I remember Cracked Magazine is what damaged Mad Magazine. Cracked dwelled down in the cellar, reeling kids in on burping and passing gas comedy. Some of it was funny. Overall lacking cerebral challenge mostly, but easy enough that Mad got diluted and deleted. In retrospect, it was a bigger deal than I understood then. I remember very clearly thinking "Oh, Mad requires too much words reading, oh look, Cracked has bathroom humor and cartoon low cut tops ladies, woohoo!" We are our own worst enemies apparently.
I learned SO much about the world at large through Mad magazine. In fact, whenever my girlfriend and I are watching TV and I interject some historical fact, I ask her "And you know where I learned about THAT?" And she faithfully responds, "Mad magazine."
It's a different time. I'm around a lot of young folks and they collect the old stuff like Mad and Cracked, including the music. They also like the contemporary independent comics and zines that are out now. Many of them make their own. Japanese manga and graphic novels are popular, too. If satire is still important to you the Onion is one publication good for that. Life goes on.
@@brentad2004Mad Magazine is still around... I literally have a current subscription. I also collect old issues, and no, it's not "a watered down version". It's just as good as it was back then.
I'm 65 and if Mad Magazine was still in print today, I would still be buying it. It was one of the greatest memories of my youth. It was a magazine I bought faithfully every month. And I remember finally getting to the back cover after reading it there was a picture that you would Tri fold to make into a different picture. The best Classic Magazine that ever existed.
The re-run era of the 1980s never played this. But wild so many of us are seeing this 1974 masterpiece for the first time, exactly half a century later.
Originally scheduled to be shown on ABC in the fall of 1973. However, there were complaints from too many potential sponsors that the satire and parodies featured in the special were "offensive" to them [including the "Automobile Manufacturer of the Year" segment, which eliminated any interest from car manufacturers]--- in short, NO ONE wanted to be associated with it. So the network "postponed" it......and finally dumped it altogether. A small portion of the "Godfather" parody *was* seen on Barbara Feldon's 1977 syndicated series, "SPECIAL EDITION".
@@Elvusmiw Those blank slugs were there to superimpose sponsors on the fly, usually by Master Control at the local station. Keying IDs, local vendors for products like drug store names, and lower thirds etc. were very common.
The MadTV that everybody actually wanted to see haha. I mean, I did enjoy MadTV as a kid & all, but it certainly couldn't hold a candle to the MAD Magazine legacy whatsoever.
@@MicahMicahel When did Cartoon Network have their MAD show on? From 2010 to 2013 I believe -- and if you just type "CN MAD" into the search bar, I think you'll find that many of the 100+ 15-minute episodes are viewable here on RUclips. In one of them I think they even re-animated the same Don Martin rubber duck gag that's in the special!
@@MicahMicahel CN's MAD ran from 2010-2013. However, Laugh-In producer George Schlatter has just started posting the New Laugh-In shows from 1978 here on RUclips and they feature cartoons *and* live appearances by MAD's Sergio Aragones!
I think you are right. There was a serious article in The New Republic years ago that talked about how Mad Magazine taught an entire generation about sarcasm. I never saw Mad TV so I can’t comment on that. I still love the Alfred E. Newman, “What, me worry?” image. It was so perfect.
I get that they were probably just making space for local sponsorships, but the funniest part of the whole thing was, "The Mad Magazine TV Special was brought to you by," and then just a long, awkward silence.
The pause is so the sponsor can be inserted. But this was a pilot that never aired. So, it never got a sponsor. Plus, in the early 1970s, syndicated copies of any show were on 16mm film like this one. They would also exclude sponsor messages. So, local channels could get their own sponsors.
My sister and her husband went to some meet and greet, and got signed caricatures of themselves from Mort Drucker. I can't believe how lucky they were.
That first skit is absolutely spot on. In 1977 and 1979 My first two cars were a 72 Ford LTD and 74 Mercury Comet. 5 and 7 years old and they were absolutely trash. Today a 5 to 7 year old car is considered a solid, decent car. In the 70's a 5 to 7 year old was ready to the junk yard. Thanks to the Japanese, U.S. automakers were forced to build better to compete
we moved here in the 80s, someone explained that 74 was the year manufs started building in obsolescence/fallapart. i remember those $2-$3k car prices on the price is right tho.
