Mad #385
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Star Bores: Epic Load I — The Fandumb Megamess," Monroe’s disastrous midnight screening of Episode I sends him fleeing into the next theater, where a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show sparks a hilariously absurd plan to reclaim his Star Wars experience. Written by Anthony Barbieri and illustrated by Bill Wray, this Mad classic blends pop culture mockery with the kind of chaotic energy only the magazine could deliver, all wrapped in a cover by Mark Stutzman.
In "The Lighter Side of..." from Mad #385, a sharp, satirical eye roams across the absurdities of everyday life—from the futility of traffic to the mysteries of therapy and office politics—all delivered in the magazine’s signature deadpan humor. With no creator credits beyond typeset letters, the piece stands as a concise, wry commentary on modern routines, each panel a tiny, perfectly timed jab at the rituals we all endure.
Monroe stumbles into a midnight screening of Episode I, bolts out mid-movie, then stumbles into a packed theater showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show—where a sudden idea strikes him on how to finally make sense of the Star Wars Travesity.
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Reprinted in Mad XL #33 (2005), Mad for Decades #[nn] (2007)
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