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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MAD #252, January 1985
w: Larry Siegel
a: Mort Drucker
Steven (Michael Gross) and Elise Keaton (Meredith Baxter Birney) are two former hippies living in a suburban world. At the time of this parody, Elise was pregnant and the son would later be a character on the show.
Mallory (Justine Bateman) was their teenage daughter.
Alex (Michael J. Fox) was the oldest of their three children, his Reagan conservatism a contrast to their liberalism.
-Lee Iacocca was chairman of Chrysler Motors when it was bailed out by the government before becoming a very profitable company.
-Jennifer (Tina Yothers) was the youngest child
This was from The MAD TV Coroner's Report Volume II by Frank Jacobs in #294, April 1990
FAMILY TIES
Cracked #202, March 1984
a: Vance Rodewalt
FAMILIAR TIES
Cracked #226, March 1987
w: Joe Catalano
a: John Severin
Andrew, the baby, grew up on the show, with Alex trying to groom him to be a conservative like himself.
Michael J. Fox had also starred in Back to the Future and did Pepsi commercials.
From Communist Broadcasting System's New TV Lineup in Cracked #227, April 1987
The 80s were a time for "very special" episodes of sitcoms. They were usually aired during sweeps weeks and were an hour long and dealt with serious issues, like the clip above where Tom Hanks guest starred as an alcoholic. Like in yesterday's post, this is another example of Saturday Night Live's recurring 80s TV parody sketches, put here because they did that particular episode.
UPDATE:
From TV Spinoffs Yet to Come in MAD #274, March 1987. By Tom Koch and Angelo Torres.
We used to like him until ten years ago. Pretend it was ten years ago and we still like him.
THE CLODSBY SHOW
MAD # 255, June 1985
w: Larry Siegel
a: Angelo Torres
Sitcom about an upwardly mobile family in Brooklyn. Cliff Huxtable (Bill Cosby) was an obstetrician. His wife Claire (Phylicia Rashad) was a lawyer. Their children were Theo (Malcolm Jamal-Warner), Denise (Lisa Bonet), Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe), and Rudi (Keshia Knight-Pulliam).
Cliff's office was on the bottom floor to make it convenient for plots.
Grant Tinker was President of NBC.
“When E.F. Hutton talks, everybody listens” was an ad campaign for that brokerage firm.
Ricky Schroeder was a kid from another successful NBC sitcom Silver Spoons.
The German edition of MAD always did all-new covers for their parodies.
THE SILLY COSBEY SHOW
Cracked #212, July 1985
a: John Severin
The last panel is a picture of Robert Culp, co-star of Cosby's previous TV series I Spy.
THE COZBY KIDS MEET THE A-TEEM
Cracked #217, January 1986
a: John Reiner
Family Ties used to follow The Cosby Show on NBC.
The A-Team was Murdock (Dwight Schultz), Hannibal (George Peppard), “B.A.” Baracus (Mr. T.) and Face (Dirk Benedict)
Bob Newhart's Newhart was around the same time, though not in direct competition with The Cosby Show.
THE COSBY SHOW
Cracked # 224, November 1986
a: John Severin
Occasionally Sandra (Sabrina LaBeauf), another daughter they added later, was a college student who would sometimes appear.
There was a special issue of Cracked that was supposedly taken over by Russians. This was from the article Communist Broadcasting System's New TV Lineup in #227.
Usually when a porn parody is done of a movie or TV show it doesn't extend beyond punning the name and making the box look slightly like the poster (so I've been told). There were at least two editions of Not the Cosbys that actually tried to duplicate the formula in the video itself. Here are the parts with the porn edited out.
UPDATE:
Noow... you see you put the thing in now you see you put it out there with the “blawwwww”.
When I posted things from this before people pointed out MAD could get so much more mileage out of him today. They also pointed out I don't mention his sexual predatoriness the way I do with some of the other actors I post. That's true. Lots of these pages don't age well. From MAD #266, October 1986, by Tom Koch and Paul Coker, Jr.
From TV Spinoffs Yet to Come in MAD #269, March 1987, by Tom Koch and Angelo Torres.
