List of fictional magazines
This is a list of fictional magazines.
Fictional magazines
From The Simpsons
- American Breast Enthusiast
- The Atlantic Monthly Kids' Edition
- Apes, a take-off on People
- Barely Regal Magazine
- Better Homes Than Yours
- Blowin'
- Cheek Week
- Fancy Robot-Dog Fancy
- Feeble
- Gigantic Asses
- Granny Fanny
- Journal of Canine Obedience
- Laff Ways Magazine
- Mom Monthly
- Newsweeque
- Obsessive Bride
- Playdude, a take-off on Playboy
- Successful
- The Sugar Sheet
- Juggs and Ammo
- The Ugly Reader
From Futurama
- Bender's Big Butt Fembots, an indecent magazine published by Bender
- Pentiumhouse, pornography for robots, parody of Penthouse magazine
- National Pornographic, a parody of National Geographic,
- Playbot, pornography for robots
- Victoria's Circuit, pornography for robots, a parody of Victoria's Secret catalog, so may just be a catalog
- Zero-G Juggs
- Cigar Jerk
From miscellaneous
- Ace, Bangers, Bling and Froth - from the 2004 novel The Pornographer Diaries by Danny King
- Awesome Rapper - from Saturday Night Live
- Bait - from the 1987 Dragnet movie
- Big 'Uns - from Married... with Children. Actually a real men's magazine.
- Big & Bouncy - a magazine kept under Adrian Mole's bed
- Big Jugs and Tiny Mugs - Just Shoot Me!
- Booty - from the computergame Doom 3
- Boudoir - from Freaks and Geeks
- Butt Frenzy - Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- Buxom Octopus Woman - a Japanese magazine in an episode of American Dad!
- Cat's Paw - from the Fallout series of video games
- Chain Smoking Walrus Monthly - from The Soup
- Crack Whore - Eric Cartman's mom was once on the cover, South Park
- Disobedient School Prefect - a Japanese magazine in an episode of American Dad!
- Genius Quarterly - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Girls, Giggles and Garters - Good Omens and Discworld
- Glitz - from the 1998 novel Columbo: The Glitter Murders. The magazine advertised luxuries for the wealthy and their admirers.
- Holding Your Own Boobs - fictional ad from a Saturday Night Live episode featuring Sarah Michelle Gellar
- If You Know What I Mean Magazine - Conan
- Inside View - Sensational tabloid similar to the National Enquirer that appears in works by Stephen King, including The Dead Zone, The Night Flier, Desperation, Insomnia, The Waste Land, Bag of Bones, Needful Things, Doctor Sleep, and others
- Lonely Tyrant - Life in Hell
- No F@#ks Monthly - The Daily Show
- Playbeing - a journal of sports, technology and gynecology (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
- Playduck - Duckworld version of Playboy from Howard the Duck
- Playpen - a takeoff on Penthouse and Playboy seen on the shows In Living Color(S05E3), Bones, Married... with Children, Malcolm In The Middle(S07E18), Family Guy, That '70s Show, Scrubs, Kyle XY, The X-Files, Millennium, Friends, Lost, NCIS, Rules of Engagement, Eastbound & Down, Fantasy Island, Everybody Hates Chris(S03E15) The Office(S07E25), Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, Freaks and Geeks, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Supernatural,The Partridge Family(S02E15 - January 7, 1972), Tour of Duty (TV series), and, perhaps in its initial appearance, That Girl
- Rhode Island Slut - sex-based classifieds magazine, from the film Dumb and Dumber
- Sapphire - adult magazine, Monk
- Scurvy - Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- Spank - Beavis and Butt-head - a parody of Swank adult magazine
- Stagman magazine - The Müller-Fokker Effect - a take-off on Playboy
- Taint magazine - Mr. Show with Bob and David
- True Vampire Stories - magazine in The Tomb of Dracula
Other
From the Discworld series
- Ankh-Morpork Literary Gazette and Paradigm Shifters Monthly
- Battle Call, Omnian magazine, parodies The War Cry
- Bows and Ammo, a parody on Guns and Ammo
- Total Pins and other magazines for pin collectors
- Unadorned Facts, Omnian magazine, parodies The Plain Truth
- Warrior of Fortune, a take-off on Soldier of Fortune
- What Gallows?
