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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MAD #168, July 1974
w: Larry Siegel
a: Mort Drucker
Katie Morosky (Barbara Streisand) is a political crusader working at a radio station in the 1940s. After a broadcast she goes out for drinks with her co-workers and runs into Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford), a passed out sailor on leave, who she once know in college.
For a few years Streisand was married to Elliott Gould, in the lower left panel.
The movie flashes back to their college days, when Katie spoke on behalf of the Communist party talking about the dangers of Hitler overseas to a mocking crowd.
Katie is working at a restaurant Hubbell, his friend J.J. (Bradford Dillman) and their girlfriends (I'm not being sexist by not naming them. They weren't named in the movie either) and make fun of her with their WASPishness and opposing political views. Despite this, Katie and Hubbell still hit it off at a college dance. In the forties, Katie brings home a sleeping Hubbell.
Katie's friend was played by James Woods, not well known enough to get the Drucker treatment yet.
During the backdrop World War II in New York City, the film shows how Katie and Hubbell's relationship consummates and blossoms. Hubbell is a sailor in the war but is really an aspiring novelist, which keeps them together despite political differences. She makes friends with his friends, which include old college mates.
Katie and Hubbell have arguments, then make up, and eventually move to Malibu where Hubbell becomes a screenwriter. It's during the Red Scare, all of Hollywood is under investigation, and Hubbell tells Katie to keep her political thoughts quiet for the sake of his career.
In the movie, they make a passing joke about how Katie would dress as Karl Marx at the costume party, which MAD must have missed.
The two finally realize politics is tearing their marriage apart and they get divorced. Fast forward to the sixties when the two meet again in New York City with he a TV writer and she still a political activist.
THE HECK WE WERE
Crazy #5, July 1974
w: Steve Gerber
a: Robert Graysmith
TOMAINE
Crazy #6, August 1974
w: Tony Isabella
a: Robert Graysmith
True-life story of undercover detective David Toma (Tony Musante), an undercover detective in New Jersey. His wife was played by Susan Strasberg. Musante did not return for a second season, so the show was recast and retooled with Robert Blake and changed to Baretta.
The last panel is Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman in Papillon.
THE STARLOOSE
Crazy #5, July 1974
w: Steve Gerber
a: Robert Graysmith
Series taking place aboard the Eartship Ark in 2790 with farmers named Devon (Keir Dullea), Rachel (Gay Rowan), and Garth (Robin Ward). It was created by Harlan Ellison under the name Cordwainer Bird.
Here, just like all science-fiction shows and movies, it gets compared to Star Trek.
THE SONNY AND CHER COMEDY HOUR
1971-1974, 1976-1978 CBS
Sonny and Cher Bono were a pop duo that had a comedy/variety show in the mid-70's.
“The Beat Goes On” was their big hit and the theme song for their show.
Caricature of James Franciscus as Longstreet, blind TV detective. The Smothers Brothers credited as writers is a joke here, but the show did share some of the same little-known writers such as Steve Martin and Bob Einstein.
From Customized Career Cars in Cracked #59, April 1967, art by John Severin
SONNY AND CHER FASHIONS THROUGHOUT HISTORY
Cracked #60, May 1967
a: O. O. Severin (John Severin)
from If King Kong Made Guest Appearances on TV in #140, March 1977, art by Howard Nostrand
After Sonny and Cher divorced, they each had their own shows for a while.
THE SONNY COMEDY REVUE
ABC 1974
CHER
CBS 1975
THE SUNNY BOZO ½ COMEDY HOUR/THE CHAIR BOZO ½ COMEDY HOUR
Crazy #6, August 1974
w: Tony Isabella
a: Robert Graysmith
A SICK INTERVIEW WITH CHER
Sick #106, October 1975
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Tont Tallarico
SUNNY AND CHEER
Sick #111, August 1976
w: Joe Gill
a: Bill Molno
WEEPER
Crazy #6, August 1974
w: Tony Isabella
a: Robert Graysmith
Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) wakes up 200 years in the future in a dystopian society. The doctors who revive him are part of a resistance movement and are abducted, leaving him to carry on with the movement. He ends up a fugitive, posing as a robot butler and comes upon Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton). He reveals himself to her, kidnaps her, and they both get caught and are captured by police. She escapes abduction and becomes part of the underground movement, freeing Miles. The movie climaxes as the leader of the dystopian society turns out to be secretly dead, the government plans to clone him using only his nose, and Miles and Luna, posing as doctors, steal his nose. Here it's a zit.
