MUPDATES

Got a bunch of parodies from Muppet magazine. These were also parodied by other magazines and are hyperlinked to. All other parodies from the magazine will be featured here will be when they come up alphabetically. I assume you're familiar with all the Muppets here, so I need not get into their personalities.

GHOSTBUSTERS (1984)
dir: Harold Ramis

GROSSBUSTERS
#10, Spring 1985
w: Jay Itzkowitz
a: Jon McIntosh

Ghostbusters starred Sigourney Weaver, Dan Aykroyd, and Bill Murray.

MIAMI VICE
NBC 1984-1990

MIAMI MICE
#14, Spring 1986
w: Jay Itzkowitz
a: Frank Springer

Cracker and Ricotta are the roles of Crockett and Tubbs played by Don Johnson and Phillip Michael Thomas.

The song Dr. Teeth's band is playing is parodying Glenn Frey's You Belong to the City, at 4:30 in the video in the link.

DYNASTY
ABC 1981-1989

SWINESTY
#20, Fall 1987
w: Steve Morgenstern
a: Jon McIntosh

The leads on this show were Blake Carrington (John Forsythe), his wife Krystie (Linda Evans), and Alexis Colby (Joan Collins)

Kermit is J. R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) of Dallas.

THE COSBY SHOW
NBC 1984-1992

THE FROGSBY SHOW
#22, Spring 1988
w: Steve Morgenstern
a: Jon McIntosh

References are also made to Ozzie and Harriet and Leave it to Beaver. Heathcliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) had a wife Claire (Phylicia Rashad) and their children Theo (Malcolm Jamal-Warner), Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe) and Rudi (Keshia Knight-Pulliam)

CROCODILE DUNDEE (1987)
dir: Peter Faiman

“CROCODILE” KERMIE
#23, Summer 1988
w: Steve Morgenstern
a: Nate Butler & Marie Severin

Romantic comedy about Australian outback hunter in America with Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski.

DIRTY DANCING (1987)
dir: Emile Ardolino

NERDY DANCING #25, Winter 1989

FEBRUARY UPDATES

One-time MAD artist Bruce Stark did a bunch of TV Guide covers I haven't included before and almost all were parodied by MAD as well.

Bill Daly, Suzanne Pleshette, Marcia Wallace, Peter Bonerz, Pat Finley, and Bob Newhart in the first incarnation of The Bob Newhart Show.

Gavin McLeod, Lauren Tewes, Ted Lange, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy, and Jill Whelock of Love Boat

Not sure where this is from. Probably a TV Guide article about reruns. It has Dan Blocker and Lorne Greene from Bonanza, Jack Webb from Dragnet, Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner from Star Trek, Alan Alda and Loretta Swit from M*A*S*H, Jackie Gleason and Art Carney of The Honeymooners and Lucille Ball as her character from I Love Lucy.

Richard Chamberlain was in Shōgun. This is more typical of what almost all TV actors make now.

Newhart cast members Bob Newhart, Julia Duffy, Peter Scolari, Mary Frann, Tom Poston, Tony Papenfuss, William Sanderson, and John Voldtstadt.

Ad in TV Guide by Sam Viviano with Henry Winkler, Rita Moreno, John Ritter, Penny Marshall, and David Lander. That's supposed to be Michael McKean though you'd only get that in the context.

I've mentioned before how Jack Davis was the official Monkees artist.

In 1984, the Motion Picture Association sent this flier by Davis to theaters announcing their new PG-13 rating and how some releases that already had a PG rating would be changed. Films included would be Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Woman in Red, Gremlins, and Red Dawn.

Drawing by Mort Drucker, maybe for self-promotion, since it's from 1985 and the references span several years. Roger Moore as James Bond, Bill Murray in Ghostbusters, Goldie Hawn as Private Benjamin, Tina Turner, Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, Clint Eastwood, and Jane Fonda with her aerobics videos.

Unused publicity drawing for Animal House, or maybe it was for the Delta House TV series but shelved when they realized they wouldn't have the character of Bluto.

LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND VIOLENT

LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS
1984-1995 SYNDICATED

Reality program showcasing home and day of famous actors or oil and real estate magnates hosted by Robin Leach.

LIFESTYLES OF THE DECADENT AND OPULENT
Cracked #227, April 1987
a: Bob Fingerman

From an issue of Cracked released as if taken over by the Russian government. Episode profiling Joan Collins of Dynasty.

Next is Sammy Davis Junior.

LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND VIOLENT
Cracked #291, August 1994
w: Judd Stomp
a: Rurik Tyler

This is about videogame characters, a medium completely foreign to me. These are characters from Mortal Kombat.

Shannen Doherty, star of Beverly Hills 90210, was known for being a violent person.

Dana Carvey often impersonated Robin Leach on Saturday Night Live. Most of his impressions evolved into things he made up about them, such as his attribution of Leach constantly saying “I don't know why”.

DIE-NASTY

DYNASTY
1981-1989 ABC

MAD #256, July 1985
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Mort Drucker

ABC's answer to Dallas, about an oil family in Denver. The main characters were Alexis Colby (Joan Collins), Blake Carrington (John Forsythe), Krystle (Linda Evans), Steve (Jack Coleman), Claudia (Pamela Bellwood), Adam (Gordon Thomson), Fallon (Pamela Sue Martin), and Dominique (Diahann Carroll).

Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger are friends of the family.

   -Anybody know if Puke Buller is supposed to be anyone?
   -Renee Richards was a tennis player famous for changing genders.

The news reporter here is Barbara Walters.

The show rated a cover for their German edition.

From The MAD TV Coroner's Report in #294, April 1990, written by Frank Jacobs.

UPDATE:
Cover to the Mexican edition.

And the Australian one. The American edition also had Beverly Hills Cop even though neither were on the cover for that issue in the U.S. except at the top next to the logo.