From the Harry Potter series
- Transfiguration Today
- Which Broomstick?
- Witch Weekly
- The Quibbler
From The Simpsons
- Bad Boy's Life (a parody of Boys' Life)
- Bear Baiter
- Blue Pants Weekly
- Cliff Biker
- Crazy Boy's Life (a parody of Boys' Life)
- Danger Liker
- First-Born Twin Magazine
- Fretful Mother Magazine
- Glass Eater
- Hip Punishments
- Men's Fatness (a parody of Men's Fitness)
- Modern Couch Gag
- Mosh Pitter
- Non-Threatening Boys magazine
- Oatmeal Enthusiast (from The Simpsons Movie) (Note: This is actually a real magazine)
- Rock Jumper
- Second-Born Twin Magazine
- Smothering Mother magazine (which Lisa says is a Larry Flynt publication)
- Sponge and Vacuum
From Ugly Betty
All of the magazines listed are owned by Meade Publication, the fictional company in the series:
- Hot Flash - Magazine aimed at older women
- Hudson - a monthly lifestyle magazine
- MODE - a monthly fashion magazine which is the main focus of the series
- MYW (Modern Young Woman) - a monthly contemporary women/lifestyle magazine
- Psychology Now - Health monthly
- Player - Men's magazine
Competing magazines:
- Isabella - MODE's rival
From miscellaneous
- American Sports Magazine - In Good Company
- Are We Done Yet? - How-to magazine for home construction - Are We Done Yet?
- Baby Tosser - Attack of the Show
- B. Davis Magazine - Fashion and personal health magazine owned by Clothes Over Bro's and named for Brooke Davis, One Tree Hill
- Bachelor's World - Men's magazine from the Columbo episode "Columbo Cries Wolf"[1]
- Blab - For Better or For Worse
- Beaker & Electrode - Narbonic, a magazine for mad scientists
- Big and Beardy - Black Books
- Black Yachts- 30 Rock
- Blush - Just Shoot Me!
- Business Shriek - Monsters, Inc., spoof of Business Week
- Chewing - a "high-gloss, literate and sophisticated" magazine for gum chewers, Calvin and Hobbes
- Cockroach Monthly Magazine - Late Night with Seth Meyers
- Composure - women's magazine similar to Cosmopolitan, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- Conan Beat - Conan
- Consumer Medicine - The 40-Year-Old Virgin
- Cool Trash Magazine - from the cartoon, Jem
- Crimeways - from The Big Clock (1948 motion picture)
- DirtNow - a tabloid magazine which is combination of two formerly separate magazines called Dirt and Now in Dirt
- Doggy Style - Fashion magazine for dogs, Family Guy
- Donkey Punch - Metalocalypse
- Dum'd Down for dogs - Get Fuzzy
- Drumtastic - Metalocalypse
- Fancy Dog - The Soup
- Flair - Two's Company: All Grown Up
- Fretmagic Kids! - Guitar magazine, Homestar Runner
- GameHOG - Doom 3
- The Gate - Suddenly Susan
- Ginger American - Conan
- Global Weekly, later Global Community Weekly - Left Behind series
- Good Enough - Saturday Night Live
- Gossip - For Better or For Worse
- Guns & Nachos - Doom 3
- Harpies Bizarre, Bewitched
- Hereboy, Get Fuzzy
- Hundredaire Socialite - Interviews with "hundredaires", Homestar Runner
- Hush-Hush - gossip tabloid magazine in James Ellroy's novel L.A. Confidential and the film version
- Impotent Old Men and Whores - magazine with sex tips for impotent old men, along with home stereo equipment from Dirty Work
- JABAN - Muhyo & Roji's Bureau of Supernatural Investigation
- Jon - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
- Kcud - For Better or For Worse
- Knit Wit, from Pushing Daisies, episode "Smell of Success"
- Know Magazine - 1960s men's magazine, Down With Love
- Martial Pain - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Martian Science - Doom 3
- Meetings Magazine- 30 Rock
- Metropolitan - news magazine Sarah Jane Smith works for in Doctor Who
- Millennium - Magazine from the Millennium series and film adaptations
- Modern Girl - Married... with Children
- Mouth - 1960s underground magazine, Hippies
- Mud - Wacky Packages, For Better or For Worse
- Nanako - a magazine mentioned in Sailor Moon R
- National Exaggerator - Weekly World News-type periodical favored by Freddy Jones in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
- National Tatler - tabloid in Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon and its sequels
- National Whisper - tabloid in Superman comics
- Nerds Who Live With Their Mother Monthly - mentioned by the writer of Crimson Chin in The Fairly OddParents
- The New Frontiersman - right-wing news and opinion, Watchmen
- Newstime - news magazine in Superman comics owned by Colin Thornton
- Now - fashion magazine in The Brady Bunch, inspires Jan to buy a brunette wig.
