History WesternAnimation / MAD

** More recently, Creator/MichaelSinterniklaas voiced [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Leonardo]] and Creator/BillyDeeWilliams voiced [[Franchise/StarWars Lando Calrissian]].

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** In ''The Buzz Identity'', after being told that his life is actually a lie, Buzz then asks Wheezy if [[Videogame/{{Portal}} the cake was a lie too]].

* BlackComedy: Given the fact that this kids show has characters its audience likely loves being killed or mimed, this is a real given:

* TheComicallySerious: [[{{Literature/Twilight}} Edward Cullen]].
-->'''Edward''': I'm moody.

-->'''Batman (trying to talk to a date)''': My parents are dead.

* FaceStealer: According to the "[[WesternAnimation/FantasticMrFox Fantastic]] Creator/MeganFox" sketch, Megan got her looks by stealing Creator/KristenStewart's hair, Creator/ScarlettJohansson's eyes, and Creator/AngelinaJolie's lips. Before this, she was an [[{{IncrediblyLamePun}} actual fox]].

-->''Wheezy:'' "No, the cake is real, and also incredibly rich!"

** To '''''ComicStrip/MyCage''''' of all things: The title "[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little]] Literature/WarHorse'' is most likely a reference to [[http://www.gocomics.com/mycage/2011/02/28 this strip]].

* Optimus sees a poster of Wrestling/TheRock.*\\

* Optimus sees a poster of Music/{{Kesha}}.*\\

-->'''Mordecai''': You know what I like about you, Sean? You make me seem funny.

-->'''Captain America:''' [after The Watcher and Captain America say how the other cartoon shows aren't as funny as MAD] They'll be sorry, because MAD probably wins an Emmy in the future, right?
-->'''The Watcher:''' ...You better get back to your friends.

-->'''Sawyer:''' Oh, you poor washed up thing!\\

-->'''Bruce:''' Did he say angry? Or bored?

--->'''Lightning''': Wait a minute, I shouldn't be here. I've only had two movies. The original, and the one where we have to go to Europe because there's a race. But then Mater gets confused for a spy because he sounds like... yeah okay, I guess I should be here.

---> '''Buzz''': (After getting run over a few times) Once again, Pixar is ''ruined'' by cars.

-->'''Ghost Rider:''' *Puts the mask on and it immediately burns away* Waaaste of money...

'''Farmer:''' What's that, boy? Timmy's stuck in a well?\\

** The ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' [[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin movie]] got a bit of a potshot in "My Little Film/WarHorse":

** ''My Little War Horse'': ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' (again) and ''Literature/WarHorse''...and then ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin'' as well.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: When monkeys take over for the writers of the show, you get an ''entire episode'' dedicated to monkeys and apes.

** Series/{{Shazam}} and Cat ends with a TakeThat toward Creator/DanSchneider and his television shows.

*** In that same episode, Tara also voiced Raven in the "[[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Teen]] Film/{{Titanic}}" sketch.

*** In that same episode, Tara also voiced Raven in the ''Teen Titanic'' sketch.

An animated parody show created by Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation, based on the iconic humor magazine ''Magazine/{{Mad}}''. Much like the magazine, ''MAD'' the TV series presents parodies of movies, TV shows, and pretty much anything currently happening in life and in pop culture. Each parody is rendered in a different style of animation, and few of the sketches last for more than a minute. Also, you get animated ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' and Don Martin shorts. Basically, it's either a less [[CrossesTheLineTwice line-crossing]] version of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''[[note]]This show even has ''Robot Chicken'' writer Kevin Schnick on staff[[/note]] with a little bit of ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' or ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' if it stuck to the source material for longer than three seasons, was 15 minutes long instead of an hour, had more animated sketches than live-action sketches, was made for kids (but had a PeripheryDemographic of 20-somethings and older teens), and didn't feel like a [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent rip-off]] of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and ''Series/InLivingColor''.

An animated parody show created by Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation, based on the iconic humor magazine ''Magazine/{{Mad}}''. Much like the magazine, ''MAD'' the TV series presents parodies of movies, TV shows, and pretty much anything currently happening in life and in pop culture. Each parody is rendered in a different style of animation, and few of the sketches last for more than a minute. Also, you get animated ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' and Don Martin shorts. Basically, it's either a less [[CrossesTheLineTwice line-crossing]] version of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' with a little bit of ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' or ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' if it stuck to the source material for longer than three seasons, was 15 minutes long instead of an hour, had more animated sketches than live-action sketches, was made for kids (but had a PeripheryDemographic of 20-somethings and older teens), and didn't feel like a [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent rip-off]] of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and ''Series/InLivingColor''.

** ''[[Series/GreysAnatomy "Grey's In Anime"]]'' not only pokes fun at Franchise/YuGiOh, Anime/DragonBallZ (WHAT!? 9000!?), {{Panty Shot}}s, and Pokemon, but also sneaks in two generic anime characters parodying the [[JustForFun/CaramelldansenVid Caramelldansen]] dance and Pedobear.

