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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2018 20:26:28 GMT
I loved Mad when I was a kid. I think the first one I bought was a "Super Special" which was a bigger issue that came out four times a year if I remember right. The regular issues were 40 cents (cheap) and the Super Specials were 60 cents (cheap). The SS I bought had "Star Blecchh" and "201 (minutes of): A Space Idiocy". Shortly afterward I bought the regular 40 cent issue with "A Crockwork Lemon". Then I started trying to draw like the artists in the magazine. Spy vs. Spy was easy. Then I started doing a near perfect Don Martin. I cheated with my Mort Drucker drawings though. I would put a sheet of paper over the drawing and trace it.
Back in those days a school lunch cost 40 cents as well. Once a month I would give my lunch money to my friend Lenny and ask him to pick one up for me on his way to school because he had to walk past the drug store where they sold it and I did not live anywhere near there. Of course Lenny got to read the magazine and do the "fold-in" on the back page. The fold-in, for those who don't know, was a color drawing on the inside back page that would turn into a completely different image if you folded it. I would go without lunch that day. I had to be careful not to let my parents find out about that, not just because of the misappropriated lunch money but also because I was not allowed to have Mad. But I sure had a huge collection hidden in clever places. I had dozens of issues as well as the paperback collections. Eventually my mother surprised me by buying me a hardcover Mad collection. She must have changed her mind. I don't think my father knew, though.
Anyway, I think my favorite movie parody was the one of The Godfather. I don't even remember the title of the spoof.
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Post by snsurone on Mar 5, 2018 21:32:09 GMT
It was called "The Oddfather".
And its sequel was called "The Oddfather Part, Too".
I can remember when a comic book cost ten cents.
Now, they're over two dollars!
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Post by snsurone on Mar 6, 2018 17:11:33 GMT
I don't know if MAD ever did a spoof of DRIVING MISS DAISY, but I wager it would be titled "Driving Me Crazy!"
LOL
BTW, how many of you noticed that MAD never did a parody of SCHINDLER'S LIST?
A very wise decision. IMHO.
As I had said on an earlier post, most of the contributors on the magazine were Jewish, and I don't doubt that at least some of them may have lost relatives in the Holocaust.
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Post by snsurone on Mar 7, 2018 14:23:00 GMT
Today you couldn't buy a single page for 25 cents!
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 7, 2018 16:22:36 GMT
The MAD Magazine spoofs are funny. I used to think that the MAD Magazine kid was a depiction of Ted Koppel.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 7, 2018 16:34:24 GMT
I used to buy the Mad Magazines from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, back then American magazines was rather cheap, not like today when they cost a half fortune. There was a Swedish version too, but they mixed it up with their own material, spoofing Swedish Television serials et al. I think most of those magazines were destroyed in a flooding we had in our cellars a couple of years ago. I remember this one:  |
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Post by snsurone on Mar 7, 2018 17:10:22 GMT
I remember when MAD actually did a spoof of GWTW; it was titled "Groan with the Wind".
IMHO, it wasn't very good as it omitted a number of key scenes (the Atlanta Bazaar, for instance), and it deployed the distressing gimmick of "Harlott" constantly holding a mint julep--as if readers wouldn't know that the story took place in the American South.
And while Jack Davis was an excellent cartoonist, he was no match for Mort Drucker, the best caricature artist since Al Hirschfeld.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 7, 2018 17:59:25 GMT
Mort Drucker:  ...and he's still around! |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 8, 2018 4:14:48 GMT
teleadmI just looked on Amazon and there are some sets of CDs and DVDs and a Hardcover book that might help replace those issues lost in the flood. I have a CD set like this but it only covers 1952-1998 50 Years of MADI prefer the paper copies but even on cd's they are fun to read.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 8, 2018 5:06:20 GMT
According to the home page, there is a post from BATouttaheck.
Well, you're "outtaluck", since I blocked your posts!
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Mar 8, 2018 5:20:19 GMT
Until a few years ago I had thought that Mad Magazine was no longer in publication. I thought it went out in the mid-80s. Then I saw an issue and it was NOTHING like its former EXTREMELY FUNNY self. TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT. The spoof I remember the most wasn't a big-screen one, But one of the tv-series 'The Six Million Dollar Man'. I remember that Steve felled in love with some appliance like a coffee-maker or a toaster. He also stretched his arm long like Reed from TF4. Oscar said to him that bionics DON'T do that. Steve told him that it's his real arm. I also LOVE Spy vs. Spy, that occurring story that they had in every issue. Don't recall what it was called. And folding the back cover. I'm GLAD to have read it when it WAS GREAT. UNLIKE how it IS now.
