History Trivia / MadTV1995

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: For a time, the only [=DVD=]s released were the complete season one set and a compilation special called ''The Best of Seasons 8, 9, and 10''. Despite a preview for the second season DVD, Warner Bros. decided not to release anymore [=DVD=]s for the show due to low sales. Creator/ShoutFactory picked up the slack and released seasons two, three, and four on DVD, but then stopped for the same reason Warner Bros. did. Don't bother looking for it on television, since Creator/ComedyCentral stopped airing the show in 2010 (it didn't even air the last couple of seasons [12 to 14], though Canada's Comedy Network aired season 12 before pulling the show) and no other channel has aired it since . Website/YouTube seems to be the only place anyone can find ''[=MADtv=]'' sketches (albeit ones with Comedy Central station identification bugs or Dutch subtitles[[note]]maybe a few that have Fox or CW station [=ID=] bugs {or even station ID bugs from Canada, like the now-defunct [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E!_(Canadian_TV_system) CH]]}, but those are rare[[/note]]), and the [=iTunes=] store only has full episodes of the last two seasons available.

*** Creator/JordanPeele also auditioned to be on ''Saturday Night Live'' during the hiatus brought on by the 2007-2008 Writers' Guild strike when Creator/LorneMichaels used the time off to find a cast member who could play Barack Obama. Peele and another black male cast member (Creator/DonaldGlover) were passed up in favor of Fred Armisen (to much controversy) until September 2012, when Creator/JayPharoah was chosen.
*** Conversely, Creator/CheriOteri auditioned to be in the original ''[=MADtv=]'' cast. When the producers chose Nicole Sullivan instead she went over to SNL.
** [[https://youtu.be/3qk6AHEj7v8?t=170 According to Joey Diaz]], after the first Series/TheSopranos parody sketch blew up, the cast was more than ready to make a second one when Jamie-Lynn Sigler hosted, but someone from the Sopranos production team stopped them.
-->'''Joey Diaz''': "She can host, but she ain't doing no fucking sketch", so we canceled the sketch.

** Bryan Callen from season 1 does not get along with Lee, ''at'' '''all'''. The fact that he made considerable controversy recently [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor threatening pretty unspeakable things that derailed his own career]] towards Bobby further cements his own {{Jerkass}} status towards people.

* DeniedParody: Alex Borstein has flatly denied that Ms Swan is an old Asian woman, and claims she's based on her grandmother. (The Vancome Lady thinks she's Icelandic; Borstein also parodied Bjork, and inevitably took advantage of the name to put Swan in her famous swan dress.)
** In a bit of RealityIsUnrealistic, Borstein's grandmother is Hungarian, a European people with a [[https://dailynewshungary.com/genetic-study-proves-hungarians-descendants-huns/ very Asiatic history.]]

* ActorSharedBackground: Stephanie Weir, who would frequently do impressions of Anna Nicole Smith, was born on the same day as Anna Nicole Smith, in Texas, albeit Odessa rather than Houston.

* ApprovalOfGod: Although there's no way to ''prove'' it with her dead, Debra Wilson has claimed that Music/WhitneyHouston was a fan of Wilson's celebrated impression of her. ("She didn't take herself too seriously", Wilson says.) Creator/OprahWinfrey, on the other hand, made no secret of her displeasure of Wilson's impression of ''her'', not that it ever stopped her. Tellingly, Wilson has retired her impression of Whitney following her death despite its enduring popularity, but continues to lampoon Oprah upon request.

** Particularly egregious are the Crafty Gal sketches. There are 5 of these sketches, and all feature Denise (Crista Flanagan) and Kendra (Creator/ArdenMyrin) as two unattractive girls who sell crafts at a booth, and during the process talk about being sexually harassed and/or their willingness to date any man. A man or two will approach them and the sketches end with the girls going home with the man. There is virtually no variation between these sketches with the exception of the men they go home with and the place.

** Creator/Bryan Callen from season 1 does not get along with Lee, ''at'' '''all'''. The fact that he made considerable controversy recently [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor threatening pretty unspeakable things that derailed his own career]] towards Bobby further cements his own {{Jerkass}} status towards people.

** Bryan Callen from season 1 does not get along with Lee, ''at'' '''all'''. The fact that he made considerable controversy recently [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor threatening pretty unspeakable things that derailed his own career]] towards Bobby further cements his own {{Jerkass}} status towards people.

** Creator/BobbyLee didn't get along with Michael [=McDonald=] or most of his other then-castmates (in [=McDonald=]'s case he and Lee seems to have made up), though he speaks fondly of Alex Borstein (ironically enough), as well as Creator/WillSasso, Mo Collins and Debra Wilson. One of his castmates who he ''didn't'' get along with? Aries Spears. It even extended at one point into each others' podcasts where Lee invited Spears onto his podcast TigerBelly, only for Spears to coldly rebuff his invite. Bryan Callen apparently does not get along with Lee as well, even though they both are from different points in the show's history.

** Creator/BobbyLee didn't get along with Michael [=McDonald=] or most of his other then-castmates (in [=McDonald=]'s case he and Lee seems to have made up), though he speaks fondly of Alex Borstein (ironically enough), as well as Creator/WillSasso, Mo Collins and Debra Wilson. One of his castmates who he ''didn't'' get along with? Aries Spears. It even extended at one point into each others' podcasts where Lee invited Spears onto his podcast TigerBelly, only for Spears to coldly rebuff his invite.

* CrossCastRole: Darrell from the "Can I Have Your Number" sketch is a man but played by the female Nicole Randall Johnson.

* Darrell from the "Can I Have Your Number" sketch is played by the female Nicole Randall Johnson.

* TheWikiRule: The [[http://madtv.wikia.com/wiki/MADtv_Wiki MADtv Wiki]].