I found a bunch of old MAD magazines from the mid-70's to the early 90's in a box in my storage room a few months back. I spent more than a week reading the old issues and laughing until my ribs ached. I wish MAD was still published. It was clever, filled with razor-sharp wit, and downright hysterical!
You're the same age as me! This is crazy good to have come out the year I was born! It has the vibe of the time period but somehow the production seems far better than I would have expected.
@@jnnxI don't think one man can do an entire animated segment by himself. But I remember the satire from the magazine. The word they weren't supposed to use was "mafia". Seems like the same strong arming that prevented it from being used in the movie, also prevented them from using it in this TV special, but changing it to "syndicate" loses the entire point. And the singer "Johnny Fontaine" became "Johnny Fonatra," a hint at which singer he supposedly was based on.
Me too. After I came back to my parents' place one time in my 20s I found out my mother threw them away because she thought I didn't want them anymore. I didn't speak to her for 2 years!
I had never heard of this -- and I was the biggest Mad fan out there. My whole family devoured the magazine and I bought a lot of the books. This was an amazing program. The pace moved just like a magazine issue, particularly the Behind the Scenes at a Hospital. And the animation style was brilliant.
i used to subscribe to MAD in 74, and remember the Oddfather. (and, 6 Millions Dollars, Man!)nice to revisit it! Man, i wish i'd saved all the issues I had. Thanks for the post.
Yeah why didn't you? What were you thinking? Were you making room for National Geographic? Sorry I couldn't resist?😂 I have an issue from 1987. Big whoopie.
@@scottmcdonald7577 hey I'm 66 and I had a stack I think I had 112 with them I didn't have any of the 50s comic book style before it became more like the magazine somebody stole them
@@VilaToro64 Accurate it indeed was, though of course it also was exaggerated for satirical effect. But how could it be prophetic when that sh!t was already happening?!? The only "prophets" involved were the enormous profits rolling into the pockets of the car company CEOs (Conspirators of Early Obsolescence)...
I never hear about "Cracked" magazine anymore! It was so popular among kids in the 70's and was available at every news stand, too bad it never got the popularity it deserved!
Gracias por recuperar esta obra de entretenimiento que se creía Lost Media. No sabia que Mad tuvo una adaptación animada anterior a la adaptación mas reciente que hubo en Cartoon Network
I remember finding copies of Mad comics when I was a kid growing up in the 70s in my parent's collections & being really impressed with the artwork, nice to see the animation & great comedy satire 😅👍
I saw the Godfather segment and now some 50 years later! I couldn't believe how great it was! I had a neighbor who loved Mad and i told him about it and he had missed seeing the show. I remember being slightly frustrated because I knew I'd never see this again!! And here we are!
@@Rjensen2 The Oddfather segment apparently was on a Barbara Feldon TV show in 1977 which is when I would have seen it, so only 47 years later and it makes sense because that's the only part I remembered.
I only had a couple of precious mad magazines as a kid. I read them over and over. Was also a faithful MadTV watcher. The neverending wedding Congo Line was my favorite sketch. The nursing/hospital pieces are brutal and still relevant.
@@Wachuma-icp99 Gotta love the segment 10:50 - 11:12 ! 😁👍 But unfortunately, probably one of the few reasons this special *hasn't* been re-run on almost any station up to this point. I can just imagine how all the "woke" / "p.c." idiots would jump all over it in protest!! 😱
TRIVIA: The HEIGHT of MAD's readership was .. 1973. So to all you 1973 MAD readers . Salute ! (I was a MAD reader 1971- 1979) . My favorites MAD issues were the Planet of the Apes , The Poseidon Adventure and the Towering Inferno.
