MAD #545 — June 2017

"Nothing beats the satisfaction of a job well done - especially if you weren't the one who had to do it!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for MAD Presents Goodnight Batcave
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• Contents Page

  It's the List We Can Do Dept.
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • MAD remembers Gerry Gersten 1927–2017,
    Ed Asner holds framed spoofs of his shows — sample
  2–4
• Ad for Subscriptions

  Inside MAD bonus
  5
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various obscure places around the magazine) summary
• The Fundalini Pages

  Random Acts of Mindless Dept.

  • How to Spot Fake News — Written by Kenny Keil / Art by Ward Sutton
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019
  • Things El Chapo Learned While in New York City — Art by Jonathan Edwards
  • A Truthful Version of McDonald's Big Mac Ad
  • Eckstein Marks the Spot! — King Kong: The Golden Years (Bob Eckstein)
  • New Ways to Die: 2017 Edition — Written by Kenny Keil / Art by John Kerschbaum
  • The Fast Five — Ways Ronda Rousey Celebrated Her 30th Birthday — Art by Bob Staake
  • A Bit of Hanky-Panckeri — greatest thing since bread (Drew Panckeri)
  6–7
• The Trumpalini Pages

  Random Acts of Mindless Dept.

  • Trump's New Musical
  • The Fast Five — Silver Linings of Trump's Presidency — Written by Aabye-Gayle D. Francis-Favilla / Art by Rich Powell
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About Trump — 2017
  • Signs That the "Golden Shower" Report is False — Art by Sam Sisco
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About Trump — 2017
  • Trump Candy Hearts
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About Trump — 2017
  • A Travel Ban We'd Like to See
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About Trump — 2017
  • MAD Redesigns the Nordstrom Logo
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About Trump — 2017
  • How Melania Trump Plans to Fight Online Bullying — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Stephen Silver
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About Trump — 2017
  • The Startling Similarities Between The Beast from Beauty and the Beast and Donald Trump — Written by Christian Alsis / Art by Alejandro Rivas
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About Trump — 2017
  • A Protest Poster We'd Like to See
  • The Faster Five — Revelations from Trump's Voter Fraud Investigations — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Jose Garibaldi
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About Trump — 2017
  • Kellyanne's New Perfume
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About Trump — 2017
  • Tale of the Tape: Streep vs. Trump
  • Fun Facts About the U.S./Mexico Border Wall — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Kevin Pope
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About Trump — 2017
  8–10
• Hidden Messages in World Flags

  Symbol Pleasures Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin
  11
• Rough One — A Star Bores Snorer (movie satire)

  A Death Star is Born Dept.

  Written by David Richards / Art by Tom Richmond

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Spoofs Star Wars and Other Sci-Fi — Special Collector's Edition 2017
  12–18
• A MAD Look At YouTube

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones / Color by Tom Luth
  20–23
• Ad — MAD is now on Android Phones and Tablets!
  24
• No, Donald! (children's book parody)

  Alt-Write Dept.

  Written by Kenny Keil / Art by Sam Viviano and Jim Campbell

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD About Trump — 2017
  25–31
• Trums Antacid (ad parody)

  Your Gas is as Good as Mine Dept.

  Written by Christian Alsis

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD About Trump — 2017
  32
• The MAD Vault — from MAD #302 — Duck Edwing D.O.A.

  Rotten to the Encore Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing
  33–35
• Spy vs. Spy — bomb-balloon mix / virtual reality brain squeeze / spy as cannon

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Special Convention Sampler — 2017
  36–37
• Ad for tons of MAD books
  38–39
• MAD's Quick & Easy Office Exercises

  An Honest Day's Workout Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by John Martz

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD #47 — February 2026
  40
• Dewey Derwin Destroys the World! "Bad Chemistry"

  Character Flawed Dept.

  Written by Kenny Keil / Art by Justin Peterson
  41–44
• The Strip Club

  Pen and Stink Dept.

  • Almost Perfect Universe — don't feed the ducks! (Dakota McFadzean)
  • Brown Bear — Hell on Earth (Noah Van Sciver)
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019
  • Scribble Mountain — pond side-action (John McNamee)
  • Humour - While You Wait — Rooster Games (Kyle Bridgett)
  • Patience Man — skydiver rescue (David DeGrand)
  • Going Commando — unfriending Espinoza (Nathan Cooper)
  45–47
• Decimated Survivor (TV satire)

  Hail to the Kief Dept.

  Written by Arnie Kogen / Art by Tom Bunk
  48–52
• Ad for Graduation Day Gift Subscriptions
  53
• Supreme Court Cases Waiting to be Heard

  Torts Illustrated Dept.

  Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Anton Emdin

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 10 — Jan/Feb 2025
  54–55
• The Gap-Toothed Gallery: Alferoid Killed the Dinosaurs

  Out With the Old, in With the Neuman Dept.

  Art by Rick Meyerowitz
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• Fold-In — What seismic shifts are frightening many Americans?

  All Jaffee Dept.

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019
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• Back Cover — Glass Ceiling Plus (ad parody)

  Written by Alison Grambs / Photo by Irving Schild
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