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I love MAD magazine. I remember my mom half-jokingly telling me to stay away from my older cousins' copies as a kid. Funny now, considering how tame it is compa

I love MAD magazine. I remember my mom half-jokingly telling me to stay away from my older cousins' copies as a kid. Funny now, considering how tame it is compared to Tiktok/twitter humor. But as a kid it felt otherwordly. Anyways here's the example MAD folding picture from the exhibit when its folded -- https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbtwberkshires.com%2Farts%2Fvisual-arts%2Fmad-magazine-draws-insight-in-laughter%2F&psig=AOvVaw3EIrcVqt0Eep8Gy4FRtcmj&ust=1727199249150000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBQQjRxqFwoTCLi8xeDM2YgDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbtwberkshi...

genewitch 2y ago
My cousins had a large collection from i guess the 70s and very early 80s that i read a lot. My mom and aunt had read them too. So one day i bought a new one at the store and brought it home and my mom found it. There was a parody of Edward Scissorhands, and one of the topiaries he made was of a middle finger. I didn't know what that was as she described it (flipping the bird). Apparently that was enough to get it banned in my house. Incidentally, i got a parent teacher meeting for bringing some stickers from one of my cousin's Mad magazines to school. There was a "POINK" onomatopoeia with a lady's boob and a wardrobe malfunction on one of the stickers, and this was enough to warrant the third degree. Mad magazine was pretty tame, i never got the puritanism exhibited by everyone around me, especially since they had read the magazine when they were young, and their kids, too, but i read the same ones and suddenly it's taboo?
ylere 2y ago
> Anyways here's the example MAD folding picture from the exhibit when its folded -- https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbtwberkshires.com%2Farts%2Fvisual- https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbtwberkshi...... Working link to the page that contains the picture: https://btwberkshires.com/arts/visual-arts/mad-magazine-draws-insight-in-laughter/ https://btwberkshires.com/arts/visual-arts/mad-magazine-draw...
helpfulContrib 2y ago
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genewitch 2y ago

My cousins had a large collection from i guess the 70s and very early 80s that i read a lot. My mom and aunt had read them too. So one day i bought a new one at the store and brought it home and my mom found it. There was a parody of Edward Scissorhands, and one of the topiaries he made was of a middle finger. I didn't know what that was as she described it (flipping the bird). Apparently that was enough to get it banned in my house. Incidentally, i got a parent teacher meeting for bringing some stickers from one of my cousin's Mad magazines to school. There was a "POINK" onomatopoeia with a lady's boob and a wardrobe malfunction on one of the stickers, and this was enough to warrant the third degree. Mad magazine was pretty tame, i never got the puritanism exhibited by everyone around me, especially since they had read the magazine when they were young, and their kids, too, but i read the same ones and suddenly it's taboo?

ylere 2y ago

> Anyways here's the example MAD folding picture from the exhibit when its folded -- https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbtwberkshires.com%2Farts%2Fvisual- https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbtwberkshi...... Working link to the page that contains the picture: https://btwberkshires.com/arts/visual-arts/mad-magazine-draws-insight-in-laughter/ https://btwberkshires.com/arts/visual-arts/mad-magazine-draw...

helpfulContrib 2y ago

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