Mad TV (season 14)
| Mad TV (season 14) | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 17 |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Fox |
| Original run | September 13, 2008 – May 16, 2009 |
The fourteenth season of Mad TV, an American sketch comedy series, originally aired in the United States on the Fox Network between September 13, 2008, and May 16, 2009.
In November 2008, it was announced that after 14 years on FOX, Mad TV would be cancelled at the end of the 2008-2009 season.[1] Despite this, producer David Salzman promised that Mad TV would be revived and put on cable television.[2] Plans for this have not come to fruition, though Cartoon Network's MAD series and Comedy Central's Key & Peele are considered by some to be unofficial spin-offs. Mad TV's final episode aired on May 16, 2009, featuring guest appearances from Fred Willard and a select few former cast members. 22 episodes were scheduled to air this season, though only 17 actually aired, and averaged 2.6 million viewers.
Between January 17, 2009 and February 21, 2009, Mad TV was moved from its 11:00pm time slot to midnight on FOX affiliates and aired 30-minute reruns of their episodes that have previously aired from September to December 2008. Meanwhile, the show that preceded Mad TV (Talkshow with Spike Feresten) was moved to Mad TV's 11pm time slot and expanded to an hour.
Of the season thirteen cast, feature players Daheli Hall, Dan Oster, and Anjelah Johnson did not return, while longtime cast members Jordan Peele and Michael McDonald left (though McDonald acted as a contributing writer and director for the show). New feature players for this season included comedian Matt Braunger, Erica Ash (from Logo's The Big Gay Sketch Show), stage actress Lauren Pritchard, and Eric Price.
This season was also the last of two seasons that aired Saturday Night Live-style clip show episodes: Mad TV's Sexy, Dirty Politics (a collection of the show's most outrageous past and present political sketches), Mad TV's Best of Holiday Sketches Spectacularly Special Spectacular (a collection of Christmas-themed sketches), and Mad TV: The Best of Michael McDonald (a collection of sketches featuring Michael McDonald's greatest celebrity impersonations and recurring characters).
Opening montage
The visuals of the opening montage are essentially the same as season thirteen (except Bobby Lee's footage), but the theme song is new. This version hints back to the original theme song of seasons 1-12, using the vocals of "MAD!" and "You are now watching..."
Cast
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^ means cast member left mid-season.
Episodes
| № | # | Title | Guest(s) | Original airdate |
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| 305 | 14.1 | "Episode 1" | Jerry O'Connell | September 13, 2008 |
| Barack Obama (Key) and John McCain (Lee) welcome new feature players Erica Ash, Eric Price, Lauren Pritchard, and Matt Braunger; Thai movie critic Johnny Gan (Lee) now hosts a talk show; the new season of The Hills with Lauren (Parker) and Lo (Flanagan); Eugene the Janitor (Key) meets Jerry O'Connell; Obama and McCain compete in So You Can Think You Can Dance?; Jerry O'Connell plays John Edwards in a music video parody of "Viva La Vida"; Coach Hines (Key) is forced to teach his sex ed class on Saturday after news hits about a pregnancy pact in another Catholic school; Arden Myrin interviews celebrities at FOX's environmental party. | ||||
| 306 | 14.2 | "Episode 2" | Chris Rose, Judge Joe Brown, Audrina Patridge, Zachary Gordon | September 20, 2008 |
