MAD #483 — November 2007

"Just because you wear the pants in your family doesn't mean it'll be your hands in the pockets!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Celebrity Snap: Chuck D. with MAD #473
  2, 4
• 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: Sergio Aragones, John Caldwell, Don (Duck) Edwing, Todd Eisner, Garth Gerhart, Jeff Kruse, Jacob Lambert, Scott Maiko, Benjamin Schultz, Michael Slack, Jack Syracuse, Rick Tulka, Jason Yungbluth — DETAILS

  • Michael Vick's Apology Statement — First Draft
  • Little-Known Provisions in the 2007 Immigration Bill — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Sergio Aragones
  • The Fast 5 — Amazing Facts About Jenna Bush's New Book — Art by Rick Tulka
  • The Zombie Food Pyramid — Written by Todd Eisner and Benjamin Schultz / Art by Michael Slack
    Reprinted in 2 collections

    • MAD Kids #13 — December 2008
    • MAD #33 — October 2023
  • Duck Droppings — blind panhandlers fight over space (Don (Duck) Edwing)
  • Fundalini Asks "What If...?" — What If Books Were Printed on Deli Meats?
  • Fundalini Presents Excerpts from: Movie Screw-Ups — A Clueless, Anal-Retentive Guide to Cinema — Written by Jeff Kruse
  • The Godfrey Report
  • Meet the '08 Presidential Candidates — Mitt Romney — Written by John Caldwell / Art by Jack Syracuse
  • Classified Ads
  • Rejected Ultimate Fighting Championship Slogans
  • The Yungbluth & The Restless — mummy involved in hate crime (Jason Yungbluth) sample
  • Bitterman — don't say "Good morning!" (Garth Gerhart)
  6–8
• When Other Advertising Characters Get TV Shows

  Sit-Commercials Dept.

  Written by Scott Maiko / Art by Tom Richmond
  10–12
• Rejected Hillary Clinton Campaign Slogans

  The Phrase That Slays Dept.

  Written by Nathaniel Stein / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Spoofs Politics — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  14–15
• Ad for MAD Classics #19
  16
• A MAD Look at Zombies

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • Horrifyingly MAD — 2011
  • Amazingly Stupid MAD — 2012
  • Amazingly Stupid MAD — Expanded Edition — 2013
  • MAD Spoofs Horror — Special Collector's Edition 2017
  • MAD #33 — October 2023
  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 6 — Jul/Aug 2023
  17–20
• Planet TAD!!!!!

  In Blog We Trust Dept.

  Written by Tim Carvell
  22–23
• The Strip Club

  Pen and Stink Dept.

  • Pondering the Really Meaningful Stuff... (Rob Harrell)
  • The Long and Short of It (Dan Long)
    Reprinted in 2 collections

    • Amazingly Stupid MAD — 2012
    • Amazingly Stupid MAD — Expanded Edition — 2013
  • Elf Droppings (Jason Yungbluth)
  • Jump Cut Presents Fight Club (Paul Gilligan)
  • Father O'Flannity's Hot Tub Confessions with Nicole Richie (Keith Knight)
  • Product Placement in Horror Movies (Scott Nickel)
    Reprinted in 2 collections

    • Extremely Moronic MAD — 2012
    • MAD #33 — October 2023
  • Just Below the Surface (Douglas Paszkiewicz)
  25–28
• MAD's Inspirational Animal Stories (fourth in a series) — The Magical Bear That Made People's Dreams Come True

  The Beast and the Brightest Dept.

  Written by Brian McConnachie / Art by Leonardo Rodriguez
  30–31
• One Day At Lincoln High

  Love Is in the Err Dept.

  Eric Scott

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Certifiably MAD — 2012
  32
• Idiotic Anti-Gun Control Arguments the NRA Hasn't Used — Yet!

  Shoot Happens Dept.

  Written by Jacob Lambert / Art by Peter Kuper
  34–35
• Things That Really Get Under A Zombie's Skin

  Monsters' Gall Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • Horrifyingly MAD — 2011
  • Epic MAD — 2012
  • Amazingly Stupid MAD — Expanded Edition — 2013
  • MAD Spoofs Horror — Special Collector's Edition 2017
  • MAD #33 — October 2023
  38–39
• Spy vs. Spy — giant thumb imprint / guillotine nose stab

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Spy vs. Spy — Fight to the Finish — 2013
  40–41
• What School Bus Drivers are Doing While You're in Class!

  The Wheel World Dept.

  Teresa Burns Parkhurst

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Kids #7 — May 2007
  • Certifiably MAD — 2012
  • MAD #33 — October 2023
  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 6 — Jul/Aug 2023
  42–43
• 7 Periods Closer to Death

  Is That Rall There Is Dept.

  Ted Rall
  44
• Ad for Spy vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files, The MAD War on Bush, MAD About Star Wars, and The Completely MAD Don Martin
  46
• 1 Is Worse Than 100 (TV satire)

  Take This Mob and Shove It Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Tom Bunk
  47–50
• What The Heck is the Difference? — featuring cover MAD #165

  Observation Dreck Dept.
  51
• Fold-In — What little rat-faced chef raked in millions this year?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

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