MAD Magazine Letter Pages Recurring Features
MAD's BIG Question Of The Issue / MAD's BIG Answer
in Order of Appearance in Regular Issues
In Issue #320, MAD told readers that unlike other magazines, they care about their readers’ opinions. That’s why every now and then MAD asks their readers a question — a BIG question. The readers should send MAD their answers. MAD wanted to find out if… they mean HOW the readers think! Readers were to send their answers to “MAD’S BIG ANSWER”.
| Big Question | Big Question Issue / Date |
Big Answer (by votes when numbered) |
Big Answer Issue / Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| If you could perform unnecessary root canal on any celebrity, who would you choose and why? | 320 — Jul 1993 | 1. Rush Limbaugh 2. Gilbert Gottfried 3. Barney the Dinosaur |
322 — Oct 1993 |
| What is a more appropriate name for Socks The Cat now that he lives in The White House? | 321 — Sep 1993 | Democat, Tax the Cat, Zbigmew Pussinski, Top Cat, Hocks the Cat, Bushwacker, Potatoe, Gym Socks, Hose, Spats, Silk Stockings, Argyle, Barney Doodle II, Jefferson Rodham Stockings, Socks Rodham Clinton, Pampered Puss, Sax the Cat, Sacques, Dirty Socks, Party Animal | 323 — Dec 1993 |
| What celebrity would you like to see eating a Mad Cow-tainted cheesesteak on Fear Factor? | 456 — Aug 2005 | 1. Tom Cruise 2. Paris Hilton 3. Brad Pitt and Ann Coulter |
460 — Dec 2005 |
| Which celebrity’s iPod would you like to see cranked up to a dangerously high volume? | 460 — Dec 2005 462 — Feb 2006 |
1. Paris Hilton | 465 — May 2006 |
| Which celebrity would you most like to see get attacked by a Bird Flu-infected Emu? | 469 — Sep 2006 470 — Oct 2006 471 — Nov 2006 472 — Dec 2006 |
1. Heather Mills McCartney | 475 — Mar 2007 |
| What celebrity would you most like to see gunned down by paintballers? | 475 — Mar 2007 476 — Apr 2007 477 — May 2007 |
1. Rosie O’Donnell | 478 — Jun 2007 |
| What celebrity would you like to see “clown dunked” in a septic system? | 478 — Jun 2007 479 — Jul 2007 480 — Aug 2007 481 — Sep 2007 482 — Oct 2007 483 — Nov 2007 |
1. Hillary Clinton 2. Ryan Seacrest 3. Howard K. Stern 4. Fergie |
484 — Dec 2007 |
Compiled by John R. Racano
