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Showing posts with label ALL IN THE FAMILY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ALL IN THE FAMILY. Show all posts
BAWDE
MAD #162, October 1973
w: Tom Koch
a: Angelo Torres
Sitcom spun off from All in the Family and was said to be the reverse of it. While that one was about the patriarch of an all-american conservative family, this was the matriarch of an all-american liberal family.
Maude was married for the third time and her third daughter is Carol (Adrienne Barbeau). There's the maid Florida (Esther Rolle), and neighbor Arthur (Conrad Bain), the token Republican. And then there's Maude (Bea Arthur) and her husband Walter (Bill Macy), He owns an appliance store and they live in Tuckahoe in Westchester County.
Maude was always espousing various liberal causes. Carol was also a militant feminist, though she and Maude often disagreed based on the different generations they came from. Arthur's wife was later introduced. “God will get you for that” was Maude's big catchphrase.
The arresting officers are Martin Milner and Kent McCord of Adam-12.
Wife-swapping (which would also be husband-swapping by defimition) was talked about all the time in media though I'm not sure how much it existed in real life. The host of the Swingers' Club is supposed to be Dean Martin.
They must have not known the program was spun off from All in the Family and/or they didn't know that Edith Bunker was Maude's cousin and would know Walter. They knew both shows were produced by Norman Lear though. But they didn't know that it was Archia and Edith's son-in-law Mike who's the Meathead, she's the Dingbat (they made the same mistake in their All in the Family parody).
From Obituaries for TV Show Characters by Frank Jacobs.
And then there's Broad, the parody on The Carol Burnett Show.
I decided since I update these pages every month and run out of characters for extra tags, that after a point I'll make a new folder, so here's the second All in the Family post. The first one, which includes the MAD, Crazy, Sick, Spoof and Grin parodies, and MAD's flexi-disc insert, can be found here. Here's some more, with probably more coming.
From More TV Moments We'll Never See in Bananas #61, early 1980s. By this time the show was off the air replaced by Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) playing the character on Archie Bunker's Place, with Edith (Jean Stapleton) already passed away.
From Isn't It Time That...? in Bananas illustrated by Sam Viviano, from Bananas Looks at TV, reprinted from an earlier issue.
IF ARCHIE BUNKER TOOK OVER LEADS IN OTHER TV SERIES
Cracked # 108, May 1973
a: John Severin
Bonanza had Little Joe and the Ponderosa Ranch. Other parodies are of Courtship of Eddie's Father, Owen Marshall Attorney-At-Law, and Let's Make a Deal. George Wallace ran on the platform of segregation. Whig was a right-leaning Party that evolved into the Republican party, and would have existed in the time of Bonanza.
Mission: Impossible would always begin with the protagonist getting his assignment in a tape recorder hidden in an object in the street that would self-destruct. The other parody is of Medical Center named after his always calling his son-in-law “Meathead”.
Room 222 was a sitcom about the life of teachers, Adam-12 was about policemen on the beat. If he had a special, the guests would be the ones he features here (as well as Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley) with Jane Fonda as comedy relief.
HEALTH FOODS
Cracked #109, July 1973
a: Dick Wright
Archie was always at odds with his younger daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers) and her liberal husband Mike (Rob Reiner). As far as I know they didn't have different diets, even when they lived apart, and never actually argued about foods on the show, though you can tell the magazine was more to the right in other strips, particularly with Severin's “guns don't kill people” messages in some marginals.
ALL IN DE FAMBLY
National Lampoon #37, April 1973
w: Chris Miller
a: Melinda Bordelon
I know it's probably annoying to some people that I'm always going on about “different time” and disclaimers about “politically incorrect” but you never know who sees something on the web or who they are or what context they understand. Much of the early National Lampoon (only their first five years count to me) wouldn't pass muster with today's audience, especially those who believe history began when they were born, but is actually pretty funny when you look at it through early seventies eyes. Director Paul Thomas Anderson once said “you can't have a crystal ball.” For National Lampoon's Prejudice issue they did a spoof called All in de Fambly about what it would be like if the family was black and Puerto Rican. It'd be best if I not post the script for it.
