MAD #395 — July 2000
"The problem with our economy is that our budget is balanced by people who aren't!" — Alfred E. Neuman
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Ad for SubscriptionsNorman Mingo art from MAD In Orbit paperbackC2
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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
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Letters and Tomatoes Dept.4–5
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(various places around the magazine) summary
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Errant Bra-on-Bitch (movie satire)Wild Wild Chest Dept.Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Mort Drucker
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Your Summer Camp Romance is Doomed if...For Every Fling There Is a Season Dept.
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Driver's License Penalty Points We'd Like to SeeThere Auto Be a Law Dept.Written by Butch D'Ambrosio / Art by Rick Tulka
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Monroe &... The DoggyAngster's Paradise Dept.Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray
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Spy vs. Spy — hologram deceptionsJoke and Dagger Dept.Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Peter Kuper
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hypeline.con (ad parody)Star's Dreck Dept.
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A MAD Peek Behind the Scenes On the Set of Sports NightThrow Another Dialogue on the Fire Dept.Written by David Shayne / Art by Ray Alma21–23
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The 13 Levels of Fading Celebrity HellThe Theory of Devolution Dept.Written by Darren Johnson / Art by Drew Friedman
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Of Human BandageTales from the Duck Side Dept.26
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Novelizations of TV Shows as Written by Famous AuthorsNet-Works of Fiction Dept.Written by Charlie Richards / Art by Jon Weiman
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Melvin & Jenkins' Guide to PoliticsThe Schmucks Stop Here Dept.Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Kevin Pope
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Early One Morning in Midtown ManhattanThe Gore of the Crowd Dept.Written by Michael Gallagher / Art by Chuck Frasier32
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Upcoming TV Guide Multi-CoversPloys ' 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
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Sports Suction CatalogThrow Another Catalog on the Fire Dept.Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Timothy Shamey43–47 sample
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MAD's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: Hillary Rodham ClintonGrieving Las Vegas Dept.Written by Mike Snider / Art by Hermann Mejia48
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Fold-In — What form of highway pollution is sickening many Americans?
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Back Cover — Maximum (magazine parody)C4