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|ShortSummary=Parody of Avril Lavigne's music video "Girlfriend" has L'il Mama (Hall) teaming up with Lavigne (Myrin) to give her street cred and save her from being sued for using [[Toni Basil]]'s "Mickey" in her new song; Bobby Lee does motion capture for a fantasy video game; claymation auditions for fight scenes and love scenes; an unseen viewer switches between a Spanish variety show and news of a meteor on a collision course with Earth; ''Prison Break'' promo exposes the show's repetitive storyline; a black poetess (Hall) uses spoken word to call out her ex-boyfriend (Peele); ''24'' parody where Jack Bauer (Oster) uses his brutal interrogation skills on an old man, an orangutan, and a little boy; parody of Criss Angel's ''Mindfreak'' has Flava Flav (Peele) ruining Criss Angel's (McDonald) tricks. |
|ShortSummary=Parody of Avril Lavigne's music video "Girlfriend" has L'il Mama (Hall) teaming up with Lavigne (Myrin) to give her street cred and save her from being sued for using [[Toni Basil]]'s "Mickey" in her new song; Bobby Lee does motion capture for a fantasy video game; claymation auditions for fight scenes and love scenes; an unseen viewer switches between a Spanish variety show and news of a meteor on a collision course with Earth; ''Prison Break'' promo exposes the show's repetitive storyline; a black poetess (Hall) uses spoken word to call out her ex-boyfriend (Peele); ''24'' parody where Jack Bauer (Oster) uses his brutal interrogation skills on an old man, an orangutan, and a little boy; parody of Criss Angel's ''Mindfreak'' has Flava Flav (Peele) ruining Criss Angel's (McDonald) tricks. |
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|ShortSummary=A spoof of BBC news featuring a parade of ugly British anchors; parody of crime drama ''[[Women's Murder Club (TV series)|Women's Murder Club]]'' where the women act too stereotypically feminine to get any work done; claymation sketches for monster and superhero auditions; Bobby Lee stars in his own survival reality show; a husband (Peele) thinks his wife (Flanagan) hired a teenage babysitter (Myrin) to come over for a threesome; a black man (Key) with a spot-on Bill Cobsy impression gets upstaged by a white man (Oster) with a better one; Bobby Lee and Johnny Sanchez continue their ''Rice And Beans'' tour; a convenience store clerk (Sanchez) thinks one of his customers (Key) is a Muslim. |
|ShortSummary=A spoof of BBC news featuring a parade of ugly British anchors; parody of crime drama ''[[Women's Murder Club (TV series)|Women's Murder Club]]'' where the women act too stereotypically feminine to get any work done; claymation sketches for monster and superhero auditions; Bobby Lee stars in his own survival reality show; a husband (Peele) thinks his wife (Flanagan) hired a teenage babysitter (Myrin) to come over for a threesome; a black man (Key) with a spot-on Bill Cobsy impression gets upstaged by a white man (Oster) with a better one; Bobby Lee and Johnny Sanchez continue their ''Rice And Beans'' tour; a convenience store clerk (Sanchez) thinks one of his customers (Key) is a Muslim. |
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|ShortSummary=''Juno'' sequel has quirky teen (Flanagan) harvesting organs; Barack Obama (Key) and Oprah (Hall) sing about how the former beat Hillary Clinton in the polls; in a thinly-veiled parody of the [[Eliot Spitzer]] scandal, press conference reporters criticize a deposed governor's (McDonald) cuckolded wife (Flanagan) for being oblivious to his infidelity and sexual misconduct; ''Fun With Clip Art'' shows a depressingly awkward conversation between bicyclists; ''Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew'' features burnt-out D-list celebs and a bad performance of "Greased Lightning"; Hilarry Clinton (Parker) gets a ride from The Depressed Persian Tow Truck Man (McDonald); Bobby Lee and Arden Myrin go to an ''American Idol'' party; a white shopper (Parker) can't describe a saleswoman who disappeared without bringing up the fact that the missing saleswoman was black; a depressed self-help author (Flanagan) speaks at a women's empowerment seminar; Roger Clemens' (Oster) interview about his steroid abuse is filled with innuendo about "getting fingered". |
|ShortSummary=''Juno'' sequel has quirky teen (Flanagan) harvesting organs; Barack Obama (Key) and Oprah (Hall) sing about how the former beat Hillary Clinton in the polls; in a thinly-veiled parody of the [[Eliot Spitzer]] scandal, press conference reporters criticize a deposed governor's (McDonald) cuckolded wife (Flanagan) for being oblivious to his infidelity and sexual misconduct; ''Fun With Clip Art'' shows a depressingly awkward conversation between bicyclists; ''Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew'' features burnt-out D-list celebs and a bad performance of "Greased Lightning"; Hilarry Clinton (Parker) gets a ride from The Depressed Persian Tow Truck Man (McDonald); Bobby Lee and Arden Myrin go to an ''American Idol'' party; a white shopper (Parker) can't describe a saleswoman who disappeared without bringing up the fact that the missing saleswoman was black; a depressed self-help author (Flanagan) speaks at a women's empowerment seminar; Roger Clemens' (Oster) interview about his steroid abuse is filled with innuendo about "getting fingered". |
