MAD #356 — April 1997

"Smoking helps you lose weight — one lung at a time!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions — Help End Civilization As We Know It!
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• Kids' Classic Stories as Told by Famous People

  Spins and Needles Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #22 — July 2003
  4–5
• Monroe &... The Curse (first Monroe appearance)

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD XL #25 — January 2004
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • The Best of the Worst! — Special Collector's Edition 2012
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  6–7
• Absolut Kevorkian.

  A Tough Swill to Swallow Dept.

  Written by Al Jaffee / Art by Greg Theakston

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD 50 Years of Stupidity! — 2002
  • MAD Art — 2002
  • MADvertising — 2005
  8
• Joey Buttafuoco's Guide to Chivalry

  Head of the Crass Dept.

  Written by C.J. Burke / Art by Kyle Baker

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #19 — January 2003
  9–11
• Spy vs. Spy — training video

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Written by Michael Gallagher / Art by Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Classics #2 — September 2005
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  12–13
• One Grim Day in a Waiting Room

  Coward's End Dept.

  Written by Sean Eisenporth / Art by Tom Bunk

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Gross Book — 2001
  14 sample
• The 60's and The 90's

  The Generation Crap Dept.

  Written by Russ Cooper / Art by Rick Tulka

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD XL #23 — August 2003
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • The Best of the Worst! — Special Collector's Edition 2012
  15–17 sample
• Absolut Liver.

  A Tough Swill to Swallow Dept.

  Written by Al Jaffee / Art by Greg Theakston

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MADvertising — 2005
  18
• PETArd's Animal Rights Newsletter

  Going a Bit too Fur Dept.

  Written by Chris Hart / Art by Hermann Mejia

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #28 — July 2004
  19–23
• When Other Magazines Resort to Featuring Nude Celebrities on Their Covers

  When the Going Gets Buff Dept.

  Written by Frank Santopadre / Art by Drew Friedman

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • The MAD Gross Book — 2001
  • MAD XL #17 — August 2002
  24–25 sample
• A MAD Look at Racism

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonés — 2010
  • MAD #17 — February 2021
  26–29
• Hooked on Ebonics!

  You Be or Not You Be, That is the Question Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by R.J. Matson
  30
• The Bad Cop's Guide to Good Police Work

  Brute Farce Dept.

  Written by Andrew J. Schwartzberg / Art by George Woodbridge

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #22 — July 2003
  31–33
• Absolut O.J.

  A Tough Swill to Swallow Dept.

  Written by Al Jaffee / Art by Greg Theakston

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MADvertising — 2005
  34
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #23 — August 2003
  35–38
• Melvin & Jenkins' Guide to Personal Fitness

  The Schmucks Stop Here Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Kevin Pope

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD Classics #12 — January 2007
  39–41
• One Sad Sunday at St. Sebastian's

  Pulpit Friction Dept.

  Written by Robert Therrien / Art by Joe Orlando

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Art — 2002
  • MAD XL #16 — July 2002
  • Inside MAD — 2013
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
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• Future Editions of MTV's The Real World

  Get the Puck Out of Here Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Sam Viviano

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #19 — January 2003
  43–47
• A TV Commercial We'd Like to See

  And Now an Absurd from Our Sponsors Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Timothy Shamey
  48
• Fold-In — Where has an unexpected supply of crude recently been discovered?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Absolut Winter.

  Written by Al Jaffee / Art by Greg Theakston

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MADvertising — 2005
  • The Best of the Worst! — Special Collector's Edition 2012
  • The Golden Treasury of Trash — Special Collector's Edition 2013
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