I was an avid reader of MAD Magazine back in the 70's when I was a kid, in fact I have had the issue where Mort Drucker makes the parody of The Godfather as The Oddfather, as we can see on this special. I never realized that there was an animated episode of one of my favorite magazines, that probably sounds odd, but I used to buy here in Mexico City, where there was a vast amount of fans of that magazine, and yes the version in English, because in late 70's early 80's there were an Spanish version with local characters that was frankly bad. Thanks for sharing this great video! Greetings from Mexico City.
We kids were spending so much time reading MAD and CRACKED that Mom finally took the whole stack of them and tossed them into the fireplace. Yeah, we cried. I can't imagine how much those would be worth nowadays (this was in the early 70s).
Boy when I was young I adored MAD! Even today I have a good sized collection, but theres one thing.....Does anyone remember "Cracked" magazine? It was another MAD mag clone with a janitor as it`s mascot. I loved reading that too, but MAD is still my favorite magazine, period.
I always remember their parody of the movie trading places which they called trading races and the Clint Eastwood movie sudden impact which became sudden random violence. What a great magazine it was.
Wow, this takes me back some years. Back in the seventies there was a lady who was a friend of my mum and dad that bought mad magazines. I think her son liked them as well
I have the original Mad comics before they turned into a magazine. I was a long time subscriber. I have all the EC hardback sets. And yet I had never heard of this special until today. Thanks for the upload!
My sister was subcribed to the mad magazine late 80-ties and early 90-ties. Although we are dutch she preferred the english version because the dutch translation was too lame. This animated version really captured the style and feel of the magazine, cool to see it coming to life.
Amazing! About the same year of 1974 I got my first and only copy of MAD Magazine in Moscow, USSR from a group of US school students whom I met there as student guide. It was fun and I'm sorry I didn't keep it until now.
My cousin's used to have subscriptions to mad magazine's back in the 70s ... They loved the spy vs spy version the most... They are no longer here but this brings back a lot of fond memories😊
I am from The Netherlands and I remember my father came home from work one day when I was a kid and bought us the Mad Magazine boardgame. Like a backwards Monopoly aim to get rid of your money as fast as possible. My sis and I are way 50 now and we still remember this game to this day for it idiot gameplay, we had so much fun with it.
When I was a little boy my mom said she would buy me a mad magazine if I behaved myself during grocery shopping. Of course I just couldn't, so I'd have to steal them everytime.
I grew up with mad magazine and it was awesome I had a friend whose girlfriend worked for them and I used to get a box full of books and magazines every month from them awesome I love the show wasn't so good that they did originally only thing I like about it was the spy versus spy that was always my favorite in the magazine anywhere so many memories thank you so much for showing this
I had this edition of MAD magazine when I was a kid. They left a few lines out of 'The Oddfather' like when Michael says to Sollozo, "I gotta take a pistol." One of my biggest regrets is getting rid of my collection. Bigger yet is that I never owned a subscription. MAD was the greatest use of print media, ever.
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Best part about RUclips is coming across stuff like this.
Definitely
The death of mad magazine is the death of educating children on sarcasm and satire.
I remember Cracked Magazine is what damaged Mad Magazine. Cracked dwelled down in the cellar, reeling kids in on burping and passing gas comedy. Some of it was funny. Overall lacking cerebral challenge mostly, but easy enough that Mad got diluted and deleted. In retrospect, it was a bigger deal than I understood then. I remember very clearly thinking "Oh, Mad requires too much words reading, oh look, Cracked has bathroom humor and cartoon low cut tops ladies, woohoo!"
We are our own worst enemies apparently.
I learned SO much about the world at large through Mad magazine. In fact, whenever my girlfriend and I are watching TV and I interject some historical fact, I ask her "And you know where I learned about THAT?"
And she faithfully responds, "Mad magazine."
No it's not, old fart. Things change. Get over it.
It's a different time. I'm around a lot of young folks and they collect the old stuff like Mad and Cracked, including the music. They also like the contemporary independent comics and zines that are out now. Many of them make their own. Japanese manga and graphic novels are popular, too. If satire is still important to you the Onion is one publication good for that. Life goes on.
