I belong to a monthly book discussion group that does mostly science fiction and fantasy. We read both new books and older ones. We decided that for our January 2001 meeting we should read 2001. We talked about the book and the movie, but we also spent some time quoting the Mad parody of the movie, which we could mostly quote just from our memories of reading it thirty-two years before.
Well, at least you gave it a good chance. :rolleyes:
Then the guy goes “Oh, shut the @#!%$& up!”
“Gee, Major, what language was that?”
“English-English!”
They knew what to leave alone too. Several years ago, I read an interview with one of the principals who mentioned that they would never do a parody of Schindler’s List.
All you guys: Get out of my mind!!.
"We’re off to dig the guru…
the wonderful guru of ours.
The thing he’s got
is better than pot, and it’s fun of fantastical powers!
If you want to spin like a UFO
The guru of ours will make it so
we know we know we know we know we know
Until your furshlugginer mind will blow!"
–done from memory, dammit.
ETA: OK, I did see that original movie.
But I also learned a LOT from reading “Valley of the Dollars”, which I never saw.
Loused Up in Space Lost in Space parody late 1960s I believe. So good!
Wasn’t Midnight Cowboy done as Midnight Wowboy? I seem to remember that.
I think the line was “It’s **full **of magical powers.”
I like the song sung by The Square Man (Pat Boone);
At Howard Johnson’s eating,
you’ll find me there, repeating
those jokes no one can bear.
At tall buildings I am gaping,
'cause there just is no escaping
that I’m nothing but a square!
And of course,
*
Someday, with an insane glow,
I’ll get high!
And I’ll freak out until mt brain starts to petrify!
Someday, with an insane glow,
I’ll turn on!
And the trip that I’m taking
will mean my mind
is gone!
Someday, I hope that I’ll get hooked
on something better than a cooked
banana!
I’ll tune in on that mystic bit
and groove until I hit my own
Nirvana!
Someday, with an insane glow,
I’ll get high!
Cool chicks have an insne glow,
why, then, oh why,
can’t I?*
NIGHTCLUB SINGER: I’d like to dedicate my next song to an adorable couple here at ringside!
**WOMAN: **How nice! He’s going to sing to two young people in love!
MAN: No, he’s going to sing to Juniper Knock* there.
WOMAN: But** she’s** not a couple! She’s all alone. She’s— Oh, I **see **what he means!
*Sharon Tate.
@terentii, your post reminded of a send-up MAD did of an awards show, illustrated by the late great Mort Drucker. I don’t remember the parody name, but they riffed on MGM putting out such squeaky-clean movies by changing Wizard of Oz’s If I Only Had a Brain with We’ve Done Away With Sex.
In these MGM successes
the girls keep on their dresses
and nothing’s rated X.
Don’t expect any action
but a musical attraction
'cuz we’ve done away with sex.
Found it! That was from Mad’s parody of That’s Entertainment! called What’s Entertainment?. Written, of course, by Frank Jacobs.
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Issue 155, Dec. 1972. And in issue 178 October 1975 was “The Oddfather Part, Too”.
I’ll tune in on that mystic bit
and groove until at last I hit my own
Nir-van-a!
Scans better. 
Nicely done! That was in the first Mad magazine I ever bought. In 1969, if memory serves. And if I’m recalling correctly, with Liza Minelli as Dorothy and Ed Sullivan as the Guru.
In many cases, the Mad parodies encouraged me to see the films parodied (when I was old enough, and they were re-released, or available on video). The Godfather was one; others would include Midnight Cowboy, A Clockwork Orange, and The Exorcist. I may never return to some (I don’t need to see The Exorcist again), but others I have rewatched many times. Mad piqued my curiosity about movies I was too young to see, but wanted to, and eventually did.
“How do solve the problem of religion…
How do you handle nuns and not offend…”
It’s truly frightening how much 1960’s Mad is permanently engraved in my brain.
IIRC, the verse starts “How do you make a movie 'bout religion?”
I actually broke out into song with this one at a volunteer church function a few years back. While he didn’t say anything, the Vicar was clearly **not **amused! :mad: