15 Classic Spoof Ads By "Mad" Magazine
The magazine didn't have any real ads back in the 1950s and 1960s. Instead they nailed big-name advertisers — especially cigarette companies — hard.
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Winston's tagline has been much derided by grammarians. Graveyards figured prominently in cigarette parody ads.
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The real 1960s Tiparillo ads were very sleazy.
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A Breck shampoo ad parody from 1964 featuring, yes, a Ringo Starr illustration.
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As someone who remembers the real print ads, I love this one.
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As the son of Appalachian Trail hillbillies, I can confirm that this Maytag spoof is correct.
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Mad also often hit the cigarette industry as a whole with their fake ads.
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Great illustration.
8.
All kinds of politically incorrect.
9.
Ha, that "gravy" was actually a laxative.
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Nice parody of the famous Tareyton ads.
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They didn't pull punches.
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Kooky.
13.
Miss Clairol — and women who dyed their hair blonde — get hit hard.
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PBR.
15.
Brigitte Bardot for American Ex...pense.
See many more of these—88 to be exact— on Jasperdo's Flickr page.