Mad #511 October 2011

• Cover Artist: Charles Akins

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• Ad for Mad's Blog: The Idiotical
• Contents Page
• Letters (photos of "Weird Al" Yankovich and Annie Gaines)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn Out Dramas
  **various obscure places around the magazine
• Ad for The Mad Fold-In Collection
• Ad for Spymuseumstore.org - for Spy vs. Spy stuff
• Ad for Subscriptions
• The Fundalini Pages
  • What Changes and What Stays the Same With
    Ashton Kutcher Joining Two and a Half Men
    (written by Matt Lassen / Hermann Mejia art)
  • Pet Peeves of Major League Batboys (John Caldwell)
  • You May Have Taken This Hipster Thing Too Far If...
    (Kenny Keil)
  • If Politicians' Names Reflected the Scandals They're
    Hiding (written by Kit Lively / Marc Hempel art)
  • LeLievre and Let LeLievre (Glen LeLievre)
  • Monkeys Are Always Funny
  • Signs That Your Parents Are Trying to Kill You
    (written by Kit Lively / Peter Bagge art)
  • Sutton for Punishment (Ward Sutton)
  • 6 Degrees of Separation Between Anyone and Anything -
    Can You Link U.S. Autoworkers to an Oompa-Loompa?
    (various photo sources)
  • Phool's Gold Exchange (ad parody)
    (written by Dick DeBartolo / various photo sources)
  • Plugged Nickel (Scott Nickel)
  • Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds - Blake Lively (Sam Viviano art)
  • Bitterman (Garth Gerhart)
• Ad for Insanely Awesome Mad Book
• Parks and Regurgitation (TV satire)
  (written by Arnie Kogen / Tom Richmond art)
• Dictators Next to be Overthrown
  (written by Jeff Kruse / Tom Bunk art)
• 12 Good Things About Your Smoking Addiction
  (Teresa Burns Parkhurst)

• Spy vs. Spy - 50 years - 1961-2011 (fold-out poster insert)
• New Editions of Angry Birds We'd Like to See (Charles Akins art)
• Overheard at the Kardashian Wedding (written by Jacob Lambert and Jeff Kruse / Rick Tulka art)
  (color by Tom Luth)
• Planet TAD!!!!! (written by Tim Carvell / Brian Durniak art / various photos)
• A Mad Look At Lady Gaga (Sergio Aragones / color by Tom Luth)
• Satellite TV Listings (written by Jeff Kruse)
• Mad Presents Still More Facts That Sound For a Second Like They Might Be True... But Aren't
  (written by Justin Heimberg / Kevin Pope art)
• The Strip Club
  • "Optical Illusions" (Vic Black)
  • lil Popi (Box Brown)
  • It Only Hurts When I Laugh (Christopher Baldwin)
  • Coombs & Coombs (Jason Coates)
  • That Sinking Feeling (Jason Yungbluth)
  • Got Your Nose (Jacob Lambert)
  • Just Below the Surface: The True Origin of Superman (Douglas Paszkiewicz)
• Ad for Mad's Greatest Artists - Sergio Aragones - Five Decades of His Finest Works
• Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper)
• Disturbing Facts About the Incoming Freshman Class of 2015 (written by Scott Maiko)
• Fold-In -- Where has the housing market taken an especially bad hit? (Al Jaffee)
• Back Cover -- Ad for Mad's Blog: The Idiotical