MAD #535 — October 2015

"Even though America has a two-party system, it's still nothing to celebrate!" — Alfred E. Neuman

Contents

• Ad for Subscriptions

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• Contents Page

  It's the List We Can Do Dept.
  1
• Letters and Tomatoes Dept.
  2–4
• Drawn-Out Dramas

  Marginal Thinking Dept.

  Sergio Aragones
  (various places around the magazine)
• Ad for MAD's Greatest Writers — Frank Jacobs — Five Decades of His Greatest Works
  5
• The Fundalini Pages

  Random Acts of Mindless Dept.

  • MAD's Public Apology Interpreter — Written by Evan Waite / Art by Bob Staake
  • Findings in the Investigation of FIFA — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Anton Emdin
  • The Godfrey Report
  • The Yungbluth & The Restless — "Big Honey" influences campaign — Jason Yungbluth
  • How to Annoy the Staff at Dollar Tree — Written by Alison Grambs / C. F. Payne art from cover of #392
  • Children's Books for 20-Somethings — Written by Tim Latterner / Art by Adam Koford sample
  • What are Phonebooks Still Good For? — Written by Kenny Keil / Art by John Martz
  • New Words We Desperately Need — Written by Kenny Keil
  • Oy Vey! — panhandler's vacation — P. C. Vey
  • Action Film Catch-Phrases You May Have Missed — Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Kevin Pope
  • Samuel Ferri's Misconnected Moments — ending a relationship / "no loitering" sign / Swedish Fish journey — Samuel Ferri
  • The Faster 5 — The Apple Car: What We Know So Far — Written by Kenny Keil / Art by Chris Houghton
  • Gun Control by the Numbers — Kenny Keil
  • YouTube Videos That Didn't Go Viral — Written by Kenny Keil
  6–8, 10
• Ad for back issues of MAD on the iPad App
  9
• Donald Trump — Blow Hard with a Vengeance (political movie poster)

  Snow Biz Dept. Part I

  Written by Desmond Devlin

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD About Trump — 2017
  11
• ScAvengers — Age of Moron (movie satire)

  Flat Stan Lee Dept.

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Tom Richmond
  12–17
• Are You a Foodie... or Not?

  We Say This Ingest Dept.

  Written by Kenny Keil / Art by Paul Coker

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Hodgepodge of Humor — Vol. 3 — December 2025
  18–19
• Sympathy Cards We Wish We Could Buy

  Empathy Gestures Dept.

  Written by Teresa Burns Parkhurst / Art by Leonardo Rodriguez, Rick Tulka, Emily Flake
  20–22
• Ben Carson — Dr. Knowlittle (political movie poster)

  Snow Biz Dept. Part II

  Written by Desmond Devlin
  23
• Why it Sucks When Your Parents are into Renaissance Faires

  Medieval-Doers Dept.

  Teresa Burns Parkhurst

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Hodgepodge of Humor — Vol. 3 — December 2025
  24–25
• MAD's Tips for Tipping

  From Here to Gratuity Dept.

  Written by Kenny Keil / Art by John Kerschbaum
  26–27
• MAD's Tom Bunk Visits The Eiffel Tower

  French Fried Dept.

  Tom Bunk
  28–29
• Bernie Sanders — The Socialist Network (political movie poster)

  Snow Biz Dept. Part III

  Written by Desmond Devlin
  30
• The Strip Club

  Pen and Stink Dept.

  • Hats Off — Ricardo Siri Liniers
  • Patience Man — David DeGrand
  • Freudian Slap — Eric Scott
  • It Only Hurts When I Laugh — Christopher Baldwin
  • Jerry Stathes — Prank Expert — Written by Charles Brubaker / Art by Pat Dorian
  • What If Dog Was One Of Us? — Kenny Keil
  • The Tough Guys — Rich Powell
  31–34
• On Public Transportation, Courtesy Counts!

  An Embarrassment of Richard's Dept.

  Written by Dick DeBartolo / Art and design by Patrick Merrell
  35
• Planet TAD!!!!!

  In Blog We Trust Dept.

  Written by Tim Carvell
  36–37
• The MAD Vault

  Rotten to the Encore Dept.

  Article from MAD #252: After the Game is Over — Written by Lou Silverstone / Art by Jack Davis
  38–40
• Jeb Bush — Schmuck the Third (political movie poster)

  Snow Biz Dept. Part IV

  Written by Desmond Devlin / Art by Hermann Mejia
  41
• Spy vs. Spy — camera phone cliff pose and blows / spy dupes in bathroom mirror

  Joke and Dagger Dept.

  Peter Kuper
  42–43
• MAD's Celebrity Supermarket

  The Brand of Make-Believe Dept.

  Written by Matt Lassen / Art by Scott Bricher
  44–45
• Ad for MAD Books
  46–47
• A MAD Look at Urban Wildlife

  Serge-In General Dept.

  Sergio Aragones / Color by Tom Luth

  Reprinted in 1 collection

  • MAD Fixes Cats — Special Collector's Edition 2025
  48–51
• Campaign Quotes That Would Be Refreshing

  Abandon Trope, All Ye Who Enter Here Dept.

  Written by Jeff Kruse / Art by Ward Sutton
  52–53
• The Best of The Idiotical

  Our Daily Bread Dept.

  • MAD Explains Vanity Fair's New Star Wars Cover
  • The Startling Similarities and Differences Between Game of Thrones and Hillary Clinton's Campaign
  • MAD Updates the FIFA Logo
  • President Obama's Deleted Tweets
  • Overheard in Kim Kardashian's Womb
  • 7 Ways that Disneyland is Celebrating its 60th Anniversary
  • Ped 2 — Now Playing
  • MAD Presents Emoji Biographies — Volume 5
  54–55
• Ad for MAD App
  56
• Fold-In — What problem has stumped many of our greatest technological minds?

  All Jaffee Dept.

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