Mad Magazine parodies

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 11:57 AM

Picture me upon your knee,
With tea for two and two for tea,
Just me and you and you and me, alone.

Nobody near us to see or to hear us,
No friends or relations or weekend vacations
Will have to know we have a telephone, dear.

Day will break, you'll awake,
Start to bake a little sugar cake,
For me to take to all the boys to see.

We will raise a family,
A boy for you and a girl for me,
Can't you see how happy we will be!

from a Google of the first line. Lots of 'em on the 'net.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 11:54 AM

Bat Goddess,

Found this on the internet. It purports to be the complete version.

Once upon a midnight cautious, while I pondered weak and nauseous,
Over some advertising copy I had wrote for Macy's Store,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a yapping,
As of someone loudly yapping, yapping at my office door.
"'Tis some client there," I muttered, "yapping at my office door -
Only this and nothing more."

Then I felt my terror worsen, for my guest was not a person!
In there stepped a cocker spaniel; naturally I jumped in fear.
Tried to climb an oaken panel, ripping there my new grey flannel;
But the spaniel merely stood there, speaking out with voice so clear -
Speaking out like Jack Lescoulie, in a voice both loud and clear -
Quoth the spaniel- _"Drink Blatz Beer!"_

How I marveled this ungainly dog who did commercials plainly;
How he spoke the message clearly; selling points he underscored.
For I could not help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet could mouth a slogan without sounding slightly bored -
Quoth the spaniel: _"Buy a Ford!"_

Thus this dog with voice like Murrow made my heavy brow unfurrow;
Thoughts of fortunes I could make now made me shake down to my knees.
But the spaniel set me grieving then by turning tail and leaving.
Naturally, I begged him tarry, crying out, "Stay with me, please!"
Quoth the spaniel, _"Eat Kraft Cheese!"_


Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,hrobair
Date: 27 Jan 09 - 08:39 PM

Pox upon thee little man
barefoot fink with cheek of tan

The gang you squealed on
has the urge
to sing and strum your funeral dirge

In the drink you should have went
neatly cased in wet cement.

Delinquancy can be a blight
when (finks?) like you don't do it right.

To look at you I hate to think
that I was once a barefoot fink.

I think that's it.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Underdog
Date: 15 Dec 08 - 12:34 AM

There was one I had memorized back in the 60s, but I can only remember the first line. Anybody remember it?



I remember, I remember, the house where I was born.
The little bathroom down the hall where nineteen raced each morn.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Haruo
Date: 13 Dec 08 - 04:18 AM

Somehow a parody of Mad Magazine seems just a bit like overkill.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Peter
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 07:46 PM

OK. Here are two I remember (I think). (I think all three came from the same issue.)

Wrinkle Wrinkle Movie Star (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star):

Wrinkle wrinkle movie star,
Fans don't see you who you are,
On the screen you look so great,
Making male hearts pitter-pate,
But you're really sixty-one,
Wearing make-up by the ton.


Rock N Roll Baby (Rock-a-by Baby):

Rock-n-roll baby,
On the dance floor.

Listen for hours,
And still want some-more.

When the band breaks,
Before they all drop,
Just turn on your radio,
So you won't have to stop.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Peter
Date: 12 Dec 08 - 07:37 PM

I'm looking for "Junky Wheels," which is sung to the tune of "Jingle Bells." Starts off with the intro:

"Cruzin down the street,
In an over priced new car,
Feeling kind of neat,
It's doing great so far.

Then the engin starts to knock,
The paint is really rust,"

I don't remember the rest.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Pardette80
Date: 14 Nov 08 - 03:58 PM

Anyone remember the show-tunes parodies? I remember one to the tune of "There's No Business Like Show Business," but all I can think of is the first line. Can anyone help?

"There's no stories like Poe stories, like no stories I know..."

