History YMMV / MadTV1995

** The sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhPkO9n_NLk&ab_channel=MrOtawara "Staking Dawn",]] parodying the ''Literature/BreakingDawn'' film (with a bit of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''), brings a Franchise/{{Batman}} wedding cake topper representing Edward (Bella says it was the closest thing to a vampire she could find). Then, in the upcoming ''Film/TheBatman2022'' film, the titular character is played by Creator/RobertPattinson, who played Edward in the ''Twilight'' film franchise.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwnKE5oINQA A 2004 sketch]] featured Creator/IkeBarinholtz playing Creator/AlexTrebek, who does not hide his frustrations with Ken Jennings' dominance on ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'' 20 years later, Barinholtz would win a Tournament of Champions match hosted by... the real Ken Jennings.

** The sketch Regis & Cassidy & Cody, where Kathie Lee Gifford is portrayed as a Main/StageMom forcing her kids to be on television and making them uncomfortable, can be hard to watch due to Creator/JennetteMcCurdy portraying Cassidy, who detailed that in her autobiography that her own mother was abusive and forced McCurdy to peruse an acting career.

** A 1999 sketch featuring Lorraine Swanson on ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' had a running gag of Regis Philbin (played by Alex Borstein) lamenting about how the show would work better with a time limit. In 2009, the real ''Millionare'' would introduce a time limit on each question, a format which was abandoned shortly after, as it was derided for adding too much tension to the game.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: This show is popular in Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands. Most of the sketches uploaded on Website/YouTube are from in English with either Swedish, Norwegian or Dutch subtitles.

** A Creator/MelGibson skit involved an advanced screening of ''{{Film/Apocalypto}}'' where it was a thinly veiled "SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX" screed lampooning the Anti-Semitic allegations of ''Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist''. Keep in mind this skit aired just a little bit before Gibson went on the infamous drunken tirade about Jews.
** A sketch portrayed TV producer Aaron Spelling as a DirtyOldMan who is purely focused on shoving as much sex as possible in TV. The skit also shows Spelling on the set of ''Series/Charmed1998'' disappointed that Creator/AlyssaMilano's already revealing outfit for not being fanservicey enough, and demands she jiggle her breasts for a scene. In light of [=#MeToo=] allegations of abusive Hollywood producers, including from Milano, the sketch feels a little too much of truth rather than parody.
** Speaking of [=#MeToo=], one 2006 sketch had Nicole Parker visiting Creator/MartinShort in his dressing room for his Broadway show ''Fame Becomes Me'' (in which Nicole was a co-star)... which ended with Short committing BlackComedyRape against Nicole and Nicole staggering out of his dressing room in a traumatized state. Fast forward to the Weinstein scandals of 2017-18 in which a slew of male celebrities were accused of sexual misconduct against female co-stars and subordinates. While Short was never accused of wrongdoing[[note]]though he did end up playing a character based on Weinstein on ''Series/TheMorningShow''[[/note]], this sketch is still very uncomfortable to watch in the post-Weinstein era.

** ''Series/MadTV1995'' did a parody of the MTV reality show, ''The Ashlee Simpson Show'', which included a sequence where Ashlee Simpson's lousy singing is remedied by sound engineers making her sound like a mix between Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, and Paula Abdul. While Ashlee is lip-synching to the track, she momentarily stops to groove to the music, then stops when she realizes she's not lip-synching. About two years after that sketch aired, Ashlee Simpson would actually be outed as a lip-syncher on ''Series/MadTV1995'''s rival show ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''... after she started doing a "hoe-down" when she realized they were playing the wrong song.
** The "''Sopranos'' Censored on PAX" sketch -- back then, it was a commentary on how ''Series/TheSopranos''' violent, sexual content would be reduced to nothing on a channel that wasn't HBO (which was gaining fame for showing television shows that pushed censorial boundaries). These days, this joke has become a reality (only ''Series/TheSopranos'' would be EditedForSyndication on A&E, not PAX. In fact, PAX stopped being a channel in the mid-2000s and was replaced by a superstation called ION).

** One of the sketches they had during the 12th season was an animated three-part sketch showing pilots that Creator/CartoonNetwork rejected (one show about an amputee superhero team and another about a Korean superhero who decapitates people). Cartoon Network (and its parent company, Time-Warner) were the ones who acquired ''Series/MadTV1995'' and turned it to ''MAD'' after FOX gave up on ''Series/MadTV1995'' and canceled it.

** The sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wYobyZCyZ0 "Miss Swan in a Taxi",]] which guest-stars Creator/TonyShalhoub as a taxi driver. This was over 11 years before Tony Shalhoub and Alex Borstein would be reunited in ''Series/TheMarvelousMrsMaisel''.
** A Black Comedy sketch featured Nicole Parker playing the role of a mother who advertised an abortion-inducing pill and wished she had never given birth to her daughter. Fast forward to March 2019, when Nicole happily announced and showed off her pregnancy.

