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 UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU
1966-1976 BBC/ABC
THE UNDERSEA WORLD OF JERQUE KOOKSTEAU
Sick #100, October 1974
w: Len Herman
a: Jerry Grandenetti
Series of documentaries about underwater marine life featuring French explorer Jacques Cousteau and his sons on his ship the Calypso.
Starfish are Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and Liz Taylor.
CAPTAIN CROUTON AND THE MEN OF CHA CHA IN 'GRANT MADNESS'
Harpoon #2, November 1974
w: B. Lopez
a: Neal Adams
Harpoon was a National Lampoon imitator that got a cease and desist letter from them for having too similar a name, so it changed its name to Apple Pie, then became International Insanity.
Marlin Perkins was a zoologist that hosted another documentary nature series on NBC called Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
Sam McCloud (Dennis Weaver) was a marshal from Taos, New Mexico working as an investigator in New York City for Chief Clifford (J. D. Cannon). This series alternated with MacMillan and Wife, Hec Ramsey, and Columbo as part of the NBC Mystery Movie. McCloud used the “fish out of water” premise of the western officer unaccustomed to city ways.
Another co-worker was Col. Broadhurst (Terry Carter)
McCloud was attractive to women, though he had a sometime girlfriend, Chris Coughlin (Diana Muldaur).
In the foreground of the first panel is Keye Luke as Charlie Chan.
Celebrity appreciation in letters page.
Cover to German edition. Potrait of McCloud appears to be swiped from the Mort Drucker caricature.
MCCLOD
Cracked #111, September 1973
a: Nireves (John Severin)
His boss here is Ironside (Raymond Burr), and also in the office are Friday (Jack Webb), Mannix (Mike Connors), and Columbo (Peter Falk). McCloud spoke with Western and Southern metaphors all the time.
Ironside wouldn't have had any feeling in his feet.
MCCLOWN
Crazy #2, February 1974
w: Marv Wolfman
a: Neal Adams
The opening credits showed McCloud on a horse while travelling in the city so the parody continued the joke.
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.
LIVE AND LET SPY
Crazy #2, February 1974
w: Stu Schwatzberg & Roy Thomas
a: John Buscema & The Crusty Bunkers
The cover has then current Bond Roger Moore with original Bond Sean Connery.
The Crusty Bunkers were a group of inkers led by Neal Adams. There are 60 people that this could have been so let's just say it was Neal Adams.
007 James Bond (Roger Moore)'s newest assignment requires him to go to New Orleans to investigate the deaths of agents who were there looking into Dr. Kananga, dictator of the carribean island of San Monique. As he's told of his newest assignment by M (Bernard Lee), he has to hide the woman he was with in his apartment. Here it's several women.
Christine Keeler was a woman who brought down many government officials in Britain by having affairs with them. That was once all it took.
Bond first needs to go to the United Nations in New York City and his cab driver (drawn as ex-NYC mayor John Lindsay here) is killed on the way there. This leads him to a voodoo store in Harlem...
---which leads him to the Fillet of Soul restaurant. It is owned by Mr. Big (Yaphet Kotto) In the back of the restaurant Bond meets Mr.Big and his henchmen, one of whom, Tee Hee (Julius Harris) has a prosthetic metal-cutting arm. Roger Moore had earlier played The Saint, character of another pulp spy franchise.
He also meets tarot reader Solitaire (Jane Seymour. She was 22 when this came out even though she's drawn as middle aged here).
Reference is made here to Shaft in Africa, part of the blacksploitation wave Live and Let Die was cashing in on.
Every James Bond movie introduces a gimmick at the beginning. This time it was a magnetic wristwatch.
Bond has taken Solitaire's cherry, thus taking away her psychic powers, so the staff of Fillet of Soul has no use for her, and she is on his side now. Mr. Big demands to know if they've slept together and Bond refuses to reveal it. Mr. Big reveals that underneath a rubber mask he is actually Dr. Kananga and orders bond to be taken to the swamps in New Orleans and fed to crocodiles and he narrowly escapes.
Another item in the Bond formula is the villain revealing his plan to James Bond before killing him. Mr. Big/Dr. Kananga reveals he is a heroin dealer, growing poppies on land that is ignored because the locals there believe it is haunted. Big and his men later kidnap Solitaire and sacrifice her in a voodoo ritual at San Monique.
This parody conflates several different scenes. It looks like a minstrel show here but it's actually the funeral procession in New Orleans. They don't bother using voodoo priest Samedi (Geoffrey Holder), who they kill by trapping in a coffin full of snakes. When they get Mr. Big for attempting to assassinate them, it's after the two of them are taken to his lair and lured over a shark pool. Bond uses his magnetic watch to retrieve a gas pellet, which Mr. Big ends up swallowing.(see below)
In the epilogue, Bond and Solitaire appear to be safe, but Tee Hee shows up on the train trying to kill Bond, but he kills Tee Hee by detaching him from his prosthetic arm.
Note Sean Connery is one of the other Bond villains in the last panel. Robert Shaw fought Bond in the climactic train scene in From Russia, With Love.
LAFF AND LET DIE
Cracked #116, May 1974
a: O. O. Severin (John Severin)
Bobby Riggs was a tennis player who believed he could “beat any woman” and was beaten by Billie Jean King in the Battle of the Sexes tennis tournament.
Cotton Comes to Harlem was a seventies film.
There's a long speedboat chase scene, much of the time the boats are airborne on land, which goes through a wedding, but that isn't used in the Crazy parody.
LIVE AND LET SUFFER
MAD #165, March 1974
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Mort Drucker
From 8 “James Bomb” Bomb Movies
Mrs. Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell), who also came to James Bond's flat to let him know of his assignment, wasn't in the other parodies.
Moonraker and The Spy Who Loved Me, both of which had Roger Moore, were also made between The Man with the Golden Gun and For Your Eyes Only. The punchline is that Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz would be the next Bond, I guess because he was popular? He hadn't done any acting roles or was ever considered for one before or since.