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Geordie-Peorgie
Date: 09 Nov 08 - 06:20 PM

Aah remember one where they wrote a 'hospital story' to the tunes of 'Oklahoma'

The tune is 'Oh what a beautiful morning'

There's a big yellow cist on his elbow
There's a big yellow cist on his elbow
da da da da da etc etc

Chorus (after the patient snuffs it)
Oh what a bad operation
Watch how the law suits roll in (or something like that

I loved MAD magazine (and still do in small doses) but I think I just got tired after about eight years

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,YAFI
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 09:43 PM

Service song parodies:

The GM workers song, (Marines)

From the gaudy grill of Cadillac
To the fins of Chevrolet.
We will push GMs new models
And ,make obselence pay

So the heck with Ford and Crysler boys
And to sports cars from afar
We won't stop till every family
Owns a brand new GM car

--------------------------------------
The Dentists Anthem (Air Force)


Off we go into that wild mouth yonder
Looking for molars to fill
There's a tooth waiting to feel our thunder
At em boys give it the drill rat-a-tat-tat

We dislike cavities left untreated
Teeth look bad, full of decay
So when were in doubt we just pull em out
O nothing can stip a dentist to day

-----------------------------------------
Teamsters (Army)


On the street,
On the road,
We won't carry a full load
As the teamsters go rolling along

Make em pass
On the right
Keep your union card in sight
As the teamsters go rolling along

And its hi hi hey, when we want a raise in pay
We shout out our grevience loud an strong
And where ere you go, you will alway know
That the teamsters stopped rolling along

---------------------------------------

Trash Cans Away (Navy) has already been posted, I don't remember the Coast Guard parody

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Tom
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 11:56 PM

The one I remember is "I've Got To Stop Smoking" sung to the tune of "On Top Of Old Smoky"


I've got to stop smoking
My doctor has said
Or else when I'm seven
I'm sure to be dead

Cigarettes can cause cancer
But that makes no sense
I've got to stop stealing
My dear daddy's Kents

Now here in the sixties
When going with chicks
Cigarettes can give status
To a boy who is six

But I must live clean now
At six life is ripe
Cigarettes I will give up
And switch to a pipe

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Cluin
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 10:57 PM

To the tune of America the Beautiful:

Oh cancerous, for smoggy skies, for pesticidal grain
Irritated mountains rise above an asphalt plain
America, America, thy sins shall be thy doom
Monoxide clouds shall be thy shrouds, thy cities be thy tomb


Still, Fester Bestertester is alive and well and living in Peru.

Or was it Argentina?

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 10:35 PM

Hey that's from April of 63. I just got the Mad issues dvd what fun. I think it's fun and then remember that the contexts are time specific and wonder if all of it would translate to those who don't remember these days. What a way to review History.

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Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,bobbie
Date: 26 Oct 08 - 10:05 PM

what year and month was south chicago

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 08:54 AM

There was one they did which was a musical with a whole bunch of popular newspaper and comic characters in it, all of whom got to do a song.

Tarzan's was "The Girl That I Marry" and it went like this...

The girl that I marry will have to be
As light on her feet as a chimpanzee
The girl with whom I'll romp
Will swing through the jungle and smell like a swamp
A bone of white ivory will grace her nose
She'll spring like a panther when I propose
'Stead of sighin', she'll be cryin'
With the roar of a half-crazy lion
Athletic and hairy the girl that I marry must be

******

Dagwood Bumstead's was "Old Man Dithers"

Oh, Old Man Dithers
That Old Man Dithers
He just keeps screamin'
He keeps on steamin'
Yeah, Old Man Dithers
He just keeps screamin' all day...

I get no Blue Cross
No paid up pension
A raise I'm needin'
But don't dare mention
Cos Old Man Dithers
He'd only lower my pay!

Look at me...
It's just a crime...
No vacation...
Or overtime...
Nine till five...
Like a slob...
Be a minute late and I'd lose my job...

I feel I'm fadin'
It's gettin' hazy
Goodbye to Blondie!
Goodbye to Daisy!
And Old Man Dithers can keep on screamin' all day....


Dagwood tragically sings the above song and then expires, having been accidentally shot a minute earlier by Dick Tracy who is in pursuit of criminals at the time and shoots Dagwood because...why? Because Dick Tracy has incredibly lousy aim! He NEVER succeeds in hitting the person he's aiming at, but always shoots some innocent bystander instead. Oh, the shame of it!

Looking down at Dagwood's pathetic dead body, Tracy begins to weep. Whoever is with him (Tarzan, I think...) asks Tracy if he is weeping in remorse for having killed Dagwood. Tracy says, "No, I just got some smoke in my eyes." And then he sings this song:

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

They...ask me why I sob
Killing some poor slob....
I, of course, reply,
"When the bullets fly, something makes me cry."
True...I am just a heel...sorrow I don't feel....
Shooting the wrong guy
Didn't make me cry
Smoke got in my eyes

And that's all I remember. Danged if I can recall what the point of the overall story was...but it had some really cool songs in it.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 08:00 AM

Sorry, I just remembered two lines to the previous poem. They belong just before the last two line I typed -- in the middle, so to speak:

Here's to you, little man,
Barefoot boy with cheeks of tan
The gang you squealed on has the urge
To sing and strum your funeral dirge.

