Mad #501 October 2009
- Cover Artist: Mark Fredrickson
- "Will Worry For Food" Lettering: Sam Viviano
- Contents Page (new layout)
- Letters (photo of Sam Viviano with National Cartoonists
Society award) (plug for Sergio Aragones's retrospective exhibition at The Ojai Valley Museum in Ojai, California) (plug for The Art of Harvey Kurtzman book)
- Sergio Aragones Drawn-Out Dramas
**various places around the magazine
- GEICO (Government Endorsed Insane
Corpoate Over-compensation) (ad parody)
- Subscription Ad - "Jeffrey Lozenge" dressed as a lobster
(written by Joe Raiola / Irving Schild photos)
- The Mad Quarterly Report (May-July 2009)
(Sam Viviano art)
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- The Fundalini Pages
- A Brutally Honest Michael Jackson Obit
- Ad for three reprinted Spy vs. Spy classic books by Antonio Prohias with John Ficarra introductions
- Harry Plodder is a Hot-Blooded Putz (movie satire)
(written by Desmond Devlin / Hermann Mejia art)
- Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper)
- Excerpts from Bo Confidential - The Secret Files of America's First Dog (Tom Richmond art)
- The New iPhone Apps Are Here! (ad parody)
- William Shatner Twitters While Watching Star Trek
(written by Frank Santopadre / AP & Wide World and various photos)
- Mad's Guide to Making a Recently-Released Gitmo Detainee Feel Welcome in Your Town
(John Caldwell)
- MisMatch.com (website parody) (written by Scott Maiko / various photos)
- Ad for The Mad 2009-2010 Calendar
- A Mad Look At Star Trek (Sergio Aragones / color by Tom Luth)
- Spy vs. Spy (Peter Kuper)
- A TV Commercial We'd Like to See - Scam Wow! (written by Dick DeBartolo / Tom Bunk art)
- The Hardships Faced by the Super Obese of America's Wild West (Teresa Burns Parkhurst)
- Sanford and Sin - The Complete Scandal (ad parody)
- The Strip Club
- The Mad Vault - 1973 (reprinted excerpts from Frank Jacobs, Paul Coker, Jr., Don Martin, Dick DeBartolo, Don Epstein, Bob Clarke, Al Jaffee, Dave Gantz, Tom Koch, Jack Rickard, Arnie Kogen, Mort Drucker, Paul Peter Porges, Norman Mingo, Harvey Kurtzman, Sergio Aragones, John Putnam)
- What the Heck is the Difference? - Jonas Brothers Lines, Vines and Trying Times
- Fold-In -- What potential health threat has been linked to the nation's pig population? (Al Jaffee)
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