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An animated parody show created by Warner Bros. Animation, based on the iconic humor magazine MAD. Much like the magazine, MAD the TV series presents parodies of movies, TV shows, and pretty much anything currently happening in life and in pop culture. Each parody is rendered in a different style of animation, and few of the sketches last for more than a minute, all bookended by two extra-long sketches that typically parody recently-released works and/or mash two different properties together. Also, you get animated Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin shorts. Basically, it's either a less line-crossing version of Robot Chickennote Veteran Robot Chicken writer Kevin Schinick is even the head writer of this show with a little bit of KaBlam! or MADtv (1995) if it stuck to the source material for longer than three seasons, was 15 minutes long instead of an hour, had more animated sketches than live-action sketches, was made for kids (but had a Periphery Demographic of 20-somethings and older teens), and didn't feel like a rip-off of Saturday Night Live and In Living Color!.It premiered on Cartoon Network on September 6, 2010, right after the premiere of Regular Show around the time that Cartoon Network was trying to revamp itself after its disastrous "CN Real" phase. It came back for what was intended to be a second season, according to The Other Wiki, premiering on February 8, 2011. However, it was later re-categorized into Season 1, and the actual second season premiered on August 22, 2011. After four seasons and 103 episodes, MAD was not renewed for a fifth season.This show is not to be confused with the FOX sketch show MADtv (1995), though, according to The Other Wiki, MAD is considered an unofficial spin-off of MADtv (along with Comedy Central's Key & Peele), as both shows were distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment.
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Take away the Stop Motion visuals of "Flammable", and it sounds like Katy Putty is just singing some low self-esteem metaphors that make as much sense as those Katy Perry used in "Firework":
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Adam Westing
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Adam Westing: The show took a page from Robot Chicken and casting characters with the actor that plays them in other shows, such as Diedrich Bader in many of the Batman skits, Andrew W.K. as himself, Matthew Lillard as Shaggy and Will Friedle as Lion-LOL in ThunderLOLcats. "2 Broke Powerpuff Girls" gives us a twofer, reprising their roles are Tara Strong as Bubbles and Tom Kane as Professor Utonium (presumably, he's the narrator of the sketch) and Him. Tara Strong also appeared quite prominently in "My Little War Horse", going so far as to advertise her appearance ahead of time on Twitter. The pony she played as had a striking resemblance to Twilight Sparkle. In that same episode, Tara also voiced Raven in the "Teen Titanic" sketch. Speaking of Tara Strong, she voiced Zatanna in the sketch "Potions 11" after voicing in Zatanna Trial Of The Crystal Wand. Frank Welker even reprised his role as Garfield in "Garfield of Dreams", as well as "The Garfield No Monday Calendar". Also in a Scooby-Doo sketch in the Season 4 Halloween show, Welker reprised both Scooby and Freddy, and when Old Man Mackie (the unmasked mummy villain) pointed out that dogs can't talk, the gang removes Scooby's Latex Perfection mask to reveal Welker himself, referred to as "Old Man Welker!" Michael Sinterniklaas voiced Leonardo and Billy Dee Williams voiced Lando Calrissian. The Brazilian dub basically lives off this trope. The Latin American Spanish dub sporadically did this during the first three seasons, but really blew it out come Season 4.
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Gassy Gastronomy
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Gassy Gastronomy: In the in-universe ad for "Thunderpants", a kid ends up farting loudly after eating chili at his school's cafeteria, so he buys the soundproof Thunderpants to cover up the noise.
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Timmy in a Well
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Timmy in a Well: Parodied in Sassie, where the titular smartass dog complains (in English) about this plot.
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Visual Pun
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Visual Pun: The show does a lot of this. In one episode, they advertised "The Adventures of Iron Man", then showed a laughing face on an iron a la The Annoying Orange. They're even willing to pull off more obscure puns. In "Downton Shaggy", Mr. Bates dressed up as Batman to rescue his idol, "Foot Man". In his day, a "batman" was a soldier who acted as a personal servant and bodyguard, Mr. Bates himself being an example of one in his own show.
