MAD #486 — February 2008

"Whoever said nothing is gained by cheating never cheated on a diet!" — 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: Charles Akins, Peter Bagge, Scott Bricher, Tom Bunk, John Caldwell, Paul Coker, Jr., Desmond Devlin, Darren Johnson, Jeff Kruse, Jacob Lambert, Jack Syracuse, Sumukh Torgalkar, P. C. Vey — DETAILS

  • Things You Don't Want to Hear from a High School Guidance Counselor — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Tom Bunk
  • Better Happy Endings to Fairy Tales than "Happily Ever After" (three separate instances) — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.
  • Fundalini Presents... The 3 Biggest Lies!!! — In Video Games — Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Peter Bagge
  • Least E-Mailed Articles
  • Only a Hardcore Cable News Junkie... — Art by John Caldwell
  • Modern Heart Pendants
  • Meet the '08 Presidential Candidates — Dennis Kucinich — Written by John Caldwell / Art by Jack Syracuse
  • Vey To Go! — tall ladder — P. C. Vey
  • Fundalini Goes to the White House — Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore Visits President Bush
  • The Godfrey Report
  • Things Your Overprotective Parents Will Do If They See Your Myspace Page — Art by Scott Bricher
  8–10
• George W. Bush "Spins" His Final State of the Union Address

  True Wrongs Don't Make a Right Dept.

  Idea by Frank Jacobs / Art by Ward Sutton
  12–13
• Spy vs. Spy — helium tank hides h-bomb

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Spy vs. Spy — Fight to the Finish — 2013
  14–15
• Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions

  All Jaffee Dept.

  Al Jaffee / Color by Ryan Flanders

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • This Is Your Brain On MAD — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  • MAD #28 — December 2022 (excerpt)
  • 70th Anniversary Issue — Vol. 3 — December 2022 — B&N Edition (excerpt)
  16–17
• Zeroes — Ignore the Candidates, Save the World.

  Comic Schnooks Dept.
  18–19
• A MAD Look at Death

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonés — 2010
  • Horrifyingly MAD — 2011
  20–23 sample
• Ads 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 books
  24
• MAD Presents The Whitest Kids U' Know

  special advertising section

  • Cover — Art by Mark Fredrickson (p. 25)
  • Get to Know The Whitest Kids U' Know... — Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Hermann Mejia (p. 26–27)
  • "Scaring Babies!" — Art by Jack Syracuse (p. 28) sample
  • "The Pregnancy Test" — Art by Drew Friedman (p. 28–29)
  • "Polite War" — Art by Tom Bunk (p. 28–29)
  • "Sexy Fawn" — Art by Tom Richmond (p. 30–31)
  25–31
• Monroe and... The Recall

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Tom Fowler / Color by Ryan Flanders
  33–36
• Ad for Subscriptions

  with bonus #43 print offer
  37
• When the Morbidly Obese Go Bad

  Fats All, Folks! Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Totally Useless MAD — 2013
  38–39
• MAD's Juvenile Kid Nation Outtakes

  No Child Left Behind the Scenes Dept.
  40–42
• Ad for Absolutely MAD DVD
  44
• The Strip Club

  Pen and Stink Dept.

  • EEK! — Scott Nickel
  • The Legendary Deliveries of Pete Zahn — John Kovaleski
  • Fantabulaman — Ted Rall
  • Whoops — Stan Arrowood
  • The Machine That Travels Through Time — Joey Alison Sayers
  • Just Below the Surface — Douglas Paszkiewicz
  • It Only Hurts When I Laugh — Christopher Baldwin
  45–48
• Happy Hour Candidate Rundown

  Political Drink Tank Dept.

  Ted Rall
  50
• Man Vs. Wild... At The Mall (TV satire)

  Shop Goes the Weasel Dept.

  Written by David Shayne / Art by Hermann Mejia

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • Totally Useless MAD — 2013
  • MAD Unplugs TV — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  • MAD #43 — June 2025
  51–54
• What The Heck is the Difference?

  Observation Dreck Dept. — featuring cover #331
  55
• Fold-In — What unqualified, smug goofball was, thankfully, banned from running for president in 2008?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

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