This was possibly the most hated show on Cartoon Network, but I'm not on those haters side because it was funny! I can't believe Cartoon Network ended this and brought in some junky shows like "Clarence". The parodies and everything were neat and hilarious, like example, there was one episode where the Green Lantern becomes the Green Care bear! And there was another one where Garfield invents a no Monday calender! There was also one where they parody "Move like Jagger" into Move like Jabba! There's also one where instead of "The adventures of Tin-Tin", The adventures of Taun-Taun. If only Cartoon Network can bring shows like this back because now a days, there's the awful show "Uncle Grandpa" and the even worse show "Clarence". I'm not listening to haters of this show it's Awesome, funny, and pretty epic.
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dookie434 September 2011I don't know what most of the negative reviewers were expecting. I saw the same things they saw: juvenile, silly, and shallow humor...just like the magazine. It's so very like the magazine that I keep expecting to fold the inside back cover to get the last joke. My only regret is not being 12 yrs old again to truly appreciate it.
It's never going to be mature enough to be on adult swim, but that's fine. There has to be something in the middle for the early teens to laugh at. That's how Mad Magazine found an audience in the first place. If you're over 15 and watching this, go watch the onion or some monty python. This isn't for you. -
drama-8312312 January 2019This show is very interesting. When I watched a couple of episodes, I was trying to decide how I felt about the show and couldn't think of anything. The show was not funny at all, but I was oddly entertained. (It feels like a watered down version of Robot Chicken) I would say watch it for yourself and decide what you think about it.
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talarisw17 November 2011I'm a huge fan of mad magazine and it's great to see an mad cartoon show on cartoon network, but as a geek I debate how faithful it is to the magazine. But overall it does a good job at staying true to the magazine in essence, but it's not exactly like the magazine. The show is aimed at a more younger audience then the magazine, targeting twilight, icarly, high school musical and etc. Another major difference between the show and magazine is that the magazine makes a lot of social & political humor, while the show focus only on entertainment. But the show stays true to the mad magazine spirit. Like the magazine, it has movie and TV parodies that play like mini stories and probably the best part of this show are the different uses of animation style, it is really visually appealing and impressive how they bring all these different styles together and by doing this it also stays true to the magazine, as different artists with different styles work on the magazine, from Al Jaffe to Don Martin. My favorite part of this show are the movie, TV parodies, their not exactly like the magazine but it very much in essence is. And to be honest it's hard to be just like the magazine because what works in print may not work in animation. In the magazine they ridicule the title and character's name and kind of critique the plot, but I must admit the show has some really, really good movie parodies, their well written, witty and truly funny. I like when they use the animation style of people's actual pictures and animated it, it makes the movie parody that much more better. Their first one "Avaturd" was great! The title avaturd instead of avatar is very mad magazine. Poppa smurf and grover made cameo appearance, a lot of blue and cat jokes. "Uglee" is another great parody, the song was great! Saying how glee's a rip off of other high school singing premises. "Star Blecch" is a great parody of the star trek movie,the best part is when captain kirk's dad saves the ship from exploding and his wife text a picture of their baby and it's Alfred E. Newman and he decides to kill himself! hilarious. Other great parodies include " the social netjerk","class of the titans","super80's","kung fu blander", which had a nice surprise cameo by spy vs spy. The movie, TV parodies are clever, often bringing two unlikely things together that somehow fits, like "clawfice", merging x-men with the TV show the office. It's really well written, the voice acting is great, the dialog is great with a lot memorable quotes. The sketches in between are good, like "celebrities without their make-up" the show adapted a few things from the magazine like the don martins, snappy answers, mad marginals and spy vs spy, which began with so so animation but got better over time and in the 2nd season they started using a nightmare before Christmas cartoon style, which looks really good and I love the music, it sound's sinister and that's perfect for spy vs. spy. But unfortunately no "lighter side". I like the cameos by Alfred E.Newman in sketches. Kitchen Nightmares before Christmas was another great parody with Gordan Ramsey entering nightmare before Christmas and terrorizing the monsters, the song was hilarious, "what's that!" As a hardcore fan of the magazine, with a subscription, I'm happy to see a cartoon series based on the great mad magazine and I look forward to watching it every Monday night.