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell
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Inappropriate Speak-and-Spell: In the sketch, "Rejected Toy Story 3 Characters", one of these characters was Speak N' Swear, a literal interpretation of this trope.
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Dropped in the Toilet: In the segment "Gross and Beyond Gross", the announcer says that a guy accidentally dropping his cell phone in the toilet is gross. He then says that the cell phone the guy fished out of the toilet isn't his, which is beyond gross.
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In the "S'up" episode, in a gag where a shoe store owner tries to convince an alligator that he's not giving her alligator shoes, a pair of pots can be briefly seen behind a sign saying "Crocks".
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Tie-In Cereal
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Tie-In Cereal: Invoked. There is a parody commercial for "Cloudy with a Chance of Flavor" based on the animated movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
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Taped-Over Turmoil
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Taped-Over Turmoil: In "Cliffordfield", the cast of iCarly throw Zack and Cody a Bon Voyage party, which Freddie films, and they also invite Kermit the Frog as a guest because Miss Piggy dumped him. As Freddie films the party, Kermit asks him if he's taping over his American Idol audition tape. Freddie tells Kermit, "Of course not. What do you think I am, stupid?", and the following scene shows Kermit singing a modified version of "Single Ladies" by Beyoncé.
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Black Comedy
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Black Comedy: Given the fact that this kids show has characters its audience likely loves being killed or maimed, this is a real given: There is a rather depressing short skit depicting Lightning McQueen being crushed in a car crusher because his transmission was ruined. They didn't care about the fact that he could talk, he was still junk. One sketch involved Alvin looking for Simon and Theodore, meanwhile a snake with two lumps in him is nearby.
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Alpha Bitch
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Alpha Bitch: The birthday girl, Ashlyn, from the "My Supernatural Sweet Sixteen" skit, as the girls typically are in the series they're parodying.
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TheUnReveal
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The Un-Reveal: Done to Mind Screw levels in "Gaming's Next Top Princess".
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Captain Ersatz: Normally used for obvious reasons, even with their own network's shows. An interesting version though, while all of the characters have different designs and/or colors, they still keep their names. This is the opposite of many of the magazine's parodies, where the characters appear the same but have their names replaced with Punny Names. One Scooby-Doo segment averts this with the characters in their correct colors and outfits. This is because Warner Bros. owns the rights to it. Same goes for DC Comics characters, but funnily enough, not for the Looney Tunes characters.
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Mythology Gag: The intro ends with the ground getting folded in through the middle, with the remaining background pieces forming the MAD logo, much like how the magazines have a picture on a page that gains new meaning when it's folded down the middle.
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Non-Indicative Name: "That's What Superfriends Are For" is a musical about how despite being called the Superfriends, the big three (Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman) really don't treat any of the lesser names like friends at all. Plastic Man and Black Lightning's names go forgotten by Batman, Black Canary can't get Superman to feed her cat, Doctor Mid-Nite can't get a ride to the airport, and members turnover incredibly frequently, aside from the big three. This leads them to change the team's name to the Justice League.
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Lampshade Hanging
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Lampshade Hanging: Constantly to the source material they're parodying in most sketches.
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Awesome, but Impractical
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Awesome, but Impractical: Nearly every non-existant product this show has advertised (which isn't surprising considering that this show is the revamped version of MA Dtv 1995). One example of such is "B.O.B.s Monster Hold Gel", which is just a living blob monster that is used as hair gel. Another example is the "Underwaker", which is an impersonator of The Undertaker who wakes you up by hitting you with a chair. Yet another example is "Hulked on Phonics", which teaches your child to talk & act like the Hulk, without giving them Hulk-like powers. And it isn't just limited to the commercials. One skit shows that you can kill a spider by cutting down a tree so that it lands in the spider's general direction...if you want to do more damage to your house than to the spider, that is! The "Rejected Superheroes" skit shows 2 superheroes that aren't awesomely practical: Sketch, who can mimic anyone's likeness but only in caricature form & Altidude, who is subject to commercial airline regulations despite his ability to fly at supersonic speeds. The "Amazing Growing Boy" is not exactly a superhero, he only shows us our own growing patterns.
