MAD #387 — November 1999

"Parents treat their kids like teeth — they only try bonding once irreparable damage has been done!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions

  Kelly Freas art from MAD #52
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• Contents Page

  Notes

  • Vey To Go — space alien done with lemonade — P. C. Vey (reprinted in MAD #39 — October 2024), ads for MAD About the '90s book, How to be a Successful Dog book, and Super Special November 1999 #141 — MAD Trashes the '90s!
  1–3
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • plug for the Spy vs. Spy Nintendo game, 2-Question Interview with “Weird Al” Yankovic
  4–5
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• Foley and Walsh Go to the Movies

  The Boys of Summary Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by

  • Introduction / ongoing Foley & Walsh — Grey Blackwell
  • Big Bladder (movie satire) — Angelo Torres
  • Mouth Park — Piggish, Lamer & Uncouth (movie satire) — Grey Blackwell
  • I'm Enterin' Pie (movie satire) — Ray Alma

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #2 — September 2005
  6–14
• The Frog Prince — an updated fairy tale...

  The Princess and the PC Dept.

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Gary Hallgren
  15
• Monroe &... South of the Border

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #34 — July 2005
  16–17
• The MAD World of the Press

  Media Shower Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider and Butch D'Ambrosio / Art by R.J. Matson

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #6 — April 2006
  18–20
• MAD Regurgitates the 20th Century — 100 Years of Idiocy

  Dealing from the Bottom of the Decade Dept.

  Idea by Tom Koch / Art by

  • 1900–1929 — James Warhola
  • 1930–1959 — Richard Williams
  • 1960–1989 — Scott Bricher — sample
  • 1990–1999 — Drew Friedman
  • insets — Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  21–28
• More Joke Set-Ups That Don't Need a Punchline

  The Yuk Stops Here Dept.

  John Caldwell
  29
• MAD Equations

  Add Nauseam Dept.

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / Art by Sam Sisco

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD XL #33 — June 2005
  30–31
• Melvin & Jenkins' Guide to Halloween

  The Schmucks Stop Here Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Kevin Pope

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #3 — November 2005
  32–33
• Modern Chinese Fortune Cookies

  Chop Schtick Dept.

  Written by Dennis Snee / Photo by Irving Schild
  34
• The ABC's of Drugs

  A View to a Pill Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Rick Tulka

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Classics #2 — September 2005
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  • MAD's Greatest Writers — Frank Jacobs — 2015
  35–38
• A MAD Look at Animal Activists

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  39–41
• Trivialers HMO Medical Claim Form

  An Embarrassment of Richard's Dept.

  Idea by John Biederman / Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Elwood Smith
  42–43
• The Bland Witch Project (movie satire)

  Nothin' Says Lovin' Like Something from the Coven Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Bill Wray

  Reprinted in 8 collections

  • MAD Classics #3 — November 2005
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  • MAD for Decades — 2007
  • Horrifyingly MAD — 2011
  • MAD Spoofs Horror — Special Collector's Edition 2017
  • MAD #27 — October 2022
  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 4 — Nov/Dec 2022
  • MAD Haunts Halloween — Special Edition 2024
  44–47
• MAD's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: Dr. Jack Kevorkian

  Grieving Las Vegas Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Hermann Mejia
  48
• Fold-In — What has become the most effective way of recycling garbage?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Classics #4 — January 2006
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
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• Back Cover — Spy vs. Spy — bomb on stilts comes out of alarm

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

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Classics #2 — September 2005
  • Spy vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
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