Mad/Funny

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From the Magazine

  • The parody of the 1966 Batman TV series is hilarious, featuring some of Mort Drucker's best work. One panel in particular shows the Dynamic Duo entering the commissioner's office through the window, Batman riding on the back of his sidekick, who has a perfectly deadpan expression, as if this happens all the time.
  • From its parody of Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader and an Imperial Mook:

Mook: Our men are already working fourteen hours a day!
Vader: You shall redouble your efforts!
Mook: You mean, work twenty-eight hours a day?
Vader: I'm a sadist, not a mathematician!

  • And from one of the Planet of the Apes sequels, when Ricardo Montalban's character is confronted by a policeman:

Cop: I'm positive I heard that ape speak!
Montalban: Impossible! Apes do not have the power of speech!
Cop: Then how come I heard sound coming out of his mouth?!?
Montalban: Because that ape is a ventriloquist!

  • 43-Man Squamish.
  • After Superduperman reveals to Lois Pain that he is actually Clark Bent, she smacks him and walks away, admitting that she'll find Clark Bent creepy no matter what identity he assumes.
    • Right before this confession, Superduperman vanquished Captain Marbles by tricking him into punching himself in the face, which somehow causes him to explode.
  • The Love Story parody has several, especially when Jenny lies dying from "Old Movie Disease," which inexplicably turns her more beautiful by the second. In its final stages, it even straightens her teeth and bolsters her bust.
  • Harry Plodder is a Hot-blooded Putz has this gem:

(Dumbledore and Harry are surrounded by the inferi)
Dumbledore: They're hiding Voldemort's horcrux! I've never seen a mindless, dead-eyed army of skeletons like this before!
Harry: I have! On America's Next Top Model !

  • Book! Movie! is a parody of the tendency movies have to sanitize the content of whatever books they happen to be adapting. The link doesn't show it, but the ending of this story has the main character of the Book! version getting hauled off to jail for murder in as much seriousness a MAD article can muster, while the Movie! version still has the main character go to jail for murder, but does so complete with a 50's style overly saccharine song and dance number. Not to mention that the Book! version of the characters are mostly ugly(with one of them being naked) while the film versions of course all look ridiculously attractive.
  • 11 Ways Jeopardy! Contestants Can Really Piss Off Alex Trebek has the contestants plugging Lenscrafters during their interview time, giving episode titles from The Jerry Springer Show as questions, and bringing in a sock puppet to answer questions for them. #11 on the list? Singing along to the Final Jeopardy theme music.

Contestant: This is Final Je'par-dy,
Having trouble WITH this cat-e-gory!
To-day's champ--it won't be me!
Don't know Greek myth-o-lo-gy!
Hope my friends don't watch the show,
Or they'll see there's NUH-thing that I know and
I'll look like a total heel.
Wish instead I'd gone...on...Wheel! DUM DUM!


The Animated TV Show

Elmo: (running and flailing) Aaaaaaahh!
Freddie: Quit panicking!
Elmo: Who's panicking? This is how we run. (continues running and flailing) Aaaaaahh!

Baby in womb: THERE'S A GUY IN HERE WHO LOOKS JUST LIKE ME

Her dad's a has-been!

    • The mere fact that Triple H was there is hilarious.
  • The entirety of Pooh Grit.
  • Rejected Transformers.
  • The Airbender Technical Institute sketch.

"At the Airbender Technical Institute, I learned I have the power of earthbending! Now I'm an electrician for some reason!"

  • Ben 10 Franklin, particularly when Ben turns into Humungousaur and defeats the British before going over to England to smash Big Ben.

Big Ben, meet Bigger Ben!

Iron Man: Man, what was our budget back then, a dollar?

Captain America: What's going on? Who are you?
The Watcher: I am The Watcher!
Captain America: What do you watch?
The Watcher: Episodes of MAD, mostly. Funny show! But sometimes, I catch something called, Adventure Time, which is where you and your friends are now.
Captain America: That's where we are? Hmm, what else do you see?
The Watcher: I see the crews of other cartoons sitting in a deli, complaining about MAD like a bunch of sissies!
Captain America: Ha! They'll be sorry, because MAD probably wins an Emmy in the future, right?
(pause)
The Watcher: You'd better get back to your friends.

