OTP: Favorite MAD Magazine parodies...?

[Joe Blevins]

I haven't read MAD for a few years now, but I have dozens of back issues
and super specials stored away in the basement. I don't know if any
other MiSTies are current or former MAD readers, but one thing they have
in common is making fun of movies.

Does anyone remember any particularly good MAD movie satires? Some
personal favorites of mine:

* "The $ound of Money" - a spot-on parody of "The Sound of Music" (a
movie I'm embarrassed to admit I love) with song parodies and
everything. My fave MAD artist, Mort Drucker, drew this one, and gave
Julie Andrews an absurdly elongated neck and pointy chin. The best song
went like this:

DOUGH means cash for all of us
HooRAY for musicals like this
ME a star so big that by
FAR it really couldn't miss
SO insipid is the plot
LA dee dah, although we know
TEdious it is a lot
It will bring us back much
DOUGH, dough, dough, dough

* "Cease" - their parody of "Grease." Again, this one had song parodies
plus great artwork by Mort Drucker. It really ripped the original movie
to shreds, especially the "Hobgoblins"-esque moral of the movie about
how girls are better off being sluts. And there's a funny running gag
about John Travolta wishing he were back in "Saturday Night Fever."

Other favorites

* "Jaw'd"
* "The Oddfather"
* "201 Min. of a Space Idiocy" (hilarious! a classic!)
* "A Crockwork Lemon"
* "Midnight Wowboy"
* "The Ecch-orcist"
* "Botch Casually and the Somedunce Kid"
* "Flopeye"
* "Superduperman"
* "Clod Encounters of the Absurd Kind"
* "Hack, Hack, Sweet Has-Been" (or "Whatever Happened to Good Taste?")

--Joe--

[Dr. Charles Forbin]

You will notice that in the final MSTK episode on Comedy Central
..their 2001 parody .. Dr. Forrester faces a giant black slab entitled
THE WORST MOVIE EVER MADE ...

I always thought that fit nicely with the MAD parody of 2001 ... as
Bowman examines the slab and discovers it's a book ..

HOW TO MAKE AN INCOMPREHENSABLE SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE AND SEVERAL
MILLION DOLLARS BY STANLEY KUBRICK

My favorite musical MAD parody was STAR TREK:THE MUSICAL

On 30 Jul 1998 03:11:31 EDT, Joe Blevins <joe...@concentric.net>
wrote:

[Georyn]

>* "Cease" - their parody of "Grease." Again, this one had song parodies
>plus great artwork by Mort Drucker. It really ripped the original movie
>to shreds, especially the "Hobgoblins"-esque moral of the movie about
>how girls are better off being sluts.

"I love him, and I'm going to change for him. In order to get the man you
really love.....You have to be a SLUT! What a wonderful message for the youth
of America." Love it!

>And there's a funny running gag
>about John Travolta wishing he were back in "Saturday Night Fever."

Another great line from that: "Frankie Avalon? I thought you were dead!"
"No, I'm not...my career is!" ;-{)>
Definitely one of the best. You left out some of the TV-show parodies they
did, though. The best ones I can remember are "The Mary Tailor-Maid Show",
"He's Company" and of course the evergreen "Gall In The Family", which was not
only their satire at their most cutting, but *also* came with a flexidisc.
Sadly, something they can't duplicate with CDs. Anyone know of any other MAD
Magazine flexidiscs? Wasn't "It's A Gas" originally a flexi?

MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

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[Jen White6]

My favorite MAD Magazine parody is "Star Wars: The Musical". I haven't read it
in years, and I can still remember a lot of the lyrics. :)

What good is watching some dull local war
Nightly on yout TV?
Comr to the galaxy, my friend,
Come to the galaxy.

BTW, I still get Mad Magazine. That and "National Geographic" are the two I
never miss an issue of.

so sez Jen "Call me MiSTer!" White.

[Joe Blevins]

Jen White6 wrote:
>
> My favorite MAD Magazine parody is "Star Wars: The Musical". I haven't read it
> in years, and I can still remember a lot of the lyrics. :)
>
> What good is watching some dull local war
> Nightly on yout TV?

> Come to the galaxy, my friend,
> Come to the galaxy.

Ah, yes -- "The Force and I." They also did a good "Star Trek" musical,
too -- "Keep On Trekkin'." And a J.R.R. Tolkein musical -- "The Ring
and I."

>
> BTW, I still get Mad Magazine. That and "National Geographic" are the two I
> never miss an issue of.
>
> so sez Jen "Call me MiSTer!" White.

The last issue I bought was the one that had the "Pulp Fiction" parody
-- "Plot Friction." I still read it at the newsstand occasionally.

--Joe--