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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Ever wonder what would happen if Mork were to appear in shows besides Mork and Mindy? Cracked sure did. Twice.
In case you didn't know. Mork and Mindy was a sitcom about Mork (Robin Williams), an alien from Ork, sent to Earth to report about it. He's discovered by Mindy McConnell (Pam Dawber) and lives in her attic. He has a hard time adjusting to Earthling ways, not getting metaphors and sitting in furniture upside-down among other eccentricities. He sprinkles his dialogue with Orkan language saying words like “Nanoo Nanoo” and “Shazbot”. All the while he has to hide that he's from space from most people.
IF MORK APPEARED IN OTHER TV SHOWS AND MOVIES
Cracked #164, November 1979
a: John Severin
Star Trek took place three centuries into the future led by Captain Kirk (William Shatner). His right-hand officer was Sulu (George Takei). Mork has the role of Spock, usually taken by Leonard Nimoy.
This is the 1976 remake of King Kong.
Mork has the role of Rhett Butler, originally played by Clark Gable, lover of Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in the antebellum South.
IF MORK APPEARED IN OTHER TV SHOWS AND MOVIES
Cracked #167, March 1980
a: John Severin
Mork has the role of Ricardo Montalban as Roarke, who with Tattoo (Herve Villechaise) owned an island where people could live out their fantasies.
Karl Malden was an actor with a flat nose.
On Hawaii 5-0, Jack Lord played Steve McGarrett, a police detective stationed in Hawaii.
Here he's C3PO in The Star Wars trash compactor scene with Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill).
This was probably meant to be the 1979 version of Dracula, with Frank Langella as the character.
And if you haven't had your fill of Morksploitation yet, here's an interview they had. Nanny Dickering, their recurring character, usually interviewed an auto manufacturer or food distributor, but this time she interviewed Mork.
CRACKED INTERVIEWS THE ORKAN KING
Cracked #168, April 1980
a: Bill Ward
Here's the cover for the German edition of Cracked.
And they had two special editions with Mork. One was a collection of the articles you just saw, the other one was all-new material similar to one we posted earlier this year cashing in on the Fonz.
That's right, we're only a little more than half way through. Stay tuned tomorrow for part 4 of Mork week.
HOW-ARE-YA FIVE-O?
MAD #141, March 1971
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Angelo Torres
Police show about Detective Dan McGarrett (Jack Lord), head of police department in Hawaii, called that because Hawaii was the 50th state.
His staff included Kono (Zulu), Chin Ho (Kam Fong), and Danno Williams (James McArthur)
The criminal is a caricature of Buddy Hackett, the D.A. is George C. Scott.
Gov. Richard Denning was Paul Jameson.
From "Truly Relevant" TV Shows in MAD # 149, March 1972 by Tom Koch and Angelo Torres
HAVAII 5-0
Cracked #131, March 1976
a: John Severin
"Book 'em, Danno!" was their big catchphrase.
More of both Jawsploitation and Fonzploitation from Cracked in their article If the Fonze Guest Starred on Other Shows, #137 in November 1976, illustrated by Don Orehek.
When I was on Tumblr, this was on my feed. I don't remember the context or who posted it but I just remember laughing my ass of and I hope you do too. (Note to internet bots who may hand over death threats: Jack Lord already died 24 years ago and I think the statute of limitations has expired anyway.)
UPDATE:
From How TV Shows Could Be Killed Without Cancelling Them in Cracked #138, December 1976, art by John Severin
THE GREAT NIELSON AIRWAVE WAR
Cracked #138, December 1976
a: McTurk (John Severin)
They spelled Nielsen wrong. Maybe that was on purpose though. That was how they measured ratings when there were only three networks. Maybe they still do.
This was around the time Cracked started to do combinations of TV shows and movies so they could keep doing as many as they could over and over again and use celebrities to sell copies. First here is Peter Falk as Columbo.
The first casualty is Redd Foxx of Sanford and Son. The other detectives are Dennis Weaver as McCloud and Angie Dickinson in Police Woman.
The ABC bunker has Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams of Laverne and Shirley, Lindsay Wagner as The Bionic Woman, Henry Winkler as Happy Days' Fonz, and Starsky (David Soul) & Hutch (Paul Michael Glaser).
John Travolta from Welcome Back, Kotter, Steve Austin of The Six Million Dollar Man, Edith (Jean Stapleton) and Archie (Carroll O'Connor) from All in the Family, Jimmie Walker as J. J. from Good Times, Cher, and McGarrett (Jack Lord) and Danny (James MacArthur) from Hawaii Five-O.
UPDATE:
I discoveredm there was a cover to this which I just added and put at the top.