| Parody of Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" has Ellen DeGeneres question America's obsession with girl-on-girl love; Keegan-Michael Key and Arden Myrin run attack ads against each other over who will open the show; parody of eHarmony.com has a hapless woman (Flanagan) paired with a baboon; Bobby Lee and Johnny Sanchez sell an energy bar they created during "The Rice and Beans Tour"; parody of The Sundance Channel's Iconoclasts called Ikeaclasts is interrupted by FOX News reports warning viewers not to vote for Obama; Ozzie Guillen (Sanchez) holds a press conference filled with cursing and inappropriate comments; commercial for King Burger's new line of toys based on the darker, more disturbing elements of The Dark Knight. | ||||
| 307 | 14.3 | "Episode 3" | September 27, 2008 | |
| Eric Price and Matt Braunger pretend they're the racist and sexist ad executives from Mad Men; John McCain's campaign manager (Matt Braunger) sets up a Facebook account for the senator; Nacho Hernandez (Johnny Sanchez) gets interviewed about the new Apple iPhone; John Mayer (Braunger) releases an album about his sexual conquests; Project Runway's new season contains connections to Top Chef and Top Design; an Albanian TV channel shows their version of America's Got Talent; Sarah Palin (Parker) takes audience questions; Arden Myrin goes on the red carpet during the premiere of Eagle Eye; the reality shows Living Lohan and Super Nanny combine into a parody, where Jo Frost tries to discipline the unruly Lohan children. | ||||
| 308 | 14.4 | "Mad TV: Sexy, Dirty Politics" | October 4, 2008 | |
| A collection of Mad TV's political and historical sketches, including "The 2004 Presidential Debates", the music video parody "Under Barack Obama", "Angela Wright Meets George W. Bush", "McCain/Obama/Clinton Attack Ads", "Civil War Letters," and "Bill Clinton on Politically Incorrect". | ||||
| 309 | 14.5 | "Episode 5" | Ne-Yo | November 1, 2008 |
| Two-part parody of I Love Lucy shows Lucy (Parker) and Ethel (Flanagan) selling their bodies to pay off their rent, and Lucy trying to fight off Fred Mertz's (Braunger) advances; Johnny Sanchez reads a Spanish message to Mexican viewers; a "WeightSmashers" commercial gets interrupted by a man (Braunger) who keeps exposing himself; Condoleezza Rice (Ash) comes clean about the Bush administration's shady ethics at a press conference; video footage of George Takei's (Lee) wedding, featuring William Shatner (Braunger) as the priest; Ne-Yo appears in a sketch as a news anchor who hits on his female colleague (Ash). | ||||
| 310 | 14.6 | "Episode 6" | Jeff Probst | November 8, 2008 |
| A new crime drama on TNT about a blond, amoral border patrol officer as played by Goldie Hawn (Myrin); Jeff Probst votes off John McCain (Lee) as the new U.S. President; Wendy Walker (Flanagan) hosts a tailgating party edition of 3 Minute Meals; Coach Hines (Key) goes to confession with Yamanashi (Lee) and Careco (Braunger); Geico commercial parody featuring Mo'Nique (Ash), Carlos Mencia (Sanchez), and Elmo from Sesame Street; a hungover newscaster (Braunger) stumbles his way through a man-on-the-street piece; professional basketball players Charles Barkley (Key), Yao Ming (Lee), and Lisa Leslie (Ash) read to children; a new homicide detective (Flanagan) meets her new partner (Braunger) who can't take a joke. | ||||
| 311 | 14.7 | "Episode 7" | Serena Williams | November 15, 2008 |
| In a parody of Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay (Price) bullies a nun and a priest into renovating their soup kitchen, and later, the priest and nun get their revenge on the foul-mouthed chef; Keegan Michael-Key welcomes melodramatic movie singer Lisa Gerrard (Parker); Nacho Hernandez (Sanchez) gets interviewed on a newscast about the economy; Lap Dancing with the Stars has celebrities performing risque routines; Serena Williams appears as superheroine The Black Racket; Nacho Hernandez (Sanchez) plugs his new custom auto paint store; a rocker named Dom (Braunger) teaches party guests how to play Guitar Hero: World Tour; a businessman must call upon Bae Sung (Lee) for translation; Queen Elizabeth (Pritchard) invites Americans to England and gets celebrity endorsement from trainwreck singers Lily Allen (Myrin) and Amy Winehouse (Parker). | ||||
