MADtv (season 13)

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MADtv's thirteenth season premiered on September 15, 2007. So far, 13 episodes have been produced.

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[edit] Season summary

MADtv began its thirteenth season with some significant changes to its cast, shooting schedule, and format. Three of the eleven cast members from season twelve departed: Ike Barinholtz, Frank Caeti, and Nicole Randall Johnson. Cast members Crista Flanagan, Keegan-Michael Key, Bobby Lee, Michael McDonald, Arden Myrin, Nicole Parker, and Jordan Peele returned for season thirteen. Johnny A. Sanchez also joined MADtv as its first new repertory player. Featured players for season thirteen were Anjelah Johnson, Dan Oster, and Daheli Hall.[1]

The show was taped at the Henry Fonda Music Box Theater in Hollywood because Fox executives believed a "live-event feeling" would enhance the show[citation needed]. Due to budget cuts, most of the sketches were shot on location rather than in the theater with little use of props or costumes. An increased use of featured cast members and guest comedians marked season thirteen.

With the exception of the opening sequence and live action on-stage (i.e., opening monologue and show close), sketches are now shown in 4:3 letterbox format and filmed on location.

MADtv went on hiatus between November 24 and February 2 due to the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike. Even though the writers' strike didn't end until February 12, the episodes for February 2, 9, and 16 consisted of pretaped sketches from planned episodes that ended up being cancelled due to the strike and repeats of old sketches from seasons 8-10 (with no segments from the Music Box Theater). The show returned to its normal format on March 29, 2008.

[edit] Opening montage

The opening title sequence for season thirteen has been dramatically redesigned. The original MADtv song used for the previous twelve seasons has been completely replaced by random snippets of drum and guitar music. (The first four episodes used small snippets from the original theme song.) The show also has a new announcer.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Repertory players

[edit] Featured players

[edit] Episodes

Episode Airing Date Guest(s) Sketches Other notes
#1301 September 15, 2007 Jerry Springer Jerry Springer hosts MADtv Ruined My Life: The Outrageous Sketches That Shocked a Nation. The show had a format similar to The Jerry Springer Show with the topic "MADtv Ruined My Life!" The show consisted entirely of sketches from previous seasons (with the exception of the segment introductions which included castmember Nicole Parker trying to defend the Springer audience's claim that MADtv 's raunchy humor ruined their lives), with "the Best of MADtv" logo emblazoned in the upper left-hand corner. This show also mentions a parody of the movie Schindler's List that was so offensive that MADtv never aired it. (The parody can be seen online.) Season premiere
#1302 September 22, 2007 Jeff Probst Jeff Probst hosts Survivor: MADtv, a collection of the series' TV parodies, including Survivor, The Sopranos, House, M.D., and Grey's Anatomy, entitled MADtv 's All-Time Best TV Parodies.
#1303 September 29, 2007 Perez Hilton Perez Hilton and Johnny Gan and Pongo host I Want My MADtv, a collection of the show's best pop culture parodies including Britney Spears and "Kenny Rogers' Jackass". [2]
#1304 October 6, 2007 Susan Sarandon Susan Sarandon and Michael McDonald host MADtv's Most Wanted, a collection of favorite sketches including recurring characters Stuart Larkin (Michael McDonald), Miss Swan (Alex Borstein), and Lorraine Swanson (Mo Collins). [2]
#1305 November 3, 2007 Carlos Mencia

