Sorry for digging this thread up but somehow I missed it when it was fresh. Just wanted to add that I too grew up on MAD Magazine, the classic original American ones to the watered-down UK versions that we were given. If it wasn't for specialist comic retailers I'd have assumed that MAD was bought out or something. I've even changed my religious views in the mag's honour.
One thing I learned when I got my own internet was that nobody knows where Alfred E Neuman came from, or at least his face. The origins of the iconic picture are lost in the mists of time; his face seems to crop up at various points in history, rather like Pennywise the clown from Stephen King's IT.
I have to say I've been a little disappointed with the TV version in the past. Not saying it's not funny, just that by the time I found it I'd been spoiled by other similar comedy shows, plus to me it was as if someone had stuck the label MAD onto a completely unrelated animal. To completely contradict everything I just said, here's one of the funniest clips I've seen from the show (shame the title and intro give the game away):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftgmdRlDkko?rel-0
One thing I learned when I got my own internet was that nobody knows where Alfred E Neuman came from, or at least his face. The origins of the iconic picture are lost in the mists of time; his face seems to crop up at various points in history, rather like Pennywise the clown from Stephen King's IT.
I have to say I've been a little disappointed with the TV version in the past. Not saying it's not funny, just that by the time I found it I'd been spoiled by other similar comedy shows, plus to me it was as if someone had stuck the label MAD onto a completely unrelated animal. To completely contradict everything I just said, here's one of the funniest clips I've seen from the show (shame the title and intro give the game away):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftgmdRlDkko?rel-0
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
