The Mad Magazine TV Special | 1974 | 16mm | 2K Scan
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Mark Kausler animated the ‘Spy vs Spy’ segment on this special. He managed to get a copy of the special on 16mm which is what we used to scan.
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An animated adaptation of the notorious satire comic magazine. The skits include a look at a modern American car factory, the inner workings of a hospital, a spoof of The Godfather (1972), Mad Magazine's X-Ray vision and Spy vs. Spy.
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Best part about UA-cam 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
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'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
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.
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. 💙
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
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.
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.
what a glorious time capsule, beautiful.
I loved Mad magazine as a kid.Had a nice little stack of them.Thats how I got my education.
Our formative years!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 UA-cam. 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 UA-cam 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.
The artwork is so great on this. It would have been a fun series.
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 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
This a fun watch. Thanks for preserving rare films.
This might be my favorite find on UA-cam ever. Amazing. I loved both mad and cracked as a kid. Great artist waxing satirical
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...
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.
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.
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 can’t believe I’m able to watch this
The animation is actually fantastic
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.
This really is a stunning piece of historical animation! Thank you so much for sharing this.
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 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!! 😱
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!
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.
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.
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 didn't know this was a thing until know and it makes me happy knowing that this s exactly what the internet exists for.
MAD was never the same after WIlliam Gaines passed. R.I.P
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.
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.
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.
it is weird seeing the magazine as a cartoon
This was awesome. I want to see more episodes! Looks like this would be on late night tv.
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
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?
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
very corny but perfect time capsule. thanks for posting this
Would watch this as a weekly sitcom today... Better than a lot of what's on the air now.
😂 Oddfather. Beautiful film grain by the way.
"Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions" was mi jam😂👍
I actually remember reading a few of these gags in Mad paperbacks.
I have some of these in magazine form. So cool to see.
This is so incredibly funny I was so lucky to grow up with the mags
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!
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? 🤪
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.
Mad was my summer go to as a kid. I miss it.
Ah yes, Mark Kausler doing the Spy Vs. Spy part. Surprised to see his animation just after seeing his animation on one of Chuck Jones' cartoons from 1980.
Yep, you can see how his early years went.
@@ChristopherSobieniak and then with him animating the Bugs Bunny scenes in "A Political Cartoon" released that same year this special was released (1974)
@@MasonTheOneLooneyDude He talked a lot about this here... animationguildblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/mark-kausler-chat-part-i.html
The anesthesiologist joke was hilarious. "Just drink this glass of whiskey and bite down on this bullet". The hospital clearly hired a cowboy for the job. 😆
They should definitely reboot this show, in this style.
Another one is Garry Larson's "Tales From the Far Side". You can watch some of that here on UA-cam, if you've never seen it.
It's classic "Far Side", animated.
Mad Magazine, The Simpsons, The Onion. Pinnacle of humor
National Lampoon’s???
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
Wow, incredible upgrade in quality.
Thank you for this. I enjoyed it. I was born in 1974. The "Oddfather" segment was pretty funny.
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 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.
"What makes America great"
The Oddfather sketch is so funny and well done. So is everything else.
I wish they put some Sergio Aragones' in the mix.
Would fit in nicely
This makes me think of the Heavy Metal movie from 1981
Does it? Do you think anyone cares? Lol!
Fabulous!! Mad, Cracked and even Thimk 1958, like 8 issues. Roy
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.
LOVE this. Really feels like MAD at its best
Excellent animation. Thanks for uploading ❤❤
Alfred E.Neuman for President
It's nice that others remember the Cartoon Network show.
Wow! I didnt realise Mad was 50 years old!
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!
The Car dealer calling Henry Ford a "commie radical" for cutting costs got me hard
I didnt feel that strongly about it, but it is right up there with calling somebody a Phillistine. Lol. I'm using it.
@@firstptr3and10_It works.
How 'hard' stud? 🤣
I really hope mvd rewind rings Warner brothers bell
Because now that the mad magazine tv special from the 70s got a 2k scan
I hope it gets the blu ray treatment
"Remember when we used to ring the bell & howl?"
Dave Berg, great artist.
This brought back some really great memories. Sitting around reading Mad Magazine and listening to Cheech and Chong albums. That was the cutting edge of satirical entertainment back then. Thank you for the memories. Cheers.
1:10 MAG! The first time and satirical.
7:05 that is hilarious! 😂😂😂
Cool! This was originally aired when I was -1 years old. 😁
Amazing this was mastered on film, must have been a lot of work.
10:48
It was the 70s.
I was born in 73, Mad was my whole youth ❤
I was born in '53, same here
There were movies I first read in "Mad" that I didn't see till years or decades later... "Easy Rider" and "Marooned" among them!
I loved MAD Magazine growing up in the 1970s.
I started reading it at age 10 in 1977 collecting every issue even vintage 50s-60s copies up until 1987. I moved out My Parents house and left them in My bedroom closet in a plastic bag planning to buy protective sleeves for each magazine.
Meanwhile, My Father took over My bedroom, moved My stuff out putting My stuff in various places in the house.
He ended up discarding My 10 year collection _(as well as vintage copies 1950s-60s an elderly neighbor gave Me.)_ in the garbage because he thought they was old Newspapers in the bag.
Telling Me after I came back after 5 months to get My stuff.
I was _🔥FLAMING 🔥*M.A.D.* 🔥_
This is what MADtv should have been!
This is incredible
This was amazing. More please! ❤
This is great. Like a lot of others already said, I’m surprised I never heard of this before today
Thank you for this!!! ❤
There goes the neighborhood
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.
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😊