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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WAYNE'S HURLED
Cracked #273, August 1992
w: Lou Silverstone
a: John Severin
Based on the recurring Ssturday Night Live sketch about two teenagers in Aurora, Illinois, Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) and Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) who broadcast a public access show from Wayne's basement.
Benjamin Kane (Rob Lowe) is a TV producer who is in bed one night with his girlfriend (Ione Skye) and while flipping through channels come across Wayne's World, which she is a fan of. He thinks how he can buy it. Wayne and Garth finish their show and hang out at the donut shop and Wayne keeps running into his ex-girlfriend Stacey (Lara Flynn Boyle) who still carries a torch for him. Later, Wayne and his friends hang out at the gasworks and he falls in love with singer Cassandra Wong (Tia Carrere)
Wayne learns Cantonese to get with Cassandra. Meanwhile Benjamin woos Noah Vanderhof (Brian Doyle-Murray), an arcade owner, as sponsor for Wayne's World, even though he hasn't even bought the rights to the show or even talked to Wayne. He eventually buys the show, gets them a set at the television studio that looks exactly like his basement, tells them to read off cue cards, but doesn't tell them the show's sponsored by the arcade.
Wayne gets around being told to read from the index cards while interviewing Noah by writing smug comments about him that only the audience can see but Noah can't. He's reprimanded for it, quits, has a falling out with Garth, then makes up.
Wayne and Garth find out from a security guard at a concert that a record executive is coming into town and figure out a way to cut into the sattelite feed in his limo. Wayne's plan is to get Cassandra on his show but to do that he has to get her back from a richer and better-read Benjamin who's seduced her and promised to make a music video. The movie has several different meta-endings where things work out both wrong and right for everyone.
Bill and Ted had movies around the same time, thus the ending here. I'm not sure what the Fred Flintstone reference is. Time travel, maybe? Alice Cooper had a bit part in Wayne's World.
BRUCE WAIN'S WORLD
Cracked #288, March 1994
w: Lou Silverstone
a: John Severin
Val Kilmer was also Batman in two movies. Some of these villains are based one real ones, some aren't.
The Riddler (Jim Carrey), The Joker (Jack Nicholson), Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Penguin (Danny DeVito) were the main Batman villains.
BATMAN
ABC 1966-1968 BATMAN (1989)
dir: Tim Burton
Every generation has their own version of Batman, there were the movie serials in the 40s up to the dark remakes now. These are more pages from 1989 that both parody and cash in on the then-upcoming 1989 Batman movie based on what they knew from the 1966 TV show. You can find the other versions MAD and Cracked had of that movie and the earlier TV show here.
Cover of Taiwan edition of MAD.
Swedish edition
Norwegian edition
In the eighties and nineties Cracked often dedicated an issue to articles about a movie before devoting the next issue to the actual parody. In 1989, most of an issue was devoted to the upcoming movie they hadn't yet seen and knowledge of the comics character made a part of the national vocabulary from the 60s TV program.
BATTY-WEAPONS THAT DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT TO THE UTILITY BELT
Cracked #248, October 1989
w: George Gladir
a: John Severin
WHAT'S HOT AND WHAT'S NOT
a: Gary Fields
BADTMAN
a: Pat Boyette
Bob Kane was the person who created, or rather, took credit for and signed the strip.
THE SOUNDS OF BATTYMAN
a: Don Martin
A CRACKED LOOK AT BATMAN
w: Roger Brown
a: Mike Ricigliano
WHAT IF BRUISE PAYNE DIDN'T BECOME BATMAN?
w: George Gladir
a: Ron Wagner
THEM BATTYMAN SEQUELS WE'RE SURE TO SEE
w: George Gladir
a: John Severin
puns on Rutger Hauer, Bette Midler, Farrah Fawcett, Burt Reynolds, and Claude Raines
George Burns, Treat Williams, Rhonda Fleming, George C. Scott
Telly Savalas, Carol Channing, Tab Hunter, Rob Reiner
Terence Stamp, Nick Nolte, Frank Converse, Judd Nelson, Benny Hill
CRACKED INTERVIEW WITH RABID THE WONDER BOY
w: Rich Kriegel (Lou Silverstone)
a: John Severin
In Batman Forever, it was acknowledged that Robin was part of a family circus troop called the Flying Graysons.
FORM & FUNCTION LOOKS AT THE NEW GEAR
a: Rurik Tyler
SHUT-UPS
a: Don Orehek
Inside back cover
Back cover (artist unknown, border by Bill Wray)
Back to MAD
VILLAINS AWAITING BATMAN'S RETURN TO TV
MAD #298, October 1990
w: Charlie Kadau & Joe Raiola
a: Rick Tulka
Jackie Mason had a sitcom co-starring Lynn Redgrave called Chicken Soup.
Bob Guccione used more than one Miss America winner for his Penthouse magazine. Joe Piscopo had left the cast of Saturday Night Live by then but was doing his characters and impressions for Lite Beer commercials.
CRACKED INTERVIEWS THE JERKER
Cracked #250, December 1989
w: Rich Kriegel (Lou Silverstone)
a: Walter Brogan
“Heeeere's Johnny”, while initially Johnny Carson's tagline, may be better known as a line by Jack Nicholson from The Shining.
Eddie Murphy hadn't been a cast member of Saturday Night Live for years at that point. Robin Willians, Steve Martin, and Jay Leno never were.
DER BLACK UND BLUE MAX
Cracked #62, August 1966
a: John Severin
Two and a half hour historical drama where George Peppard plays a World War I German fighter pilot obsessed with shooting down twenty enemy planes so that he can earn the medal called the Blue Max. Cracked's spoof imagined what it would be like if other actors played the lead role.
