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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LITTLE ANNIE FANNY
Playboy, circa 1984
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Will Elder Little Annie Fanny sort of did a takeoff of the whole Indiana Jones franchise, specifically Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which had been released that summer. Caricatures are drawn of Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg. The Nazis and snakes are more from Raiders of the Lost Ark, though.
TRAILERS OF THE LOST PARK
Bananas #50, circa 1981
w: Jovial Bob Stine
a: Sam Viviano
The government agents are all Mr. Dithers from Blondie.
For the next twenty years? It's been 42 years and they're still making sequels now.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND
MAD #18, December 1954
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Jack Davis
Though this is more based on the book, there were two movie versions at this point, a live-action version from 1933 and an animated one from 1951 which may be better known. This and the cover from a few issues earlier are taken from the John Tenniel illustrations for the book.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)
dir: Steven Spielberg
MAD #228, January 1982
w: Dick DeBartolo & Frank Jacobs
a: Jack Davis
The cast of Raiders of the Lost Ark was Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford), Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), Belloq (Paul Freeman), Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliott), Toht (Ronald Lacey), and Sallah (John Rhys-Davies).
The prologue shows Indy in Peru recovering a golden idol from a cave. In order to take it without setting off booby traps, he switches it with a sandbag of equal weight, but still sets of the traps. It opens a trap door, he tries to rescue his guide who betrays him but gets killed. Indy outruns a series of boulders but is corned by Belloq who steals the idol, he and some natives nearly kill Indy, but Indy escapes in a seaplane. Later, Indy is teaching at a university and approached by Marcus and two American army intelligence officers (Don Fellows, William Hootkins)
The officers are there to inform him Nazis are in Nepal to find clues to artifacts. Indy surmises they are trying to find the Ark of the Covenant. In Nepal, we meet Marion who owns a bar there. She is the ex-girlfriend of Indy, and daughter of his former academic associate, both of which he abandoned. He comes there to buy the medallion from her, the first clue to the ark, but she's coy about having it, but shows she possesses it fter he leaves. Nazis approach her about getting the same medallion and plan to torture her if they don't get it. They burn down her bar, Toht sees the medallion, and burns his hand trying to get it. (Last part not used here. In video clip below).
Indy shows up at the burning bar and kills most of the Nazis. They both escape to Cairo, and Marion escapes in a wicker basket which Nazis find and escape with in a Jeep. Indy shoots it, unknowingly shooting Marion in the process. Indy finds the Staff of Rah that reveals clues to the Well of Souls, the ark's resting place, when light passes through it. He also finds Marion is not dead after all, but has been kidnapped by Nazis, whom have also come to Cairo having gotten the same clues from the impression of the medallion in the burn on Toht's hand.
Marion, while captured, is wined and dined by Belloq, who is helping get the ark for the Nazis. It has been established that she gets in drinking contests with people, pretends to be more drunk than them, then catches them off guard. Belloq is a match for her and Toht had been there all along. Meanwhile, Indy and Sallah find the Well in a cave full of snakes. It was also established earlier that Indy is afraid of snakes. The captured Marion is thrown down there with him and they're trapped down there.
There turns out to be another exit to the cave, which Indy and Marion escape through. In the desert, the Nazis have captured the ark and are about to escape in a plane and take off with it in a truck. Indy chases the Nazis, kills them and escapes with the truck carrying the ark, next we see that the ark is now on a steamboat going safely to London.
German U-boats intercept the steamer and seize the ark. It is thought that Indy and Marion have been killed in the fracas but Indy has snuck onto the U-boat. He has arrived at the island where they will open the ark before presenting it to Hitler, and found that they have captured Marion yet again. He is holding a rocket launcher and will shoot the ark unless they let Marion go. There is a standoff and Belloq says he knows Indy wants to see what's inside just as much as them. At the island, with Indy and Marion tied up, they open the ark and Belloq sees nothing but sand inside. Then a bunch of spirits escape as Indy and Marion look away and the Nazis melt, and the spirits fly back into the box and close the lid. Later, back at home, with the ark in American hands, the government just decides to keep the ark in a crate and store it in a warehouse.
♫Raiders... of the lost ark...
There were some Nazis♪
♪Their faces melted♫
Quick...Guess what that's from. Your prize is the gift of knowledge.
TRAITORS OF THE LOST ARK
Cracked #183, December 1981
a: John Severin
They had a parody of Superman II in that same issue.
Indiana Jones' guide Satipo was Alfred Molino. Comparisons to James Bond are frequent in real life.
One of the most famous scenes is him shooting the swordsman (below). Nobody likes a show-off.
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARGH
Crazy #83, December 1981
w: Paul Kupperberg
a: Bob Camp
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.
