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Showing posts with label LITTLE ANNIE FANNY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LITTLE ANNIE FANNY. Show all posts
PUMPING IRON (1977)
dirs: George Butler & Robert Fiore
Not a scene-by-scene parody of the movie but a look at the fad. The movie was a documentary about the professional bodybuilding world, specifically the Mr. Universe competition and champion Arnold Schwarzenegger before he was a movie star. These are posted because they came out around the same time of the movie and Schwarzenegger is caricatured in them.
LITTLE ANNIE FANNY
Playboy, c. 1977-1978
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Will Elder
NIGHT TIME TAKES A MAD LOOK AT A ROCK VIDEO
MAD #254, April 1985
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Harry North
Similar to the Person of the Year articles they did, parodying Ted Koppel interviewing Bob Pittman of MTV and Quincy Jones.
I think this was a misspelling of the name 'Pia Zadora' rather than a pun on it, considering the other names aren't changed.
LITTLE ANNIE FANNY
Playboy, c.1965
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Will Elder, Jack Davis, Frank Frazetta
The topless bathing suit was something in a fashion show designed by designer Rudi Gernreich, though it was used in comic strips and comedy sketches more than it was ever worn in public. Annie's manager Solly Brass was patterned after Phil Silvers.
Among the cops here are caricatures of Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis from Car 54, Where Are You?. Raymond Burr from Perry Mason is the lawyer featured here.
The other lawyers are E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed of The Defenders.
The Nazi here is George Lincoln Rockwell.
In one of Chris Elliott's appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, he came on to plug his real appearance on Miami Vice.
HULLABADIG AU GO GO
MAD #105, September 1966
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Jack Davis
Parody combining all three shows on different networks, which all had the same themes, pop acts of the time performing in front of an audience, rotating celebrity hosts, and house dancers.
MAD's rock and roll acts were always called "[...] and the [...]"
Maria Callas was an opera singer.
I guess The Flatones is supposed to be a parody of Phil Spector-produced girl groups like The Ronettes or The Supremes.
This supposed to be a mashup of protest singers such as Bob Dylan, who I don't think did shows like this.
Most people know of Hullabaloo from the brief clip in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood not realizing it was a real show.
HOOPADEEDOO
Playboy, ca. 1966
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Will Elder & Jack Davis
For a while they where doing Little Annie Fanny on a monthly schedule and having other artists collaborate. Here they also had Jack Davis. Her agent, a recurring character, was modeled after Phil Silvers.
The protest singer looks like Bob Dylan but the song's more like Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction. Sonny and Wanda are very loosely based on Sonny and Cher and their song is a parody of I Got You, Babe.
Loving Anthony is sort of a combination of Little Anthony and James Brown. The program director is a caricature of William F. Buckley.
Annie is always in the background with the focus of the stories being a satire of current events like Candide. But this being a feature for Playboy, they have to find a way for her clothes to come off in each episode.
Making fun of rock and roll has been around since the beginning.
Straw man argument for hate readers: Here at Rated Ecch, we separate the art from the artist. This parody was done in 1986, five years before his reputation as a child predator went down. We good? Okay, on with the show.
HENNA AND HER SICKOS
MAD #265, September 1986
w: Debbee Ovitz (Arnie Kogen)
a: Mort Drucker
I've said before I don't think Debbee Ovitz is a real person, probably an amalgam of writers or a pseudonym. The credit only appears on two articles. They've used tryout contributors before but never for movie or TV parodies, and before 1990 almost never had woman contributors (don't look at me). This is as much a parody of the Woody Allen persona as a whole and one of my favorite Drucker splashes. Also included are Louise Lasser (his ex-wife and former co-star) as Mary Hartmann, movie critics Siskel and Ebert, Jeffrey Lyons and Gene Shalit, and New York mayor Ed Koch, wearing a button with his catchphrase "How'm I doin'?"
Though as much as I admire Mort Drucker, it pains me to say it but every once in a while he can't get a photographic reference for an actor and ends up copying Al Hirschfield. Very rare, but it happens once in a while, like this Thanksgiving guest I can't seem to identify.
Lee (Barbara Hershey), one of the sisters, comes back home to her boyfriend Frederick (Max Von Sydow) and it's evident they're breaking up. Mickey (Woody Allen) is a television producer who thinks he may have cancer and used to be married to Hannah (Mia Farrow). Holly (Dianne Weist), the third sister of the title, is always changing careers and borrowing money to start them. Her newest one is a catering service she has with her friend (Carrie Fisher). One of the guests at a party they're catering (Sam Waterston) is an architect that ends up taking them both out. Elliot (Michael Caine) is married to Hannah but has just started seeing Lee secretly.
Aside: It always annoys me in comics when the titles on book spines are displayed upside-down.
In the crowd scene in the third panel is Benchley, which was a newspaper strip Drucker had for a while
Mickey has a flashback to earlier when he was married to Hannah and wasn't able to conceive, and asks his friend (Tony Roberts, who's mostly only played Woody Allen's sidekick) to be a donor for him. His wife, played by Joanna Gleason, is also depicted. Mickey finds out he's not going to die, which seems like it would be good news, but makes him even more depressed. Hannah ask her parents (Maureen O'Sullivan, her real-life mother, and Lloyd Nolan) if she's adopted.