** One [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=B0lhDQSYm1k commercial parody]] featured Creator/JordanPeele as Creator/WhoopiGoldberg for Slim-Fast, including some pointed comments about her SassyBlackWoman persona popularized in ''Film/{{Ghost}}''. Fast forward to 2018, when Jordan Peele won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for ''Film/GetOut2017'', and Goldberg is the first person he thanks in his acceptance speech - saying ''her'' Oscar acceptance speech for that film inspired him to go into filmmaking.

* AcceptableTargets: There are very few things in life that the show won't make fun of, but the groups targeted regularly are various ethnic groups, women, DumbBlonde stereotypes, homosexuals, and disabled people.

** The sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhPkO9n_NLk&ab_channel=MrOtawara "Staking Dawn",]] parodying the ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn]]'' film (with a bit of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''), brings a Franchise/{{Batman}} wedding cake topper representing Edward (Bella says it was the closest thing to a vampire she could find). Then, in the upcoming ''Film/TheBatman2022'' film, the titular character is played by Creator/RobertPattinson, who played Edward in the ''Twilight'' film franchise.

* AcceptableTargets: There are very few things in life that the show won't make fun of, but the groups targeted regularly are various ethnic groups, and women, DumbBlonde stereotype, homosexuals, and disabled people.

** Stewart, though like most of the show's popular characters he suffered from overuse.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Many people would most likely try to forget that the 2016 revival season ever happened due to the inexperienced and unfunny cast, decreased production values, and bad writing.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Many people would most likely try to forget that the 2016 revival season ever happened due to the inexperienced and unfunny cast, decreased production values, and bad writing.

** One [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=B0lhDQSYm1k commercial parody]] featured Creator/JordanPeele as Creator/WhoopiGoldberg for Slim-Fast, including some pointed comments about her SassyBlackWoman persona popularized in ''Film/{{Ghost}}''. Fast forward to 2018, when Jordan Peele won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for ''Film/GetOut'', and Goldberg is the first person he thanks in his acceptance speech - saying ''her'' Oscar acceptance speech for that film inspired him to go into filmmaking.

** A Creator/MelGibson skit involved an advanced screening of {{Film/Apocalypto}} where it was a thinly veiled "SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX" screed lampooning the Anti-Semitic allegations of Film/ThePassionOfTheChrist. Keep in mind this skit aired just a little bit before Gibson went on the infamous drunken tirade about Jews.

** ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' did a parody of the MTV reality show, ''The Ashlee Simpson Show'', which included a sequence where Ashlee Simpson's lousy singing is remedied by sound engineers making her sound like a mix between Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, and Paula Abdul. While Ashlee is lip-synching to the track, she momentarily stops to groove to the music, then stops when she realizes she's not lip-synching. About two years after that sketch aired, Ashlee Simpson would actually be outed as a lip-syncher on ''Series/{{MADtv}}'''s rival show ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''... after she started doing a "hoe-down" when she realized they were playing the wrong song.

** One of the sketches they had during the 12th season was an animated three-part sketch showing pilots that Creator/CartoonNetwork rejected (one show about an amputee superhero team and another about a Korean superhero who decapitates people). Cartoon Network (and its parent company, Time-Warner) were the ones who acquired ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' and turned it to ''MAD'' after FOX gave up on ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' and canceled it.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Much like ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', a lot of fans have cited many cast and writer changes (and a change in studio and show format in its last couple years) as a reason why the show went downhill, as well as the show being based on ''MAD Magazine'' despite that all of the magazine's hallmarks (Alfred E. Neuman and his "What me worry" catchphrase, the Don Martin shorts, and the "Spy vs. Spy" cartoons) were phased out after season 3 and the show became a cheap knock-off of post-1970s ''SNL'' mixed in with ''Series/InLivingColor'' in its fourth and fifth season and the short-lived pre-''Series/{{MADtv}}'' sketch shows, ''House of Buggin'' and ''Saturday Night Special''.

** A 1999 sketch featuring Lorraine Swanson on ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' had a running gag of Regis Philbin (played by Alex Borstein) lamenting about how the show would work better with a time limit. In 2009, the real ''WWTBAM'' would introduce a time limit on each question, a format which was abandoned shortly after, as it was derided for adding too much tension to the game.

** The show made absolutely no bones about its belief that Creator/AnneHeche was with Creator/EllenDeGeneres strictly for the notoriety and that she was not even remotely interested in her sexually (with more than one sketch showing her physically recoiling from even the most chaste physical intimacy). Sure enough, after their breakup Heche has never since been publicly linked with another woman (though she continues to identify as bisexual).

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The show was never intended for young kids, but there are some easily misunderstood sketches that a parent would not think much of unless he/she sat down and really listen to the dialogue carefully. The best examples being the Sesame Street parodies and Disney Girl sketches, which looks superficially kid-friendly but contained mature themes (Or at least covers topics that kids would not usually care about) that would often go over kids' heads.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Stuart Larkin shows many of the signs of autism including not liking being touched and engaging in repetitive speech patterns or motions. He is also prone to making remarks that sound rude or arrogant and doesn't know how to talk with other people. On another note he also shows signs of Oppositional Defiant Disorder such as doing the exact opposite of a direct command.