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dudleystreetfighter9 May 2020Cartoon Network in 2010 made a show called MAD which was based on the magazine with the same name, the show had unfunny but entertaining animated episodes which meant to be a parody of famous things, there also was Spy VS Spy which are two spies fighting, this part of the show was really good and unpredictable.
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Rectangular_businessman3 September 2012"Mad" is a painfully unfunny series which fails at making any kind of decent parody of even the easiest targets. In fact, this show fails at every single level, being one of the worst television series that I've seen in my entire life, being ugly, obnoxious, dumb and poorly made, having any single flaw that any program could have.
All the "parodies" done by this series are idiotic: Most of them consist in doing a stupid crossover without sense, or making one incredibly lame pun about two franchises with similar names, either way, the result is always something dire and completely unwatchable.
The animation of this series is terrible: Each chapter of Mad features different art styles, having all of them in common an almost unbelievable level of ugliness, with awful and unappealing designs and a horrible use of colors.
The most pathetic thing from "Mad" is the lame use of Internet memes, all of them which have been used to death in forums and image boards many years before the start of this series.
Honestly, there are many YouTube videos that are cleverer and make a better use of Internet memes than this atrocious show.
"Mad" is one of the worst programs that I've seen in my entire life. I would rate it with a negative score if I could. -
Howard-300392 May 2016Jesus,and i thought Supernoobs was horrible, but this makes Supernoobs look like a well made anime. MADtv was a good show that had a successful run, but cartoon networks incarnation of MAD,is just,horrible.If you hate cartoon characters, than MAD understands you,which is why i hate it, it generally portrays cartoons characters as prissy wimps or annoying gays, although some cartoon characters are classified as normal, they betray Spongebob as a 1 dimensional laugher,and betray the Backpack from Dora as a Pokemon Tool and a Mr men character as a tool only for getting killed,and they usually use DC,Marvel,Star wars,and live action movies/shows that were stupid if not horrendous. What Robot Chicken Did to win my heart is making the characters of any sort normal as if they were doing a scenario in their franchise along with ruining your child hood, but MAD likes to make a parody with other licensed characters to make it a bootleg ripoff of the actual movie, like imagine if Bugs Bunny and Pinkie pie were in a spy movie parody, do you want to see that, no one wants to see characters crossover with characters that don't mix well, and even if it is a pony lover's fantasy, it wouldn't work, like in Rainbow Dash and Bernstein, it mixes a hit/miss Disney show with a horrible fan fiction and the make the puppet a mind slave, what they could've done is make them meet the Muppet. You know what bugs me, the animation is to tacky that some of the parodies look horrible. I you have an encounter with this show, then you'll get mad easily.
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Don't believe me??? Just read my review.
Okay, first of all, i know that this is a kid's show, but it doesn't mean it doesn't have to be funny. Now, I'm a child of the 90's, so I grew up with Nickolodeon before it became a sellout channel. We had "All That," "Kenan and Kel," "Invader Zim," etc. We also had "Beavis and Butthead," "Daria," "Futurama," "Greg the Bunny," and "King of the Hill." Now, I realize that this is a show aimed towards 7 to ten year old kids with the intent of being a more kid friendly version of one of my favorite shows: Robot Chicken. Only problem is, it's not funny. It's pretty much nothing but bad puns and lowbrow crude humor. I mean, the puns are REALLY bad. I mean, come on CSiCarly?! That's just pathetic by my standards. Now, for the toilet humor, I mentioned Beavis and Butthead, who were actually quite funny. But most of the humor came from their stupidity and their love of heavy metal, nachos, and chicks. 60% of the jokes in MAD involve zits, farts, poop, burps, blood, vomit etc. Crude humor can occasionally be funny, but if not properly executed it just makes you feel sick and disgusted, instead of making you laugh. Also, the voice acting is so freaking annoying. I mean, with Family Guy and Robot Chicken and the Simpsons, the voice actors are great and can do several voices. With MAD, the male announcer is basically a pompous sounding, annoying moron. The female lead is real annoying because, while she only has one voice which isn't really that remarkable, has done some pretty good stuff for some other shows such as Futurama and Family Guy (She was Brian's girlfriend) it's nothing new. It's the same voice and it gets real old real fast! With Seth McFarlane, Alex Borstein, and Nancy Cartwright, Mike Judge and Seth Green, they have such a repertoire of great voices. Now I've . I understand that this is kid's humor, but if you really want the truth, I think if I had a twelve year old son, I would much rather let him watch robot chicken than MAD, because dark comedy is better than toilet humor in my opinion, whether it's appropriate or not. -
