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.

" 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.

* Mad Revisionist: A parody site on historical revisionism

In 1966, he semi-anonymously provided the lyric for " The Boy From ...", a parody of " The Girl from Ipanema ", a highlight of the off-Broadway revue The Mad Show.

* The Mad Show ( 1966 ) ( music mostly by Mary Rodgers ; lyrics mostly by Marshall Barer ) wrote the lyric for " The Boy From ...", a parody of " The Girl from Ipanema ".

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

The artist's lightweight gags and sometimes moralistic tone were roughly satirized by the National Lampoons 1971 Mad parody, which included a hard-hatted conservative and a longhaired hippie finding their only common ground by choking and beating Berg.

It was later used in the Enid Blyton parody Five Go Mad in Dorset and in a number of British TV adverts, including a Captain Sensible spot.

* Tigger has appeared in the Mad episode " Pooh Grit " ( a parody of True Grit ), where Christopher Robin hires Marshall Pooh to capture Tigger after he bounced his father.

* Mad Scientist: Another monster parody, this time with an evil scientist ( Morgan Freeman ) and his assistant Igor ( Luis Avalos ), who tried to read words associated with their experiments.

The Mad Magazine parody of the film was titled " Henna and Her Sickos ".

The back cover of the album contains a parody picture of the band drawn by Mort Drucker, a caricaturist best known for his artwork in Mad Magazine.

A parody of the film, " Being Not All There ", was published in Mad magazine.

The December 1970 issue of Mad magazine included a parody of Ironside titled " Ironride ".

A Mad Magazine cover parody on regular issue # 362, October 1997 shows a gun being pointed at a virtual pet and the line " If you don't buy this magazine, we'll kill this virtual pet!

The first episode was " Five Go Mad in Dorset ", a parody of The Famous Five.

* Homer Simpson performs a parody of the song in The Simpsons episode " Diatribe of a Mad Housewife ".

Potrzebie was first used in a story in Mad 11 ( May 1954 ), where it was the exclamation of a character who spoke only in foreign languages and song lyrics, in " Murder the Story ," a parody illustrated by Jack Davis.

Cesana's show was subjected to many parodies, including Mad magazine's " The Countynental " ( which was also the name used in a parody by Ernie Kovacs ), Red Skelton's " The Transcontinental ", and Floyd Vivino's " Ricardo Romantico.

Vaseline Warriors: Mad Max parody.

* Mad TV also featured a parody poking fun at Gillette's Mach3 line of products.

* Captain Klutz, comic strip superhero parody of Mad Magazine

Numerous other parody stickers can be found featuring different pop culture figures, including the Homestar Runner character Strong Mad.

A parody of the film titled Fantastecch Voyage was published in Mad Magazine.

Aside from Eugene Onegin, Hofstadter has translated many other poems ( always respecting their formal constraints ), and two other novels ( in prose ): La Chamade ( That Mad Ache ) by French writer Françoise Sagan, and La Scoperta dell ' Alba ( The Discovery of Dawn ) by Walter Veltroni, the then head of the Partito Democratico in Italy.

The term Mad Robin comes from the name of a dance which has the move.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ), with support from the TSE ( Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy ) Advisory Committee, has since 1997 been monitoring the potential risk of transmitting animal diseases, especially bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ), commonly known as Mad Cow disease.

Simpsons producer Bill Oakley said, " The Simpsons has transplanted Mad magazine.

Mad has provided an ongoing showcase for many long-running satirical writers and artists and has fostered an unusual group loyalty.

In several cases, only infirmity or death has ended a contributor's run at Mad.

Mad has been criticized for its over-reliance on a core group of aging regulars throughout the 1970s and 1980s and then criticized again for an alleged downturn as those same creators began to leave, die, retire or contribute less frequently.

It has been proposed that Mad is more susceptible to this criticism than many media because a sizable percentage of its readership turns over regularly as it ages, as Mad focuses greatly on current events and a changing popular culture.

' ... And many people say ' I used to read Mad, but Mad has changed a lot.

" The magazine's art director, Sam Viviano, has suggested that historically, Mad was at its best " whenever you first started reading it.

Mad contributor Tom Richmond has tweaked critics who say the magazine's decision to accept advertising would make late publisher William Gaines " turn over in his grave ", pointing out this was impossible because Gaines was cremated.

Mad has been published in local versions in many countries, beginning with the United Kingdom in 1959, and Sweden in 1960.

However, the sensibility of the American Mad has not always translated to other cultures, and many of the foreign editions have had short lives or interrupted publications.

Mad has had many imitators through the years.

Over the years, Mad has branched out from print into other media.

Mad has sponsored or inspired a number of recordings.

In 1959, Bernie Green " with the Stereo Mad-Men " recorded the album Musically Mad for RCA Victor, featuring music inspired by Mad and an image of Alfred E. Neuman on the cover ; it has been reissued on CD.

The cartoonist has a featured section in every issue called " A Mad Look At ....", featuring 2-4 pages of speechless comic strips, all related to the same subject.

However, Aragonés has provided marginals for every issue of Mad since 1963 except one ( his contributions to that issue were lost by the Post Office ).

He has won Shazam Awards for Best Inker ( Humor Division ) in 1972 for his work on Mad Magazine, and for Best Humor Story in 1972 for " The Poster Plague " from House of Mystery # 202 ( with Steve Skeates ).