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Hah! Mad Magazine was one of the things my mother refused to allow me to checkout from the library.

bookofjoe 2y ago
Jeanette Winterson recalled her mother's lament about books: "You can't tell by looking what's inside them."
DonHopkins 2y ago
The Simpsons did the best tribute to Mad that captured its true essence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzu4qILQqpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzu4qILQqpA
- pfarrell 2y ago
  “New Kids on the Blech” is spot on.
  - DonHopkins 2y ago
    Fred Astaire as Alfred E. Neuman: In 1959, Fred Astaire danced on television with the odd choice of wearing a mask of Mad Magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqzpuGXd1lA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqzpuGXd1lA Makeup and prosthetics expert John Chambers checks the fit on an Alfred E. Neuman mask he made for a television special in 1959. The man behind the mask is Fred Astaire. https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/uuturm/makeup_and_prosthetics_expert_john_chambers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/uuturm/makeu... Disturbing Alfred E. Neuman Cameo / Worst Movie Ending from Up The Academy (1980): Eek. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K71kJbWWOkY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K71kJbWWOkY
DaoVeles 2y ago
Complete opposite experience here, my grandad had a subscription to it! Not sure what happened to the decades of them because they were all gone by the time he passed.
ahazred8ta 2y ago
Mad once caricatured the young Prince Charles with enormous ears. They got an anonymous letter on Buckingham Palace stationary informing them that they were a bunch of poopyheads.
- DonHopkins 2y ago
  1993 SNL skit about Prince Charles turning himself into a tampon, featuring a cameo appearance by Mick Jagger delivering a package containing Prince Charles to Lady Camilla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwrzj_oMZ7c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwrzj_oMZ7c A skit like that could have never aired on live TV without Mad Magazine paving the way in print.

Jeanette Winterson recalled her mother's lament about books: "You can't tell by looking what's inside them."

The Simpsons did the best tribute to Mad that captured its true essence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzu4qILQqpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzu4qILQqpA

pfarrell 2y ago
“New Kids on the Blech” is spot on.
- DonHopkins 2y ago
  Fred Astaire as Alfred E. Neuman: In 1959, Fred Astaire danced on television with the odd choice of wearing a mask of Mad Magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqzpuGXd1lA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqzpuGXd1lA Makeup and prosthetics expert John Chambers checks the fit on an Alfred E. Neuman mask he made for a television special in 1959. The man behind the mask is Fred Astaire. https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/uuturm/makeup_and_prosthetics_expert_john_chambers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/uuturm/makeu... Disturbing Alfred E. Neuman Cameo / Worst Movie Ending from Up The Academy (1980): Eek. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K71kJbWWOkY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K71kJbWWOkY

DaoVeles 2y ago

Complete opposite experience here, my grandad had a subscription to it! Not sure what happened to the decades of them because they were all gone by the time he passed.

ahazred8ta 2y ago

Mad once caricatured the young Prince Charles with enormous ears. They got an anonymous letter on Buckingham Palace stationary informing them that they were a bunch of poopyheads.

DonHopkins 2y ago
1993 SNL skit about Prince Charles turning himself into a tampon, featuring a cameo appearance by Mick Jagger delivering a package containing Prince Charles to Lady Camilla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwrzj_oMZ7c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwrzj_oMZ7c A skit like that could have never aired on live TV without Mad Magazine paving the way in print.