@@brentad2004Mad Magazine is still around... I literally have a current subscription. I also collect old issues, and no, it's not "a watered down version". It's just as good as it was back then.
We were denied so much potential
An actual MAD TV before there was a MAD TV
Too bad it’s super boring
You're super boring
It's practically lifted from the magazine comics of the time. :)
What's this 'we' shit? 🤣
Collective We shit
I'm 65 and if Mad Magazine was still in print today, I would still be buying it. It was one of the greatest memories of my youth. It was a magazine I bought faithfully every month. And I remember finally getting to the back cover after reading it there was a picture that you would Tri fold to make into a different picture. The best Classic Magazine that ever existed.
it's still in print
@@Gravydog316 they are reprints. No new content.
Agreed
It's still in print
It just got canceled
50 years and the humor is still relevant and hilarious. I miss MAD magazine.
The Oddfather in particular reminded me of someone. Forgot his name though, because he's soon to be irrelevant. 💙
Don't worry. They're still publishing seasonal compilations with old material. MAD will always be around,in one form or another.
The re-run era of the 1980s never played this. But wild so many of us are seeing this 1974 masterpiece for the first time, exactly half a century later.
Re-run era lol. It never fucking ran, illiterate.
Originally scheduled to be shown on ABC in the fall of 1973. However, there were complaints from too many potential sponsors that the satire and parodies featured in the special were "offensive" to them [including the "Automobile Manufacturer of the Year" segment, which eliminated any interest from car manufacturers]--- in short, NO ONE wanted to be associated with it. So the network "postponed" it......and finally dumped it altogether. A small portion of the "Godfather" parody *was* seen on Barbara Feldon's 1977 syndicated series, "SPECIAL EDITION".
Is that why there was a blank silence with the sponsors at the beginning
YES!
@@Elvusmiw No, that space is left for an announcer to fill in for the various different airings or different stations running the show...
@@KenLieck
You're both right. Think about it.
@@Elvusmiw Those blank slugs were there to superimpose sponsors on the fly, usually by Master Control at the local station. Keying IDs, local vendors for products like drug store names, and lower thirds etc. were very common.
The MadTV that everybody actually wanted to see haha. I mean, I did enjoy MadTV as a kid & all, but it certainly couldn't hold a candle to the MAD Magazine legacy whatsoever.
Did you ever watch Cartoon Network's MAD? That was *much* better!
@@KenLieck when was that? This group of illustrators in the 1970s were really great.
@@MicahMicahel When did Cartoon Network have their MAD show on? From 2010 to 2013 I believe -- and if you just type "CN MAD" into the search bar, I think you'll find that many of the 100+ 15-minute episodes are viewable here on RUclips. In one of them I think they even re-animated the same Don Martin rubber duck gag that's in the special!
@@MicahMicahel CN's MAD ran from 2010-2013. However, Laugh-In producer George Schlatter has just started posting the New Laugh-In shows from 1978 here on RUclips and they feature cartoons *and* live appearances by MAD's Sergio Aragones!
I think you are right. There was a serious article in The New Republic years ago that talked about how Mad Magazine taught an entire generation about sarcasm. I never saw Mad TV so I can’t comment on that. I still love the Alfred E. Newman, “What, me worry?” image. It was so perfect.
I get that they were probably just making space for local sponsorships, but the funniest part of the whole thing was, "The Mad Magazine TV Special was brought to you by," and then just a long, awkward silence.
What? No but seriously...what?! 🤣
No, that pause was the joke.
Yikes... 😏😆
The pause is so the sponsor can be inserted. But this was a pilot that never aired. So, it never got a sponsor. Plus, in the early 1970s, syndicated copies of any show were on 16mm film like this one. They would also exclude sponsor messages. So, local channels could get their own sponsors.
@@permanentmajority2024 The pause is the joke... they could not get sponsors to insert into the pause.
Mort Drucker was the caricature king.
Loved his movie spoofs. The writing was really good..
My sister and her husband went to some meet and greet, and got signed caricatures of themselves from Mort Drucker. I can't believe how lucky they were.