** "Pokemon of Interest": The commissioner mentions knowing every line of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' by heart. Sketches of the main characters can be seen on his board.

** ''Pokémon Park'': ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' and ''Franchise/JurassicPark''.

* CouchGag: The "Breaking News" segment, which actually contains not one, but TWO gags. First is the news story itself, and in season two:
--> '''Anchor''': We return you to MAD, already in... the middle of a CouchGag.

-->Been editing TV Tropes for a week? Here are some MAD moments you may have missed!

* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Parodied in a short skit where [[WesternAnimation/WonderPets Ming-Ming]], who is in a spelling bee, spells 'serious' 'S-E-W-I-O-U-S', to which [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Elmuh Fudd]], who is the judge, tells her she's cowwect.

* FingerTenting: Parodied with a commercial for Villain Hand Sanitizer.

* GainaxEnding: Parodied in "[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 The Buzz]] [[Film/TheBourneSeries Identity]]", which quickly devolves into an ''Film/{{Inception}}'' parody.
** Also ''Not-a-Fan-a-Montana''. [[spoiler: Music/ElvisPresley is behind everything, and to avoid being found out, they blow up the Earth.]] Yep.

* InappropriateSpeakAndSpell: In the sketch, "Rejected WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 Characters", one of these characters was Speak N' Swear, a literal interpretation of this trope.
-->'''Boy:''' "How do you spell 'house'?"
-->'''Speak N' Swear:''' "How the *BLEEP* should I know?"

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Take away the StopMotion visuals of "Flammable", and it sounds like Katy Putty is just singing some low self-esteem metaphors that make as much sense as those Music/KatyPerry used in "Firework":
-->Do you ever feel like you're not really real, just a puppet doll dealt a lousy deal?
** ''[[Film/TheSocialNetwork The Social Netjerk]]'' has the LawyerFriendlyCameo of [[WesternAnimation/RegularShow Mordecai and Rigby]] telling Sean to speed up the sketch as they're on next. At the time, their show was indeed right after Mad.

** 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.
** TheWatcher gives an awkward pause when ComicBook/CaptainAmerica asks if ''MAD'' will win an Emmy.
*** Ironically they did get nominated for one in 2012.

** in "Once Upon a Toon", MAD is the horrible thing they were trying to prevent, as it is replacing old CN programs.
--->'''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo''': I dreamed I was in a show that made pop culture references but didn't really make jokes about them.
** The final sketch of the 100th episode is a parody of [[Music/OneDirection "The Best Song Ever"]] about One Direction being trapped in a hotel room with a TV that only has previous episodes of the show.

* ShoutOut: Someone on the staff is probably a big Pixar fan. "Trans-Bore-Mores" contained cameos from WesternAnimation/{{R|atatouille}}emy, WesternAnimation/WallE and [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Mater]]. "2012 Dalmatians" featured a cameo from Carl (''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'') -- ''and'' ''Up'' was parodied as ''S'Up'' (in which Carl has to deal with the cast of ''Series/JerseyShore'' flying with him instead of an earnest yet irritating Boy Scout and his dog), and "Wall-E-Nator" (obviously) turns WALL•E into a feelingless robot on the hunt for trash. There was also a skit on rejected ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'' toys.

-->'''Optimus Prime''': Sam, the Decepticons are after something really, REALLY important this time. They want the... Uh...
-->*Optimus sees a poster of Wrestling/TheRock.*
-->'''Optimus Prime''': Rock of...
-->*Optimus sees a poster of Music/{{Kesha}}.*
-->'''Optimus Prime''': No...Talent-tron...

-->'''Captain America''': [after The Watcher and Captain America say how the other cartoon shows aren't as funny as MAD] They'll be sorry, because MAD probably wins an Emmy in the future, right?
-->'''The Watcher''': ...You better get back to your friends.

** "Super '80s" has a scene of Seth Green trying to crash a truck into a train full of 1980s pop culture icons, exclaiming, "If I can't [[WesternAnimation/RobotChicken have the '80s]], no one will!" Later, one of the children refers to {{Music/Madonna}} as the person Music/LadyGaga spent her career copying (then added that Creator/RussellBrand stole his act of being a comic weirdo from Music/WeirdAlYankovic.). Also, an interviewee who looks like Michael Ian Black on ''[[ILoveTheExties I Love The '80s]]'' sadly comments that shows like ''I Love The '80s'' count as television. Finally, when the '80s icons go back to where they belong, they fly to [[spoiler: Creator/StevenSpielberg's house, because his career would die without such retro figures as Franchise/IndianaJones]].

** In "Smallville: Turn Off the Clark", there's a huge amount of take that (against Smallville, Julie Taymor) and ShownTheirWork (the references to the show like Dr. Fate's future seeing, Clark's dad coming back to life, Brainiac having the model of [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Cartoon Brainiac]] and the coloring of the main comic's Brainiac).

--> '''Sawyer''': "Oh, you poor washed up thing!"
--> '''Creator/NicolasCage''' (wet and covered in barnacles): "Hi, I'm Nicolas Cage, I'll bounce back."
--> '''Sawyer''': "I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about that!"

