Sketch o’the Week: Rutger Hauer!

When Desmond Devlin and I decided to do CLAPTRAP Des made a list of significant films that MAD never did a parody of for one reason or another. There was one movie I knew would be on that list, and it was the one movie I insisted we include in the book- Ridley Scott‘s 1982 sci-fi masterpiece “Blade Runner”. Actually I did not have to work very hard to convince Des to do it, the movie was high on his list as well.

Why didn’t MAD spoof “Blade Runner”? No one knows for sure but it’s likely because the movie didn’t do all that well in the box office and critics were divided over their reviews. Regardless, it never got the MAD treatment, which we rectified in CLAPTRAP.

This week’s sketch is another “Famous Movie Moment”, Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in his “tears in the rain” speech at the end of the film.