THE MAD MAGAZINE TV SPECIAL - "The Usual Gang Of Idiots" (1974)

Welcome to the Weird Wednesday version of The Dungeon!
Let's get serious!!!

 In 1974, MAD magazine did a TV Special." I never saw it because I didn't have a television in 1974! Pre-National Lampoon, and long before Saturday Night Live, or even Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, MAD was always leading the way, and as far as I can tell, not really getting as much credit as they should! They never bowed down to political correctness or political pressure! "The Usual Gang of Idiots" did whatever they wanted to!

Let's face it! It's hard to be politically correct and funny too, because most funny things are offensive! It's just the nature of the beast!

They rip the auto industry a new one with all kinds of gags about stupidity and dishonesty!
This is the team coming up with new accessory ideas!

This guy is one of the most important in the company! He's making sure there's no loopholes in the fine print of the sales contracts that might cost the company any money should anything go haywire!

This was thought to be the building that housed the "Safety and Research" department, but is actually an indoor golf course for the company big shots!

This is the real "Safety and Research" department building before it collapses!

44 years later, and industry and government still think that putting up signs instead of fixing things is a good solution!
This is a big problem with modern society!

In between the skits are animated one shots! Done in Don Martin style, the joke here is the duck is the family pet, and the boy is his inflated toy! That's MAD!

This is a series of pictures of what you could see, if you could see the truth!

The Doctor is supposed to be busy, but is really working on his putting!

Inside the suggestion box is a shredder!

There is no difference in the quality of regular and super gasoline!

"Academy Awards For Parents" is a fairly stupid segment!

Another Don Martin cartoon has a guy on a desert island! He picks the flower which creates a big hole and sinks the island of course!

You know this is going to insult hospital workers everywhere, but did MAD care? Hell No!

 In 1967, in issue #115, MAD printed a bogus three dollar bill with the likeness of Alfred E. Neuman on it, and anybody who saw it would immediately know that it was a stupid joke! Anybody that is except for new money changing machines that had just entered the marketplace in laundromats etc. It got to be quite a sticky wicket!

"The Oddfather" goes on way too long! More Don Martin would have been more fun!

 Man, the F.B.I. were busy in the 60's having to keep their eyes on Lenny Bruce and Alfred E. Neuman!

 What scary times!! I'm surprised any of us made it!

"What, Me Worry?!"

MAD magazine was a big part of my youth, and had a big effect on my wry sense of humor. It was satire and it was parody, they got away with it, and I loved it!  Honestly, I didn't even know if MAD existed any more! I mean, do any printed magazines exist anymore besides rags like People you see while you're standing in line at the grocery store, but I guess they do, and more power to them!

 MAD MAGAZINE today!

THE OUTER LIMITS: The Probe / Season 2 Episode 17 - 1965

Here we go with another classic Outer Limits episode... When an airplane crashes into the sea during a hurricane, its crew awake to find themselves inside a large metal chamber. Soon, their bewilderment is replaced by fear when they come under attack by a huge machine and large blob-like creature. This is the very last episode in this great series!

It stars Mark (AGENT FOR H.A.R.M.) Richman, Peggy Ann (BOMBA, THE JUNGLE BOY) Garner, Ron (DEATH WISH 3) Hayes, William (THE RACK) Stevens and stuntman Janos (MAN OF STEEL) Prohaska as The Mikie (Alien Microbe).

After crash landing in the ocean and escaping in a life raft, the crew find themselves in a mysterious room, then, a large cloud surrounds them.

A beam comes on and soaks them in the light, drying them all off!

Things get wild 'n' weird when one of them is nearly frozen alive by an ice beam, and then, a giant microbe attacks another crew member!.. What the Hell, man?!

The gang go exploring and find all kinds of interesting machinery. Now, all they have to do is figure out what their purposes are. It is surmised that the probe they're in is part microscope for viewing them!

Later, the beam focuses on the microbe, within a few minutes a duplicate hostile creature is also running around the place!

Jeff and Amanda try to communicate with the aliens but become frustrated with the symbols and lack of progress in discerning the meaning.

Then, Jeff is attacked by the big old nut-brained microbe!

So, three members of the crew are surrounded by clear cylinders where they get soaked and smoked before they're released by the aliens.

They have actually been treated with something that repels the microbes! Cute, isn't it?

Finally, Amnda thinks she has broken the code, so, they head back to the life raft.

Next thing they know, they're back in the sea being rescued by a freakin' submarine!

After being picked up by a sea plane, they look out the window and see the probe (looks pretty cool)! Then, using footage from the German GOLD from 1934 or THE MAGNETIC MONSTER from 1953, we see the Probe disintegrate into nothingness! Looks like the aliens were good guys after all! Speaking of good guys, Eegah!! is back on Wednesday with more weird junk for us!

COLONEL BLEEP - "Man Hunt On The Moon" (1956)

Welcome to The Bleeping Dungeon! I've got a great little Saturday Night Special for you called "Man Hunt On The Moon!

"Colonel Bleep" was only on for one bleeping season, but that season consisted of 104 episodes, and as far as I can tell, that season ran from 1956 to 1959! That means they were really cranking these puppies out!

Here's the intro so you can hear how bleeping groovy "Colonel Bleep" was!

I was thinking this was Captain Gleep! When I was a kid the word Gleep was used as a disparaging remark like 'Dip!' Actually "Colonel Bleep" kind of looks like a fart in a bubble! That's him in the middle, and those are his two pals Squeak and Scratch with him! I used to have a bleeping monkey named Scratch, and a rubber rat called Squeak!

Squeak is a cowboy puppet and Scratch is a cave man! How this is all supposed to bleeping work, I have no idea. As far as I can tell, the creators, Robert D Buchanan and Jack Schleh made up their own rules as they went along!

I was going to present you the very first episode called "Building An Island Base," but it was about as bleeping exciting as the title, so I decided to do episode number eight titled "Man Hunt On The Moon" instead!

This whole series of cartoons is a weird amalgam of cartoons and science thrown together in a blender like a bleeping fruity frozen Margarita! 

The bleeping episodes don't necessarily end or continue, it's more like they just are!

So, the trio are floating around on the bleeping moon when they find an Eiffel like tower with a large parabolic lens on the top! Scratch goes to explore it!

Scratch then scares himself when he sees his own shadow and thinks it's a bleeping monster!

While Scratch is not real bleeping bright, this Eiffel Tower lighthouse sure is!

Most of the drawings are fairly bleeping simple, but are very effective at times!

The boys are on some kind of bleeping mission to find an evil guy named Dr. Destructo. They never make contact with him in this episode!

The novelty song by The Playmates called "Beep Beep" came out in 1958! 

"Beep Beep!" - I almost forgot the bleeping Roadrunner who first appeared in 1949!

Today the word "Bleep" is used as a synonym for censor! It was probably used in that sense for the first time in the early 50's, but has absolutely nothing to do with the Colonel or fried chicken!

Kinda bleeping krazy!!

If you'd like to know more about "Colonel Bleep" and his bleeping buddies, you can find a whole bunch of episodes right here at the Internet Archive, and thank Mr. Oldbones for it!

Some of the episode titles are really crazy like "The Wicked Web," "War In Robotland, "Tunnel In Space," and "The Invisible Gorilla!" So what are you bleeping waiting for??