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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ROOM 22222ZZZzzzz
MAD #136, July 1970
w: Stan Hart
a: Angelo Torres
Sitcom about a history class at Walt Whitman High School taugh by Pete Dixon (Lloyd Haynes). The principal of the school was Mr. Kaufman (Michael Constantine).
Alice Johnson (Karen Valentine) was a student teacher trained by Mr. Dixon. Liz (Denise Nicholas) was a guidance counselor who was Mr. Dixon's girlfriend.
The last panel is Sebastian Cabot of Family Affair.
RUIN 222
Cracked #84, May 1970
a: John Severin
Bill Cosby also had a sitcom around this time in the “caring teacher” genre. Robert Culp, co-star of his previous I Spy series had most recently been in Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (but sans mustache). Sidney Poitier's head is a pasted-on photo, maybe the only time Severin ever did that.
Now we come to the Sick parody, where they assume all black people are militants and one in a position of authority will automatically demean anyone white, and just mocking race in general.
ROOM TOO TOO PHEW
Sick #77, August 1970
w: Fred Wolfe (Paul Laikin)
a: Jack Sparling
I decided since I update these pages every month and run out of characters for extra tags, that after a point I'll make a new folder, so here's the second All in the Family post. The first one, which includes the MAD, Crazy, Sick, Spoof and Grin parodies, and MAD's flexi-disc insert, can be found here. Here's some more, with probably more coming.
From More TV Moments We'll Never See in Bananas #61, early 1980s. By this time the show was off the air replaced by Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) playing the character on Archie Bunker's Place, with Edith (Jean Stapleton) already passed away.
From Isn't It Time That...? in Bananas illustrated by Sam Viviano, from Bananas Looks at TV, reprinted from an earlier issue.
IF ARCHIE BUNKER TOOK OVER LEADS IN OTHER TV SERIES
Cracked # 108, May 1973
a: John Severin
Bonanza had Little Joe and the Ponderosa Ranch. Other parodies are of Courtship of Eddie's Father, Owen Marshall Attorney-At-Law, and Let's Make a Deal. George Wallace ran on the platform of segregation. Whig was a right-leaning Party that evolved into the Republican party, and would have existed in the time of Bonanza.
Mission: Impossible would always begin with the protagonist getting his assignment in a tape recorder hidden in an object in the street that would self-destruct. The other parody is of Medical Center named after his always calling his son-in-law “Meathead”.
Room 222 was a sitcom about the life of teachers, Adam-12 was about policemen on the beat. If he had a special, the guests would be the ones he features here (as well as Barry Goldwater and William F. Buckley) with Jane Fonda as comedy relief.
HEALTH FOODS
Cracked #109, July 1973
a: Dick Wright
Archie was always at odds with his younger daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers) and her liberal husband Mike (Rob Reiner). As far as I know they didn't have different diets, even when they lived apart, and never actually argued about foods on the show, though you can tell the magazine was more to the right in other strips, particularly with Severin's “guns don't kill people” messages in some marginals.
ALL IN DE FAMBLY
National Lampoon #37, April 1973
w: Chris Miller
a: Melinda Bordelon
I know it's probably annoying to some people that I'm always going on about “different time” and disclaimers about “politically incorrect” but you never know who sees something on the web or who they are or what context they understand. Much of the early National Lampoon (only their first five years count to me) wouldn't pass muster with today's audience, especially those who believe history began when they were born, but is actually pretty funny when you look at it through early seventies eyes. Director Paul Thomas Anderson once said “you can't have a crystal ball.” For National Lampoon's Prejudice issue they did a spoof called All in de Fambly about what it would be like if the family was black and Puerto Rican. It'd be best if I not post the script for it.
Chris Miller, who wrote this, wrote the stories Multiplicity and Ground Hog Day were based on.
