TOP GUNK

TOP GUN (1986)
dir: Tony Scott

TOP GUNK
MAD #267, December 1986
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker

Top Gun is the name of an elite class of the navy's top 1 percent of fighter pilots. Despite disobeying orders, Maverick (Tom Cruise) saved a life, and he and his best friend Goose (Anthony Edwards) are promoted to Top Gun. In the class is rival fighter Ice (Val Kilmer) and his friend Slider (Rick Rossovitch), and thet're all taught by Viper (Tom Skerritt). The civilian instructor is Charlie (Kelly McGillis), who Maverick tried to hit on the previous night, not knowing who she was.

Maverick's father was also a fighter pilot missing in action and he's there because he has something to prove.

Charlie is attracted to Maverick because of his ego and how he breaks the rules. She's a few years his senior, but they begin a romantic relationship. During a maneuver, Goose is killed in an accident, which Maverick feels is his fault and he loses confidence. The court clears him, and Viper, who knew Maverick's father, tells Maverick he died a hero, and Maverick needs to get back in there.

Ice wins trophy as top pilot, and Maverick congratulates him, but they have to stop the celebrations short to fight in actual combat. Mavrick steps up and wins for the team, and he and Ice are no longer rivals.

The same issue had a Don Martin strip about the movie as well

And there were different covers for the Mexican edition

And the German one. The American MAD had a similar cover with Hulk Hogan around the same time and a Rambo parody in another issue. They must have been in this issue.

HOT SNOTS

HOT SHOTS! (1991)
dir: Jim Abrahams

Didn't have internet this weekend so now I'm behind. That's good news though, since now I have two extra days I'll be posting stuff here.

HOT SNOTS
Cracked #269, January 1992
w: Tony Frank (Lou Silverstone)
a: John Severin

Weird for them to do a parody of a parody, since Hot Shots is itself a spoof of Top Gun, but whatever...

Topper Harley (Charlie Sheen) is an ex-navy pilot who has crashed and was lost, and has taken up residence on an Indian Reservation (parodying Dances With Wolves) for twenty years. Col. Block (Kevin Dunn) has found him and needs him for a new mission. In the movie, the peace pipe is a helium balloon. Kowalski (Kristy Swanson) wearing just a bra is a joke and here they're trying to make a joke on a joke.

Topper's father turns out to have killed Kent Gregory (Cary Elwes)'s father earlier and they become rivals. To re-enter the navy, he has to undergo a psychiatric evaluation and remembers the doctor (Valeria Golino) as someone he tried to impress much earlier an d they fall in love. Another joke is that Topper's friend "Washout" (John Cryer) is nearsighted.

Washout's nearsightedness has caused Dead Meat (William O'Leary) to crash and Admiral Benson (Lloyd Bridges) delivers the eulogy. He sends them on a new mission to kill Saddam Hussein and Gregory finds out how his father really died.

Pee-Wee Herman destroyed his career, or probably purposely got caught, for masturbating at an adult theater. George H. W. Bush's son Neil was implicated in a savings and loan scandal. Dan Quayle was Bush I's Vice President. WKRP in Cincinatti was a famous sitcom. John H. Sununu was Bush I's chief of staff. The strawberry joke is a reference to a scene in The Caine Mutiny.

There was a sequel that was also parodied which we'll get to tomorrow.