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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If there's anything anyone remembers about Old Yeller, it's the ending, where a beloved dog has to be killed by the family because it was rabid. The ending has been parodied a few times.
THE CHICKEN KILLER
Cracked #30, July 1963
w: Jay Lynch
a: Bill Ward
Lynch will be remembered for his legacy as one of the undergrond pioneers, a contemporary of Crumb and Spiegelman, but as a teenager he started with Cracked and Sick. He theorized that they had nothing but the camera-ready page which they had worn out by taking the glued page on and off boards so many times from reprinting it again and again, they had no choice but to redraw it. Here it is again as the back cover for Cracked #168, May 1980, redrawn by Howard Nostrand.
Humbug did their version as well.
OLD YALLER
Humbug #10, June 1958
w: Larry Siegel
a: Will Elder
Kids in the Hall did more than one version of just the ending.
JULIUS CAESAR!
MAD #17, November 1954
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Wallace Wood
“There were so many imitations. The imitations were coming out of the woodwork. I've got an attic filled with MAD imitations, Blecch, Ecch, Ptui, Ergh, Blaugh, Blurp...”
--Harvey Kurtzman Comics Journal interview, 1981
More of a parody of parodies than the movie itself, how when MAD first came out in 1952 and became a runaway success eventually, every other publisher jumped on the bandwagon trying to duplicate that success, and it was ubiquitous enough of a target for them.
The movie was an adaptation of Shakespeare's play, with Louis Calhern as Caesar. James Mason was Brutus.
These are caricatures of actual existing U.S. Senators.
Marlon Brando played Marc Anthony in Julius Caesar. Martin Kane was sponsored by the American Tobacco Company. The Sherlock Holmes portrait is based on Bill Elder's drawing of him in many MAD parodies.
“Dom Da Domm Domm” comes from the horns used in the Dragnet theme.
Kurtzman was no stranger to doing take-offs of take-offs, before MAD, he did this in his strip for Lana #2 in 1948.
Bijou Funnies, an underground comic of the 60s and 70s, did a whole issue that was a parody of Kurtzman's MAD in 1973, with the back cover a parody of the opening page from this story, written by Jay Lynch and drawn by Ralph Reese, who had been an assistant to Wood.
