MAD #506 — December 2010
"Naysayers have it all wrong!" — Alfred E. Neuman
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Subscription Ad — Haunted by The Ghost of Christmas Presents?George Woodbridge art from MAD #116C2
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Contents PageIt's the List We Can Do Dept.1
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Letters
Notes
- Photo of cast of Mad Men enjoying MAD — The Spy vs. Spy Mega Mini Kit ad
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(various obscure places around the magazine)
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The Fundalini PagesRandom Acts of Mindless Dept.
- How the GOP is Planning to Recapture the House and Senate — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Mort Drucker
- Phrases to Avoid on Your College Application Essay — Written by Joe Masterman
- LeLievre and Let LeLievre — Last Supper book deals — Glen LeLievre
- What's on Mel Gibson's Nightstand? — Written by Jacob Lambert
- Lindsay Lohan's Recently Discovered Prison Tweets
- The Fast Five — Ways to Punish Arizona for Their Anti-Immigration Law — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Evan Dorkin & Sarah Dyer
- The Lost iPhone Commercial — Written by Dave Croatto
- The Eggregious Eight — The Real Reasons Lebron James Signed With Miami — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Bob Staake
- Lil' Lindsay Lohan — Eric Scott
- Clark Can't — foodie flies — Todd Clark
- Other Possible Answers to the Ridiculous Question "Could switching to Geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance?" — Art by Rick Tulka
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Fold-In (real ad for Cartoon Network) — What's the one thing dumber than reading MAD Magazine?9
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The Fundalini Pages (continued)
- Plugged Nickel — Scott Nickel
- Possible Last Lines from the Kids on How I Met Your Mother — Written by Matthew A. Cohen / Art by Angelo Torres
- Insane Theories from Glenn Beck to Watch For This Fall — Written by Brian Farrelly and Sean Farrelly / Art by Anton Emdin
- Other Problems with the iPhone 4 — Written by Dick DeBartolo
- Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds — Lady Gaga — Art by Jack Syracuse
- Silly Bandz Condomz (ad parody) — Written by Dave Croatto
- When the Going Gets Duff — J. C. Duffy
- Why Levi Johnston is Supremely Qualified to be the Next Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska — Art by Ward Sutton
- Cathy: Final Episodes You Never Saw — Corey Pandolph
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Ad for MAD Presents Spy vs. Spy Magazine13
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Glee-tarded (TV satire)High School Snooz-icle Dept.Written by Arnie Kogen / Art by Tom Richmond
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Rosetta Stone — Mel Gibson Domestic Abuse Edition (ad parody)So You Think You Can Rant Dept.Robert Kenney photo23
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A Beginner's Guide to a More Prosperous Career in PanhandlingSpare Change You Can Believe In Dept.
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MAD's Inspirational Animal Stories (sixth in a series) — Some Serious Monkey BusinessThe Beast and the Brightest Dept.Written by Brian McConnachie / Art by Leonardo Rodriguez26–27
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Signs You've Got a Bad RoommateMove-In Violation Dept.
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The MAD World of… FashionCase Clothes Dept.Written by Stan Sinberg / Art by Marc Hempel
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Deleted Passages from George W. Bush's New BookOmission Accomplished Dept.Written by Charlie Kadau / Art by Sam Viviano
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MAD's Less-Than Magical Outtakes from Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsGrint and Bear It Dept.
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Spy vs. Spy — rube goldberg fail and win / rock rocketJoke and Dagger Dept.
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Pen and Stink Dept.
- Me, Myself and My Puppet — In the Rain — John Kovaleski
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- Father O'Flannity's Hot Tub Confessions with Lady Gaga — Keith Knight
- Good Enough — Peet Tamburino sample
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- Got Your Nose — Jacob Lambert
- that sinking feeling — Jason Yungbluth
- It Only Hurts When I Laugh — Christopher Baldwin
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- Just Below the Surface — Douglas Paszkiewicz
45–48 - Me, Myself and My Puppet — In the Rain — John Kovaleski
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MAD's Handy Quick Primer to World of WarcraftSurely, You Quest Dept.Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Hermann Mejia
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The MAD Vault — 1978The Articles Formerly Known as Reprints Dept.
Featured Article Excerpts and Contributors
- Eight covers from 1978 interspersed within the following collage of article excerpts:
- One Night in the City — Written by Al Jaffee / Art by Jack Davis
- When Those "Old Line" Comic Strips Follow the New Wave, Cerebral "Doonesbury" Trend — Written by Frank Jacobs / Art by Jack Rickard
- Saturday Night Feeble (movie satire) — Written by Arnie Kogen / Art by Mort Drucker
- Star Roars (movie satire) — Written by Larry Siegel and Dick DeBartolo / Art by Harry North, Esq.
- MAD Diplomacy in Everyday Life Situations — Written by Stan Hart / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.
- Recycling Your Throw-Aways — Written by Paul Peter Porges / Art by Al Jaffee
- Some MAD Things We'll Never Understand — Written by Stan Hart / Art by Jack Rickard
- A MAD Look at Some Unfinished Sentences — Written by John Caldwell / Art by Bob Clarke
- Lust Boat (TV satire) — Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Angelo Torres
- Around Noon on a Movie Set — Don Martin
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Dead Lobster (ad parody)Oil You Can Eat Dept.Written by Andy Ross / Photo by Irving Schild
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Fold-In — What American enterprise is still widely regarded as too big to fail?C3