fatemodder12119 February 2015Please don't listen to all of the haters on this site, MAD is one of the funniest, wittiest, and most creative kid shows I've ever seen. I remember being very sad when Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends got cancelled. I thought the Golden Age of Cartoon Network was over, but along came this show called Mad, which made me realize that Cartoon Network can still make hilarious shows no matter what. For those who don't know, Mad is a 15-minute sketch comedy that parodies things like movies, TV shows, celebrities, and current events. Every episode is made up of many 5-second to 1-minute segments. A lot of people have been calling it a "rip-off of Robot Chicken", but the truth is Mad and Robot Chicken are not the same thing. It's like comparing apples to oranges, they're both fruit, but they have different tastes and textures. Mad is far different from Robot Chicken (depsite the creator being a former writer), it is based off of Mad magazine and is like if the magazine came to life on your screen. Mad used every kind of animation, including traditional animation, stop-motion, claymation, CGI, even occasional puppets. I've seen every episode of Mad, and even though I don't get a few of the references, I can find humor in all of them. The voice acting is also very good because the voice actors often sound like the people they're spoofing, for example Kevin Shinick, the creator and main voice actor, can sound like many different celebrities and fictional characters from Nicholas Cage to Fred Flintstone. People also say that Mad uses too much toilet humor, but remember, Mad is a KID'S show, kid shows are known for using toilet humor and the magazine also uses plenty of it as well. I haven't read one Mad magazine without a fart joke in it, and by the way, certain "adult" cartoons like Family Guy overuse toilet humor a lot more than Mad does. I also really like the Spy vs. Spy segments, because they remind me of the magazine, which I also really like. I think the funniest thing about Mad is the parodies, I could seriously go on all day listing every Mad sketch I find funny. Most vintage and modern day Cartoon Network shows only have occasional funny moments. I also remember being very upset when I found out Mad got cancelled, I loved the show so much and was very disappointed to see it go. It just saddens me to think that Cartoon Network gave Annoying Orange another season, but cancelled this hilarious show. Don't you think that orange has overstayed his welcome?! I know I do. All in all, Mad was one of the best shows to ever hit the channel, and I will make sure to watch reruns on days I am feeling down, because this show always cheers me up.
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basato9210 September 2011Just when you thought Cartoon Network, oh excuse me, CN couldn't get any worse, they air this pile of monkey feces. You wouldn't believe how awful this show is unless you watched it yourself, I watched a couple of them and my brain felt numb after seeing just one.
The parodies consist of mashing up two or more pieces of pop culture with an idiotic, lazily thought up puns for titles like Mouse MD or Naru210 or Jersey Thor. Barely any of these made me laugh, truthfully the scenarios and jokes could work if it was done by people who had an actual sense of humor. These skits are reminiscent of the disastrous travesties made by Seltzer & Friedberg; same lazily inspired parodies where they barely know nothing about what they're parodying, we're expected to laugh simply because they're there and because they mash these references together. Actual jokes? References to the subject being satirized? Who needs that when you could just come up with lame, nonsensical drivel and pass it off as satire.
Perhaps the worst thing about this show is the animation, Oh my Lord this makes Adventure Time look like Paprika. If you watched these you'd swear it was one of those awful youtube animations. How did these people even get into the animation industry? The designs for celebrity live action characters look like Saddam & Mel Gibson from South Park, only badly done and unfunny.
