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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The last of the updates... for now. The shows are all highlighted linking to previous postsfrom before in case you need to know the characters' real names or the actors who played them, or are lost in some other way.
I finally found this Bananas article I mentioned last week.
WKLOD IN CINCINNATI
Bananas #44, circa 1981
w: Megan Stine & H. William Stine
a: Samuel B. Whitehead
Funny how in 1981 eight characters was considered “too many”.
I think I see John Chancellor, Chevy Chase, Wolfman Jack, Leonard Nimoy as Spock, John Denver, Dan Aykroyd as Beldar Conehead, and Howard Cosell.
STRAIT-JACKET (1964)
dir: William Castle
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO JOAN CRAWFORD?
Sick #29, June 1964
w: Dee Caruso and Bill Levine
a: Gray Morrow
Sorry a reference to Joan Crawford is the closest thing I have this Pride Month.
The title of this is a play on the film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?. The movie was about a formerly institutionalized woman accused of ax murders.
Back when movie theaters were actual theaters and not just the friend of friend of a rich guy's screening room you once saw, stars would publicize the movie at a screening rather than TV appearances and press conferences.
THE EXORSICK
Sick #103, April 1975
w & a: Dom Rinaldo
I'm guessing this was an unsolicited contribution in their slush pile and they needed a few pages to fill, since I never saw the name before or since and the panels are all cut and reformatted to fit the page,
WACKY T.V. WEDDINGS
Trash #3. April 1978
a: Vic Martin
No seventies humor magazine would be complete without spoofs of these shows.
THE HOBBIT (1977)
dirs: Arthur Rankin Jr. & Jules Bass
Before the movies there was this made-for-TV special.
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (1990)
dir: Steve Barron
TEEN-RAGE MOOLAH NITWIT TURTLES
MAD #291, December 1989
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Sam Viviano
Weird. Here's an example of the parody coming out before the movie. Oh well, they were faithful to it, though.
There's a big crime wave in New York City being reported on by April O'Neal (Judith Hoag). The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live in a sewer underneath, mentored by a rat named Splinter. Here he often refers to how TMNT were a large merchandising juggernaut.
Victims include Sam Viviano and Dick DeBartolo coming down from a subway platform. The Empire State Building is called the North Carolina State Building because that's where it was shot.
Splinter advises TMNT to practice martial arts before going out into the public. TMNT Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Leonardo order a pizza, their favorite food, while Raphael, the fourth one, is out on his own and sees vigilante Casey Jones (Elias Koteas) defeating the criminals. Raphael fights off Casey since he feels fighting criminals is his job. The Foot Clan has attacked April at the subway and the TMNT rescue her, taking her home and they hide when her boss Charles (Jay Patterson) comes to see her with his delinquent son Danny. (These scenes are parodied in a different order),
The Henson shop did the puppetry. The passersby in the second panel are MAD editors John Ficarra and Sara Fowler while the pizza is being delivered by Charlie Kadau.
At their manhole, Splinter explains the origin of TMNT to April. They were once normal turtles discovered in The Ooze (more about that in the sequel) which made them grow, and he decided to train them in the martial arts ala Yoda or Mr. Miyagi. Much of the Foot clan, led by Shredder, is children and has a hideout similar to Pleasure Island (thus the Pinocchio characters). They have captured Splinter. Danny has joined the clan but is starting to have doubts about it.
Casey rescues Splinter and Splinter fights Shredder, throwing him off the roof of a building. April, who had been fired, gets her job back and Charles is reunited with Danny.
The Beast from the Beauty and the Beast TV show, Ed Norton, and Phantom of the Opera are in the last panel
From Real vs. Real in #307, by Russ Cooper and Sam Viviano, September 1991.
German edition.
TOONAGE MUTANT NINJENK TURTLES
Cracked #255, August 1990
w: Tony Frank (Lou Silverstone)
a: John Severin
The turtles' real names are used on the first page but spoofed here.
MAD left out the part where Splinter is captured, Raphael is in a coma, and they seek solace at April's rural home.
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.
