Mad #502 January 2010

• Cover Artist: Mark Fredrickson

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• Contents Page
• Letters (Family Guy episode features Don Martin character) (plug for Sergio Aragones's retrospective exhibition
  at The Ojai Valley Museum in Ojai, California)
  (Toonseum at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh honors
  Tom Richmond with "The Mad Art of Caricature" exhibit)
• Ads for Subscriptions, Spy vs. Spy gear, Calendar, other books
• Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
  **various places around the magazine
• The Fundalini Pages
  • Celebrity Cause-of-Death Betting Odds - Kate Gosselin
  • LeLievre and Let LeLievre (Glen LeLievre)
  • The Godfrey Report

• Melvin & Jenkins' Guide to Personal Health (written by Desmond Devlin / Kevin Pope art)
• Answer to Last Month's Problem: "The $50 Bill and the Drinking Straw"
  (written by Darren Johnson)
• The Cougar (Episode 1) (Scott Nickel)
• The U.S. Auto Industry: An Incomplete Timeline (written by Jeff Kruse / Bob Staake art)
• Worst-Selling 2010 Calendars (written by Jeff Kruse / various photos)
• The Cover We Didn't Use (Mark Fredrickson art)
• Medical Myths You Just Shouldn't Believe (written by Jeff Kruse / Tom Bunk art)
• The Ryan's Den (written by Ryan Pagelow)
• The Cougar (Episode 2) (Scott Nickel)
• The Fast Five - 5 Reasons Why Microsoft Thinks You'll Love Windows 7
  (written by Dick DeBartolo / John Caldwell art)
• Katz All, Folks (Farley Katz)
• Make Your Own Best-Selling Book Title (written by Darren Johnson)
• The Cougar (Episode 3) (Scott Nickel)
• Ice Cream Truckers (TV ad parody) (written by Dave Croatto)
• The Mad 20 Dumbest People, Events and Things of 2009
  • 1. The Canonization of Michael Jackson - The Kids Stay Out of the Picture (Mark Stutzman art)
  • 2. Corporate Bailouts - Keeping Bad Companies (Hermann Mejia art)
  • 3. Jon and Kate Plus 8 - The Parent Crap (Jack Syracuse art)
  • 4. Henry Gates Arrested in Own Home - Beer & Loathing (Tom Richmond art)
  • 5. Dick Cheney Won't Shut Up - Veep Sh*t (written by Jeff Kruse)
  • 6. Angry Town Hall Meetings - Loud to be an American
    (written by Jeff Kruse / Richard Williams art)
  • 7. Jim Cramer's Stock Predictions - Fold-In (Al Jaffee)
  • 8. Caught With His Worldwide Pants Down - David Letterman's Stupid Human Trysts
  • 9. Baseball's Ongoing Scandal - Urine Trouble Again (Scott Bricher art)
  • 10. The Octomom - The Eerie Birth Canal (Gary Hallgren art / color by Carl Peterson)
  • 11. Bernie Madoff's Ponzi Scheme - The Wrath of Con
    (written by Jeff Kruse / AP & Wide World photos)
  • 12. Minnesota Senate Race - Land of a Thousand Recounts (Roberto Parada art)
  • 13. Glenn Beck - Fairly Unbalanced (Mort Drucker art)
  • 14. Chris Brown Assaults Rihanna - Rhythm & Bruise
  • 15. Obama's Senate Seat For Sale - Here Comes the Bribe (Drew Friedman art)
  • 16. Kanye West - Talk is Creep (Hermann Mejia art)
  • 17. Cheating Celebs - Living Libido Loca (Sam Viviano art)
  • 18. Alaska Loses its Governor - The Flaking of Palin 1,2,3
    (written by Jacob Lambert / J. Scott Campbell art / color by Nei Ruffino)
  • 19. Michael Phelps Smokes Pot - Toke on the Water
  • 20. Michael Jackson's Doctor - Premedicated Murder (various photos)
  • Mad 20 Addendumb - More Random Acts of Dumbness
• The Sergio Aragones 2010 Calendar
• Monroe and… The Job (written by Anthony Barbieri / Tom Fowler art / color by Carl Peterson)
• Planet TAD!!!!! (written by Tim Carvell / various photos)
• Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper)
• Board Game-Based Movies We'll Soon Be Seeing (written by Jacob Lambert / Tom Richmond art)
• A Mad Look At The Great Recession (Sergio Aragones / color by Tom Luth)
• Ad for tons of Mad merchandise
• The Mad Vault - 1988 (reprinted excerpts from Al Jaffee, Frank Jacobs, Mort Drucker, Tom Koch,
  Gerry Gersten, Richard Williams, James Warhola, Billy Doherty, Sam Viviano, Stan Hart, Angelo Torres, Charlie Kadau, Bob Clarke, Mike Snider, Lou Silverstone, John Prete, Paul Coker, Jr., Christopher Allen,
  Don (Duck) Edwing)
• What the Heck is the Difference? - Twilight: New Moon Poster