MAD (TV series)

Mad was an American sketch comedy animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The series was based on Mad magazine. Each episode is a collection of short animated parodies of television shows, movies, games, celebrities etc. The humor is both witty and juvenile appealing mostly to tween and teen boys.[1]

It uses various types of animation (CGI, claymation, stop-motion, etc.) instead of the usual animation style that Warner Bros. Animation is known for. The series premiered on the evening of September 4, 2010 on Cartoon Network.[2] The series ended its 4-year run after airing 103 episodes.[3] The series has an age rating of TV-PG.

Voice cast

Principal cast

Guest/Other voices

Episodes

Season 1 (2010-2011)

  1. Avaturd / CSiCarly (September 4, 2010)
  2. TransBOREmores / Star Wars: The Groan Wars (September 11, 2010)
  3. 2012 Dalmatians / Grey's in Anime (September 18, 2010)
  4. Star Blecch / uGlee (September 25, 2010)
  5. WALL-E-NATOR / Extreme Renovation: House Edition (October 2, 2010)
  6. Pirates of the Neverland: At Wit's End / Batman Family Feud (October 9, 2010)
  7. Cliffordfield / Big Time Rushmore (October 16, 2010)
  8. Fantastic Megan Fox / MAD vs Wild (October 23, 2010)
  9. I Love You, Iron Man / Ben 10 Franklin (October 30, 2010)
  10. Class of the Titans / Zeke and Lex Luthor (November 6, 2010)
  11. S'UP / Mouse M.D (November 13, 2010)
  12. Da Grinchy Code / Duck (November 20, 2010)
  13. Scott Pilgrim vs. The Wonderful World of Disney / Malcom in the Middle Earth (November 27, 2010)
  14. Pokemon Park / WWER (December 4, 2010)
  15. So You Can Think You Can Train Your Dragon How to Dance / Yo Gagga Gagga! (December 11, 2010)
  16. The Straight A-Team / Gaming's Next Top Princess (December 18, 2010)
  17. The Buzz Identity / Two and a Half-Man (March 5, 2011)
  18. Are You Karate Kidding Me? / The Fresh Pawn of Bel-Air (March 12, 2011)
  19. HOPS / Naru210 (March 19, 2011)
  20. Ko-Bee Movie / Law and Ogre (March 26, 2011)
  21. Pooh Grit / Not a Fan a Montana (May 7, 2011)
  22. The Social Netjerk / Smallville: Turn Off the Clark (May 14, 2011)
  23. TwiGH School Musical / Avenger Time (May 21, 2011)
  24. ArTHOR / The Big Fang Theory (May 28, 2011)
  25. Ribbitless / The Clawfice (June 4, 2011)
  26. Force Code / Flammable (June 11, 2011)

Season 2 (2011-2012)

  1. RiOa / Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine (August 21, 2011)
  2. Super 80's / Captain America's Got Talent (August 28, 2011)
  3. Kung Fu Blander / Destroy Bob the Builder Destroy (September 4, 2011)
  4. Pirates of the Tweens / Konan the Kardashian (September 11, 2011)
  5. Fast Hive / Minute to Flynn It (September 18, 2011)
  6. Cowboys and Ailen Force / ThunderLOLcats (September 25, 2011)
  7. TransBOREmores 3: Dark of the Blue Moon / The Walking Fred (October 2, 2011)
  8. X Games: First Class / Criminal Minecraft (October 16, 2011)
  9. Kitchen Nightmares Before Christmas / How I Meet your Mummy (October 23, 2011)
  10. Dances with Wolverine: A Footloose Parody / Tater Tots and Tiaras (November 6, 2011)
  11. Demise of the Planet of the Apes / The Celebrity Ape-rentice (November 13, 2011)
  12. Moneyball Z / Green Care Bear (November 20, 2011)
  13. Spy vs. Spy Kids / The Superhero Millionaire Matchmaker (November 27, 2011)
  14. Captain American't / My Supernatural Sweet 16 (December 4, 2011)
  15. FROST / Undercover Claus (December 11, 2011)
  16. Twilight: Stalking Dawn / Cookie Blue (January 1, 2012)
  17. WWe Bought a ZOO / 2 Broke Powerpuff Girls (January 8, 2012)
  18. DolPhineas and Ferb Tale / VICTORious (January 15, 2012)
  19. My Little War Horse / The Tonight Show with Jay Lion-O (January 22, 2012)
  20. Al Pacnio and the Chipmunks / That's What Super Friends Are For (January 29, 2012)
  21. Real Veal / Celebrity Wife Swamp (March 4, 2012)
  22. Garfield of Dreams / I Hate My Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (March 11, 2012)
  23. The Adventures of TaunTaun / Everybody Loves Rayman (March 18, 2012)
  24. Potions 11 / Move Like Jabba (March 25, 2012)
  25. Addition Impossible / New Gill (April 1, 2012)
  26. IChronicle / Hulk Smash (April 8, 2012)

