# Mad Magazine parodies the Onion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2002, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-magazine-parodies-the-onion/136766 "2002-11-14T21:14:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-magazine-parodies-the-onion/136766/21 "2002-11-15T18:57:06Z")
While I did get a good laugh at the “Are man finds headline amusing but that’s about it” (oh, the irony, the layers and layers of irony), what’s with the jabs at The Onion’s lack of good taste (e.g. Trenchcoat Mafia pillsbury boy)? Hey Mad Magazine, you called this parody “The Bunion” fer chrissakes. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-magazine-parodies-the-onion/136766/22 "2002-11-15T22:04:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Doghouse Reilly \* > \*\* > > You be lucky you didn’t say no shit about Smoove B. Otherwise I’d have to go Sam Peckinpah on yo’ ass. > > On the other hand, they **did** retire T. Herman Zweibel. \*\* _sniff_ I miss that old plutocrat… ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-magazine-parodies-the-onion/136766/23 "2002-11-16T00:08:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by caveman \* > \*\* > > _sniff_ I miss that old plutocrat… \*\* Not to mention good old _N. Aeschylus_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mad-magazine-parodies-the-onion/136766.md?page=1)