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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THE DEAD FOOL
Cracked #242, January 1989
w: Tony Frank (Lou Silverstone)
a: Peter McDonnell
Couldn't find anything with this (for free), all sources pointed to the later superhero film Deadpool, so I'll wing it.
This was the last in the Dirty Harry series. Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) has testified against Lou Janero and is famous for it in the press, and it is reported on by Samantha Walker (Patricia Clarkson). He dislikes the press coverage that keeps reporting on how he's now a marked man.
It is discovered that a recent murder victim, Peter Swan (Liam Neeson, not used here) was holding a betting pool that had Callahan's name on it. Callahan's latest partner in Al Quan (Evan Kim). Callahan destroys a camera that's sticking its nose in police business, then has dinner with Samantha Walker to apologize and agrees to an interview to avoid a lawsuit.
The betting pool, or dead pool, list of victims are being killed off and it is up to Harry Callahan and his partners to track them down.The murders duplicate the films made by Peter Swan.
The killer turns out to be a man named Rook (David Hunt), who manages to get Harry's trademark .44, which runs out of bullets, so Harry impales him with a harpoon.
”Go ahead, make my day” is a line from the previous Dirty Harry movie. The critics at the end are Joel Siegel, Siskel and Ebert, Rex Reed, and Gene Shalit.
SWILL STREET BLUES
MAD #231, April 1982
w: Tom Koch
a: Angelo Torres
There were more characters actually on the show than featured in the splash, but the main cast here is Frank Furillo (Daniel J. Travanti), Mick Belker (Bruce Weitz), Howard Hunter (James B. Sikking), Leo Schnitz (Robert Hirschfeld), J. D. LaRue (Kiel Martin), Ray Catellano (Rene Enriquez), Henry Goldblume (Joe Spano), and Lucy Bates (Betty Thomas). Grant Tinker was the president of NBC.
Sgt. Esterhaus (Michael Conrad) was always the one doing the roll call at the beginning and would conclude it with "Stay safe out there". The two cops on the beat and in the previous page are Andy Renko (Charles Haid) and Bobby Hill (Michael Warren)
Furillo and Joyce Davenport (Veronica Hamel) were a couple and even lived together, but pretended not to be while at work.
They never said they took place or hinted at taking place in Chicago, Los Angeles, or any particular city. Another cop, here unseen, was Washington (Taurean Blacque).
THE KILL STREET BLAHS
Crazy #87, June 1982
w: Murad Gumen
a: Kent Gamble
Michael Warren had previously been a college basketball player.
This was on the cover of TV Guide by one-time MAD artist Bruce Stark.
Let us not forget SCTV's mashup of this show with Benny Hill
UPDATE:
Cover for the Mexican edition, which must have also done a Smurfs parody, or maybe a parody of the Schtroumpfs comic albums. Don't know why Hunter is chosen as “it”.
UPDATE 2:
ILL STREET BLUES
Bananas #58, c. 1982
w: Jovial Bob Stine
a: Sam Viviano
THE ENPHOOEYCER
Sick #116, August 1977
w & a: Dave Manak
Third in the Dirty Harry series. Here is the Wikipedia summary of the plot:
In Marin County, two gas company men are lured by a scantily clad woman to a remote spot in Mill Valley and killed. Maxwell's gang, the People's Revolutionary Strike Force plans to use the gas men's uniforms and van as part of an ambitious series of crimes that will make them rich. Inspector Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) and his partner Frank DiGiorgio (John Mitchum) arrive at a liquor store where robbers have taken hostages. The robbers demand a car with a police radio; Callahan provides one by driving his squad car into the store and then shooting the robbers. Callahan's superior, Captain McKay (Bradford Dillman), angrily reprimands him for "excessive use of force", injuring the hostages, and causing $14,379 in damages, and temporarily transfers him out of the SFPD's Homicide unit.
While assigned to Personnel, Callahan participates in the interview process for promotions, and learns that under affirmative action rules three of the new inspectors will be female, including Kate Moore (Tyne Daly) despite her very limited field experience. The PRSF uses the van to steal weapons from a warehouse. In the course of the robbery, the terrorists kill DiGiorgio when he stumbles upon the scene. Callahan is brought back to Homicide, but is distressed to find out that Moore is his new partner; she claims to understand the risk, noting that, besides DiGiorgio, two other partners of Callahan's have died. After watching an army demonstration of the LAW rocket on a firing range, Callahan and Moore visit the Hall of Justice to sit in on an autopsy on a security guard killed in the robbery. Shortly afterwards, a bomb explodes in the bathroom.
The inspectors chase down and capture the bomber, Henry Lee Caldwell, and meet "Big" Ed Mustapha (Albert Popwell), leader of a black militant group to which the bomber formerly belonged. Although Callahan makes a deal with Mustapha for information, McKay arrests the militants for the PRSF's crimes. Callahan angrily refuses to participate in a televised press conference in which the publicity-seeking mayor (John Crawford) would commend Moore and him for solving the case, and McKay suspends him from duty. However, Moore supports Callahan, finally gaining his respect. Meanwhile, the PRSF boldly kidnaps the mayor after a Giants game in an orchestrated ambush. With Mustapha's help, Callahan and Moore locate the gang at Alcatraz Island, where they battle the kidnappers. Moore frees the mayor, but Maxwell kills her as she saves Callahan's life. Callahan avenges Moore by killing Maxwell with a LAW rocket. He is uninterested in the mayor's gratitude, returning to his partner's corpse as McKay and others arrive to agree to Maxwell's demands.
MAD # 153, September 1972
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Mort Drucker
The city of San Francisco is under attack by a murderer who's attacking citizens at random and threatens to strtike again until he's paid ransom. The mayor (John Vernon, caricatured by Drucker more accurately in the Animal House parody as you can see clicking on the sidebar link.) has assigned Detective Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) to the case.
There is a bank robbery while Harry is eating lunch and the shootout is established. It also introduces the magnum speech he's best known for and is used in other films in the Dirty Harry series.
Harry is partnered with Gonzales (Reni Santoni), who sees Callahan's unconventional ways.
Callahan is given directions by the killer, Scorpio (Andy Robinson), about where to place the ransom as he runs throughout the city.
Scorpio has kidnapped a teenage girl and won't tell anyone where she is. They find through hospital records that he squats at a football stadium, and Callahan tracks him down there and beats him.
Later, Callahan is called into the district attorney's office and told Scorpio can't be prosecuted and none of the evidence is admissible in court if he wasn't read his Miranda rights and was searched without a warrant. Callahan then decides to pursue the case on his own. Scorpio pays someone to beat him so he can say the police did it.
Scorpio has hijacked a schoolbus to get to where the airport where he's demanded a private plane from the city and is holding the children on it hostage to make sure the city doesn't have agents waiting at the airport or anything like that. Callahan jumps on the bus and chases him out to a lake and kills him. Having finished the job and knowing he's violated a bunch of rules, he throws his badge in the river.
From Combining Movies for Fun and Profit by Mark Steven and Bob Smith, from Crazy #17, May 1976. Shampoo was a movie where Warren Beatty played a promiscuous hairdresser.
