--- title: Funny Mad Max Parody With Babies Goes Viral on YouTube description: This dad made a Mad Max parody starring his kids and some souped up Playskool cars canonical: https://time.com/4826473/mad-max-baby-parody/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-21T16:15:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:43.703Z og:title: Dad’s Mad Max Parody Shows Apocalypse is No Place for a Baby og:description: A dad made a Mad Max parody starring his kids and some souped up Playskool cars og:url: https://time.com/4826473/mad-max-baby-parody/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a9c178fdb57c311/698873b45f570f5e46b1ea48/furiosa-mad-max.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 6144 og:image:height: 3456 og:image:alt: FURY ROAD og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Dad’s Mad Max Parody Shows Apocalypse is No Place for a Baby twitter:description: A dad made a Mad Max parody starring his kids and some souped up Playskool cars twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2a9c178fdb57c311/698873b45f570f5e46b1ea48/furiosa-mad-max.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Genius Dad’s _Mad Max_ Parody Proves the Post Apocalypse World is No Place for a Baby > Sponsored content. 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Charlize Theron as Imperator Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road. Warner Bros. Pictures by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 21, 2017 4:15 PM UTC Anyone who has seen [_Mad Max: Fury Road_](http://time.com/4488423/mad-max-fury-road-no-special-effects/?iid=sr-link2)knows that parenting in the post-Apocalypse is no joke. One dad wants to make sure his kids are well-prepared to survive in the bleak, drought-ridden hellscape pictured in the movies, so he and his wife did a training run, capturing it all on camera for our entertainment and or education. According to the caption of the video [posted to YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMfvFV7iYO0), the ingenious parents transformed a few toy cars into “[Mad Max Mobiles](http://time.com/3950818/conan-obrien-comic-con-mad-max/?iid=sr-link6)” worthy of Imperator Furiosa and Max Rockatansky. They then set their kiddos loose in the dystopian desert for a race across the brutally stricken landscape, editing the scenes together to prove that the post-apocalypse is no place for a baby. 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