Mad #396 August 2000

• Cover Artist: Mort Drucker
• Cover Writer: John Caldwell

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• Subscriptions Ad
  (Roberto Parada art from Special #129) (C2)
• Pull My Cheney - Employees
  Must Wash Hands (Tom Cheney)
• Contents Page (1-3)
• Ad for Mad XL #5 - August 2000 - featuring
  Frank Jacobs's The Mad World of William M. Gaines - Part 5
• Letters (4-5)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas (summary)
  **various places around the magazine
• Mad's 50 Worst Things About TV
  (written by Scott Maiko / Drew Friedman art) (6-10)
• A Mad Look at Gladiators (Sergio Aragones) (11-14)
• Monroe &... The High Seas - Part One
  (written by Anthony Barbieri / Bill Wray art) (15-18)
• Quasi Rider
  (written by Arie Kaplan / Don (Duck) Edwing art) (19)
• Johnson Family Garage Sale-O-Rama Catalog
  (written by Danno Sullivan / Leslie Sternbergh art) (20-21)
• Spy vs. Spy - missile in spy clothes
  (written by Dave Croatto / Peter Kuper art) (22-23)
• A More Factual Version of that Deceptive Home Depot Ad
  (written by Jacob Lambert / Irving Schild photos) (24-25)
• Kathie Lee Replacements We'll Never See
  (written by David Shayne and Joe Raiola)
  (Hermann Mejia art) (26-29)
• Little Known Contract Clauses of Today's Biggest Sports Stars (John Caldwell art) (30-31)
• Tom Green - The Obnoxious Early Years
  (written by Dave Croatto / Sam Sisco art) (32-34)
• The Comics Page of L'Osservatore Romano
  (written by Desmond Devlin / Gary Hallgren art) (35-37)
• Letters to Magazines That We'll Never See
  (written by Mike Snider) (38-39)
• Words and Phrases That Left the
  English Language During the '90s
  (written by Mike Snider / Paul Coker, Jr.) (40-41)
• Sofa's Choice (Don (Duck) Edwing) (42)
• Angle (TV satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art) (43-47)
• Mad's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds:
  Elian Gonzalez
  (written by Mike Snider / Hermann Mejia art) (48)
• Fold-In -- Who's responsible for the ugliest
  acts of violence in sports today? (Al Jaffee) (C3)
• Back Cover -- The American Dream
  (written by Michael Gallagher / Tom Bunk art)