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Showing posts with label DUKES OF HAZZARD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DUKES OF HAZZARD. Show all posts
This is the second of two posts of Love Boat parodies. Go back one day to see the others.
The program was an hour long sitcom that feature two or three interweaving storylines taking place aboard a cruise ship, the Pacific Princess, different passengers as the guest stars each week carrying the show even though the regular cast was the ship's crew. Cracked parodied it twice using their tradition of combining several shows together.
The crew of The Love Boat was Capt. Merrill Stubing (Gavin McLeod), Adam 'Doc' Bricker (Bernie Kopell), yeoman purser 'Gopher' (Fred Grandy), Isaac the bartender (Ted Lange), and cruise director Julie McCoy (Lauren Tewes).
THE WILDEST AND WEIRDEST LOVE BOAT CRUISE OF THEM ALL
Cracked #187, July 1982
a: John Severin
Here passengers include Bo (John Schneider), Luke (Tom Wopat), and Daisy (Catherine Bach) Duke of The Dukes of Hazzard.
And their car, the General Lee. Other guests include Mork (Robin Williams) and Mindy (Pam Dawber) from their eponymous show. Their last season included their son Mearth (Jonathan Winters), and the joke was that on Mork's planet children aged in reverse like Benjamin Button. Burt Reynolds was “The Bandit” in a series of movies called Smokey and the Bandit, which inspired The Dukes of Hazzard.
Last but not least is Arnold (Gary Coleman) of Diff'rent Strokes and sometimes girlfriend Tootie (Kim Fields) from Facts of Life.
In the seventies and eighties, a car called the General Lee and having a Confederate symbol wasn't considered a big deal though I understand its gotten The Dukes of Hazzard pulled from syndication in some markets.
Their second spoof combined the show with The A-Team.
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THE A-A-AAYY TEAM TAKES A RIDE ON THE LOVELY BOAT
Cracked #197, September 1983
a: John Severin
The leader of the A-Team was Hannibal Smith (George Peppard) and the other members were Face (Dirk Benedict), Murdock (Dwight Schulz), and B.A. Baracus (Mr. T.)
The A-Team always had a female member, but she was always a token and didn't last more than a season. At this time it was Amy (Melinda Culea).
Gag taken from A Night at the Opera. Then again, dozens of Marx Brothers jokes, as well as their personalities, have been copied many times, and people think those places are the original sources.
Not only did somebody take the time to alphabetize all the guests and edit this, but they happen to have already had every episode on tape. (Like I'm one to talk about anal curation of trivial pop culture).
THE LOAF BOAT
Crazy #48, March 1979
w: Stu Schwartzberg
a: Kent Gamble
Before this show, Gavin MacLeod was a character on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
The guests are probably Sean Connery, Diahann Carroll, Arthur Godfrey, and Shelley Winters and probably taken from Mort Drucker caricatures. You can tell this is an older article because it has an O.J. Simpson joke but it's not about him being a murderer.
Another passenger is Don Rickles.
Love, American Style was an earlier show with a similar format in that it was an anthology comedy show about love that relied on celebrity guest stars. The cops are caricatures of George C. Scott and Stacy Keach taken directly from MAD's The New Centurions parody without even having to remove the hats.
This is Crazy's other parody.
THE LOVE BORE
Crazy #77, August 1981
w: Murad Gumen
a: Kent Gamble
Guest stars here are Herman and Lily Munster (Fred Gwynne, Yvonne DeCarlo), Mr. Ed, Micky Dolenz, Larry Matthews, Burt Ward, June Lockhart, Judy Carne, and Ann B, Davis, who weren't all drawn by Drucker, so I'm not sure where the references came from.
Yesterday I posted a bunch of different parodies of Dukes of Hazzard from different magazines. Click on "older post" at the bottom if you missed that and to see what the characters' names were. I said yesterday I didn't have time or enough room to get to all of them, so here are three more, all from Cracked.
Sorry in advance for apologizing for the Confederate flag and the trigger it may set off, it's just that a very small minority of people can't tell the difference between showing something and endorsing it.
THE DORKS OF HAZZARDOUS
Cracked #179, August 1981
a: John Severin
The same issue parodied the Popeye movie but didn't combine the two things like they usually do.
They did five parodies in total. That was the third. The first one was posted yesterday, The second was a crossover with CHiPS that I posted a couple months ago with the parodies of that show. Here's the fourth one.
THE DORKS OF HAZZARDOUS
Cracked #185, March 1982
a: John Severin
NIGHT RIDER MEETS THE DUKES OF HAZZARDOUS
Cracked #196, August 1983
a: John Severin
Always parodying shows repeatedly and crossing them over with other shows, they did a mash-up with Knight Rider, a program about Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff) and his intelligent car.
In the next to last season, Bo and Luke left the show to be NASCAR drivers, and were replaced by cousins Coy and Vance (Byron Cherry and Christopher Mayer). They returned, probably due to the actors renegotiating their contracts.
From If TV Shows Were Combined in Cracked #205, August 1984. Mike Wallace and Morley Safer were the hosts of Sixty Minutes.
UPDATE:
From cover to Mexican edition.
UPDATE 2:
THE DUPES OF HAZZARD
Bananas #65, c. 1983
w: Megan Stine & H. William Stine
a: Sam Viviano
Viviano always liked to put himself in his strips. Here he is in the splash panel.
In the first panel are Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae, hosts of their own rural venue.
From Isn't It Time That... in Bananas Looks at TV, c. 1981, probably reprinted from an earlier issue.
