Mad #417 May 2002

• Cover Artist: Jack Syracuse

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• Contents Page
• Letters (plug for Mad T-shirts, The Mad Student Survival Guide and reissue of Inside Mad paperback) (photo of Kelli Williams with #394) (reader valentine submissions after #414 request)
• Pull My Cheney (Tom Cheney)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• Mad's Ecchbay Item of the Month - Paula Poundstone's Necktie
  (written by Scott Maiko / Scott Bricher art)
• A Booty-Full Mind (movie satire)
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / Angelo Torres art)
• Unconscious Racists...
  (written by Butch D'Ambrosio / Peter Kuper art)

• 10 Once Loyal Baseball Fans (written by Frank Jacobs / Paul Coker, Jr. art)
• Mad's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: James Lipton
  (written by Mike Snider / Hermann Mejia art)
• Haiku Study Guides (written by Andrew J. Schwartzberg / Gary Hallgren art)
• A Mad Look at Taxis (Sergio Aragones)
• Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper)
• The Lighter Side of... (Dave Berg / color by Digital Chameleon)
• Mad's Handicapping Guide to the Kentucky Derby Freak Show (John Caldwell)
• Britney Spears' & Justin Timberlake's Family Photo Album (written by Mike Snider / Hermann Mejia art)
• Mad's Credit Card Bill Return Envelope (written by Darren Johnson)
• Monroe and... Babysitting - Part Two (written by Anthony Barbieri / Bill Wray art)
• Duck Droppings - The Bible (Don (Duck) Edwing)
• The Royal Paininthebums (movie satire) (written by Arnie Kogen / Tom Richmond art)
• Fold-In -- What one group above all others is President Bush intent on protecting? (Al Jaffee)