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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ROCKHEAD IV
MAD #262, April 1986
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
When we last left off, Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) won his bout with Clubber Lang (Mr.T.), and it was left to the viewer who won a private friendly match between him and Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). At home Rocky and his wife Adrian (Talia Shire) are having a party for her brother Pauly (Burt Young). The Soviets have developed their champion boxer Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) which his wife (Brigitte Nielsen) is introducing to Americans.
In the audience in the splash panel are Benchley, Drucker's newspaper strip, and Hulk Hogan, who was in the previous Rocky movie.
Apollo comes out of retirement to fight Ivan despite protests from Rocky, the Italian Stallion. He goes through with it and gets pummeled to death by Ivan.
Rocky decides it's up to him to fight Ivan to avenge the death of Apollo, and the bout takes place in Russia, becoming a fight of “U.S. vs. U.S.S.R”. In Russia, he trains with primitive resources while Ivan has state of the art equipment. Pauly goes with him and he's later joined by Adrian. The crowd, being Russian, starts out on Ivan's side.
Rocky wins the bout. Is it even necessary to say? The Mount Rushmore here consists of Stallone as both Rocky and Rambo with Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson.
I made up words to the theme song in high school. All I remember is the middle, it went something like this: “Rocky 2...Rocky 3...Rocky 4...Rocky 5... That's a whole lot of Rockies...Why are there so many, I don't know...oh... Gonna fly now...” I don't know why Rocky was singled out as having so many sequels when there were a dozen or so other franchises. MAD picked Rocky in particular too in #264, July 1986.
Mexico's take on the parody.
And the Netherlands, with politicians only they would know about.
And Germany.
ROCKEY IV
Cracked #220, July 1986
w: Mort Todd
a: Bob Fingerman
In his match with Ivan Drago in Vegas, he came down a big stage with James Brown.
Stallone did a movie about arm wrestling called Over the Top.
ROCKEY: 2001
Cracked #219, May 1986
w: Eel O'Brien (Mort Todd)
a: John Severin
MR. ROCKEY'S NEIGHBORHOOD
Cracked #219, May 1986
w: Mark Lewis
a: John Reiner
Six parodies and not a single one from MAD or Cracked, a lot for a parody of a parody..
Nightly soap opera parody centering on Mary Hartman (Louise Lasser), a suburban housewife who was never seen outside the kitchen doing housework in her home of Fernwood, Ohio. Other characters were her parents George and Martha Shumway (Philip Bruns, Dody Goodman). Her husband Tom (Greg Mullavey) wouldn't put out and was always off to work. Her promiscuous sister Cathy (Debralee Scott) seemingly had a different boyfriend in every episode. Heather (Claudia Lamb) was the smarter than her years 11-year-old daughter. Grandpa Larkin (Victor Killian) was also “The Fernwood Flasher”. Charlie and Loretta (Graham Jarvis, Mary Kay Place) were the Hartmans' neighbors, Loretta was an aspiring country singer. Sgt. Foley (Dennis Solomon) was the local police officer Mary was having an affair with.
MERRY HOTMAN, MERRY HOTMAN
Crazy #26, June 1977
w: Len Herman
a: Murad Gumen
The man passing out the programs in this is producer Norman Lear.
Louise Lasser and Woody Allen had been married for a few years prior to this show.
The boyfriend in the last panel was original Crazy mascot Irving Nebbish.
MARY HARDON
National Screw #5, April 1977
a: Tom Hachtman
Hachtman became one of the Usual Gang of Idiots at MAD and did the alt-weekly strip Gertrude's Follies, neither of which ever had anyone's dick in anyone's mouth.
In the last panel is Mary Tyler Moore, subject of tomorrow's post.
MARY HOTMAN, MARY HOTMAN
Goose #1, September 1976
artist and writer unknown
He can't get it up. You get it?
'Anal Rump' is a play on the name 'Oral Roberts'.
The picture would iris out between scenes.
MARY HEARTBURN, MARY HEARTBURN
Parody #1, April 1977
a: Kent Gamble
There was really no reason for this second page.
MARY HEARTBURN, MARY HEARTBURN
Sick #115, June 1977
w: Arnold Drake
a: Jack Sparling
Norman Lear looked nothing like this.
The Carol Burnett Show did their version with Jim Nabors in the Graham Jarvis part.
