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[[Mutually Assured Destruction|Not to be confused with the national security policy]]
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 on anything and everything. Each parody is rendered in a different style of animation, and few of the sketches last for more than a minute. Also, you get animated ''[[Spy vs. Spy]]'' and Don Martin shorts. Basically, it's either a less [[Crosses the Line Twice|line-crossing]] version of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' with a little bit of ''[[Ka BlamKaBlam!]]'' or ''[[Mad TV]]'' if it stuck to the source material for longer than three seasons, was 15 minutes long, had more animated sketches than live-action sketches, and didn't feel like an [[Alternate Company Equivalent]] of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.
 
It premiered on [[Cartoon Network]] on September 6, 2010, right after the premiere of ''[[Regular Show]]''. 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 recatagorized into Season 1 and the actual second season premiered in August 22, 2011.
 
This show is notthe successor to bean confused with the FOXearlier sketch show ''[[Mad TV]]'', though, according to [[The Other Wiki]], ''MAD'' is actuallyon the revivedFOX andnetwork revamped version oftitled ''[[Mad TV]]'' said to come after its (1995-2009 cancellation).
 
Visit the show's website [https://web.archive.org/web/20100822143944/http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/mad/index.html here].
 
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* [[Adam Westing]]: The show is starting to take 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 WK (Music)W.K.|Andrew WK]] as himself, Matthew Lillard as [[Scooby -Doo! Mystery Incorporated|Shaggy]] and [[Will Friedle]] as Lion-LOL in ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|ThunderLOLcats]]''.
** "2 Broke [[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|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 Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|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.
** [[Frank Welker]] even reprised his role as [[The Garfield Show|Garfield]] in "[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]] [[Field of Dreams|of Dreams]]".
** More recently, [[Michael Sinterniklaas]] voiced [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Leonardo]] and Billy Dee Williams voiced [[Star Wars|Lando Calrissian]].
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: This is how most of the skits are.
* [[And You Were There]]: Used in "[[Toy Story (franchise)||The Buzz]] [[The Bourne Identity|Identity]]" as a parody of ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.
{{quote| '''Buzz:''' And Julia Stiles, you were there too! ...And then you really weren't in anything after that, which is weird, because you were great in ''[[Ten10 Things I Hate About You]]''...}}
* [[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 Aragones]]'s "Drawn Out Dramas", and sketches in the style of Don Martin.
* [[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 [[Ka BlamKaBlam!]] and El Tigre.
* [[Black Comedy]]: There is a rather depressing short skit depicting [[Cars|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.
* [[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).
* [[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 Name|PunnyNames]].
** 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.
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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 ''CSI-Carly'' appears as a member of the Berkel family.
** In "Pirates of the Neverland: At Wit's End," the two aliens from the second episode sketch about one of the aliens posting an [[Informed Obscenity|allegedly obscene]] message on his [[Face BookFacebook|SpaceNook]] wall can be seen in the background when Captain Jack Sparrow realizes he's lost.
** ''[[Limitless|Ribbitless]]'' gives us the story behind Kermit's audition tape for ''[[Series/American Idol|American Idol]]'' from ''Cliffordfield''. [[Lampshade Hanging|Even Fozzie didn't think the skit would head in this direction]].
** In ''The [[X Men|X-Men]] Games'', Professor Xavier is seen watching ''[[I CarlyiCarly|Ay Carly]]'' before his TV loses signal.
** 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 episode ''Addition Impossible; New Girl'' had the same family trying to find the eggs, this time gagging from the rotting smell because the bunny sill won't reveal their locations.
* [[Couch Gag]]: The "Breaking News" segment, which actually contains not one, but TWO gags. First is the news story itself, and in season two:
{{quote| '''Anchor''': We return you to MAD, already in... the middle of a [[Couch Gag]].}}
* [[Cutaway Gag]]: On "Two and a Half Man," with a special appearance by a parody of [[Family Guy|Peter Griffin.]]
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: One sketch involved ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks|Alvin]]'' looking for Simon and Theodore, meanwhile a snake with ''[[Fridge Horror|two lumps in him]]'' ''[[Dude, Not Funny|is nearby.]]''
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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.
