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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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.
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)
GROSSBUSTERS II
MAD #290, October 1989
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
Five years after the Ghostbusters were lauded as heroes for saving the city and given a parade in the last movie, they are all has-beens and have lost their business due to damage and injuries they caused. Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) now entertain childrens' parties, Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) has a TV talk show about psychics, and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) experiments with human behavior at a laboratory. Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver) and Peter Venkman got together at the end of the first movie, but have since broken up, she has been married and divorced and is now a single mom working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art restoring paintings. This splash panel has nothing to do with any of this.
Slime has seeped through the sidewalk and Dana's baby buggy has come in contact with it unbeknownst to her, causing the buggy to let loose out into the streets. Any movie viewer should know that since Battleship Potemkin any baby buggy in a movie will always be in peril. Dana seeks the aid of the Ghostbusters to investigate strange goings-on and they go to the mayor's office to ask his permission (he's drawn here as then-mayor Ed Koch) to operate again.
A painting at the upcoming exhibit of historical figure Vigo the Carpathian (drawn here as Iran leader Ayatollah Khomeini) is haunted and is using Dana's boss (Peter MacNicol) to get to her child, so that he can have a host and live again. The Ghostbusters, back in business unlawfully, have drilled through the street and discovered goo in the city's sewers, and have inadvertently cut off the power to the city doing this, and are put on trial. Louis (Rick Moranis), from the previous movie, is their lawyer.
Just as the judge is about to declare the Ghostbusters guilty, the ooze that was used as evidence lets ghosts of criminals the judge put in the chair loose in the courtroom and now the city needs them. The ghosts also come loose in Dana's apartment trying to take her baby, and they flee to Peter's apartment. They rekindle their relationship, go out on a date, and the Ghostbusters' secretary Jeanine (Annie Potts) babysits with Louis joining her. It isn't used in the parody, but when the other three Ghostbusters without Peter investigate the ooze and discover it contains evil, they find where Peter is on his date and interrupt him at the restaurant covered in ooze. They all get kicked out of the restaurant and the mayor's assistant (here it's the mayor) has them committed. Meanwhile, Vigo, still in painting form, is still using Dana's boss to try to get her baby.
Ghosts are causing chaos in many ways, including bringing the wreck of the Titanic into the city. The ooze has formed a shell around the city and the only way to keep Manhattan from turning evil is for the Ghostbusters to bring positive energy in. They had been performing experiments earlier making inanimate objects sentient and use it to bring in the Statue of Liberty.
There's another subplot not used either where it's not really the Statue of Liberty that brings positivity to the city after all. It's New Years Eve and the city is happy anyway, breaking the ooze and sending Vigo back to the painting. Louis is outside, trying to be the hero, and has found a spare Ghostbuster suit and equipment in the office, thinking he was the one to save everyone.
GHOSTBUGGERS II
Cracked #250, December 1989
w: Vic Bianco (Lou Silverstone)
a: Walter Brogan
-The mayor is drawn as Ed Koch here, too.
-Bernhard Goetz was a one-time subway vigilante and symbol for white rage in the 80s.
The baby was named Oscar.
UPDATE:
From Cracked #249, November 1989, art by Rurik Tyler.
GHOST-DUSTERS
MAD #253, March 1985
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Sam Viviano
Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd), and Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) are three science professors asked by the New York Public Library to investigate paranormal activity. When they return to the university where they work, they are terminated for practicing bogus science and start business for themselves as Ghostbusters in an abandoned firehouse. Their first job is to look at a something haunting a hotel.
With their equipment they find the ghost, and after it slimes them and they trash the hotel, they catch and trap it. Meanwhile, Dana Barrett (Sigourney Weaver), a resident in a building overlooking Central Park, notices strange goings-on in her apartment and consults the Ghostbusters. Peter Venkman investigates while also making moves on her. Later, she agrees to a date with him and when he meets her she becomes possessed by a spirit in the building and claims to be the Gatekeeper seeking the Keymaster. Louis Tully (Rick Moranis) is her neighbor across the hall who has a crush on her, and he too becomes possessed by a spirit and claims to be the Keymaster.
The main plot point, is not used in this parody, in which an agent from the EPA shuts their business down, also shutting down the machine where they trap all the ghosts they've caught throughout the movie, letting them all loose throughout the city. The Ghostbusters are arrested for having a fraudulent business, and while in jail study a map of the Central Park building. They discover it was designed as a conduit for Gozer, master of the Gatekeeper and Keymaster that were possessing Dana and Louis, and the one wreaking havoc on the city with ghosts. The Ghostbusters are eventually sprung by the city as the only hope of retrapping the ghosts. Gozer has now taken the form of corporate mascot the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man which is 200 feet tall and attacking the city ala Godzilla.
Also not used are Annie Potts as their secretary and Ernie Hudson, who gets hired later as the fourth Ghostbuster.
This was not used on the cover in the U.S. but was for the German edition.
THE GUEST-DUSTERS
Cracked #249, November 1989
w & a: Pat Boyette
The logo was just as popular as the movie. Newsweek parodied it on their cover, for one example.
Harvey Comics tried to sue, claiming their logo was appropriating their character Fatso.
You don't think the porn industry would ignore a successful movie, do you?
