# Movies you never saw and only remember details from the Mad Magazine Parody **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [November 21, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738 "2021-11-21T21:44:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/21 "2021-11-22T02:33:58Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > -Ordinary People (“Extraordinary People”): I remember a kid talking to a therapist about his brother who drowned This one. Mom was always making them wash their hands, so the brothers’ hands were too slippery with soap to hold on when the boat capsized. I assume that makes about as much sense as the actual movie, if it’s one of those psychoanalyst films where everything is all better after the big reveal. Never did see it. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/22 "2021-11-22T02:59:06Z")
**The Guns of Minestrone** (Navarone) - I’d read the original book but never bothered with the film. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/23 "2021-11-22T03:22:58Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > Love Story: “Love means never having to say you’re sorry” is a stupid saying. And the end of course. That’s one of mine. Also: _Yentil_ _Ishtar_ (I’ve seen bits of each.) _A Clockwork Orange_ (I need to see more movies.) ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/24 "2021-11-22T03:34:29Z")
I’m wondering if _The French Connection_ is truly as confusing as is implied in the MAD parody “What’s The Connection?” ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/25 "2021-11-22T04:04:33Z")
More votes here for _The Great Gatsby_, _Love Story_, and _The Godfather_. Also _The Way We Were_ (I remember a panel in which they going to a costume party where everyone was supposed to dress up as a Marx Brother, and Barbra Streisand went as Karl Marx – apparently a reference to the character in the movie being a Marxist), _Billy Jack_, and _Death Wish_. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/26 "2021-11-22T04:40:14Z")
Oops, never mind ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/28 "2021-11-22T04:43:36Z")
> [@echoreply](#): > > I assume that makes about as much sense as the actual movie, if it’s one of those psychoanalyst films where everything is all better after the big reveal. Never did see it. It’s a really good movie. You should watch it. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/29 "2021-11-22T04:50:38Z")
Here’s a MAD movie parody you _didn’t_ see: According to an interview I once read with one of the MAD Magazine big-wigs (William Gaines?), he said they would no way no how ever do a parody of _Schindler’s List_. They might have been “the usual gang of idiots”, but they had principals. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/30 "2021-11-22T05:07:42Z")
Poopsidedown Adventure, I think I remember a joke about “having to go up to get down to the top of the bottom of the ship?” And its funny, even if I havent read the story, I can still picture panels in a “Mort Drucker style” ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/31 "2021-11-22T05:27:44Z")
Outland (with Sean Connery) which I think was called Outlawed. Apparently there’s a scene where a bad guy throws a baggy of drugs into a boiling soup pot and Sean Connery has to grab the baggy out of the boiling water with his bare hands to save the evidence. Mad totally brings up the most obvious flaw with that plan, “Why didn’t you just knock the boiling pot over and grab the baggy off the ground instead?” ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/32 "2021-11-22T05:31:38Z")
> [@Pavelb1](#): > > I THINK it was the From Russia With Love parody that had Kreb comparing her fight with Bond like “Brando vs. Lee J Cobb” whereas Bond says, “More like Ms. Kitty vs Matt Dillon”. That was Oddjob’s comment during the Fort Knox vault fight in “Goldfinger”. > [@Senegoid](#): > > This. The kid is too embarrassed to go into a drug store to buy a (whisper whisper whisper)? And they were so bored, the most exciting thing they could think of to do was go to the corner gas station and watch them changing car tires. “Tell me, why are we calling them (whisper whisper whisper)?” “The editor of this magazine isn’t as gutsy as he thought!” ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/33 "2021-11-22T05:40:01Z")
Always and forever The Poopsidedown Adventure. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/34 "2021-11-22T06:28:29Z")
There was a similar thread a couple of years ago, for what it’s worth. [https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-saw-the-movie-but-i-read-the-mad-parody](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-saw-the-movie-but-i-read-the-mad-parody) ---
**Author:** ![tavaritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@tavaritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavaritz)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/35 "2021-11-22T08:09:44Z")
Can’t really remember and my MADs are in storage so I can’t check, but several Bond-movies were there as I’ve only seen the ones with Sean Connery. Except that after I’ve read Jaws parody a friend of mine showed it on video and IMHO the parody was better. I’ve never seen Love Story nor Great Gatsby, so those are on the list. Fantastic Voyage must be there also as I’ve not seen it either. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/36 "2021-11-22T13:16:16Z")
Boob and Carnal and Tad and Alas. The Bunch The Agony and the Agony Plus a bunch of others already mentioned. there’s a nice list of [Mad Movie spoofs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_spoofs_in_Mad#1960s) here, if anyone wants to refresh their memory. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/37 "2021-11-22T13:32:55Z")
Around 1994, they published a caricature of Steven Spielberg in a T-shirt bearing the words “SCHINDLER’S PARK.” ---
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/38 "2021-11-22T13:35:19Z")
What was the movie where a guy was engaged to a schleppy girl, but then saw some gorgeous wasp-y girl and fell in love with her instead? There was then an uncomfortable scene of him trying to explain to wasp-y girl’s dad (Eddie Albert) why the two of them should get married. I remember the one panel of the guy having lunch with his fiancee, and he was grossed out by the way she ate. Her line (paraphrasing): “How can anyone believe we’ve been engaged for awhile, yet this is the first time you’ve seen me eat?” I never watched the movie, but I have seen glimpses of it while channel-surfing, and could recognize it instantly due to having read the MAD parody. ---
**Author:** ![TheZenPaperboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@TheZenPaperboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheZenPaperboy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/39 "2021-11-22T13:40:36Z")
The Heartbreak Kid 1972 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/40 "2021-11-22T14:33:03Z")
Every musical parody written by Frank Jacobs. I didn’t know what The Mikado was until years after I read a parody of the Nixon administration. Spiro Agnew had a little list. Pat Nixon and Nixon’s DILs sang “Three Little Nixon Wives.” J. Edgar Hoover sang “I am the Very Model of a Modern Criminologist.” ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738/41 "2021-11-22T14:43:52Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > “The Summer Of '42” It’s weird that this was the first that came to mind for me and presumably you. Must have been a hell of a parody. Does anyone who didn’t read the parody even remember the movie? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-never-saw-and-only-remember-details-from-the-mad-magazine-parody/954738.md?page=3)