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I recognize the face but not the name

i'm two years older than that pod person and i totally know. i think mad magazine was something kids who went to convenience stores in the late 80s/early 90s unsupervised would know about. pete seems like his entire existence before the age of 20 was some kind of daily stage-managed romp through political career incubators and society tutelage before retiring to a special bath where a silent old woman would bath him in buttermilk for 45 minutes and then lay out cheese cubes for him to snack on while watching taped interviews with Henry Kissenger.

i don't think pete knows what anything is, except as it can be handed to him on an index card by a bodyman.

These are the same people who don’t know what woods porn is.

It took me like 20 seconds to remember it's the mad magazine kid. I saw plenty of those magazines but people never really said the name Alfred E. Neuman

I read all of the mental illness themed humor magazines

Zoomer who knows him but I'm a bit of an esoteriphile

You ever heard of Seymour Butts?

Yes, but my grandparents had a collection of Mad Magazines at their house.

What, me worry?

Older millennial - don't know.

I saw like two Mad Magazines ever when I was a kid. I got the impression they were more of a Gen X thing.

You are not alone. Pete definitely knows who that is

never heard of him

oh it's the MAD guy? didn't know he had a name

Nope, never heard of him in my life. My mom knows who he is and told me when I asked her just now, but she's a boomer*, so that doesn't really answer your question.

*She insists that I refer to her as a "late boomer".

Edit: If you'd shown me a picture I would say "the Mad Magazine kid" but I don't know him by name because I never read Mad Magazine.

Yes i used to read mad magazine in the store while my mom shopped

Yup, but through the Simpsons

I don't know him but I'm not an anglo.

it's the mad magazine guy

but I'm past 30 years old which is normal for millennials

I know him from the mad covers when I was a kid and used to browse video game magazines in the grocery store. Anyone remember trading card game magazines? They'd have cool fantasy covers by artists like Keith Parkinson and would cover games like mtg or pokemon.

Elder Millennial, I guess. He's the guy with no worries.

I have no idea who that is, honestly even with the body text as context

E: yeah, I've seen this picture before. Never knew the character's name though

I thought mad magazine stopped being published in like the 90s or something. I'm pretty sure most people my age don't even know what that is. I just know because I used to read cracked and they had some sort of rivalry going on. Also why the fuck would I know off the top of my head what their fucked up looking mascot boy's name is lmao.

I had to think of it for a second and still wasn't 100% sure he was the mad magazine mascot guy.

Your post made me dig up this Trump bit:

Trump calls Pete Buttigieg's name 'unpronounceable'

Honestly some of his best material from the 2020 campaign, no notes.

Yeah it's the cover guy from mad magazine. I'm an early millenial

Why should I know? I'm not even American...

Im 20 and idk who he is, also british so if he was just an american thing that might be why.

Edit: i looked him up and yeah i recognise him, i just didnt know he was called that, also he really does like Booty-judger lol

I only know it's the Mad Magazine cartoon mascot guy (or whatever) because of a podcast that riffed on it. Otherwise, never heard of him. How does anyone even know his name? It's not like the cover of Mad Magazine explains his backstory or something.

Library had Mad Mag growing up so yes.

I have no idea who that is upon hearing the name

What, me worry?

yes, I liked the M.A.D. magazines when I was a kid

Who?

I would not worry

Neuman was (and still is?) a Mad Magazine fixture and I can't believe Mayo Pete never looked at the magazine and he never learned who Neuman was. If I'm right - he lied and it was a win-win. He got to do some pushback to Trump with zero effort and he pretended not to be the nerd that he actually is.

Isn’t that the guy who invented time and space

I recognize the name but couldn't place it until I looked it up.

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.

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)