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 are some parodies of movies from a few days ago that were also parodied by Cracked. One because it was the only issue I didn't have when I was assembling material last year, the other because it was past the cutoff point I established. Click 'previous' a few times to see the trailers and summaries and who the actors are. Enjoy.
TWISTED
Cracked #312, November 1996
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Walter Brogan
Spielberg wasn't the director for Twister. It was only produced by his company.
TWITS
Cracked #245, July 1989
a: Walter Brogan
PLATOON (1986)
dir: Oliver Stone
PLA-TOONS
Cracked #245
w: Matthew Sweeney
a: Walter Brogan
This parody doesn't require having seen Platoon, it just made for a good pun.
The end has Charlie Sheen and Kevin Dillon from Platoon, as well as Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter and Sylvester Stallone as Rambo. If they were going to use actors from other films about Vietnam, they missed out on they opportunity to use Charlie Sheen's real life father Martin Sheen of Apocalypse Now.
The reason Charlie Sheen's helmet says 'Estevez' is because it's his real last name.
FLOPEYE
MAD #225, September 1981
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
The cast of this movie consists of Nana Oyl (Robeta Maxwell), Cole Oyl (McIntyre Dixon), Olive Oyl (Shelly Duvall), Wimpy (Paul Dooley), Geezil (Richard Libertini), Bluto (Paul L. Smith), Castor Oyl (Donavan Scott), Popeye (Robin Williams), and the tax collector (Donald Moffatt).
Popeye the sailor has come to the town of Sweet Haven to look for his father. The first person he sees is the town tax collector . The whole town is unfriendly but he finds a room at the Oyls' boarding house. Olive Oyl is in the middle of dressing for her engagement to Bluto but shows Popeye his room.
At the local eatery, Popeye is talking to Wimpy, one of the only people friendly to him, when some townies try to pick a fight with him, and he opens up a can of whupass on them. Olive is getting ready for the engagement party at her home upstairs but gets cold feet and leaves. She runs in to Popeye, who's walking around town because he wasn't invited to the party.
When Popeye and Olive Oyl aren't looking, a stranger in the shadows switches one of her bags, and inside is the baby Sweepea (Wesley Ivan Hunt), which they decide to raise together platonically. Returning to the party, Bluto sees then and becomes angry. Bluto ran the town on behalf of the Commodore, which protected the Oyls from unneccessary taxes, but now that his engagement to Olive is off, their belongings are all repossessed.
Castor Oyl tries to save the family by in a prizefight, but gets knocked out in the first round. Popeye comes in and shows his fighting skills and beats the champion. Later, in a bit of flirty banter at the Oyl house (not shown here), Popeye and Olive suggest Sweepea is psychic. Wimpy overhears this, takes it seriously, and brings him to a horse race without their permission. At the racetrack, Bluto is eavesdropping on what's going on, and plans to kidnap Sweepea to use his perceived ESP to find a buried treasure. With the aid of Wimpy, Bluto kidnaps Sweepea and brings him to The Commodore he works for (Ray Walston), who it turns out is Popeye's father. Olive is eavesdropping on it all, runs to tell Popeye what she saw, Popeye is overjoyed to find out about his father, but Bluto goes out on his own to find the treasure, and kidnaps Olive so she's the damsel in distress.
The Commodore doesn't believe he's Popeye's real father because Popeye hates spinach. He finally catches up to Bluto and destroys his ship. Popeye finally eats his spinach. it makes him strong and he beats everybody up and saves them all.
Here was the cover for the South American edition of MAD.
When I was a kid, some older kid said this was a song about his penis. Now I realize it was.
The issue before, Don Martin did a bunch of cartoons about Popeye. They could probably apply to the strip, but were obviously printed to cash in on the movie.
POOPEYE
Cracked #179, August 1981
a: John Severin
They also cut out the scene with the horse race.
Even though the movie was a flop and nobody remembers it, this song was used in Punch Drunk Love.
PEEPEYE
Crazy #77, August 1981
w: Paul Kupperberg
a: Bob Camp
National Lampoon had this in the margins of its contents page in October 1979.
Years later the abandoned set for this movie in Malta was made into an amusement park. I don't know aout you but I'm going there.
Yesterday I posted a bunch of different parodies of Dukes of Hazzard from different magazines. Click on "older post" at the bottom if you missed that and to see what the characters' names were. I said yesterday I didn't have time or enough room to get to all of them, so here are three more, all from Cracked.
Sorry in advance for apologizing for the Confederate flag and the trigger it may set off, it's just that a very small minority of people can't tell the difference between showing something and endorsing it.
THE DORKS OF HAZZARDOUS
Cracked #179, August 1981
a: John Severin
The same issue parodied the Popeye movie but didn't combine the two things like they usually do.
They did five parodies in total. That was the third. The first one was posted yesterday, The second was a crossover with CHiPS that I posted a couple months ago with the parodies of that show. Here's the fourth one.
THE DORKS OF HAZZARDOUS
Cracked #185, March 1982
a: John Severin
NIGHT RIDER MEETS THE DUKES OF HAZZARDOUS
Cracked #196, August 1983
a: John Severin
Always parodying shows repeatedly and crossing them over with other shows, they did a mash-up with Knight Rider, a program about Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff) and his intelligent car.
In the next to last season, Bo and Luke left the show to be NASCAR drivers, and were replaced by cousins Coy and Vance (Byron Cherry and Christopher Mayer). They returned, probably due to the actors renegotiating their contracts.
From If TV Shows Were Combined in Cracked #205, August 1984. Mike Wallace and Morley Safer were the hosts of Sixty Minutes.
UPDATE:
From cover to Mexican edition.
UPDATE 2:
THE DUPES OF HAZZARD
Bananas #65, c. 1983
w: Megan Stine & H. William Stine
a: Sam Viviano
Viviano always liked to put himself in his strips. Here he is in the splash panel.
In the first panel are Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae, hosts of their own rural venue.
From Isn't It Time That... in Bananas Looks at TV, c. 1981, probably reprinted from an earlier issue.
