MAD #484 — December 2007

"Parents say that anything worth doing is worth doing right. Luckily, whatever they ask you to do is never worth doing!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Contents Page

  Notes

  • Important Message from the Editors on lead paint used in MAD printing — written by Dick DeBartolo
  1
• Letters

  Notes

  • Celebrity Snap: Bill English, Sam Huntington, Nick Kroll, and Jeff Daniel Phillips with MAD #482
  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: John Caldwell, Matthew A. Cohen, Paul Coker, Jr., Garth Gerhart, Barry Liebmann, Hermann Mejia, Frank Santopadre, Jack Syracuse, P. C. Vey — DETAILS

  • Fundalini Goes to The MTV Video Music Awards
  • The Godfrey Report
  • "Vey To Go!" — not the parents in bed (P. C. Vey)
  • Meet the '08 Presidential Candidates — Fred Thompson — Written by John Caldwell / Art by Jack Syracuse
  • Senator Larry Craig's Can't-Miss Men's Room Pick-Up Lines — Art by Hermann Mejia
  • The To-Do List of Trouble Helmsley, the Dog Who Inherited $12 Million — Art by Paul Coker, Jr.
  • The Sopranos Wins The Emmy — Written by Matt Cohen
  • Fundalini Goes to The Emmys
  • Political Bumper Stickers We're Sure to See
  • Bitterman — TV instead of socializing (Garth Gerhart)
  8–10
• Bring Our Troops Home From Iran! (protest poster)

  Sign and Dandy Dept.
  11
• MAD Deconstructs TV Talk Shows — The Colbert Report

  The Chat 'n the Stat Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Sam Viviano

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Unplugs TV — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  • MAD #49 — June 2026
  12–14
• Juggles — The Juggling Juggler Who Juggles

  Humor in a Juggler Vein Dept.

  Written by Mo Willems / Art by Tom Bunk

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • Certifiably MAD — 2012
  • The Golden Treasury of Trash — Special Collector's Edition 2013
  • MAD #547 — October 2017 — The MAD Vault
  • MAD #34 — December 2023
  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 7 — December 2023
  16
• You're Not Exactly Full of the True Spirit of Christmas If...

  Totally Scrooged Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Stocking Stuffer — Special Collector's Edition 2016
  18–19
• Are We Winning the War On Terrorism?

  Homeland Insecurity Dept.

  Written by Barry Liebmann / Art by Ward Sutton
  22–23 sample
• The Don Martin 2008 Calendar

  Week-al Matter Dept.

  Compiled from Don Martin archival art
  24, 29
• Blose Headphones — Better Sounding Ads Through Research (ad parody)

  Noise Will Be Noise Dept.

  Written by John Ficarra / Photos by Irving Schild
  25
• Ad 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
  28
• Ways to Keep Voters Interested Until Election Day

  A Case of Ballot Fatigue Dept.

  Teresa Burns Parkhurst

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Spoofs Politics — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  30–31
• The MAD World of... Family Life

  Kin and Bear It Dept.

  Written by Stan Sinberg / Art by Marc Hempel

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • Insanely Awesome MAD — 2011
  • Certifiably MAD — 2012
  • Insanely Awesome MAD — Deluxe Edition — 2014
  32–34
• Monroe... and The Tutor

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Tom Fowler / Color by Carl Peterson
  35–38
• Ad for MAD Kids
  39
• Spy vs. Spy — multi-stage break-away arsenals

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Spy vs. Spy — Fight to the Finish — 2013
  40–41
• What The Heck is the Difference? — featuring cover MAD #36

  Observation Dreck Dept.
  42
• A MAD Look At Sports Scandals

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  43–46
• Not So Hot Topic Catalog (catalog parody)

  The Goods, the Fads and the Ugly Dept.

  Written by Scott Maiko / Photos by Irving Schild / Styling by Albert Crudo
  47–51
• Fold-In — What primitive form of sub-human life has recently been discovered?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

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