* [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: Parodied in a short skit where [[Wonder Pets|Ming-Ming]], who is in a spelling bee, spells 'serious' 'S-E-W-I-O-U-S', to which [[Looney Tunes|Elmuh Fudd]], who is the judge, tells her she's cowwect.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Monkeys]]: When monkeys take over for the writers of the show, you get an ''entire episode'' dedicated to monkeys and apes.
* [[Face Stealer]]: According to the "[[Fantastic Mr. Fox|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, [[A Worldwide Punomenon|she was an]] [[Furry Fandom|actual fox]].
* [[Freeze -Frame Bonus]]: The [[Spy vs. Spy|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 "[[Stealth Pun|Crocks]]".
** Rossi's Facebook page in "Criminal Minecraft" includes Garcia's status saying she "can't wait until 1.9".
* [[Gag Series]]
* [[Gainax Ending]]: Parodied in "[[Toy Story (franchise)||The Buzz]] [[The Bourne Identity|Identity]]", which quickly devolves into an ''[[Inception]]'' parody.
** Also ''Not-a-Fan-a-Montana''. {{spoiler|[[Elvis Presley (Music)|Elvis Presley]] is behind everything, and to avoid being found out, they blow up the Earth.}} Yep.
* [[Historical Hero Upgrade]]: Taken to the extreme with ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]] [[Benjamin Franklin|Franklin]]''.
* [[Ho Yay]]: Happens a lot between [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Edward and Jacob]]. For instance, one skit had them discover that they turned themselves into vampire-werewolves from biting each other. They walk off like best buds and leave Bella alone in the woods.
* [[How the Character Stole Christmas]]: Played with in "Da Grinchy Code". It turns out that the characters investigating the crime, [[The Da Vinci Code|Tom Hanks]], [[Indiana Jones]], and [[National Treasure|Nicholas Cage]], actually stole the presents.
* [[Hulk Speak]]: "Hulked on Phonics" is a reading-improvement system based on the principles of this.
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* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Pretty much every title of ever short. 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.
* [[Kent Brockman News]]: The news anchor who [[The Teaser|opens every episode]] since the 9th one.
* [[Kill All Humans]]: Apparently [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Megan FoxFOX]]'s goal if she malfunctions.
* [[Leaning Onon 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 (Music)|Katy Perry]] used in "Firework":
{{quote| Do you ever feel like you're not really real, just a puppet doll dealt a lousy deal?}}
** ''[[The Social Network|The Social Netjerk]]'' has the [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]] of [[Regular Show|Mordicai and Rigby]] telling Sean to speed up the sketch as they're on next. At the time, their show was indeed right after Mad.
* [[Level Grinding]]: "Final ''Bran''tasy", 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.
* [[Memetic Mutation]]: In-universe, the dogs use internet memes to wage war on the [[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|Thundercats]] in 'ThunderLOLcats.'
* [[Moon Logic Puzzle]]: An entire bit based on this and rebus equations put together.
* [[My Little Panzer]]: All the toys in the "Toys 4 Brats" fake commercial (and you thought [[Dan Aykroyd|Irwin Mainway]]'s toys from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' were dangerous).
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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.
* [[One of Us]]: With constant references to [[Memetic Mutation|Internet memes]], [[Video Games]], and cartoons from the 1980s and 1990s abound, it's VERY easy to assume that the writers are this.
* [[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 (Film)|District 9]]'', ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'', or ''[[The Bourne Identity]]'' parodies).
* [[Parody Assistance]]: The voice actors from the original would sometimes voice their parodic counterparts.
* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: Gaming's Next Top Princess
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* [[Running Gag]]: At any moment someone is going to turn into a werewolf, or already is a werewolf.
* [[Sadist Show]]
* [[Screw Yourself]]: In "[[Naruto]][[Beverly Hills, 90210|210]]", Naruto gets voted to be Prom King (from his shadow clones, natch). Prom Queen? [[Gender Bender|His female self.]]
* [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]]: In-universe; in the ''Cloverfield'' parody, ''Cliffordfield'', [[Sesame Street (TV)|Big Bird]] screams, "Don't let him get me! I'm a one-of-a-kind children's character!" When Clifford crushes him, Big Bird turns into [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants]] and groans, "Okay, I see your point," implying that the children of today would probably look at Big Bird as a [[SpongeBob]] knock-off, when really it's the other way around.
