MAD #369 — May 1998

"A couch potato follows the path of least existence!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions — Help End Civilization As We Know It!
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• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Photos of Jerry Toliver and Drew Carey with the "MAD Racing — Unsafe at Any Speed" car; Brooke Shields photo with MAD #364; ad for special Pop-Off Video — May 1998
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• Trypanic (movie satire)

  The Ship Hits the Fans Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Sam Viviano

  Reprinted in 7 collections

  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD Color Classics #9 — April 2004
  • MAD About The Oscars — 2004
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • The Golden Treasury of Trash — Special Collector's Edition 2013
  4–9
• White House Internship Official Application

  Sick Willie Dept.

  Written by David Shayne and Joe Raiola

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD XL #29 — August 2004
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • MAD Spoofs Politics — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  10–11
• Monroe &... Space Camp

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray
  12–14 sample
• Prom Mom Magazine

  Voted Most Likely to Conceive Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Marshall Vandruff and Stephen Ray

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #21 — June 2003
  15
• The Generation X-Files

  The Youth is Out There Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Timothy Shamey

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD XL #31 — January 2005
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  16–18
• A Tomb with a View

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  19
• A MAD Look at Las Vegas

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Color Classics #10 — September 2004
  • MAD's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonés — 2010
  • MAD #48 — April 2026
  20–23
• A MAD Guide to Who's Who Outside the Today Show Window

  Planet of the Gapes Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Rick Tulka

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD About TV — 1999
  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD Color Classics #11 — April 2005
  24–25
• Body Modification Trends of the Future

  Caution! Reconstruction Ahead Dept.

  Written by Brian Farrelly and Sean Farrelly / Art by Tom Bunk

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • The MAD Gross Book — 2001
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  • MAD Spoofs the 90s — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  • MAD #19 — June 2021
  • MAD #42 — April 2025
  • MAD Hodgepodge of Humor — Vol. 1 — Apr/May 2025
  26–28
• How Many Bimbos Can You Find in this Oval Office Picture?

  The Commander-In-Heat Dept.

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #30 — November 2004
  29
• MadTV vs. Saturday Night Live — The Score So Far

  Up Skit's Creek Dept.

  Written by Russ Cooper / Art by Rick Tulka

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Color Classics #9 — April 2004
  30–31
• MAD Examines the High Costs of Education

  Hard Learned Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Lennie Mace

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #6 — April 2006
  32–33
• Letters to Hanson

  New Kids on the Schlock Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Mort Drucker
  34–36
• Melvin & Jenkins' Guide to Party Going

  The Schmucks Stop Here Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Kevin Pope

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #23 — October 2008
  37–39
• Spy vs. Spy — dog chase through land mines

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  40–41
• COPieS

  Behind the Duplicate Ball Dept.

  Written by Andy Rheingold and Scott Sonneborn / Art by Drew Friedman

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #27 — June 2004
  42–44
• MAD Pop-Off Video (excerpts from Pop-Off Video Special)

  VH-Dumb Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Video consultant David P. Levin
  45–47
• MAD's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: Al Gore

  Grieving Las Vegas Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Hermann Mejia
  48
• Fold-In — What terrorist organization threatens the life and liberty of every American?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD XL #26 — March 2004
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Absolut Saddam.

  Written by John Prete / Art by James Kirkland

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Color Classics #7 — April 2003
  • MADvertising — 2005
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