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|ShortSummary=An ''American Idol'' parody from Eastern Europe called ''Albanian Idol''; Bobby Lee and Dominic Monaghan star in a ''Lost'' parody; Jordan Peele records a YouTube video message in response to a Star Wars parody; Johnny Gan (Lee) and Pongo return to review superhero movies; T-Mobile commercial parody where Charles Barkley (Key) calls Dwyane Wade (Peele) about covering up a death; a FOX News anchor (Myrin) interviews Latino hoodlums on the 2008 Presidential election; a fantasy film movie trailer parody has a boy's trip to a magical forest world undercut with real-world panic over the son's disappearance and his father (McDonald) accused of murdering him; a boss (McDonald) interviews a candidate (Key) while on the toilet; a commercial featuring abused dogs in a kennel is really a commercial for chain-link fences. |
|ShortSummary=An ''American Idol'' parody from Eastern Europe called ''Albanian Idol''; Bobby Lee and Dominic Monaghan star in a ''Lost'' parody; Jordan Peele records a YouTube video message in response to a Star Wars parody; Johnny Gan (Lee) and Pongo return to review superhero movies; T-Mobile commercial parody where Charles Barkley (Key) calls Dwyane Wade (Peele) about covering up a death; a FOX News anchor (Myrin) interviews Latino hoodlums on the 2008 Presidential election; a fantasy film movie trailer parody has a boy's trip to a magical forest world undercut with real-world panic over the son's disappearance and his father (McDonald) accused of murdering him; a boss (McDonald) interviews a candidate (Key) while on the toilet; a commercial featuring abused dogs in a kennel is really a commercial for chain-link fences. |
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|ShortSummary=Spoof of the FreeCreditReport.com commercials has the singing spokesman (Oster) in jail and homeless after not paying off his credit cards; Dr. Phil (McDonald) tricks Britney Spears (Parker) and her family (Flanagan, Myrin, and Oster) into appearing on his show; on the latest installment of ''24 with Bobby Lee'': Dave Navarro discovers that Bobby Lee has a boil he got from lying to a blind girl; new movie ''Spin Up'' centers on sign spinners preparing for a dance-off; ''Sesame Street'' parody shows the fun side to living on the brink of economic collapse; Coach Hines (Key) returns to teach his class the art of war while on a paintball course; Luann Lockhart (Flanagan) does stand-up; the notorious ''Grand Theft Auto'' video game series is now a board game the whole family can play; in a send-up of ''American Idol'', Bobby Lee and an old man are chosen as finalists over who will stay on ''MADtv'' as a cast member; a "Feed the Children" commercial parody has the announcer promising stronger kids with more donations. |
|ShortSummary=Spoof of the FreeCreditReport.com commercials has the singing spokesman (Oster) in jail and homeless after not paying off his credit cards; Dr. Phil (McDonald) tricks Britney Spears (Parker) and her family (Flanagan, Myrin, and Oster) into appearing on his show; on the latest installment of ''24 with Bobby Lee'': Dave Navarro discovers that Bobby Lee has a boil he got from lying to a blind girl; new movie ''Spin Up'' centers on sign spinners preparing for a dance-off; ''Sesame Street'' parody shows the fun side to living on the brink of economic collapse; Coach Hines (Key) returns to teach his class the art of war while on a paintball course; Luann Lockhart (Flanagan) does stand-up; the notorious ''Grand Theft Auto'' video game series is now a board game the whole family can play; in a send-up of ''American Idol'', Bobby Lee and an old man are chosen as finalists over who will stay on ''MADtv'' as a cast member; a "Feed the Children" commercial parody has the announcer promising stronger kids with more donations. |
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| Mad TV | |
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| Season 13 | |
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| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox |
| Original release | September 15, 2007 – May 17, 2008 |
| Season chronology | |
The thirteenth season of Mad TV, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on the Fox Network between September 15, 2007, and May 17, 2008.
Summary
The 13th season of Mad TV saw more changes in show format and cast members.
