Who got Mad magazine growing up?

[RiffRandell]

We always laugh about when they showed someone puking there was a chicken bone in it. I just got my son a subscription, and now it's bi-monthly. I think when I got it, it was a monthly issue.

[KurtNYC]

1. I met Al Jaffee as an adult

decades after "The Lighter Side of Hippies"

Cool guy. He said in 2010 (at age 90) "Serious people my age are dead."

He's still got it.

[ohiosmith]

2. I got it from the Rexall every month.

If the clerk wasn't looking.

[frogmarch]

3. Me! I did, I did!

The Don Martin toons were always my favorite.

[hifiguy]

4. I read MAD religiously when I was a boy

collected the paperbacks and everything. MAD was my generation's introduction to the very subversive notion that adults would say anything, particularly to sell you crap you didn't need.

[mac56]

6. It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.

http://namebrandketchup.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/its-crackers-to-slip-a-rozzer-the-dropsy-in-snide/

[hifiguy]

7. And who could forget 43-man Squamish?

Each team consists of one left and one right Inside Grouch, one left and one right Outside Grouch, four Deep Brooders, four Shallow Brooders, five Wicket Men, three Offensive Niblings, four Quarter-Frummerts, two Half-Frummerts, one Full-Frummert, two Overblats, two Underblats, nine Back-Up Finks, two Leapers and a Dummy — for a total of 43.

The game officials are a Probate Judge (dressed as a British judge, with wig), a Field Representative (in a Scottish kilt), a Head Cockswain (in long overcoat), and a Baggage Smasher (dressed as a male beachgoer in pre-World War I years). None has any authority after play has begun.

[TheMightyFavog]

31. George Woodbridge, right?

He was really good. I really liked Jack Davis, Sergio Aragones, and Tom Bunk...

[abq e streeter]

40. YEAH

[mac56]

51. I wonder if this was the inspriation for Quidditch.

[PoliticAverse]

5. I used to buy it at the candy store/newsstand. Never had enough $$$ for a sub.

The era Mad was over when Don Martin left.

[leftyohiolib]

8. i got that then started getting a mag by natl lampoon (forgot the name tho)

[RiffRandell]

13. Was it Cracked?

I think that was similar.

[Tom Ripley]

19. Cracked was what I always bought with my second week's allowance

Every month:
week 1-Mad
week 2-Cracked
week 3-Sick
week 4-"uh...uh...I don't really want to buy Car Toons...it's never any good...I think I'll go with extra candy!"

[leftyohiolib]

35. it was national lampoon mag i remember the one with the cover of the dog

with the caption but this mag or we'll shoot this dog

[HughBeaumont]

9. In the 70s - 80s, with regularity.

I loved getting the Super Specials to read the articles I missed from the 60s (having not been born yet). Always would go to the corner pharmacy and buy a new MAD when it came out. Jaffee and Clarke were my favorite artists.

It's almost completely unreadable now. The wit is gone, it's now too reliant on mean-spirited/gross-out humor instead of smart satire and the art's dropped off badly. Peter Kuper pretty much destroyed Spy vs Spy for me.

[Ikonoklast]

10. Dad got MAD magazine every month, religiously.

After he read it, my older brother got it, then me.

I realized that my Dad wasn't the staid office worker he pretended to be.

[PoliticAverse]

11. And the best thing about Mad was...

No advertising!!

[mac56]

14. Not true anymore.

[TheMightyFavog]

28. Yeah, right about 2000, Mad started taking ads. Right about the same time they went color.

Bill Gaines is spinning in his grave.

[RiffRandell]

12. Remember you could always fold the back page into another picture?

I can't wait to get the first issue! My son is almost 11, and that's about when I started reading it.

[PoliticAverse]

20. Some online MAD interactive folding pages...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/03/28/arts/20080330_FOLD_IN_FEATURE.html

[treestar]

15. I remember it

So many good articles with funny premises. I used to like the job applications and other satirical forms.

[Tom Ripley]

16. It was instrumental in developing my loathing for advertising, jingoism, and other bullshit

The greatest American magazine. Take that, New Yorker!

