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List of film spoofs in Cracked

This list of film spoofs in Cracked includes films spoofed (parodied) by the American comic magazine Cracked. Cracked was an imitator of Mad, which pioneered the format, so most everything that could be said of Mad's film parodies holds true for those of Cracked.

One difference is in the films each magazine chose to cover. Mad is notable for having introduced young readers to controversial movies they would not have been allowed to see on their own. Cracked aimed at a slightly younger audience, and played it safer.

Cracked didn't make movie parodies a regular feature until years after Mad did, and initially it did fewer of them. In Cracked's first few decades, nearly all their parodies were drawn by their star artist, John Severin. In 1985, the magazine changed hands, from Major Publications to Globe Communications; after the sale, the contributor pool expanded, and the magazine began running more parodies. Severin retained pride of place, but new hire Walter James Brogan became the magazine's most prolific parody artist.

In this period, Cracked tended to cover more action movies, broad comedies, and childrens' movies than Mad did. They even parodied movies that were parodic to begin with, such as The Naked Gun 2½ and Hot Shots. They also paid more attention to horror films, due to their long-time sideline in monster magazines.

In 1999, Cracked was bought by American Media, Inc., which immediately slashed their budget. Faced with deep cuts in page rates, most of its long-time contributors quit, including Severin. The magazine struggled on irregularly for a few years longer.

Cracked Monster Party
In 1988, after having done numerous monster-themed specials, Cracked launched a quarterly series called Cracked Monster Party. A typical issue contained roughly half reprinted material, either from Cracked proper or from one of their other monster-themed publications, such as For Monsters Only. The new material came to include new film and TV parodies. The series was cancelled after the sale of the magazine to American Media in 1999.

TV shows spoofs list
This list of television show spoofs in Cracked includes television shows spoofed (parodied) by the American comic magazine Cracked. Cracked was an imitator of Mad, which pioneered the format, so most everything that could be said of Mad's TV parodies holds true for those of Cracked.

In the late '70s and early '80s, Cracked, unlike Mad, would latch on to popular shows and revisit them in multiple parodies. Their record was with M*A*S*H, which they spoofed eight times. They would also find reasons to feature popular characters in other kinds of articles, and even built whole special issues around the Fonz from Happy Days and Mork from Mork & Mindy. After the magazine changed hands in 1985, they...

Cracked Monster Party and Spaced Out!
In 1988?, Cracked launched a quarterly horror-themed series called Cracked Monster Party. A typical issue contained roughly half reprinted material, either from Cracked proper or from one of their other monster-themed monster publications such as For Monsters Only. The new material came to include new film and TV parodies. The series was cancelled after the sale of the magazine to American Media in 1999.

In 1994?, Cracked tried to (do the same thing with science-fiction) in a series called Spaced Out! It only lasted for 4 issues.

Crazy (for my own reference)

TV spoofs in Crazy
= Movie and TV spoofs in foreign editions of Mad = Mad magazine has had many foreign editions...

purpose is to list original

This page is limited to only regular issues of ongoing Mad series. It does not attempt to cover specials, paperback collections, or other repackagings. It also does not cover bootleg or unofficial series. Lastly, it does not cover the Caribbean or Spanish Language Export series, as these are exceedingly rare, and not even serious collectors can account for all of them.



United Kingdom
Publication dates: October 1959 – January 1994

Publisher: Thorpe & Porter, London Editions , Fleetway

Editor-in-Chief: David Climie (#1 - #165), Dez Skinn (#166 - #197), Ronald James Letchford (#198 - #381)

The British edition of Mad was the first of its foreign editions, and one of its longest-running. Published by Thorpe & Porter, it began in October 1959, and was published continuously for 35 years, until ending in January 1994 with issue #381.

Unusually among the longer-running Mad editions, the British Mad didn't feature a great deal of original material; in fact, it didn't feature any at all until the early 1970s. Accordingly, there were few original movie and TV parodies.

Australia
Full title: Australian Mad

Publication dates: December 1980 – December 2022

Publisher: Horwitz Publications (#219 - #450?, says ausreprints.net), nextmedia (#451 - #537)

Editor-in-Chief: Steve Lopes?, Dave Williams (#352 - #537, says Mad Trash)

Australia's edition of Mad debuted in December 1980. The first few issues weren't numbered, but the edition soon adopted numbering that matched the concurrent U.S. issues, so the first issue retroactively became #219.

Australia's was one of the most robust of Mad's foreign editions, featuring plenty of original material from the beginning. Though it had a late start, it had a long run; it was the only foreign edition to persist even after the flagship Mad largely ceased publishing new material in 2020. The final issue was #537, dated December 2022.

