History YMMV / MadTV1995

* ShallowParody: There's a parody of ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' made during the final season where Batman (played by Matt Braunger) couldn't afford good gadgets because of current economic issues and make it seem like that without gadgets, his villains could easily kick his ass. The movie portrays Batman as being the "greatest student" of Ra's al Ghul. Batman portrayals haven't been especially gadget-heavy since the campy 1960s TV show starring Adam West. He still has the coolest toys, but he relies mainly on his detective work and physical abilities.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Much like ''SNL'', 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 ''SNL Lite''.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: This show is popular in Sweden, particularly the episodes from seasons eight to ten. A lot of Website/YouTube videos of old ''MADtv'' sketches have the sketches in English with Swedish.

** The ''Friday the 13th: Jason Takes NASA'' -sketch, seeing that now there really is a "[[Film/JasonX Friday the 13th in Space]]" film.

** Stuart. When he enters his "dark place." That is all.

* DudeNotFunny: The Bible Dude sketches.

* HilariousInHindsight: ''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 ''MADtv'''s rival show ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.

* MemeticMutation: Most notably the ''Can I Have Your Number'' sketch, featuring Nicole Randall Johnson as a man who hits on women by repeatedly asking for their number.
** And let's not forget about Ms. Swan, particularly her infamous and ("Okay"/"Oh yah") "I teh yu evrteen" and "He look-a like-a man" lines.
* NightmareFuel: Many of this shows attempts at CrossingTheLineTwice only managed to cross the line once before falling flat on their face into BlackComedy. The Curious George parody especially.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: This show is popular in The Netherlands (Holland), particularly the episodes from seasons eight to ten. A lot of Website/YouTube videos of old ''MADtv'' sketches have the sketches in English with Dutch subtitles.

** The "''Sopranos'' Censored on PAX" sketch -- back then, it was showing how ''Series/TheSopranos''' violent, sexual content would be reduced to nothing on a channel that wasn't HBO. 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).

** Lots of other sketches on ''MADtv'' would be considered this due to the show's heavy use of DeadBabyComedy and gross-out humor.

* NightmareFuel: Many of this shows attempts at CrossingTheLineTwice only managed to cross the line once before falling flat on their face into DeadBabyComedy. The Curious George parody especially.

** The ''Friday the 13th: Jason Takes NASA'' -sketch, seeing that now there really is a "[[Film/JasonX Friday the 13th in Space]]" film.

* DudeNotFunny: The Bible Dude sketches.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: This show is popular in The Netherlands (Holland), particularly the episodes from seasons eight to ten. A lot of YouTube videos of old ''MADtv'' sketches have the sketches in English with Dutch subtitles.

** The "''Sopranos'' Censored on PAX" sketch -- back then, it was showing how ''TheSopranos''' violent, sexual content would be reduced to nothing on a channel that wasn't HBO. These days, this joke has become a reality (only ''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).

* DudeNotFunny: The Bible Dude sketches.
* HilariousInHindsight: Their sketch about Ashlee Simpson getting caught lip-synching, done a few years before Simpson really got caught doing so on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.

* HilariousInHindsight: Their sketch about Ashlee Simpson getting caught lip-synching, done a few years before Simpson really got caught doing so on ''SaturdayNightLive''.
* MemeticMutation - Most notably the ''Can I Have Your Number'' sketch, featuring Nicole Randall Johnson as a man who hits on women by repeatedly asking for their number.
* NightmareFuel - Many of this shows attempts at CrossingTheLineTwice only managed to cross the line once before falling flat on their face into DeadBabyComedy. The Curious George parody especially.
** Stuart. When he enters his "dark place". That is all.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks - Much like ''SNL'', 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 ''SNL Lite''.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel - For this troper, many of this shows attempts at CrossingTheLineTwice only managed to cross the line once before falling flat on their face into DeadBabyComedy. The Curious George parody especially, sends chills down this tropers spine to this day.
** Stuart. When he enters his "dark place". That is all.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks - much like ''SNL'', 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 ''SNL Lite''.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome - When Coach Hines (the crazy, near-homicidal Catholic school gym teacher as played by Keegan-Michael Key) [[spoiler: reveals he is the heir to the billion-dollar Heinz company and got a job as a Catholic high school coach so he can help delinquent teens, like Yamanashi [Bobby Lee]]].

