MAD Magazine #458

Contents Page

Page: 1

Random Samplings of Reader Mail

Department: Letters and Tomatoes

Page: 2

The Fundalini Pages

• List of all contributors

  Author: Dick DeBartolo Author: Peter Kuper Author: Jacob Lambert Author: Jack Syracuse Author: Scott Bricher Author: Hermann Mejia Author: Charles Akins Author: John Caldwell Author: P.C. Vey Author: Jeff Kruse Author: Scott Maiko Author: Garth Gerhart Author: Andrew J. Schwartzberg Author: Mike Snider Author: Patrick Merrel Author: L.P. Ferrante Author: John Pound Author: Ed Steckley

  Page: 8

• A Cable News Director's Guide to Sorta Newsworthy vs. Very Newsworthy

• A Decade By Decade Gift Pyramid For Guys

• Desperate New Army Enticements to Get More People to Enlist

• Joke Set-Ups in Search of a Punchline

• Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds - Lindsay Lohan

• The Godfrey Report

• Joke Set-Ups in Search of a Punchline

• Classified Ads

• Bitterman - sex education with old toys as visual aids

• The Puzzle Nook - "---ty is the best policy"

• Vey To Go!

• The President's Dog - tax cut for the rich

• Joke Set-Ups in Search of a Punchline

• On Newstands Now! Nuns & Ammo

• A Fundalini Exclusive! Now That the Secret Identity of Watergate's Deep Throat Has Been Revealed, Other Long-Held Secret Identities Exposed!

Selected scenes from Trading Spouses

Department: A wife-altering experience

Writer: Charlie Kadau Artist: Gary Hallgren

Page: 12

Planet Tad!!!!!

Department: In Blog we trust

Writer: Tim Carvell Artist: Brian Durniak

Page: 17

Little green army men of today's army

Department: Soldiers of Misfortune

Photographer: Irving Schild Writer: Darren Johnson Sculptor: Tony Cipriano

Page: 20

7 periods closer to death: Go west beat east!!

Department: Rall or Nothing

Artist, Writer: Ted Rall

Page: 22

A day in the life of Adam Sandler

Department: The longest yawn

Artist: Drew Friedman Writer: Scott Maiko

Page: 24

A MAD look at school security

Department: Serge In-General

Artist, Writer: Sergio Aragonés

Page: 26

Monroe and... The Hospital Stay

Department: Angster's Paradise

Artist: Bill Wray Writer: Anthony Barbieri

Page: 33

MAD's exclusive backstage tour of the Family Guy

Department: Quahog Wild

Artist: Tom Richmond Writer: David Richards

Page: 38

If there were no such things as video games...

Department: Out of controllers

Artist, Writer: John Caldwell

Page: 42

MAD's Fall TV Preview 2005

Department: Show-Floppers

Artist: Hermann Mejia Writer: Scott Maiko

Page: 45

Spy vs. Spy

Department: Joke and Dagger

Artist, Writer: Peter Kuper

Page: 50

The latest stuff you may (or may not) want to chase down!

Department: Go Fetch!

Page: 51

Bore of the worlds ( War of the worlds Parody)

Department: No Cruise is good Cruise

Artist: Mort Drucker Writer: Arnie Kogen

Page: 56

Back Cover Inside: Fold-In - What threat to our American way of life needs to be constantly checked?

Artist, Writer: Al Jaffee