Harvey Kurtzman and Wally Wood satirized the strip in Mad as " Little Orphan Melvin ", and later Kurtzman produced a long-running series for Playboy, Little Annie Fanny, in which the lead character is a busty, voluptuous waif who continually loses her clothes and falls into strange sexual situations.

They put out one percussive post-punk album, Mad Orphan ( 109 Records ), in 1988.

The comic was retooled where the male Candide type character of Goodman Beaver was transformed into the ultra-bosomy and leggy female, Annie Fanny-a parady of Little Orphan Annie-something that was dones years before in Mad magazine. Annie was also a mixture of Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and blondes of the era.

Fearless Fosdick — and Capp's other spoofs like " Little Fanny Gooney " ( 1952 ) and " Jack Jawbreaker "— were almost certainly an early inspiration for Harvey Kurtzman's Mad Magazine, which began in 1952 as a comic book that specifically parodied other comics in the same distinctive style and subversive manner.

Over the next five decades, he created covers for numerous books and magazines, notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog ; Mad magazine ( for whom he painted many early covers featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman ) from 1958 to 1962 ( he started at Mad in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine's new cover artist ; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 ); cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books ( which are now collectors ' items ), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone.

In the early 1960s, the Mad office moved to 485 Madison Avenue, a location given in the magazine as " 485 MADison Avenue ".

Its approach was described by Dave Kehr in The New York Times: " Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding on the radio, Ernie Kovacs on television, Stan Freberg on records, Harvey Kurtzman in the early issues of Mad: all of those pioneering humorists and many others realized that the real world mattered less to people than the sea of sounds and images that the ever more powerful mass media were pumping into American lives.

" A number of original recordings also were released in this way in the 1970s and early 1980s, such as " Gall in the Family Fare " ( a parody of All in the Family ), a single entitled " Makin ' Out ," the octuple-grooved track " It's a Super Spectacular Day ," which had eight possible endings, the spoken word Meet the Staff insert, and a six-track, 30-minute Mad Disco EP ( from the 1980 Special of the same title ) that included a disco version of " It's a Gas.

Artists like Mad Lion grew in popularity during this early 90's trend, exemplified by his crossing from reggae to hip-hop culture.

Memphis has been represented by several now-defunct professional sports franchises, including the Memphis Pharaohs of Arena Football, the Memphis Maniax of the XFL, the Memphis Xplorers of the AF2, the Memphis Showboats of the USFL, the Memphis Southmen of the WFL, the Memphis Houn ' Dawgs of the ABA, the Memphis Sounds of the original ABA in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the Memphis Mad Dogs of the CFL.

Regarding his early influences in film critiquing, Ebert wrote in the 1998 parody collection Mad About the Movies:

An early 17th century broadside ballad, " The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow "— which is so deft and literate it has been taken for the work of Ben Jonson — describes Puck / Robin Goodfellow as the emissary of Oberon, the Faery King, inspiring night-terrors in old women but also carding their wool while they sleep, leading travellers astray, taking the shape of animals, blowing out the candles to kiss the girls in the darkness, twitching off their bedclothes, or making them fall out of bed on the cold floor, tattling secrets, and changing babes in cradles with elflings.

Weaver was a contributor to the early Mad, as described by Times Richard Corliss:

The film of the Woodstock Festival, and the various concert films that were made during the early 1970s, such as Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen and Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii concert film used rhythmic cross-cutting.

It was named after an early Army fortification, Fort Defiance, which was named that by Mad Anthony Wayne to signify the settler's " defiance " of the Indians.

Durante continued his film appearances through It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and television appearances through the early 1970s.

Although Mad was sold in the early 1960s for tax reasons, Gaines remained as publisher until the day he died and served as a buffer between the magazine and its corporate interests.

Originally headed by Louis " Lepke " Buchalter, and later by Albert " The Mad Hatter " Anastasia, Murder, Inc. was responsible for between 400 and 1, 000 contract killings, until the group was exposed in the early 1940s by informer and group member Abe " Kid Twist " Reles.

In a 1995 episode of the sitcom Mad About You, Carl Reiner reprised the role of Alan Brady, appearing in a documentary by Paul Buchmann ( Paul Reiser ) about the early days of television.

There was also insanity in Charles's family ; his great-great-great (- great-great, depending along which lineage one counts ) grandmother, Queen Joanna of Castile, became insane early in life and became known as " Joanna the Mad "; however, the degree to which her " madness " was induced by circumstances of her confinement and political intrigues targeting her is debated.

Similarities between Li ' l Abner and the early Mad include the incongruous use of mock-Yiddish slang terms, the nose-thumbing disdain for pop culture icons, the rampant black humor, the dearth of sentiment and the broad visual styling.

