MAD MAGAZINE!

Hello Raleigh, well hello Raleigh

We’ve been smoking that tobacco you supplied

Since you’ve come back, Raleigh

We’re a hack, Raleigh

From our smoking we are choking

And our lungs, are dried

We inhale, Raleigh till we’re pale, Raleigh

There’s no wonder on your blunder

We say fie

You brought the weed, Raleigh

You we don’t need, Raleigh

Raleigh we will get you by and byyyyyyy

Mary Tailor Made

I don’t remember the parody very well, except that she changed outfits every two strips

Porn in the U.S.A.!

Spy vs Spy.

I was only 7 and 8, and the more adult humor went over my head.

But I loved looking at Spy vs Spy again and again.

Valley of the Dollars!

I remember this one making fun of the final episode of MASH, mostly because it made fun of the fact that Hot Lips’ feathered hairstyle didn’t exist when the Korean War was fought in the 1950s.

Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions! It created a culture of sarcasm.

The front or back cover (I can't remember which) where you folded along the dotted lines which gave you the snarky answer to the question posed on the original page.

I had a stack of them as a young lad and I would read it from cover to cover. It used to irritate me that my class mates were only interested in the MAD fold in.

Hack,Hack sweet Has-been

I loved Don Martin’s cartoons, if only because he insisted on having folded feet on humans.

All right bitches, so all we’re missing is a parody of All About Eve, a parody of The Women, and a parody of Showgirls.

"Crymore vs. Crymore": sorry M.

I want Don Dripper’s cum in my mouth

For those of you who like to cruise

Keep cruising

some stand out in the memory more than others.

Several of the writers from the 60s/70s (Arnie Kogen et al) were also writers for the Carol Burnett show, hence the great parodies.

A few years ago, I found a CD set of all of the issues from the beginning to to 2000. Once William Gaines passed and the company was sold, you can really tell a decline in the material. Film spoofs went from 6-8 pages to 4 and the humor wasn't as much wit as it was fart jokes.

My favorite will always be the Star Wars musical

I remember one issue with the tri-fold back page being a poisoned pitcher of Kool-Aid. It kind of creeped me out.

Still more cruising: "The Lust Boat" with Captain Stupid and Muley SoCoy.

I loved the bonuses in the specials and use to carry a Mad Voodoo Doll in my school bag in the 5th grade and put it through a lot of use there.

DL faves "The Olden Girls". Not the funniest parody; as R18 mentions, MAD's slide from its glory days had begun by then.

The Sound of Money

The Man from A.U.N.T.I.E.

"Little House, Oh So Dreary"

I remember being 7 and my mother saying, "No, you cannot go see 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?'. It's for adults."

The next week, I found out the plot of the whole movie by reading Mad.

I remember a parody of the poem Jabberwocky, with the names of various consumer products put into it. The only line I can remember 30+ years later is "Oh, Fab wash day, Cashmere Bouquet, he Handiwrapped with joy".

Shouldn't that be Joy, r27?

Hey R10 - I remember that parody and even a line from the theme song they made up: "Hack, hack, sweet has-been, hear that body thud. Hack hack sweet has-been, and watch that corpse spritz blood". It's incredible what the mind remembers.

Hack, hack, sweet has-been,

Has-been, spill that gore

Hack, hack, sweet has-been,

You're on the screen once more

Parody of "The Exorcist" where one pic has Regan sitting in bed reading "Mein Kempf."

A picture story about Barbie and her pals, including her x-boyfriend GI Joe who is suffering from flash backs from the war. The first picture is of Barbie saying, Hi, my name is Boobie.

My sister had an amazing collection of Mad magazines and horror comics from the late 60's to mid 70's.

"How come I'm along, and there's so much music? Way up on a hill, with no one in view?"

[quote]My sister had an amazing collection of Mad magazines and horror comics from the late 60's to mid 70's.

Did she turn out to be a lesbian?

Sorry. How come I'm alone, not along. Has anyone ever mentioned the possibility of a DL edit function?

It's a Gas!

Always liked this cover. Too bad open showers are are becoming very rare.

When we top "Fair Lady," vengeance will be mine!

American Confetti

I remember R17so well because it was one of the most mean-spirited parodies I ever remember reading. I think he goes: "You're ugly!" She: "You're drunk!" He: "Yeah, but I'll be sober in the morning!"

^ Ugh, formatting. Was referring to R17.

My dad had the Musically Mad album.

