MAD: Difference between revisions

** "2 Broke [[The Powerpuff Girls|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|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.

** [[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|The Buzz]] [[The Bourne Identity|Identity]]" as a parody of ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.

** 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.

* [[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.

* [[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":

{{quote|Do you ever feel like you're not really real, just a puppet doll dealt a lousy deal?}}

** 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 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.

** On another occasion, [[Danny Phantom]] appeared once, albeit with green hair.

** [[Adventure Time|Finn and Jake]] appear in ''Malcolm in the Middle Earth''.

** [[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]].

** [[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.

** "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".

*** ''The Clawfice'': The [[X-Men]] and [[The Office]]

*** ''Rio-A'': ''[[Rio]]'' and ''[[Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern]]'' ([[Late to the Punchline|Oa is the home planet of The Green Lantern]])

*** ''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)

*** ''Money Ball Z'': [[Dragonball Z]] and [[Moneyball]]

*** ''Green Care Bear'': [[Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern]] and the [[Care Bears]].

*** ''Teen Titanic'': ''[[Titanic]]'' and ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', with ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' to keep things current.