!Trivia related to [[Magazine/{{Mad}} the magazine]]:
* HeyItsThatGuy: Very many freelance artists and writers have worked for the magazine, so their art is often recognizable outside it.
** Mort Drucker, Jack Davis, Bob Clarke and Bob Jones (among others) are all freelance artists who have done countless ads. In fact, when they did a parody of the Esso "tiger in your tank" ads, they almost had Bob Jones draw it until they realized that Jones drew the ''real'' ad.
** Paul Coker was a Rankin-Bass animator. His loose, scratchy style is quite recognizable.
** Sergio Aragonés is also known for his ''Groo'' comic.
** Former ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' writer Michael Gallagher shows up now and then, as did artist Dave Manak (who handled ''SpyVsSpy'' for a while).
** Several notables have drawn at least one cover each: fantasy artists Boris Vallejo and Frank Frazetta, movie poster illustrator Drew Struzan and even ''TheTodayShow'' chimp mascot J. Fred Muggs.
** Chevy Chase wrote at least one pre-''SaturdayNightLive'' piece that got published, a back cover "TV Scenes We'd Like to See" parody of ''Series/MissionImpossible'' in which Jim Phelps gets fired.
** Not only did Wally Wood create {{Daredevil}}'s iconic costume and the infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Disneyland_Memorial_Orgy Disneyland Memorial Orgy]] poster, he was also one of the founding artists of ''Mad''.
** Writer Dick [=DeBartolo=] is the host of the ''Daily Giz Wiz'' podcast, and was a longtime question-writer for ''MatchGame''.
** Several artists and writers and artists jumped ship from ''Mad'' to rival ''Magazine/{{Cracked}}''. Most notably, artist John Severin left ''Mad'' shortly before the end of the comics era, and quickly became the flagship artist of ''Cracked''. Longtime writer Lou Silverstone also left for ''Cracked'' in 1990, as did Don Martin (of all people!).
* OldShame: ''Mad'' lent its name to an ''AnimalHouse''-style comedy, ''UpTheAcademy''. After it did poorly at the box office, ''Mad'' was quick to disown it, and wrote a two-page satire of their own movie, which ended with the entire staff fictitiously quitting in shame. William M. Gaines also paid Warner Bros. $30,000 to remove every reference to ''Mad'' from the movie. However, following the sale of ''Mad'' to Time/Warner, the references were restored on all recent TV airings and the DVD. But it's still OldShame to the ''Mad'' staff.
* TheOtherDarrin: After Antonio Prohías left the mag, ''Spy vs. Spy'' went to other artists. George Woodbridge drew it for one issue, and then handed the art over to Bob Clarke, who in turn passed it on to Dave Manak. Both artists worked with Duck Edwing as the main gag writer, although other people sometimes wrote the gags, including then-editor Andrew J. Schwartzberg. (Manak and Edwing also handled a very short-lived SundayStrip adaptation in 2002.) Peter Kuper has drawn the feature since 1997, and does about 90% of its writing.
** This has also shown up in ''Monroe and...'', which was originally drawn by Bill Wray. After a short retirement, the feature was briefly revived with Tom Fowler as the artist before retiring again. The change in artists was supposedly because Wray (who, like most of the staff, has plenty of work outside the magazine) had very little time to draw and color the strip on time, meaning that he had to do a rush job.
** Also present in the ''StarWars'' parodies. Dick [=DeBartolo=] and Nick Meglin co-wrote the ''A New Hope'' parody, with Harry North as the artist; the next four had just [=DeBartolo=] writing and Mort Drucker drawing. Inexplicably, the last one switched to David Shayne for the writing and Hermann Mejia for the art.

!Trivia related to [[WesternAnimation/{{Mad}} the cartoon]]:
* HeyItsThatVoice: TaraStrong shows up a few times in the third episode.
*** She even reprises her role as Bubbles in ''[[TwoBrokeGirls 2 Broke]] PowerpuffGirls''.
*** She even returns as [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]] in one episode.
*** TomKane reprises his role has [[{{Satan}} Him]]. His attempt at immitating the narrator does sound more like Professor Utonium.
** GreyDeLisle seems to be a full-time voice.
** JasonMarsden in various sketches from episodes 5 and later.
*** He voices the "Not Even Doom Music" Cat just like a certain [[TheGarfieldShow other gray cat]] in ''Thunder LOLCats''.
** Julia [=McIlvaine=] ([[KaBlam June]]) has lent her voice to Bambi, Sam Sparks, and Cruella De Vil.
** Dana Snyder ([[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Master Shake]], [[{{Chowder}} Gazpacho]]) appears in a few episodes as a [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Goomba]] and WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}} [[Creator/BenjaminFranklin Franklin]].
** Gary Anthony Williams ([[TheBoondocks Uncle Ruckus]], [[StrokerAndHoop Coroner Rick]]) is also a regular voice actor.
** DiedrichBader has appered in several episodes.
** On the art style of things, the StopMotion sequences are animated by Screen Novelties, who did the same animation for ''{{Chowder}}'', and one of the most frequent animators is [[ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera Jorge R. Guiterrez.]]
** ''RobotChicken'' alumni Seth Green and Breckin Meyer appear in the second season.
** Music/AndrewWK voices himself in ''Destroy, BobTheBuilder, Destroy''.
** KathSoucie voiced Rainbow Dash in ''My Little War Horse''.
** In Portugal, one of the stock voices of MAD returned as James from Anime/{{Pokemon}}, which is incredibly rare.
** GilbertGottfried is Linkong and [[Series/CrashAndBernstein Crash]]
*** As for Brazil, the dubbing director gathered most of the original actors for the most authentic experience.