Fixer Upper Fans Are Going to Be Furious Over This Scathing Chip and Joanna Cartoon

MAD 541 Sneak Peek- Fixer Upper! https://t.co/W6ki5IWyTQ pic.twitter.com/1qRPXDgHDw

— Tom Richmond (@art4mad) August 3, 2016

Mad Magazine is known for its satire, and in some ways being mocked in the long-running comic magazine is a compliment, but if you're a Fixer Upper fan, it's hard not to feel a little defensive about the scathing cartoon in issue 541. Beneath a headline of "Fixer Huskters" (which is a negative term for a door-to-door peddler or small-goods hawker), artist Tom Richmond and writer Dick Debartolo mock the opening sequence of the HGTV show in which Chip and Joanna Gaines — here a very unflatteringly portrayed "Flip and Go-Go Games" — explain the concept of the show. The text in the dialogue bubbles implies that the couple is dumb, self-serving, and money hungry. Further making this point are the price tags attached to everything around them. If the cartoon is bothering you, take a cue from Chip and don't let it. The good-humored father of four actually retweeted the cartoon himself!