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Disqualification-Induced Victory
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Disqualification-Induced Victory: In "Malcolm in the Middle Earth", Malcolm wins a science fair because he's the only entrant using actual science instead of magic.
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Eyes Always Shut
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Eyes Always Shut: Their caricature of Johnny Galecki/Leonard Hofstader falls under this category.
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Uplifted Animal
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Uplifted Animal: The Ribbitless skit portrays the Muppets as this.
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Memetic Mutation
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Memetic Mutation: In-universe, the dogs use internet memes to wage war on the Thundercats in "ThunderLOLcats".
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome
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Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Parodied in a short skit where Ming-Ming, who is in a spelling bee, spells 'serious' 'S-E-W-I-O-U-S', to which Elmer Fudd, who is the judge, tells her she's cowwect. The entirety of the "Body of Pwoof" skit.
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Evolving Credits
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Evolving Credits: The opening changes every season by changing the color of the background, the top of the cover in the pile MAD books and using characters from previous sketches.
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I Like My X Like I Like My Y
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I Like My X Like I Like My Y: The "Optimus Prime Suspect" sketch had Optimus Prime as a detective who kept making 'like my coffee analogies that didn't work; e.g. "I like my perps like I like my coffee: in a coffee cup".
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Historical Hero Upgrade
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Historical Hero Upgrade: Taken to the extreme with Ben 10 Franklin.
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Spelling Song
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Spelling Song: From Smallville: Turn off the Clark:
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Title Scream
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Title Scream: Parodied with "Spin the Wheel & Win the Cash Before Time Runs Out & Also Maybe Win Prizes!" The Wheel of Fortune-esque screaming takes so long that there's no time left to actually play the game!
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Disney Acid Sequence
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Disney Acid Sequence: "A MAD Look Inside [Celebrity]'s [Body Part]"
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Ask a Stupid Question...
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Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions: There is a recurring segment named this (which is based on the actual article in MAD Magazine).
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Parody Commercial
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My Little Pwny: The most direct parody. A Parody Commercial of ponies causing nothing but trouble (especially of the "painful to humans" variety).
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The Stinger
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The Stinger: After the credits, they do a few more seconds of a sketch from earlier on (most of which are edited out in reruns to make room for the closing credits and to get to the next show as quickly as possible).
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Stock Sound Effects
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Stock Sound Effects: ArThor had one segment that referenced Donkey Kong. The sound effects used were, appropriately enough, the ones from the Atari 2600 port of the game.
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Finger-Tenting
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Finger-Tenting: Parodied with a commercial for Villain Hand Sanitizer - the reason villains always are seen rubbing their hands together evilly is actually because they're using this product.
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Clip-Art Animation
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Clip-Art Animation: Many of the sketches that parody movies and TV shows use this kind of animation.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Take away the Stop Motion visuals of "Flammable", and it sounds like Katy Putty is just singing some low self-esteem metaphors that make as much sense as those Katy Perry used in "Firework": The Social Netjerk has the Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of Mordecai and Rigby telling Sean to speed up the sketch as they're on next. At the time, their show was indeed right after MAD. The "Hip-Hop Hobbit/The Monday Project" episode references Mad being bumped to Thursday in place of The Annoying Orange. Ironic because this was the week that Mad moved back to Monday and Annoying Orange went to Thursday.
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Official Parody
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Official Parody: The DC Comics material, as the show goes out under the DC banner. (Parodies made by the show's creative team even appeared on DC Nation.)
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Face Stealer
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Face Stealer: According to the "Fantastic Megan Fox" sketch, Megan got her looks by stealing Kristen Stewart's hair, Scarlett Johansson's eyes, and Angelina Jolie's lips. Before this, she was an actual fox.
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Level Grinding
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Level Grinding: "Final Brantasy", the cereal that tastes better the more you level up by eating it. It starts off tasting like burnt rubber at level 1, then unburnt rubber at level 2, then makes its way to tasting like sand at level 45.
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Moon Logic Puzzle
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Moon Logic Puzzle: An entire bit based on this and rebus equations put together.
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At Least I Admit It
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At Least I Admit It: During The Lone Rango sketch, the characters admit that the animators had made the sketch before the film version had premiered. So they weren't sure if most of what they were doing was accurate, just to let the audience know before they continued.