| 312 | 14.8 | "Episode 8" | November 22, 2008 | |
| Parody of Britney Spears' "Womanizer" about Spears' comeback after years of being a tabloid trainwreck; American Indian Eddie Thundercloud (Key) protests against Thanksgiving; Al Pacino (Sanchez) and Robert De Niro (Price) exert little effort in their latest crime drama, Phoning It In; a CNN report about the current economic crisis includes Warren Buffett (Price) and a homeless man (Key) named Razzle Dazzle; Batman (Braunger) loses his money and must resort to low-cost ways to fight crime (two-part sketch); parody of The Amazing Race has celebrity couples; a look at the raucous men who work for J.D. Power (Braunger) and Associates; the Coffee Twins (Flanagan and Myrin) get upset when someone in the office steals one of their lame jokes. | ||||
| 313 | 14.9 | "Mad TV's Best of Holiday Sketches Spectacularly Special Spectacular" | December 13, 2008 | |
| Connie Chung (Lee) and Barack Obama (Key) host a clip show episode of Mad TV's best Christmas-themed sketches. Sketches include: "The Abercrombie Guys' Christmas", the animated sketch "The Reinfather", the "Tickle Me Emo" commercial parody, "Stuart Meets Santa Claus", "Maury and Connie's All-Star Christmas Spectacular", "Global Warming with Frosty and Al Gore", "Keeping Santa's Secret", and "Saw 4: Jingle Hell" | ||||
| 314 | 14.10 | "Episode 10" | February 28, 2009 | |
| A couple freak out over a graphically violent eye commercial while watching Sleepless in Seattle on TV; Miley Cyrus (Flanagan) and the Jonas Brothers (Sanchez, Braunger, and Price) show off purity body jewelry and their new abstinence-only tour; notoriously rude comedians Sarah Silverman (Parker), Carlos Mencia (Sanchez), Bobby Lee, and Gilbert Gottfried (Flanagan) fail to make fun of a dying boy during a Comedy Central roast; black talk show hosts (Ash and Key) outline what black people should do in case of a zombie apocalypse; Bobby Lee's Blind Kung-Fu Master returns; a nerd afflicted with many physical ailments (Price) competes in a car touching challenge held by a radio station; a pair of human resource representatives (Flanagan and Key) try to save a company that specializes in douchebags; Al Pacino (Sanchez) and Robert De Niro (Price) play sweetheart cops. | ||||
| 315 | 14.11 | "Episode 11" | Jerry Springer | March 7, 2009 |
| The host of a black history talk show (Key) interviews the air-headed daughter (Ash) of a civil rights leader; on ABC's special What Would You Do?, a bystander (Sanchez) keeps cutting in with wrong ways to approach touchy social situations; a Jamaican office worker (Key) shills his homemade reggae album; a night at a Benihana shows a black man (Key) who's overly amazed at the chef's skills while a white couple (Price and Myrin) is grossed out by an incompetent chef (Lee) decapitating himself; on the Today show, Ann Curry (Lee) talks with a mom/finance expert (Parker); neurotic comedienne Luanne Lockhart (Flanagan) goes out on a date. | ||||
| 316 | 14.12 | "Episode 12" | Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Bruce Jenner, Tila Tequila | March 14, 2009 |
| On The Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer (Price), Christiane Amanpour (Parker), guest star Tila Tequila, and Candy Crowley (Pritchard) report on spring break; Eddie Thundercloud (Key) returns to discuss spring break; another eHarmony commercial shows a snobby rich girl (Pritchard) hooking up with a Latino thug fresh out of prison (Sanchez); a woman's restless leg syndrome is cured by making her paralyzed; a group of spring breaking frat boys (Key, Lee, Price, Sanchez, and Braunger) struggle to discuss being tricked into having a gay orgy; a real police officer (Key) tries to tell a bride-to-be that her husband is dead, but is mistaken for a male stripper; Tank (Lee) hits on women at the beach during spring break and ends up with Candy Crowley; the Kardashian/Jenner family compete against Disney's Miley Cyrus (Flanagan), two of the Jonas Brothers (Price and Sanchez), and Raven-Symoné (Ash) on an episode of Family Feud. | ||||