[benld74]

17. Oh yeah, I bought it. Folks didnt like the waste of money but,,,,,,

Mad MAgazine is NOW in Cartoon form. In the block of channels the cartoons come in on cable,,,,


STILL FUNNY after all these years. Relevant also.

[HERVEPA]

18. Car Repair Bill

Pits and plugs pointed
Plugs and points pitted
Pits and points plugged
Four tires kicked

(sorry I don't remember the accompanying amounts)


Also:

In Levittown did Irving Khan
A ? Cape Cod house decree
Where Alf the sacred Neuman

Bvrtz - Left Handed Herniated Hopi Indian (crossword puzzle definition)

[rodak]

64. Levittown

In Levittown did Irving Khan
A lovely Cape Cod house decree
Where Alf the sacred Neuman dwelt
And Nick Fazool, and Olaf Svelt
And even Sean McGee
Where fifty feet of crabgrass ground
with picket fence that girdled round
A place for little Milt to play
A port for Irving's Chevrolet

I'd love to know the rest. I think the last lines were

There's just one thing that's not the very best
You can't tell Irving's place from all the rest

[alphafemale]

21. One of the first things I remember reading.

My brother was 11 yrs older. It was amazing satire back in the day.

[mac56]

22. Fester and Karbunkle!

[Baitball Blogger]

23. I was very impressionable.

It use to freak or creep me out.

[femmocrat]

24. My brother did. He gave all of his old Mads to my sons.

We still have them in a box somewhere. They are so funny, even all these years later.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

25. Me! It was 35 cents. And I'm still cheap.

Bill Gaines' head should be added to Mt Rushmore.

[Art_from_Ark]

26. I didn't subscribe to it, but

Back in the '60s, my mother would often take me with her when she went to the hairdresser, and the hairdresser had a big stack of Mad magazines dating from the '50s on a table, which I would read while Mom got her hair done. One thing that really struck me about one of the issues was some feature about fake commemorative stamps, because one of the "stamps" mentioned the small town where my grandmother lived, my grandmother's first name, and several of her friends' first names as being in a "Thursday bridge foursome". My grandmother was really into bridge and often had her friends over for games! Although I'm sure it was just a coincidence, my jaw practically dropped to the ground when I saw that.

[harmonicon]

27. People who had subscriptions to it. nt.

[TheMightyFavog]

29. Dave Berg's the lighter side of...

[TuxedoKat]

45. The Lighter Side

was always my favorite section too.

[RiffRandell]

50. I forgot about that one!

I loved it!

[RZM]

30. I did

BTW, Have they ever done a parody of 'Law and Order' called 'Law and Ordure?' Because if not, that's way overdue . . .

[TheMightyFavog]

32. And who here played the boardgame?

[BrendaBrick]

37. Wow - never knew there was a boardgame!

I used to save my allowance and spend in all on candy and the latest issue of MAD in the late 60's & most of the 70's But a boardgame? Very Cool. Do you have this and if so, what year is it? A current version would absolutely rock!!!!!

[TheMightyFavog]

41. My grandma had one....

I think it got thrown out. It was pretty tattered. According to Wikipedia, it came out in 1979.

[raccoon]

33. I always bought it. nt

[HughBeaumont]

34. If you can, get the "Best of the 70s" Collection to view "The Silent Majority" magazine parody.

Hilarious Nixon-era take on hyper-patriots and what would be the blueprints for the TeaHadists, also drawn by the late great George Woodbridge.

[mikeSchmuckabee]

36. I think new ones only came out 10 times a year.

But it was the best 10 days of the year.

My favorite was the back cover of a hand giving the bird, proclaiming #1 magazine.

I had to buy the complete collection on disk from amazon. Good stuff.

I always wanted to buy one of the full-length Alfred E. Newman posters, suitable for framing or wrapping fish.

[Still Blue in PDX]

38. I always summarized "articles" from my big brother's Mad magazines in school when I was little.

Other kids would do Life, Look, Sunset, all those grownup magazines. I did Mad and Famous Monsters of Film Land.

I remember Mr. Clausen's blank face (4th grade) as I sang this:

Off we go into the lunchroom yonder
Pushing girls out of the way.
Here we go, start moving down the counter.
C'mon boys, fill up your tray!
Try the beans, they were prepared last Friday,
and the meat's tough as a mule.
The soups cold, the bread's got mold (YUCK)
Anything beats our lunches at school!

