MAD #414 — February 2002

"Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And the same is true for all your other classes!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.
  2, 4
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine) summary
• America's Most Wanton! (TV satire)

  Don't Do the Crime If You Can't Do the Prime Time Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Tom Richmond

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Art — 2002 (excerpt)
  • MAD Classics #17 — September 2007
  6–11
• Some Less-Than-Subtle Indications That Your Fairy Tale Romance Isn't Going to Have a Happy Ending

  Getting a Break-up Call Dept.

  John Caldwell
  12–13
• Even Yet Still Further More Badly-Needed Warning Labels For Today's Hottest CDs

  Disc-claimers Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #14 — April 2007
  14–16
• A Toll of Two Cities

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #19 — November 2007
  17
• When Other Teen Idols Jump on the Young Adult Novel Bandwagon

  Youth is Stranger Than Fiction Dept.

  Written by Arie Kaplan / Art by Drew Friedman, Rick Tulka, Ray Alma, and Hermann Mejia

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #15 — June 2007
  18–21
• Monroe &... the Youth Job Expo

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Bill Wray

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #23 — October 2008
  22–24
• Ad for tons of MAD merchandise
  25
• Harry Potter: Missing Dialogue They Won't Even Include on the Special Nine-Hour Collector's Edition Commemorative DVD

  Broom With a View Dept.

  Written by Greg Leitman

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #16 — July 2007
  26–27
• Spy vs. Spy — nitroglycerin black & white comic strip paint

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • Spy Vs. Spy 2 — The Joke and Dagger Files — 2007
  • Spy vs. Spy — The Top Secret Files — 2011
  28–29
• For Whom the Booth Tolls

  Tales from the Duck Side Dept.

  Don (Duck) Edwing
  30
• The Lighter Side of...

  Berg's-Eye View Dept.

  Dave Berg / Gray tones by Wildstorm

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #21 — April 2008
  31–34
• 2001: The Year in Film

  Title Wave Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / AP & Wide World photos
  36–37
• MAD's Celebrity Cause-Of-Death Betting Odds: Michael Jordan

  Grieving Las Vegas Dept.

  Written by Mike Snider / Art by Hermann Mejia
  38
• A MAD Look at Monsters, Inc.

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #16 — July 2007
  39–41
• New Sales Pitches For Old Technology

  Prose and Con Jobs Dept.

  Written by David Allikas / Art by Timothy Shamey

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #21 — April 2008
  42–43 sample
• Only in Hollywood...

  The Land of Make Me Heave Dept.

  Written by John Biederman / Art by Bob Staake

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Classics #20 — January 2008
  44–45
• Eh! (TV satire)

  Schmuckyville Dept.

  Written by Josh Gordon / Art by Angelo Torres
  46–50
• What Goes Down Must Come Up

  Boy Meets Hurl Dept.

  Written by Michael Gallagher / Art by Tom Bunk
  51 sample
• Fold-In — What widely-read fiction has become a national obsession?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
  • MAD Spoofs Sci-Fi and Fantasy — Special Collector's Edition 2018
  • MAD #10 — December 2019
  C3
• Back Cover — Alfred featured in real “got milk?” ad

  Art by Norman Mingo
  C4