14:06-14:22 My favorite part of the whole special
Me too. The rest of it was a disappointment, and the voice actors were sloppy.
Bullit
Most replayed is SPY VS SPY
I loved Mad magazine as a kid.Had a nice little stack of them.Thats how I got my education.
Our formative years!!
@@kevinsmith9502 Our formative education years couldn't have been any funnier. I was brought to tears so many times, in the classroom of MAD.
That first skit is absolutely spot on. In 1977 and 1979 My first two cars were a 72 Ford LTD and 74 Mercury Comet. 5 and 7 years old and they were absolutely trash. Today a 5 to 7 year old car is considered a solid, decent car. In the 70's a 5 to 7 year old was ready to the junk yard.
Thanks to the Japanese, U.S. automakers were forced to build better to compete
So long, Edsel Lemon.
They tried to get away with it.
we moved here in the 80s, someone explained that 74 was the year manufs started building in obsolescence/fallapart. i remember those $2-$3k car prices on the price is right tho.
@@atomictraveller
My parents bought a brand new 1976 Monza Town coupe (absolutely junk) for $4,200
My car is almost 20 years old. Still pretty solid, obviously it shows its age but its dependable. It's Japanese, of course.
The artwork is so great on this. It would have been a fun series.
I found a bunch of old MAD magazines from the mid-70's to the early 90's in a box in my storage room a few months back. I spent more than a week reading the old issues and laughing until my ribs ached. I wish MAD was still published. It was clever, filled with razor-sharp wit, and downright hysterical!
😲 Would you be interested and willing to sell some or all of those issues?
A great magazine until Bill Gaines passed.
I picked up a new special edition at the supermarket a couple months back.
I was shocked to see it.
@@styx53ocean you are one lucky individual to get a fun blast from the past. 😀👍
Never knew this existed. It’s as old as me! Thanks for uploading this.
You're older than dirt then? 🤣
i have seen this, but this is better quality
You're the same age as me! This is crazy good to have come out the year I was born! It has the vibe of the time period but somehow the production seems far better than I would have expected.
That Oddfather segment was amazing. They capture the art style so well.
20:27 that swinging kid obeys cartoon logic.
“Captured”? It’s pretty obvious it’s drawn by Mort Drucker.
The whole thing was fun..!
@@jnnxI don't think one man can do an entire animated segment by himself.
But I remember the satire from the magazine. The word they weren't supposed to use was "mafia". Seems like the same strong arming that prevented it from being used in the movie, also prevented them from using it in this TV special, but changing it to "syndicate" loses the entire point.
And the singer "Johnny Fontaine" became "Johnny Fonatra," a hint at which singer he supposedly was based on.
@@YngvarfoI remember the printed Oddfather too including a few of the jokes verbatim
what a glorious time capsule, beautiful.
as a young man my room littered with Mad, Cracked etc..
Thanks for posting this !!!
Same for me as a little boy. Both in heavy rotation, Alfred E. Newman and Sylvester P. Smyth ftw.
Me too. After I came back to my parents' place one time in my 20s I found out my mother threw them away because she thought I didn't want them anymore. I didn't speak to her for 2 years!
The word GLITCH!! meant stepping in a pile of dog crap back in the day in Mad magazine before it became a computer term ..
@@steelwheels327 cool fact
The WORST was SICK magazine. Do you remember that ???
I had never heard of this -- and I was the biggest Mad fan out there. My whole family devoured the magazine and I bought a lot of the books. This was an amazing program. The pace moved just like a magazine issue, particularly the Behind the Scenes at a Hospital. And the animation style was brilliant.
The hospital scene was ridiculous hahaha!!!wake the patient up so he can take his sleeping pills...I went WTF and starter chuckling 🤣
If they would have had these on when I was a kid I would have been hooked.
MAD was never the same after WIlliam Gaines passed. R.I.P
Very true.
This a fun watch. Thanks for preserving rare films.
i used to subscribe to MAD in 74, and remember the Oddfather. (and, 6 Millions Dollars, Man!)nice to revisit it! Man, i wish i'd saved all the issues I had. Thanks for the post.
