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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SMELLGROSS PLACE
MAD #317, March 1993
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker
This was a TV series spun off from Beverly Hills 90210, like that show but everyone was about ten to fifteen years older, about the tenants of an apartment complex on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. The cast at this point was Billy (Andrew Shue), Allison (Courtney Thorne-Smith), Michael (Thomas Calabro), Jane (Josie Bissett), Matt (Doug Savant), Sandy (Amy Locane), Jake (Grant Show), and Rhonda (Vanessa Williams). Kelly (Jennie Garth) from 90210 was the connection between the two shows.
The joke about politics is that they only talk about political events that involve sex scandals. I'm not sure about the Megan Louise gag except presumably she was a granddaughter of Mort Drucker?
In the corner in the last panel is creater Darren Starr.
YOUR LIFE VS LIFE ON MELROSE PLACE/90210
MAD #340, October 1995
w: Lori Kolman
a: Mort Drucker
In that second panel of the first gag is Jason Priestley of 90210.
In the last panel is Luke Perry of 90210.
The judge in “Sue your parents” is Lance Ito, the judge for the O. J. Simpson trial.
SMELROSE PLACE
Cracked #278, January 1993
w: Vic Bianco (Lou Silverstone)
a: John Severin
The other characters in the pool are Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams of Laverne and Shirley, John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt and Suzanne Somers of Three's Company, The Fonz, Jason Priestley, Luke Perry, and Shannen Doherty of Beverly Hills 90210, Bill and Ted from their eponymous Excellent Adventure, Mike Myers & Dana Carvey of Wayne's World, and Joe Gillis from Sunset Boulevard (William Holden).
LEASE AGREEMENTS FOR MELROSE PLACE
Same issue
w: Mike Mikula
a: Jeff Wong
JURASS-HAS-HAD-IT PARK
MAD #323, December 1993
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker
Paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam McNeil) and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) have been invited by John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), a wealthy industrialist, to be a part of his team developing Jurassic Park, a dinosaur theme park in an island off Costa Rica.
Rounding out the team are Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), a mathematician and chaos theorist, their lawyer Gennaro (Martin Ferrero), game warden Muldoon (Bob Peck), and Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight), an employee who tries to betray them. Joining them are John's grandchildren Lex (Ariana Richards) and Tim (Joseph Mazzello).
Given a tour, Alan and Ellie see dinosaurs up close. They are shown the film that parkgoers would also see during the orientation, explaining the dinosaurs are cloned from DNA obtained from prehistoric mosquitoes preserved in amber. When they are given a tour of the laboratory where the dinosaurs are developed, they are told that to make sure the dinosaurs don't reproduce, only females are cloned.
The meat eating dinosaurs are fed live cows and goats to sate their appetites. Raptors, or velociraptors, are also being bred there, a species of flesh-eating dinosaur of a higher intelligence that can solve problems like opening doors and figuring where objects are placed. One of the stegosauruses is sick and Ellie examines its stool to determine its diet and illness. Nedry tells the other employees he needs to fix the security system but he's really shutting it down so he can leave and sell dinosaur embryos to a rival business.
The crew and children are going on a preliminary tour in self-driving cars. Nedry's shutting off the electricity shut off the cars. It also cut off the electric fence protecting a Tyrannosaurus Rex from humans, so it escapes and attacks the cars. On his way out, Nedry gets caught in the mud and while trying to tow his car out, is attacked and killed by a dilophasaurus. One of the tour cars, which contains the children, goes off the rails and falls down a hill, and Alan runs out and saves them. In the beginning of the movie, it's established he hated kids, but bonds with these as he's stuck with them. At the main lab, one of the workers (Samuel Jackson) warns that the dinosaurs are all on the loose.
Alan and the kids return to safety to the main building, and leaves them alone for a second while he tries to find everyone and get them all back together. While he's gone, velociraptors descend on the main building and the children haveto hide in the building's kitchen. Alan return and they all crawl through the air vents to escape. They're saved at the last minute when the raptors are eaten by a T-Rex. Everyone escapes the island realizing Jurassic Park was never meant to be.
“Weird Al” Yankovic did a parody of MacArthur Park called Jurassic Park that was also used in MAD.
This was Sergio Aragones' take on the movie in the same issue.
Is that Dave Berg in the second strip?
This includes a couple scenes that weren't in the main parody-- Gennaro hiding in an outhouse to try to escape a T-Rex, and Tim being fried by the electric fence when the power goes back on.
Cracked #283, September 1993
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan
The MAD parody doesn't include the exposition used at the beginning, like Jurassic Park being developed, the doctors' paleontology work before meeting Mr. Hammond, and Dennis Nedry's arrangement to sell eggs to a competitor.
Ivan Boesky was a stock trader convicted of insider trading.
This was Don Martin's take a couple issues later. He probably hadn't seen the movie.
Cover to Brazilian edition.
And of course every Jurassic Park parody had to include Barney.
THE ADDAMNEDS FAMILY DEVALUED
Cracked Monster Party #23, Spring 1994
w: Steve Strangio
a: Walter Brogan
Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Angelica Huston) Addams have just given birth to Pubert while Uncle Fester (Christopher Lloyd), Granny (Carol Kane), Lurch (Carel Struyken), Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) look on.
Pubert was the original name considered for Pugsley when The Addams Family was being developed for television in the sixties.
Wednesday and Pugsley just want to kill the baby. The Addamses interview new nannies for him.
There was controversy in the 90s when Beavis and Butthead were accused of teaching kids to burn their house down. It didn't hold water when it turned out the angry parent who scapegoated them didn't even have cable, but this didn't stop channels from censoring “imitative behavior”. Readers of this blog already know about Pee-Wee Herman getting caught with his pants down. Hannibal Lecter just liked to eat people.
Debbie (Joan Cusack) is the nanny they eventually hire but she puts up a cheery front while robbing them. Uncle Fester, who own the Addams' wealth doesn't realize this and is smitten by her. The kids go to camp for the summer.
Debbie and Fester eventually get married, Wednesday and Pugsley are on to her but can't tell anyone because they're stuck at summer camp. Debbie tries to kill Fester now. Gomez and Morticia find out through the TV that she's a famous black widow fugitive who's killed other rich men.
The punchline here is that the nanny is Michael Jackson.
Not used are the camp Thanksgiving pageant and Wednesday's first love.
