MAD #487 — March 2008

"Getting homework after a full day of school is like being forced to take home a doggy bag from a lousy restaurant!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.
  2–4
• Ad for Subscriptions

  with bonus #43 print offer
  5
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• The Fundalini Pages

  Random Acts of Mindless Dept.

  Friends of Fundalini Notes

  • "Friends of Fundalini" list of contributors not originally attached to the articles in this section: Charles Akins, John Caldwell, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Garth Gerhart, Jeff Kruse, Jacob Lambert, Greg Leitman, Ryan Pagelow, Adam Rust, Sam Sisco, Jack Syracuse — DETAILS

  • Fundalini Photo Exclusive — The George Mitchell Steroid Press Conference — Written by Jeff Kruse
  • Paint Like the Masters — Leonardo Da Vinci (Fifth in a Series) — Adam Rust
  • Bitterman — boyfriend on Bluetooth — Garth Gerhart
  • Meet the '08 Presidential Candidates — Mike Huckabee — Written by John Caldwell / Art by Jack Syracuse
  • Rejected Catchphrases from Rambo — Art by Sam Sisco
  • Castro Comments: stung by no Celebrity Apprentice offers
  • Lesser-Known Strikes in the Entertainment Industry... — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer
  • Shocking Revelations George Mitchell Left Out of His Report on Steroids in Baseball — Art by Charles Akins
  • The Fast 5 — Fun-Sounding Interrogating Methods the CIA is Considering to Replace Waterboarding — Art by John Caldwell
  • Monkeys Are Always Funny — Hillary and Bill Clinton campaign in Iowa
  • The Ryan's Den — “I need to blame my fart on someone.” — Ryan Pagelow
  6–8
• Zeroes (TV satire)

  The Yecch-Men Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Tom Richmond

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD About Super Heroes — Volume 2 — 2010
  • MAD About Super Heroes — Version 2.5 — 2012
  10–14
• Ads for Spy vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files, The MAD War on Bush, MAD About Star Wars, and The Completely MAD Don Martin books
  15
• The Darker Side of The Lighter Side

  Berg's-Eye Askew Dept.

  Dave Berg originals / uncredited altered dialogue
  16–18
• Monroe and... High School Musical

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Tom Fowler / Color by Ryan Flanders
  19–22
• Zygote 101 (ad parody)

  Jamie-Lynn Speared Dept.

  Art by Scott Bricher
  23
• If Classic Old Movie Scenes Were Filmed Today

  Go Ahead, Remake My Day Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Hermann Mejia

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  26–27 sample
• Planet TAD!!!!!

  In Blog We Trust Dept.

  Written by Tim Carvell / Art by Brian Durniak

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Intensely Dumb MAD — 2013
  28–29
• Spy vs. Spy — dove of peace bomb

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Spy vs. Spy — Fight to the Finish — 2013
  30
• Why George W. Bush is in Favor of Global Warming — A MAD Exposé

  An Inconvenient Doof Dept.

  Written by Jacob Lambert / Art by Joel Pett, Mike Peters, Jack Higgins, Dick Locher, Matt Davies, Clay Bennett, Michael Ramirez, Ben Sargent, Steve Breen, and Jim Morin

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • Inside MAD — 2013
  • MAD Picks — Special Collector's Edition 2013
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  • MAD Dumps on Trump and other Unlikeable Leaders! — Special Collector's Edition 2018
  31–33
• Extremist Makeover — Politician Edition

  About a Quote Low Dept.

  Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Drew Friedman

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD About Politics — 2008
  • MAD Spoofs Politics — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  • MAD #40 — December 2024
  34–35
• MAD's Bat-tastic The Dark Knight Outtakes

  Wayne, Wayne Go Away Dept.
  36–37
• A MAD Look at Halo

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  38–40
• Ad for MAD for Decades book
  41
• American Gagster (movie satire)

  Leader of the Smack Dept.

  Written by Arnie Kogen / Art by Mort Drucker
  42–46
• Ad for MAD Kids
  47
• What The Heck is the Difference?

  Observation Dreck Dept. — featuring cover #82
  48
• Fold-In — What major star has recently admitted receiving illegal career-damaging human growth injections?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964-2010 — 2011
  C3