Chris Miller, who wrote this, wrote the stories Multiplicity and Ground Hog Day were based on.
THE GREATEST TV SHOW EVER MADE
Cracked #161, August 1979
a:John Severin
Another comic, just like yesterday, where Cracked did what they did throughout most of the 70s and 80s by doing several parodies at once,usually combining them, they did movies last time, this time they set their sights on TV shows.
One of the tropes of Laverne and Shirley was Shirley's stuffed kitten.
They used Robin Williams as Mork from Mork and Mindy every chance they could, doing about five parodies and three specials with him.
For some reason Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit) of M*A*S*H are married in this. Maybe they would be in post-Korea civilian life.
They also had Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) of Fantasy Island.
Cheryl Ladd, Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith, the second wave of Charlie's Angels. Felix (Tony Randall) and Oscar (Jack Klugman) of The Odd Couple, which was off the air by then. Lorne Greene as Commander Adama on Battlestar Galactica, Ed Asner was Lou Grant in his own show by then. Archie (Carroll O'Connor) and Edith (Jean Stapleton) from All In the Family.
Mike Wallace of Sixty Minutes when they were more known for investigative reporting than profiles (they still do both). Back to Battlestar Galactica with Richard Hatch as Apollo. John Travolta had left the role of Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter by then though Valerie Bertinelli was still Barbara on One Day at a Time.
Mork's commander was named Orson. Linda Lavin was Alice.
Fonz was another person they put in Cracked every chance they could. The only other two series of Don Rickles I know of were The Don Rickles Show and CPO Sharkey.
THE GREAT NIELSON AIRWAVE WAR
Cracked #138, December 1976
a: McTurk (John Severin)
They spelled Nielsen wrong. Maybe that was on purpose though. That was how they measured ratings when there were only three networks. Maybe they still do.
This was around the time Cracked started to do combinations of TV shows and movies so they could keep doing as many as they could over and over again and use celebrities to sell copies. First here is Peter Falk as Columbo.
The first casualty is Redd Foxx of Sanford and Son. The other detectives are Dennis Weaver as McCloud and Angie Dickinson in Police Woman.
The ABC bunker has Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams of Laverne and Shirley, Lindsay Wagner as The Bionic Woman, Henry Winkler as Happy Days' Fonz, and Starsky (David Soul) & Hutch (Paul Michael Glaser).
John Travolta from Welcome Back, Kotter, Steve Austin of The Six Million Dollar Man, Edith (Jean Stapleton) and Archie (Carroll O'Connor) from All in the Family, Jimmie Walker as J. J. from Good Times, Cher, and McGarrett (Jack Lord) and Danny (James MacArthur) from Hawaii Five-O.
UPDATE:
I discoveredm there was a cover to this which I just added and put at the top.
ALL IN THE FAMILY
(1970-1979) CBS
Trigger Warning: racial slurs and stereotypes. Sometimes I think you're all a bunch of babies but that's probably just my white privilege talking. (did I do that right?)
People under 40 don't believe me when I tell them the most popular show of the 70s (or maybe it's a tie between this and Happy Days) was about a bigot. It's remembered now as a show about a guy calling his son-in-law 'Meathead' and his wife 'Dingbat' but most of the earlier shows dealt more with race, white flight, and sexual morals.
It's a cliché, but the phrase “you couldn't get away with that today” applies. In many ways, it's pretty innocuous, though his frankness in his racism may still be shocking now (the n-word was even used on the show a couple times).
GALL IN THE FAMILY FARE
MAD # 147, December 1971
w: Larry Siegel
a: Angelo Torres
We're introduced to the Bunkers, Archie (Carroll O'Connor) and Edith (Jean Stapleton). She's called 'Meathead' in this even though it was a nickname for Mike, though that wouldn't be used until years later.
Their daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers) and her husband Mike (Rob Reiner) live with them and are always at odds politically and generationally with Archie. On the actual show, Edith was always apolitical.
John Lindsay was the mayor of New York.