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: ''MAD Magazine'' regularly makes jokes about how lame, childish, moronic, and unfunny their magazine is, so the writers of the cartoon continue the apparent tradition.
** The Wall-E-Nator considers MAD the biggest producers of garbage.
** Occurs again in the Stinger at the end of "Da Grinchy Code" — it turns out every present but a stack of ''MAD'' magazines were taken.
** [[The Watcher]] gives an awkward pause when [[Captain America (comics)]] asks if ''MAD'' will win an Emmy.
** The ending of the "Cowboys & Alien Force" sketch. "It's a mash-up of two genres; they do it on MAD all the time!"
** Hell, the news anchorman, [[Wild Mass Guessing|Richard]] [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Succar]], does this all the time.
** Scuttle the seagull brings [[The Little Mermaid (Disney)|Ariel]] some trash when she moves into a new apartment. One of them is a fork, and the other is a copy of MAD Magazine, which he thinks might be used for cleaning the toilet.
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: "Sports Drink Drink". The sports drink designed to replenish worn-out sports drinks.
* [[Shout -Out]]: Someone on the staff is obviously a big Pixar fan. "Trans-Bore-Mores" contained cameos from [[Ratatouille|Remy]], ''[[WALL-E]]'' and [[Cars|Mater]]. "2012 Dalmatians" featured a cameo from Carl (''[[Up (Filmanimation)|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 (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' 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 Withwith 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.
** [[Adventure Time (Animation)|Finn and Jake]] appear in ''Malcolm in the Middle Earth''.
*** [[Coraline (Filmanimation)|Coraline]] did too, as one of the people falling out of the overturned wardrobe.
** [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]] appears in ''Yo Gaga Gaga'', but with pink hair.
*** And seconds after that, she's [[Take That|stepped on]] by a [[Attack of the 50 -Foot Whatever|giant]] [[Lady Gaga]].
*** [[Astro Boy]] was there too!
** Considering the creators, Jessie having blue hair and James having green hair in "Pokémon Park" [[Ka BlamKaBlam!|may have not been coincidental.]]
** In ''The Buzz Identity'', after being told that his life is actually a lie, Buzz then asks Wheezy if [[Portal (Video Gameseries)|the cake was a lie too]].
{{quote| ''Wheezy:'' "No, the cake is real, and also incredibly rich!"}}
** [[Regular Show|Mordecai and Rigby]] show up and beat the crap out of Sean Parker in ''[[The Social Network|The Social Netjerk]]'', telling him [[Take That|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 [[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Felicia]] of all people.
*** Felicia? Try a brief cameo of [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Amy Rose]]!
** In the ''[[Cowboys and Aliens (Filmfilm)|Cowboys and Aliens]]'' crossover sketch, the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Applejack]] [[Captain Ersatz]] sports a faded version of her G3 incarnation's colors.
** The ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|Thunder]][[Memetic Mutation|LOLCats]]'' sketch is filled to the brim with references to "[[Discredited Meme|stupid overused memes]]". In addition, the cats' firewall is breached by a horde of [[Minecraft|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 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0dj-xdg_FY that is a Youtuber.]
** ''[[GreysGrey's Anatomy|"Grey's In Anime"]]'' not only pokes fun at [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]], [[Dragonball Z]] (WHAT!? 9000!?), [[Panty Shot|Panty Shots]], and Pokemon, but also sneaks in two generic anime characters parodying the [[Caramelldansen Vid|Caramelldansen]] dance and Pedobear.
** In ''[[Kung Fu Panda|Kung Fu Blander]]'', when trying to find something black and white that can stop Lord Shen and his [[Angry Birds]], Po picks up [[Pokémon Black and White|Reshiram and Zekrom.]]
** They even have a [[Shout -Out]] to [[Spy vs. Spy]] vs Spy in Spy vs. Spy Kids, complete with [[Jessica Alba]] dressed like the Grey Spy at the end.
** 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 Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little]] [[War Horse]]'' is most likely a reference to [https://web.archive.org/web/20130205063529/http://www.gocomics.com/mycage/2011/02/28 this strip].
