MAD #495 — November 2008

"People who don't vote are electing to stay out of it!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Contents Page
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Snap of Bill Clinton with MAD #486
  2,4,6
• Subscription Ad — "Jeffrey Lozenge" Dressed in Revolutionary War Garb

  Written by Joe Raiola / Irving Schild photos
  7
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

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

  Random Acts of Mindless Dept.

  Friends of Fundalini Notes

  • "Friends of Fundalini" list of contributors not originally attached to the articles in this section: Scott Bricher, Tom Bunk, Tom Cheney, Dick DeBartolo, Desmond Devlin, Garth Gerhart, Jeff Kruse, Sam Sisco — DETAILS

  • Questions You May Hear During the Vice Presidential Debates — Written by Jeff Kruse
  • Fundalini Voter Guide to Third Party Candidates — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Tom Bunk
  • Least Popular Halloween Costumes of 2008 — Art by Scott Bricher
  • The "Real" Reasons Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Was Delayed — Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Sam Sisco
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD Presents Harry Potter — September 2011
  • Bitterman — noise in the movie theater — Art by Garth Gerhart
  • Pull My Cheney! — Two Blind Dudes Sign Co. — Art by Tom Cheney
  • Advantages and Disadvantages of High Def TV
  • Outtakes from John Edward's Nightline Interview — Written by Jeff Kruse
  8–10
• The Dork Knight (movie satire)

  Don't Wayne on My Parade Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Tom Richmond

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • MAD About Super Heroes — Volume 2 — 2010
  • MAD About Super Heroes — Version 2.5 — 2012
  • MAD Presents Batman — September 2012
  12–17 sample
• MAD's Updated Glossary to the War on Terror

  Lexicon-Job Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Spoofs Politics — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  18–19
• A MAD Look at Fortune Tellers

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD #19 — June 2021
  20–23
• Alfred E. Neuman for President (poster)

  Campaignin' the Ass Dept.

  Art by Sam Viviano
  24–25
• MAD Deconstructs TV Talk Shows — Countdown With Keith Olbermann

  Chat 'n the Stat Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Peter Kuper
  26–28
• Ads for MAD Magazine Poster Book and MAD About Politics books
  29
• A Look Back at the Historical Career of John McCain

  Antique Slideshow Dept.

  Art by Scott Bricher

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Spoofs Politics — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  30–32
• Monroe and... Domestic Terror

  Angster's Paradise Dept.

  Written by Anthony Barbieri / Art by Tom Fowler / Color by Carl Peterson
  33–36
• The Strip Club

  Pen and Stink Dept.

  • Man on the Street — Art by Ryan Pagelow
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • Extremely Moronic MAD — 2012
  • It Only Hurts When I Laugh — Art by Christopher Baldwin
  • How to Dump an Invisible Man! — Art by Glen LeLievre
  • The Machine That Travels Through Time — Art by Joey Alison Sayers
    Reprinted in 2 collections

    • Insanely Awesome MAD — 2011
    • Insanely Awesome MAD — Deluxe Edition — 2014
  • The Family Follies! — Art by Rob Harrell
  • Me, Myself and My Puppet — at the Diner — Art by John Kovaleski
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • Extremely Moronic MAD — 2012
  • The Roommates: John, Joe and Jerry — Art by Todd Clark
  • Just Below the Surface — Art by Douglas Paszkiewicz
  37–40
• Not Vetting Sarah Palin (poster)

  In Veep Trouble Dept.
  41
• When Monkeys Go Bad

  The Apes of Wrath Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Certifiably MAD — 2012
  42–43
• Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy — chivalry leads to manhole

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Spy vs. Spy — Fight to the Finish — 2013
  44–45
• When High School Elections are Run Like Presidential Elections

  Electoral College Prep Dept.

  Written by Nathaniel Stein / Art by Jose Garibaldi

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • Certifiably MAD — 2012
  • MAD Hodgepodge of Humor Vol. 4 — April 2026
  46–47
• Fold-In — Who's made a fortune collecting and packaging garbage?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • The MAD Fold-In Collection 1964–2010 — 2011
  C3