MAD #482 — October 2007

"It's said a picture is worth a thousand words, but try telling that to a teacher who assigned you a thousand-word essay!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.
  2–4
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• 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, Paul Coker, Jr., P. C. Vey, Dick DeBartolo, Desmond Devlin, Paul Gilligan, Jeff Kruse, Hermann Mejia, Irving Schild, Steve Smallwood, Rick Tulka — DETAILS

  • The Fast 5 — Signs That There's Definitely Something Shady With NBA Officiating... — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.
  • Fundalini Asks "What If...?" — What If Scratch-Off Lotteries Saluted the World's Most Notorious Dictators?
  • Sock Puppet Theater — The Trapeze Tragedy! — Irving Schild photos
  • An Ad We'll Soon Be Seeing — Absolut NASA
  • The Kitchen Sink — TV Shows Rumored to be in the Works — Art by Rick Tulka
  • Other Secrets Revealed by the D.C. Madam — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Hermann Mejia
  • Vey To Go! — campers being eaten (P. C. Vey)
  • Graphic Novel Review — The Complete Chris Ware Pain-Thology — Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Steve Smallwood
  6–8
• MAD's 50 Worst Things About Advertising

  Sell-Shocked Dept.

  Written by Jeff Kruse and Scott Maiko / Art by Drew Friedman, Sam Sisco, Tom Bunk, Scott Bricher, Tim Hamilton, Timothy Shamey, Peter Bagge, Irving Schild, John Caldwell, Sergio Aragones, Mort Drucker, Kevin Pope, Tom Richmond, Marc Hempel, Al Jaffee, Jack Syracuse, Rich Powell, Tom Fowler, Bob Staake, Francis Mao, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Charles Akins, Dave Crosland, Rick Tulka, Hermann Mejia, Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Paul Coker, Jr., Leonardo Rodriguez, Peter Kuper, Jose Garibaldi, Sam Viviano, Angelo Torres
  10–17
• A MAD Look at Ratatouille

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  18–21
• A Collection of Significantly Stupid Strategies for Battling Skyrocketing Gas Prices

  A Fuel-Proof Plan Dept.

  John Caldwell
  22–23
• Spy vs. Spy — spy statue with real gun / flower pot missile

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Spy vs. Spy — Fight to the Finish — 2013
  26–27
• Ad for The MAD War on Bush, MAD About Star Wars, and The Completely MAD Don Martin
  28
• The Strip Club

  Pen and Stink Dept.

  • “Smells Like Mean Spirit” (Vic Black)
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • Extremely Moronic MAD — 2012
  • It Only Hurts When I Laugh — Happy Cafe (Christopher Baldwin)
  • Baby Bickford is The Bully Baby!! (Keith Knight)
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • Extremely Moronic MAD — 2012
  • The Machine That Travels Through Time (Joey Alison Sayers)
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • Totally Useless MAD — 2013
  • Fantabulaman (Ted Rall)
    Reprinted in 2 collections

    • MAD About Super Heroes — Volume 2 — 2010
    • MAD About Super Heroes — Version 2.5 — 2012
  29–32
• Monroe and... The Summer Jobs — Part 2

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Tom Fowler / Color by Ryan Flanders
  33–36
• George W. Bush's Colonoscopy Results

  Polyp Goes the Weasel Dept.

  Written by Al Jaffee / Art by Hermann Mejia

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Dumps on Trump and other Unlikeable Leaders! — Special Collector's Edition 2018
  37
• Questions We'd Love to See the Media Ask Presidential Candidates

  Third Degree Burned Dept.

  Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Spoofs Politics — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  38–39 sample
• MAD's Better, Stronger, Faster Outtakes from Bionic Woman

  How Can You Mend a Broken Part? Dept.
  40–41
• Ad for Spy vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files
  42
• America's Next Top Mobster

  Wise Guise Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Tom Richmond

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • This Is Your Brain On MAD — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  • MAD Hodgepodge of Humor — Vol. 5 — September 2026
  43–46
• What The Heck is the Difference? — featuring cover MAD #89

  Observation Dreck Dept.
  47
• Fold-In — What hotly debated issue has Americans split right down the middle?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
  • MAD Unplugs TV — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  C3