodies of US movies that weren't covered here. The numbering of their editions didn't start at #1, they were trying to coincide with the American edition.
BLOODY MAMA (1970)
dir: Roger Corman
BLOODY MOMMY
Sick #78, September 1970
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Jack Sparling
Movie about the life of Kate “Ma” Barker (Shelley Winters) her four sons. She vows to take care of her family and take what she feels is rightfully hers after a traumatic childhood, and involves her four adult sons in her crime sprees.
Herman (Don Stroud), becomes engaged to Mona (Diane Varsi) who joins the Barker family.
They kidnap a local millionaire for ransom. Here it's a young Nelson Rockefeller.
BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)
d: Arthur Penn
THE TRUTH ABOUT BONNIE AND CLYDE
Wild! #3, November 1968
writer and artist unknown
Bonnie Parker's character wrote poems on the side, this was was probably parodying that.
CANDID CAMERA
1948-2014 CBS, NBC, ABC, SYNDICATION
CANDID CAMERAMA
Loco #1, August 1958
a: Chic Stone
Here's a weird one. It steals the story from the
Trump version of someone accidentally setting their life savings on fire while trying to see inside a mailbox. Plagiarism aside, there's an 'insurance machine' and it's somewhere out in the middle of nowhere. This is another example of an editor deciding that since MAD's panels are full of sight gags, they need to have a lot too, to the point where the sight gags distract from the actual plot of the story.
SNEAKY CAMERA
Sick #6, June 1961
artist unknown
CANDID CAMERA CONSCIOUS
Sick #10, December 1961
artist unknown
CAPTAIN VIDEO AND HIS VIDEO RANGERS
1949-1955 DUMONT
CAPTAIN KIDDEO, SPACE BUM
Bughouse #3, July-August 1954
artist unknown
