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

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The Simpsons did the best tribute to Mad that captured its true essence:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzu4qILQqpA

“New Kids on the Blech” is spot on.

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

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/makeu...

Disturbing Alfred E. Neuman Cameo / Worst Movie Ending from Up The Academy (1980): Eek.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K71kJbWWOkY

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.

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

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."

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.

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