Irving Nebbish was Crazy's version of Alfred E. Neuman before Obnoxio the Clown became the mascot in the early 80s. You can tell how old someone is by who they say the mascot for Crazy is. Strike that, you can tell how old someone is by whether or not they've even heard of Crazy.
MAD #170, October 1974
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Angelo Torres
Henri Charrière (Steve McQueen), is a safecracker nicknamed "Papillon" because of the butterfly tattoo on his chest. In 1933 France, he is "wrongly" convicted of murdering a pimp and is sentenced to life imprisonment within the penal system in French Guiana. En route, he meets a fellow convict, Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman), an infamous forger and embezzler who is convinced that his wife will secure his release. Papillon offers to protect Dega if he will fund the former's escape once they reach Guiana. Enduring the horrors of life in a jungle labor camp, the two eventually become friends.
One day, Papillon defends Dega from a sadistic guard and escapes into the jungle, but is captured and sentenced to two years in solitary confinement. In gratitude, Dega has extra food smuggled to Papillon. When the smuggling is discovered, the warden screens Papillon's cell in darkness for six months and halves his rations, believing that it will force him to reveal his benefactor. Half-insane and reduced to eating insects to survive, Papillon refuses to give up Dega's name. He is eventually released and sent to the infirmary in St-Laurent-du-Maroni to recover.
Papillon sees Dega again and asks him to arrange for another escape attempt. Dega helps him meet an inmate doctor, who offers to secure him a boat on the outside with the help of a man named Pascal. Fellow prisoner Clusiot (Woodrow Parfrey) and a gay orderly named André Maturette (Robert Deman) join the escape plot. During the escape, Clusiot is knocked unconscious by a guard; Dega is forced to subdue the guard and reluctantly joins Papillon and Maturette, climbing the walls to the outside. Dega fractures his ankle in the fall. The trio meet Pascal and they escape into the night. In the jungle the next day, Pascal delivers the prisoners to their boat, but after he leaves the convicts discover that it is fake.
They encounter a local trapper (John Quade) who has killed the bounty hunters that were waiting for them; he guides the three to a nearby leper colony, where they obtain supplies and a seaworthy boat.
The trio eventually land in Honduras and are accosted by a group of soldiers, who open fire and wound Maturette. He is captured along with Dega, while Papillon is forced to flee. Papillon evades the soldiers and lives for a long period with a native tribe; he awakens one morning to find them gone, leaving him with a small sack of pearls. Papillon pays a nun to take him to her convent where he asks the Mother Superior for refuge, but she instead turns him over to the authorities.
Papillon is brought back to French Guiana and sentenced to another five years of solitary confinement. He emerges a graying old man along with Maturette, whom he sees just before the latter dies. Papillon is then moved to the remote Devil's Island where he reunites with Dega, who has long given up all hope of being released. From a high cliff, Papillon observes a small cove where he discovers that the waves are powerful enough to carry a man out to sea and to the nearby mainland. Papillon urges Dega to join him in another escape, and the men make two floats out of bagged up coconuts. As they stand on the cliff side, Dega decides not to escape and begs Papillon not to either. Papillon embraces Dega a final time, and then leaps from the cliff. Grasping his float, he is successfully carried out to sea.
A narrator states that Papillon made it to freedom, and lived the rest of his life a free man, while the prison was eventually closed.
PAPION
Cracked #122, January 1975
a: John Severin
For some reason, Dustin Hoffman is drawn “funny” in the first half of this but not in the second part.
SAPILLON
Crazy #6, August 1974
w: Tony Isabella
a: Robert Graysmith
When it was a book, National Lampoon parodied it.
And if you understand Italian you can enjoy this parody Chris Ekman reminded me of.
THE NELSON FAMILY (THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET)
1952-1966 ABC
THE NILSON FAMILY
MAD #100, January 1966
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
This sitcom at 14 seasons had been the longest-running at the time. This parodies the show during the last season. It involves the real-life stories of actual husband and wife Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, though it wasn't a reality show.
Ozzie's son Ricky was a teen idol in real life, and was married to Kristin Harmon.
David, the other real-life son, also grew up on the show and became a lawyer.
E. G. Marshall was a lawyer on a short-lived TV drama called The Defenders.
Wally (Skip Young) was not a real person, He was Ricky's college mate.
OZZIE'S GIRLS
ABC, 1973
OOZIE'S GIRLS
Crazy #5, July 1974
w: Steve Gerber
a: Robert Graysmith
The show was rebooted a few years later, with the premise being that the children had moved out of the house and Ozzie was now renting to two college girls (Susan Sennett, Brenda Sykes) who basically carried the show.
