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1 page 10 “The Fun Side of Hippies”
This is a pastiche
of Dave Berg’s long – running feature “The Lighter Side of …” in MAD Magazine. It
is not drawn in Berg’s relatively realistic style, but the jokes are similar to
Berg’s and the mechanical grays and mechanical font are reminiscent of MAD in
general.
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1 page 11
Refers to Chairman
Mao, Communist leader of China
The elaborate psychedelic band name
refers to legendary 1920’s bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson (namesake of The
Jefferson Airplane), The Vanilla Fudge, and presumably The Electric Prunes.
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The Beatles with
their guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. They studied Transcendental Meditation under his tutelage starting
in late August 1967. MAD Magazine parodied their (at the time) on-going
relationship on the cover of their September 1968 issue.
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