Mad #389 January 2000

• Cover Artist: Drew Friedman

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• Ad for Subscriptions (Kelly Freas art from #52) (C2)
• Contents Page (1-3)
• "The reason most people talk to themselves
  is because they're often the only ones who
  will listen!" -- Alfred E. Neuman
• Ad for Mad XL #1 - January 2000 - featuring
  Frank Jacobs's The Mad World of William M. Gaines - Part 1
• The Duck Stops Here (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• Letters (4-5)
  • Sean Abramowitz - Coralville, IA
  • Adam Urbina - San Francisco, CA
  • Mad Blurb - Terry Gilliam
  • Kiernan Schmitt - Wallingford, CT
  • Jennie Brown - Santa Ana, CA
  • Celebrity Snap with #383 - (with Al Roker)
    Matt Gibeau - Olympia, WA
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• The Supremos (TV satire)
  (written by Arnie Kogen / Mort Drucker art) (6-11)
• Monroe &... Christmas
  (written by Anthony Barbieri / Bill Wray art) (12-15)
• Absurd Man of Alcatraz (Don (Duck) Edwing) (16)
• The Mad 20 Dumbest People,
  Events and Things of 1999 (introduction page) (17)
  • 1. Y2K Panic (Tom Bunk art) (18)
  • 2. Hillary Clinton's World (Richard Williams art) (19)
    (Andrew Wyath's Christina's World painting parody)
  • 3. Teen Exploitation Flicks -
    "Movie Title Graffiti" (written by Russ Cooper) (20)
  • 4. Livin' La Vida Overrated (Hermann Mejia art) (20)
    "When Other Artists Jump on the Latin Music Craze"
  • 5. George W. Bush's Snow Job - "got coke?"
    (got milk? ad parody) (Irving Schild photos) (21)
  • 6. Jerry Falwell Takes On Tinky-Winky -
    "Televangelist-Tubbies"
    (written by Charlie Kadau / Jack Syracuse art) (22)
  • 7. Around the Clock John F. Kennedy Jr. Crash Coverage (People magazine cover parody)
    (written by David Shayne and Joe Raiola) (23)
  • 8. America's Hang Up With Cell Phones -
    "The Talker" - (Rodin's The Thinker parody) (23)
  • 9. Sega Introduces the Dreamcast -
    "Buy 'R' Toys" - (Toys 'R' Us ad parody)
    (written by Scott Maiko / Scott Bricher art) (24-25)
  • 10. The Umpires Strike Out - "Taken Out of the Ball Game" - (Take Me Out to the Ball Game song parody)
    (written by Desmond Devlin / Keith Seidel art) (25)
  • 11. The Blair Witch Project - "Eerie Comparisons