Delinquency can be a blight
When clods like you don't do it right.
In the drink you should have went
Neatly cased in wet cement.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Oct 08 - 07:57 AM

Yeah, well, you oughta life with it.

Now, where's my keys...er, glasses...er, pants....

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 11:33 PM

Rapaire, I'm in awe. If that mind could only have been harnessed for the good of mankind!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 05:03 PM

Here's to you, little man,
Barefoot boy with cheeks of tan
The gang you squealed on has the urge
To sing and strum your funeral dirge.
In the drink you should have went
Neatly cased in wet cement.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 05:00 PM

On the outside of my office, on the common bulletin board and beautifully framed, resides a portrait of the ineffable Alfred E. Neumann in all his manifest glory. Under his picture, in the spirit of current events, is the usual slogan: "What? Me Worry?"

Having grown up with the rascal, I should have memorialized this singular symbol in song, but never did. Thanks to those who had the foresight to recognize this "gentleman's?" contributions to our culture.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 17 Oct 08 - 04:46 PM

Another bit, don't know what the source (other than Mad circa 1960-64) --

In the drink he should have went
Neatly cased in wet cement.

and

The gang he squealed on had the urge
To sing and strum his funeral dirge.

Linn

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 16 Oct 08 - 09:06 AM

Thanks, Rapaire! I've had bits of the moonshiner one bouncing off the interior of my brain for years -- didn't have enough of it to even collate a question about it.

Linn

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 11:16 PM

Hey! Two minutes! Now that's fast answering, dude!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 11:15 PM

A New Year's Eve Carol

Well you'd better watch out
You'd better not try
Traveling about, I'm telling you why:
Sodden clods are painting
The town.

They're wrecking the bars,
They're starting street fights,
They're having one of their naughtiest nights
Sodden clods are painting
The town.

Blithe New Year's drivers pickled
In alcoholic brine
Will gaily bounce off walls and trees
To strains of "Auld Lang Syne."

So you'd better stay home
And drink your own rye,
You're crazy to roam
It's obvious why:
Sodden clods are painting
The town.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 11:13 PM

Anyone remember the Mad Christmas carol parodies? There was one about watching out for holiday drunks called Sodden Clods are Coming to Town. I have no idea what the words were.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 11:07 PM

My father he was a moonshine man
A regular sort of feller
He kept Ma plastered for forty years
With the still he ran in the cellar.

I remember the folks who sampled his stuff
The glassy looks on their faces
One day our spaniel inhaled the fumes
And dropped dead at twenty paces.

Us boys we got in the moonshine game
And gave the business new birth.
The oldest is now at Alcatraz,
The youngest at Leavenworth.

But they never caught my father though
And they no longer raid his place:
The revenooers now buy his stuff
For use at a missile base.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Rapparee
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 10:57 PM

Wreck the walls and fences golly
Fa la la la la la la la la
Isn't trick or treating jolly?
fa la la la la la la la la
Ring that doorbell, slash that tire
Fa la la la la la la la la
Trip that old man with a wire
Fa la la la la la la la la.

Dressed in sheets and odd apparel,
Fa...
Can't tell John from Max or Carol.
Fa...
Which is good, 'cause no one else can
Fa...
Just like grown-ups play Ku Klux Klan.
Fa...

I'll remember the New Year's Eve Carol in few minutes..days...weeks.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 09:58 PM

Remember the little comments printed sideways in the margins of the Mad Paperbacks?

Deutschland Uber Alles Alice got run over by a volkswagon

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,bioray1
Date: 15 Oct 08 - 04:17 PM

I have been trying to get "The Spaniel" for several years. All I can remember is Quoth the spaniel, "Buy a Ford". I contend that it was the best parody of all time!

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: clueless don
Date: 07 Oct 08 - 08:32 AM

GUEST,Jeff, I don't remember all of "April 15th(Income tax day)It Came Upon A Midnight Clear", but I believe it ends with

Oh Income Tax
you break our backs
the government takes all!
A thief of any other kind
would never have such gall.

Don

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 02:51 AM

Does anyone remember the Fiddler on the Roof parody?

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Jeff
Date: 05 Oct 08 - 02:43 AM

There're only a few I can recall: One was sung to the tune of 'Deck The Halls...it was about Halloween pranks.