** ThunderLOLcats not only references the [[LOLcats]] meme, but also [[Minecraft]] ("That's a niccccccce wall you've got there..."), "I'M FIRIN' MAH LAZER!", [[Weebl and Bob]] ("I'm a Narwhal! The Jedi of the sea!"), ''[[My Little Pony]]'', Bunchies, a spectacular replication of the Internet Trollface, [[Angry Birds]], [[Mario Is Missing|'Weegee]], [[YTMND|the Not Even Doom Music cat]], Nyan Cat, and numerous other internet memes with a striking degree of accuracy.
** In ''[[The Iron Giant]] [[The Iron Lady|Lady]]'', [[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot|Jenny]] gets crowned "Homecoming Robot" by [[Ship Tease|Sheldon]].
* [[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.
* [[Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions]]: There is a recurring segment ''named'' this (which is based on the actual article in ''MAD'' Magazine).
* [[Spelling Song]]: From "[[Smallville]]: [[Spider Man Turn Off the Dark (Theater)|Turn off the Clark]]":
{{quote| ''S-M-A / Double L-V / I-L-L spells Smallville if you add an E.''}}
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[Ka BlamKaBlam!]]!'', ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', and ''[[Mad TV]].''
** Also, to the pilot/special, and also the FOX sketch show ''[[Mad TV]]'', whose producer promised that the show would be revived and revamped on cable when news hit that the FOX incarnation of the show would be canceled in 2009.
* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: "We now return to MAD, already in...credibly obsessed with [[Twilight (Filmnovel)|these movies]]."
* [[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).
* [[Stock Sound Effects]]: "ArThor" had one segment that referenced ''[[Donkey Kong]]''. The sound effects used were, appropriately enough, the ones from the Atari2600 port of the game.
* [[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.
* [[Take That]]: In "Trans-Bore-Mores":
{{quote| '''Optimus Prime''': Sam, the Decepticons are after something really, REALLY important this time. They want the... Uh...<br />
*Optimus sees a poster of [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]].*<br />
'''Optimus Prime''': Rock of...<br />
*Optimus sees a poster of [[KeshaKe$ha]].*<br />
'''Optimus Prime''': No...Talent-tron... }}
** Another bash on Ke$ha: On "Pirates of the Neverland: At Wit's End," Captain Hook tells Captain Jack Sparrow that the crocodile who always chases him makes the most horrible noise -- "tick tock." Not the clock noise; "that annoying Ke$ha song" ("TiK ToK"), followed by the crocodile opening his mouth and a [[The Jimmy Hart Version|screwed-up, sound-alike version of "TiK ToK"]] starts playing.
** Even shows on [[Cartoon Network]] aren't safe; case in point, ''Groan Wars'' which makes fun of ''[[Star Wars: theThe Clone Wars]]''.
*** Whoever wrote ''The Social Netjerk'' obviously has a bitter dislike for ''[[Regular Show]]'':
{{quote| '''Mordecai''': You know what I like about you, Sean? You make me seem funny.}}
** They don't seem to care for a lot of other Cartoon Network shows, particularly noticeable in The Watcher's speech to Captain America in "[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (Animation)|Avenger]] [[Adventure Time (Animation)|Time]]".
** ''Star Blecch'' had several lines about how ''[[Star Trek (Filmfilm)|Star Trek]]'' stole a whole bunch of ideas from ''[[Star Wars]]''.
** ''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''.
** One skit in the ''Wall-E-Nator'' episode involved a [[Take That]] to [[Nickelodeon]] awards shows; after the hostess gets [[Covered in Gunge]], she turns into an [[Eldritch Abomination]].
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** The show also has a lot of potshots at the ''[[Marmaduke]]'' movie.
** They seem to really hate [[Kristen Stewart]] (and ''Twilight'', though that's more of an [[Acceptable Targets|acceptable target]] than Kristin Stewart), as they're always showing her as a ''really'' unhappy chick.
{{quote| '''[[Fred]]''' ''(in place of [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Edward]])'': [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|Everyone you know will be dead in a few decades,]] [[Angst? What Angst?|but who cares? You'll have sparkly skin!]]}}
** Also, in Pokémon Park, the following lines: "[Digimon Island] is the same, only more complicated and less fun." "Oh, like Yu-Gi-Oh Island"
** In "Ko-Bee Movie" Kobe discovers he has a human counterpart and wants to take action. An Exbee of Jerry Seinfeld suggests taking him to court, however Kobee says it would be very boring for a movie. At the end, Jerry Seinfeld Bee comments on how Ko-Bee Movie was a much better movie than ''[[Bee Movie]]''.
