JANUARY UPDATES 1

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

ALIENATED³

ALIEN³ (1992)
dir: David Fincher

ALIENATED³
Cracked #276, November 1992
w: Tony Frank (Lou Silverstone)
a: John Severin

Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is once again awoken from a coma having escaped in her last movie and landed in a penal colony on the planet Fiorina (Freedonia, a reference to the fictional country in Duck Soup).

Leona Helmsley was a real estate tycoon in the 80s and 90s.

She is the only woman on the planet which is disruptive to the prisoners and meets Clemens the prison doctor (Charles Dancer)

Clement tells her the rest of the crew is dead and they must perform an autopsy on Newt, the six year old girl, since she may be carrying an alien embryo.

She also must repair Bishop (Lance Henriksen), the android that was with them.

This was the debut movie of David Fincher. Although he's a big director now previously he had only been known for music videos.

He asks to be shut down.

Dillon was played by Charles S. Dutton.

Ripley and Clemens have an affair before he's attacked by the alien, which had hidden in the escape pod Ripley came in.

At this time, it was controversial that TV character Murphy Brown was a single mother.

Don Martin, long-time MAD artist, was poached by Cracked in the late 80s with the promise of more money and complete ownership. Here were the strips he did for that same issue.

UPDATE:

CRACKED VISITS THE ALIEN 3 SET
Cracked Monster Party #17, August 1992
w: Scott Franklin (Frank Santopadre) & John Leary
a: Walter Brogan

Mary Hart was host of Entertainment Tonight and there was a lawsuit that her voice gave one of her viewers seizures. It was the plot for an episode of Seinfeld.

The Alien parody I posted also has the scenes I posted with John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, and Ian Holm.