MAD #508 — April 2011

"Nowadays, a loner is someone who only has 400 friends on Facebook!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Contents Page

  It's the List We Can Do Dept.
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.

  Notes

  • Keith Olbermann celebrity snap; announcement that Al Jaffee is turning 90!
  2–4
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various obscure places around the magazine)
• Ad for Subscriptions

  Drew Friedman Sarah Palin art from MAD #504
  5
• The Fundalini Pages

  Random Acts of Mindless Dept.

  • Handy Uses For All the Unsold Copies of George W. Bush's Book — Art by Ward Sutton / Written by Michael Gallagher and Jeffrey Ford
  • The Silly Six — Rejected Disney World Rides and Attractions (Art by Chris Houghton)
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • This Is Your Brain On MAD — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  • Zombie Love Is... (Scott Nickel)
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD #22 — December 2021
  • The Yungbluth and the Restless — Dinosaur with Bible Excavated (Jason Yungbluth) sample
  • The Fundalini Book of Ridiculously Long Records
  • Rare Internet Users Who Really Exist! (Jeff Kruse)
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • This Is Your Brain On MAD — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  • Twitter (Sung to the Tune of Michael Jackson's "Thriller") — Written by Scott Nickel / Art by Hermann Mejia
  • Questions to Ask at the Apple Genius Bar — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Rick Tulka
  • Celebrity Cause of Death Betting Odds — Justin Timberlake (Art by Sam Viviano)
  • Insults That (Upon Further Examination) Aren't Really That Insulting — Written by Jason Katzenstein / Art by Dan Hipp
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • This Is Your Brain On MAD — Special Collector's Edition 2015
  • Zombie Love Is... (Scott Nickel)
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD #22 — December 2021
  • LeLievre and Let LeLievre — The First Supper (Glen LeLievre)
  • Clark Can't — "Just eat around your Uncle Phil." (Todd Clark)
  • Spotlight on American Universities — North-Central Upper Midwest U. — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Charles Akins
  • Bitterman — job application (Garth Gerhart)
  • Fairy Tale Endings Better Than "...And They Lived Happily Ever After" — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Leonardo Rodriguez
  • Zombie Love Is... (Scott Nickel)
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • MAD #22 — December 2021
  • Ideas That Made Sense at the Time — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Bob Staake
  6–10
• Justin Bieber — Never Sing. Never. It's Time For You 2 Shut Up

  The Silence of the Ham Dept.
  11
• Sad Men (TV satire)

  It's an Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad World Dept.

  Written by Arnie Kogen / Art by Tom Richmond

  Reprinted in 6 collections

  • Inside MAD — 2013
  • MAD Picks — Special Collector's Edition 2013
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  • MAD #35 — February 2024
  • MAD Treasure Trove of Trash — Vol. 7 — December 2023
  • MAD #47 — February 2026
  12–17 sample
• What We Really Learned From WikiLeaks

  What's Up, Docs? Dept.

  Written by Barry Liebmann / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.
  18–19
• MAD's Moronic Outtakes from Sarah Palin's Alaska (You Betcha!)

  There Will Be Blood Libel Dept.
  20–22
• Ad for Subscriptions — bonus MAD #96 print offer
  23
• A MAD Look at Murder

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones / Color by Tom Luth
  24–27
• Spy vs. Spy — giant microwave

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Spy vs. Spy — Fight to the Finish — 2013
  30–31
• Ad for Spy vs. Spy merchandise
  32
• 100% Superficial — Justin Bieber — First Step 2 Obscurity: My Story — MAD Exclusive Excerpt

  Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Scott Bricher

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Certifiably MAD — 2012
  33–37
• The MAD Vault

  The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Lame Dept.

  Article from MAD #326: It's a Recession... / It's a Depression... — Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Paul Coker, Jr.
  38–40
• Ad for MAD's Greatest Artists — Sergio Aragones — Five Decades of His Finest Works
  41
• Wild, Unfounded Rumors Surrounding the Xbox Kinect

  Sensor and Sensibility Dept.

  John Caldwell

  Reprinted in 3 collections

  • Insanely Awesome MAD — 2011
  • Certifiably MAD — 2012
  • Insanely Awesome MAD — Deluxe Edition — 2014
  42–43
• John "Boo-Hoo" Boehner — "The Weeper of the House"

  A Real S.O.B. Story Dept.

  Art by Richard Williams
  44
• The Strip Club

  Pen and Stink Dept.

  • The Machine That Travels Through Time — Joey Alison Sayers
  • Projectile Vomit Baby — Scott Nickel
    Reprinted in 1 collection

    • Disturbingly Awful MAD — 2013
  • It Only Hurts When I Laugh — Christopher Baldwin
  • The Long and Short of It — Dan Long
  • Got Your Nose — Jacob Lambert
  • Just Below the Surface — On a U.F.O... — Douglas Paszkiewicz
  45–48
• Undercover Boob (TV satire)

  Workers' Condescension Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art by Tom Bunk

  Reprinted in 2 collections

  • MAD About Trump — 2017
  • MAD #47 — February 2026
  49–52
• 7 Periods Closer to Death

  Rall of Fame Dept.

  Ted Rall

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Certifiably MAD — 2012
  53
• How Barack Obama Stacks Up Against the Other 42 U.S. Presidents

  Assail to the Chief Dept.

  Written by Jeff Kruse / Photos by AP & Wide World

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Spoofs Politics — Special Collector's Edition 2014
  54–55
• Chia Bieber Pet (ad parody)

  Hair Apparent Dept.

  Written by Scott Maiko / Art by Timothy Shamey / Sculpture by Liz Lomax

  Reprinted in 5 collections

  • Insanely Awesome MAD — 2011
  • Totally MAD — 2012
  • The Best of the Worst! — Special Collector's Edition 2012
  • Insanely Awesome MAD — Deluxe Edition — 2014
  • Totally Inside MAD — 2016
  55
• Fold-In — What new kind of body scanning is causing people to waste countless hours?

  Al Jaffee

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • Disturbingly Awful MAD — 2013
  C3