Wreck the walls and fences golly
Fa la la la la la la la la
Isn't trick or treating jolly?
fa la la la la la la la la
Ring that doorbell, slash that tire
Fa la la la la la la la la
Trip that old man witha wire
Fa la la la la la la la la...

Fouth of July: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Boom! the cherry bombs explode
blowing potholes in the rode
One went off by Irving's Mama
Now Irving's mama's in a coma...

April 15th(Income tax day)It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

They come on April 15th dear
to take away our gold...

That's all I can remember. The magazines belonged to my older brother and if he caught me w/one of them I'd get a sound thrashing...that is until I reached puberty and things began to even out a bit...

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 04 Oct 08 - 08:28 AM

Here's what I've got -- incomplete, of course. I've posted it on a previous Mad doggeral thread. Really would like to find the complete poem somewhere.

Linn


The Spaniel

Once upon a midnight cautious while I pondered weak and nauseous
Over many an advertising copy that I wrote [sic] for Macy's store.
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping
As of someone loudly rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"Tis some client there," I muttered. Only this and nothing more.

Then I felt my terror worsen, for my guest was not a person.
In there stepped a cocker spaniel, naturally I jumped in fear.
Tried to climb an oaken panel, ripping there my new grey flannel
But the spaniel only stood there, speaking out with voice so clear
Speaking out like Jack Lescoulie in a voice both loud and clear.
Quoth the spaniel, "Drink Blatz beer."

How I marvelled this ungainly dog that did commercials plainly
Thoughts of fortunes I could make now make me shake down to my knees.
But the spaniel set me grieving then by turning tail and leaving
Chasing him along the hallway, crying out, "Stay with me me please!"
Chasing him along the hallway, crying out, "Stay with me please!"
Quoth the spaniel, "Eat Kraft Cheese."

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Cool Beans
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 10:32 PM

Quoth the spaniel, "Drink Blatz Beer."
(That's all I've got)

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 08:24 PM

I remember "She Got A Nose Job" -- and it still pops into my consciousness when I least expect it (as does a lot of early '60s Mad satire).

Anyone come up with the Edgar Allan Poe (or Edgar, Al, and Moe) parody of "The Raven" redone as "The Spaniel"?

"Once upon a midnight cautious, while I pondered weak and nauseous
Over many an advertising copy I had wrote for Macy's store.
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping
As of someone loudly rapping, rapping at my office door.
'Tis some client there," I muttered. Only this and nothing more."

Etcet

Remember a fair amount, but not the whole thing.

Linn

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: mrmoe
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 08:26 AM

I looked both long and hard for a copy of "she got a nose job"; finally found a copy of the "mad twists rock & roll" lp that had it.....I actually have a digitized (cd) of that lp now...

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: clueless don
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 08:22 AM

Oldguit, I also remember those giveaway 45's! As I recall, I had one with a song called "She got a nose job". It started

She got a nose job
She got a nose job
it's now turned up
instead of hanging down
She got a nose job
She got a nose job
and now she's the prettiest gal in town!

But I'm off-topic, since that wasn't a parody.

Don

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: davyr
Date: 03 Oct 08 - 04:52 AM

Don, yes, I think you're right - it was "The ghoul that I bury".

And it definitely was "East Side Story".

Blimey, it's getting tough remembering stuff from the early 60s with any degree of accuracy. Perhaps I really was there after all...

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Oldguit
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 01:56 PM

When I were a lad, an older friend of mine gave me one of those flimsy free giveaway 45's from MAD MAG. it was a parody of Christmas speeches from around the world. I wish I still had it. The bits I remember are:

Jesus himself was a radical and a socialist (in a harold Wilson voice)

Here in the Commonwealth or the common poverty as we sometimes call it. (in an indian accent)

Refs to Santa thrusting himself up the soothy pathage (in a rather lithpy accent)

Here we are swealtering around the traditional yule tide fire (in an Australian accent)

That's my lot. If anyone has any more of it, I'd love to know.

Oldguit Arr

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: clueless don
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 01:26 PM

davyr, wasn't that "The thing that I bury..."? or possibly "The ghoul that I bury..."? I think the parody was called "Manny get your ghoul".