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Hulk Speak
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Hulk Speak: "Hulked on Phonics" is a reading-improvement system based on the principles of this.
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How the Character Stole Christmas
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How the Character Stole Christmas: Played with in "Da Grinchy Code". It turns out that the characters investigating the crime, Tom Hanks, Indiana Jones, and Nicolas Cage, actually stole the presents.
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Kangaroo Court
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Kangaroo Court: In "Law & Ogre", Shrek considered Grumpy Bear as the suspect, in his trial, Fiona is the prosecutor and the judge is Puss in Boots. The one who really did it was Yogi Bear.
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X-Ray Sparks
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X-Ray Sparks: In one sketch based on Star Wars, C-3PO shocked Chewbacca and Chewy's skeleton showed through his skin.
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Time Skip
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Time Skip: Averted in their Legend of Korra/Dora the Explorer parody. Unlike Korra who is introduced as a little girl, only to cut to her a young woman, the title character of Legend of Dora goes to Republic City as a little girl.
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Parody Assistance
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Parody Assistance: The voice actors from the original would sometimes voice their parodic counterparts.
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Freeze-Frame Bonus
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: The spies sometimes make cameos that are a few seconds long. In the "S'up" episode, in a gag where a shoe store owner tries to convince an alligator that he's not giving her alligator shoes, a pair of pots can be briefly seen behind a sign saying "Crocks". Rossi's Facebook page in "Criminal Minecraft" includes Garcia's status saying she "can't wait until 1.9".
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Wild Mass Guessing
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The news anchorman, Richard Succar, does this all the time.
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Lower Half Reveal
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Lower Half Reveal: In "Cliffordfield", Sesame Street is under attack by a radioactive Clifford. When Oscar the Grouch decides to leave his trash can to avoid getting stomped, he is shown to have a pair of feminine-looking legs, much to everyone's shock. He then tells them "What? It's from my mother's side!"
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Christmas Episode
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Christmas Episode: Season 1 had "Da Grinchy Code", Season 2 had "FROSTnote a parody of Lost, Toy Story, and the Rankin-Bass Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/Undercover Claus" and Season 3 had "Fantastic Four Christmases/Scroog'd"
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: "2012 Dalmatians" has the president inform that the Dalmatians are landing "on the ocean, on land, and at ocean land". As he says the last part the scene cuts to a Dalmatian landing on Sea World and switching patterns with a performing orca (presumably Shamu or one of her children).
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The Comically Serious
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The Comically Serious: Edward Cullen. As well as Batman.
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Gag Series
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Gag Series
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Rapid-Fire Comedy
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Rapid-Fire Comedy
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Kent Brockman News
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Kent Brockman News: The news anchor who opens every episode since the 9th one up until season 3.
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Gainax Ending
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Gainax Ending: Parodied in "The Buzz Identity", which quickly devolves into an Inception parody. In Not-a-Fan-a-Montana, Elvis Presley is behind everything, and to avoid being found out, they blow up the Earth. Yep.
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Pun
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Pun: Pretty much every title of ever short (whether it's a mash-up or a Take That! against how lame the show/movie is). Examples include "Yu-Gi-Bear", "Ko-Bee Movie", and examples listed on this page. Even gets lampshaded in the title sequence for "Law & Ogre", where the narrator admits they just did it for the title.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: In a few sketches, a character appears in a prominent role for one quick gag, then never appears again for the rest of the sketch (such as Hägar the Horrible in So You Think You Can Train Your Dragon to Dance, who is introduced as one of the celebrity guest judges for the eponymous show but is then conspicuously absent from the judge's table for the rest of sketch). This was eventually lampshaded in Jacks the Giant Slayers where Flapjack appears as one of the "Jacks" for hire and is introduced as someone who "once had a TV show on Cartoon Network, but probably won't be seen again after this scene". Sure enough, in the next wide shot, Flapjack is missing from the group of Jacks and doesn't appear again for the rest of the sketch.
