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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PETE KELSEY'S BOOZE
Snafu #2, February 1956
w: Stan Lee
a: Joe Maneely
Movie with Jack Webb as a Prohibition-era bandleader with Janet Leigh as Ivy Conrad, Peggy Lee as Rose Hopkins, Edmund O'Brien as Fran McCarg, Andy Devine as George Tennel, Lee Marvin as Gannaway, and Ella Fitzgerald as Maggie Jackson
The panels are wide because the movie is in Cinemascope.
Pete Conrad is a jazz cornetist leading a band at Kansas City playing various speakeasies and parties. He and the band are shaken down by McCarg, a notorious mobster who demands a cut of the band. At a party the next night they play a party at Ivy's where he and Pete meet and she's constantly coming on to him.
Pete's drummer, Joey Firestone (Martin Milner) drunkenly answers the phone at the party and tells McCarg off, for which he is gunned bown my McCarg's men the next night. Pete tries to come to terms with McCarg who demands his gun moll Rose become vocalist for the band. She doesn't really want to be there and has become and alcoholic. George is a detetective who has been trying to take McCarg down and enlists Pete's help.
Pete goes to take down McCarg and his gang but is interrupted by Ivy, who doesn't know what he's doing and wants the dance with her he promised. He reluctantly agrees, they're caught, a shootout ensues, he takes them down, and goes back to the way his life was.
Similar to current talk shows now except the whole show focused on one celebrity with host, Edward R. Murrowinterviewing the person and their family from his studio while they were at their home.
HOUSE TO HOUSE
MAD #35, October 1957
w: Bob & Ray and Tom Koch
a: Mort Drucker
In the early days of MAD as a magazine, they often used the work of famous comedians, whether it was reprinted material or sometimes exclusive. Bob & Ray wrote their own material for the magazine and their shows, some was written by MAD writer Tom Koch. The Mad Cover Site credits the latter, so I'll take their word for it. It was through MAD editors discovering Mort Drucker's knack for caricature in illustrating the Bob & Ray pieces that they made him their go-to guy for most of their movie and TV parodies.
Harry Piel, half of the duo Bob & Ray voiced for Piels Beer, is the hood ornament in the first panel. Harry and Bert Piel make additioal cameos throughout.
From Adult TV Cartoons by Al Jaffee and Wallace Wood, based on the premise that since The Flintstones was based on The Honeymooners and made for adults, we'd soon be seeing lots of cartoons based on prime-time shows. From #63, June 1961, Edward R. Murrow was replaced by Charles Collingwood in the last few seasons.
From Russian TV Shows by Paul Laikin and John Severin in Cracked #19, April 1961
From If Political Figures Did Guest TV Shots in Cracked #20, July 1961, also by Laikin and Severin.
PERSON TO PERSONS
Sick #4, February 1961
a: Leo Morey
PERSONALLY TO PERSONALLY
Snafu #1, November 1955
w: Stan Lee
a: Joe Maneely
Amoco is a famous gasoline company, although it's Mobil that has the pegasus for a mascot.
Marilyn Monroe famously posed for a nude calendar early in her career.
There was a Bugs Bunny cartoon parodying the show as well.
THE BLACKBOARD JUMBLE
MAD #25, September 1955
w: Harvey Kurtzman
a: Wallace Wood
One of the first issues of the magazine, not in the format of sequential art but as a movie review.
Then on the next page it has this double-page spread:
THE BLACKBOARD FOREST
Snafu #1, November 1955
w: Stan Lee
a: Russ Heath
From one of the many shell companies of Magazine Management Company before it became Marvel Comics and Stan Lee was actually writing things.
Dadier (Glenn Ford), who actually is called “Daddy-O” by his students, begins teaching at a public inner-city high school which is for some reason all-male, even though it is a public school. Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock is the background music. The students are played by Vic Morrow, Sidney Poitier, and Rafael Campos.
He first realizes there's trouble in the school when a teacher is attacked in the library.
There's a lot about female teachers coming on to him that's not actually in the movie, and not much of him being attacked by his students while after a nightcap with co-workers.
BLACKBOARD JUMBLE
From Here to Insanity (Crazy, Man, Crazy) #12, October 1955
a: Art Gates
More about a critic going to see the movie than the movie itself.
