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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COME BACK, LITTLE STREETCAR!
Panic #2, April/May 1954
w: Al Feldstein
a: Jack Davis
Combination of several plays that became dramas, particularly A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge, and Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller.
THE BLOB (1958)
dir: Irvin Yeaworth
ATTACK OF THE 50-FOOT WOMAN (1958)
dir: Nathan Hertz
THE TALKING BLOB
Cracked #149, March 1978
a: John Severin
This was their parody of youth horror movies. The first use of Cracked's attempt at making the Talking Blob a recurring character. The original film also starred Steve McQueen, who's caricatured here.
Also an homage to Saturday Night Live's Land Shark sketches.
THE STAR TREK SAGA
MAD Star Trek Special, Holiday 1994
w: Frank Jacobs
a: Sergio Aragones
The cover promised a new Star Trek: Generations spoof. This must mean what they meant. All seven movies and four TV series were parodied last month, no need to go into them now.
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE(1979)
dir: Robert Wise
Like with most of the spoofs they did around this time, Cracked would use something more than once. They didn't do it as much with this, though.
STAR DREK: THE MOVING PICTURE
Cracked #169, July 1980
a: John Severin
One thing MAD's version of the movie didn't use was the exposition at the beginning showing the cloud devouring the Klingon ship or Spock (Leonard Mimoy) going through his final Vulcan conversion ritual. “What is the cloud?” you may ask. We shall see.
Kirk (William Shatner) is now an admiral. He is reunited again with crew members Scotty (James Doohan), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Sulu (George Takei), and Chekhov (Walter Koenig). He is taking over as command of the Starship Enteprise despite the protests of Captain Decker (Stephen Collins) who is already captain and doesn't think Kirk can run a ship that has been redesigned.
A sentient cloud is barreling towards the Earth as it did at the beginning and it is up to the Enterprise to see what it wants. “Bones” McCoy (DeForest Kelley) has been brought aboard to help in the crew.
Ilia (Persis Khambatta) and Spock have been brought aboard as well.
The mysterious cloud is swallowing up the Enterprise and has abducted Ilia.
There are Telly Savalas and Black Hole references in this just like in MADyesterday.
Ilia has been brought back but is now part of the cloud, known as V'Ger, in human form, to study human life, in order to gobtain knowledge of it before swallowing it up for its library of all knowledge in the universe. Spock goes out of the ship to see what it's all about.
Bones is making a reference to Alien
V'Ger, lacking human ability to make decisions or understand thought, has the mind of a child.
V'Ger has dust on its sign, and is actually Voyager, a space probe that was sent by Earth three hundred years earlier to gather knowledge and in doing so has acquired a mind of its own. The only way to defeat it is to have a human join with it so it can have human experience and thought, so Decker sacrifices himself.
CRACKED INTERVIEWS THE TREKKER KING
Cracked #169, July 1980
a: Bill Ward
They were accurate in that StarTrek fans hate the term 'trekkie', preferring to be called 'trekkers'.
USING STAR TREK LOGIC AND TECHNOLOGY TO SOLVE EVERYDAY PROBLEMS
Cracked #170, August 1980
a: Don Orehek
Here are a couple covers for Kaputt, the German version of Cracked.
Cracked used this same gag for their Battlestar Galactica parody.
STAR DREK: THE LAST HURRAH
Cracked #184, January 1982
w: Joe Catalano
a: John Severin
Non-spoof of any particular entity was done in between the first two movies.
There were characters from other science fiction movies and shows like Flash Gordon, Superman, Buck Rogers, Outland, The Greatest American Hero, and Battlestar Galactica behind this all along.
NUT COURT
MAD #259, December 1985
w: Larry Siegel
a: Angelo Torres
The main cast here is Bull Shannon (Richard Moll), Dan Fielding (John Larroquette), Mac (Charles Robinson), Billie Young (Ellen Foley), and the judge Harry Stone (Harry Anderson)
FRIGHT COURT
Cracked #229, August 1987
w: Joe Catalano
a: Bob Fingerman
Billie was replaced by Christine Sullivan (Markie Post).
The woman operating the Wheel of Fortune is supposed to be Vanna White.
Harry Anderson had been a stand-up comedian and magician previously, and his love of Mel Torme was a running theme on this show.
