After all they only published iirc 10-12 editions per year so they couldn’t cover everything. Particularly, were there any that in your opinion were inexplicably skipped in favor of far less worth entries?
There were MAD spoofs of two Wes Anderson films (“Flushmore” and “The Royal Paininthebums”), but none after that. I would have liked to see their take on Moonrise Kingdom or The Grand Budapest Hotel…
I’ll confine myself to television shows. I presume that you don’t want to include non-American television shows. I presume that you don’t want to include shows that ended before Mad began in 1952 or began after Mad ended in 2018. I presume that you don’t want to include non-fiction shows like news programs and game shows. I presume that you don’t want to include animation shows. I presume that you don’t want to include programs that are strictly for children. I presume that you don’t want to include anthology drama shows (which were common in the 1940s to 1960s). I presume that you don’t want to include shows that consisted mostly of comedy sketches. I presume that you don’t want to include shows that were mostly collections of videos shot by viewers and sent in. I presume that you don’t want to include talk shows.
So look at this website and pick which ones you would include:
The Munsters but not The Addams Family?
They probably respected The Addams Family.
Though they did spoof the film adaptation (as “The Adnauseam Family”).
I don’t see Avatar in that list. Huge and eminently spoofable.
Parks and Recreation, but not The Office.
Here’s an interview where a MAD editor explains why they never spoofed Philadelphia or Schindler’s List (as if that needed explaining):
I think Bewitched (the TV show) is missing from the list.
Crazy to see them so sometimes multiple film parodies a month in the 70s, 80s, and 90s then in the late 2000s they just kind of give up and there’s an entire year of no movie parodies.
And what’s with all the spoofs of 50s and 60s TV shows between 1985 and 1987? Did they run out of contemporary shows to spoof?
ISTR that Sergio Aragones did a series of Avatar vignettes.
Yeah even if they didn’t do a full on plot parody of a movie you would get the occasional “A Mad Look At” or one shot movie parodies. They never did a The Thing multi-page parody but I do remember a two page spread where all of Kurt Russells characters met each other and The Thing Kurt Russel was among them with his own jokes.
It Takes a Crook, Manneccch, and Jugg for the Defensive (December 1968) were all stripped “mini-satires.” IIRC, they took up just one spread, 1–2–3, from top to bottom.
Are you aware that there’s a YouTube collected video website that contains (at the moment) 79 of the Mad issues, which you can find at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM80arr3uis&list=UULFWNpSnqe2J7CSporj1ElSRQ ?
There was another trio of shorter than usual satires, a page or two for each, in the Eighties when I was a subscriber. Pretty sure I still have that issue somewhere.
Second Question (rather than start a new thread).
Was Alfred E. Neuman ever assigned an official IQ score (possibly in the negative number range)?