MAD Magazine number 343, March 1996, has a letter published in
their "Letters & Tomatoes Department" from "Jim Davis" from
Sunnyvale CA." titled "APE MISBEHAVIN.'"

    I was always aware that dweebs, geeks, and other members of
    the MAD gang were a few cards short of a full deck, but in
    issue #340 you outdid yourselves.  On page 30. at the last
    panel of "When Sesame Street Caves in to the Radical Right,"
    we have a Sesame Street character making the statement "...And
    by the Commitee to Ban the Teaching of Evolution!" as if this
    were some Radical Right idea, when anyone with over a 7th
    grade education knows that the theory of evolution has been
    totally disproved by modern, objective science.  Other than
    these minor flaws I enjoyed the magazine as I have for the
    past 30 years or so.

The editor reply was:

    We stand corrected!  After reading your letter, it is now
    unclear as to whether all of mankind evolved from apes.  Some
    appear to be stuck there!  For your convenience we are
    encclosing a nice, ripe banana!  Ooh ohh!"

  While funny, the editors of MAD got it wrong; the human
species didn't evolve from apes but had a common ancestor.  My
comment to MAD Magazine was:

        To:     MAD Magazine, Letters & Tomatoes Department
        From:   Fredric Rice, frice@stbbs.com

    Good work, guys, gals, and semi-evolved bipeds, for your
    wonderful issue number 340 where you expose the Radical
    Religious Reich!  You can't believe the amount of coverage
    the issue recieved on Internet and FidoNet among the various
    science and political discussion forums!  More: When one of
    your knuckle-dragging readers complained about evolution
    being scientifically disproven, you rapped his hairy
    knuckes good then handed him a banana!  LOVE!  IT!  Except
    that you grunts incorrectly stated that the human species
    evolved from apes!  We didn't!  Humans and apes shared a
    common ancestor (probably many times, wink, wink, nudge.)
    Whack our underdeveloped simian friends, sure, but make
    sure you get it right!

    By the way:  You shoulda knocked out one of Peter Iatauro's
    front teeth after he won the Alfred E. Neuman look-alike
    contest to complete the picture.