Mad XL #8 March 2001

• Main Image Cover Artist: Tom Bunk
  (from America's Most Noteworthy Science
  Fair Projects... That Lost! from #332)
• Cover Design: Patrick Merrell

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• Words on the spine:
  "100 pages of clean and wholesome depravity"
• Contents Page
• Ad for subscriptions
• Die Hard With No Variance (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Drew Friedman art)
• These Days We Consider Ourselves Lucky...
  (written by Butch D'Ambrosio / Tom Bunk art)
• In the Optometrist's Waiting Room (Don Martin)
• Still More Badly Needed Warning Labels for Rock Albums
  (written by Desmond Devlin / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg)
• Ten Concrete Laws of Home Repair! (Tom Cheney)
• The Indignant Husband (Don Martin)
• Latchkey Kid - The Magazine of Real "Quality Time"
  (written by Mike Snider / James Warhola art)
• Sergio Aragones Marginals XL - large reprints of originals
• The Untold Story of Rap Music Through History
  (written by Desmond Devlin / George Woodbridge art)
• Empty Mess (TV satire)
  (written by Josh Gordon / Mort Drucker art)
• On a Summer's Afternoon (Don Martin)
• Mad's Do's and Don'ts Guide to Computer Sex
  (John Caldwell)
• Mad's Idiot of the Issue! Stan Hart - FAQs and Stats
• Mad's "Cliche Conversation" Killers
  (written by Stan Hart / George Woodbridge art)
• Parental Non-Sequiturs
  (written by Stan Hart / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Dorky Dancing (movie satire)
  (written by Stan Hart / Mort Drucker art)
• Some Mad Things We'll Never Understand
  (written by Stan Hart / Jack Rickard art)
• When Other Sports Figures Co-Star
  with Cartoon Characters in Movies
  (written by Stan Hart / Sam Viviano art)
• Spy Vs. Spy - missile surfer
  (written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Dave Manak art)
• Best of the Web - (tidbits from early madmag.com)
  • What topic(s) do you expect to see on Jerry Springer's new British talk show? (Grey Blackwell art)
  • Mad's Fall TV Preview (Ray Alma art)
  • What mutant would you most like to see
    join the X-Men? (Bob Staake art)
  • The Mid-East Peace Talks: Where Progress Was Made... and What Ultimately Went Wrong!
    (Jack Syracuse art)
• Ad for early madmag.com
• A Mad Look at Exercising (Sergio Aragones)
• The Escalator (Don Martin)
• Unsuccessful Fundraising Events for Little Known Special Interest Groups (written by Chris Gudgeon / Al Jaffee art)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg)
• Video Games That Nintendo Rejected (Sean Eisenporth)
• The Book of Duck (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• The Cutting Room Floor - Special Oscar Edition
• In the Haberdashery (Don Martin)
• A Mad Look at Women in Uniform (Sergio Aragones)
• sleepWalker, Texas Stranger (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art)
• One Saturday Afternoon Downtown (Don Martin)
• Fold-In -- What form of horrible physical
  abuse is society powerless to end? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover -- A Real Altoids Ad featuring Spy vs. Spy