Rhoda was Rodent

I remember one issue had parodies of patriotic songs. One was about Jackie Kennedy(the tune was "Anchors Aweigh"), another about the Marines.

"From the neck-high mud of fox-holes, to malaria-filled bogs....." The tune is "The Marines' Hymn"

PUYOIT

Taught me so much about politics and world events when I was a little boy growing up in the sixties. Kind of amazed my conservative parents let me read it but they probably thought it was just another comic. Hated 'Cracked' magazine though.

Fond memories of the Dallas parody: "Hi, I'm Miss Smellie!", "Hi, I'm Booby!", "Hi, I'm Spamela, Booby's wife!"

Something about the corny parody names always makes me laugh.

My all-time favourite MAD satire is "Keep On Trekin': The Star Trek Musical" (Oct 1976, No. 186)

A partial list of songs reworked as crew numbers:

"Cabaret"

"Call Me"

"Gentle On My Mind"

"I'll Never Fall in Love Again"

I remember a parody of Lost in Space, and they had one character looking at a meteor shower headed their way and he said "This spells certain doom!", and in the next panel the meteors spell "Certain Doom". I love corny gags like that.

They called Tippi Hedren "Tipsy Headrinse." It STILL makes me laugh.

“201 minutes of Space Idiocy.” Dick De Bartolo “Mad’s maddest writer” is out and been writing there since the beginning.

ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE A FUNNY GIRL SINGING 'HELLO DOLLY' FOREVER - starring Bubby Strident!

"You are nebbish! I am queen! If you bug me - say goodbye to your big scene! I get paid one half of what this picture cost. You are nothing, I am star - Get lost!"

[quote]Something about the corny parody names always makes me laugh.

Me too. They weren't clever and they weren't meant to be.

Don't forget "The MAD Show," with DL faves Linda Lavin and Joanne Worley!

In his youth, Ted Koppel posed to create the image of Alfred.

The pic needs magnfication. Another beloved Mad Magazine send-up is in Issue 20, the "Katch and Hammer Kids." The German in Hans and Fritz's speech balloons is from Friedrich Nietzsche...

My favorites were always the movie and TV show parodies. I read so many of them before I even saw the films in question. Some of the images still stand out after all these years.

God yes R56 - loved them!

There are still ‘classic’ seventies movies I haven’t seen - but feel I know the plot lines and general stories from having read the Mad parodies.

After my mom had taken a delighted young me to see That’s Entertainment (and yet she was still surprised when years later I eventually came out - go figure!) - I remember the Mad parody - ‘What’s Entertainment?’ - and part of the lyric to the tune of Singin’ in the Rain - and the caricature of Kelly singin it -

Tho the scenes in this show - Cost a great deal of dough Who cares? They were paid for a long time ago...

As an earlier poster said - weird the little bits of trivia that stay with you!

Also remember an assignment we had in high school where we had to write a play or skit or something - based on a tv show we liked.

The guy who got the top result - and then had it turned into a performance project by the class - completely plagiarised the Mad take off if The streets of San Francisco. At least allegedly. I mean - I never saw that issue of Mad. But the guy at school used to get it regularly. And tho the kid was smart - he was a math brain - and never really excelled in English class - yet this very funny little playlet was perfect - and totally in the style of Mad.

Rumors were abundant - but it was never proved. I haven’t thought about it in years - and there’s the internet now! - I must google search and see if I can finally solve the mystery...

My third favourite MAD Magazine offering: a two-part look at Realistic Dolls!

Page Two of "Realistic Dolls" (June 1969 issue)

I loved the folding back cover where it transformed into something else.

OK I lied. Third and final page of "Realistic Dolls"

A side cartoon of a lady painting an Easter egg and outside a chicken was painting her baby.

Thank you, R10

Annette Funnyjello..hahahaha. One of my favorites-the kids being fed up with Star System vintage hags and all those gothic horror films.

I remember as a kid being intrigued by "Dead Ringer", then seeing it years later and realizing just how bad it was. Still, it'd make a fun "Let's Be.." thread. I'm the hot poker that gives Bette some time...(g)

I think all that remains of my MAD collection is a couple of the paperback compilations.

I loved Dave Berg's "The Lighter Side of ... " cartoons, with all the precise illustrations of adults, and how he always drew himself smoking a MacArthur pipe and wearing horn-rimmed glasses and a safari leisure suit.

