MAD's Most Enraged Parody
Mar. 12th, 2010 04:56 am
From the great Jack Davis(who, as we all know, could draw anything), and possibly the only post-Kurtzman MAD writer you could actually call brutal and angry, Larry Siegel, a famous parody of one of the most tasteless premises for a comedy ever. The only post-HK MAD parody I've seen coming from a place of genuine seething rage. (Interesting note: not only were all the Nazis played by Jews who escaped Germany, LeBeau was played by Robert Clary, an actual concentration camp survivor.)


(c)1967 EC Publications.


(c)1967 EC Publications.
suggested tags: publication: MAD, creator: larry siegel, creator: jack davis, genre: satire, subject: nazis
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Date: 2010-03-12 02:32 pm (UTC)Interestingly, this same issue featured their even more brutal attack on THE SOUND OF MUSIC("the Sound of Money"), part of its thrust being its emphasis on saving this one wealthy Gentile family(who in real life, I think I recall, weren't even in the kind of danger the film presents; and the MAD version keeps pointing out that Austria was a landlocked country, so how could it have a Navy?). It was a whole Nazi-trivialization theme going on in that one. One gets the feeling that was a problem in mass culture at the time.
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Date: 2010-03-12 08:35 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heil_Honey_I%27m_Home!
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Date: 2010-03-12 04:44 pm (UTC)My folks never minded when we watched The Producers, though. Go figure.
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Date: 2010-03-13 11:41 am (UTC)Now, Franz Liebkind is funny(but Kenneth Mars couldn't NOT be funny) but only in the sense that he's totally delusional and a fish not only out of water, but in a desert. If the idea of his loving Hitler so much wasn't presumed to be absurd and repulsive, the joke wouldn't work. Likewise Roger DeBris being so clueless about WW2 and the Nazis. That's a joke on the frivolousness, ignorance and shallowness of showbiz people, not on victims of the Nazis.
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Date: 2010-03-12 08:42 pm (UTC)What's particularly sad is that the primary source for the spoof is the actually extremely good, but nowadays almost forgotten, drama series Secret Army about the Belgian Resistance, and loosely based on the activities of the "Comet" organisation devoted to repatriating escaped Allied prisoners.
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Date: 2010-03-13 02:02 am (UTC)My dad used "Hogan's Heroes" as a teaching moment -- though the old man would've never used those words. He saw me watching it when he came from work one day and explained to me that while he thought it was all right to laugh at the comedy, making fun of the Nazis was fine, he also wanted me to know what monsters the Nazis were and that "Hogan's Heroes" was nothing like the real world.
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Date: 2010-03-12 11:23 pm (UTC)And it's funny -- as Icon and a few other posters mention, there seem to be a decent amount of sitcom-type shows that are set during WW2. Was WW2 a particularly fun or entertaining time to be alive for the human race?
Or maybe it's just Refuge in Audacity taken to a logical extension. You can't cry, so you may as well laugh?
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Date: 2010-03-13 06:39 am (UTC)http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1717317.html
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