Here's my proposal to those in charge of CN because obviously they're gonna read this review, hire people who actually have a brain, a sense of humor and respect for the audience. Stop hiring fresh out of college rookies to be in charge of shows and please do not hire stoners. Watch some of your classic programming that put your channel on the map, see what they did and try to follow their example by coming up with creative concepts, lovable characters and material that people of all ages can enjoy. While Adventure Time & Regular Show are mediocre, they're a step in the right direction, but MAD is ten steps back. -
dannylafontaine1325 August 2017MAD is a very good show. but its not for little kids. because its rated TVPG. it has some sexual innuendo one skit called Grey's in anime had a girls skirt lift up into the air. Mary Jane is spider mans babysitter and talks in a seductive voice. and a woman is seen with 3 breasts. its very violent. a girl from the navi beats up blue from blues clues. in a parody of toyrus a giraffe pulls out a knife. and his toys that are advertised are hurting kids like baby cuts a lot lectro land play sets skill-saw and playdont. and then at the end he hits a kid with a baseball bat. mickey mouse saws off bob the builders thumb. a guy shoots a kid. a girl shoots a guy. a guy punches a girl in the face. a guy tips Thomas the tank engine forward so hell murder the little town of strawberry shortcake. a guy is seen injured on the ground and a girl asks for help from the guy and he says uh not today and walks off. Dr hibert from the Simpsons says a guy is going to the hospital and says really because i think you just cut off your leg. a woman seen baking gingerbread men gets arrested by the gingerbread men police. in one spy vs spy skit black spy gets shot in the eyes and his eyes are bleeding. and a guy pushes a girl into a volcano then jumps in himself. and there's some swearing like crap and a few censored f words. and there's a drug reference were the tricks rabbit flushes cereal down the toilet. with that being said i think MAD is more for young teens and up and is a very good show for teens and adults.
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They call this show "Mad", when it should be called "Overused, Unfunny and Unoriginal Jokes about Pop Culture Icons, the TV Show". Seriously, every "skit" in an episode of this show is literally consists of one or more of the following:
1. An unfunny parody of a movie/television show, often editing the name to something random, like "W.W.E.R.", or "Class of the Titans"
2. An unfunny pop culture reference poking fun at a celebrity for almost no reason
3. An unfunny and sometimes gross parody of a product in the market, such as "Throw-active"
4. The occasional (or should I say UNoccasional) skit, featuring something I enjoyed while reading Mad Magazine, such as a Spy. vs. Spy animation. This really only entertained me due to the nostalgia I felt from seeing a particular skit.
Number four doesn't really fit in with the other three elements of the show, however I will give them some credit on making a few funny jokes/skits. Honestly though, Mad is like a soft-core version of Robot Chicken, except the writing and voice acting is simply downright unfunny, and untalented. So unfunny I would even go so far as to say that, personally, I would rather watch the even less funny shows on the Disney channel. The only funny joke I've seen from Mad was how IMDb listed it under the comedy shows. How it is still has a time slot on television is one of life's greater mysteries. -
GravityLoudHouseLover115 August 2015Hey Guys It's me RegaulrShow1 here again and today I'm going to review Cartoon Network's "MAD". "MAD" is a sketch comedy that aired on Cartoon Network from September 6,2010 to December 2,2013. The first episode is called "Avaturd/CSicarly which aired on Cartoon Network on Labor Day 2010 at 8:30PMET/7:30PMCT. I really love "MAD" it's very funny but a lot of people say it a Robot Chicken rip off but it's really isn't a rip off guys is has one of the same writes from "Robot Chicken". Anyway my favorite sketch is "Gross and Beyond Gross" and "Celebrities without Their Make Up". I also love the "MAD" News Guy who usually starts the episode. BOTTOM LINE: I Love "MAD" and I'm giving it a 10 out 10 stars. Anyway Guys I'm RegularShow1 and have nice day. BYE.
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Ameph10 November 2011Ah, so Cartoon Network has shows that have been very successful lately. We have Regular Show and Adventure Time and the Friday Night Line-up is also strong.
Then, we have this...A show that's similar to Robot Chicken that jumps from skit to skit with its basis on humor. It uses a mix of animation with celebrity heads on cartoon figures, fully drawn cartoon skits and the occasional CGI or puppet. The animation is lazy but its still good to look at. However, a show is only as good as its writing. Surely, a show that's similar to Robot Chicken and comes on after Adventure Time and Regular Show should have good writing.
It does not.
