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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TWENTIETH CENTURY
Sick #6, June 1961
a: Bob Powell
Twentieth Century was a series of specials narrated by Walter Cronkite about a different event that took place then. The Chicago Black Sox scandal was something that happened in 1919 where a baseball team fixed their games for some gamblers. “Shoeless” Joe Jackson was their ringleader.
QUEEN FOR THE DAY
Sick #2, October 1960
w: Dee Caruso & Bill Levine
a: Bob Powell
Game show hosted by Jack Bailey. Women would give very sad stories about financial and/or emotional hardships, competing for the title of Queen for a Day. The winner would be chosen by the audience, be honored and win prizes, usually from the sponsors.
THE NEW CREED
Sick #16, October 1962
w: Bill Majeski
a: Bob Powell
Cop show that was canceled before this was even printed. Starred Leslie Nielsen long before he realized he was supposed to be funny (the fact that he didn't do comedy was the whole point of his roles in comedies). This parody doesn't seem to caricature anyone in particular or do any puns of names, just uses the concept.
THE MANY LIVES OF DOPEY GILLIS
Sick #14, August 1962
w: Joe Simon
a: Bob Powell
Between the n-word a few days ago in the Mandingo parody and word “retard” in this, people tuning in just now might think this blog is one big hatefest. Oh well, that's the price we pay by posting things from the past.
Based on the short stories of Max Shulman, this sitcom focused on the adventures of girl-crazy teenager Dobie Gillis (Dwayne Hickman) and his beatnik friend Maynard G. Krebs (Bob Denver). Tuesday Weld played a character named Thalia Meninger in some of the earlier episodes.
They didn't actually join the army. This article was a prediction of what could happen if revamping the characters continued.
Before this, Dwayne Hickman had been a regular in the series Love That Bob, or as it was known when it was first run, The Bob Cummings Show.
DC had a series based on the show.
They did a lot of comics of sitcoms and celebrities but didn't own them, so since they couldn't reprint them, they redrew them and change them slightly.
Sometimes they made no effort to redraw the stories, only updating their fashions.
