MAD #533 — June 2015

"Lawyers spend three years trying to pass the bar — and the rest of their careers lowering it!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• "Weird Al" Introduces His Guest-Edited Issue

  Written by Al Yankovic / Art by Hermann Mejia
  1
• Ad for Subscriptions

  with #533 bonus print
  2
• Contents Page

  It's the List We Can Do Dept.
  3
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Weird Al! answers / Ed Meisinger envelope
  4–6
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various obscure places around the magazine) summary
• The Fundalini Pages

  Random Acts of Mindless Dept.

  • The Fast 5 — The Worst Things About Marvel Movies — Written by Kenny Keil / Art by Chris Houghton
  • Most Common Ways to Die in 2015 — Written by Kenny Keil / Art by John Kerschbaum sample
  • The Godfrey Report
  • Save the Dator — "falutin' levels" — Joe Dator
  • How Chris Brown Spent His Community Service Hours — Written by Kenny Keil / Art by Ward Sutton
  • The Biggest Challenges Facing the New Baseball Commissioner — Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Kevin Pope
  • The Faster Five — Things the IRS is Considering Due to Agency Budget Cuts — Written by Dick DeBartolo
  • A Walk in the Parkhurst — just like real hips — Teresa Burns Parkhurst
  8–9
• The Weird Al-ini Pages

  The Friends Justify the Means Dept.

  Anton Emdin caricature art

  • Patton Oswalt's Waffle House Hidden Hashbrown Menu — Art by Scott Bricher
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD #37 — June 2024
  • Seth Green's 100% True Things Seen While Driving in Awful L.A. Traffic — Art by Bob Staake
  • Chris Hardwick's Social Media Through History
  • Kristen Schaal and Rich Blomquist's Settlers of Catan MAD Expansion Cards — Art by James Warhola
  • Emo Philips' Believe It or Don't — Art by Rick Tulka
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD #37 — June 2024
  • Thomas Lennon's Valuable Coupons to Clip and Share — Scott Bricher grandma art
  • John Hodgman's Essay About "The Dress"
  10–12
• Ad for MAD's Greatest Writers — Frank Jacobs — Five Decades of His Greatest Works
  13
• Pages from Weird Al's Notebook

  Time to Face the Musings Dept.

  Written by Al Yankovic / Opening spread art by Sam Sisco
  14–19
• Things You Never Want to Learn from ancestry.com

  It's All Relatives Dept.

  John Caldwell
  20–21
• Spy vs. Spy — top secret Moses project / falling through hole dug through cliff

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper
  22–23
• Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions — Special "Weird Al" Edition

  The Retort of Appeals Dept.

  Al Jaffee
  24–25
• Ad for MAD Books
  26–27
• MAD's Tom Bunk Visits a Weird Al Concert

  Betting on a Show Thing Dept.

  Tom Bunk art
  28–29
• The Baleful Yarn of The Mourning McGees

  It's a Wonderful Strife Dept.

  Written by John Caldwell / Art by Phil McAndrew
  30
• Planet TAD!!!!!

  In Blog We Trust Dept.

  Written by Tim Carvell
  32–33
• A MAD Look at California

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones / Color by Tom Luth
  34–37
• Things to Ask Your Sex Ed Teacher

  The Copulate Show Dept.

  Written by Kenny Keil / Art by Jose Garibaldi
  38–39
• The Captivating Tale of Pedro's Execution

  It's a Wonderful Strife Dept. Part II

  Written by John Caldwell / Art by Phil McAndrew
  40
• The MAD Vault

  Rotten to the Encore Dept.

  Article from MAD #93: MAD Looks at a Typical Kiddie TV Show — Written by Larry Siegel / Art by Mort Drucker
  41–44
• The Strip Club

  Pen and Stink Dept.

  • What If Dog Was One Of Us? — Kenny Keil
  • Nitemare Zone — KC Green
  • It Only Hurts When I Laugh — Christopher Baldwin
  • WTF, Jeff? — Written by Kit Lively / Art by Scott Nickel
  • How's My Driving? — Nathan Cooper
  • Ace Grapefruits: Professional Problem Solver — Box Brown
  45–47
• Ad for back issues of MAD on the iPad App
  48
• American Sniping (movie satire)

  Some Like it Shot Dept.

  Written by David Shayne / Art by Tom Richmond

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD Presents Oscar Winners (and Losers!) — Special Collector's Edition 2016
  • MAD Spoofs America — Special Collector's Edition 2026
  49–53
• The Best of The Idiotical

  Our Daily Dread Dept.

  • Despicable Measles
  • A Super Bowl Game We'd Like to See
  • Obama Offers Republicans Alternative Keystone XL Pipeline
  • MAD Proposes New Logo for Oklahoma Fraternity
  • Fifty Shades of Clay
  • The First Draft of A-Rod's Apology Letter
  • MAD Improves Celebrity Tattoos (Volume 3)
  • AccurateBuzzFeed
  54–56
• Fold-In — What demeaning, low-paying job do experts agree is a career dead end?

  All Jaffee Dept.

  Al Jaffee
  C3