In a parody of the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," a possible contact with an alien race has ordinary people acting sillier than usual.; Examination of how people flock to, or from, fads.; In a parody of "Donny and Marie," a pair of overbearingly cute singers host a variety show.; In a parody of the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, three over-aged skateboarders try to attract girls.; Mad interviews popular college circuit stand-up comedian Carl Carnal.; Examples of how no matter what you do, stress is going to get you.; Graduation pictures taken by film auteurs Busby Berkeley, Federico Fellini, Sam Peckinpaugh, Cecil B. De Mille, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, John Ford, Mel Brooks and Steven Spielberg.; Veteran comic strip characters try the Garry Trudeau way of comedy.; Depicting the act that led to various disastrous outcomes.; Odds are quoted on how likely discouraging events will happen in one's life.; The Black Spy destroys the White Spy's ship with a specially designed torpedo.; How a rock singer gets his mane of curly hair.; A princess finds she has competition for her prince.