Memories have faded as regards the West Side Story parody - possibly it was called "East Side Story" (is the U. N. building located on New York's East Side?) I remember a song sung by Mao Tse Tung (I think that's how his name was transliterated back then), which included the lines "Please be sweet to us, and give a seat to us. [????] and such joy you'll get, like we gave Tibet" and later there was a verse that ended "like our troops are in North Vietnam". Another section was "That's right! You bet! We will preserve law and order, like when we crossed India's border." All to the tune of "There's a Place for Us".

Don

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: davyr
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 11:40 AM

Little Robyn said:
Actually, they did several shows over the years - I'm sure they did West Side Story but I can't remember any of the song parodies from that one.

Although I can still visualise that parody quite clearly (Kruschev and Kennedy were the two rival gang leaders), the only line I can recall is "Brush teeth with Crest in Amer-ica!"

The other "Girl that I marry" line I remember went:

"The girl that I marry will have to be
A real Transylvanian monstrosity!"

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: JJ
Date: 02 Oct 08 - 10:52 AM

A hundred and one
Slugs of fun
That's my little tommy-gun!
Gonna use my tommy-gun tonight...

From "South Chicago," a parody of "South Pacific"

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Cool Beans
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 08:41 PM

Just Molly and me,
Let's see, that makes three...

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,Neville Orange
Date: 01 Oct 08 - 07:59 PM

I have often walked down this street before
but the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before
now as I walk by I see rubble fly
boy it's rough on the street where you live.

People stop and stare, they don't bother me
I've got lead underwear, I'm safe as I can be
All the air is filled with radioactivity
and it's worse on the street where you live.

And oh the frightening feeling
as the glow spreads over the land
that exposed to lightening feeling
as the Geiger counter clicks to beat the band.

There are no more trees they've been all knocked down
and you'll never hear a bird in any part of town
see the plane draw near, let's get out of here
Yucca Flats is no street where to live.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Barbara
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 10:33 PM

There's a huge mushroom cloud looming upwards (2X)
It may seem to appear that an A Bomb dropped here,
But it's only our barbecue out in the rear...

Oh what a beautiful beefsteak,
Oh, what a sweet tenderloin
Too bad that pop had to cook out
Black to a crisp it will burn (boin).

that's all I remember. Oh What a Beautiful Morning.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,robpape
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 01:30 PM

One I recall was

I remember I remember the house where I was born....
My 11 brothers hated me...
My sisters felt the same ..
Mum never called me at breakfast...
She couldn't remember my name !!

Also any one recall My Blue Shelter ???

Just a hole in the floor
A six inch thick lead door ...
Will lead you to my Blue Shelter
Do you know the rest ???

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: EBarnacle
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 12:48 PM

Mad originated as Mad Comics, published by EC [Educational Comics], which was, as mentioned above, one of the causes of the Code.

When I was 8, I ws sent to sleepaway camp. I once had a collection of Mad Comics and early Mad Magazines. When I got back, we had moved and all "that trash" had been discarded. Some things you don't forget.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 09:57 AM

From around 1965, to the tune of "White Christmas"

I'm screaming at a white sheepdog;
One who is sitting in my chair.
It's a thing I'm dreading,
The way he's shedding,
And covering everything with hair.
I'm screaming at a white sheepdog
And should he visit you some night,
May his bark be worse than his blight,
And may all your furniture be white.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Piers Plowman
Date: 04 Sep 08 - 02:24 AM

The only bit of MAD comic verse I remember is this one:

Ringo, Paul, George and John
Played a trick and put us on:
They said Paul was dead as nails
And rocketed the record sales!

I subscribed to MAD for a few years during puberty and finally cancelled when I'd gotten sick of it. I saw William Gaines on a Saturday morning children's TV show and I vaguely remember the interview. There was a question about doing something different and he responded by saying something about having a recipe (or something) and sticking to it. I felt rather let down and disappointed, however, it was obviously true. Very shortly afterwards I cancelled my subscription. Mostly, MAD's style of humor irritates me now, whereby I mean my memories of it, since I don't think I've looked inside one since the mid-1970s. However, I can appreciate the talent and skill that went into it.

I have mixed feelings about William Gaines. According to what I've read, his very gruesome horror comics were a major factor in the introduction of the Comic Book Code (or whatever it was called) and he avoided the consequences by publishing MAD as a magazine rather than a comic book (except for the very first issue or so). I don't think it's a black and white issue. The Comic Book Code resulted in rather bland comics but I wouldn't give some of what had been being published to children to read.

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 03 Sep 08 - 06:44 PM

Thank you, Guest Gerry!!!

Now if someone can find "The Spaniel"...

Linn