Crazy Magazine #70

"Daytime Television" is a sharp, eight-page satire that skewers the absurdity of 1980s soap operas, game shows, and talk formats, riffing on classics like *The Dinah Shore Show*, *General Hospital*, *The Newlywed Game*, and *The Mike Douglas Show*. With deadpan humor and clever visual gags, it parodies the era’s most familiar TV tropes—complete with exaggerated hosts, melodramatic twists, and surreal segments like *Calculus Explained*—all rendered in a mock-documentary style using photos and typeset letters.

In "Saturday Morning TV," a chaotic parade of spoofed cartoon tropes unfolds, riffing on classic 1980s kids' shows with absurd twists: a motorcycle gang called "Harley and the Hogs," a lost world inhabited by jolly green dinosaurs, a family of singing space chefs, a futuristic version of a 1970s pop group, a detective named Devlish, and a kung fu–spouting duck named Karate Chop Suey—all squeezed into one gloriously over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek satire.

A satirical roundup of absurdly mundane and wildly misplaced news from across the globe—ranging from Santiago to a second Nuremberg, Ohio—this two-page parody in *Crazy Magazine* #70 skewers the very idea of local reporting with deadpan precision, all typeset with a straight face.