Yeah why didn't you? What were you thinking? Were you making room for National Geographic? Sorry I couldn't resist?😂 I have an issue from 1987. Big whoopie.
Paper Moon...Addy kept sayin' " I WANT MY $200 DOLLARS" lol!
I actually remember reading a few of these gags in Mad paperbacks.
Would watch this as a weekly sitcom today... Better than a lot of what's on the air now.
I didn't know this was a thing until know and it makes me happy knowing that this s exactly what the internet exists for.
I loved MAD magazine when I was a kid back in the 70’s.
This was such a great special!
Thanks for posting it!
I loved THE LIGHTER SIDE...
I wonder, if Van Halen
& Valerie
Copied the Lighter side of clothing
They had a couple wearing the same thing, in 1974
The animation is actually fantastic
Still have old copies of Mad Magazine from my days as a young boy and teen. I'm now 66. Loved finding this on you tube.
@@scottmcdonald7577 hey I'm 66 and I had a stack I think I had 112 with them I didn't have any of the 50s comic book style before it became more like the magazine somebody stole them
The Detroit carmakers piece was so prophetic.
Dude who are you freaking telling!! No lie told
@@VilaToro64
Prophetic means foretelling.
You know? Like the prophets in the bible.
@FrankHeuvelman I'm agreeing with you man 🤣 I was just blown away how accurate it was
@@VilaToro64 Accurate it indeed was, though of course it also was exaggerated for satirical effect. But how could it be prophetic when that sh!t was already happening?!? The only "prophets" involved were the enormous profits rolling into the pockets of the car company CEOs (Conspirators of Early Obsolescence)...
@@FrankHeuvelman
There are TWO types of Prophecy. FORE-telling, and FORTH-telling.
I still remember sitting in the magazine rack a Bi-Lo when I was a kid, reading Mad Magazine and Cracked while my Mom shopped. Ah, the 1980's...
I never hear about "Cracked" magazine anymore! It was so popular among kids in the 70's and was available at every news stand, too bad it never got the popularity it deserved!
Gracias por recuperar esta obra de entretenimiento que se creía Lost Media. No sabia que Mad tuvo una adaptación animada anterior a la adaptación mas reciente que hubo en Cartoon Network
This really is a stunning piece of historical animation! Thank you so much for sharing this.
This might be my favorite find on RUclips ever. Amazing. I loved both mad and cracked as a kid. Great artist waxing satirical
I remember finding copies of Mad comics when I was a kid growing up in the 70s in my parent's collections & being really impressed with the artwork, nice to see the animation & great comedy satire 😅👍
How nice...in your opinion?! Just curious. Curious to see how obtuse you are. Bahahaha. No but seriously.
I saw the Godfather segment and now some 50 years later! I couldn't believe how great it was! I had a neighbor who loved Mad and i told him about it and he had missed seeing the show. I remember being slightly frustrated because I knew I'd never see this again!! And here we are!
😂😂😂
Sure you did... 👍
@@Rjensen2 The Oddfather segment apparently was on a Barbara Feldon TV show in 1977 which is when I would have seen it, so only 47 years later and it makes sense because that's the only part I remembered.
I thought I knew everything about Mad,,, my God how did I not know about this!!!!👍
Even had a live action movie, "Up the Academy" with a live action Alfred E. Newman!!!
Well, lets just figure it out then. Did you own a T.V? Lol! 🤣
@@dazwannawzad9272no they didnt!
@@dionst.michael1482 I had one I stole from my neighbor...
In an age in which communications technologies weren't as good as now, Mad Magazine was a really good way to learn about American culture.
I never knew this cartoon existed. It came out the same here I was born too. I read Mad Magazine and CarToons magazine as a kid.
I only had a couple of precious mad magazines as a kid. I read them over and over. Was also a faithful MadTV watcher. The neverending wedding Congo Line was my favorite sketch.
The nursing/hospital pieces are brutal and still relevant.