Bockwinkel faced numerous challengers for the title during the early 1980s including eventual champions Rick Martel and Otto Wanz, former champion Mad Dog Vachon, and perennial contenders Wahoo McDaniel, and Brad Rheingans, but perhaps his most famous opponent would go on to become arguably the greatest superstar in wrestling history.

SNK also released Gladiator 1984, an early horse racing game, and Mad Crasher, an early futuristic racing game, where the player drives a futuristic motorbike along diagonal-scrolling futuristic roads suspended in mid-air, while leaping across gaps, shooting other cars, and getting bonuses and power-ups.

The song's title derives from the line " when two great warrior tribes go to war ", from the film Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior ( the line is also spoken by Holly Johnson at the beginning of the session version ).

In 1990 Franco Zeffirelli, whose Shakespeare films have been described as " sensual rather than cerebral ", cast Mel Gibson — then famous for the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon movies — in the title role of his 1990 version, and Glenn Close — then famous as the psychotic " other woman " in Fatal Attraction — as Gertrude.

Mad has since relaxed its requirements, and while the U. S. version still eschews overt profanity, the magazine generally poses no objections to more provocative content such as the Swedish edition's 1999 parody of the film Fucking Åmål.

The Mad Magazine Game was an absurdist version of Monopoly in which the first player to lose all his money and go bankrupt was the winner.

It was such a commercial debacle and critical failure that Mad successfully arranged for all references to the magazine ( including a cameo by Alfred E. Neuman ) to be removed from future TV and video releases of the film, although those references were eventually restored on the DVD version.

A dub version, No Protection, was released the following year by Mad Professor.

Hughes issued a recut version of the film in 1951 through RKO under the title Mad Wednesday.

' Didi manages to eat from street vendors, run into a number of people including a megalomaniac known only as " The Eremite " ( not overtly stated, but implied to be an alternate future version of Mister E, after his return from the end of time at Death's hands in the original Books of Magic miniseries ), and a British woman named Mad Hettie who is looking for her heart.

This version of the character was also a semi-regular on Bonkers and one of the guests in House of Mouse, often seen seated with the Mad Hatter.

She played herself in the film Mad Cows and an episode of Footballers Wives, has acted in a film version of An Ideal Husband and was for a period the face of Walkers Crisps replacing Victoria Beckham.

Earlier releases consisted of single episodes on VHS ( double episodes in the UK and some countries, edited together into " movie " format ; later in the UK, a selection of first and season episodes were released by Playback on both VHS and DVD ), most notably a United Kingdom 18 certificate cut of the pilot episode, presented as a standalone film ( reshuffling and reworking many scenes, and removing much of the continuity ties with the following series, as well as incorporating footage from the first season episode " Mad Over Miami ", and with profanity that was not present in the aired version ).

In 1996, a live version of " River of Deceit " surfaced on the Bite Back: Live at Crocodile Cafe compilation album, although by this time Mad Season had long been dormant from live work as McCready and Martin went back to work with their respective bands and Saunders joined The Walkabouts.

* Jolie Holland recorded a version of Maudlin's song titled " Mad Tom of Bedlam " on her 2004 album Escondida.

Terry soon comes to develop his own rogues gallery: the seductive shape-shifter Inque ; the hypnotist Spellbinder ; the bitter, deaf sound expert Shriek ; the deadly assassin Curare ; the insane terrorist Mad Stan ; the cybernetically-enhanced African big game hunter Stalker ; the nerdy psychokinetic Willie Watt ; a new version of the Royal Flush Gang ; and the Jokerz, a gang idolizing the notorious Clown Prince of Crime.

* Prominent obbligato writing for flute in particular is not unusual in Romantic opera, for example in the cadenza of the traditional version of the Mad Scene in Lucia di Lammermoor ( 1835 )

The commercial version of Racter could be likened to a computerized version of Mad Libs, the game in which you fill in the blanks in advance and then plug them into a text template to produce a surrealistic tale.

A typical appearance of the word is exemplified by the Mad version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales ( from Mad 43, December 1958 ), which begins:

The claim that al-Hakim was mad and the version of events around him is disputed as mere propaganda by some scholars, such as Willi Frischaue who states " His enemies called him the ' Mad Caliph ' but he enhanced Cairo's reputation as a centre of civilization.

After finding funding from the same investors responsible for funding Mad Max, production of a big screen version of the movie began.

The storyline was revamped, with the 1980s present-day setting in the original version replaced by a Mad Max-inspired post apocalyptic future world, and the protagonist Kenshiro, originally a high school student in Hara's earlier story, became an older and more stoic hero inspired by Bruce Lee.

* An aged version of Mad Hatter appears in the first issue of the 2010 Batman Beyond limited series.

** AHistory: An Unofficial History of the Doctor Who Universe ( 2006 ; revised and vastly expanded version of A History of the Universe ; Mad Norwegian Press )