I used to write Mad style movie and TV parodies. My Star Trek voyager parodies had a following for a while. Doing the parodies sometimes were more fun than watching the episode.
First time I read MAD was on a Boy Scout campout over fifty years ago! I thought it was something adult and I shouldn't tell my parents. A few years later I found out THEY had read MAD around the time it became a magazine instead of a comic book!
I grew up going to U-Totem and really enjoyed buying my candy, Cracked and Mad magazines, while also playing the first Super Mario Bros arcade from Nintendo when I was there
Never forget all 6 Ghostbusters on board 8 Truck that lost their lives on September 11th 2001 while operating at Manhattan box 5-5-8087. The FDNY Ghostbusters along with the guys from Duane Street (Engine 7 Ladder 1 and Battalion 1) along with Engine 10 and 10 Truck as well as Engine 55 Engine 6 and a number of other engine and ladder companies in Lower Manhattan were the first to arrive on scene at the World Trade Center.
Mad had a MAJOR impact on my sense of humor in the '90s. As a kid I used to "collect" them (in other words, I'd buy issues from the grocery store thinking they were going to be worth $$$ as collector items); still have those old mid 90s issues. I'll always be grateful to Mad because it was a gateway drug to things like MST3K/Rifftrax/Cinematic Titanic and the Naked Gun movies.
