Muppets in Mad Magazine

[minor muppetz]

I figured I'd start a thread for all the times that any Henson creations have appeared in Mad Magazine.

In 1970 (or possibly '71), there was a parody of Sesame Street called reality Street. In it, Gordon was called Gorgon, Big Bird was Dirty Bird, Oscar was called Ookie, Cookie Monster was called Cake Monster, Ernie was Bernie, Bert was called Curt (though the parody did feature a sketch where Ernie was mistakenly called Curt), and Herry was named Scary Monster. Grover, Susan, Mr. Hooper, Betty Lou, Rosevelt Franklin, and Little Bird also appeared in it, but they didn't have special names.

The skits here included:

-Gorgon talking about P words.
-Bernie talking to Curt about how to tell time (and the meaning of the word "Later").
-Cake Monster getting a tummy ache over eating artificially flavored cake.
-Gorgon talking about the number five.
-Ookie moving to a bigger and better place.... a large pile of trash in the street (not sure if it was a coincidence or intentional, but Oscar was originally planed to live in a pile of trash on the street).
-Dirty Bird teaching kids about how the government counts and cuts down.
-Scary Monster using Bernie's toy phone.
-construction workers tearing down Reality Street.

There was also a Sesame Street article called When Sesame Street caves In To The Radical Rights", which I think is from 1993. The characters all have their actual names here. The skits include:
-Guy Smiley hosting a trial for which the letter P.
-A man pointign out a pregnant woman to Grover.
-The Count counting obscene books.
-Cookie Monster being given a cookie in exchange for ratting on any males who live togetehr and have a very close relationship together.
-Kermit interviewing a congressman (who looks like fat Blue but with a bigger nose) who has seven wives and forty kids.
-Rosita saying words that rhyme with glad.
-Big Bird being forced to buy a suit.

I've also seen a Mad Magazine cover which mentioend that the issue had something to do with The dark Crystal, but I don't know whether it was a parody or some other kind of article.

There was a parody of Trading Places called Trading Races, which had a picture of Big Bird in a newspaper and a picture of Miss Piggy on a wall (oddly enough, this parody does not characature the characters played by Frank Oz or Richard Hunt).

A parody of Alf called Arfulhad a scene where the father got a subpoena from Jim Henson, and at the end, Kermit, Gonzo, and janice all appear.

Muppets also frequently appear (or get refferenced) in Star Wars parodies. A parody of The Empire Strikes Back, for example, had a scene where Yoda wore a Miss Piggy Fan Club Button.

A parody of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teen-rage Moolah Nitwit Turtles, had a scene where Splinter had a tag or soemthing that said "Henson Associates".

 

[TotallySpiesFan]

In 1970 (or possibly '71), there was a parody of Sesame Street called reality Street. In it, Gordon was called Gorgon, Big Bird was Dirty Bird, Oscar was called Ookie, Cookie Monster was called Cake Monster, Ernie was Bernie, Bert was called Curt (though the parody did feature a sketch where Ernie was mistakenly called Curt), and Herry was named Scary Monster. Grover, Susan, Mr. Hooper, Betty Lou, Rosevelt Franklin, and Little Bird also appeared in it, but they didn't have special names.

The skits here included:

-Gorgon talking about P words.
-Bernie talking to Curt about how to tell time (and the meaning of the word "Later").
-Cake Monster getting a tummy ache over eating artificially flavored cake.
-Gorgon talking about the number five.
-Ookie moving to a bigger and better place.... a large pile of trash in the street (not sure if it was a coincidence or intentional, but Oscar was originally planed to live in a pile of trash on the street).
-Dirty Bird teaching kids about how the government counts and cuts down.
-Scary Monster using Bernie's toy phone.
-construction workers tearing down Reality Street.

Ernie was Ornery, not Bernie.