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In MAD's parody of The Music Man that I posted a few months ago, I went off on a tangent about how humor magazines parodied this hippie phenomenon, portraying them as a bunch of dirty kids who have sex all the time and do drugs and never take baths. Sick especially used them as a go-to target. I said then that it would be impossible for me to find every use of comedians not getting the counterculture, but I should put up more pages from issues of Sick.
The issue I had with 101 Hippie Jokes was missing a back cover, now that I've seen it, it continues the jokes from the inside.
Here's more hippie material from issue #58, February 1968.
Hippies made up the rumor about smoking bananas themselves. There's a part of Steal This Book that helped spread the hoax, saying the insides of bananas had hallucinatory properties. Donavan's Mellow Yellow was said to be about smoking bananas.
I've said Fred Wolfe is Paul Laikin. I believe this to be true because Paul Laikin has edited practically every MAD imitation in existence and used the same material in different magazines. Some of the recycled material has had both bylines.
Speaking of hippies, in 1991 there was a movie of The Doors directed by Oliver Stone, starring Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison. Cracked didn't do a parody of it, but did a poem about it in #263, September 1991.
For those who didn't tune in yesterday and/or are too lazy to click on “previous post”. In a nutshell, The Six Million Dollar Manis about how Col. Steve Austin (Lee Majors) got in a bad accident astronauting and was rebuilt by the government as a cyborg, costing six million dollars to make him robotic. His origin is explained in the opening credits.
Now as promised, here are more takes from Cracked, and it's still not all.
THE SPECIALIZED BIONIC MAN
Cracked #129, November 1975
a: John Severin
Telly Savalas and Raquel Welch are caricatured on this page.
And Paul Newman with Elvis.
A CRACKED HISTORY OF THE BIONIC MAN
Cracked #136, October 1976
a: Nireves (John Severin)
The Six Million Dollar Man often did crossover episodes with The Bionic Woman, Steve Austin's female counterpart, which was also parodied here.
The Music Man was a famous Broadway musical made into a movie about Harold Hill (Robert Preston), a conman who sells the idea of a marching band to a small town with the intention of taking everyone's money and leaving, but has a change of heart when he falls in love. Probably the most Well-known number in the movie is 'Ya Got Trouble', about Hill giving his pitch, convincing them they need the marching band to prevent children from giving in to the temptation of pool.
THE HIPPIE MAN
MAD #122, October 1968
w: Connie Del Vento
a: George Woodbridge
But I fooled you. This isn't really about The Music Man. This is about how in the sixties, comedy made fun of hippies, usually about how they were dirty and smelled bad, and how you couldn't tell the boys from the girls. This was the cover of MAD a few issues earlier.
And a few issues before that Don Martin did this comic based on the hoax that you could get high from smoking the innards of banana peels. I don't know if they believed it or not.
To some at MAD, hippies continued to exist well into the 70s, like here in The Lighter Side of Gardening from #178, October 1975.
Cracked did it too, like in this article in #73, November 1968.
Sick was probably the most notorious of all. They even excerpted a hippie joke book.
Media was basically obsessed with the hippie phenomenon.
Look how Frank Zappa was used for reference, and probably John Lennon.
Even cartoons made fun of them, like in Woody's Magic Touch, where Woody Woodpecker is hired to find the king's son, who has been turned into a dragon, and make him human again. But once in human form, he's a hippie, singing lyrics like “I have long hair” and “I don't work”. So the king has Woody change him back.
I could go on. Before the hippie era it was beatniks and after that it was punks. I could do a whole blog about youth lifestyles comedians get wrong or don't understand.
But back to The Music Man, the episode of The Simpsons entitled “Marge and the Monorail” is a parody of the musical.