That was the same year I did a book report on The Dunwich Horror. I never was told anything I did was unacceptable, so I must have been entertaining.

[Tom Ripley]

42. Famous Monsters of Film Land is another wonderful memory from childhood

The Ackermonster!

[abq e streeter]

39. Another old "Mad"man checking in.

[abq e streeter]

43. And let's not forget the deep meaningful music that Mad also provided .

[Kali]

44. me!

[TuxedoKat]

46. I loved Mad

as a kid too, started reading it around age 9, although I missed alot of the jokes. I still enjoyed it, but Alfred E. Neuman's picture always creeped me out. I remember discussing it with an irreverent classmate of mine and to creep me out even further he said he wished Alfred was his brother!

[Gemini Cat]

47. I started reading MAD around 1965.

Loved MAD.

[Rhiannon12866]

48. My Dad had a subscription for years and we always read them.

I still remember some of the parody songs, LOL. And when we went to my grandmother's, he used to take us for a walk and get us comic books, while he picked up MAD. Last I knew, they were still saved. The earliest one I saw was from 1957, LOL, but they all are well worn.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

49. I blame it for my warped sense of humor.

First issue I remember: "1961, the first year that is the same upside down as right side up, since 1881, and the last until 6009".

I was six years old. 25c, CHEAP.

Arthur the potted plant. Potrezebie, Axolotl (a salamander). The sound a collapsing building makes, according to Don Martin: FAGROON.

I learned all the musical parodies and sang them. Example: South Pacific turned into South Chicago. "A hundred and one rounds of fun, that's my little Tommy Gun, Gonna use my tommy gun tonight."

Bali Hai turned into Alcatraz: "Alcatraz is calling, from that rock, in that bay, come to me your special island,come to me far away. Your own special cell, your own racketeers, living together for ninety-nine years!"

The record that came in one issue: "I love her I love her, oh boy how i love her, cuz she lets me watch her mom and pop fight!"

I also bought the paperback collections.

I still have a poster of Alfred E. Neuman as Lieutenant Calley, saying "What, My Lai?"


I got a head fulla this useless trivia.

[bif]

52. I used to read it at the drugstore.

Never had the money to buy it.

[sarge43]

53. Oh yeah

Superduperman! Melvin of the Apes! Bat Boy and Rubin! Flesh Garden!

I believe we first wave Baby Boomers learned to calibrate our bs detectors from Mad.

[sarge43]

54. Still cracks me up yea these many years

[Manifestor_of_Light]

58. Frank Frazetta was the artist.

I think he did a lot of sci-fi illustrations.

[sarge43]

59. Yes he did and a lot of fantasy work.

Pretty much defined John Carter of Mars. Also nailed Conan the Barbarian

[davsand]

55. Used to BEG my mom to buy them for me.

Spy -V- Spy and the Mad Fold-ins used to just crack me up. Don Martin was Da Bomb.



Laura

[Kaleva]

56. I recall Mad's spoof of the "Beneath the Planet of the Apes"

Heston had been shot full of bullet holes and he yelled out something like "Ahhh! They winged me!". i thought that was so funny at the time.

[mikeargo]

57. I loved their movie parodies...

"Guess Who's Throwing Up Dinner?" and
"2001 (minutes of) a Space Idiocy," for example.

Even as a ten-year old, I loved their "subversive" mentality. One year, they featured "Christmas Cards We'd Like to See." A card read: "Fire at Will Toward Men," signed, the Ohio National Guard.

In many respects, that magazine made me what I am today. Twisted.

[RebelOne]

60. I discovered as a teenager, but have not read it in years now. n/t

[Arugula Latte]

61. I bought it from time to time when I was a kid/teen.

It really shaped my perceptions, and my sense of humor.

[Bruce Wayne]

62. I never got Mad

I got even.

[Ron Obvious]

63. Happy memories...

Happy memories... I read both Mad and their inferior rival Cracked.

I bought the complete collection of Mad magazines on CD some 10 years ago. I'm very happy to have it.

What, me worry?