dir: Alex Keshishian
Documentary about Madonna on her Blond Ambition tour
Yes, at one time even Alfred E. Neuman committed sexual assault.
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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Saturday, March 23, 2024
GOOSE OR BARE
TRUTH OR DARE (1991)
dir: Alex Keshishian
Documentary about Madonna on her Blond Ambition tour
Yes, at one time even Alfred E. Neuman committed sexual assault.
From Video Reviews in #310, April 1992, by Stan Hart and Sam Viviano
Madonna was linked to Warren Beatty, friends with Sandra Bernhart, and married to Sean Penn for several years.
dir: Alex Keshishian
Documentary about Madonna on her Blond Ambition tour
Yes, at one time even Alfred E. Neuman committed sexual assault.
Friday, July 15, 2022
MORE BATTYMAN
BATMAN
ABC 1966-1968
BATMAN (1989)
dir: Tim Burton
Every generation has their own version of Batman, there were the movie serials in the 40s up to the dark remakes now. These are more pages from 1989 that both parody and cash in on the then-upcoming 1989 Batman movie based on what they knew from the 1966 TV show. You can find the other versions MAD and Cracked had of that movie and the earlier TV show here.
Cover of Taiwan edition of MAD.
Swedish edition
Norwegian edition
In the eighties and nineties Cracked often dedicated an issue to articles about a movie before devoting the next issue to the actual parody. In 1989, most of an issue was devoted to the upcoming movie they hadn't yet seen and knowledge of the comics character made a part of the national vocabulary from the 60s TV program.
BATTY-WEAPONS THAT DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT TO THE UTILITY BELT
Cracked #248, October 1989
w: George Gladir
a: John Severin
WHAT'S HOT AND WHAT'S NOT
a: Gary Fields
BADTMAN
a: Pat Boyette
Bob Kane was the person who created, or rather, took credit for and signed the strip.
THE SOUNDS OF BATTYMAN
a: Don Martin
A CRACKED LOOK AT BATMAN
w: Roger Brown
a: Mike Ricigliano
WHAT IF BRUISE PAYNE DIDN'T BECOME BATMAN?
w: George Gladir
a: Ron Wagner
THEM BATTYMAN SEQUELS WE'RE SURE TO SEE
w: George Gladir
a: John Severin
puns on Rutger Hauer, Bette Midler, Farrah Fawcett, Burt Reynolds, and Claude Raines
Debbie Reynolds, Dustin Hoffman, Dirk Bogarde, McClean Stevenson
Warren Beatty, Omar Sharif, Christpher Walken, Sigourney Weavver
George Burns, Treat Williams, Rhonda Fleming, George C. Scott
Telly Savalas, Carol Channing, Tab Hunter, Rob Reiner
Terence Stamp, Nick Nolte, Frank Converse, Judd Nelson, Benny Hill
CRACKED INTERVIEW WITH RABID THE WONDER BOY
w: Rich Kriegel (Lou Silverstone)
a: John Severin
In Batman Forever, it was acknowledged that Robin was part of a family circus troop called the Flying Graysons.
FORM & FUNCTION LOOKS AT THE NEW GEAR
a: Rurik Tyler
SHUT-UPS
a: Don Orehek
Inside back cover
Back cover (artist unknown, border by Bill Wray)
Back to MAD
VILLAINS AWAITING BATMAN'S RETURN TO TV
MAD #298, October 1990
w: Charlie Kadau & Joe Raiola
a: Rick Tulka
Jackie Mason had a sitcom co-starring Lynn Redgrave called Chicken Soup.
Bob Guccione used more than one Miss America winner for his Penthouse magazine. Joe Piscopo had left the cast of Saturday Night Live by then but was doing his characters and impressions for Lite Beer commercials.
CRACKED INTERVIEWS THE JERKER
Cracked #250, December 1989
w: Rich Kriegel (Lou Silverstone)
a: Walter Brogan
“Heeeere's Johnny”, while initially Johnny Carson's tagline, may be better known as a line by Jack Nicholson from The Shining.
Eddie Murphy hadn't been a cast member of Saturday Night Live for years at that point. Robin Willians, Steve Martin, and Jay Leno never were.
ABC 1966-1968
BATMAN (1989)
dir: Tim Burton
Every generation has their own version of Batman, there were the movie serials in the 40s up to the dark remakes now. These are more pages from 1989 that both parody and cash in on the then-upcoming 1989 Batman movie based on what they knew from the 1966 TV show. You can find the other versions MAD and Cracked had of that movie and the earlier TV show here.
Cover of Taiwan edition of MAD.
BATTY-WEAPONS THAT DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT TO THE UTILITY BELT
Cracked #248, October 1989
w: George Gladir
a: John Severin
a: Gary Fields
Bob Kane was the person who created, or rather, took credit for and signed the strip.
a: Don Martin
w: Roger Brown
a: Mike Ricigliano
w: George Gladir
a: Ron Wagner
w: George Gladir
a: John Severin
puns on Rutger Hauer, Bette Midler, Farrah Fawcett, Burt Reynolds, and Claude Raines
Warren Beatty, Omar Sharif, Christpher Walken, Sigourney Weavver
Telly Savalas, Carol Channing, Tab Hunter, Rob Reiner
Terence Stamp, Nick Nolte, Frank Converse, Judd Nelson, Benny Hill
w: Rich Kriegel (Lou Silverstone)
a: John Severin
a: Rurik Tyler
a: Don Orehek
VILLAINS AWAITING BATMAN'S RETURN TO TV
MAD #298, October 1990
w: Charlie Kadau & Joe Raiola
a: Rick Tulka
Cracked #250, December 1989
w: Rich Kriegel (Lou Silverstone)
a: Walter Brogan
“Heeeere's Johnny”, while initially Johnny Carson's tagline, may be better known as a line by Jack Nicholson from The Shining.
