Benoit Blanc created by Rian Johnson The Muppets created by Jim Henson “I have arrived to this street of sesame, on a sunny day turned cloudy.' For those of you who couldn't wait for Wake Up Dead Man, the long-anticipated Knives Out sequel featuring Rian Johnson's eccentric detective Benoit Blanc, the good folks at Sesame … Continue reading Beignet Blanc (Forks Out)
Tag: Spoof
Let ‘er Rip!!!
Some of My Favourite Spoofs & Parodies "Somewhere a Roscoe" October 15, 1938, The New Yorker By S.J. Perelman The humourist's affectionate tribute to pulp writer Robert Leslie Bellem and his greatest creation, Hollywood orb, Dan Turner. "The White Rabbit Caper" November 19, 1941, The New Yorker By James Thurber A parody of the tough … Continue reading Let ‘er Rip!!!
Pete Ingalls
Created by Ellis Weiner Talk about your crime and PUNishment. PETE INGALLS, the narrator of Drop Dead, My Lovely (2004), Ellis Weiner's decidedly broad but loving lampoon of the private eye genre, is a thirty-three year old bookstore nebbish who suffers a serious whack on the kabonza. Before you can say "Don Quixote," he's set … Continue reading Pete Ingalls
Howard the Duck (aka Howard Duckson)
Created by Steve Gerber & Val Mayerik (art) 'Trapped In a World He Never Made!' -- the most-used tagline In the mythology of the Marvel Universe, HOWARD THE DUCK (real name Howard Dickson) looms surprisingly large--a relatively bit player punching well above his weight. A cranky, cigar-smoking, foul-tempered (or should that be fowl-tempered?) anthropomorphic duck … Continue reading Howard the Duck (aka Howard Duckson)
Sam Diamond, Dick and Dora Charleston, Inspector Milo Perrier, Inspector Sidney Wang & Jessica Marbles (Murder by Death)
Created by Neil Simon Lionel Twain, an eccentric millionaire (played with some kind of awkwardly mad brilliance by Truman Capote) invites five of the "world's greatest detectives" to his secluded castle for the weekend, and offers $1 million to the one who can solve a murder, in Neil Simon's 1976 at-times delightful send-up of the … Continue reading Sam Diamond, Dick and Dora Charleston, Inspector Milo Perrier, Inspector Sidney Wang & Jessica Marbles (Murder by Death)
Lou Peckinpaugh (The Cheap Detective)
Created by Neil Simon "Being a private eye may not be much, but we do have a code of honor. It's all right to fool around with your partner's wife, but once he's dead it makes it all so dirty. That's the way it is, angel. You marry yourself a nice guy, have a couple … Continue reading Lou Peckinpaugh (The Cheap Detective)
Charlie Willis
Created by Lee Goldberg Down, down, down. CHARLIE WILLIS is a Beverly Hills cop who lands a plum security gig for a major Hollywood studio, after being shot in the stomach by one of their most beloved stars, in this wicked spoof by Lee Goldberg, a TV scriptwriter and producer (Spenser: For Hire, Monk, Diagnosis Murder, … Continue reading Charlie Willis
Private Eye Popeye
Created by E.C. Segar Pseudonym of Elzie Crisler Segar (1894-1938) POPEYE, everyone's favourite spinach-chugging sailor man, gets the P.I. treatment in "Private Eye Popeye," a lame, low-budget cartoon from the mid-fifties, put out by Famous Studios. It was not Popeye’s greatest moment. Despite the fact this was produced smack-dab-in-the middle of the hard-boiled P.I. craze, with … Continue reading Private Eye Popeye
Duck Twacy (The Great Piggy Bank RobberyDuck Twacy)
Created by E.C. Segar "Snake Eyes! Agh! Eighty-Eight Teeth! Hammerhead! Oh, no, Pussycat! Pussycat Puss! Bat Man! Double-Header! P-p-picklepuss! P-p-p-pumpkin Head! Neon Noodle! Juke Box Jaw! Wolf Man! You're all under arrest!" "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery," a 1946 Looney Tune cartoon short from Warner Bros., directed by Robert Clampett and featuring Daffy Duck, is … Continue reading Duck Twacy (The Great Piggy Bank RobberyDuck Twacy)
See Ya in The Funny Papers
P.I. Spoofs and Callouts in Comics & Cartoons If Mickey Spillane Wrote NANCY… from MAD Magazine In the Tradition of Hammett, Chandler, Macdonald and Snoopy (Peanuts) by Charles Schultz Arlo, Janis & Spenser Bugs Bunny, Private Eye Johnny Eyeball (Goofy) (1952, "How to Be a Detective") Private Eye Popeye (1954, Famous Studios) Meat Hamburg (Pogo) by Walt … Continue reading See Ya in The Funny Papers