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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Showing posts with label DUMB AND DUMBER. Show all posts
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THE UNMASKED
Cracked Monster Party #26, Winter 1994
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan
From the Australian version of MAD. There was no official parody in the American version other than references and I don't think the Australian edition did own parody.
Now the Cracked parody.
There's a prologue about how an ancient treasure in the water has been found off the coast of Edge City and a mask from that treasure has risen to the surface.
Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey) is working at a bank and Tina Carlyle (Cameron Diaz) is there to open an account, but has brought a camera with her she's hiding, and is actually the girlfriend of one of the gangsters who plans to rob the bank later and is casing the joint. Their headquarters are at the Coco Bongo night club. Ipkiss' car is in the shop still being fixed and hevhas been given a loaner in the meantime, a real clunker, which makes him the laughing stock when trying to get into the Coco Bongo (that last part's not shown). On his way back home, he attempts suicide and is about to jump off a bridge when he finds the mask. He comes home greeted by his dog Milo and sees a psychologist on TV (Ben Stein, who looks nothing like this) talking about how we all metaphorically wear masks.
Ipkiss puts on the mask he found out of curiosity, which turns him into a cartoon character that can do anything. He decides to go see Tina, who works at the Coco Bongo, and who he thinks sees him as a joke.
Stanley takes revenge on the car mechanic that screwed him over, then takes money from the bank where he works, beating the gangsters that were planning to rob it. Then he arrives at the Coco Bongo in a stretch limo and starts dancing with Tina. The gangsters are after them and he outsmarts them with Bugs Bunny stunts.
He has a date with Tina the next evening in his 'Mask' persona, cops are on to him and tell him to freeze, which he does literally. Then when the police have him surrounded, he starts a mambo number, manipulating all of them. Later at the club there's charity event, and the head gangster Dorian (Peter Greene) has managed to get the mask. When you put it on, it turns you into an exaggerration of your personality, in this version it turns him into Marlon Brando as The Godfather.
Dorian, in the mask, ties up Stanley and Tina. Stanley's dog Milo shows up, manages to get the mask, puts it on himself, and frees them. Here he turns into Goofy. Also here, Tina puts on the mask instead of how they just get rid of it because she prefers his true personality.
THE MASK: ANIMATED SERIES
CBS 1995-1997
DUMB AND DUMBER
ABC 1995-1996
ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE
1995-1997 CBS
THE DUMB AND DUMBER MASK MEETS ACE VENTURA
Cracked #307, May 1996
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan
All three of Jim Carrey's first few major movies appealed to children (unless you count Earth Girls Are Easy), so it was inevitable there would be Saturday morning cartoons of them. This is a mash-up of them.
The Mask/Stanley (Rob Paulsen)'s dog (Frank Welker) was smarter and more anthropomorphic in this but still didn't talk.
For those that don't recognize the quote in the next to last panel, it's from Network.
The van Harry (Bill Faggerbakke) and Lloyd (Matt Frewer) drove was named Otto and they had a Beaver named Kitty.
JIM CARREY VISITS THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW
MAD #337, July 1995
w: Stan Hart
a: Angelo Torres
The Larry Sanders Show wasn't a talk show but a sitcom about the life of a talk-show host and a behind the scenes look at the program. Larry Sanders (Garry Shandling) was host of the show within the show. His sidekick was Hank Kingsley (Jeffrey Tambor) and the producer was Artie (Rip Torn). I guess the woman in the first panel is supposed to be Janeane Garofalo, who played one of the talent bookers, It doesn't exactly look like her, but the giveaway is the pin referring to her being a one-season cast member of Saturday Night Live. Darlene (Linda Doucette) was Hank's assistant. Hank warmed up the audience with jokes and one was that the 'Applause' sign said 'Applesauce'.