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Post by jervistetch on Mar 8, 2018 9:26:38 GMT
Whenever I got a new issue of MAD the first thing I would turn to was the "Fold-In" on the inside of the back cover. Here's one from 1968.  Looks like some things never change. |
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Post by marianne48 on Mar 10, 2018 1:42:33 GMT
I grew up on MAD as a kid, and I loved the TV and movie parodies. The worst thing about the magazine back then was the plethora of Polish jokes, which unfortunately were a big part of the culture back then, especially on TV shows such as All in the Family and Laugh-In, which were written by predominately Jewish writers, who made no secret of their hatred for Poles. They frequently appeared in MAD as well.
Aside from that, MAD was instrumental in educating its young readers to be cynical and leery of those in authority, from the government to advertisers. But what it did best were its TV and movie parodies. Some of the best ones were the musicals and the "updated" versions of some films--for example, the modern version of Fiddler on the Roof, "Antenna on the Roof," featuring the well-to-do descendants of Tevye and his family; the updated version of The Wizard of Oz, "The Guru of Ours,"
with Liza Minnelli playing an updated, adult version of her mother's Oz role and traveling to meet the Guru with her three companions--Pat Boone as a square, George Hamilton as a snob, and Michael J. Pollard as a punk. (The Guru is Ed Sullivan).
And then there was an updated version of Going My Way, with the now-elderly Bing Crosby as the old-fashioned priest who has to deal with the new, pot-smoking hippie priest played by Donald Sutherland.
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Post by teleadm on Mar 10, 2018 17:30:41 GMT
teleadm I just looked on Amazon and there are some sets of CDs and DVDs and a Hardcover book that might help replace those issues lost in the flood. I have a CD set like this but it only covers 1952-1998 50 Years of MADI prefer the paper copies but even on cd's they are fun to read. Thanks for making me actually look through the rumble mess! |
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 10, 2018 18:20:30 GMT
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Post by snsurone on Mar 10, 2018 23:31:17 GMT
One of MAD's best movie spoofs was "The Gall of the President's Men", based on ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN.
To those who remember, MAD was openly anti-Nixon--one of the things I loved about it.
Has anyone else noticed that the names of the politicians and conspirators (Erlichmann, Haldeman, etc.) are not caricatured as were the names of the reporters?
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 11, 2018 1:45:17 GMT
... the names of the politicians and conspirators (Erlichmann, Haldeman, etc.) are not caricatured as were the names of the reporters. In your opinion, What would be the significance and meaning behind this decision to not caricature these particular names ? |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 11, 2018 1:51:35 GMT
teleadmDid you find any of your possibly lost magazines ? I was inspired by this "CLASSIC MOVIE" themed thread to go searching in the attic and found a whole box of them plus some of the paperbacks. Now to sit down and read them 
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Post by snsurone on Mar 11, 2018 23:03:57 GMT
Mort Drucker: ...and he's still around! Ironically, it was Drucker who replaced Harvey Kurtzman on MAD. |
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Post by snsurone on Mar 15, 2018 21:43:42 GMT
I grew up on MAD as a kid, and I loved the TV and movie parodies. The worst thing about the magazine back then was the plethora of Polish jokes, which unfortunately were a big part of the culture back then, especially on TV shows such as All in the Family and Laugh-In, which were written by predominately Jewish writers, who made no secret of their hatred for Poles. They frequently appeared in MAD as well. Aside from that, MAD was instrumental in educating its young readers to be cynical and leery of those in authority, from the government to advertisers. But what it did best were its TV and movie parodies. Some of the best ones were the musicals and the "updated" versions of some films--for example, the modern version of Fiddler on the Roof, "Antenna on the Roof," featuring the well-to-do descendants of Tevye and his family; the updated version of The Wizard of Oz, "The Guru of Ours," with Liza Minnelli playing an updated, adult version of her mother's Oz role and traveling to meet the Guru with her three companions--Pat Boone as a square, George Hamilton as a snob, and Michael J. Pollard as a punk. (The Guru is Ed Sullivan). And then there was an updated version of Going My Way, with the now-elderly Bing Crosby as the old-fashioned priest who has to deal with the new, pot-smoking hippie priest played by Donald Sutherland. Marianne, I can remember a hilarious strip called "American Jokes They Tell in Poland". I'm not sure, but I think it was drawn by Sergio Aragones. |
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