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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Showing posts with label INTERNATIONAL INSANITY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label INTERNATIONAL INSANITY. Show all posts
LOONEY GOONS
Australian MAD #305, September 1991
w & a: Steve Lopes
In Australia, the Warner Brothers cartoons were packaged in a show called The Bugs Bunny Show hosted by Sophie Lee, similar to Toon In With Me on MeTV.
I don't think there's anyone under 60 unfamiliar with Sesame Street, which started out in a multicultural urban environment and became increasingly gentrified over the years, but since you never know who sees things on the internet, I'll talk as if nobody knows anything anyway. MAD has done several versions of it over the years, and it helps that artist Jack Davis did work for the actual show, which we'll get to tomorrow.
REALITY STREET
MAD #146, October 1971
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Jack Davis
The first Gordon (Matt Robinson) started as one of the creative directors of the show, and even was a voice for some of the Muppets. And of course there were Ernie and Bert (Jim Henson, Frank Oz)
Grover and Cookie Monster (both Frank Oz) were two other Muppets.
And there was Oscar the Grouch (Carroll Spinney)
And Big Bird (Carroll Spinney) and Herry (Jerry Nelson)
IF SESAME STREET BRANCHED OUT INTO SPECIALIZED AVENUES OF EDUCATION
MAD #203, December 1978
w: Frank Jacobs
a: Jack Davis
Mr. Hooper (Will Lee) ran the corner store, and the end every show was “sponsored” by letters and numbers as part of the way the show used the tropes of commercial TV.
As a really small kid, I didn't know Sherlock Hemlock (Jerry Nelson) was a parody of Sherlock Holmes. Kermit (Jim Henson) was the one Muppet that was a character on several of Henson's different shows. On Sesame Street he was a news reporter.
The Gordon caricatured here had left by then. Maybe this was an inventory article. I didn't realize Count Von Count (Jerry Nelson) was supposed to be someone either. Olivia (Alaina Reed) was one of the human characters.
From MAD Looks at Public Television by Larry Siegel and Harry North, in MAD #232, July 1982
From the German version of MAD. Like MAD, Sesame Street has different versions in other countries that use the name but have a lot of their own material. The furry creature must be exclusive to their version.
SESAME STREET THEN AND SESAME STREET NOW
Cracked #304, December 1995
w: Rob Weske
a: Walter Brogan
There are compilation CDs and YouTube clips of the show as it originally was compared to how it is now, showing how attitudes and child-rearing have changed over the years. Cracked picked up on this.
Cookie Monster actually did become nutritionally correct eventually, only eating cookies occasionally, which kind of ruins the point. Snuffleupagus, Big Bird's imaginary friend, was visible to everyone by this point.
Miss Piggy was not a Sesame Street character.
SESAME BLVD.
International Insanity #1, July 1976
w & a: Jim Geoghan
Here's a weird one. Parodying the 1950 movie Sunset Boulevard with Big Bird in the Gloria Swanson role. A film noir about a struggling writer (William Holden) trying to escape bill collectors and finding himself in the mansion of an aging silent film star and stuck living in her world and writing a screenplay for her.
More Sesame Street to come tomorrow, including the intersection of parody and reality.
Got still even more Kojak parodies. I'm starting a new folder because I wouldn't have enough room for tags. I still won't have enough room here either. But I'll try.
TV detective show about Det. Theodopolus Kojak (Telly Savalas). One of the other detectives was Stavros (George Savalas).
Cover to the German edition of Cracked.
Cover to the Brazilian edition, also parodying the TV shows Coquetel de Amor and Espelho Mágico.
From Cracked #128, October 1975, art by Sururi Gumen.
From Cracked #138, December 1976, art by John Severin. His partner was Bobby Crocker (Kevin Dobson).
KOJERK
Sick #103, April 1975
w: Len Herman
a: Jerry Grandenetti
Sucking lollipops was one of his his trademarks.
His boss was Frank McNeil (Dan Frazier)
The caricatures of Boris Karloff, Jackie Gleason, Danny Thomas, Carol Channing, and Allen Funt look like they were swiped from Al Hirschfeld.
Monty Hall was host of the game show Let's Make a Deal.
A POKE IN YOUR PRIVATE EYE
International Insanity #1, July 1976
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Terry Austin, Russ Heath, Neal Adams, Carl Potts, Jack Abel, Al Milgrom
This is really a parody of the entire detective genre, similar to the piece from the Longstreet parody last month.Because it has so many detectives and the article has so many inkers, not everything can be tagged.
International Insanity was an adult humor magazine that kept changing its name. First it was Harpoon until it got a cease and desist from National Lampoon for having a similar name, then became Apple Pie, and eventually settled on this. They usually used Marvel/superhero artists for their parodies.
The detectives here, from eponymous shows unless noted otherwise, are Mike Stone from The Steets of San Francisco (Karl Malden), Frank Cannon (Robert Conrad), Baretta (Robert Blake), Pepper Anderson of Police Woman (Angie Dickinson), Columbo (Peter Falk), McCloud (Dennis Weaver), and Jim Rockford of The Rockford Files (James Garner). I probably know who the guy with glasses and the woman with the white streaks are too and they'll come to me after this is already posted and someone will tell me and I'll feel like an idiot.
Karl Malden also did commercials for American Express. Baretta had a pet cockatoo.
The curator kind of looks like Donald Sutherland but fifteen to twenty years after this was drawn.
Also one of the detective that wasn't used in the splash is Barnaby Jones (Eddie Albert).
“Who loves ya, baby?” was Telly Savalas' catchphrase.
SHIT LIST
National Screw #3, 1977
When Hustler made a big splash, Screw, previously a regional tabloid, went toe-to-toe with them briefly, publishing a slick magazine edition, using the same formula they felt they had been using for years. Screw's formula was more 80% sex, 10% satire, and 10% a soapbox for publisher Al Goldstein to air his grievances.
