SHAMPOOPED

SHAMPOO (1975)
dir: Hal Ashby


I didn't disappear for a day, the internet did. I use Twitter to promote these posts, and it looked like they disappeared from the set-up. They only changed their logo as part of the Elon Musk take-over. I get charging for things and letting back in the people I disagree with but getting rid of the logo (and from what I understand, the name's soon to go too) is like turning buying McDonald's, getting rid of the menu, turning it into a pizza-only restaurant, then changing the name. Why not just create your own pizza restaurant? If it's to keep the already existing customer base, it doesn't seem to be working. I know this has nothing to do with this parody, but it's screwing with my audience.

SHAMPOOPED MAD #179, December 1975
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Angelo Torres

Film about loose sexual morals in Beverly Hills in the late 60s against the backdrop of the presidential election.
George Roundy (Warren Beatty), a hairdresser, is in bed with Felicia (Lee Grant), one of his many sexual partners and clients and gets a call from his actress girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn), who is having a medical attack. The next day, he tries to get a loan to start is own business, but is turned dowm for not having the colleteral. There's chaos as he gets to work.

George sees Felicia later at the parlor and she suggests her husband Lester (Jack Warden) give him a loan. When George meets Lester at his office, Lester's mistress Jackie (Julie Christie) shows up. Lester needs someone to escort Jackie to an election party that night so his wife won't know any better and suggests George do it, assuming he must be gay since he's a hairdresser.

George goes to Felicia's house to do her hair for the party and ends up seducing her. Lester comes to pick her up, and still thinks George is gay and suspects nothing's going on.

Peter Fonda as has character from Easy Rider appears since he and Warren Beatty both ride motocycles.

George later goes to see Felicia's house but she's away. Her daughter Lorna (Carrie Fisher) entertains him, Felicia comes home and catches them in fraglante delicto but doesn't care. At the party they go on different dates with different partners to keep up appearances even though nobody's fooled. Jill is with her casting agent Johnny (Tony Bill). Jackie gets drunk and gives Lester the side-eye, blaming him for the whole charade.

Lester has been abandoned by both his wife and mistress and gets a ride home from Jill and Johnny, but first they stop over if this other party. Lester is impressed by the uninhibitioned hedonism of the young people and wants to join in on it, but is dragged away by Jill and Johnny. As they're all heading out they seeing a room where a couple is screwing and realize it's George and Jackie. George is confronted at home by Lester who feels he's been betrayed by George who's been sleeping around with his wife and mistress. He breaks up with Jill who can't deal with his promiscuity either, despite her own.

Goldie Hawn made her debut on Laugh-In.

DIRTY LARRY

DIRTY HARRY (1971)
dir: Don Siegel

MAD # 153, September 1972
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Mort Drucker

The city of San Francisco is under attack by a murderer who's attacking citizens at random and threatens to strtike again until he's paid ransom. The mayor (John Vernon, caricatured by Drucker more accurately in the Animal House parody as you can see clicking on the sidebar link.) has assigned Detective Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) to the case.

There is a bank robbery while Harry is eating lunch and the shootout is established. It also introduces the magnum speech he's best known for and is used in other films in the Dirty Harry series.

Harry is partnered with Gonzales (Reni Santoni), who sees Callahan's unconventional ways.

Callahan is given directions by the killer, Scorpio (Andy Robinson), about where to place the ransom as he runs throughout the city.

Scorpio has kidnapped a teenage girl and won't tell anyone where she is. They find through hospital records that he squats at a football stadium, and Callahan tracks him down there and beats him.

Later, Callahan is called into the district attorney's office and told Scorpio can't be prosecuted and none of the evidence is admissible in court if he wasn't read his Miranda rights and was searched without a warrant. Callahan then decides to pursue the case on his own. Scorpio pays someone to beat him so he can say the police did it.

Scorpio has hijacked a schoolbus to get to where the airport where he's demanded a private plane from the city and is holding the children on it hostage to make sure the city doesn't have agents waiting at the airport or anything like that. Callahan jumps on the bus and chases him out to a lake and kills him. Having finished the job and knowing he's violated a bunch of rules, he throws his badge in the river.

From Combining Movies for Fun and Profit by Mark Steven and Bob Smith, from Crazy #17, May 1976. Shampoo was a movie where Warren Beatty played a promiscuous hairdresser.