Original parodies
The Australian Mad contained substantial amounts of original material all through its run, but original parodies seem to have become rare after the mid-1990s.

movies
1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

TV shows
1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s

South Africa
Publication dates: March 1985 – March 2009

Publisher: Republican Press

The South African edition of Mad simply reprinted the American issues, starting with #253 in 1985 and ending with #427 in 2010.

India
Publication dates: October 1998 – 2005

Publisher: Gotham Comics

In 1998, Gotham Comics started publishing a wide array of American comics in India, including Mad. It was published until 2005; it's a little unclear on when exactly it ended, but the last issue known to collectors is #54.

Before that, there had been a popular and influential magazine in India called Deewana, which was published from 1964 to the late 1980s. It took a lot of inspiration from Mad,

1st edition
Full title: Svenska Mad

Publication dates: January 1960 – August 1993

Publisher: Williams Förlag AB (1960 #1 - 1976 #2), Semic Press (1976 #3 - 1993 #7)

Editor-in-Chief: Lasse O’Månsson (how long? others?)

The Swedish edition of Mad was the first to be printed in a foreign language. The first edition started in January 1960, and ended in August 1993 after 303? issues. The magazine was brought back for a second edition in 1997, and lasted until 2002.

movies
qqq 1970s 1980s 1990s

2nd edition
Publication dates: 1997 – 2002

Publisher: Egmont Group

Editor-in-Chief: Simon Gärdenfors (how long? others?)

1st edition
Initial title: Gas (gradually transitioned to Mad by 1963 #2)

Full title: Dansk Mad (1968 #6 - 1971 #9)

Publication dates: 1962 – 1971

Publisher: Williams Förlag AB (formerly known as Forlaget I.K.)

Editor-in-Chief: Stig Jensen (1962 #1 - 1964 #3), Sven Henriksen (1965 #1 - 1970 #7), Max Randrup (1970 #8 - 1971 #9), Finn Heiner (1971 #1 - 1971 #9)

initially titled Gas, gradually transitioned to the name Mad

2nd edition
Full title: Dansk Mad

Publication dates: 1979 – 1997

Publisher: Semic Press (formerly known as Interpresse)

Editor-in-Chief: Erling Stenby (#1 - #89), Hef Høisted (#90 - #105), Thomas Berger (#106 - #112)

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3rd edition
Full title: Dansk Mad

Publication dates: 1997 – 2001

Publisher: Egmont Group

Editor-in-Chief: Thomas Berger

This edition followed from the previous one with no interruption, continuing with its numbering.

1st edition
Full title: Met Mad Gek (#34 - #70), De Nederlandse Mad (#71 - #94), 'S Neerlands Mad (#95 - #269)

Tag line: Wel Gek, Maar Niet Goed (#1 - #22, mostly)

Publication dates: July 1964 – January 1995

Publisher: Classics Nederland / Williams Nederland / Classics Lektuur (#1 - #107), Kontekst (#108 - #168), De Vrijbuiter (#169 - #219), Magazine Services (#220 - #269)

Editor-in-Chief: multiple, Rob Bakker (#83 - #235, says Mad Trash?)

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link to Willy Lohmann for later

movies
1960s 1970s 1980s

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TV shows
1960s 1970s

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2nd edition
Publication dates: October 2011 – August 2012

Publisher: Don Lawrence Collection

Editor-in-Chief: Ger Apeldoorn

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1st edition
Tag line: Humour dingue pour les dingues et demi-dingues

Publication dates: November 1965 – April 1966

Publisher: Francélia

Editor-in-Chief: Melvin Van Peebles

The first attempt at bringing Mad to France debuted in November 1965. It was published by Francélia, which also published the notorious satirical magazine Hara-Kiri. Unfortunately, it flopped badly, in part due to its high cover price and poor distribution. Only six issues were published; two more were announced, but never printed.

2nd edition
Publication dates: October 1981 – June 1982

Publisher: Grafika

Editor-in-Chief: Ives Trevian

The second attempt to bring Mad to France came from publisher Grafika in October 1981. It was released more conventionally, but was not much more successful, lasting for only 8 issues. It consisted entirely of reprints from the American Mad.

TV shows
* The Family Feud parody was renamed to refer to a popular French game show of the time, Les Jeux de 20 Heures (which translates to The Games at 8 P.M.).

Germany
Between its two long-running editions, Germany produced more issues of Mad than any country other than America.

