MAD #413 — January 2002

"People who live in glass houses are a Reality TV producer's dream come true!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.
  2–3
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• Boston Pubic (TV satire)

  Crass is in Session Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Tom Richmond
  4–9
• A MAD Look at Security

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  10–13
• The Controversial Artist Instruction School

  Shock By Mail Dept.

  Written by Frank Santopadre / Art by James Warhola

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #14 — April 2007
  14–15
• Spy vs. Spy — jail bars firing squad

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • Spy vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  • MAD Classics #20 — January 2008
  • MAD Presents Spy vs. Spy — January 2011
  • Spy vs. Spy — The Top Secret Files — 2011
  • MAD Presents Spy vs. Spy — An Explosive Celebration — 2015
  • MAD Presents Spy vs. Spy: The Big Blast — Special Collector's Edition 2016
  16–17
• Amazing Facts and Surprising Discoveries from the Human Genome DNA Project

  Letting the Gene Out of the Bottle Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — Turd in a Series — 2003
  • The MAD Bathroom Companion — The Mother Load — 2004
  • MAD Classics #17 — September 2007
  18–19
• Monroe &... Tinsel Teeth

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #12 — January 2007
  20–23
• MAD's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: Eddie Murphy

  Grieving Las Vegas Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Hermann Mejia
  26
• The 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2001

  • 1. Jerry Falwell Attacks America — "A.I.: Asinine Ideology" — (A.I.: Artificial Intelligence movie poster parody) — Art by Angelo Torres

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MADvertising — 2005

    28
  • 2. Substance Abuse As A Career Move — "The 12 Steps of Celebrity Rehab" — Written by Mike Mikula / Art by Drew Friedman 29
  • 3. Little League Team, Major League Lie — "MAD's Modern Little League All-Star Trading Cards" — Written by Mike Snider / Art by Ray Alma 30
  • 4. Bill Clinton's $10 Million Book Deal — "One Nation Under Me" — (book cover parody) — Written by Arie Kaplan / Art by Scott Bricher 31
  • 5. Anne Heche Says "Bye Bi" — "Yep, I'm Not Gay" — (Time magazine cover parody) — Written by Greg Leitman 32
  • 6. Nascar's Crash Course in Recklessness — "Introducing NASCAR's New Pace Car" — Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / AP & Wide World photo 32
  • 7. Michael Jordan's Comeback — "Jordan at the Hoop" — (Casey at the Bat poem parody) — Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Mort Drucker

    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD's Greatest Artists — Mort Drucker — 2012

    33
  • 8. The High Court Sends Medical Marijuana Up In Smoke — "At Least They're Not High" — (Because I Got High — Afroman song parody) — Art by Hermann Mejia 34
  • 9. McVeigh's Death Lottery — "A Lottery Ticket They Might As Well Have Used" — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Keith Seidel 35
  • 10. The IRS Rebate — (a letter to taxpayers from the IRS) — Written by Dick DeBartolo 35
  • 11. The Great McSwindle — "The Honest Monopoly Game Board That Would Have Kept McDonald's Out of Trouble" — Written by Charlie Kadau / Research by Cheryl Spitzer 36
  • 12. Puff Daddy's "P. Diddy" Name Change — "P. Diddy Diddy Bang Bang" — (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang movie poster parody) — Written by Greg Leitman / Art by Mark Fredrickson 37
  • 13. China Gets the Olympics, Human Rights Gets the Shaft — Written by Don (Duck) Edwing / AP & Wide World photo 38
  • 14. Elton Duets With Eminem — "The Homey Sexual LP" — (album parody) — Written by Greg Leitman / Art by Hermann Mejia 38
  • 15. "Grizzly" Al Gore — "Other Bearded Looks Al Gore Considered…and Rejected" — Written by Scott Maiko / Art by Scott Bricher 39
  • 16. The Dreadfully Awful, Really Bad XFL — "The Differences Between the NFL and the XFL" (John Caldwell) 40–41
  • 17. The Bush Daughters' Un-Happy Hour — "MAD Offers Authentic Fake I.D.S so the Bush Daughters Can Eat, Drink and Drink Some More" 40–41
  • 18. Dennis Tito Attempts to Buy a Russian Trip to Space — "2001: A Space Idiocy" — (2001: A Space Odyssey movie poster parody) — Written by Greg Leitman / Art by Richard Williams 42
  • 19. Cloning / Gary Condit — Fold-In (Al Jaffee) 43
  • 20. What — MAD Sell Out? — "A MAD Cover We'll Soon See"
    Written by Patrick Merrell / Art by Norman Mingo and Patrick Merrell

    Reprinted in 3 collections

    • MADvertising — 2005
    • Totally MAD — 2012
    • Totally Inside MAD — 2016

    44 sample
  27
• The Sopranos Family Circus

  Corn on the Mob Dept.

  Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Jack Syracuse

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD About The Mob — 2002
  • MAD Classics #24 — January 2009
  45–47
• Season's Greetings 2001 from the Usual Gang of Idiots

  Claus and Effect Dept.

  Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #12 — January 2007
  48