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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STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE(1979)
dir: Robert Wise
Like with most of the spoofs they did around this time, Cracked would use something more than once. They didn't do it as much with this, though.
STAR DREK: THE MOVING PICTURE
Cracked #169, July 1980
a: John Severin
One thing MAD's version of the movie didn't use was the exposition at the beginning showing the cloud devouring the Klingon ship or Spock (Leonard Mimoy) going through his final Vulcan conversion ritual. “What is the cloud?” you may ask. We shall see.
Kirk (William Shatner) is now an admiral. He is reunited again with crew members Scotty (James Doohan), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Sulu (George Takei), and Chekhov (Walter Koenig). He is taking over as command of the Starship Enteprise despite the protests of Captain Decker (Stephen Collins) who is already captain and doesn't think Kirk can run a ship that has been redesigned.
A sentient cloud is barreling towards the Earth as it did at the beginning and it is up to the Enterprise to see what it wants. “Bones” McCoy (DeForest Kelley) has been brought aboard to help in the crew.
Ilia (Persis Khambatta) and Spock have been brought aboard as well.
The mysterious cloud is swallowing up the Enterprise and has abducted Ilia.
There are Telly Savalas and Black Hole references in this just like in MADyesterday.
Ilia has been brought back but is now part of the cloud, known as V'Ger, in human form, to study human life, in order to gobtain knowledge of it before swallowing it up for its library of all knowledge in the universe. Spock goes out of the ship to see what it's all about.
Bones is making a reference to Alien
V'Ger, lacking human ability to make decisions or understand thought, has the mind of a child.
V'Ger has dust on its sign, and is actually Voyager, a space probe that was sent by Earth three hundred years earlier to gather knowledge and in doing so has acquired a mind of its own. The only way to defeat it is to have a human join with it so it can have human experience and thought, so Decker sacrifices himself.
CRACKED INTERVIEWS THE TREKKER KING
Cracked #169, July 1980
a: Bill Ward
They were accurate in that StarTrek fans hate the term 'trekkie', preferring to be called 'trekkers'.
USING STAR TREK LOGIC AND TECHNOLOGY TO SOLVE EVERYDAY PROBLEMS
Cracked #170, August 1980
a: Don Orehek
Here are a couple covers for Kaputt, the German version of Cracked.
Cracked used this same gag for their Battlestar Galactica parody.
STAR DREK: THE LAST HURRAH
Cracked #184, January 1982
w: Joe Catalano
a: John Severin
Non-spoof of any particular entity was done in between the first two movies.
There were characters from other science fiction movies and shows like Flash Gordon, Superman, Buck Rogers, Outland, The Greatest American Hero, and Battlestar Galactica behind this all along.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF SOUPY SALES
Cracked #47, November 1965
a: McCartney (Bill Ward)
Soupy Sales was known for a childrens' show that was syndicated afternoons in the mid sixties and had a big following among celebrities like Frank Sinatra. He had puppets like White Fang and Black Tooth whose claws were usually the only things you saw. The punchline for most of his sketches often involved him getting a pie thrown in his face.
A Celebrity's Wallet was a regular feature in MAD. This is from #99, December 1965, by Arnie Kogen and Bob Clarke.
The letter from Richard Nixon was a joke about how he would get the attention of important people, though a few years later, Nixon would make an appearance on Laugh-in.
SEA HAUNT
Cracked #14, June 1960
w: Paul Laikin
a: Jack Davis
Mike Nelson (Lloyd Bridges) was a Navy Frogman who traveled on the Argonaut and dove for treasures and encountered marine life. That was basically the premise of the show.
Buster Crabbe, serial matinee star, had been an Olympic swimmer in the thirties.
This was from Cracked #12, also by Laikin and Davis, and mislabeled.
From What Do TV Characters Do After the Show Is Over?, in Cracked #45, August 1965, art by Bill Ward
From Combined TV Shows, in MAD #47, by Paul Laikin and Mort Drucker
SATURDAY MORNING TV SATURDAY MORNING TV
Crazy #8, December 1974
w: Lance Boyle
a: Bert Forrest, Mordecai Inglefeld, Willie Ito, William Stout, Richard Stanley, Igor Vorpuzzi
I think a lot of these contributors were people who worked on the actual shows and/or pen names, since I never saw most of them anywhere else, except for William Stout, who's done numerous commercial art jobs.
Combination of Speed Buggy and Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch. Alsp parodies the Charles Atlas bobybuilding ads.
Land of the Lost
These AreThe Days was a cartoon inspired by The Waltons.
The Partridge Family 2200 A.D.
Devlin
Hong Kong Fooey, which was made to cash in on the martial arts craze.
CRACKED INTERVIEWS THE SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON KING
Cracked #159, May 1979
w: Murad Gumen
a: Bill Ward
