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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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN—UNSEEN
Sick # 102, February 1975
a: Jerry Grandenetti
How do you do a parody of a parody? Sick thought of a novel way to do it. Their solution: you don't. This is just a parody of the Frankenstein legend. I've pointed out that in some of these magazines they do a spoof without ever having seen the target, here they admit it. They don't even try to make the characters look like Gene Wilder or Peter Boyle, or even have the monster be bald. It's even possible they may have had an article already and added the name to cash in on the release of the movie.
From If Movies Were Combined in Cracked #131, March 1976, art by John Severin
Crazy often used stock photos in their subscription ads. Here they used a still from Young Frankenstein.
TV series that was part of the secret agent fad of the mid sixties featuring Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Ilya Kuryakin (David McCallum) who worked for the secret agency United Network Command for Law and Enforcement. The acronym part was spoofed in numerous places, most notably on Get Smart.
This was a lunchbox for the show drawn by Mad artist Jack Davis. There might have been art on the Thermos inside but I don't have that.
THE MAN FROM A.U.N.T.I.E.
MAD #96, July 1965
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Mort Drucker
The rival organization was THRUSH, Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity.
LAUGH-IN a/k/a ROWAN AND MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN
1968-1973 NBC
Comedy series that was sort of a precursor to Saturday Night Live but more Vegas-like and right-leaning (Richard Nixon was once a guest star). It was the highest rated program at the time, considered extremely fast-paced by standards then. Responsible for dozens of catchphrases, as seen in the video clips.
Back cover to Cracked #73, November 1968. Dan Rowan and Dick Martin were a comedy team before this, Dan being the smarter of the two and Dick being the ladies' man. Each week they ended the show with Rowan saying “Time to say goodnight, Dick” to which Martin would reply “Goodnight, Dick.”
These were the types of bits they'd do, from that same issue.
From issue # 76, May 1969. The joke wall features Phyllis Diller, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Woody Allen, and Alfred Hitchcock.
This article also did Bonanza, which I posted on the Bonanza page.
Back cover of issue #79, September 1969. Arte Johnson and Ruth Buzzi were Tyrone Horneigh and Gladys Ormphby, two old people who sat on a park bench. He'd try to hit on her and she'd hit him with her purse.
Cast member Lily Tomlin on the back of Cracked #94, August 1971
Goldie Hawn on the back of #75, April 1969
Some of their material, let's just say, doesn't align with today's values, to say the least.
Laugh-In as if it were a movie, from Big Sick #2, reprinted from an earlier issue.
They actually did make a movie.
Dick says “You should have heard her screaming” in a G-rated movie. As a 2022 viewer I must ask if it was consensual. Half the audience will say I'm making a big deal out of nothing, the other half won't. He's dead so we'll never know.
LIZZIE
MAD #59, December 1960
w: Larry Siegel
a: Mort Drucker
Long-running program about super-intelligent collie and the adventures of her owner and his family. The cast and settings changed but at this point it was Timmy Martin (Jon Provost), foster child of Paul and Ruth Martin (Hugh Reilly, June Lockhart).
from Endings for Old TV Shows in Cracked #11, by Paul Laikin and Jack Davis
HI, I'M JOHNNY CASHEW!
Cracked #93, July 1971
a: John Severin
Johnny Cash had a variety show for a while.
Tammy Wynette was another country singer famous four her song Stand By Your Man.
Two of his best-selling albums were his performing live concerts at San Quentin and Folsom prisons. A Boy Named Sue (scroll down for other parody) was one of his better-known songs.
A BOY-DOG NAMED “LASSIE”
MAD # 137, September 1970
w: E. Nelson Bridwell
a: Jack Davis
Earlier MAD had done their version of Cash's hit A Boy Named Sue.