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Parental Bonus
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Parental Bonus: If this show is even meant for kids at all, a lot of the references go over their heads (like the CSI, District 9, Two and a Half Men, or The Bourne Identity parodies). One really clever bonus was in The Monday Project, which opens with Jon Arbuckle saying that since Odie's original owner Lyman was missing for so long, he was declared legally dead. While Garfield has a show on Cartoon Network, Lyman hasn't been seen or mentioned in the comic strips since 1983.
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Kill All Humans
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Kill All Humans: Apparently Megan Fox's goal if she malfunctions.
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Nose Nuggets
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Nose Nuggets: In one skit, a man tied up at a bank uses his snot to douse a stick of dynamite. This was adapted from an Al Jaffee gag that appeared in the mag.
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo
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Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: Practically all of the characters.
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Pin-Pulling Teeth
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Pin-Pulling Teeth: Mickey Mouse does this while wiping out other cartoon mice in the "Mickey Mouse Rodent Control" ad.
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Art Shift
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Art Shift: Various animation styles are used, just like its magazine counterpart. Spy vs. Spy has it: the animation ranges from ink scribble style, clean Flash animation, and in the most 2nd season: claymation. Sometimes the style even resembles shows like KaBlam!, El Tigre, and Breadwinners, as their respective creators worked on various sketches of the show.
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Shaped Like Itself
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Shaped Like Itself: "Sports Drink Drink". The sports drink designed to replenish worn-out sports drinks.
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Cutaway Gag
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Cutaway Gag: On "Two and a Half Man", with a special appearance by a parody of Peter Griffin.
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Medium Blending
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Medium Blending: It combines many forms of animation including stop motion and traditional animation.
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Screw Yourself
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Screw Yourself: In "Naru210", Naruto gets voted to be Prom King (from his shadow clones, natch). Prom Queen? His female self.
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Stock Ness Monster
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Stock Ness Monster: The Nessie sketch.
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: One of the poster's on the werewolf's wall in the Club Moon skit is of Grey's In Anime. In "Batman Family Feud", the dead guy from CSiCarly appears as a member of the Berkel family. In "Pirates of the Neverland: At Wit's End", the two aliens from the second episode can be seen in the background when Captain Jack Sparrow realizes he's lost. Ribbitless gives us the story behind Kermit's audition tape for American Idol from Cliffordfield. Even Fozzie didn't think the skit would head in this direction. In The X-Men Games, Professor Xavier is seen watching Ay Carly before his TV loses signal. The episode Potions 11 / Moves Like Jabba had a skit on the Easter Bunny hiding eggs, which resulted the Johnson family not being able to find them. The news intro for the episode Addition Impossible / New Gill had the same family trying to find the eggs, this time gagging from the rotting smell because the bunny still won't reveal their locations.
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Reduced to Dust
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Reduced to Dust: In the sketch "DolPhineas and Ferb Tale", Candace says to Phineas that she's telling their mom. After that, Candace gets blasted by Cyborg, which turns her into dust, with her eyeballs intact.
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Animated Adaptation
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Animated Adaptation: In a sense; some of the jokes are culled from the magazine itself. Not to mention a lot of features are brought over from the magazine, like Spy vs. Spy, Snappy Answers To Stupid Questions, Sergio Aragonés's "Drawn Out Dramas", and sketches in the style of Don Martin.
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Surreal Theme Tune
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Surreal Theme Tune: Some random man and what sounds like a group of kids babbling "Hey yabba, boy yamma, Mad!" + a kazoo and Jew's harp = The MAD theme.
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Lampshaded in "Star Wars earned Stripes".
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Sassie, a parody of Lassie takes this trope up to eleven.
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Take That!
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"Twilight: Staking Dawn" is a Take That! against the former as well as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Whitney, and Two and a Half Men.
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Truer to the Text
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Truer to the Text: In comparison to the live-action MADtv (1995), which largely dropped any connection to the magazine aside from the name after the first three seasons, this series adapts much more of the magazine's recurring features (including the MAD Marginals!) and is closer in tone.
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Melancholy Musical Number
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Melancholy Musical Number: One sketch had Gordon Ramsay singing about how he felt empty doing the same shows over and over and desired variety.