Britney Spears: "Make Some Changes" (Keegan-Michael Key (Himself), Nicole Parker (Britney Spears), Crista Flanagan (Herself), Arden Myrin (Herself), Jordan Peele (Himself), 24 with Bobby Lee: Carlos Mencia (Bobby Lee (Himself),Carlos Mencia (Himself), Sad Fitty Cent (Credits: Jordan Peele (Fifty Cent), Keegan-Michael Key (Chris Brown), Arden Myrin (Dancer), Johnny Sanchez (Dancer), Crista Flanagan (Dancer), Jen's New Boyfriend (Crista Flanagan (Jen's Mother), Michael McDonald (Jen's Father), Jordan Peele (Master Chief), Arden Myrin (Jen), Bobby Lee (Jen's Little Brother), To Catch a Predator: Crazy Black Guy (Michael McDonald (Chris Hansen), Arden Myrin (Underage Decoy), Jordan Peele (Internet Predator), Johnny Sanchez (Police Officer), Keegan-Michael Key (Police Officer), Red Carpet: Family Guy's 100th Episode (Arden Myrin (Herself), To Catch a Predator: Master Chief (Arden Myrin (Underage Decoy), Jordan Peele (Master Chief), Michael McDonald (Chris Hansen).
#1306 November 10, 2007 Joey Fatone Rice And Beans: The Heartland Tour (Bobby Lee, Johnny Sanchez). A parody music video of the iPod Nano commercial featuring the music video of Feist's "1, 2, 3, 4" song. Feist(Nicole Parker) sings in the iPod commercial about how Apple Inc keeps changing their iPod models and that iPods are getting out of date. She accuses Apple for scamming her by using the quote "they i-screwed me again". National Air Band Finals (Joey Fatone- Axe, Johnny Sanchez- Sticks, Keegan Michael Key- Fuzzy), The Lesbionic Woman (Crista Flanagan, Michael McDonald) "Hollywood Lip Service" (Arden Myrin, Jordan Peele, Michael McDonald), Hannah Montana Massacre (Crista Flanagan, Keegan-Michael Key), International Pancakes Houses (Keegan-Michael Key, Bobby Lee, Johnny Sanchez)
#1307 November 17, 2007 Mo Collins, Debra Wilson Lorraine Swanson (Mo Collins) visits Universal Universal Studios. Whitney Houston (Debra Wilson) performs "Pulling Through", Gotcha! Action News (Jordan Peele, Nicole Parker), Rice and Beans: The Heartland Tour (Bobby Lee, Johnny Sanchez), Parents on Drugs (Nicole Parker, Jordan Peele, Michael McDonald, Crista Flanagan) 300th episode special
#1308 November 24, 2007 Kathy Griffin A music video poking fun at Hillary Clinton (Nicole Parker) and Barack Obama (Keegan Michael-Key) on the parody of Rihanna's music video "Umbrella" called "Barack Obama", and the third installment of Bobby Lee and Johnny Sanchez's Rice And Beans: The Heartland Tour. This episode featured a special appearance by Jon Reep.
#1309 February 2, 2008 Serena Williams Parody of Avril Lavigne's music video Girlfriend. Avril Lavigne (Arden Myrin) sings about showing off her new "Blackfriend", Lil Mama(Daheli Hall), who then raps back by saying that she only pretended to be her friend because she was getting paid. The TV show 24 and Criss Angel's Mindfreak. Because of the 2007 WGA strike, this episode was comprised mostly of repeats of sketches from past episodes and prerecorded sketches scheduled to air in episodes that were cancelled. No scenes were taped at the Music Box Theater.
#1310 February 9, 2008 Spoof of Disney's Hannah Montana. Miley (Crista Flanagan) makes a confession to her best friend Lili (Ardent Myrin) about the "bad things" that she did last night at a party with P.Diddy (Jordan Peele), Amy Winehouse (Nicole Parker) and Matthew McConaughey (Dan Oster). As she tries to fix her problems she ends up singing a song about her secret life as a teen popstar and her drug addictions. Because of the 2007 WGA strike, this episode was comprised mostly of repeats of sketches from past episodes and prerecorded sketches scheduled to air in episodes that were cancelled. No scenes were taped at the Music Box Theater.
#1311 February 16, 2008 Parody of the Women's Murder Club, an all-new installment of Bobby and Johnny's Rice And Beans: The Heartland Tour, plus the classic John Madden popcorn sketch. Even though the 2007 WGA strike ended at the time of this episode, this episode (much like the previous two) still contained pretaped sketches that were scheduled to air on episodes that ended up getting cancelled and sketches from past episodes. No scenes were taped at the Music Box Theater
#1312 March 29, 2008 A parody film trailer for a sequel to the film Juno shows the title character (Crista Flanagan) kidnapping and killing a hobo to harvest his organs. A two-part parody of the reality show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew appears parodies of Brenda Song and Aaron Carter.
#1313 April 5, 2008 Kat Von D, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Cedric the Entertainer Sketches include a parody of the E! reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians. Parody of Snoop Dogg's video, Sensual Seduction. Snoop Dogg (Keegan Michael-Key) sings about taking Sensual Reductions to his bank accounts and getting rid of drugs in order to pay for his taxes.
#1314 April 19, 2008 Neil Patrick Harris
#1315 April 26, 2008 Dominic Monaghan
#1316 May 17, 2008 Dave Navarro Parody of 24 with Bobby Lee. Parody of hearttouching ghetto breakthrough films, "Spin Up". Season finale

[edit] References

  1. ^ Breaking News - Jerry Springer, Jeff Probst And Perez Hilton To Host "Madtv" This September On Fox, Thefutoncritic.Com.
  2. ^ a b MADtv.com

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