** "Super '80s" has a scene of Seth Green trying to crash a truck into a train full of 1980s pop culture icons, exclaiming, "If I can't [[Robot Chicken|have the '80s]], no one will!" Later, one of the children refers to [[Madonna]] as the person [[Lady Gaga]] spent her career copying (then added that [[Russell Brand]] stole his act of being a comic weirdo from Weird Al Yankovic.). Also, an interviewee who looks like Michael Ian Black on ''[[I Love the Exties|I Love The '80s]]'' sadly comments that shows like ''I Love The '80s'' count as television. Finally, when the '80s icons go back to where they belong, they fly to {{spoiler|[[Steven Spielberg]]'s house, because his career would die without such retro figures as [[Indiana Jones]]}}.
** Kung Fu Blander is chock full of Take Thats at things like [[Kung Fu Panda]] (outright saying [[Self-Deprecation|by its main character no less]] that their movies are getting worse), and Mr. Popper's Penguins (criticizes its Aesop and the alleged wrong turn in [[Jim Carrey]]'s career).
** In "Smallville: Turn Off the Clark", there's a huge amount of take that (against Smallville, Julie Taymor) and [[Shown Their Work]] (the references to the show like Dr. Fate's future seeing, Clark's dad coming back to life, Brainiac having the model of [[Superman: theThe Animated Series|Cartoon Brainiac]] and the coloring of the main comic's Brainiac.
** The internet itself, in the ''ThunderLOLcats'' skit.
** The amnesiac protagonist of ''Cowboys & Alien Force'' says he ''wishes'' he could forget the last ''Indiana Jones'' movie.
** [[Jersey Shore]] takes quite a few beatings itself. They all get tricked into falling to their deaths in an [[Up]] parody, but also in ''Jersey Thor'', where Thor confuses their hairstyles with elaborately styled horned helmets that his own family often wears back in Asgard. Also, in a "Celebrities Without Their Makeup" segment, When you remove [[King Kong]]'s makeup, you get Snooki.
** "Captain American't" has Colonel Philips ask Dr. Erskine to improve the movie's CGI after completing the Super Soldier project.
** MAD seems to have something against [[Cars]]. Every other time it's referenced, Lightning Mcqueen or Mater get killed off for no apparent reason.
** "Destroy, [[Bob the Builder]], Destroy" is a ([[Acceptable Targets|well deserved]]) [[Take That]] at ''Destroy, Build, Destroy''.
*** Also one of ''Hole in the Wall'' called "Hole in the Great Wall".
** "Twilight: Staking Dawn" is a [[Take That]] against Twilight, Whitney, and Two and a Half Men.
** [[Dolphin Tale|Dol]][[Phineas and Ferb]] [[Dolphin Tale|Tale]] doesn't even run for thirty seconds before it delivers a potshot at [[Nicolas Cage]].
{{quote| '''Sawyer''': "Oh, you poor washed up thing!"<br />
'''[[Nicolas Cage]]''' (wet and covered in barnacles): "Hi, I'm Nicolas Cage, I'll bounce back."<br />
'''Sawyer''': "I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about that!" }}
** "[[Garfield]] of Dreams" has a take that against Hollywood, funny pages, funny pages-based movies, and [[Seth MacfarlaneMacFarlane]].
* [[Taught Byby Television]]: The antagonist in Naru210 claims he beat Naruto in their (unseen) fight because he watched [[Kung Fu Panda]] [[Saw Star Wars Twenty Seven27 Times|27 times]].
* [[Toilet Humor]]: Lots of it, just like the magazine.
* [[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]]''.
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Done to [[Mind Screw]] levels in "Gaming's Next Top Princess".
* [[X Meets Y]]: This show in general can be described as ''[[Ka BlamKaBlam!]]'' meets ''[[Robot Chicken]]''. (The crew from both shows created the show)
** In-show, a lot of the parody titles (read: the parody titles that don't childishly make fun of what's being parodied, like ''Are You Karate Kidding Me'', ''Avaturd'', ''uGlee'', and ''The Social Netjerk'') are combos of two or more TV shows, movies, cartoon series, etc. Some examples:
*** ''CSiCarly'': ''CSI'' and ''iCarly''
*** ''I Love You, Iron Man'': ''[[I Love You, Man]]'' and ''[[Iron Man]]''
*** ''Ben 10 Franklin'': ''[[Ben Ten10]]'' and [[Benjamin Franklin]]
*** ''Cliffordfield'': ''[[Clifford the Big Red Dog]]'' and ''[[Cloverfield]]''
*** ''Pirates of the Neverland: At Wit's End'': ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End'' and ''[[Peter Pan]]'' (the Neverland reference).
