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MADtv: The Complete Second Season DVD Review

MADtv: Season Two (1996-97)
Show & DVD Details
Executive Producers: Fax Bahr, Adam Small (also TV developers); David Salzman, Quincy Jones, Steven Haft
Staff Writers: Fax Bahr, Garry Campbell, Blaine Capatch, Lauren Dombrowski, Chris Finn, Spencer Green, Tim Hightower, Brad Kaaya, Patton Oswalt, Adam Small, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Stuart Blumberg / Writing Supervisor: Brian Hartt / Select Sketch Writers: Leonard Dick, Brian Hartt, Mary Scheer, Steve Hibbert / Directors: John Blanchard, Gene Crowe; Matt Davis (segment)
Regular Cast: Bryan Callen, David Herman, Orlando Jones, Phil LaMarr, Artie Lange, Mary Scheer, Nicole Sullivan, Debra Wilson, Pablo Francisco, Tim Conlon
Guest Stars: Christina Applegate, Ice-T, Hot Dolla, Mr. Wesside, Powerlord Jell, Kim Coles, Jack Wagner, Taylor Negron, Neve Campbell, St. James Sanctuary Singers, Craig Anton, Kevin McDonald, Tony Cox (Mr. White), Joe Rogan, French Stewart, Harry Connick, Jr., The Funk Band, Andrea Martin, Tiny Lister (Bouncer), Brian Bosworth, Dom Irrera, Rodney Dangerfield, Queen Latifah, Bobcat Goldthwait, Pauly Shore, Thomas Calabro, Corky & The Juice Pigs, Mark Curry, Ike Turner, Adam Arkin, Bob Marley, Ryan Stiles, David Faustino, L.L. Cool J
Running Time: 943 Minutes (22 episodes) / Rating: TV-14
1.33:1 Fullscreen (Original Broadcast Ratio), Dolby Stereo 2.0 (English)
Subtitles: None; Not Closed Captioned / Season 2 Airdates: September 21, 1996 - May 17, 1997
Suggested Retail Price: $29.93 / DVD Release Date: March 26, 2013
Four single-sided, dual-layered discs (DVD-9s) / Clear Keepcase

Mad Tv Complete Series Box Set Dvd

For fourteen seasons, Fox offered a clear alternative to one of NBC's oldest and most famous comedy institutions, 'Saturday Night Live', in 'MADtv'. Adapted from the satirical magazine whose medium gave it decreasing relevance in the electronic age, 'MADtv' received little Emmy attention outside of technical categories and only posed a minor threat to 'SNL' in the ratings. It would give rise to no movie stars to rival those who had begun as Not Ready For Primetime Players or even those who paid their dues on Fox's 'In Living Color.' Its sketches never enjoyed the water cooler status (now simply called 'viral') that the most successful bits of NBC's storied program did. But 'MADtv' took to the airwaves a half-hour ahead of 'SNL' and that alone made it of some interest, especially to the young people who made up a large chunk of its audience.

Media giant NBC Universal couldn't make complete chronological DVD sets of 'SNL' viable beyond Season Five. Perhaps it is no surprise then that Warner Home Video struggled to make 'MADtv' DVDs a profitable enterprise. The Complete First Season was released at the height of the TV-on-DVD boom back in September 2004 with a preview for the second season's release. Instead, the following year saw Warner release a Best of Seasons 8, 9 & 10 disc collecting highlights from the three most recently aired seasons. That approach evidently didn't work either and now in 2013, Warner finally has licensed the show to Shout! Factory, a company that specializes in TV on DVD and has often managed to issue sets that satisfy both fans and the bottom line.

Shout! will release the four-disc, 16-hour The Complete Second Season DVD on March 26, 2013. If the currently low sales rank on Amazon despite a reasonable $29.93 list price is any indication, this might be the last 'MADtv' DVD for the time being. On the other hand, as one of the first collaborations between Shout! and Warner, this release could pave the way for the many popular television series whose home video future has been clouded and jeopardized by sales figures that Warner has deemed unsatisfactory, not to mention shows never given a chance on DVD (like the 'Beetlejuice' cartoon Shout! will release in May).

Unsurprisingly, if you were alive and cognizant in the mid-1990s, 'MADtv' offers a trip down memory lane, whether or not you ever watched the show. The pixelated photos of costumed cast members on the front and back of the DVD case artwork give some idea of what to expect, with impersonations of Dennis Rodman at the height of his bad boy fame on the record-setting Chicago Bulls and Michael Jackson back when he was still making music and not simply a train wreck spectacle.

The list of celebrities tapped to host the hour-long series (taped before a live studio audience, but not broadcast live) gives us a very clear understanding of the show's reach and status in the 1996-97 season. For the most part, the entertainers who accepted Fox's offers were individuals who had not received a similar opportunity from NBC. Two had been an SNL musical guest (Harry Connick, Jr., LL Cool J), two had hosted (Rodney Dangerfield in 1980, Christina Applegate in '93), and two would get to host in the future (Neve Campbell in '97, Queen Latifah in 2004). Most of the rest would not appear on SNL except in maybe a passing impression (e.g. French Stewart, Bobcat Goldthwait).

Like any sketch show, 'Saturday Night Live' always seems to have been hit and miss, but it has made countless iconic contributions to pop culture, most of them as a fun house mirror held up to newsmakers and society. 'MADtv' aspires to the same brand of entertainment, only it arrived twenty years later, its connection to the parody-driven magazine merely nominal, and that legacy of satire not really felt among the B and C-list celebrities and young comedians on a Saturday late night slot on what back then still kind of felt like a second-class network (albeit one rising on the enduring appeal of 'The Simpsons' and 'The X-Files').

Many of the signature 'MADtv' cast members like Michael McDonald and Alex Borstein, had not yet arrived by Season Two. Of this cast, only Debra Wilson, Nicole Sullivan, and Phil LaMarr stuck around for five seasons or longer. Seemingly popular performers Orlando Jones and Bryan Callen would leave after Season 2. Artie Lange didn't even last that long, jumping ship midway through the season (though remaining in the opening credits to the end). David Herman and Mary Scheer would each depart after Season 3.

Sketch comedy shows written week to week enjoy greater topicality than traditionally scripted television programming. That makes 'MADtv', even without a regular 'Weekend Update' news segment of jokes pulled from the headlines, both more prone to dating and more able to supply nostalgia. Both of those qualities define the experience of watching this season in 2013. The series is so very dated. Many of the guest stars (Pauly Shore, Mark Curry, Jake Wagner) and joke targets (Hootie and the Blowfish, UPN, the 1996 presidential election, 'Party of Five') are things you haven't given much thought to this century. Not much of it is all that funny. Some of it entertains. And none