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective is about a detective who finds the mascot of the Miami Dolphins. He's a thorn in the side of the actual police force, particularly to their lieutenant (Sean Young). Sharon Stone was famous in a scene from Basic Instinct for not wearing underwear. Actresses often played themselves on the show and dated Larry. “Hey now” was Hank's catchphrase. Jim Carrey was always 'on' and would break into impressions during interviews.
“No flipping” was what Larry Sanders always said when they went to a commercial break. The Mask was about Jim Carrey finding a mask in a river, putting it on, and turning into a ladies' man.
The middle panels make references to Whitewater, a real estate scandal the Clintons were accused of being involved in, and the picture in the next panel is of Fire Marshal Bill, a character Carrey played on In Living Color. Hank Kingsley owned a restaurant he was always trying to plug on The Larry Sanders Show show.
The lesson in The Mask was that Carrey's character was better being himself when Tina (Cameron Diaz), the woman he was trying to impress, found out who he really was. Dumb and Dumber is about two guys (Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels), who find a briefcase full of ransom money, think it was something accidentally left behind, and travel across the country to give it back to the girl who left it there.
Teri Garr plays someone in Dumb and Dumber who heads an animal rescue foundation. The spider on Hank's head refers to an episode of The Larry Sanders Show where one of the guests handled them and they came loose. Larry's assistant was Beverly (Penny Johnson).
This was MAD's way of combining several parodies into one, but in a case of art imitating art Jim Carrey ended up eventually becoming a "guest".
DUH-MB AND DUH-MBER
Cracked #299, July 1995
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan
Lloyd Christmas (Jim Carrey) is a limousine driver bringing Mary Swanson (Lauren Holly) to the airport for a trip to Aspen. Harry (Jeff Daniels) works for a dog-grooming business and is late delivering pets to a client.
Mary's husband is being held for ransom and she has left a briefcase with the money for her captors. Lloyd doesn't realize this and think she just forgot a briefcase and runs after her to return it to her, not realizing the plane has already taken off, and falling onto the runway, which gets him fired. He returns home to find Harry has also been fired for making dogs carsick. Mental (Mike Starr) and Shay (Karen Duffy), the captors, go to their house to get the money, and Harold and Lloyd flee thinking it is a debt collector. Mental enters their home when they're gone and looks for the money.
Harold and Lloyd return home and decide to travel to Aspen. On the road Mental poses as a hitchhiker to "take care of" them after they pick him up. On a stop at a restaurant, when he gets up they put peppers in his burger as a joke.
Mental takes a bite and it makes his ulcer act up. Harold and Lloyd think they're saving him by giving him medication, but it's actually rat poison pills he planned to use on them. They're unaware that they killed him and continue on their journey. There's a scene they don't use here where Harold falls asleep and Lloyd makes a wrong turn, Harold decides to walk back home, and Lloyd comes to get him, now on a minibike he traded for the van (they must have edited out a scene). They get to Aspen and get into a fight when Harold finds out Lloyd had extra gloves all along. In the scuffle, Harold threatens to throw the briefcase in the river, it falls open, they see it's full of money, and they decide to spend it all.
They've given up on finding Mary but find out she's hosting a charity ball that evening. Harold acts as wingman talking Lloyd up and ends up being the one to take her out, so Lloyd takes revenge by putting laxatives in Harold's coffee.
There's also a montage of the ski date they don't use here, where Mary playfully throws a snowball at him and he thinks it's being done maliciously, so he wails one back at her. He also manages to get his tongue stuck to a flagpole.
Lloyd returns the briefcase to Mary, which is now filled with IOUs. He tells her that he loves her and is politely turned down because she is married. The people behind the kidnapping are there and see that the money is gone and are about to kill Harold and Lloyd but everyone is saved by the FBI at the last minute. They walk back home.
This issue of Cracked had a few other Dumb and Dumber tie-ins, like this article by Randy Epley and Rurik Tyler.
And this back cover.
UPDATE:
Cover to British version. MAD never parodied Dumb and Dumber except in an article about Jim Carrey. Either they reprinted that or did an all-original parody.
