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July 2010 Archive

July 24, 2010

251. There was a fun pictorial game that appeared in National Lampoon magazine only once. The game was entitled "Match the Tits with the Ass"—or words to that effect. The game featured four to six photos, each of a pair of naked female breasts. Opposite were four to six photos of naked rear ends. To play the game, the reader had to identify which pair of breasts and which rear end belonged to the same person and then draw a line between the matching photos. Hours of fun and amusement! Do you know which issue had the game?

That appeared on page 45 of the January 1981 (Excess) issue of National Lampoon. (Thanks to Mr. Magoo, who posed this question, for finding the answer.)

Posted July 24, 2010, 02:24 PM in Answers. | Comments (3)

July 19, 2010

250. A long time ago I think they wrote a funny article (spoof interview maybe) on the Beatles. All I remember is something vaguely about asking John Lennon if during a concert he fantasized of swinging on a trapeze and fucking all the girls or something like that. I remember it being hilarious. Do you know what article that was from?

That was a piece called "Beat the Meatles" by Chris Miller from the October 1977 (Beatles) issue. It also appeared in the March 1985 (Best of 15 Years) issue, which is a good thing since a page of it is missing in the scan of the 1977 issue that appears on the National Lampoon Complete [sic] DVD-ROM.

Posted July 19, 2010, 10:24 AM in Answers. | Comments (2)

249. I'm trying to locate a great one-page poster parody called 'The Spy with the Biggest Penis You've Ever Seen in Your Life' or something very similar to that. Obviously a James Bond parody. I'm amazed that this hasn't cropped up on the internet as it's just the sort of thing to go huge (so to speak). Anyway, I had that issue as a kid and of course when I moved to college my mom threw out all of my National Lampoon issues. This could have been as late as 1978, though I'm thinking earlier.

It was called "The Spy With The Biggest Penis You Ever Saw In Your Life" and appeared in the February 1977 (JFK Grand Fifth Term Inaugural) issue.

Posted July 19, 2010, 10:08 AM in Answers. | Comments (0)

248. Do you know which edition, or editions, of National Lampoon carried the ad for Animal House that had a picture of all of the Deltas giving the photographer the finger, with a caption that said something like, "We can do anything we want. We're college students." I'm pretty sure it ran in the spring of 1978 but I'm wondering if you can name the exact edition.

The photo appears in ads in the April 1978 (Spring Cleaning), May 1978 (Families), June 1978 (Wild West), July 1978 (100th Anniversary) and September 1978 (Style) issues. Most have the "We can do anything we want" headline, but not all.

Posted July 19, 2010, 10:06 AM in Answers. | Comments (1)

A filmed performance of "Lemmings" is available at NetFlix. This is probably the version that was available on DVD from the National Lampoon store on the official website (www.nationallampoon.com) a few years back, and previously on VHS in an ad in the last issue of the magazine (November 1998).

It's a bit rough in terms of production quality, but it's pretty cool to see John Belushi, Chevy Chase, and Christopher Guest performing before they were famous. In my opinion, the LP version is much better, if only for the fact that you can hear the audience reaction, which is almost inaudible on the video, making it seem like none of the jokes are working. The sound quality is also better on the LP.