MAD #549 — February 2018

"One good thing about World War 3: at least there won't be any more sequels!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions
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• Contents Page

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

  Notes

  • MAD notes the passing of Barry Liebmann; large UGOI group photo from NY Comic Con
  2–4
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• Ad for MAD Presents Superman and the Miserable, Rotten, No Fun, Really Bad Day
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• The Fundalini Pages

  Random Acts of Mindless Dept.

  Featuring /

  • A Breakdown of Trump's 30 Million Twitter Followers — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Bob Staake
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019
  • Updated Board Games for Millennials — Written by Matt Lassen
  • Kuper Market — three wise men (Peter Kuper)
  • Mike Pence's Joke Corner — Written by Brian Boone / Art by Chris Houghton
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019
  • Spoilers from Star Wars: The Last Jedi
  • Trump's I.Q. Test
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019
  • Fundalini Presents… Unless — Written by Mike Morse / Art by John Kerschbaum
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019
  • The Nincompoop Nine — Reasons for Netflix's $20 Billion Debt — Written by Kenny Keil
  • McNamee, Myself and I — saved his arm (John McNamee)
  • Where Your $1000 Goes on the iPhone X — Art by Rick Tulka
  • Samuel Ferri's Misconnected Moments — protest sign / camouflage slippers / emoji pillows (Samuel Ferri)
  6–8
• The MAD 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2017

  Introduction page art by Scott Bricher / Idea by Mike Morse

  • 1. Team Trump Colludes With Russians — "Russkie Business" — (Risky Business poster parody) — Art by Mark Fredrickson

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019

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  • 2. Bill O'Reilly — "O — The O'Reilly Magazine" — (O — The Oprah Magazine cover parody) 11
  • 3. United Airlines' Passenger Removal — (apology letter) — Written by Joe Raiola and Charlie Kadau 12
  • 4. White Supremacists March — "White Hate American Summer" — (Wet Hot American Summer poster parody) — Art by Tom Richmond

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019

    13
  • 5. Academy Award Show Screw-Up — "It Came From the Wrong Envelope!" — (horror movie poster) — Art by Chris Wahl 14
  • 6. Trump on Twitter — "Tweeties" — (Wheaties cereal box parody) — Art by Mike Loew

    Reprinted in 2 collections

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019
    • MAD #40 — December 2024

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  • 7. Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary — "Spicer's Rack"

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019

    16
  • 8. Trump vs. Kim Jong-Un — "Clash of Clowns" — (Clash of Clans mobile game parody) — Art by Tom Richmond

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019

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  • 9. Mike Pence Won't Dine Alone With a Woman — "Supperman" — (Superman comic cover parody) — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by R. Sikoryak sample

    Reprinted in 3 collections

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019
    • MAD #25 — June 2022
    • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 2 — Aug/Sep 2022

    18
  • 10. Trump Bans Transgender Soldiers — "I Don't Want You" — (I Want You For U.S. Army — J. M. Flagg's recruitment poster parody) — Art by Richard Williams

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019

    19
  • 11. Trump's Muslim Travel Ban — "trumpelocity" — (travelocity website parody) — Written by Charlie Kadau / Sculpture by Liz Lomax

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019

    20
  • 12. Harvey Weinstein — "For Your Consideration — Most Disgusting Performance by a Major Studio Executive" — Art by Drew Friedman 21
  • 13. Chris Christie Closes Jersey Beaches — "Scandals" — (Sandals resort ad parody) — Art by Roberto Parada

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019

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  • 14. Bill Maher and Kathy Griffin's Tasteless Jokes — "Tone-Deaf Comedy Jam" — (Def Comedy Jam parody)

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019

    23
  • 15. Alex Jones — "Infowars Jones and the Babble of Conspiracies" — (Indiana Jones poster parody) — Art by Mark Stutzman

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019

    24
  • 16. Kyrie Irving Says the Earth is Flat — Art by Anton Emdin 25
  • 17. White House Staff Firings — "The Let-Go Movie" — (The Lego Movie poster parody) — Art by Dean MacAdam

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019

    26
  • 18. What widespread addiction in America is whirling out of control? — Fold-In (Al Jaffee) 27
  • 19. NFL Blackballs Kaepernick — "I had a team" — (Martin Luther King Jr. I had a dream speech) — Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Ward Sutton

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019

    28–29
  • 20. Trump's Response to Puerto Rico — "Tyrant of the Caribbean" — (Pirates of the Caribbean poster parody) — Art by Alejandro Rivas

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD About The Trump Era — 2019

    30
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• Dewey Derwin Destroys the World! — "Natural Disaster"

  Character Flawed Dept.

  Written by Kenny Keil / Art by Justin Peterson
  31–34
• Clodco Wholesale (ad parody)

  The Incredible Bulk Dept.

  Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Mike Loew
  35
• Projectile Vomit Baby Through History

  The Greatest Stories Ever Hurled Dept.

  Scott Nickel
  36–37
• Tinder Bio Translations

  Dates & Confused Dept.

  Written by Kenny Keil / Art by Stephen Silver
  38–39
• Ad for MAD Books
  40–41
• Spy vs. Spy — blender / treadmill / grave coffin plans

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper
  42–43
• The MAD Vault

  Rotten to the Encore Dept.

  Article from MAD #305: Why We Get the Holiday Blahs — Written by Barry Liebmann / Art by George Woodbridge
  44–46
• The Strip Club

  Pen and Stink Dept.

  Featuring /

  • Plane Bull$#*t! — more legroom (Peter Kuper)
  • WTF, Jeff? or My Roommate Might Be a Serial Killer — tub cleaning and back hair — Written by Kit Lively / Art by Scott Nickel
  • Almost Perfect Universe — wizard school (Dakota McFadzean)
  • Game of Bones (Feggo)
  • It Only Hurts When I Laugh — tricked-out car rental (Christopher Baldwin)
  • Jet Wingman (Eric Haven)
  47–49
• 10 Toons by Teresa Burns Parkhurst

  A Walk in the Parkhurst Dept.

  Teresa Burns Parkhurst
  50–51
• A MAD Look at Food Trucks

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones / Color by Tom Luth

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD #29 — February 2023
  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 4 — Nov/Dec 2022
  52–55
• The Gap-Toothed Gallery — Alfred E. Neuron

  Out With the Old, In With the Neuman Dept.

  Michael DeForge
  56
• Ad for MAD About Trump
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• Back Cover — Important Bike Safety Tips

  Dick De-Pt.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by John Martz
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