MAD Magazine #506

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Artist: George Woodbridge

Contents Page

Page: 1

Letters & Tomatoes

Page: 2

The Fundalini Pages

• How the GOP is Planning to Recapture the House and Senate

  Artist: Mort Drucker Writer: Jeff Kruse

  Page: 6

• Phrases to Avoid on Your College Application Essay

  Writer: Joe Masterman

  Page: 6

• LeLievre and Let LeLievre - Last Supper book deals

  Artist, Writer: Glen LeLievre

  Page: 6

• What's on Mel Gibson's Nightstand?

  Writer: Jacob Lambert

  Page: 6

• Lindsay Lohan's Recently Discovered Prison Tweets

  Page: 7

• The Fast Five - Ways to Punish Arizona for Their Anti-Immigration Law

  Writer: Jeff Kruse Artist: Evan Dorkin Artist: Sarah Dyer

  Page: 7

• The Lost iPhone Commercial

  Writer: Dave Croatto

  Page: 7

• The Eggregious Eight - The Real Reasons Lebron James Signed With Miami

  Writer: Jeff Kruse Artist: Bob Staake

  Page: 8

• Lil' Lindsay Lohan

  Artist, Writer: Eric Scott

  Page: 8

• Clark Can't

  Artist, Writer: Todd Clark

  Page: 8

• Other Possible Answers to the Ridiculous Question "Could switching to Geico really save you 15% or more on car insurance?"

  Artist: Rick Tulka

  Page: 8

Fold-In - What's the one thing dumber than reading Mad Magazine?

Artist, Writer: Al Jaffee

Page: 9

The Fundalini Pages

• Plugged Nickel

  Artist, Writer: Scott Nickel

  Page: 10

• Possible Last Lines from the Kids on How I Met Your Mother

  Artist: Angelo Torres Writer: Matthew A. Cohen

  Page: 10

• Insane Theories from Glenn Beck to Watch For This Fall

  Writer: Brian Farrelly Writer: Sean Farrelly Artist: Anton Emdin

  Page: 10

• Other Problems with the iPhone 4

  Writer: Dick DeBartolo

  Page: 11

• Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds - Lady Gaga

  Artist: Jack Syracuse

  Page: 11

• Silly Bandz Condomz

  Writer: Dave Croatto

• When the Going Gets Duff

  Artist, Writer: J.C. Duffy

  Page: 11

• Why Levi Johnston is Supremely Qualified to be the Next Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska

  Artist: Ward Sutton

  Page: 12

• Cathy: Final Episodes You Never Saw

  Artist, Idea: Corey Pandolph

  Page: 12

Advertisement for Mad Presents Spy vs. Spy Magazine

Page: 13

Glee-tarded

Department: High School Snoozicle

Artist: Tom Richmond Writer: Arnie Kogen

Page: 14

A Mad Look At The Oil Spill

Department: Serge-In General

Artist, Writer: Sergio Aragonés Colorist: Tom Luth

Page: 19

Rosetta Stone - Mel Gibson Domestic Abuse Edition

Department: A MAD Ad Parody

Photographer: Robert Kenney (Retna Ltd./Corbis

Page: 23

A Beginner's Guide to a More Prosperous Career in Panhandling

Department: Spare Change You Can Believe In

Artist, Writer: John Caldwell

Page: 24

Mad's Inspirational Animal Stories (sixth in a series) - Some Serious Monkey Business

Department: The Beast and the Brightest

Artist: Leonardo Rodriguez Writer: Brian McConnachie

Page: 26

Tea Party Logic

Department: A Crass Roots Movement

Artist: Paul Coker, Jr. Writer: Barry Liebmann

Page: 28

Signs You've Got a Bad Roommate

Department: Move-In Violation

Artist, Writer: Teresa Burns Parkhurst

Page: 30

The Mad World of... Fashion

Department: Case Clothes

Artist: Marc Hempel Writer: Stan Sinberg

Page: 32

Advertisement for Mad's Greatest Artists - Sergio Aragonés - Five Decades of His Finest Works

Page: 35

Deleted Passages from George W. Bush's New Book

Department: Omission Accomplished

Artist: Sam Viviano Writer: Charlie Kadau

Page: 36

Mad's Less-Than Magical Outtakes from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Department: Grint And Bear It

Page: 38

Spy vs. Spy

Department: Joke and Dagger

Artist, Writer: Peter Kuper

Page: 40

The 2010 Lack-of-Entertainment Book

Department: Bargain De-Basement

Writer: Scott Maiko

Page: 42

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Page: 44

The Strip Club

• Me, Myself and My Puppet - In the Rain

  Artist: John Kovaleski

  Page: 45

• Father O'Flannity's Hot Tub Confessions with Lady Gaga

  Artist: Keith Knight

  Page: 45

• Good Enough

  Artist: Peet Tamburino

  Page: 46

• Got Your Nose

  Artist: Jacob Lambert

  Page: 46

• that sinking feeling

  Artist: Jason Yungbluth

  Page: 47

• It Only Hurts When I Laugh

  Artist: Christopher Baldwin

  Page: 47

• Just Below the Surface

  Artist: Douglas Paszkiewicz

  Page: 48

Mad's Handy Quick Primer to World of Warcraft

Department: Surely, You Quest

Writer: Desmond Devlin Artist: Hermann Mejia

Page: 49

The Mad Vault - 1978

Department: The Articles Formerly known as Reprints

Author: Sergio Aragonés Author: Paul Coker, Jr. Author: Jack Davis Author: Dick DeBartolo Author: Mort Drucker Author: Al Jaffee Author: Don Martin Author: Paul Peter Porges Author: Angelo Torres Author: Jack Rickard Author: Harry North Author: Bob Clarke Author: John Caldwell Author: Larry Siegel Author: Stan Hart Author: Arnie Kogen

Page: 53

Dead Lobster

Department: A MAD Ad Parody

Photographer: Irving Schild Writer: Andy Ross

Page: 56

Drawn Out Dramas (Various Places around the Magazine)

Artist, Writer: Sergio Aragonés

Back Cover Inside: Fold-In - What American enterprise is still widely regarded as too big to fail?

Artist, Writer: Al Jaffee