MAD #421 — September 2002

"Most bosses never lift a finger at work — unless it's to point out something you did wrong!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Photo of John Walsh with MAD #414, MAD with pets photos
  2, 4, 6
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• 8 Top Secret Facts About Austin Powers in Goldmember That Mike Myers Doesn't Want You to Know

  A Poke in the Spy Dept. Part I

  Written by David Shayne / Art by Hermann Mejia
  8–9
• Drastic Cutbacks in the Music Industry

  Rhythm and Boo-Hoos Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Rick Tulka / Color by Digital Chameleon
  (idea incorrectly credited to Scott Lieberman)

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #16 — July 2007
  10–12
• Star Bores Epic Load II — Attack of the Clowns (movie satire)

  Jedi Knightmare Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD XL #33 — June 2005
  • MAD About Star Wars — 2007
  • MAD About the Movies — Director's Cut — 2008
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — Mort Drucker — 2012
  • Disturbingly Awful MAD — 2013
  14–18
• MAD's Modern Animal Crackers

  Cookies Monstered Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by James Warhola

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD Classics #19 — November 2007
  19 sample
• Monroe and... The Big House

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray
  20–23
• MAD Deconstructs TV Talk Shows — The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

  The Chat'n the Stat Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Bob Staake

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #21 — April 2008
  24–25
• The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Official Edict on Pedophile Priests

  Altared Snakes Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Tom Nick Cocotos

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #15 — June 2007
  26–27
• Eminem — The Senior Citizen Years

  Artificial Hip-Hop Dept.

  John Caldwell
  28–30
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg / Color by Digital Chameleon

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Classics #20 — January 2008
  • MAD's Greatest Artists — Dave Berg — 2013
  31–34
• Spy vs. Spy — flexible cannon canvas window ricochet

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • Spy vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  • Spy vs. Spy — The Top Secret Files — 2011
  35–36
• A MAD Look at Star Wars: Attack of the Clones

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD XL #33 — June 2005
  • MAD About Star Wars — 2007
  37–40
• Ad for Winamp Contest

  with Alfred E. Neuman skin
  41
• Conclusive Evidence of the Ever-Widening Gap Between Baseball's Small and Large Market Teams

  Pros and Contrasts Dept.

  Written by Scott Lieberman / Art by Tom Richmond

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #22 — July 2003
  42–43
• Confidential Documents You Won't Find On thesmokinggun.com

  A Data Which Will Live in Infamy Dept.

  Written by Scott Sonneborn / Art by Drew Friedman

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #18 — November 2002
  44–47
• How to Spice Up Your Video Will

  Funeral Director's Cut Dept.

  Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Tom Bunk

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Turd in a Series — 2003
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • MAD Classics #23 — October 2008
  48–49
• MAD's Thumbs Up / Thumbs Down Review —
  Why You Should or Shouldn't See Austin Powers in Goldmember

  A Poke in the Spy Dept. Part II

  Written by Barry Liebmann / Art by Hermann Mejia

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD #18 — April 2021
  50–51
• Fold-In — What goofy character is America's youth learning the most from?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

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