MADtv Season 1 & 2:The first season of MADtv aired from October 14, 1995, to June 22, 1996, with 19 episodes.The second season of MADtv aired from September 21, 1996, to May 17, 1997, with 22 episodes.Season summary:Season 1: MADtv's first season premiered in the 1995 television season, on October 14 at 11 p.m., thirty minutes before the time-slot of its chief rival, Saturday Night Live.The original MADtv repertory cast members were Bryan Callen, David Herman, Orlando Jones, Phil LaMarr, Artie Lange, Mary Scheer, Nicole Sullivan, and Debra Wilson, with Craig Anton as a featured player. The first season's cast was a mixture of seasoned television and film veterans like LaMarr, Herman, and Scheer, and relatively unknown newcomers like Callen, Jones, Lange, Sullivan, and Wilson. The cast was one of the most ethnically diverse sketch comedy casts of the 1990s, with one Native American (and half Irish) male, one Jewish-American male, two African-American males, one African-American female, two white males and two white females.Season one of MADtv relied heavily on the fan base of MAD Magazine. Each episode featured the use of the MAD logo (which is still used today), Alfred E. Neuman images and puns, the Spy vs. Spy cartoons, and the catchphrase "What...me worry?" The first season also established some of the series' landmark characters like Jaq the UBS Guy (LaMarr), The Vancome Lady (Sullivan), Clorox (Anton), Mrs. Jewel Barone (Scheer) and Momma (Lange) from That's My White Momma. This season also produced several enduring celebrity parodies like Oprah Winfrey (Wilson), Tom Hanks (Herman) in Gump Fiction, and Dennis Rodman (Jones) making a public service announcement.Unlike Saturday Night Live, MADtv had no celebrity hosts during its first season. However, the show did have special guests including Kato Kaelin, Joe Walsh and Dean Stockwell, Peter Marshall, Michael Buffer, Adam West, Gary Coleman, Jamie Farr, Ken Norton, Jr, David Faustino, Claudia Schiffer, Kim Coles, Bruce McCulloch and Harland Williams. Musical groups like Poison, Pharcyde and The Presidents of the United States (who were the show's first musical guests) also made appearances on the show.The show was renewed for 24 more episodes the following season and the full cast was invited back to headline season two.Season 2: Despite some minor cast changes—Tim Conlon and Pablo Francisco joined as featured players and Artie Lange quietly left mid-season—the second season of MADtv was not a radical departure from season one (largely the same cast, the same type of humor, and the same format).The addition of a weekly guest host was the most notable difference of season two, the only season of MADtv to feature one. Although every season has had several guest stars, season two's guest stars were referred to as "hosts" and appeared in nearly every sketch. Every episode had a new host, whereas in other seasons, not every episode had a guest star and the guest star usually only appeared in a few sketches. The guest host format was similar to Saturday Night Live's, but MADtv ended this format after season two.Opening montage:Season 1 & 2: The title sequence begins with several fingers pointing at a bomb. The bomb explodes and several different pictures of Alfred E. Neuman appear on the screen, followed by the MADtv logo. The theme song, performed by the hip-hop group Heavy D & the Boyz, begins. Cast members are introduced alphabetically with their names appearing in caption over live-action clips of each performer. More pictures of Alfred E. Neuman appear between the introduction of each cast member. When the last cast member is introduced, the music stops and the title sequence ends with the phrase "You are now watching MADtv."Cast season 1:-Bryan Callen -David Herman -Orlando Jones -Phil LaMarr -Artie Lange -Mary Scheer -Nicole Sullivan -Debra Wilson Featured season 1:-Craig AntonCast Season 2:-Bryan Callen -David Herman -Orlando Jones -Phil LaMarr -Artie Lange -Mary Scheer -Nicole Sullivan -Debra WilsonFeaturing Season 2:-Craig Anton -Tim Conlon -Pablo FranciscoFont:Season 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MADtv_%28season_1%29Season 2:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MADtv_(season_2)Thanks To:ORRiNS1189
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