I loved MAD magazine!! Born in ‘68
I remember reading all of these in the magazine. Every one of them was in MAD.
Was they? Was every one them in MAD?! Tell us more 🥱
Well I hope they weren't in Cracked?
Even Tarzan selling his house? 😂😂
@@Wachuma-icp99 Gotta love the segment 10:50 - 11:12 ! 😁👍 But unfortunately, probably one of the few reasons this special *hasn't* been re-run on almost any station up to this point. I can just imagine how all the "woke" / "p.c." idiots would jump all over it in protest!! 😱
Lost gem i never got to see....beacause i was 1yr old. Long live MAD!!
The artists were incredible. I LOVE the style! Fascinating eye. The detail is intense foo ❤
As a kid growing up in the 60s, I loved mad magazine
The Oddfather sketch is so funny and well done. So is everything else.
I can’t believe I’m able to watch this
someone ought to put this show together now with all the 'greatest hits' pieces from past magazines
Should they? Should they oughtta?! 🤣
They cant, it'll offend too many people
TRIVIA: The HEIGHT of MAD's readership was .. 1973. So to all you 1973 MAD readers . Salute ! (I was a MAD reader 1971- 1979) . My favorites MAD issues were the Planet of the Apes , The Poseidon Adventure and the Towering Inferno.
I was an avid reader of MAD Magazine back in the 70's when I was a kid, in fact I have had the issue where Mort Drucker makes the parody of The Godfather as The Oddfather, as we can see on this special. I never realized that there was an animated episode of one of my favorite magazines, that probably sounds odd, but I used to buy here in Mexico City, where there was a vast amount of fans of that magazine, and yes the version in English, because in late 70's early 80's there were an Spanish version with local characters that was frankly bad. Thanks for sharing this great video! Greetings from Mexico City.
Greetings from Mississippi.
Mort Drucker and Al Jaffee were my jam!!!
Cmon! You can't read, can ya?! 😮
👋🤪
I had never known of this TV special either. It must have been syndicated, and perhaps it never made my city.
This is fantastic. Thank you for such a quality print transfer.
I have some of these in magazine form. So cool to see.
This is what Mad TV should have been. I always thought this should have existed!
I used to collect these magazines 😅
We kids were spending so much time reading MAD and CRACKED that Mom finally took the whole stack of them and tossed them into the fireplace. Yeah, we cried. I can't imagine how much those would be worth nowadays (this was in the early 70s).
I couldn't wait to do the back cover fold-in. So clever. So funny. I miss Mad and Alfred E Newman. What, me worry?
Boy when I was young I adored MAD! Even today I have a good sized collection, but theres one thing.....Does anyone remember "Cracked" magazine? It was another MAD mag clone with a janitor as it`s mascot. I loved reading that too, but MAD is still my favorite magazine, period.
Hunter loves Crack!
Lester P. Smith...
@@ericmikutaSylvester P. Smythe is the Cracked Magazine mascot.
Don't forget Crazy magazine,the other clone with a troll as the mascot.
@@reecedurabb Crazy eh? Is it American? Cause I`m up here in Canada and I`ve never heard of it.
This was awesome. I want to see more episodes! Looks like this would be on late night tv.
I never knew about this. I used to read Mad, Cracked and Crazy back in the 70s.
Cmon, you can't read, can ya?! 😂
@@dionst.michael1482 They taught me how to read.
I am the BIGGEST Mad magazine fan. I don't remember this. I really enjoyed watching. Thank you for posting this.
Wow, incredible upgrade in quality.
I always remember their parody of the movie trading places which they called trading races and the Clint Eastwood movie sudden impact which became sudden random violence. What a great magazine it was.
I think I read every issue of MAD magazine. I wish I still had them.
It’s amazing how ahead of its time it was.
This makes me think of the Heavy Metal movie from 1981
Does it? Do you think anyone cares? Lol!
Mad was my summer go to as a kid. I miss it.
Dave Berg, great artist.
😂 Oddfather. Beautiful film grain by the way.
