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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ZERRO, THE GAY BLADE
MAD #231, June 1981
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
Zorro has existed since early last century from pulps to Saturday matinees to early television. He was a swashbuckler in Mexico famous for marking his victims with a Z with his sword. A movie was made with George Hamilton in which he had to choose between either passing the torch to his son or his brother, who he also played. George Hamilton had previously been in the Dracula spoof Love at First Bite.
The following was from MAD's Academy Awards Show
ED ZORROW CALLS ON MORRO
This Magazine Is Crazy #6, September 1958
a: Tony Couch?
Zorro was an early segment on TV's Disneyland. This comic parodies Person to Person, an interview show hosted by newscaster Edward R. Murrow.
All TV shows and movies mentioned in this post have also been parodied and are featured here.
DIZZYLAND
MAD #30, December 1956
w: Al Feldstein
a: Wallace Wood
The first of several incarnations of a weekly anthology series, initially hosted by Walt Disney himself, showcasing past and present works of Walt Disney Productions, and sometimes behind the scenes work. Some pieces were spun off into their own series. The first series was often used to advertise his theme park.
Two of the parts were Adventureland, Disney's series of nature films, and Tomorrowland, their look at the future.
There was Frontierland, from where Davy Crockett, the first national craze, came from. Fantasyland, animation past and present from Disney, from where the studio started.
HANSEL AND GRETEL
Trump # 1, January 1957
w: Ed Fisher
a: Wallace Wood
Trump, the magazine, not to be confused with the person, was Hugh Hefner's attempt to give Harvey Kurtzman what he wanted MAD to be, and only lasted two issues before Hefner was told he was expanding his Playboy empire too fast. You've probably heard the story several times about the Kurtzman/Gaines split so I won't go into it here. I've featured a few pages from Trump before and will again. There were some parodies of real items and items that would exist. Here is an example of the latter, the story of Hansel and Gretel as if it were adapted by Disney.
Years later after Disney died, Paul Krassner, one-time MAD writer, was publishing a magazine of satire and politics called The Realist, the complete run of which can be found here. He commissioned comic artist Wally Wood, known for his Disney mimicking prowess (examples herewith), to do a piece called The Disneyland Memorial Orgy, which was bootlegged on T-shirts and black-light posters many times in the 60s. Considered pornographic then, but by today's standards it's something that could be printed in MAD now.