- Now Magazine - news magazine affiliated with the Bugle in Marvel Comics
- Nova Express - news tabloid, Watchmen
- Novel Ideas Magazine - Get Fuzzy
- Nun's Life - Airplane! being read by a boy sitting next to a nun reading Boys' Life.
- Oceanographic Explorer - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- Old Men with Earrings Magazine - Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld
- OSQ - DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story
- Pageant Scene Magazine - magazine for beauty contest enthusiasts in the "Hiccy Burp" episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- Podiums Magazine - The Daily Show
- Poise - Double Trouble
- Popular Bridge Work - Zits
- Portly Black Gentleman - The Cleveland Show
- Racetrax - My Name Is Earl
- Reactionary Parent Magazine - The Cleveland Show
- Remarried Black Man - The Cleveland Show
- Restless Style - The Young and the Restless
- Rolling Egg - Rolling Stone parody from Howard the Duck
- Runway - The Devil Wears Prada
- Scragford's Farthing - a fictional magazine satirizing the formulaic nature of many Victorian and Edwardian magazines in D'Ordel's Pantechnicon by Sir Mark Sykes
- Screen Idol - Married... with Children
- Scorch Magazine - a music magazine from the Sabrina, the Teenage Witch television series
- Serial Killer Weekly - Mad Magazine
- Sex Garden Magazine - American Dad
- So Very Weak - Saturday Night Live
- Spit Sink Weekly - Zits
- Spo! - Perfect Blue
- Stache Week - The Cleveland Show
- Sub Par - Golf magazine, Blondie
- SugarApe (or sugaRAPE) - Urban lifestyle magazine, Nathan Barley
- Surprise - a tabloid magazine in Sailor Moon
- Tabloid - For Better or For Worse
- Teen BUZZ - The Latest Buzz
- Teen Magazeen - the magazeens for teens, Dinosaur Comics
- Ten B Magazine - A magazine made out of money for people worth at least 10 billion dollars, Level Up
- Thud Magazine - local magazine featuring artwork by Peyton Sawyer, One Tree Hill
- Timber Maniacs - TimMani for short, flagship magazine of publishing house of the same name, Final Fantasy VIII. Stopped from being printed due to carrying articles from political dissidents.
- Today's Woman - The Brady Bunch, for which Carol writes an article about her family.
- Top Goss magazine - Coronation Street
- UAC Today - Doom 3
- US People Magazine Futurama
- Vaguely Asian Magazine - Saturday Night Live
- Villain - Kim Possible
- Villain-Ness - Kim Possible
- The Weekend on Sunday - Nathan Barley
- Waif - teen fashion magazine - Daria
- Wait That Can't Be Right" - Saturday Night Live
- Weekly Global Gumshoe - Metalocalypse
- What's News - Blacksad
- Wig Fancy - Mad
- Wizards and Shut-ins - American Dad!
- YouthQuake - Glamorama