MAD Magazine #501 
Editorial
- Editor: John Ficarra
- Cover Artist: Mark Fredrickson
Featured characters
Table of Contents
The Fundalini Pages: A passed-over supreme court nominee
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Artist: Rick Tulka Writer: Jeff Kruse
Page: 10
The Fundalini Pages: Here on Gilligan's Bile
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Artist, Writer: Paul Gilligan
Page: 10
The Fundalini Pages: Should we be happy if Texas secedes?
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Writer: Jeff Kruse Artist: Bob Staake
Page: 10
The Fundalini Pages: Least understood medical conditions
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Artist, Writer: Dave Berg
Page: 11
The Fundalini Pages: Take me out to the Ballgame
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Artist: Evan Dorkin Artist: Sarah Dyer
Page: 11
The Fundalini Pages: Plugged Nickel
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Artist, Writer: Scott Nickel
Page: 12
The Fundalini Pages: The expedious eight other ways playboy cutting costs
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Artist: Drew Friedman Writer: Jeff Kruse
Page: 12
The Fundalini Pages: Duck Droppings
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Artist, Writer: Don Edwing
Page: 12
The Fundalini Pages: The wave of the future: DVD
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Writer: Jacob Lambert
Page: 13
The Fundalini Pages: LeLievre and let LeLievre
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Artist, Writer: Glen LeLievre
Page: 13
The Fundalini Pages: Snappy Answers to stupid Questions
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Artist, Writer: Al Jaffee
Page: 13
The Fundalini Pages: Financial advice you don't want to hear from Suze Orman
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Artist, Writer: Tom Cheney
Page: 14
The Fundalini Pages: A guide to little league coaching signs
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Artist, Writer: Jim Hunt
Page: 14
The Fundalini Pages: Calvin and Jobs
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Artist: Gary Hallgreen
Page: 16
The Fundalini Pages: Sutton for Punishment
Department: Random Acts of Mindless
Artist, Writer: Ward Sutton
Page: 16
Harry Plodder is a hot-blooded putz (A MAD Movie Parody)
Department: Going over a Radcliffe
Writer: Desmond Devlin Artist: Hermann Mejia
Page: 18
William Shatner twitters while watching Star Trek
Department: The agony of de-tweet
Writer: Frank Santopadre Photographer: AP/Wide World Photos Photographer: iStockphoto.com/piovesemp
Page: 30
MAD's guide to making a recently released Gitmo Detainee feel welcome in your town
Department: There's no displaced like home
Artist, Writer: John Caldwell
Page: 32
A MAD look at Star Trek
Department: Serge-In General
Artist, Writer: Sergio Aragonés Colorist: Tom Luth
Page: 39
A TV commercial we'd like to see
Department: There's a soaker born every minute
Artist: Tom Bunk Writer: Dick DeBartolo
Page: 45
The hardship faced by the Superobese of America's Wild West
Department: All fat and no cowboy
Artist, Writer: Teresa Burns Parkhurst
Page: 46
The Strip Club: 360 degrees of separation
Department: Pen and Stink
Artist, Writer: Jason Yungbluth
Page: 50
The Strip Club: Me, myself and my puppet
Department: Pen and Stink
Artist, Writer: John Kovaleski
Page: 51
The Strip Club: The machine that travels through time
Department: Pen and Stink
Artist, Writer: Joey Alison Sayers
Page: 52