She got a nose job, she got a nose job It now turns up instead of hanging down She got a nose job, she got a nose job And now she’s the prettiest girl in town

She never had a guy to call her own, she never had a guy who cared But now she the the most popular girl in town Since she got her schnozz repaired!

The magazine came with that song on a free flexible mini record fifty years ago. I played it on my record player till I wore it out. And they never advertised. They were a big part of forming an American sense of humor.

[quote]Don't forget "The MAD Show," with DL faves Linda Lavin and Joanne Worley!

And a song by Stephen Sondheim!

'We're gonna stamp out HATE...'

In the 70's as a kid I slowly collected a stack and would read them over and over obsessively. I learned a lot about the "adult" world through that magazine (current events, famous people, movies I was too young to see). Also Cracked and Crazy magazines, to a lesser extent. I stopped buying it when the 80's came.

I still have my Mad CD-ROM which has all the issues from the beginning to 2000, and I can still get it to work on my Mac laptop. I pull it out every once and a while and browse through it. It's amazing how many issues there were. Some of the artwork in the really early issues is just great.

I'm still disappointed Mad never did a Logan's Run parody in the late 70's.

For some reason one artwork image that always sticks in my mind is the Alien parody where the alien pops out of the guy's stomach, and it's Kermit the Frog.

You want to understand America? Read MAD magazine!

Did they do a spoof of TV Guide's fall preview every year?

I saw a really old one with "Ugly Face" starring Fatsy Pumpkin.

The parody of Yentl renamed Mentl.

Character names included Hadassah, Avigdorable...

r65, I loved it also.

Sung to the tune of "You're a Grand Old Flag":

You're a fat old hag, you're an unsightly bag,

Though you're still my true love, Emmy Lou!

You're the emblem of the land I love—

Your complexion is red, white, and blue!

Overweight and big in your ill-fitting wig,

Though forever in peace may it waaaag—

But should auld acquaintance be forgot,

I'll escape from that fat old hag!

[quote]Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions! It created a culture of sarcasm.

Dumbass to man with dog on his lap: "Is that your dog?"

Snappy Answer: "No, this is my neighbor's dog. [italic]My[/italic] dog is on my neighbor's lap."

Sung to the tune of "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town":

Oh, you'd better give up on Christmas this year

You haven't a chance with relatives here

Sam and Roz are coming to town!

They're bringing their kids to add to your fun—

They're staying ten days, you thought it was one!

Sam and Roz are coming to town!

They'll monopolize your bathroom

They'll destroy your solitude

They will eat you out of house and home,

Then complain about the food!

Oh, there's only one way to save your Noel,

They come to your house, you take a hotel,

Sam and Roz are coming TO TOOOOWN!

I loved the little drawings on the margins. Who did those?

Sergio Aragones, r76! There was a name for them that I can't remember. They published a book or three of them too.

I remember the "Witches of Eastwick" spoof. I hadn't seen the movie at the time. The "life is just a barf of cherries!" line always cracked me up (So much so I remember it today, centuries later).

[quote]Rhoda was Rodent

Actually, it was Rhodent. That [italic]Bad Seed[/italic] parody was brilliant.

I loved Maria lamenting the lack of bathrooms in the parody of 'Sound of Music'. sung to the title tune 'So I run like a nut to the one downstairs and find the very same fate/I pray that I can make the back woods before it's too late..'

They were called Marginals, r76.

There really was a lot of clever writing and drawing going on in this supposed dumb kids' magazine, for those who were receptive to it.

I do remember my parents being a bit concerned when I bought the one with Alfred under the covers with Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice but even then they let it go. For that, I am grateful (they weren't so cool with the Beatles uproar earlier, though. Went seven years or so without any Beatles in the house).

Yes, I know, r66.

the best mail I got in 2017 was two little personalized cartoon autographs from Al Jaffee: one was requested for a sick friend. Yes, I sent a SASE.

Auntie did you feel no pain

Falling from the apple tree?

Could you do so, please, again?

As my friend here didn't see.

Anyone remember Al Jafee's spinoff books, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions? I think this was also in the magazines. That book helped me become more of a smartass!

Thanks r77 and R81

r66: The Sondheim "The Boy from..." is a cabaret staple but I wonder what other songs by other people are in the show.

Go to Youtube and find out, r89.

"Deck the halls with parts of Molly" was one of the tunes from Johnny Cash in a prison singing favorite inmate tunes.

The Rosemarys Baby and one flew over the cuckoos' nest parody.

R90 You must be a scintillating conversationalist at dinner parties.