Wow, this takes me back some years. Back in the seventies there was a lady who was a friend of my mum and dad that bought mad magazines. I think her son liked them as well
This is what MADtv should have been!
There were movies I first read in "Mad" that I didn't see till years or decades later... "Easy Rider" and "Marooned" among them!
"Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions" was mi jam😂👍
I have the original Mad comics before they turned into a magazine. I was a long time subscriber. I have all the EC hardback sets. And yet I had never heard of this special until today. Thanks for the upload!
My sister was subcribed to the mad magazine late 80-ties and early 90-ties. Although we are dutch she preferred the english version because the dutch translation was too lame. This animated version really captured the style and feel of the magazine, cool to see it coming to life.
Amazing! About the same year of 1974 I got my first and only copy of MAD Magazine in Moscow, USSR from a group of US school students whom I met there as student guide. It was fun and I'm sorry I didn't keep it until now.
those detailed faces are amazing and horrifying and cool... we've never even went that detailed anymore have we
This is so incredibly funny I was so lucky to grow up with the mags
it is weird seeing the magazine as a cartoon
I used to love this magazine when i was a kid.
My cousin's used to have subscriptions to mad magazine's back in the 70s ... They loved the spy vs spy version the most... They are no longer here but this brings back a lot of fond memories😊
Amazing this was mastered on film, must have been a lot of work.
If MadTV was like this I might’ve watched it more
Might ya have? Lol
I was disappointed that FOX's MAD TV departed from connections to the magazine and became an SNL knockoff.
@@kevinnelson66 I thought MadTV was only an Adult Swim show. At least the Cartoon Network show was as faithful to the magazine as possible.
I am from The Netherlands and I remember my father came home from work one day when I was a kid and bought us the Mad Magazine boardgame. Like a backwards Monopoly aim to get rid of your money as fast as possible. My sis and I are way 50 now and we still remember this game to this day for it idiot gameplay, we had so much fun with it.
Wow, I totally forgot about that game, I looked it up and when seeing the box cover I instantly remembered it.
Do you still have the game and if so do you still have the $1,329,063 bill that came with it? 🤪
10:50 I love the 70s / 80s DGAF honesty .
I love the nod to Bullitt and The French Connection in the middle of the Oddfather.
Perfect, since both those movies were illustrated in MAD spoofs by Mort Drucker as well.
Alfred E.Neuman for President
It's nice that others remember the Cartoon Network show.
Oh my God this was hilarious! I grew up an avid reader of MAD and have never seen this before! I was dying! 😂😂😂😭😭
I have seen all of this before. In print . really faithful adaptation!
The Oddfather segment is a gem. Looks great too.
My parents gave me their MAD magazines and garbage pail kids cards, it gave me a sense of humor. We have to bring MAD back
When I was a little boy my mom said she would buy me a mad magazine if I behaved myself during grocery shopping. Of course I just couldn't, so I'd have to steal them everytime.
Thank you for this. I enjoyed it. I was born in 1974. The "Oddfather" segment was pretty funny.
Fabulous!! Mad, Cracked and even Thimk 1958, like 8 issues. Roy
I grew up with mad magazine and it was awesome I had a friend whose girlfriend worked for them and I used to get a box full of books and magazines every month from them awesome I love the show wasn't so good that they did originally only thing I like about it was the spy versus spy that was always my favorite in the magazine anywhere so many memories thank you so much for showing this
Mad Magazine, The Simpsons, The Onion. Pinnacle of humor
National Lampoon’s???
Regardless whether you know anything about Mad, this is bat-guano crazy surreal.
Loved Spy Vs. Spy, and Don Martin. Oddfather 😄
I have never seen or heard of this!!! Thank you for the upload!!!
This is a treasure, thanks for sharing it! I especially love the groovy background music.
I had this edition of MAD magazine when I was a kid. They left a few lines out of 'The Oddfather' like when Michael says to Sollozo, "I gotta take a pistol." One of my biggest regrets is getting rid of my collection. Bigger yet is that I never owned a subscription. MAD was the greatest use of print media, ever.
This was amazing. More please! ❤