The magazine
- "A Fish Tale", a one-page comic in Issue #145, features a mermaid being caught like a fish... and then cooked like a fish. Said mermaid is drawn with visible nipples, very likely the first time these ever appeared in MAD.
- While the words "fuck" and "shit" were almost never printed into the magazine in full (any F-bombs were usually censored with asterisks or other symbols), there are at least two known exceptions:
- The cover to issue #326
◊ has the word "fuck" among the graffiti on the wall. - Al Jaffee snuck the word "shit" into the background art of an article entitled "Real Life Superheroes at Comic Book Conventions".
- Since the move to Burbank, the Precision F-Strike has shown up now and then.
- These words do get used (openly) in the 1991 retrospective book, Completely MAD.
- The cover to issue #326
- Sergio Aragonés drew barely-visible uncensored penises in the graphics accompanying a Frank Jacobs-penned parody of "We Are the World".
- A parody of Archie has Biddy hurl herself at Starchie. As she does so, several syringes and bottles of pills spill from her handbag, and this was a strip from the fifties!
- "Woman Wonder!" saw the titular character change her outfit inside her invisible jet with it implied her boyfriend was watching her. He keeps a horrifically lecherous face through the next few panels.
- They've never been afraid of the Stealth F-bomb. For instance, their parody of Welcome Back, Kotter included the exchangeMinus five percent? How can you get -5% on an exam?
He spelled his name wrong! That's S-H-O-T, Horseshot! - Cartoon nudity every so often (including, in the late 90's/early 2000's, a doctor ogling a woman through an X-Ray machine, one where a mother strips her son's room of Slasher Flick posters, to which he responds to by putting up girlie pictures, and another where a woman flashes the bouncer at a club to get herself and boyfriend in. When they did a special on The Matrix Reloaded, the overseer program watches porn on all his TV's when it doesn't have company. In The New '10s, a mexican lady Skinny Dipping in the Rio Grande to distract the border guards from a pack of illegal immigrants.).
- In the parody of "The Goonies," after one girl gets excited about a "huge stud," a guy has to clarify, saying that he's warning her about two giant tentacles, cutting himself off before he gets to what she thought she heard. (Testicles).
- In one personality quiz about whether you have Type A personality, if you get mostly "yes" answers, it says that there's a word for the kind of person you are, which starts with A and rhymes with "gas hole"..
The cartoon
If Cartoon Network can get away with a panty shot on a kids show, imagine what else they can do...
- The Panty Shot from "Grey's In Anime" (shown on the page). Mind you, this was only the third episode of the show.
- In the original animatic of "Grey's In Anime," the panty shot scene was also supposed to have the monitor read "WTF" ("What the fuck"), but when the episode was actually animated, the screen was left blank. Considering that the upskirt shot remained, could this be a possible case of using a Censor Decoy?
- Speak and Swear on "Rejected Toy Story 3 Characters": "How the [bleep] should I know!?". Granted, it was bleeped out, but it still counts.
- In "Class of the Titans", also censored, there's five F-bombs. Justified in that the name of the character who drops these five F-bombs is Curseus.
- Both episodes originally aired rated TV-PG like every other episode, but sooner or later, they were re-rated TV-PG for obscured offensive language (L).
- In "Big Time Rushmore," one of the costume ideas George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln wear to create their boy band image are kinky, S&M-style leather attire. Lincoln is the only one who liked wearing his costume and when the four turn back to normal thanks to their fairy godmother Taylor Swift, Abe is the only one who keeps his costume.
- Spider-Baby got away with a strong breastfeeding joke involving Mary Jane coming in to babysit. Getting more specific, the scene has Mary Jane ask Spider-Baby, "Is someone hungry?" in a seductive voice, with the camera visibly zooming on her boobs.
- And in "Fantastic Megan Fox" Megan Fox considers targeting Scarlett Johansson's eyes...just as the camera focused on her breasts.
- Also on "The Fantastic Megan Fox," Scarlett Johanssen shrieks, "What the cuss?!" when the literally-depicted Megan Fox steals her eyes. Justified in that in the movie The Fantastic Mr. Fox, they use "cuss" as a substitute for all swear words.
- The Latin American Spanish dub of the "S'Up" segment has Carl clearly saying "prostíbulo", meaning brothel! The fact that this region is otherwise known for constantly getting bowdlerized only makes this more questionable...
- "The Da Grinchy Code" had Indiana Jones's line, "I'll take this stick here/My Staff of Ra/And shove it on up/Your tiny Who-Kah!" with one of the Whos gulping and turning pale (The Who-Kah was a Dr. Seussian machine).
- "Pokémon Park": "Yeah, we got their balls! ...Stop laughing!". The fact that the James parody says it makes it even funnier.
- The Juicy, Jr.'s fake commercial has a kid (who ordered the newest sandwich that makes life messy for him — his shirt gets stained, he gets blamed for keeping his room dirty, and a bully punches the kid after accusing him of calling him a bonehead) end up in jail for a murder he didn't commit. The burger at the end says, "Fresh meat!" and snickers.
- In Pirates of the Neverland they got away with a message on the back of Hook's ship: "ship happens".
- Plus, there was a sketch that not only references a certain lesbian-related Katy Perry song, but she kisses the Liberty Bell "on the crack".
- Meredith says she's got just the thing for Rogue in "The Clawfice" after Rogue tries to absorb her persona and becomes depressed.
- The segment ends with Wolverine-as-Michael throwing out the oft-used "That's what she said!" catchphrase—while it doesn't even make sense in the context of the sketch, parents might be uncomfortable explaining what the joke usually means...
- Fireworks come out of Katy Putty's breasts in the "Flammable" sketch, but that also happened in the "Fireworks" music video they parodied.
- "Gaming's Next Top Princess" is essentially a beauty pageant which picks out the hottest videogame character ever made, with many female characters who're already heavily sexualized in their own games and fan bases. They're even showcased in Boobs-and-Butt Pose stylized character introductions. Particular mention should go to Felicia and Lara Croft, who're both featured in mature games.
- Also Birdo, who isn't even humanoid was a high runner-up. Think about it.
- In "Total Recall Me Baby", a mash-up of "Total Recall" and Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe", there was an adult joke where they randomly showed a three-breasted old woman, referencing Kaitlyn Leeb's character from the original Total Recall (the hooker at the futuristic bar).
- The random reference to Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt in "Parent Trainer" could count; it's not inappropriate in and of itself, but the anime it's referencing tends to be really, really vulgar and risque.