Monday, June 27, 2022
REPRIEVE IT FOR BEAVER
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER
1957-1963 CBS-ABC
I hate when they stretch things out to be proportioned for today's TV screen, but this is what I found.
REPRIEVE IT FOR BEAVER
MAD #262, April 1986
w: Dennis Snee
a: Angelo Torres
Sitcom about American family that's become the generic defenition of “1950s American household”, the mythical white suburban picket fence family. It was parodied in their feature A Bad Case of the Re-Runs they had briefly in the eighties when Nick at Nite first started.
The family was father Ward (Hugh Beaumont), mother June (Barbara Billingsley), and kids Wally (Tony Dow), and Theodore a/k/a “The Beaver” (Jerry Mathers). They had various friends but for this there were Larry Mundello (Rusty Stevens) and Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond).
The neighbor here is Ozzie Nelson from The Nelson Family. The man from Mars is, of course, Bill Cosby, back when we liked him.
This was Mathers' and Dow's obligatory celebrity letters to the editor.
This was the Columbia House ad parody they mentioned, which co-incidentally had a Beaver joke.
SCTV did their Leave It to Beaver parody.
1957-1963 CBS-ABC
I hate when they stretch things out to be proportioned for today's TV screen, but this is what I found.
REPRIEVE IT FOR BEAVER
MAD #262, April 1986
w: Dennis Snee
a: Angelo Torres
Sitcom about American family that's become the generic defenition of “1950s American household”, the mythical white suburban picket fence family. It was parodied in their feature A Bad Case of the Re-Runs they had briefly in the eighties when Nick at Nite first started.
The family was father Ward (Hugh Beaumont), mother June (Barbara Billingsley), and kids Wally (Tony Dow), and Theodore a/k/a “The Beaver” (Jerry Mathers). They had various friends but for this there were Larry Mundello (Rusty Stevens) and Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond).
The neighbor here is Ozzie Nelson from The Nelson Family. The man from Mars is, of course, Bill Cosby, back when we liked him.
Saturday, September 19, 2020
50/50
20/20 (1978-present)
ABC
50/50 TAKES A LOOK AT SLEAZE BIOGRAPHERS
MAD #310, April 1992
w: Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola
a: Mort Drucker
20/20 was ABC's investigative journalism magazine show, their answer to Sixty Minutes
Hugh Downs is interviewing Kitty Kelley, author of many celebrity tell-all biographies. The effigies of people like Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson, and Jackie Onassis were subjects of her biographies. Lyle Stuart was publisher of some of these biographies and ironically was business manager of MAD early on.
The unethical reporting referred to here is Downs having once interviewed Buckwheat from the Little Rascals only to have it later revealed he was an impostor.
Also parodied in this are Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson.
The subject of Barbara Walters' interview is Albert Goldman, who had been sued for his biography of John Lennon.
50/50
CRACKED #239, October 1988
w: Peter Bagge
a: Bill Wray
It was inevitable that I'd end up covering people I know. I decided 1995 was a decent cutoff point for nostalgia. Most of the time period covered here I was still in a teenager or not even born. There's still a small overlap between when I started and then. Because of that, I'm bound to come across work by people I either worked with or know personally. I didn't know Peter Bagge or Bill Wray when this was done but did after they went on to bigger and better things. (One of those later things was MAD). There's also early work by Rick Altergott, Bob Fingerman, as well as one-time Cracked editor Mort Todd, all of whom were starting out when I was graduating high school, and that I crossed paths with later, though their work is a pebble in a pond compared to everything that will be covered here.
Downs and Walters (known for her lisping) are anchored at the home office here and introduce reporter Geraldo Rivera and ask him how he came upon his story. It evolved from his opening Al Capone's vault, a report he did two years earlier in real iife that ended up being nothing and made Rivera the laughingstock of TV journalism.
I don't know if something was supposed to go in those balloons or if that's part of the joke.
The interviewee here is Cher.
MAD did another 20/20 parody earlier, but since it was about several different movies that also had parodies in other magazines, it will be done in the future as posts about parodies of those movies.
ABC
50/50 TAKES A LOOK AT SLEAZE BIOGRAPHERS
MAD #310, April 1992
w: Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola
a: Mort Drucker
20/20 was ABC's investigative journalism magazine show, their answer to Sixty Minutes
Also parodied in this are Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson.
The subject of Barbara Walters' interview is Albert Goldman, who had been sued for his biography of John Lennon.
CRACKED #239, October 1988
w: Peter Bagge
a: Bill Wray
It was inevitable that I'd end up covering people I know. I decided 1995 was a decent cutoff point for nostalgia. Most of the time period covered here I was still in a teenager or not even born. There's still a small overlap between when I started and then. Because of that, I'm bound to come across work by people I either worked with or know personally. I didn't know Peter Bagge or Bill Wray when this was done but did after they went on to bigger and better things. (One of those later things was MAD). There's also early work by Rick Altergott, Bob Fingerman, as well as one-time Cracked editor Mort Todd, all of whom were starting out when I was graduating high school, and that I crossed paths with later, though their work is a pebble in a pond compared to everything that will be covered here.
MAD did another 20/20 parody earlier, but since it was about several different movies that also had parodies in other magazines, it will be done in the future as posts about parodies of those movies.
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