| 317 | 14.13 | "Mad TV's Best of Michael McDonald Special" | Kathy Griffin, Michael McDonald | March 21, 2009 |
| D-Lister and Mad TV friend Kathy Griffin hosts a special night honoring Mad TV alum Michael McDonald and his fan-favorite characters, including whiny man-child Stuart Larkin, depressed Persian tow-truck man Mofaz, and paranoid floor leader Sean Gidcomb, along with his impressions of Dr. Phil, Hugh Laurie's Dr. House, and Maury Povich. | ||||
| 318 | 14.14 | "Episode 14" | Tommy Chong, Cheech Marin | March 28, 2009 |
| Bobby confesses to Crista Flanagan that he slept with Nicole Parker and filmed it; Wilmer Valderrama (Sanchez) creates his own Punk'd-style hidden camera prank show; another eHarmony commercial featuring a Mormon man (Braunger) and his five wives; a man (Key) gets freaked out by goblins; a single woman named Lydia Rodriguez sells items for lonely women on TV at 3:00 am; on 24 with Bobby Lee, Cheech and Chong's plans to spend the day with Bobby go up in smoke when the trio get stoned; two representatives for Webster's Dictionary (Flanagan and Key) announce new slang terms, misappropriations of existing words, and words that have fallen out of fashion; on IKEAclasts, Julie Andrews (Parker) and the Dalai Lama (Lee) team up to build a dresser drawer; Arden Myrin goes to a pole-dancing class; a Latin lover (Sanchez) plugs his new feces-based perfume called "Flirty Sanchez". | ||||
| 319 | 14.15 | "Episode 15" | April 11, 2009 | |
| A Latin thug (Key) contends with his cousin (Sanchez) who wants to give his tagging some professionalism; Crista Flanagan introduces a comedian who is in witness protection (Key); another eHarmony commercial about a woman (Flanagan) dating a serial killer (Price); Johnny Gan (Lee) and his sidekick, Pongo, launch a low-rent version of Deal or No Deal; commercial parody showing how the VMW car stands up to running over those who rank low on the socioeconomic ladder; The 26th Annual Adult Video News Awards (three-part piece); the opening of the Clifton Malik Muhammad Memorial Library is interrupted by Malik Muhammad's airheaded daughter, Cerise (Ash); a man (Key) trying to fix his cable connection must deal with an automated phone recording that has an answer for everything; Cottage Life with Jill and Carol. | ||||
| 320 | 14.16 | "Episode 16" | April 25, 2009 | |
| The Andy Griffith Show gets warped in a triple parody of modern crime shows, CSI, Law and Order, and COPS; Bobby Lee tries once again to win Crista Flanagan's heart; Coach Hines (Key) is put on trial at school for his bizarre and violent antics; Nancy Grace (Parker) reports on obnoxious morning DJs getting lost at sea; a Sesame Street parody about childhood obesity and plastic surgery. | ||||
| 321 | 14.17 | "Episode 17" | Fred Willard, Alex Borstein, Mo Collins, Artie Lange, Will Sasso, Debra Wilson | May 16, 2009 |
| Fred Willard hosts "Mad TV Gives Back," a telethon made to showcase Mad TV's generosity. Featuring appearances by past cast members and clips from past episodes. | ||||
DVD releases
As of February 2014, episodes of season 14 have not been released on DVD.
References
- ↑ Schneider, Michael (12 November 2008). "Fox cancels ‘Mad TV’". Variety. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
- ↑ Hibberd, James (13 November 2008). "Fox cancels "MadTV" after 14 seasons". Reuters. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
External links
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