MAD #302 — April 1991

"Remember the good old days, when the government lived within its income and without most of yours?" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions

  featuring MAD Buttons Bonus / Big Books
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept. (300th issue tributes)

  Notes

  • Ad for See No... Hear No... Speak No... MAD Paperback
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• Video Reviews — by Roger Eclair and Gene Fishkill (movie satires)

  Hart Burn Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Mort Drucker

  • Die Even Harder 2
  • Slutty Woman
  • Days of Blunder
  • Flopliners
  • Dorkman
  • Presumed Impotent

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #132 — November 1998
  4–7
• Celebrity Sound Effects

  Acouschtick Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #122 — August 1997
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Turd in a Series — 2003
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  8–9
• Small Scale Examples of How History Repeats Itself!

  The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Lame Dept.

  Written by Dan Birtcher / Art by Tom Bunk

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #120 — April 1997
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  10–11
• Spy vs. Spy — sharks in klopper test tank

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Special #129 — July 1998
  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  12
• Babar's Final Adventure

  Taking Them to Tusk Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Bob Clarke

  Reprinted in 9 collections

  • MAD Special #122 — August 1997
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • The Golden Treasury of Trash — Special Collector's Edition 2013
  • MAD's Greatest Writers — Frank Jacobs — 2015
  13–17
• Advertising Characters & Corporate Mascots That Better Reflect the Miserable Companies They Work For

  Company Trademocks Dept.

  Written by Charlie Kadau / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Special #130 — August 1998
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • MADvertising — 2005
  18–19
• MAD's Lifetime Chart of Wasted Time

  As the Clock Schticks Away Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Harry North, Esq.

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #132 — November 1998
  20–21
• Great Moments in Medicine

  Anals of Humor Dept.

  Written by Nick Meglin / Art by Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Special #129 — July 1998
  • The MAD Gross Book — 2001
  • MAD #14 — August 2020
  • MAD #31 — June 2023
  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 5 — Apr/May 2023
  22 sample
• The MAD Nasty File — Volume V

  Along the Snide Lines Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Gerry Gersten

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #4 — July 2000
  23–25
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #122 — August 1997
  26–30
• Duck Edwing D.O.A.

  The Morgue the Merrier Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #104 — June 1995
  • The MAD Gross Book — 2001
  • MAD #545 — June 2017 — The MAD Vault
  31–33
• MAD's All-Inclusive Do-It-Yourself National Scandal Newspaper Story

  The Shame Old Thing Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #125 — December 1997
  34–35
• MAD's Modern Babysitter's Guide to the Problem Child

  Brat's Entertainment! Dept.

  Paul Peter Porges

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #129 — July 1998
  36–37
• Did We Miss Something?

  Changing Our Unaware Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Rick Tulka
  38–39
• A MAD Look at How Far We've Come

  There's Always Gloom for Improvement Dept.

  Written by Tom Koch / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Special #125 — December 1997
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — 2000
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  40–42
• MacGimmick (TV satire)

  Gadget Goes to Washington Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Angelo Torres

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #129 — July 1998
  43–47 sample
• Hi, Readers! Reverend Donald Wildmon Here!

  Written by Charlie Kadau and Joe Raiola / Art by Jack Davis, Dave Berg, Bob Clarke, and John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #122 — August 1997
  48
• Fold-In — What has George Bush's "Read My Lips" changed to?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — A See 'n Say for Modern Kids

  Written by Dan Birtcher / Art by John Pound

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special #130 — August 1998
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