1st edition
Full title: Deutsche Mad (#1 - #115)

Tag line: Das verrückteste Magazin der Welt (#1 - #82), Das vernünftigste Magazin der Welt (#83 - #292), Das merkwürdigste Magazin der Welt (#294 - #297)

Publication dates: September 1967 – July 1995

Publisher: BSV - Bildschriftenverlag / Williams (check)

Editor-in-Chief: someone for first 32 issues, Herbert Feuerstein, left in 1992?, who next?

success early on, but precipitous drop in 1990s

The German edition of Mad was a success from the start, and was later boosted by the high public profile of editor and (multi-hyphenate?) Herbert Feuerstein. It enjoyed a long run, but it suffered a precipitous drop in readership in the 1990s, and was abruptly cancelled after reaching the milestone of issue #300.

Original parodies
The German Mad always had a healthy amount of original material, but they didn't produce that many original parodies. mostly during the mid-1980s.

Reprinted parodies
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movies
1960s 1970s 1980s

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TV shows
1960s 1970s 1980s

wvw 1990s

2nd edition
Tag line: Das intelligenteste Magazin der Welt

Publication dates: October 1998 – January 2019

Publisher: Dino Verlag (#1 - #134), Panini Group (#135 - #185)

Editor-in-Chief: Jo Löffler & Mathias Ulinski, for whole run it seems

Only a few years after being cancelled, Mad returned to Germany, but in a marketly different form. The second edition aimed at a younger audience, as evidenced on its covers by its focus on cartoons and anime. (It also played up its connection to sketch show Mad TV for the first few years... need to look into that...) Its circulation never matched that of the first edition, but nonetheless it enjoyed a long run. Between both editions, Germany produced more issues of Mad, and for longer (re-word that), than any other foreign country.

Original parodies
At a distance, it's hard to say just what constitutes a parody. A lot of pieces are along the lines of "scenes we'd like to see from..." or "scenes that were left out of..."

Reprinted parodies
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movies
1990s 2000s 2010s

TV shows
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1990s 2000s 2010s

1st edition
Full title: Suomalainen Mad

Publication dates: January 1970 – November 1972

Publishers: Kuvajulkaisut Oy (1970 #1 - 1971 #1), Kustannus Oy Williams (1971 #2 - 1972 #7), Itälahdenkatu 16 (1972 #8 & #9)

Editor-in-Chief: Art Virmola

The first Finnish edition of Mad, labeled Suomalainen Mad, lasted not quite 3 years, running from January 1970 to November 1972. Almost all of its original material came from a single cartoonist, Seppo Lindqvist.

2nd edition
Full title: Suomen Mad

Publication dates: December 1982 – June 2005

Publisher: Semic Press (1982 - 1997), Egmont Group (1997 - 2005)

Editor-in-Chief: Marjaana Tulosmaa (anyone else?)

The second edition was started by Semic in 1982...

In the 2000s, the magazine stopped running original material as a cost-cutting measure. This was a sign of its decline, and the regular edition ended in 2005, though there were seven specials published from 2006 to 2008.

movies
need to sort movies from TV, and to straighten out credits

movies
1980s 1990s 2000s

TV shows
1980s

hjk 1990s

Italy
There were three attempts at establishing Mad in Italy in three consecutive decades. None of them lasted for long.

1st edition
Tag line: La rivista umoristica per i matti e i mezzi matti (#1 - #7); La rivista della minoranza rumorosa (#8 - #13)

Publication dates: April 1971 – April 1972

Publisher: Williams Inteuropa / Edizioni Inteuropa

Editor-in-Chief: Ferruccio Alessandri

The first edition of Mad was published by Williams Inteuropa. For the first seven issues, from April 1971 to April 1972, it came out bi-monthly, and was printed at (a standard size for magazines). Then, after a pause, the last 6 issues, from November 1972 to May 1973, came out monthly, and was printed in a large format unlike any other edition of Mad (is that true?).

2nd edition
Tag line: Il mensile piu' idiota del mondo

Publication dates: March 1985 – December 1986

Publisher: Edizioni Elfo

Editor-in-Chief: Nino Cannata

3rd edition
Tag line: La rivista piu' pazza di questo pazzo mondo

Publication dates: December 1990 – September 1991

Publisher: Edizioni B.S.D.

Editor-in-Chief: Ferruccio Alessandri

1st edition
Full title: Norsk Mad

Publication dates: May 1971 – 1972

Publisher: Williams Forlag A.S.

Editor-in-Chief:

2nd edition
Full title: Norsk Mad

Publication dates: 1981 – 1994

Publisher: Semic / Nordisk Forlag A.S.