Season 3 (2012-2013)

  1. The Iron Giant Lady / Raising a New Hope (May 23, 2012)
  2. Yawn Carter / Franklin and Crash (May 30, 2012)
  3. Battleship vs. Titanic / Jurassic Parks and Recreation (June 6, 2012)
  4. Betty White and the Huntsman / Ancient Greek MythBusters (June 13, 2012)
  5. I Am Lorax / Modern Family Circus (June 20, 2012)
  6. This Means War Machine / ICharlie (July 18, 2012)
  7. The Mixed Matarial Artist / Aquaman vs Wild (July 25, 2012)
  8. The Blunder Games / The Poop-seideon Adventure (August 1, 2012)
  9. The Average-ers / The Legend of Dora (August 8, 2012)
  10. Men in Black to the Future / Pokemon of Interest (August 15, 2012)
  11. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Icarus / The Adjustment Burro (August 22, 2012)
  12. Taking Nemo / Once Upon a Toon (August 29, 2012)
  13. Outtagascar / FIENDS (September 5, 2012)
  14. The Amazing Spider-Minaj / Go, Dragon Ball, Go! (September 12, 2012)
  15. FrankenWinnie / ParaMorgan (October 3, 2012)
  16. Dark Knight at the Museum / Lemming Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Video Game Deaths (October 17, 2012)
  17. Total Recall Me Baby / The Asigardigans (October 24, 2012)
  18. The Boume Leg-a-Turkey / PilGrimm (November 7, 2012)
  19. Here Comes the Doom / Brain Purge (November 21, 2012)
  20. Fantastic Four Christmases / Red and White Collar (December 5, 2012)
  21. Hip Hop Hobbit / The Monday Project (December 12, 2012)
  22. The Perks of Being a Wallcrawller / Regular Shogun Warriors (January 2, 2013)
  23. Twilight: Breaking Down / GOllum ON (January 9, 2013)
  24. Life of Rhyme / Here Comes Yogi Bear (January 16, 2013)
  25. Reply All / Randy Savage: 9th Grade Wrestler (January 23, 2013)
  26. George Washington: Cherry Tree Chopper / Star Wars Earned Stripes (January 30, 2013)

Season 4 (2013)

  1. Linkong / Rainbow Dash and Bernstein (March 29, 2013)
  2. Pokemonsters, Inc. / Bane and Kate (April 5, 2013)
  3. Wreck It Gandalph / The Big Bird Theory (April 12, 2013)
  4. Les the Miz / The Lex Factor (April 19, 2013)
  5. Papa / 1600 Finn (April 26, 2013)
  6. G.I. E.I. Joe / Dog with a Captain's Log (May 3, 2013)
  7. "S" Cape from Planet Earth / The X-Mentalist (May 10, 2013)
  8. POblivion / Unbrellamentary (June 7, 2013)
  9. Jaws the Great and Powerful / Old Spock's Off Their Spockers (June 21, 2013)
  10. Jacks the Giant Slayers / The Most Beautiful Voice (June 28, 2013)
  11. The Great Batsby / Big Time Gold Rush (July 5, 2013)
  12. First White House Down / McDuck Dystany (July 12, 2013)
  13. After Bert / Downton Shaggy (July 19, 2013)
  14. Lone Rango / Doctor Who's Line is it Anyway? (August 30, 2013)
  15. Iron Bland 3 / Monsters Community (September 6, 2013)
  16. Star Blecch Into Dumbness / Stark Tank (September 13, 2013)
  17. The Flash and the Furious Saved by Adele (September 20, 2013)
  18. Lukewarm Bodies / Does Someone Have to GOa? (September 27, 2013)
  19. Pacific Ring / Horton Hears a Whodunnit! (October 4, 2013)
  20. World War ZZZ / SHAZAM! and Cat (October 11, 2013)
  21. Doraline / Monster Mashville (October 18, 2013)
  22. MAD of Steel / Sanjay and Krang / Worst Show Ever (November 1, 2013)
  23. Dullverine / Under the Dumb (November 8, 2013)
  24. Still Hungry Games / Agents of S.M.U.R.F.S. (November 15, 2013)
  25. Alfred's Game / We Are X-Men (November 22, 2013)

Awards and Nominations

2012 Emmy Awards

Outstanding Short Format Animated Program for "Kitchen Nightmares Before Christmas / How I Met Your Mummy" (Nominated).[4]

2012 PAAFTJ Television Awards

Best Animated Series (Nominated)

References

  1. "MAD". Common Sense Media Inc. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  2. Hunter Walker (25 August 2010). "Cartoon Network Will Debut 2 New Series on Labor Day". The Wrap News Inc. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  3. "Western Animation: MAD". TV Tropes. Retrieved 28 November 2015.
  4. "64th Emmy Awards Nominees and Winners; Outstanding Short-format Animated Program - 2012". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 28 November 2015.