MAD #383 — July 1999

"Most people don't mind a hard day's work — just as long as they're not in that day!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad promoting next issue #384
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• Contents Page
  1, 3
• Ad for MAD Super Special July 1999

  Super Sized MAD
  2
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Mort Drucker signs MAD About the Movies lithographs, plug for MAD wristwatch, Richard Simmons — Celebrity Snap with #374
  4–5
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• Satirize This (movie satire)

  Are You Talkin' to Me — at $100 per Hour! Dept.

  Written by Josh Gordon / Art by Angelo Torres

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD About the Mob — 2002
  6–10
• The MAD Book of Suicide Etiquette

  Rules to Not Live By Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Drew Friedman

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #4 — January 2006
  11–13
• Monroe &... The Funeral

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray
  14–16
• Countdown to The Phantom Menace

  Come to the Dork Side Dept.

  Written by Charlie Kadau / Art by Amanda Conner

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD XL #15 — June 2002
  • MAD About Star Wars — 2007
  17–19
• The Jesse Venturification of U.S. Politics

  1600 Wrestlemania Avenue Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Ray Alma
  20–22
• An Important Message from the Law Firm of Low, Rotten, Scumbag & Snake

  An Embarrassment of Richard's Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Photo by Irving Schild
  23 sample
• MAD's Star Wars Trivial Pursuit

  Jed I.Q. Dept.

  Written by John Prete / Art by Hermann Mejia

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD XL #15 — June 2002
  • MAD About the '90s — 2005
  • MAD Spoofs Sci-Fi / Star Wars — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  24–25
• A MAD Look at Plastic Surgery

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD XL #32 — March 2005
  • MAD's Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonés — 2010
  26–28
• Putz Adams (movie satire)

  The Doctor Is In-Sane Dept.

  Written by Stan Hart / Art by Bill Wray
  29–32
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Classics #1 — August 2005
  • MAD Spoofs the 90s — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  33–36
• Flirty Dancing

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Written by Don (Duck) Edwing
  37
• The MAD Guide to Cleaning Up Your #*!%&*@# Vocabulary

  Without a Swear in the World Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Classics #1 — August 2005
  • 1001 MAD Pages You Must Read Before You Die — 2009
  38–39
• Spy vs. Spy — truck rundown stopped on spikes

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Written by Michael Gallagher / Art by Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Spy vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  40–41
• The Phantom Menace — Scenes You Never Saw

  The Stills Are Alive Dept.

  Video capture by David P. Levin
  42–44
• Omahog Steaks — Meats by Mail

  The Loin King Dept.

  Written by David Shayne and Joe Raiola / Art by James Warhola

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #12 — January 2007
  45–47 sample
• MAD's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: George Lucas

  Grieving Las Vegas Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Hermann Mejia

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD XL #33 — June 2005
  • MAD About Star Wars — 2007
  48
• Fold-In — What eagerly anticipated event is finally upon us?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 4 collections

  • MAD About Star Wars — 2007
  • MAD XL #33 — June 2005
  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
  • MAD Spoofs Star Wars — Special Collector's Edition 2019
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• Back Cover — The Morning Feeding

  Written by Michael Gallagher / Art by Tom Bunk

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Gross Book — 2001
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