Most of the skits in this show consist of taking another TV show or movie and combining it with something else so it rhymes. Then they attempt to combine the characters to make jokes about both shows. However, they tend to lean one direction in terms of the jokes and they simply are not funny. In between some of the skits, they have these 10 second skits which are also not funny at all. Its just a play on words or a poorly done visual gag. Even Spy vs. Spy has no luster with the spies only making one or two twists rather than the 4 or 5 twists in the magazine.
Now, I know you're thinking 'Ameph...you're a 25 year old guy watching cartoons. What do you know about cartoons?' which I reply, 'I've watched cartoons for 25 years of my life. I know what makes a cartoon good.' and frankly, there is absolutely nothing good about this show. There is the occasional rare skit that turned out to be funny or clever (Namely, the Halloween special had the Nightmare Kitchen before Christmas and Veggie Tales from the Crypt) but given that the show's target age group is about 12 and under, would they really know anything about Nightmare Before Christmas, Veggie Tales or Tales from the Crypt? Those are well before their time...
In the end, this show is downright terrible. The jokes are terrible and aren't funny, the animation is sloppy and lazy and the voices are forgettable. Why its still on the air is a true mystery. They should put Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated in that slot so they can solve that one. -
mitsubishizero30 July 2019It's basically Robot Chicken for kids though more hit or miss. Some people like it some people don't. I'm more in the middle. I feel like the first season was hilarious and as the show progressed it got less and less funny. One thing that stayed great were the Spy vs Spy segments. They were so inventive. Interestingly they were claymated in later seasons. A lot of the gags parodying ads and infomercials were funny and clever. If you like parody then i'd say check it out. If not you can probably skip this.
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gferg3109116 March 2011Although I am not familiar with the "Mad Magazine", I know that this show is hilarious. All it is, is a lot of juvenile humor mixed in with topical stories and poking fun at celebrities and movies. Some of my favorite episodes are "Star Blech" and "Mouse MD". I urge everyone to watch those to get a feel of the show. However I do I have one issue. The 15 min runtime is somewhat upsetting. Imagine the hilarity that could come from a half hour or even a full hour (but that is just wishful thinking). Many of the older generations will find this show rude, crude and sometimes inappropriate, but remember this show is not aimed for you, and if you don't know who the celebrities are or have seen the movies, well then you can get lost and miss out on the jokes. All in all, it is a silly show that will keep you laughing. (At least for 15 min).
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MAD is just painful to watch honestly, I remember when I was really young and there used to be MAD magazines at my local newsagent I was never interested in these but I always noticed them when I went to pick up the ,latest Simpsons issue.
Now on to the show aspect, I know it is trying to be like Robot Chicken but aimed at kids but it just isn't working. The comedy comes out as forced, slapstick or just plain stupid.
The fact that this show parody so many movies, cartoons, anime, and general history is just stupid.
I give it a two because I remember laughing once or twice.
Do me a huge favour and just skip it. -
pandemiusvex7 May 2012One of the more interesting things Cartoon Network has shown, Mad is ridiculous enough to be funny. Nothing about this show is that bad. It is bad in a silly, amusing way. It could be a poorly designed, purely kiddie cartoon instead but I don't think too many people like over the top kiddie stuff either. Will we ever be happy?
I never heard about the magazine before seeing this.
The humor can be crap at times but that's the best part. There are worse shows that are actually popular and watched by tons of people, because they agree more with what they see. Maybe there's a lack in originality here but it's maintaining it's difference by standing out.
You can't take everything you watch that seriously and this is one of those things that's so random it just makes me laugh.
It gets a 10/10 for not being incredibly horrible, or crowd pleasing either.
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I remember on Cartoon Network back in the late 90s that TV-Y7 was the norm. Sometimes PG, but only movies. Why does CN feel the need to shove out so many TV-PG shows out recently, especially if THIS is what happens?
Well, I watched an episode. Actually, I TRIED to watch MOST of the episode. Didn't happen. Maybe kids who appreciate the fact that they get to watch big boy stuff will enjoy the crudeness, but how this aired more than one episode is beyond me. Seriously, I bet the worst Teletubbies episode can outdo the best Mad episode.
