I do but I have the cultural cache of someone twice my age.
Although, Cartoon Network had a MAD cartoon around 8-10 years ago that wasn't a huge hit, but IIRC they used Al in some of the title cards and interstitial segments between cartoon skits.
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I know who Alfred E. Neuman is, but I didn't know the name until much later, he was the ”Mad cover guy” to me as a kid.
I was a kid in the 90s so that was probably after the heyday of Mad, but Pete is older than me so he probably should've known. It's possible he's just a weird nerd though and not in a good way: I remember him saying in an interview that he used to have a RATM poster on his wall, but he didn't even listen to them, he just liked the look of the poster.
(appropriate, because he looks like the kid on the cover of Evil Empire)
- grew up on MAD, so
Zoomer here, had no idea, but I'm not American
Was more of a Dennis the Menace kid
I know who he is, but I also just found out I'm older than mayor Pete.
Life is passing me by and i've yet to fix bread prices.
Bootyjuice assuredly saw this magazine cover when he was a teenager, if nothing else.
Yes but only because of the Animated Mad TV Show. Despite being literally a collection of parodies about pop-culture, it was ahead of its time.
Source: Am Gen Z in early 20's
20 and same, i just recognize the face from the cartoon network show i vaguely remember
I didn't recognize the name until you mentioned Buttigieg and then I remembered "oh, the mad magazine kid"
I'm over 30, and no. Nor Mad Magazine before adulthood, and even then its just in references.
I didn't know who Alfred E Neuman was until the Buttigieg thing. Not sure i knew what Mad Magazine was either. Am 25
As a millennial, I've read Mad Magazine and Cracked before when I was a kid, but I always saw him as "the Mad Magazine mascot." I think I only learned the dude's name from Wikipedia. It's not like the magazine itself goes out of its way to spell out the dude's name. And besides that, I mostly skipped to Spy vs Spy and those fold-ins.
And damn, the dude who came up with the fold-in lived to be over 100 and he stepped down at 99 year old. What a trooper.
Of course. There was even a mad cartoon that was airing on the cartoon network when I was a child
Isnt he some kind of physicist?
I am two months older than that guy and either he is lying or he never went into a grocery store as a child
I know who Alfred E. Neuman is and I'm 28. I've even still got some old issues of mad magazine lying around my house.
Mid 30s here, I never remember his name, I have to look it up every time.
Millennial, never really read Mad but was vaguely aware of it. I know of Alfred E Neuman though.
I read Mad magazine in the library, so yes, I know.
Yeah dude. Feel like I learned it as a bit of trivia later on though. I did see some Mad Magazines growing up though.
Yes, under 30, not a particularly old cultural taste either. I just didn’t get any of the jokes at the time
Mad magazine guy, right?
Yee, add me to the tally, he's the mad magazine mascot.
I'm younger than him and remember buying them at the grocery store.
I don't recognise the name.
Don't know who that is. Late 20s
At first I thought Neuman sounded familiar, but after looking it up I have no idea who that is. Must be an old person thing.
No idea who he is. I was born in the mid 90s. Looking him up now
Edit: yeah I’ve heard of mad magazine but that’s really it, never was part of my experience growing up. I think the first possibility is probably the right one though, a rare instance of Pete being right
- Loved MAD when I was younger. Been hoping to dig up my old stash one of these days, if only I knew where to find it in my parent's basement.
I’m an elder millennial and I have known who Alfred E Neuman is for most of my life despite not reading Mad magazine regularly (always felt like more of a Gen X/late Boomer thing). Obviously the Simpsons referenced Mad a lot, and MadTV was the greatest sketch comedy show on Saturday nights.
For what it’s worth, I think that was Mayo Pete trying to insult trump in the weakest way possible, and it was an utter failure.
Didn't recognize the name, but did recognize from the pictures people posted in here
Yes