Nice pull of a deep cut from Mad Magazine. 

Yes. It’s a slippery slope indeed. 

Oh, most of these examples were issues that were talked about when it came out. This perspective is NOT one that you can dismiss as modern “wokeness.” Even Mad Magazine’s parody (March 1979 issue) explicitly called them out and it was directed at possibly the most immature, dismissive of women’s and consent issues…

Well, after all, IT IS the word.

Those cats don’t look nearly as happy to be with Billy Corgan as Billy Corgan looks to be with those cats.

Whatever you say about Corgan, he sure likes cats.

More like Eddie Deezen Nutz.

Isn’t Eddie Dezeen the lady John Travolta said sang that Frozen song?

This expanded universe contains multitudes.

Yeah, Manson always seemed really try-hard, especially on his . . . was it Jerry Springer appearances? Yeah, arguing with offended middle Americans about how there’s great intelligence behind the things that offended them? Super cool, buddy.

I went to high school with one girl who was really into him. I was a complete straight edge good girl, but even I saw Manson as a try hard. Oh, yes, piercings, makeup, you rebel you. The whole goth, goth-adjacent, thing even then seemed like a moral panic from adults. At the same time as Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love,…

I suspect The Wonder Years reunion isn’t happening now.

I think you assume its an act.  Look at Alice Cooper.  He dressed up in scary clothes and sang some scary songs but from all accounts the guy sounds like a pussy cat. 

A. V. Club runs a number of SNL skits with each review, meaning that I have time to sleep.

Chocolate and truly over the top uniforms for the Pope. 

Murder weighs on the soul quite literally.

Obviously we all know that Chucky the murderous doll is not real .... but what Texas is presupposing is, what if he was 

My wife and I rewatched Rad a couple years ago and... it’s so, so much worse than I remembered. 

Absolutely watch Carnal Knowledge. (I don’t want to get into it, but I despise A Clockwork Orange in about nineteen different ways- when I watch it, it’s Stanely Kubrick who seems mentally ill, not McDowell. There’s not denying how good McDowell is in it, though.)

‘Cause there’s THUNDER IN YOUR HEART