** Creator/SethMacFarlane was originally contracted to do cartoon shorts for this show, but backed out in favor of creating his own TV series for FOX. Had [=MacFarlane=] taken the offer, he would have created ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' for ''Series/MadTV1995'' before spinning it off into its own show, much like Creator/MattGroening did with ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' on ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow''. This is why Alex Borstein, a regular on [=MadTV=] at the time, was cast as female lead Lois Griffin, again echoing the casting of ''Tracey Ullman Show'' regulars Dan Castellanetta and Julie Kavner on the ''Simpsons'' shorts.

** Creator/SethMacFarlane was originally contracted to do cartoon shorts for this show, but backed out in favor of creating his own TV series for FOX. Had [=MacFarlane=] taken the offer, he would have created ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' for ''Series/MadTV1995'' before spinning it off into its own show, much like Creator/MattGroening did with ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' on ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow''. This is why Alex Borstein, a regular on [=MadTV=] at the time, was cast as female lead Lois Griffin, again echoing the casting of ''Tracey Ullman Show'' regulars Creator/DanCastellanetta and Julie Kavner on the ''Simpsons'' shorts.

** Creator/SethMacFarlane was originally contracted to do cartoon shorts for this show, but backed out in favor of creating his own TV series for FOX. Had [=MacFarlane=] taken the offer, he would have created ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' for ''Series/MadTV1995'' before spinning it off into its own show, much like Creator/MattGroening did with ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' on ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow''. This is why Alex Borstein, a regular on [=MadTV=] at the time, was cast as female lead Lois Griffin, again echoing the casting of ''Tracey Ullman Show'' regulars Dan Castellanetta and Julie Kavner on the ''Simpsons'' shorts.

** Stephnie Weir (the ''Series/MadTV1995'' cast member known for recurring character Dot[[note]]a mentally unstable girl whose parents abuse her because she's as not smart as her sister[[/note]] and her impression of Anna Nicole Smith) originally auditioned to be a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' cast member. She was passed up on ''SNL'' in favor of Rachel Dratch.
*** Creator/JordanPeele also auditioned to be on ''Saturday Night Live'' during the hiatus brought on by the 2007-2008 Writers' Guild strike when Creator/LorneMichaels used the time off to find a cast member who could play Barack Obama. Peele and another black male cast member (Creator/DonaldGlover) were passed up in favor of Fred Armisen (to much controversy) until September 2012, when Jay Pharoah was chosen.

** Creator/SethMacFarlane was originally contracted to do cartoon shorts for this show, but backed out in favor of creating his own TV series for FOX. Had [=MacFarlane=] taken the offer, he would have created ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' for ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' before spinning it off into its own show, much like Creator/MattGroening did with ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' on ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow''. This is why Alex Borstein, a regular on [=MadTV=] at the time, was cast as female lead Lois Griffin, again echoing the casting of ''Tracey Ullman Show'' regulars Dan Castellanetta and Julie Kavner on the ''Simpsons'' shorts.

** Stephnie Weir (the ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' cast member known for recurring character Dot[[note]]a mentally unstable girl whose parents abuse her because she's as not smart as her sister[[/note]] and her impression of Anna Nicole Smith) originally auditioned to be a ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' cast member. She was passed up on ''SNL'' in favor of Rachel Dratch.

* MultiDiscWork: The game comes on two disks.

* * {{Corpsing}}: Compared to ''SNL'', it may be not-so-prevalent, but the show's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDGDRdoERjk&feature=youtu.be&t=53s definitely]] [[https://youtu.be/u7I0iG4haGw?t=2m25s had]] [[https://youtu.be/NRR-eBML7hI?t=3m19s its]] [[https://youtu.be/cs2BNl_IhJg?t=2m35s moments,]] with Michael [=McDonald=] being the undisputed king of making many of his co-stars break.

** Creator/PhilLamarr makes no secret of his disappointment in the show abandoning it's "alternative ''SNL''" idea as early as its second season to just become "diet ''SNL''."

** Aries Spears didn't seem to get along with anyone (with the notable exception of Debra Wilson, whom he was often partnered with in sketches), accusing Creator/AlexBorstein of racist remarks. In turn, both Creator/JordanPeele and Creator/KeeganMichaelKey claimed he was cold to them and oftentimes difficult to work with. The show itself may have been inspired by the goings-on backstage when it had Creator/NicoleSullivan and Spears re-enact (what they claimed to be) an actual TV Guide article reporting tensions between the two of them (the show was known at the time for playing with {{Kayfabe}}, including a sketch where Wrestling/BretHart flips out while filming a sketch and attacks the cast members).

** Creator/BobbyLee didn't get along with Michael McDonald or most of his other then-castmates (in McDonald's case he and Lee seems to have made up), though he speaks fondly of Alex Borstein (ironically enough), as well as Creator/WillSasso, Mo Collins and Debra Wilson. One of his castmates who he ''didn't'' get along with? Aries Spears. It even extended at one point into each others' podcasts where Lee invited Spears onto his podcast TigerBelly, only for Spears to coldly rebuff his invite.

** Creator/BobbyLee didn't get along with many of his castmates either, though he speaks fondly of Borstein (ironically enough), as well as Creator/WillSasso, Mo Collins, and Wilson. One of his castmates who he ''didn't'' get along with? Aries Spears.

* DeniedParody: Alex Borstein has flatly denied that Ms Swan is an old Asian woman, and claims she's based on her grandmother. (The Vancome Lady thinks she's Icelandic.)

** Similarly, Creator/IkeBarinholtz has expressed frustration at the show's executives' refusal to explore any identity outside of being a rival to ''SNL'', claiming that it divided its audience in a way that would never favor it and prevented it from developing a voice of its own.