Mad #396 August 2000

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

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