Joe came out around the same time as this parody. It was the “serious” version of this show. It was also parodied by MAD. U Thant was the U. N. Secretary General.
The doorbell rings again and it's a TV network wanting to give Hitler his own show. The other shows referenced here are Love American Style, Nanny and the Professor, My Three Sons, and Gunsmoke
This show was part of CBS's “rural purge”, replacing shows like Beverly Hillbillies that were still popular with more relevant and urban shows like this. Things that would be tame on TV now were shocking then.
When MAD reprinted the article in an annual a couple years later, they included a flexi-disc of the parody. 'Meathead' was already a known nickname for the son-in-law on the show, so her name was changed.
The show was spun off to many other shows which themselves had spinoffs. They were all kept track of in The “All in the Family” Tree in issue #178, October 1975
There was a mention of it in TV Disclaimers We'd Like to See, by Lou Silverstone and Jack Davis in issue #180, January 1976.
The man issuing the disclaimer is George Wallace, who ran for President with the issue of re-segregation.
MAD had pages from The Daily Liberal and The Daily Conservative in #187 (December 1976) showing how different newspapers slant their news. If only they'd waited a couple decades.
MAD artist Jack Davis did a number of TV Guide covers, including this one.
I'm looking for the article If Archie Bunker Took Over the Leads in Other TV Series but found these two other small bits from Cracked.
The first is from The Effect of the Energy Crisis on the Entertainment World by John Severin in #119, September 1974.
The second is from an article called What Today's Programs Would Look Like If They Appeared in 2001 A. D. from #132 in May 1975, also drawn by John Severin.
COMEDIAN OF THE MONTH: ARCHIE BUNKER
Sick #91, July 1972
They often had a profile of a particular comedian in Sick devoting a few pages to pictures of that comedian and some of their lines. These are actual lines from the show and not just funny captions.
BRAWL IN THE FAMILY
Spoof #2, November 1972
w: Stu Schwartzberg
a: Henry Scarpelli
This cover was by Marie Severin
In this parody, The Bunkers host a party for all of Gloria and Mike's minority and hippie friends, and Archie imagines how life would be better if he were a comic strip character.
Parodied here are Peanuts by Charles Schulz, Terry and the Pirates by George Wunder, and Dick Tracy by Chester Gould.
And political cartoons by Herblock.
It was all a bad dream.
BALL IN THE FAMILY
Grin #1, November 1972
w: D. J. Arneson
a: Tony Tallarico
There's no explanation why, but here the older Bunkers are the liberals.
The resolution's too low for me to read most of the sight gags.
Joining a commune is something straight people do to get back at their hippie parents? Who knew?
I wonder if the writer had even met anyone liberal, This seems based his idea on what he thinks they're like. I wonder if they even seen All in the Family, for that matter.
The Bunkers decide to have an orgy to celebrate the daughter's return.
Before the orgy, a cop comes over to give them marijuana, another recreation I doubt the writer had ever partaken in.
Lawrence Welk, Hugh Hefner, Jackie Onassis, Golda Meir, Hubert Humphrey, Dean Martin, Tommy Smothers, Joe Namath, Blondie and Dagwood, Dick Tracy, Shirley Temple, and Beetle Bailey come to the orgy.
Gloria finally arrives and she's not only a conservative, but a nun, and somehow also pregnant. This isn't a parody of the show as much as an alternate reality.
UPDATE:
back cover for MAD #152, July 1972
Cracked Traces a Spinoff in Cracked #127, September 1975. Similar to The All in the Family Tree in MAD though that came out a month later.
Producer Norman Lear spun off Maude from this as a backdoor pilot. Maude's maid Florida was given Good Times.
The Jeffersons might not have had their show when this was written, though Lionel was eventually written out when it was. Gloria and Mike eventually had a son.
Lear's shows were all on CBS, as were all the shows in the Rhoda/Mary Tyler Moore universe.
John Greenleaf Whittier parody from A Treasury of Television Poetry and Prose by Tom Koch and Jack Davis, from MAD #152, July 1972.