Because of this, I'm going to rip off other shows like Robot Chicken and try to make it suitable enough for kids. Then, I'm going to replace any possible profound comedy with shock value actions like puking or turds blowing up or whatever the hell happens on a regular basis. Sounds lame? Because it is lame. -
amastarwars12 September 2012I've seen this show every day for two months because my little sister loves it, and I'm quite obligated, so i can say this crap is NOT FUNNY. You know, I like parodies, in shows like "Robot Chiken", where they make jokes about good shows mixing them. Here they want to do the same thing, but with awful scripts and montages. I remember a joke with Julia Roberts telling Tom Hanks that she was in "Larry Crowne" and Tom answers "Awful", that was the only joke I like, that is sad, a comedy with 62 episodes and one only good joke, ITS NOT A COMEDY. Anyway, the magazine is pretty funny, the drawings are originals and interesting, I can give it like 7 stars, but the creators fu**ed it up with the show. I'm sorry, but I think "Mad TV" is the worst thing on TV now.
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thehuskygt22 June 2013I've always loved Cartoon Network because of what it's been for more than a decade; a channel where I can forget the daily drama of real life and enjoy good cartoons. But seriously, lately it's been like a punch in my face every time I turn on my TV, tune in CN and I find myself with this pile of junk that Mad is.
The first time I saw it I thought it was in its first episodes so it would get better as it went on, but it's been 3 seasons already here where I live and each episode gets more painful to watch.
This has got to be the worst show I've ever seen in my life; and that's coming from a former Mad Magazine reader. This show feels incredibly lazy, rushed and with no imagination whatsoever. I do my best to change the channel every time it's on so I don't give it any rating, but I feel the sheer idiocy of this show is what keeps me watching it for at least a sketch or two.
If you're an intelligent person you'll spend face-palming after each and every agonizing minute it passes throughout the show. The scripts are pathetic and the animations terrible. Spoof is an dying genre, and Mad does nothing but placing the last shovel of dirt and the tombstone into it. What's even more painful is that this is the kind of trash kids are watching these days. Keep it up CN and we'll have a generation full of brain dead idiots.
Shame on you, Cartoon Network for accepting this trash in your programing. You need to rethink the concept of your channel. Bring back shows that make children actually use their brains. Shows with feelings, values, well thought original plots and also substance. Sure, The Regular Show and Adventure Time are funny and well thought, (especially The Regular Show for early 80's kids like me), but don't rely on these silly and soulless shows to represent your brand. Especially TRASH like Mad. -
alrightymight26 December 2019I know this show has been dead forever and is now irrelevant, but let's just look back on it for a second. Remember the MAD magazines? Well, you probably don't, but they were comics that were released all around the late 19th century. They were about the pop culture of the time and made humor of them in the process, mainly making them meet up in an unrealistic and comedic scenario, and that's what MAD was. A comic book brand that specialized in making pop culture references and linking them, often poking fun of the pop culture references themselves. That may sound similar to Robot Chicken, and quite a bit of these reviews are referencing that show, but the MAD magazines themselves came before Robot Chicken, bashing the idea of it being a more kid friendly version of it. I'm not one for assumptions, but according to the similarities between the two, Robot Chicken may have actually taken inspiration from the MAD comics. Again, I'm not trying to state what I think is 100% accurate, but the similarities are indistinguishable here. Anyway, on to the show itself. The show, whether you loved or hated it, you can't deny it was faithful to the original comics. The same humor, the same mascot, and obviously the same pop culture references. The references are outdated now, but at the time they were relevant and fresh. They weren't afraid to poke fun of popular things at the time. They weren't afraid of the consequences they may have ever gotten for doing that in a TV-PG show, very few child friendly shows had the courage to attempt this, and even now there aren't shows that have come out quite like MAD out there, and I respect it for that. Okay, on to the things in the show. It's... not for everyone, but it succeeds in what it tries to do, and that's something not a lot of people acknowledge. It isn't meant to be a social commentary about the modern events of society, it isn't meant to say something deep about life, it isn't meant to be an emotionally gripping show filled with characters who go through mood changes and serious character development, no! It's simply meant to be a continuation, kind of a tribute to the original magazine company. Well, let's look at the