Mickey contemplates becoming religious, but before that, we are treated to flashbacks of when he went out on a date with Holly and it didn't work out. In the present they meet again, with her finding her voice as a writer and them getting married. The last panel is a reference to how Mickey realizes life's worth living after seeing a screening of Duck Soup, plus the criticisms Woody was getting in real life as a filmmaker before his scandals started to overshadow them.
This was the final Little Annie Fanny in the September 1988 issue of Playboy. Not a parody of any actual Woody Allen film but Hannah had been the most recent one to feature him.
Based on the comic based on the books collecting the pulp stories. CONEHEAD THE BARBITUATE
MAD #235, December 1982
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Don Martin
They almost never had Don Martin do movie parodies, but I guess they figured he would be best at gore and sound effects. I also heard they needed him in every issue.
The movie is narrated by a wizard, Mako, who we see in the movie, but for this it's narrated by Conan.
As a small boy, Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is given a sword and his parents (William Smith, Nadiuska) who are killed by a neighboring gang of barbarians, led by Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones).
Thulsa's horde captures him, forcing him into slavery. As an adult, he fights like a gladiator for their entertainment. And as he's older, he learns life lessons.
He eventually is freed, and wanders about, discovering the skeleton of his father and the sword he had been bequeathed. He also meets a woman who lives in a hut (Cassandra Gaviola).
They have sex and she turns into a witch. It scares him and he grabs her off him and throws her into the fireplace. She turns into light and flies away laughing, because she is a witch. He meets Subotai (Gerry Lopez), who shows him around and takes him to a market, where he punches a camel.
They meet Valeria (Sandahl Bergman) and become a trio of thieves. They crash a local virgin sacrifice and he steals a the eye of a serpent for her (it's a jewel in the movie). Conan then kills the actual serpent because it's in the way.
Conan and Valeria become a couple (the consummation isn't shown in MAD because, well, they're MAD). The next day they're summoned by King Osrick (Max Von Sydow) who wants them to rescue his daughter (Valerie Quinessen) who has been captured by Thulsa Doom. He sees a religious ceremony happening on his way there, knocks out a priest (Jack Taylor), and steals his uniform to get into Thulsa Doom's castle. There he's caught and Thulsa Doom has Rexor crucify him.
Subotai and Valeria find Conan and rescue him. He's revived by a wizard with some kind of tattooing ritual that attracts floating spirits that try to take him away (the spirits are similar to the ones at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. They even make a joke about that.)
The big climax involves Thulsa Doom's army attacking the three of them. Thulsa himself uses arrows made from snakes. Valeria is killed with one of the arrows.
Conan prays to the god Crom that he'll win the battle (Subatoi prays here and it's now only two on the journey, but whatever) and goes ballistic. Then he finally does what he wanted to do all along and slays Thulsa Doom and becomes ruler of the land.
The German edition had their own cover.
So did Sweden, using art from the article.
KILJOY THE NASTY
Crazy #90, September 1982
w: Paul Kupperberg
a: Bob Camp & Marie Severin
Marvel, publishers of Crazy, also did several Conan the Barbarian series and Marie Severin was sometimes an artist on some of the issues of some of them.
Not much about the plot I didn't already explain with the MAD parody.
Note the punning of 'Crom' changes with each mention.
James Earl Jones was also the voice of Darth Vader.
From Movie Sequels We'll Soon Be Seeing by Jovial Bob Stine and Sam Viviano in Bananas #59 in 1982.
And Little Annie Fanny had a take on it as well in the September 1985 issue of Playboy.
UPDATE:
From their Brazilian edition. The use of Boris Vallejo as cover artist for was an in-joke for Americans, maybe that was the case for this artist too. Both artists would probably have been popular in Iraq.
MAD contributor Al Jaffee turns 100 today and is not only still alive and not only MAD's oldest living contributor, but to my knowledge the world's only centenarian cartoonist! Herewith is not a post of parodies today, but a compilation of his best work for MAD and other places throughout his career. Al Jaffee, this is your life...
Military Comics, August 1942
Patsy and Hedy #22, December 1953
Trump #2, March 1957
MAD #86, April 1964
MAD #88, August 1964
Playboy circa 1966
(Note:This is a longer story about Soviets hiding a stolen microfilm. It only looks like it's about a bunch of guys trying to molest her on the subway.)
NATIONAL PERSPIRER MAD #102, April 1966
w: Larry Siegel
Playboy, August 1966
MAD's SNAPPY ANSWERS TO STUPID QUESTIONS
1968
THE MAD BOOK OF MAGIC AND OTHER DIRTY TRICKS
1970
Ad for Passport Scotch, from the November 1971 issue of Playboy.
MAD #157, March 1973
MAD SOLUTIONS TO BIG CITY DOGGIE-DO PROBLEMS MAD #172, January 1975
MAD DEVICES DESIGNED TO SOLVE OUR SMOKER VS. NON-SMOKER PROBLEMSMAD # 177, September 1975