  • Katy Putty's "Flammable" music video, particularly the ending where, after setting fire to a clay man, a paper-stock (think South Park) cutout woman, and a Captain Ersatz Muppet, Katy Putty is carted off by a police officer as she sings about listening to the fire marshal.
  • "Yu-Gi-Bear"!
  • Pretty much the entirety of "Super 80's", particularly the burn against Lady Gaga being a Madonna clone (and Weird Al Yankovic being mistaken for Russell Brand), the joke about VH-1's love affair with pointless nostalgia shows like I Love The '80s, Seth Green's line "If I can't have the '80s, no one can!", everyone freaking out after the boy mentions that the 1980s introduced Urkel and Alf, and Steven Spielberg admitting that he brought the 1980s to Earth so he can keep his career alive.
  • Denzel Washington manages to stop Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine mere seconds before he runs over Strawberry Shortcake's village. However, after hearing Strawberry Shortcake lives there, Denzel lets Thomas scoot a few more inches and destroy her town. The narrator closes the sketch by informing us that "nobody regretted any of their choices."
  • "ThunderLolcats" is one nonstop tribute to the memes of the internet with some ThunderCats goodness mixed in.
    • The fact that Will Friedle voices the Lion-O parody makes it much funnier.
    • How about Troll-Ra, the Ever Trolling?
    • "Thunder...Thunder...Thunder! Thundercats, LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!"
  • "Kung Fu Blander":
    • The green pig's Screw This, I'm Outta Here line: "From now on, every moment is a gift!"
    • The Goat Lady calling the pile of dead colorful animals, "something that Walt Disney threw up."
    • Po pointing out how the Kung Fu Panda movies are getting worse.
    • Po using Pepe Le Pew as a shield against an Angry Bird.
      • For that matter, when (amongst other "every day" objects), he uses "some Pokemon", pulling out Zekrom and Reshiram (the mascots of Pokemon Black and White), to block the birds.
    • The Take That against Mr. Popper's Penguins, with Jim Carrey crying over his career taking a downward spiral.
  • From "Captain American't":
    • Everyone gasping at the sight of pre-transformation Steve Rogers, until one of them reveals that it's actually Gollum. Then the real Steve Rogers comes in, and scares everyone just as strongly.

Steve: (hissing) My precious...(normal voice)...desires to join the Army!

    • Peggy calling Steve's USO Captain America costume the most ridiculous outfit she ever saw, only to find Lady Gaga as Captain America and Steve wearing a suit made of raw meat.
    • Red Skull commenting on the fact Captain America and Bucky seem unimpressed at his owning a mask that looks like a real human face.
  • The simple phrase used to remember the Periodic Table.
  • "Wolves. We're still out there."
  • Two and a Half Women: Starring Buffy Summers and Bella Swan.
  • Some of the product ads, like the Wolver-Clean, Hulked on Phonics ("We take credit card"!), Sponge-Wow, and the Bieber Bowl.
  • Poke-Harmony:

Hitmonchan: I always found myself dating losers. But Poke-Harmony set me up with a champ! A Machamp!
Machamp: OH YEAH! WHO WANTS TICKETS TO THE GUN SHOW?
Hitmonchan: I do!!
Bulbasaur: I was worried at first, seeing as he's evolved enough to be my father.
Venasaur: But we had so much in common, like being captured in Pokeballs, and being forced to fight for the amusement of humans. And that's not easy to find!
Mewtwo: AS A PSYCHIC POKEMON, I HAVE NO NEED FOR THE INTERNET! OR COMPANIONSHIP! OR WHISPERING!

Fluttershy: (ahem) Attention ponies.
Pinkie Pie: She doesn't seem so bad.
Fluttershy: (coughs again to switch to a much deeper and intimidating voice) YOU'RE ALL ABOUT TO BE SENT TO FRANCE TO FIGHT ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF WORLD WAR ONE, which was called the Great War because we didn't know we'd HAVE more than one war. But now that we do, it just makes it less confusing to the movie going public. YOU GOT THAT?!

Pinkie Pie: ...what's a movie?

  • Dr. Doom on Victorious. The entire skit.
  • The Green Care Bear especially at the end when Hal actully manages to make the cutsy creed sound badass.
  • America's Next Top Video Game Model: If you didn't think some of the writers were gamers, this skit pretty much proves it.
  • Real Veal: "Now just do what I do." (The cow bot nods and runs off, we cut to spinning newspapers of it being in movies and hosting the Tony Award before he comes back panting) I mean do what I do from this point on" (The cow bot gives him a look as if to say "Why Didnt You Say So?!")