Mad/Funny

From the Magazine
"Mook: Our men are already working fourteen hours a day!
 * The parody of the 1966 Batman TV series is hilarious, featuring some of Mort Drucker's best work. One panel in particular shows the Dynamic Duo entering the commissioner's office through the window, Batman riding on the back of his sidekick, who has a perfectly deadpan expression, as if this happens all the time.
 * From its parody of Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader and an Imperial Mook:

Vader: You shall redouble your efforts!

Mook: You mean, work twenty-eight hours a day?

Vader: I'm a sadist, not a mathematician!"

"Cop: I'm positive I heard that ape speak!
 * And from one of the Planet of the Apes sequels, when Ricardo Montalban's character is confronted by a policeman:

Montalban: Impossible! Apes do not have the power of speech!

Cop: Then how come I heard sound coming out of his mouth?!?

Montalban: Because that ape is a ventriloquist!"

"(Dumbledore and Harry are surrounded by the inferi)
 * 43-Man Squamish.
 * After Superduperman reveals to Lois Pain that he is actually Clark Bent, she smacks him and walks away, admitting that she'll find Clark Bent creepy no matter what identity he assumes.
 * Right before this confession, Superduperman vanquished by.
 * The Love Story parody has several, especially when Jenny lies dying from "Old Movie Disease," which inexplicably turns her more beautiful by the second. In its final stages, it even straightens her teeth and bolsters her bust.
 * Harry Plodder is a Hot-blooded Putz has this gem:

Dumbledore: They're hiding Voldemort's horcrux! I've never seen a mindless, dead-eyed army of skeletons like this before!

Harry: I have! On America's Next Top Model !"

"Contestant: This is Final Je'par-dy,
 * Book! Movie! is a parody of the tendency movies have to sanitize the content of whatever books they happen to be adapting. The link doesn't show it, but the ending of this story has the main character of the Book! version getting hauled off to jail for murder in as much seriousness a MAD article can muster, while the Movie! version still has the main character go to jail for murder, but does so complete with a 50's style overly saccharine song and dance number. Not to mention that the Book! version of the characters are mostly ugly(with one of them being naked) while the film versions of course all look ridiculously attractive.
 * 11 Ways Jeopardy! Contestants Can Really Piss Off Alex Trebek has the contestants plugging Lenscrafters during their interview time, giving episode titles from The Jerry Springer Show as questions, and bringing in a sock puppet to answer questions for them. #11 on the list? Singing along to the Final Jeopardy theme music.

Having trouble WITH this cat-e-gory!

To-day's champ--it won't be me!

Don't know Greek myth-o-lo-gy!

Hope my friends don't watch the show,

Or they'll see there's NUH-thing that I know and

I'll look like a total heel.

Wish instead I'd gone...on...Wheel! DUM DUM!"

The Animated TV Show
"Elmo: (running and flailing) Aaaaaaahh!
 * "You love the characters of Toy Story 3, but here are some rejected ones!"
 * Grey's in Anime, especially when the patient starts hallucinating his operation as an anime mashup of Dragonball Z, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Sailor Moon, and a giant robot anime.
 * Two from Cliffordfield:
 * Kermit the Frog's video performance of Beyonce's Single Ladies for American Idol.
 * Someone yelling, "Miley, Hannah Montana's dead!" when he sees her wig underneath a giant tennis ball.
 * Also this jab at Sesame Street:

Freddie: Quit panicking!

Elmo: Who's panicking? This is how we run. (continues running and flailing) Aaaaaahh!"

"Baby in womb: THERE'S A GUY IN HERE WHO LOOKS JUST LIKE ME"
 * WALL-E-nator designating the writers of MAD as "the biggest producers of gahbage."
 * Yep, you got ninjas.
 * Their Take That on Star Wars: The Clone Wars couldn't be farther from the truth.
 * The entirety of Pokemon Park, complete with Ash as Jeff Goldblum.
 * "Yeah, we got the balls! Stop laughing!"
 * From "The Buzz Identity": Buzz speaking a mix of English and Spanish, with the subtitles trying to understand him.
 * "Ah. Mucho poo-poo."
 * "How did you know my name? Did you check my underwear?"
 * Ken's nervous Aside Glance sells the joke.
 * "I CAN has Spanish!"
 * Winnie the Pooh mauling Bear Grylls on Mad vs Wild
 * Optimus Prime using posters of Dwayne Johnson and Kesha to come up with another excuse to take advantage of Zack: to find "The Rock" of "No-Talent-Tron."
 * The Reading Womb even works with twins!

"Her dad's a has-been!"
 * Miley Cyrus' introduction in "Yo Gagga Gagga!"

""At the Airbender Technical Institute, I learned I have the power of earthbending! Now I'm an electrician for some reason!""
 * The mere fact that Triple H was there is hilarious.
 * The entirety of Pooh Grit.
 * Rejected Transformers.
 * The Airbender Technical Institute sketch.

"Big Ben, meet Bigger Ben!"
 * Ben 10 Franklin, particularly when Ben turns into Humungousaur and defeats the British before going over to England to smash Big Ben.

"Iron Man: Man, what was our budget back then, a dollar?"
 * The Man Who Forgot His Hand Was a Bomb. Now entering its fourth season!
 * From "Avenger Time:"
 * The Cosmic Cube transporting The Avengers into The Marvel Superheroes

"Captain America: What's going on? Who are you?
 * Captain America's conversation with The Watcher:

The Watcher: I am The Watcher!

Captain America: What do you watch?

The Watcher: Episodes of MAD, mostly. Funny show! But sometimes, I catch something called, Adventure Time, which is where you and your friends are now.

