Mad #496 December 2008

• Cover Artist: Mark Fredrickson

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• Contents Page (1)
• "When most people think about their problems, the only thing they figure out is that they're too dumb to fix them!"
  -- Alfred E. Neuman
• Letters
  (plugs for Al Jaffee's Tall Tales and 2009 calendar) (2-4)
• Ads for Mad Magazine Poster Book
  and Mad About Politics books (5)
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• The Fundalini Pages (Charles Akins, Greg Benson, Dick DeBartolo, Desmond Devlin, J. C. Duffy, Darren Johnson, Jeff Kruse, Jacob Lambert, Kevin Pope, Tom Richmond, Ward Sutton, Rick Tulka) (IMPORTANT NOTE) (6-9)