MAD #395 — July 2000

"The problem with our economy is that our budget is balanced by people who aren't!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions

  Norman Mingo art from MAD In Orbit paperback
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• Contents Page

  Notes

  • P. C. Vey cartoon — "It's okay, he was jay-walking!" (P. C. Vey)
  • Ad for MAD XL #4 — July 2000 — featuring Frank Jacobs's The MAD World of William M. Gaines — Part 4
  1–3
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.
  4–5
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• Errant Bra-on-Bitch (movie satire)

  Wild Wild Chest Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #10 — October 2006
  6–9
• Your Summer Camp Romance is Doomed if...

  For Every Fling There Is a Season Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • The MAD Summer Survival Guide — 2004
  • MAD Classics #8 — July 2006
  10–11
• Driver's License Penalty Points We'd Like to See

  There Auto Be a Law Dept.

  Written by Butch D'Ambrosio / Art by Rick Tulka

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #4 — January 2006
  12–13
• Monroe &... The Doggy

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #34 — July 2005
  14–17 sample
• Spy vs. Spy — hologram deceptions

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  18–19
• hypeline.con (ad parody)

  Star's Dreck Dept.

  Written by David Shayne and Joe Raiola / Art by Hermann Mejia

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MADvertising — 2005
  • MAD Classics #12 — January 2007
  20
• A MAD Peek Behind the Scenes On the Set of Sports Night

  Throw Another Dialogue on the Fire Dept.

  Written by David Shayne / Art by Ray Alma
  21–23
• The 13 Levels of Fading Celebrity Hell

  The Theory of Devolution Dept.

  Written by Darren Johnson / Art by Drew Friedman

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #3 — November 2005
  24–25
• Of Human Bandage

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Classics #12 — January 2007
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • The Golden Treasury of Trash — Special Collector's Edition 2013
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  26
• Novelizations of TV Shows as Written by Famous Authors

  Net-Works of Fiction Dept.

  Written by Charlie Richards / Art by Jon Weiman

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #16 — July 2007
  27–29
• Melvin & Jenkins' Guide to Politics

  The Schmucks Stop Here Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Kevin Pope

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #11 — November 2006
  30–31
• Early One Morning in Midtown Manhattan

  The Gore of the Crowd Dept.

  Written by Michael Gallagher / Art by Chuck Frasier
  32
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg
  33–36
• Upcoming TV Guide Multi-Covers

  Ploys ' R' Us Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by

  • Great Newscasting Debacles — Drew Friedman
  • TV Guide Salutes the Underpaid and Over-Abused Assistants to the Stars! — Rick Tulka
  • William Shatner's TV Hairlines Collectors' Covers — Hermann Mejia
  • So What If My Material Blows? This Raised Eyebrow Will "Let You In" That I'm Too Damn Hip For My Own Good — Keith Seidel
  • We Salute 25 Years of Cable TV! — John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #9 — September 2006
  37–39
• A MAD Look at Photography

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  40–42
• Sports Suction Catalog

  Throw Another Catalog on the Fire Dept.

  Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Timothy Shamey
  43–47 sample
• MAD's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: Hillary Rodham Clinton

  Grieving Las Vegas Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Hermann Mejia
  48
• Fold-In — What form of highway pollution is sickening many Americans?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Classics #1 — August 2005
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Maximum (magazine parody)

  Written by Jeff Kruse / Photo by AP & Wide World
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