Repertory players Ike Barinholtz, Frank Caeti, and Nicole Randall Johnson and feature player Lisa Donovan were let go from the cast (Barinholtz left due to creative differences while Caeti, Johnson, and Donovan were fired). Johnny Sanchez (the first Latino male hired since season six's Nelson Ascencio) joined the cast as a repertory player, while Dan Oster, Anjelah Johnson, and Daheli Hall were hired as feature players.
The show format had also undergone major changes. Brian Fairlee giving an episode preview was phased out and replaced with the return of the cold opening sketches (mostly music video parodies, fake commercials, mock movie trailers, and TV show promos). John Crane and Bruce Leddy -- the series showrunners, head writers, and executive producers — directed most of the episodes. The show itself was relocated to a new studio (The Henry Fonda Music Box Theater) in order to give the show the feel of a live event, due in part to FOX's extensive budget cuts and competition from Saturday Night Live and its growing popularity from The Lonely Island's "Digital Shorts" on that show. MADtv's pretaped sketches shown this season were very minimal, using little to no elaborate props, settings, or costumes.
Between November 24 and February 2, MADtv became one of many scripted, current (at the time) television shows to be put on hiatus due to the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Even though the strike did not end until February 12, 2008, three "new" episodes aired on February 2, February 9, and February 16. These "new" episodes were little more than pretaped sketches from canceled episodes and repeats of old sketches from seasons eight to ten (with no segments from the Music Box Theater). The show returned to its normal format on March 29, 2008.
This season was also the first of only two seasons to have "Best of..." clip shows a la Saturday Night Live, four of which aired prior to the show's official season premiere: Mad TV Ruined My Life (where Nicole Parker appears on a fictional episode of The Jerry Springer Show to defend the audience's claims that the sketch show's raunchy and politically incorrect sketches have traumatized and disgusted them), Survivor: Mad TV (where Jeff Probst and Keegan-Michael Key host a collection of the show's best TV and movie parodies), I Want My Mad TV (Perez Hilton and Bobby Lee's Johnny Gan character host a collection of MADtv's best celebrity caricatures and swipes at pop culture), and Mad TV's Most Wanted (where Michael McDonald and Susan Sarandon host a collection of the show's best recurring sketches and characters).
Notable celebrity appearances this season (besides the ones from the clip show episodes) include: Carlos Mencia, Neil Patrick Harris, Dave Navarro, John Reep, Kathy Griffin, Serena Williams, and former MADtv cast members Debra Wilson and Mo Collins.
Opening montage
The opening title sequence for season thirteen has been dramatically redesigned. Rather than show pictures of the cast, the cast are seen around Los Angeles, similar to how Saturday Night Live has opening sequences featuring its cast members around New York City. The original Mad TV song used for the previous twelve seasons has been completely replaced by an instrumental rock guitar version. The show also has a new announcer.
Cast
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Episodes
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Guest(s) | Original air date |
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| 289 | 1 | "Mad TV Ruined My Life: The Sketches That Shocked a Nation" | Jerry Springer | September 15, 2007 |
| 290 | 2 | "Mad TV's All-Time Best TV Parodies" | Jeff Probst | September 22, 2007 |
| 291 | 3 | "I Want My Mad TV" | Perez Hilton | September 29, 2007 |
| 292 | 4 | "Mad TV's Most Wanted" | Susan Sarandon | October 6, 2007 |
| 293 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Carlos Mencia | November 3, 2007 |
| 294 | 6 | "Episode 6" | Joey Fatone | November 10, 2007 |
| 295 | 7 | "Episode 7" | Mo Collins, Debra Wilson, Steve Byrne | November 17, 2007 |
| 296 | 8 | "Episode 8" | Kathy Griffin, Jon Reep | November 24, 2007 |
| 297 | 9 | "Episode 9" | Serena Williams | February 2, 2008 |
| 298 | 10 | "Episode 10" | TBA | February 7, 2008 |
| 299 | 11 | "Episode 11" | TBA | February 16, 2008 |
| 300 | 12 | "Episode 12" | TBA | March 29, 2008 |
| 301 | 13 | "Episode 13" | Kat Von D, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Cedric the Entertainer | April 5, 2008 |
| 302 | 14 | "Episode 14" | Neil Patrick Harris | April 19, 2008 |
| 303 | 15 | "Episode 15" | Dominic Monaghan | April 26, 2008 |
| 304 | 16 | "Episode 16" | Dave Navarro | May 17, 2008 |
Home Release
Season 13 is available on HBO Max and is one of the few seasons to have no episodes skipped over due to copyright issues.
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