THE GREATEST TV SHOW EVER MADE

THE GREATEST TV SHOW EVER MADE
Cracked #161, August 1979
a:John Severin

Another comic, just like yesterday, where Cracked did what they did throughout most of the 70s and 80s by doing several parodies at once,usually combining them, they did movies last time, this time they set their sights on TV shows.

One of the tropes of Laverne and Shirley was Shirley's stuffed kitten.

They used Robin Williams as Mork from Mork and Mindy every chance they could, doing about five parodies and three specials with him.

For some reason Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and "Hot Lips" Houlihan (Loretta Swit) of M*A*S*H are married in this. Maybe they would be in post-Korea civilian life.

They also had Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) of Fantasy Island.

Cheryl Ladd, Kate Jackson, and Jaclyn Smith, the second wave of Charlie's Angels. Felix (Tony Randall) and Oscar (Jack Klugman) of The Odd Couple, which was off the air by then. Lorne Greene as Commander Adama on Battlestar Galactica, Ed Asner was Lou Grant in his own show by then. Archie (Carroll O'Connor) and Edith (Jean Stapleton) from All In the Family.

Mike Wallace of Sixty Minutes when they were more known for investigative reporting than profiles (they still do both). Back to Battlestar Galactica with Richard Hatch as Apollo. John Travolta had left the role of Vinnie Barbarino on Welcome Back, Kotter by then though Valerie Bertinelli was still Barbara on One Day at a Time.

Mork's commander was named Orson. Linda Lavin was Alice.

Fonz was another person they put in Cracked every chance they could. The only other two series of Don Rickles I know of were The Don Rickles Show and CPO Sharkey.