MAD #455 — July 2005

"Parents are the ones who never listen to a word you say — until you mutter something under your breath!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.
  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: Ray Alma, Pranav Behari, Scott Bricher, John Caldwell, Dick DeBartolo, Garth Gerhart, Philip Kim, Scott Mendenhall, Mike Snider, Bob Staake, Jack Syracuse — DETAILS

  • 12 Ways NASA Plans on Cutting the Costs of the Space Program
  • The Cover We Didn't Use — Holy Smoke! — Special Sinful Issue! (Pope selection) — Art by Ray Alma
  • Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds — Donald Trump — Written by Mike Snider / Art by Jack Syracuse
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD Dumps on Trump and other Unlikeable Leaders! — Special Collector's Edition 2018
  • Sundays at 9 on Al-Jazeera: Desperate Hamas Wives
  • Fundalini Foto News: Congress Gets Pumped Up About Steroids in Baseball
  • Updated Parental Warnings — Art by Bob Staake
  • The Godfrey Report
  • A MAD Guide to Martha Stewart's Prison Tattoos — Written by Scott Mendenhall
    Reprinted in 3 collections

    • The Freebie MAD — 2005
    • The Freebie MAD — 2005
    • MAD Classics #5 — February 2006
  • The Fast 5 — Little-Known Facts About the Recent Conclave of Cardinals — John Caldwell
  • Bitterman — "I had the biggest crush on you back then..." — Garth Gerhart
  8–10
• Battyman, Begone! (movie satire)

  You've Got Bale Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Tom Richmond

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • MAD Classics #22 — July 2008
  • MAD Kids #13 — December 2008 (excerpt)
  • MAD About Super Heroes — Volume 2 — 2010
  • MAD About Super Heroes — Version 2.5 — 2012
  • MAD Presents Batman — September 2012
  12–18
• MAD's CD Cover Doodles

  Deface the Music Dept.

  Russ Cooper

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • White Castle Goes MAD — 2005
  • MAD Kids #1 — December 2005 (excerpt)
  • MAD Classics #5 — February 2006
  • MAD Kids #3 — May 2006 (excerpt)
  • MAD Kids #5 — December 2006 (excerpt)
  • MAD Kids #6 — March 2007 (excerpt)
  20–21
• If the Star Wars Galaxy Had Classified Ads

  May the For Sale Be With You Dept.

  Written by David Shayne / Art by Tom Bunk

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • MAD About Star Wars — 2007
  • Extremely Moronic MAD — 2012
  • MAD Spoofs Sci-Fi / Star Wars — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  • MAD Spoofs Star Wars — Special Collector's Edition 2019
  • MAD #39 — October 2024
  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 9 — Aug/Sep 2024
  22
• A MAD Look at Summer Camp

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • White Castle Goes MAD — 2005
  • MAD's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonés — 2010
  24–28
• Monroe and... Therapy (100th episode)

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray
  33–36
• Americans Who Just Missed Becoming Pope

  He's Not a Papal Person Dept.

  Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Hermann Mejia

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #5 — February 2006
  38–39
• New Books by Your Favorite Conservative Authors

  The Right Zing Dept.

  Written by Joe Raiola / Art by Hermann Mejia and Scott Bricher
  40–41
• Spy vs. Spy — bathroom gun/hairdryer shock

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • The Freebie MAD — 2005
  • White Castle Goes MAD — 2005
  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  • Spy vs. Spy — Fight to the Finish — 2013
  42
• The Strip Club

  Pen & Stink Dept.

  • Rob — The Evil, Backstabbing Robot Temp — Art by Corey Pandolph — sample
    Reprinted in 4 collections

    • MAD #19 — June 2021
    • MAD #30 — April 2023
    • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 5 — Apr/May 2023
    • MAD #47 — February 2026
  • Jump Cut — Paul Gilligan
  • Father O'Flannity's Hot Tub Confessions with Bono of U2 — Keith Knight
  • The Comic With No Name — Mo Willems
    Reprinted in 2 collections

    • Epic MAD — 2012
    • Insanely Awesome MAD — Deluxe Edition — 2014
  • How Not to Get a 3rd Date! — Ryan Sias
  • The Adventures of Fantabulaman — Ted Rall
    Reprinted in 4 collections

    • MAD About Super Heroes — Volume 2 — 2010
    • Epic MAD — 2012
    • MAD About Super Heroes — Version 2.5 — 2012
    • Insanely Awesome MAD — Deluxe Edition — 2014
  49–51
• Ad for MAD Survey with chance to win Spy vs. Spy Bookends
  52
• MAD's Inspirational Animal Stories — The Special Puppy (first in a series)

  The Beast and the Brightest Dept.

  Written by Brian McConnachie / Art by Leonardo Rodriguez

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #5 — February 2006
  53–55
• Parental Double-Standards

  Hypocritical Condition Dept.

  Written by David Shayne / Art by Peter Bagge

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • White Castle Goes MAD — 2005
  • MAD Classics #5 — February 2006
  56–57
• MAD Sucker-Punches The Contender — A Knockout Collection of Outtakes

  Do the Fight Thing Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider
  58–59
• Ad for Subscriptions

  Mark Fredrickson art from MAD #434
  60
• Fold-In — What event is guaranteed to bring many MAD readers together this year?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

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