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Sunday, June 2, 2024

JUNE UPDATES 2: PARODY MAGAZINE #3

Sadly, this blog on a daily basis will come to a close the end of this month. I'm doing most of it in alphabetical order now, but as I mention in the sidebar, I still have holes to fill, so I'll always come back for that, and things always stay on the internet, but here are a few more things I've filled in. Thanks again to Chris Ekman, who has most of them.

The rest I'll have tomorrow. Here are the pieces from the third issue of Parody in September 1977. I don't feel the need to summarize everything so I'll just make the titles highlighted in orange (or underlined or whatever settings you have for links) link to previous parody posts that have texts about them and what the characters' real names are. You can check off these boxes on your seventies references: Rocky, Starsky and Hutch, Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, Wonderama, King Kong, Gerald Ford, Bobby Riggs, Olga Korbut, Ali McGraw, Gong Show, Jaws, Charlie'a Angels, The Godfather, Polish jokes.

ROCKY
dir: John Avildsen

ROCKIE
a: Walter Brogan

Marlon Brando is in the corner of the first panel, being a contender I guess.

MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
ABC 1970-2005

KING KONG
dir: John Guillermin

HOWARD COSELL INTERVIEWS KING KONG
a: Ed Kaye (Alan Kupperberg)

CHARLIE'S ANGELS
ABC 1976-1981

CHEERLIE'S ANGELS
a: John Reiner

This was the original cast of Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, and Farrah Fawcett-Majors.

Surprisingly, among the seventies refences, no jokes about Billy Carter or Anita Bryant.

Thursday, May 9, 2024

THE WHITE, SHADOWED

THE WHITE SHADOW
CBS 1978-1981

THE WHITE, SHADOWED
MAD #216, July 1980
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Angelo Torres

Ken Reeves (Ken Howard) is a former professional basketball player who once worked for the Chicago Bulls but now works as a coach at Carver High School in Los Angeles.

In these days of politicians swearing left and right, it's hard to believe it was once a big scandal when Jimmy Carter once said “I'll whip his ass” about Ted Kennedy.

Some of the players were Jackson (Erik Kilpatrick), Goldstein (Ken Michelman), Gomez (Ira Augustain), and Coolidge (Byron Stewart). The vice-principal was Sybil Buchanan (Joan Pringle) and the principal was Jim Willis (Ed Bernard).

”Lookit me, I'm dee-ancin'... I'm dee-ancin” was the way any comical Brooklyn character once mocked who they saw as a high-brow adult.

Some other players were “Salami” Pettrino (Timothy Van Patten), Hayward (Thomas Carter), and Thorpe (Kevin Hooks).

The last panel is a parody of Bobby Knight.

The obligatory stars' reaction to their parody.

From The MAD TV Coroners' Report in #227, December 1981

THE NOT-SO-BRIGHT SHADOW
Cracked #170, May 1980
a: John Severin

In the later seasons, there was a player named Vitaglia (John Menghatti)

This was the era of Cracked where, if they weren't able to do a Diff'rent Strokes parody or an If Gary Coleman did [X] kind of article, they would find a way to fit him in somehow.

THE WHITE SHALLOW
Crazy #66, September 1980
w: Murad Gumen
a: Murad Gumen & Alan Kupperberg

Saturday, September 30, 2023

STAR WARTS

STAR WARS (1977)
dir: George Lucas

(Sorry, folks. Every trailer I look for is the same one. Updated ones don't count)

I'm sure everyone in the world has seen Star Wars and knows its plot. Those who don't can press “Previous Post” twice and see MAD's summary. While you're at it, you can click just once and see all of Cracked's spoofs. Here are all the rest.

STAR WARTS
Crazy #32, December 1977
w: Paul Kupperberg
a: Alan Kupperberg

Eddie Fisher was Carrie Fisher's father.

Other magazines would wait two, three, four years to reprint material. Crazy waited ...um... five months.

When you couldn't find MAD as a kid. You'd go down the line--Cracked, Crazy, Sick, then you'd get to Trash.

A LONG, LONG, TIME FROM NOW IN A GALAXY REAL CLOSE
Trash #2, June 1978
artist unknown (or maybe they just didn't want to be associated)