MAD #400 — December 2000

"Experience is what makes you pause briefly before going ahead and making the same mistake!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions

  Kelly Freas art from MAD #52
  C2
• Contents Page

  Notes

  • Pull My Cheney — Assisted Suicide Foundation — Tom Cheney
  1, 3
• Ad for MAD Cover to Cover book
  2
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Plug for signed 400th issue cover limited-edition lithographs / MAD shows up in the comic strips Luann and Heart of the City
  4–5
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• Forcefully Palm (ad parody)

  Hand Hell Computer Dept.

  Written by Arie Kaplan / Photo by Irving Schild

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MADvertising — 2005
  • MAD About Star Wars — 2007

  Notes

  • The "George Lucas" depicted is actually art director Sam Viviano
  6
• The Untold History of MAD Magazine

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Scott Bricher, Drew Friedman, Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragones, Paul Coker, Jr., Angelo Torres and Tom Richmond
  7–16 sample
• A MAD Look at TV

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD #12 — April 2020
  17–19
• Monroe &... A Day With Dad

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #15 — June 2007
  20–23
• Pull-Out 400th Issue Photomosaic Poster

  Mosaic Parting the Dead 'Zine Dept.

  Robert Silvers
  24–25
• You're Probably Not Heading to College If...

  A Dolt's Education Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD Classics #7 — June 2006
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • The Golden Treasury of Trash — Special Collector's Edition 2013
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  26–27
• "Internet Ready Keyboard" Icons That Tell It Like It Is

  An Embarrassment of Richard's Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Tom Bunk

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD #428 — April 2003 (excerpt)
  • MAD Classics #7 — June 2006
  28
• What Drives You MAD?

  They Vent That-A-Way Dept.

  Art by John Kascht

  • Celebrity responses from Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel, Winona Ryder, Tom Wolfe, Greg Grunberg, Bob Guccione, Jr., Senator Frank Lautenberg, Senator Wayne Allard, Senator Susan Collins, Representative Barney Frank, Kevin Smith, Mort Walker, Fred Schneider and Jason Alexander
  29–32
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg
  33–36
• Sexually Palm (ad parody)

  Hand Hell Computer Dept.

  Written by Arie Kaplan / Photo by Irving Schild

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MADvertising — 2005
  37
• Spy vs. Spy — trampoline eject reverser

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Written by Dave Croatto / Art by Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  • Spy vs. Spy — Fight to the Finish — 2013
  38–39
• More Contractual Obligations We'd Like to See Some Celebrities Agree To

  Clause and Defects Dept.

  Written by Russ Cooper / Art by Mort Drucker

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #4 — January 2006
  40–42
• Goodnight Room

  Oval and Out Dept.

  based on Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Jack Syracuse

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD About Politics — 2008
  43–47
• MAD's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: Vince McMahon

  Grieving Las Vegas Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Jon Weiman
  48
• Fold-In — What Magazine is Celebrating a Milestone With Much Fanfare?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
  C3
• Back Cover — Sickly Palm (ad parody)

  Hand Hell Computer Dept.

  Written by Arie Kaplan / Photo by Irving Schild

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MADvertising — 2005
  C4