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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With the successes of the first two movies, the first one then being the highest-grossing movie of all time behind Star Wars and later E. T., and Jaws 2 being the highest grossing sequel at that point, it was inevitable there'd be a third one. None of the people from the first two were involved, it didn't even take place in the same location for that matter, and was shot in 3-D to cash in on the 3-D revival that was being used then, most notably for “threequels” (Friday the 13th Part 3-D, Amityville 3-D).
This is similar to Cracked's Godfather, Part 2 parody of a few years earlier, which parodies the idea of movies having sequels more than the actual plot, and uses the same number.
THE MAKING OF JAWZ #23
Cracked #198, October 1983
a: John Severin
Nanny Dickering was the reporter for the magazine. Originally she looked like however the artist who drew her depicted her, then when pin-up artist Bill Ward drew her looking all dolled up like all his women, that's how she looked thereafter.
This version used an old Sheriff Brody (Roy Scheider) even though the franchise moved on from the character by then.
They just reprinted their Godfather mash-up from a few years earlier.
An older Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) is used as well.
SICK TAKES YOU ON THE SET OF JAWS 3
Sick Special #1, 1980
a: Bill Burke
Jaws 3 was originally meant to be a comedy and titled Jaws 3, People 0, produced by National Lampoon, written by John Hughes, and directed by Joe Dante, about a real shark attack on the set of a Jaws sequel. After Animal House became the biggest comedy of all time, Universal thought this would be a sure thing, but apparently didn't want to risk it and pulled the plug. Sometimes you can find the script online, but the studio often finds it and gets it taken down. Judging from the next two movies National Lampoon made (one closed after a week, the other went direct-to-video three years later with twenty minutes cut), who knows if it would have been any good?
Another Land-Shark sketch from Saturday Night Live.
GUYS & DOLLS
Sick #121, June 1978
w: David Allikas
a: Bill Burke
Sick tried to do what MAD did parodying traditional musicals and putting them in contemporary settings. Here they updated the backdrop of Times Square's gamblers and gangsters in Guys and Dolls with the then-current life of pimps, prostitutes, porn, and drugs. If they were to do it today, it would be about tourism and theme stores. They obviously knew nothing about vice other than what they saw in TV, movies, and comics, and not using a Mort Drucker or Mort Drucker imitator, they didn't even try to attempt likenesses for the most part.
Sky Masterson was played by Marlon Brando in the movie, so he's portrayed here as Brando in The Godfather. The mayor is a pun on Ed Koch.
In order to raise money for a crap game, Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) bets Sky Masterson that he won't be able to ask out Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons) from the Save Our Souls mission, a church that works in the streets, and he woos her pretending to be a recovering gambler. He ends up falling in love with her and attempts to save her church. Here she's a Moonie, a religious cult known at the time for brainwashing runaways. They were called that because they were disciples of Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
C. P. O. SHARKEYE
Sick #119, February 1978
w: Joe Gill
a: Jack Sparling
Sitcom vehicle for Don Rickles and his brand of humor that wouldn't go over today. He was a naval officer in charge insulting to his multi-ethnic crew but had a loving interior, just like his stage persona.
For those unfamiliar with the way he was on talk shows, here's an earlier article from MAD.
IF EVERYONE TALKED LIKE DON RICKLES
MAD #131, December 1969
w: Earle Doud
a: Angelo Torres
Back to Sick.
A FAMILY REUNION WITH DON RICKLES
Sick #122, August 1978
w & a: Bill Burke
UPDATE: EVERYBODY IS DOING THE DON RICKLES BIT
Cracked #80, October 1969
a: Noel Severin (John Severin)
Like the other MAD article here it was made well before this show but his act was much funnier.
