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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Here's part 2 of the look at the show. MAD's parody's of the show, featured yesterday, were almost always drawn by Jack Davis. Here are some actual pieces he did for the show.
SEIZEDSUM STREET
Crazy #85, April 1982
w: Murad Gumen
a: Kent Gamble
This was done the first time the budget for the PBS was slashed, and the fractions of a penny of your tax dollar are still a thorn on the side of some on the right forty years later.
The subject of Sesame Street being gentrified is satirized here as Oscar (Carol Spinney) and Buffy St. Marie and evicted from their homes. Susan (Loretta Long), Bob (Bob McGrath), Maria (Sonia Manzano), and David (Northern Calloway), are on the verge of homelessness themselves.
Ernie (Jim Henson) and Cookie Monster (Frank Oz) have to make cuts.
Big Bird (Carroll Spinney) had imaginary friend Snuffleuppagus that only he saw. Here Mr. Hooper (Will Lee) is trying to eat Big Bird Because of Sesame Street's budget cuts.
Jim Henson was doing the Muppets on Sesame Street and his own show at the same time, both of which featured Kermit.
THE SEXAME STREET STOORY BOOK
National Screw, March 1977
w & a: D. A. Latimer
Here's more of Jack Davis with one of the many covers he did for TV Guide.
Six parodies and not a single one from MAD or Cracked, a lot for a parody of a parody..
Nightly soap opera parody centering on Mary Hartman (Louise Lasser), a suburban housewife who was never seen outside the kitchen doing housework in her home of Fernwood, Ohio. Other characters were her parents George and Martha Shumway (Philip Bruns, Dody Goodman). Her husband Tom (Greg Mullavey) wouldn't put out and was always off to work. Her promiscuous sister Cathy (Debralee Scott) seemingly had a different boyfriend in every episode. Heather (Claudia Lamb) was the smarter than her years 11-year-old daughter. Grandpa Larkin (Victor Killian) was also “The Fernwood Flasher”. Charlie and Loretta (Graham Jarvis, Mary Kay Place) were the Hartmans' neighbors, Loretta was an aspiring country singer. Sgt. Foley (Dennis Solomon) was the local police officer Mary was having an affair with.
MERRY HOTMAN, MERRY HOTMAN
Crazy #26, June 1977
w: Len Herman
a: Murad Gumen
The man passing out the programs in this is producer Norman Lear.
Louise Lasser and Woody Allen had been married for a few years prior to this show.
The boyfriend in the last panel was original Crazy mascot Irving Nebbish.
MARY HARDON
National Screw #5, April 1977
a: Tom Hachtman
Hachtman became one of the Usual Gang of Idiots at MAD and did the alt-weekly strip Gertrude's Follies, neither of which ever had anyone's dick in anyone's mouth.
In the last panel is Mary Tyler Moore, subject of tomorrow's post.
MARY HOTMAN, MARY HOTMAN
Goose #1, September 1976
artist and writer unknown
He can't get it up. You get it?
'Anal Rump' is a play on the name 'Oral Roberts'.
The picture would iris out between scenes.
MARY HEARTBURN, MARY HEARTBURN
Parody #1, April 1977
a: Kent Gamble
There was really no reason for this second page.
MARY HEARTBURN, MARY HEARTBURN
Sick #115, June 1977
w: Arnold Drake
a: Jack Sparling
Norman Lear looked nothing like this.
The Carol Burnett Show did their version with Jim Nabors in the Graham Jarvis part.