*** ''WALL-E-NATOR'': ''[[WALL-E]]'' and ''[[Terminator]]''
*** ''2012 Dalmatians'': ''[[Two Thousand and Twelve2012]]'' and ''[[One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]''
*** ''Naru210'': ''[[Naruto]]'' and ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]''
*** ''Pooh Grit'': ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' and ''[[True Grit]]''
*** ''Soul Tron'': ''[[Soul Train (TV)|Soul Train]]'' and ''[[Tron]]''
*** ''So You Think You Can Train Your Dragon to Dance'': ''[[How to Train Your Dragon]]'' and ''[[So You Think You Can Dance]]''
*** ''Pokémon Park'': ''[[Pokémon]]'' and ''[[Jurassic Park]]''.
*** ''Hops'': ''[[Hop]]'' and ''[[CopsCOPS (series)|COPS]]''
*** ''The Buzz Identity'': ''[[Toy Story 3]]'' and ''[[The Bourne Identity]]'' (with some pieces of ''[[The Wizard of Oz (Filmfilm)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' and ''[[Inception]]'')
*** ''Arthor'': ''Arthur'' and ''[[Thor (Filmfilm)|Thor]]'', with the titular character of ''[[Rango]]'' thrown in as well (since ''Thor'', the [[Russell Brand]] remake of ''Arthur'', and ''Rango'' came out in theaters around the same time)
*** ''The Clawfice'': The [[X -Men]] and [[The Office]]
*** ''Rio-A'': ''[[Rio]]'' and ''[[Green Lantern (Filmfilm)|Green Lantern]]'' ([[Late to Thethe Punchline|Oa is the home planet of The Green Lantern]])
*** ''Captain America's Got Talent'': ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'' and ''[[AmericasAmerica's Got Talent]]''
*** ''Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine'': ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' and ''[[Unstoppable]]''
*** ''The Fresh Prawn of Bel-Air'': ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel -Air]]'' and ''[[District 9]]'' (the prawn aliens were from the latter movie)
*** ''ThunderLOLcats'': ''[[Thundercats 2011 (Western Animation)|ThunderCats]]'' and '''[[Memetic Mutation|THE INTERNET. ALL OF IT.]]'''
*** ''Cowboys & Alien Force'' actually has a rather non-indicative title; while a crossover of ''[[Cowboys and Aliens (Filmfilm)|Cowboys and Aliens]]'' and ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force (Animation)|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'' is indeed present, it quickly falls by the wayside in favor of a bizarre mash-up of references to ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', ''[[The Mr. Men Show]]'', ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Jon Favreau's career, ''MAD'' itself...by skit's end, [[Who Writes This Crap?|even the characters are baffled]].
{{quote| ''[[Lampshade Hanging|Its just a mash-up of two genres, MAD does it all the time!]]''}}
*** ''Criminal Minecraft'': [[Criminal Minds]] and [[Minecraft]].
*** ''Jersey Thor'': [[Thor (Filmfilm)|Thor]] and [[Jersey Shore]].
*** ''S'Up'': [[Up (Filmanimation)|Up]] and [[Jersey Shore]].
*** ''Mouse'': [[Mickey Mouse]] and [[House (TV series)|House]]
*** ''Dances With Wolverines (A Footloose Parody)'': [[Wolverine]] and [[Footloose]].
*** ''Money Ball Z'': [[Dragonball Z]] and [[Moneyball]]
*** ''Green Care Bear'': [[Green Lantern (Filmfilm)|Green Lantern]] and the [[Care Bears]].
*** ''My Little War Horse'': ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' (again) and ''[[War Horse]]''...and then [[Tintin (Filmfilm)|Tintin]] as well.
*** ''Teen Titanic'': ''[[Titanic (Film)|Titanic]]'' and ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'', with ''[[Young Justice (Animationanimation)|Young Justice]]'' to keep things current.
 
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