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Transformation Is a Free Action
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Transformation Is a Free Action: in "Money Ball Z", Goku takes an exceptionally long time to power up, and the pitcher decides to wait for him to finish. When Vegeta steps up to bat and powers up next, everyone, including the team coach, manager, sporting agents, and audience all take up some other activity to help pass the time, including watching the entirety of Peter Jackson's King Kong.
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Baffled by Own Biology
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Baffled by Own Biology: In one skit titled "Pinocchio 2: Boy, Oh Boy, Real Life is Hard", Pinocchio learns that another downside to becoming human is using the bathroom.
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Idiosyncratic Wipes
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Idiosyncratic Wipes: Mostly involving the word Mad or Alfred E. Neuman.
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Mind Screw
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Cowboys and Alien Force: an Applejack ersatz in a Mind Screwy crossover that also involves Ben 10: Alien Force, Stretchy bands and multiple title cards.
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Ninja
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Ninja: According to the fourth episode, they sometimes infest your apartment like roaches. They also shoot spitwads and throwing stars at the chalkboard while the teacher's back is turned, and disappear when he turns around to get one student in trouble. Batman does this later on, and the kid just accepts that he can't get out of it.
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Couch Gag
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Couch Gag: The "Breaking News" segment, which actually contains not one, but TWO gags. First is the news story itself, and in season two: Season 3 replaces this with a "MADvent Calendar", which makes references to news in Pop Culture during the week of premiere.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Someone on the staff is probably a big Pixar fan. "Trans-Bore-Mores" contained cameos from Remy, WALL•E and Mater. "2012 Dalmatians" featured a cameo from Carl (Up) — and Up was parodied as S'Up (in which Carl has to deal with the cast of Jersey Shore flying with him instead of an earnest yet irritating Boy Scout and his dog), and "Wall-E-Nator" (obviously) turns WALL•E into a feelingless robot on the hunt for trash. There was also a skit on rejected Toy Story 3 toys. And it's not just Pixar, either; the main characters from Ice Age make a cameo in "Star Blecch", and Scrat shows up near the end of episode five. Also, Flint from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs has appeared three times. "Trans-Bore-Mores" also had a brief mention of The Iron Giant. On another occasion, Danny Phantom appeared once, albeit with green hair. Finn and Jake appear in Malcolm in the Middle Earth. Coraline did too, as one of the people falling out of the overturned wardrobe. The other people that fell out of the wardrobe? Spock and Alice. Haruhi Suzumiya appears in Yo Gaga Gaga, but with pink hair. And seconds after that, she's stepped on by a giant Lady Gaga. Astro Boy was there too! Considering the creators, Jessie having blue hair and James having green hair in "Pokémon Park" may have not been coincidental. In The Buzz Identity, after being told that his life is actually a lie, Buzz then asks Wheezy if the cake was a lie too. Mordecai and Rigby show up and beat the crap out of Sean Parker in The Social Netjerk, telling him he makes them seem funny. They also show up in Rio-A, where Mordecai is among the birds that get a Green Lantern ring. The Gaming's Next Top Princess segment had a brief cameo of Felicia of all people. Felicia? Try a brief cameo of Amy Rose! In the Cowboys & Aliens crossover sketch, the Applejack Captain Ersatz sports a faded version of her G3 incarnation's colors. The ThunderLOLCats sketch is filled to the brim with references to "stupid overused memes". It not only references the LOLCats meme, but also Shoop da Whoop, Weebl & Bob ("I'm a Narwhal! The Jedi of the sea!"), My Little Pony, Bunchies, a spectacular replication of the Internet Trollface, Angry Birds, Weegee, the Not Even Doom Music cat, Nyan Cat, and numerous other internet memes with a striking degree of accuracy. In addition, the cats' firewall is breached by a horde of Creepers, and one of the figures on the engraving at the start seems to bear a resemblance to one of the wizards from Magicka. The maker of that skit is a YouTuber. "Grey's In Anime" not only pokes fun at Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dragon Ball Z (WHAT!? 9000!?), panty shots, and Pokémon, but also sneaks in two generic anime characters parodying the Caramelldansen dance and Pedobear. In Kung Fu Blander, when trying to find something black and white that can stop Lord Shen and his Angry Birds, Po picks up Reshiram and Zekrom. One sketch has two people dressed like two characters from El Tigre appear as bystanders. To My Cage of all things: The title "My Little War Horse'' is most likely a reference to this strip. In The Iron Giant Lady, Jenny gets crowned "Homecoming Robot" by Sheldon, Bunnie Rabbot is knocking out Chuck Norris, WALL•E and EVE appear again, and you can see Rosie in the crowd at the end, with a robot from I, Robot and Robots. Even Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt gets a reference when a snippet of the Demon Sister's Theme plays in a short that otherwise has no other references to Panty and Stocking. "Pokémon of Interest": The commissioner mentions knowing every line of Gravity Falls by heart. Sketches of the main characters can be seen on his board.