* NightmareFuel - For this troper, many of this shows attempts at CrossingTheLineTwice only managed to cross the line once before falling flat on their face into DeadBabyComedy. The Curious George parody especially, sends chills down this tropers spine to this day.

* LoveItOrHateIt: This show is either the remedy for those who have grown tired of or never liked ''SaturdayNightLive'' (and cite that ''MADtv'' was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork wrongfully canceled]], yet ''SNL'' still goes on) or a pretender that took the worst sketches from ''SaturdayNightLive'', ''InLivingColor'', ''Fridays'', ''SCTV'', ''Mr. Show'', the short-lived sketch show ''Saturday Night Special'' (that also aired as a rival to ''SNL'' before getting canned), and ''Laugh-In'', made them into a show with C- and lower-list actors, and slapped ''MAD'' magazine's name on it since that magazine was [[SeasonalRot was getting on in years]] and was desperate [[WereStillRelevantDammit to appeal to the hip youth]] of the 1990s and 2000s. As far as the show's fans are concerned (particularly those on JumpTheShark.com and imdb.com), there is no middle ground and people who like or hate both shows (''SNL'' and ''MADtv'') don't exist.

* TheWesley: Stuart. The sketches were one-note (a kid who says disgusting things) and often unfunny but yet stayed on for eleven seasons due to the writers loving him so much. Some seasons literally had a Stuart sketch ''every episode.''

* LoveItOrHateIt: This show is either the remedy for those who have grown tired of or never liked ''SaturdayNightLive'' (and cite that ''MADtv'' was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork wrongfully canceled]], yet ''SNL'' still goes on) or a pretender that took the worst sketches from ''SaturdayNightLive'', ''InLivingColor'', ''Fridays'', ''SCTV'', the short-lived sketch show ''Saturday Night Special'' (that also aired as a rival to ''SNL'' before getting canned), and ''Laugh-In'', made them into a show with C- and lower-list actors, and slapped ''MAD'' magazine's name on it since that magazine was [[SeasonalRot was getting on in years]] and was desperate [[WereStillRelevantDammit to appeal to the hip youth]] of the 1990s and 2000s. As far as the show's fans are concerned (particularly those on JumpTheShark.com and imdb.com), there is no middle ground.

* LoveItOrHateIt: This show is either the remedy for those who have grown tired of or never liked ''SaturdayNightLive'' (and cite that ''MADtv'' was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork wrongfully canceled]], yet ''SNL'' still goes on) or a pretender that took the worst sketches from ''SaturdayNightLive'', ''InLivingColor'', ''Fridays'', and ''Laugh-In'', made them into a show with C- and lower-list actors, and slapped ''MAD'' magazine's name on it since that magazine was getting on in years and was desperate [[WereStillRelevantDammit to appeal to the hip youth]] of the 1990s and 2000s. As far as the show's fans are concerned, there is no middle ground.

* LoveItOrHateIt: This show either kicks ''SNL'''s butt (and was [[ScrewedByTheNetwork wrongfully canceled]]) or it's yet another pretender that revels in RefugeInVulgarity and should have been canceled sooner. As far as the show's fans are concerned, there is no middle ground.
* MemeticMutation - Most notably the ''Can I Have Your Number'' sketch.
* NightmareFuel - For this troper, many of this shows attempts at CrossingTheLineTwice only managed to cross the line once before falling flat on their face into DeadBabyComedy. The Curious George parody especially, sends chills down this tropers spine to this day.
** Stuart. When he enters his "dark place". That is all.

* TheWesley: Stuart. The sketches were one-note (a kid who says disgusting things) and often unfunny but yet stayed on for eleven seasons due to the writers loving him so much.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks - much like ''SNL'', 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 ''SNL Lite''.

* {{Hatedom}}: ''SNL'' fans despise this show. Similarly, ''MADtv'' fans despise ''SNL''. Then, there are viewers who hate both ''SNL'' and ''{{MADtv}}'', but find ''{{MADtv}}'' to be vile and disgusting while ''SNL'' to them is merely boring and insipid.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks - much like ''SNL'', 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 ''SNL Lite''.
* YourMileageMayVary - Despite some people's claim that this show is a low-rent, West Coast rip-off ''SNL'' (much like ABC's early 1980s show "Fridays"), there are others who love the show and cite it as being miles better than ''SNL''.

* {{Hatedom}}