Editor-in-Chief: Dag E. Kolstad (until 1985, when he formed Pyton), Ann-Louis Nerem (1986 - 1987), Hege Høiby (1989 - 1992), Tomas Algaard (1994) - info from gallerigallera.no, but need more detail

The second Norwegian edition of Mad was more successful than the first, in part because it had more original material. However, editor Dag Kolstad grew frustrated with Mad's content restrictions after a few years, and left in 1985 to start a new magazine, Pyton, taking with him many of Mad's Norwegian contributors. Pyton was a humor anthology in the worst possible taste, which more resembled the UK's Viz than Mad. It was a success, rivalling Mad's circulation after a couple years, and it spawned a Finnish edition titled Myrkky in 1989, and a Swedish edition in 1990, which had a spin-off in 1992 called Mega-Pyton. Pyton's success came largely at the expense of Mad, which went into an irreversible decline, but hung on until 1994.

movies
1980s 1990s

TV shows
1980s 1990s

3rd edition
Full title: Norsk Mad

Publication dates: 1995 – 1996

Publisher: Bladkompaniet

Editor-in-Chief:

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4th edition
Publication dates: 2001 – 2002

Publisher: Egmont Serieforlaget

Editor-in-Chief: Dag E. Kolstad

Dag Kolstad, the original editor of the second edition, returned for this last attempt at a revival...

1st & 2nd edition
Alternate title: Locuras

Tag line: La revista humoristica para los que estan medio locos

Publication dates: July 1974 – July 1975

Publisher: Euredit (was just a distributor?)

Editor-in-Chief: L. Moncho Orta

Mad was first introduced to Spain in 1974. It didn't last long, ending after only six issues. In 1975, due to legal issues with the title Mad, the publisher reissued all six issues under the title Locuras, but it didn't continue any further.

movies
* The James Bond feature covers only the first five movies, and edits out the sections about On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, and Live and Let Die.

3rd edition
Full title: Revista Mad España

Publication dates: December 2006 – April 2007

Publisher: Planeta DeAgostini

Editor-in-Chief:

There wasn't another attempt to publish Mad in Spain until over 40 years later. Planeta DeAgostini didn't fare much better, publishing only eight issues. It may have paled in comparison to the more outrageous El Jueves, a weekly satirical newspaper that has been published since the restoration of Spain's democracy in 1977.

Brazil
...one of the longest running cumulatively, and certainly one of the most robust...

It was an immediate success, and it only came to an end because of the financial crisis of (year) )look for link) that bankrupted the publisher. But Mad wouldn't be gone for long...

1st edition
Full title: MAD em Português

Publication dates: July 1974 – January 1983

Publisher: Editora Vecchi

Editor-in-Chief: Ota (Otacílio Costa D’Assunção Barros)

movies
1970s 1980s

TV shows
1970s

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2nd edition
Full title: Mad in Brazil

Publication dates: July 1984 – August 2000

Publisher: Editora Record

Editor-in-Chief: Ota (Otacílio Costa D’Assunção Barros)

movies
1980s 1990s 2000s

3rd edition
Full title: Novo Mad

Publication dates: December 2000 – December 2006

Publisher: Mythos

Editor-in-Chief: Ota (Otacílio Costa D’Assunção Barros)

movies
2000s

4th edition
Publication dates: March 2008 – May 2016

Publisher: Panini Group

Editor-in-Chief: Ota (Otacílio Costa D’Assunção Barros) (#1 - #7), Raphael Fernandes (#1 - final)

...Ota left due to creative differences...

movies
2000s 2010s

Argentina
Publication dates: June 1977 – June 1982

Publisher: Editora Magendra

Editor-in-Chief: Osvaldo Daniel Ripoli (#1 - #7), Alfredo Antonio Alvarez (#8 - #60)

Argentina was first exposed to Mad through imports of the short-lived Spanish edition in 1974 and 1975. A couple years later, in 1977, publisher Magendra started their own regular official edition. It lasted 6 years, producing 60 issues.

Under the circumstances, it's remarkable that it continued at all. During its run, Argentina was ruled by a brutal military dictatorship. In issue #7, the Argentine Mad ran a strip that had originally been published in Mad #143 several years before, titled "Altar Ego", which lampooned the Catholic Church for its opulence. This was taken as a slight against the regime, which promoted Catholic fundamentalism and had largely cowed the church hierarchy into compliance. Editor-in-chief Daniel Ripoll was arrested and tortured (needs more). In the end, he was exiled to France, and didn't return to Argentina until after the junta was deposed.

Mexico
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1st edition
Full title: Mad en Español

Publication dates: May 1978 – January 1983

Publisher: Lisa Editorial

Editor-in-Chief: Hernando Cortez

movies
* The James Bond feature covers only the first five movies, and edits out the sections about On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, and Live and Let Die.