comedy of the show. It's filled with immature humor, but that's the charm to it. It's meant to be immature and does it in the right way, and that's what makes it funny. Is immaturity always funny? No. In fact, it's pretty much the complete opposite. If someone just comes up to the screen and farts, that wouldn't be funny, but MAD isn't that. MAD is self-aware of its tone, and takes advantage of it for its sake. Here's an example of its humor. A skit that mainly references the show "Supernatural" has them get a report to give an exorcism at 666 avenue. They accidentally go to 664 avenue instead where they find an overly spoiled teen in her sweet 16 dressing for her birthday party. You see how incredibly ridiculous that sounds? That's the kind of humor this show has, and it's a kind of humor that a lot of people find funny. It's not just random for the sake of being random, it's giving off a type of humor that is so ridiculous it turns hysterical. Here's another example. A puppet segment where a reference to SpongeBob is the main one. A character is giving a commercial about the product, "SpongeWow" where a talking sponge is shown. The advertizer uses him to clean up a mess, and we can see that SpongeWow is clearly is distress by his screams. This is another kind of humor this show used. Where someone is tortured in a comedic way. It doesn't come off as unsettling, cruel or annoying, it's like they're unconsciously telling you, "Hey, it's just puppets. Nothing to be disturbed about." and right after he gets done with the mess, he goes on to hot sauce. This only adds to the humor. It's like the "How can this get any worse?" trope. Where someone had just been tortured in a comedic way thinking they're secure, only to find out that things will just get worse for them. I know this may sound morbid, but when you watch the sketch, it won't be. Spy vs. Spy is another example. I have heard the biggest of haters say that they liked the Spy vs. Spy sketches. Spy vs. Spy was without a doubt the most successful part about MAD. There was even a video game based on Spy vs. Spy. What is Spy vs. Spy? It's simply just a spy with a black shirt and a spy with a white shirt fighting to the death. It was all that it needed to be. It didn't need to be longer. It didn't need to take place after the events of the previous ones. It was perfect. Everyone I've known who watched the show always picked a side. Even my big sister who hated Cartoon Network picked a side. (I picked the black spy) I don't want to get into my personal life too much, but I feel like this needs to be said. The first time I've ever seen an episode of MAD was when I was 15. I had a horrible relationship with my father. We would always argue and never spent quality time together as father and son, but when MAD premiered, my father knocked on my door and I said to him, "What do you want?" and he told me, "A new cartoon is premiering on Cartoon Network and I just wanted to know if you wanted to see it." I was a big fan of Cartoon Network so I agreed and rushed downstairs and sat myself on the couch. When it played, it was the first time in years I felt a connection with my dad. We laughed at it together and we even talked to each other about it when it ended. It may have been just us watching a show, but it was the most I've ever bonded with my father in a long time. So everytime a new episode premiered, my dad always told me about it, and I always watched it with him. It gave us something to calm down and express our true feelings about. We were both laughing together and that made me feel good. It opened our relationship more and I just wanted to apologize to him for all the times I insulted him, but I just never had the courage to. So if you still hate this show, that's okay. I'm not telling you what is right and what is wrong, I'm simply just expressing my opinion on the internet and hopefully someone out there is touched by it and sees this show in a slightly brighter light than before they read this.
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javierxdxdxdxdxd18 July 2015I Hate it, it's unfunny, i don't understand nothing, they believe they do an excellent parody, but in reality, it's terrible, especially any of his jokes are supposed to laugh, but do not function at all, that terrible, they are sometimes a little funny, but nothing more, do not know how they convey this to the / our children, it's not a very good cartoon to say, it's not bad, it's awful, unfunny or anything, if they had made available the option to put 0 stars, I would, I really , put 0 stars, but I put 2 stars, because, actually, it was a gift, there are worse obviously caricatures, but thankfully not know those cartoons. In summary: A reverend @%&/&!, I do not understand how some people like this, but it is only an opinion, and nothing more.
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josejuandiazcampos13 September 2021Every now and then I rewatch some clips from this TV show, and I just wished that every cartoon had jokes written like MAD. These are simply hilarious, and most of the time used to break the fourth wall in impressive and non common ways, making fun of their own cancellation is one of them.