MAD #385 — September 1999

"Put 1,000 writers in a room for 1,000 days and one will come up with a story about monkeys writing Hamlet!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions
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• Contents Page
  1, 3
• Ad for Super Special #140 — September 1999 — Best of the Stupid Years #2
  2
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Spy vs. Spy Origami, 2-Question Interview — Alex Trebek
  4–5
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• Star Bores Epic Load I — The Fandumb Megamess (movie satire)

  Sith Happens Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 9 collections

  • MAD XL #15 — June 2002
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  • MAD For Decades — 2007
  • MAD About Star Wars — 2007
  • MAD About the Movies — Director's Cut — 2008
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • Totally Useless MAD — 2013
  • The Golden Treasury of Trash — Special Collector's Edition 2013
  • MAD Spoofs Star Wars — Special Collector's Edition 2019
  6–10
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #32 — March 2005
  11–14
• A MAD Look at Star Wars Episode I — The Phantom Menace — The Hype

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD XL #33 — June 2005
  • MAD About Star Wars — 2007
  15–17
• Monroe &... The Midnight Movie

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray
  18–20
• Warner Bros. Studio Stores — Unofficial Catalog

  What's Up — Schlock! Dept.

  Written by Scott Maiko / Art by Scott Bricher, Gary Hallgren, Anthony Cipriano, Kevin Greene / Irving Schild photos

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Color Classics #11 — April 2005
  • Totally Useless MAD — 2013
  21–28
• Gigglin's Island

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing
  29
• MAD's Guide to Telling the Difference Between Pro Wrestling, Jerry Springer, and Politics

  A Triple Plague Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Rick Tulka

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #31 — January 2005
  30–33
• MAD's Best-Sellers Cut Down to Size

  Abridged Too Far Dept.

  Written by Eric Perlin / Irving Schild photos

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #1 — August 2005
  34–35
• A MAD Look at The Phantom Menace

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD XL #33 — June 2005
  • MAD About Star Wars — 2007
  • MAD Spoofs the 90s — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  36–39
• When Other Celebrities Jump On the Poetry Bandwagon

  Bad-verse Reactions Dept.

  Written by Andrew J. Schwartzberg / Art by Paul Coker, Jr. / Idea by John Biederman
  40–42
• Detroit Rock Sissies (movie satire)

  Ignorance is Kiss Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Ray Alma
  43–47 sample
• MAD's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: Marilyn Manson

  Grieving Las Vegas Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Hermann Mejia
  48 sample
• Fold-In — What childhood disease is being denied coverage by HMOs?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Mark McGwire — Home 'Roid King (ad parody)

  Written by David Shayne / AP & Wide World photo

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MADvertising — 2005
  • MAD Classics #10 — October 2006
  • MAD Spoofs the 90s — Special Collector's Edition 2014
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