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2nd edition
Full title: Mad en Mexico

Publication dates: January 1985 – December 1987 (check)

Publisher: Grafo Print Editores

Editor-in-Chief: Fernando Lankenau (#1 - #16); Sergio Flores Mendoza (#17 - #30)

3rd edition
Full title: Mad en Mexico

Publication dates: January 1993 – August 1997

Publisher: Enigma Editores

Editor-in-Chief: Sixto Valencia Burgos (#1 - #20); Manuela Alvarez (#21 - #28); Patricia Bueno (#29 - #50)

4th edition
Full title: Mad Mexico

Publication dates: July 2004 – December 2010

Publisher: Mina Editores

Editor-in-Chief: Genaro Altamira (#1 - #26?); who after? Armando Flores Trujillo, Ricardo García Fuentes named at Mad Trash, but when?

1st edition
Publication dates: July 1979 – August 1984

Publisher: A. Samouchos

Editor-in-Chief: D. Koumbias (at least that's what I get from first issue indicia - what about later ones?)

2nd edition
Publication dates: June 1996 – November 1998

Publisher: Delta Graph LTD

Editor-in-Chief: Thanasis Anagnostopoulos (at least that's what I get from first issue indicia - what about later ones?)

Iceland
Full title: Mad Á Íslensku

Publication dates: May 1997 – July 1998

Publisher: Forsaga útgáfa

Editor-in-Chief: Björn Karlsson

One of the smallest editions of Mad, both in terms of the number of issues and the number of copies.

Taiwan
Full title: 抓狂 MAD 漫画杂志

Publication dates: February 1990 – 1990

Publisher: Rock Publications

Editor-in-Chief: Ason Chen

The Taiwanese edition of Mad was always improbable (?). Publisher Duan Zhongyi was a friend of Bill Gaines, and for him Gaines waived the usual Mad licensing fee, instead asking only for "five boxes of pineapple cakes". 

Canada
Full title: Mad Édition Québec

Publication dates: May 1991 – June 1992

Publisher: Éditions Ludcom

Editor-in-Chief:

The American Mad also circulated in Canada, of course, but in 1991, a French-language edition was created for the predominantly Francophone province of Quebec. It was published by Éditions Ludcom, which also published Croc magazine. Croc had been Canada's premiere humor magazine for most of the 1980s, but its readership had eroded by the 1990s, in part due to its competitor Safarir, which debuted in 1987. The team at Croc hoped that an edition of Mad would help them recapture part of the younger audience they had lost to the cartoonier Safarir. It was not to be; the Quebec edition lasted only a year. Croc itself didn't last much longer, ending publication in 1995.

Original parodies
The Quebecois Mad didn't feature much new material, which may help explain why it didn't take hold. They published only one original parody.

Kretén
Publication dates: March 1994 – December 2009

Publisher: Semic Interprint

Editor-in-Chief: István Láng (a.k.a. Ottokár Broáfka)

The magazine Kretén was more than a Hungarian edition of Mad. When it began in 1994, it was

Kretén had a brief revival in 2019, publishing five issues, but as they no longer had a license with Mad, those issues did not contain any Mad material.

Original parodies
This is not a straightforward question. Dallas...

Reprinted parodies
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Mad
Publication dates: January 1997 – November 2001

Publisher: Semic Interprint (1997 - 2000), Adoc-Semic Kft. (2000 - 2001)

Editor-in-Chief:

In 1997, Kretén started a separate magazine consisting solely of Mad reprints, while they continued to republish Mad material in Kretén. (rephrase)

Israel
Tag line: מגאז'ן בשפת א'מנו (A magazine in our mother tongue)

Publication dates: June 1994 – May 1995

Publisher:

Editors-in-Chief: Rutu Modan & Yirmi Pinkus

The Israeli edition of Mad was one of the most distinct and daring, featuring many of the leading creators in the country's alternative comics scene. Unfortunately, it failed to catch on, and was cancelled after a year due to low sales.

Turkey
Full title: Türkiye Mad

Publication dates: August 2000 – June 2001

Publisher: Aksoy Yayincilik

Editor-in-Chief: Orhan Alev

Turkey was the last country to attempt an edition of Mad. Unfortunately, it didn't catch on, lasting only one year.

movies
* The Charlie's Angels parody isn't strictly of the 2001 movie; instead, it substitutes Turkish celebrities for the main cast.

movies
* Şeytan was an infamous low-budget Turkish film that blatantly plagiarized The Exorcist. In the same spirit, Turkish Mad took the parody of The Exorcist from American Mad, edited it down to five pages, changed the title, and reworked the dialogue to make it a parody of Şeytan.