Mad #392 April 2000

• Cover Artist: C. F. Payne

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• Subscriptions Ad
  (Richard Williams art from Special #104) (C2)
• Vey To Go - exploding birthday cake candles (P. C. Vey)
• Editors note Mad's parent Time Warner's AOL merger
• Contents Page (1-3)
• Ad for Color Classics #1 - April 2000
• Letters (Jack Rickard cover of #138
  reprinted to mark Charles Schulz's retirement) (4-5)
  • Jack Hornsby - Mandeville, LA
  • Diorama from Mike "Sport" Murphy - Ronkonkoma, NY
  • Steve Turner - Portland, OR
  • Thomas Morris IV - Thorofare, NJ
  • James deBoer - New York, NY
  • Celebrity Snap with #349 -
    (with Hugh Hefner) - Ari Greenberg - Los Angeles, CA
  • Celebrity Snap with #388 -
    (with Christina Kennedy) - Jim Jeffers - Jacksonville, FL
  • Sue Cunningham - Waynesville, NC
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Dudson's Geeks (TV satire)
  (written by Josh Gordon / Ray Alma art) (6-10)
• A Mad Peek Behind the Scenes at the Discovery Channel
  (written by Michael Gallagher / Paul Coker, Jr. art) (11)
• A Mad Look at the Courts (Sergio Aragones) (12-15)
• The Logic Behind Men's and
  Women's TV Viewing Choices (16-18)
  (written by Mike Snider / Rick Geary and Keith Seidel art)
• Slithering Heights (Don (Duck) Edwing) (19)
• Spy vs. Spy - training course prop spy shoots first
  (written by Michael Gallagher / Peter Kuper art) (20-21)
• Melvin & Jenkins' Guide to Hobbies
  (written by Desmond Devlin / Kevin Pope art) (22-23)
• Mad's All-Purpose Cliche Script for VH-1's Behind the Music (written by John Biederman / Rick Tulka art) (24-25)
• Monroe &... The Lawsuit
  (written by Anthony Barbieri / Bill Wray art) (26-28)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg) (29-32)
• Half Fact / Whole Fact
  (written by Butch D'Ambrosio / Tom Bunk art) (33-35)
• What Really Goes On at Those Teachers' Conferences
  (John Caldwell) (36-37)
• Dial 10-10-10-10-10-10--QZZ and Save Up to .05%
  (ad parody) (written by Dick DeBartolo) (38)
• Boobs Want To Be A Millionaire (TV satire)
  (written by Desmond Devlin / Gary Hallgren art) (39-44)
• The Spending Annex Adult Education Center
  (written by Scott Maiko / Irving Schild photos) (45-47)
• Mad's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: Gwyneth Paltrow (written by Mike Snider / Hermann Mejia art) (48)
• Fold-In -- What hot thing has got
  teenage boys really excited? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- Dear & Departed / Bentsome & Hedges
  (ad parody) (written by Darren Johnson / Scott Bricher art)