-->'''Bruce:''' "Did he say angry? Or bored?"

* TitleScream: Parodied with "[[LongTitle Spin the Wheel & Win the Cash Before Time Runs Out & Also Maybe Win Prizes!]]" The ''Series/WheelOfFortune''-esque screaming takes so long that there's no time left to actually play the game!

** ''Rio-A'': ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'' and ''Film/GreenLantern2011'' ([[LateToThePunchline Oa is the home planet of The Green Lantern]])

** ''Teen Titanic'': ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', with ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' to keep things current.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: Lampshaded in "StarWars earned Stripes".

* XRaySparks: In one sketch based on StarWars, C-3PO shocked Chewbacca and Chewy's skeleton showed through his skin.

** ''Rio-A'': ''WesternAnimation/{{Rio}}'' and ''Film/GreenLantern'' ([[LateToThePunchline Oa is the home planet of The Green Lantern]])

** ''Green Care Bear'': ''Film/GreenLantern'' and the ''Franchise/CareBears''.

** ''Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine'': ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' and ''Film/{{Unstoppable}}''

** "Super '80s" has a scene of Seth Green trying to crash a truck into a train full of 1980s pop culture icons, exclaiming, "If I can't [[WesternAnimation/RobotChicken have the '80s]], no one will!" Later, one of the children refers to {{Music/Madonna}} as the person Music/LadyGaga spent her career copying (then added that Creator/RussellBrand stole his act of being a comic weirdo from Weird Al Yankovic.). Also, an interviewee who looks like Michael Ian Black on ''[[ILoveTheExties I Love The '80s]]'' sadly comments that shows like ''I Love The '80s'' count as television. Finally, when the '80s icons go back to where they belong, they fly to [[spoiler: Creator/StevenSpielberg's house, because his career would die without such retro figures as Franchise/IndianaJones]].

An animated parody show created by Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation, based on the iconic humor magazine ''Magazine/{{MAD}}''. Much like the magazine, ''Mad'' the TV series presents parodies of movies, TV shows, and pretty much anything currently happening in life and in pop culture. Each parody is rendered in a different style of animation, and few of the sketches last for more than a minute. Also, you get animated ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' and Don Martin shorts. Basically, it's either a less [[CrossesTheLineTwice line-crossing]] version of ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' with a little bit of ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' or ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' if it stuck to the source material for longer than three seasons, was 15 minutes long instead of an hour, had more animated sketches than live-action sketches, was made for kids (but had a PeripheryDemographic of 20-somethings and older teens), and didn't feel like a [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent rip-off]] of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and ''Series/InLivingColor''.

!!Tropes:

** "Modern Family Circus" is one big shot at ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus. (Not so much Modern Family, though.)
** In a parody of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', ''Poki'' tries to make Bruce Banner angry by making him watch WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange.

** Sometimes the style even resembles shows like ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera El Tigre]]''. Jorge Guitirrez, creator of ''El Tigre'', actually worked on the show and animated various sketches.

* NeverSendAnXToDoAYsJob: From "Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine":
-->'''Frank Barnes:''' It's like they say, never send a smiley helicopter to do an action star's work.
-->'''The Fat Controller:''' [[LampshadeHanging Nobody says that.]]

* StockSoundEffects: ''[[Film/{{Arthur}} Ar]]Film/{{Thor}}'' had one segment that referenced ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''. The sound effects used were, appropriately enough, the ones from the UsefulNotes/Atari2600 port of the game.

* ChristmasEpisode: Season 1 had "[[Film/TheDaVinciCode Da]] [[Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas Grinchy]] [[Film/TheDaVinciCode Code]]", Season 2 had "FROST[[note]]a parody of ''Series/{{Lost}}'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', and the Rankin-Bass ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer''[[/note]]/[[Series/UndercoverBoss Undercover Claus]]" and Season 3 had "[[ComicBook/FantasticFour Fantastic]] Film/FourChristmases/Red and Series/WhiteCollar"

*** "Twilight: Staking Dawn" is a TakeThat against the former as well as ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Series/{{Whitney}}'', and ''TwoAndAHalfMen''.

** "Twilight: Staking Dawn" is a TakeThat against Twilight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Whitney, and Two and a Half Men.

** Kung Fu Blander is chock full of {{Take That}}s at things like WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda (outright said [[SelfDeprecation by the main character]] that the movies are getting worse), and Mr. Popper's Penguins (criticizes its moral and the alleged wrong turn in Creator/JimCarrey's career).

Visit the show's website [[http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/mad/index.html here]].

** 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.

** & it isn't just limited to the commercials. One skit shows that you can kill a spider by cutting down a tree so that it lands in the spider's general direction...''if'' you want to do more damage to your house than to the spider, that is!

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: "2012 Dalmatians" has the president inform that the dalmatians are landing "on the ocean, on land, and at ocean land". As he says the last part the scene cuts to a dalmatian landing on Sea World and switching patterns with a performing orca (presumably Shamu or one of her children).

** Hell, the news anchorman, [[WildMassGuessing Richard]] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Succar]], does this all the time.