#madtv

[martiaries]

t.A.T.u. performing All the Things She Said @ MADTV in 2003

[saethespy]

Geez Black no wonder you’re not getting hired you’re showing up to the employment agency in your socks and underwear what is wrong with you?

[wolfgang1097]

Details and differences from the Spy vs. Spy paperback comics and animated adaptions of said paperback strips that grab my attention

What's up, folks? It is I, Ari. Here's one of those little things or even some things that some people in the Spy vs. Spy fandom may or may not be aware of.

I couldn't help but notice that some of the paperback strips from the Third Dossier of Spy vs. Spy (which was later reprinted as the first portion of Spy vs. Spy: Black (and White) OPs), specifically Operation: Bomb Site, Operation: Safe Conduct, Operation: Guided Mischief, Operation: Operation, and Operation: Maid of Steel, were made into animated shorts for the first season of MADtv almost thirty years ago. The second season, on the other hand, has animated adaptions of a few of the strips from The All New Secret Files of Spy vs. Spy (which was later reprinted as Danger! Intrigue! Stupidity!) and two strips from Spy vs. Spy the Follow-Up Files (which later was reprinted as Masters of Mayhem). Of course, besides those paperback strips, the rest of the animated shorts from both seasons are adapted from the magazine comics as well as the one panel opening gags that were used during the first several years of the comic strip's run.

Anyway, I have noticed some differences between the paperback comics themselves and the animated adaptions of said paperback strips, such as some bits that were added to some of the animated adaptions of the strips (which I personal find enjoyable), or there was a scene that wasn't included in the animated adaption such as the opening scene from the Ventriloquism strip:

And these two bits from Operation: Maid of Steel:

However, there's also some other differences, too.

Such as this:

And this:

When I first saw the actual paperback comics and started looking at them as well as rewatching the animated adaptions from MADtv not long after, I had managed to put two and two together within a few minutes. Interesting, isn't it?

If you enjoyed this, please share your opinions. Thanks for taking the time to check this out.

I do not claim ownership of any content. Spy vs. Spy belongs to MAD Magazine and Antonio Prohias.

[dailydanneelackles]

Danneel Ackles appears as a background actress in episode 9.07 of MadTV, which originally aired November 15th, 2003. Special thanks to @kindalostmedia for the find!

[raurquiz]

#happybirthday @phillamarr #PhilLaMarr #actor #AdmiralFreeman #StarTrekLowerDecks #pulpfiction #futurama #samuraijack #madtv #TheBookofBobaFett #CraigoftheCreek #TheFreakBrothers #TheFungies #FamilyGuy #ItsPony #YoungJustice #DCSuperHeroGirls #HarleyQuinn #MyLittlePony #ANewGeneration

[kindalostmedia]

so I had seen a while ago that danneel had a MADTV credit on her IMDB but there was no other trace of it that I could find…until now? I found these screenshots I took a while ago of a background actress that looks like she could be danneel…it's from around 2003 when danneel would have been in the beginnings of her acting career. what do you guys think? these are the highest quality I could find, but if anyone has any better, let me know!

[daniel-oneiroi-daily]

Compiling a list of old madtv and snl clips for the 22 year old kids who weren't there for george dubya.

I want y'all to see if anything is familiar.

Everyone's brain is rotted by tiktok though so instead of pages of analysis, I present this information in a series of knock-knock jokes.*

Illegally invading Iraq

Maybe we actually don't need the iRack??? Push for iRan is generated by billionaires?

Don't get nostalgic, 40+ dudes, Dubya was a fucking idiot. He was a historically very bad president, only now dwarfed by Trump.

But don't worry.

This time is different from the last... several times...

George's dad. He just did it "legally."

*that is a reference to a line by Lewis Black, who had to entertain these fucking idiots. I think it's from "Red, White, and Screwed."

[sophaeros]

the strokes with bobby lee on madtv, 2001 (x)