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And You Were There
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And You Were There: Used in "The Buzz Identity" as a parody of The Wizard of Oz.
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Self-Deprecation
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During Wall-E-Nator, the MAD producers poke fun at themselves, just like they always do.
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Nosebleed
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Nosebleed: The bully in "Naru210" gets one from Naruto's Sexy no Jutsu.
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ToiletHumor
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Toilet Humor: Lots of it, just like the magazine.
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Taught by Television
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Taught by Television: The antagonist in "Naru210" claims he beat Naruto in their (unseen) fight because he watched Kung Fu Panda 27 times.
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My Little Phony
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My Little Phony: Several: My Little War Horse: Pinkie Pie in a crossover with War Horse. Thunder-LOL-Cats: Lion-O verses memes, Ponies included. Cowboys and Alien Force: an Applejack ersatz in a Mind Screwy crossover that also involves Ben 10: Alien Force, Stretchy bands and multiple title cards. Rainbow Dash and Bernstein: Rainbow Dash replaces the titular puppet of Crash & Bernstein. My Little Pwny: The most direct parody. A Parody Commercial of ponies causing nothing but trouble (especially of the "painful to humans" variety). The Adjustment Burro: Twilight Sparkle starts dating Eeyore, in a mashup of Winnie the Pooh (2011) and The Adjustment Bureau.
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Limited Animation
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Limited Animation: Several segments were animated 2D digital puppetry, such like animator Steven K.L. Olson and one of the MAD artists, Tom Richmond.
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Musical Episode
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uGlee was pretty much a whole Musical Episode about how Glee's premise of teens singing in high school is no different than the premises for High School Musical, Jonas, Hannah Montana, Victorious and Fame.
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Duck!
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Duck!: Given that the premise of "Duck" was a Chuck parody with a duck as the title character, the use of this trope was inevitable.
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Pimped-Out Dress
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Pimped-Out Dress: Gaming's Next Top Princess
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No Ending
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No Ending: Lampshaded in the end of uGlee where Principal Figgins stated that there's no budget for an ending.
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: In Thomas The Unstoppable Tank Engine, Thomas's cargo includes pillows, soft cheeses and a nuclear bomb.
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Vampiric Werewolf
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Vampiric Werewolf: One skit parodying The Twilight Saga has Edward and Jacob face off, only to bite each other and turn into werewolf/vampire hybrids. They then decide to ditch Bella and go hang out together.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: At any moment someone is going to turn into a werewolf, or already is a werewolf. "RAAAH! HULK NEED MORE SCREEN TIME!" (Cue him actually invading other sketches for that episode.)
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My Little Panzer
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My Little Panzer: All the toys in the "Toys 4 Brats" fake commercial (and you thought Irwin Mainway's toys from Saturday Night Live were dangerous).
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The Watcher
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The Watcher gives an awkward pause when Captain America asks if MAD will win an Emmy. (Ironically, they did get nominated for one in 2012.)
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: Admittedly it's for pop culture, but the amount of detail they put into most of the parodies is pleasantly surprising. They do miss the mark now and then (see Shallow Parody) but the majority of the sketches show that they do look into what they're parodying. "Grey's In Anime" and "ThunderLOLcats" are good examples of this. "Randy Savage: 9th Grade Wrestler" is pretty accurate to the original show.
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