# Dirty Berenstain Bears?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 2, 2002, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-berenstain-bears/101378 "2002-04-02T13:53:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![buffalogal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@buffalogal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buffalogal)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-berenstain-bears/101378/1 "2002-04-02T13:53:37Z")

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In the 60’s, my brother had a small paperback that was, I think, a parody of the Berenstain childrens book series. I remember things like the mother and father bear standing inside waving to their kids getting on the schoolbus, the bus leaves, the dad looks lasciviously at the mom, she gets a panicky look, then he chases her. Ha ha. Other pictures I remember are the dad making a gigantic female nude statue. (I don’t recall the punchline.)

Does this sound familiar to anyone else? It may have been associated in some way with Mad Magazine.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-berenstain-bears/101378/2 "2002-04-02T14:29:44Z")

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This doesn’t sound like a MAD parody. I read Mad back then.

IIRC, the Berenstein Bears didn’t even come out until the 1970s. In the 1960s and early 1970s Stan and Jan Berenstein did a series of cartoon books that were obviously meant for adults, with cartoon humans in them, not bears.

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**Author:** ![buffalogal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@buffalogal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buffalogal)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-berenstain-bears/101378/3 "2002-04-02T15:01:40Z")

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I did a search before I started this thread, but I didn’t do a thorough one. Sorry.

Actually, the first Berenstain Bear book came out in 1962, and a few more were published in the '60s.

Stan Berenstain had a comic that was published in Good Housekeeping and other mags from 1956-1990 called “It’s All in the Family.” A book of the same name was published in the late 50’s. Then “Lover Boy” came out. This is probably the book I was thinking of. There were other adult-themed books by the Berenstains. I wish I could see a picture from one of these. Funny how I remembered them looking like bears.