History YMMV / MadTV1995

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: One episode from the late 1990s had a FullHouse parody of a TV movie reunion. The RunningGag was of the Olsen twins obviously changing between shots, with Mary Kate being overweight. This is hard to watch considering she developed an eating disorder as an adult.

* 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 how bad the American economy has become and make it seem like that without gadgets, his villains could easily kick his ass. While it ''is'' funny, any Batman aficionado will tell you that Batman portrayals haven't been especially gadget-heavy since the campy 1960s TV show starring AdamWest, and, while, Batman still has the coolest toys in later incarnations, he relies mainly on his detective work and physical abilities. Though this case of ShallowParody is undercut with some RuleOfFunny, as the sketch more made fun of the fact that the American economy is in the crapper and a lot of once-rich people are trying to be inventive and resourceful in laughably bad ways.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Much like ''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 ''InLivingColor'' in its fourth and fifth season and the short-lived pre-''Series/{{MADtv}}'' sketch shows, ''House of Buggin'' and ''Saturday Night Special''.

* DudeNotFunny:
** Done purposely with the Bible Dude sketches (where gays are fried by heat vision and Hillary Duff is a conduit for Satan).
** Lots of other sketches on ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' would be considered this due to the show's heavy use of BlackComedy and gross-out humor. For example:
*** A sketch about a [[TheFifties Fifties]]-themed diner that many would like to forget had the owners of the establishment take CringeComedy to new lows and DeliberateValuesDissonance to its disturbingly logical conclusion by treating some black customers the way an "average" white person would have supposedly treated them in the '50s: ignoring their orders, making [[FauxAffablyEvil backhandedly rude comments]] to them in passing, and finally threatening them with a large fire hose when they started complaining [[ArtisticLicenseHistory (not realizing - or caring - that the last phenomenon took place in the sixties, and only in a particular region of the country, and only under extreme circumstances)]]. The black husband finally declared that he hated the diner and that he was going to burn the place down. Made worse by the fact that racial discrimination in restaurants, while not extreme enough to warrant a fire hose, is a problem that still happens periodically in modern times.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C07ghqnlLFg Cindy]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4BzTmq0sE0 Delmont]] sketches which involve a competent, confident, and put-together fat woman not noticing that she's being insulted by the person she's talking to. Fat jokes abound yet the woman isn't neither sex crazy, gluttonous, lazy, slobby, nor a {{Jerkass}}. We are entreated with a {{Jerkass}} that is confused by the sight of a fat woman getting around well.

*** A sketch about a [[TheFifties Fifties]]-themed diner that many would like to forget had the owners of the establishment take CringeComedy to new lows and DeliberateValuesDissonance to its disturbingly logical conclusion by treating some black customers the way an "average" white person would have supposedly treated them in the '50s: ignoring their orders, making [[FauxAffablyEvil backhandedly rude comments]] to them in passing, and finally threatening them with a large fire hose when they started complaining [[ArtisticLicenseHistory (not realizing - or caring - that the last phenomenon took place in TheSixties, and only in a particular region of the country, and only under extreme circumstances)]]. The black husband finally declared that he hated the diner and that he was going to burn the place down. Made worse by the fact that racial discrimination in restaurants, while not extreme enough to warrant a fire hose, is a problem that still happens periodically in modern times.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: ''HAI AHM KENNY ROGERS''

** Done purposely with the Bible Dude sketches (where gays are fried by heat vision, the Pope is a pedophile, and Hillary Duff is a conduit for Satan).

** The Bible Dude sketches (where gays are fried by heat vision, the Pope is a pedophile, and Hillary Duff is a conduit for Satan).

** One of the sketches they had during the 12th season was an animated three-part sketch showing pilots that 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.

*** The absolute worst had to be a ''major'' KickTheDog spoof ridiculing Ashlee Simpson for lip-synching while suffering from acid-reflux disease on ''SaturdayNightLive''. The sketch began as it actually did in reality, but then veered off into the slanderous with Ashlee speaking in a comically stupid accent, "fans" booing her and telling her she was ugly and a disappointment compared to her sister, and an actor cast as her father, Joe, showing up to deliver a long [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Reason You Suck Speech]] to the poor girl before apologizing to America for having ever allowed Ashlee to come into existence and...[[KarmaHoudini strangling her to death in front of everyone with no consequences]]. The writers of that particular "entertainment" may not have had outraged citizenry coming at them with TorchesAndPitchforks, but they should have.

*** A sketch about a [[TheFifties Fifties]]-themed diner that many would like to forget had the owners of the establishment take CringeComedy to new lows and DeliberateValuesDissonance to its disturbingly logical conclusion by treating some black customers the way an "average" white person would have supposedly treated them in the '50s: ignoring their orders, making [[FauxAffablyEvil backhandedly rude comments]] to them in passing, and finally threatening them with a large fire hose when they started complaining [[ArtisticLicenseHistory (not realizing - or caring - that the last phenomenon took place in TheSixties, and only in a particular region of the country, and only under extreme circumstances)]]. The black husband finally declared that he hated the diner and that he was going to burn the place down.

*** A sketch about a [[TheFifties Fifties]]-themed diner that many would like to forget had the owners of the establishment take CringeComedy to new lows and DeliberateValuesDissonance to its disturbingly logical conclusion by treating some black customers the way an "average" white person would have supposedly treated them in the '50s: ignoring their orders, making [[FauxAffablyEvil backhandedly rude comments]] to them in passing, and finally threatening them with a large fire hose when they started complaining [[ArtisticLicenseHistory (not realizing - or caring - that the last phenomenon took place in [[TheSixties The Sixties]], and only in a particular region of the country, and only under extreme circumstances)]]. The black husband finally declared that he hated the diner and that he was going to burn the place down.

*** A sketch about a [[TheFifties Fifties]]-themed diner that many would like to forget had the owners of the establishment take CringeComedy to new lows and DeliberateValuesDissonance to its disturbingly logical conclusion by treating some black customers the way an "average" white person would have supposedly treated them in the '50s: ignoring their orders, making [[FauxAffablyEvil backhandedly rude comments]] to them in passing, and finally threatening them with a large fire hose when they started complaining [[ArtisticLicenseHistory (not realizing - or caring - that the last phenomenon took place in TheSixties, and only in a particular region of the country, and only under extreme circumstances)]]. The black husband finally declared that he hated the diner and that he was going to burn the place down.

** The Bible Dude sketches.
** Lots of other sketches on ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' would be considered this due to the show's heavy use of BlackComedy and gross-out humor.

** ''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''.

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

** ''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''.

** One of the sketches they had during the 12th season was an animated three-part sketch showing pilots that 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 ''MADtv'' and turned it to ''MAD'' after FOX gave up on ''MADtv'' and canceled it.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Much like ''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 ''InLivingColor'' in its fourth and fifth season and the short-lived pre-''MADtv'' sketch shows, ''House of Buggin'' and ''Saturday Night Special''.

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** 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. 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).
** The ''Friday the 13th: Jason Takes NASA'' sketch, thanks to ''Film/JasonX''.
** One of the sketches they had during the 12th season was an animated three-part sketch showing pilots that CartoonNetwork rejected. Cartoon Network (and its parent company, Time-Warner) were the ones who acquired ''MADtv'' and turned it to ''MAD'' after FOX gave up on ''MADtv'' and canceled it.

* 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 a cheap knock-off of ''SNL'' mixed in with ''InLivingColor'' in its final years.