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* [[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]]''.

* [[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.

** 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:

* [[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.]]''

* [[Kill All Humans]]: Apparently [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Megan Fox]]'s goal if she malfunctions.

* [[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 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.

** Considering the creators, Jessie having blue hair and James having green hair in "Pokémon Park" [[Ka Blam!|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 (series)|the cake was a lie too]].

** [[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.

* [[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|Turn off the Clark]]":

* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[Ka Blam!]]!'', ''[[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.

* [[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":

*Optimus sees a poster of [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]].*<br />

'''Optimus Prime''': Rock of...<br />

** Even shows on [[Cartoon Network]] aren't safe; case in point, ''Groan Wars'' which makes fun of ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]''.

*** Whoever wrote ''The Social Netjerk'' obviously has a bitter dislike for ''[[Regular Show]]'':

** 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|Avenger]] [[Adventure Time|Time]]".

** ''Star Blecch'' had several lines about how ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' stole a whole bunch of ideas from ''[[Star Wars]]''.

** 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.

** 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]]''.

** "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]].

'''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 MacFarlane]].

*** ''ThunderLOLcats'': ''[[Thundercats 2011|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 (film)|Cowboys and Aliens]]'' and ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|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|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]].

*** ''Criminal Minecraft'': [[Criminal Minds]] and [[Minecraft]].

*** ''Jersey Thor'': [[Thor (film)|Thor]] and [[Jersey Shore]].