Captain America: That's where we are? Hmm, what else do you see?

The Watcher: I see the crews of other cartoons sitting in a deli, complaining about MAD like a bunch of sissies!

Captain America: Ha! They'll be sorry, because MAD probably wins an Emmy in the future, right?

(pause)

The Watcher: You'd better get back to your friends."

"Steve: (hissing) My precious...(normal voice)...desires to join the Army!"
 * Katy Putty's "Flammable" music video, particularly the ending where, after setting fire to a clay man, a paper-stock (think South Park) cutout woman, and a Captain Ersatz Muppet, Katy Putty is carted off by a police officer as she sings about listening to the fire marshal.
 * "Yu-Gi-Bear"!
 * Pretty much the entirety of "Super 80's", particularly the burn against Lady Gaga being a Madonna clone (and Weird Al Yankovic being mistaken for Russell Brand), the joke about VH-1's love affair with pointless nostalgia shows like I Love The '80s, Seth Green's line "If I can't have the '80s, no one can!", everyone freaking out after the boy mentions that the 1980s introduced Urkel and Alf, and.
 * Denzel Washington manages to stop Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine mere seconds before he runs over Strawberry Shortcake's village. However, after hearing Strawberry Shortcake lives there, Denzel lets Thomas scoot a few more inches and destroy her town. The narrator closes the sketch by informing us that "nobody regretted any of their choices."
 * "ThunderLolcats" is one nonstop tribute to the memes of the internet with some ThunderCats goodness mixed in.
 * The fact that Will Friedle voices the Lion-O parody makes it much funnier.
 * How about Troll-Ra, the Ever Trolling?
 * "Thunder...Thunder...Thunder! Thundercats, LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!"
 * "Kung Fu Blander":
 * The green pig's Screw This, I'm Outta Here line: "From now on, every moment is a gift!"
 * The Goat Lady calling the pile of dead colorful animals, "something that Walt Disney threw up."
 * Po pointing out how the Kung Fu Panda movies are getting worse.
 * Po using Pepe Le Pew as a shield against an Angry Bird.
 * For that matter, when (amongst other "every day" objects), he uses "some Pokemon", pulling out Zekrom and Reshiram (the mascots of Pokemon Black and White), to block the birds.
 * The Take That against Mr. Popper's Penguins, with Jim Carrey crying over his career taking a downward spiral.
 * From "Captain American't":
 * Everyone gasping at the sight of pre-transformation Steve Rogers, until one of them reveals that it's actually Gollum. Then the real Steve Rogers comes in, and scares everyone just as strongly.

"Hitmonchan: I always found myself dating losers. But Poke-Harmony set me up with a champ! A Machamp!
 * Peggy calling Steve's USO Captain America costume the most ridiculous outfit she ever saw, only to find Lady Gaga as Captain America and Steve wearing a suit made of raw meat.
 * Red Skull commenting on the fact Captain America and Bucky seem unimpressed at his owning a mask that looks like a real human face.
 * The simple phrase used to remember the Periodic Table.
 * "Wolves. We're still out there."
 * Two and a Half Women: Starring Buffy Summers and Bella Swan.
 * Some of the product ads, like the Wolver-Clean, Hulked on Phonics ("We take credit card"!), Sponge-Wow, and the Bieber Bowl.
 * Poke-Harmony:

Machamp: OH YEAH! WHO WANTS TICKETS TO THE GUN SHOW?

Hitmonchan: I do!!

Bulbasaur: I was worried at first, seeing as he's evolved enough to be my father.

Venasaur: But we had so much in common, like being captured in Pokeballs, and being forced to fight for the amusement of humans. And that's not easy to find!

Mewtwo: AS A PSYCHIC POKEMON, I HAVE NO NEED FOR THE INTERNET! OR COMPANIONSHIP! OR WHISPERING!"

"Fluttershy: (ahem) Attention ponies.
 * "Dol-Phineas and Ferb Tale", particularly when the duo give the dolphin telekinesis.
 * "My Little War Horse":
 * Fluttershy as a drill sergeant. That is all.

Pinkie Pie: She doesn't seem so bad.

Fluttershy: (coughs again to switch to a much deeper and intimidating voice) YOU'RE ALL ABOUT TO BE SENT TO FRANCE TO FIGHT ON THE BATTLEFIELD OF WORLD WAR ONE, which was called the Great War because we didn't know we'd HAVE more than one war. But now that we do, it just makes it less confusing to the movie going public. YOU GOT THAT?!

Pinkie Pie: ...what's a movie?"


 * Pinkie Pie face-planting into the cake she baked, and finding the words "Yay friends!" have somehow been rearranged to spell "Go bronies!": "How is that even possible?"
 * And the fact that Pinkie Pie is trying to solve her problems with cake. Not only is it funny, but also totally in-character for her.
 * Also, the unicorns attacking. They managed to get Tara Strong to voice for their parody Twilight Sparkle!
 * Albert following Pinkie Pie to France...by walking across the entire English channel. On the ocean floor. His response after emerging on the beach? "Okay, there was a little more ocean between England and France than I thought..."
 * Dr. Doom on Victorious. The entire skit.
 * The Green Care Bear especially at the end when Hal actully manages to make the cutsy creed sound badass.
 * America's Next Top Video Game Model: If you didn't think some of the writers were gamers, this skit pretty much proves it.
 * Real Veal: "Now just do what I do." (The cow bot nods and runs off, we cut to spinning newspapers of it being in movies and hosting the Tony Award before he comes back panting) I mean do what I do from this point on" (The cow bot gives him a look as if to say "Why Didnt You Say So?!")