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A [[Sketch Comedy]] show that aired on FOX on Saturday nights at 11:00 Eastern Standard Time <ref>a full 30 minutes before ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', a fact that was lampshaded on a "MADtv" cold opening sketch where George W. Bush [played by Will Sasso] calls out ''SNL'''s Chris Kattan for his movie "Corky Romano"</ref>. It was on the air for 14 seasons, running from 1995 to 2009 on the FOX Network. The show was [[Inspired By|based on]] [[Mad Magazine]] [[In Name Only|despite having next to nothing to do with it]] after the third season.
The show, after serving 14 years as ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'''s rival, was canceled by FOX in 2009, citing low ratings. There have been claims that the show will seek new life on cable TV, though, as of 2012, the only evidence of a ''[[Mad TV]]'' revival on cable is in the form of a [[Cartoon Network]] animated sketch show called ''[[MAD]]'', which, unlike its live-action predecessor, is a little more faithful to the source material and is set up as a 15-minute show [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|allegedly for children]].
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''[[Mad TV]]'' aired in reruns on [[Comedy Central]] and the Canadian sister channel Comedy Network until 2010.
Unrelated to the [[Mad TV (video game)|simulation computer game]].
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* [[Acme Products]] - All the useless or dangerous products provided by Spishak Industries.
* [[Air Guitar]] - A shop sold those. A thief failed to steal one used by [[Jimi Hendrix]].
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* [[Flanderization]] - Bobby Lee. Initially, his skits simly involve him getting into awkward situations. He gradually becomes awkwardness incarnate.
* [[Fun with Acronyms]] - The '''K'''appa '''K'''appa '''K'''appa Sorority
* [[Gayngster]]: The topic of a sketch in which two gangsters are trying to drive each other out of town, but one of them is freaked out when the other makes repeated sexual advances at him during their fight. At the end it's revealed that both of them are gay. The first gangster was just concerned that the other was still involved with another guy.
* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]] - Keegan-Michael Key's Coach Hines (the psycho Catholic school gym teacher {{spoiler|who's actually the heir to the Heinz ketchup company, but gave up that life so he can help out delinquent students}}).
* [[I Thought Everyone Could Do That
* [[Kill the Poor]] - One sketch had the mayor of a town addressing the press to reveal his new plan for dealing with the poor. He would give them all virtual reality helmets that would show them everything they ever wanted, allowing them to live out their lives in peace. The test subject they put one on sees a beautiful woman in the distance, holding a steak dinner and a bottle of booze. He runs towards her, which leads him into traffic where he is killed by an oncoming truck. It concludes with the mayor declaring "And that's how we'll eliminate the homeless ... problem."
* [[Long Runners]] - At 14 seasons, this show is considered ''Saturday Night Live'''s longest-running rival sketch show.
* [[Modern Minstrelsy]] - Ms. Swan
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* [[Save Our Students]]: Parodied in the sketch "Nice White Lady", which features Nice White Lady teaching in an inner city school where everybody hates her because she's white.
* [[Shallow Parody]] - Around the [[Turn of the Millennium]], [[Mad TV]] started making ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' parodies. By this time, Bob Barker had been hosting the show for over 30 years, so they decided to parody what the show would have been like in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7To54TBBlE the 1970s] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL_sIKL22I0 the 1980s], if it were [[Unintentional Period Piece|filled to the brim with topical references]]. In reality, of course, ''[[The Price Is Right]]'' changed so little during Barker's lengthy tenure that the most visible change in 35+ years was his hair colour (from brown to white).
* [[Shirley Template]]: A sketch in ''[[Mad TV]]'' had parodies of both Temple and Bill Robinson in "The Littlest Hoochie", taking place in a high school setting.
* [[Sketch Comedy]]
* [[Subverted Kids Show]] - ''CLOPS'' (where cartoon characters and childhood figures are arrested for various crimes), ''The Power-Slut Girls'' (a Powerpuff Girls parody featuring Tara Reid, [[Brittany Murphy]], and Paris Hilton as crimefighting media whores -- now a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] due to Brittany Murphy's death), the parodies of the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials (''Rudolph The Rednosed Reindeer'' and ''Santa Claus is Coming to Town'') that always seem to be crossed with violent Mafia films, like ''[[The Godfather]]'' and ''Scarface'' (the 1983 version with Al Pacino), ''Dennis The Menace To Society'', the one-shot sketch ''The Ring-A-Rounds'' (a ''Wiggles'' parody that put a happy spin on such topics as divorce, post-partum depression, living with alcoholic parents, foster care, and childhood obesity) and the ''[[Sesame Street]]'' parodies they did during the last few years of the show that dealt with such kid-unfriendly topics as avian flu, childhood obesity, plastic surgery, America's economic decline, sexual predators on the Internet, and Donald Trump's greed.
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