National Lampoon Magazine #68

In this brief, sharp slice of suburban teenage angst from *National Lampoon Magazine* #68 (1984), Bonnie’s evening spirals after her mother’s relentless criticism of her clothes, movie picks, and friends—pushing her to sneak out. What she finds beyond her bedroom window might be far less forgiving than the scolding she fled.

In this deadpan 1984 satire from National Lampoon Magazine #68, a panicked tribe flees a volcanic eruption only to face a new peril: a rickety bridge over a crocodile-infested river. Their desperate hope hinges on the absurdly precise rules of Politenessman—rules that, in the end, prove disastrously ill-suited to survival.

In a brief, deadpan moment from *National Lampoon Magazine* #68 (1984), William F. Buckley finds himself mid-question on his TV show—only to realize no one, not even himself, can recall what it was. The silence that follows is pure, unscripted absurdity.