MAD #446 — October 2004

"When you put someone on a pedestal, it just makes it easier for them to look down on you!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Stills from Spy vs. Spy Mountain Dew TV ad
  2, 4, 6
• 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, Tom Cheney, Desmond Devlin, Don (Duck) Edwing, Josh Eiserike, Garth Gerhart, Charlie Kadau, Jeff Kruse, Patrick Merrell, Kevin Pope, David Shayne, Mike Snider, Jack Syracuse, Rick Tulka — DETAILS

  • Fundalini Foto News: Saddam on Trial
  • Things You'll Never Hear on ESPN
  • Melvin & Jenkins' Guide to Technology — Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Kevin Pope
  • Mama-Mafia — Don (Duck) Edwing
  • New Reality Shows Currently in Development at FOX TV — Art by Rick Tulka
  • Same Sex Weddings Magazine
  • Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds — Michael Moore — Written by Mike Snider / Art by Jack Syracuse
  • The Puzzle Nook — "---ra makes you look 10 pounds heavier." — Patrick Merrell
  • Magazine Corrections You May Have Missed — Cosmopolitan quiz error — Written by Jeff Kruse
  • Pull My Cheney! — booger mountain — Tom Cheney
  • Bitterman — rage therapy — Garth Gerhart
  • Video Game News Ticker — Written by Josh Eiserike / Art by Charles Akins
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • White Castle Goes MAD — 2005
  8–10
• Spider-Sham Too (movie satire)

  The Web Zinger Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Tom Richmond

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD About the Movies Director's Cut — 2008
  • MAD About Super Heroes — Volume 2 — 2010
  • MAD About Super Heroes — Version 2.5 — 2012
  12–17
• A MAD Look at Paparazzi

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • This Is Your Brain on MAD — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  18–20
• The Downsides of Home Schooling

  Papa Don't Teach Dept.

  John Caldwell
  22–23
• Five Degrees of Bacon

  Kevin Can Wait Dept.

  Written by Michael Rodman / Various sources and Irving Schild photos

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Classics #24 — January 2009
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • Extremely Moronic MAD — 2012
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  24–25
• George W. Bush's 10-Point Plan for Fighting Terrorism

  Between Iraq and Jihad Place Dept.

  Written by Barry Liebmann / Art by Drew Friedman

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD War on Bush — 2007
  27–29
• Spy vs. Spy — wrestling ring ropes replaced with blades

  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
  30–31
• The Bush Campaign's TV Commercial If He Was Running Against Jesus

  The Bashin' of the Christ Dept.

  Written by Don Vaughan / Art by Scott Bricher / AP & Wide World photo

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • The MAD War on Bush — 2007
  • MAD About Politics — 2008
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • The Best of the Worst! — Special Collector's Edition 2012
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  32
• Without a Trace of Interest (TV satire)

  The Not Ready for Crime Time Players Dept.

  Written by Arnie Kogen / Art by Angelo Torres / Gray tones by David Rodriguez of Wildstorm FX
  33–35
• Old Case (TV satire)

  The Not Ready for Crime Time Players Dept.

  Written by Arnie Kogen / Art by Angelo Torres / Gray tones by David Rodriguez of Wildstorm FX
  36–38
• Your Candidate and My Candidate

  Bias Beware Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • Extremely Moronic MAD — 2012
  • MAD's Greatest Writers — Frank Jacobs — 2015
  • MAD #541 — October 2016 (MAD Vault)
  40–41 sample
• Monroe and... Europe — Part Tres

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray
  42–45
• The Underachiever's Timeline

  Slack to the Future Dept.

  Teresa Burns Parkhurst
  46
• MAD's Fall TV Preview

  Show-Floppers Dept.

  Written by Scott Maiko / Art by Hermann Mejia
  48–52
• Fold-In — What's causing the unemployment rate to rise every week?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • White Castle Goes MAD — 2005
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
  C3