Mad TV is a American sketch comedy produced by Telepictures and Warner Bros. 1 Storyline 2 Theme Song Intro 3 Also See 4 Sound Effects Used 5 Image Gallery 6 Audio Samples Late night sketch-comedy show based on the humor of MAD magazine. Material includes impersonations, fake commercials, mock movie trailers, and even Spy vs. Competes against Saturday Night. This is Part 2 from The Goodfather Meets Goodfellas and Frosty and Rudolph, this is the best parody from MAD TV. 2008-12-23T18:12:53+00:00; Duration: 04:49.
Type of film | |
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C | Clay animated films |
H | Films with live action and animation |
This is a list of media that showcase clay animation, and is divided into three sections: film (both short and feature-length), television (both series and made-for-television films), and music videos. For a list of stop motion films in general, please go here.
In film[edit]
Film | Year | Director(s) | Notes | |
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C | $9.99 | 2008 | Tatia Rosenthal | |
C | A Close Shave | 1995 | Nick Park | The third Wallace and Gromit film from the franchise. |
C | A Grand Day Out | 1990 | Nick Park | The first Wallace and Gromit from the franchise. |
C | A Matter of Loaf and Death | 2008 | Nick Park | The fourth Wallace and Gromit film from the franchise. |
C | A Town Called Panic | 2009 | Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar | |
H | A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas | 2011 | Todd Strauss-Schulson | Laika created the clay animation hallucination segment.[1] |
C | Adam | 1992 | Peter Lord | |
C | The Adventures of Mark Twain | 1985 | Will Vinton | For Fun, Danger, And Excitement! |
H | Alice | 1988 | Jan Švankmajer | |
C | The Apostle | 2012 | Fernando Cortizo | |
H | Baby Snakes | 1979 | Frank Zappa | The clay animation sequences were created by Bruce Bickford. |
C | The Boxtrolls | 2014 | Graham Annable, Anthony Stacchi | |
C | Break! | 1985 | Garri Bardin | |
C | Chicken Run | 2000 | Peter Lord, Nick Park | A comedy movie about chickens, escaping from a farm that plans to kill the chickens, to make chicken pies. |
C | Clay (or the Origin of Species) | 1964 | Eli Noyes | |
H | Claymation: Three Dimensional Clay Animation | 1978 | Will Vinton | A documentary film that explores the Will Vinton Studio. |
C | Closed Mondays | 1974 | Will Vinton, Bob Gardiner | |
C | Coraline | 2009 | Henry Selick | |
C | Consuming Spirits | 2012 | Chris Sullivan | |
C | Creature Comforts | 1989 | Nick Park | |
H | The Daydreamer | 1966 | Jules Bass | |
C | Early Man | 2018 | Nick Park | |
H | Faust | 1994 | Jan Švankmajer | |
C | Gumbasia | 1955 | Art Clokey | |
C | Gumby: The Movie | 1995 | Art Clokey | The reference of The 1957 Show. |
C | Harvie Krumpet | 2003 | Adam Elliot | |
C | He-Man and She-Bar | 1972 | Eli Noyes | |
C | Hell & Back | 2015 | Tom Gianas & Ross Shuman | |
C | Heungbu-wa Nolbu | 1967 | Kang Taeung | |
C | John and Michael | 2004 | Shira Avnni | |
C | Jubilee Bunt-a-thon | 2012 | Nick Park | |
C | Last Year's Snow Was Falling | 1983 | Alexander Tatarsky | |
H | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | 2004 | Wes Anderson | Henry Selick was in charge of the film's clay animation visual effects.[2] |
C | Mary and Max | 2009 | Adam Elliot | |
H | Me and Earl and the Dying Girl | 2015 | Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | The film features sequences that are clay animated.[3] |
C | Modeling | 1921 | Max Fleischer | Part of the animated film series Out of the Inkwell. |
H | Monkeybone | 2001 | Henry Selick | |
H | Moonwalker | 1988 | Jerry Kramer, Colin Chilvers | The film features a clay animation segment by Will Vinton called 'Speed Demon'. |
C | More | 1998 | Mark Osborne | |
C | New Year Song of Ded Moroz | 1983 | Alexander Tatarsky | |
The Nightmare Before Christmas | 1993 | Henry Selick | ||
C | ParaNorman | 2012 | Sam Fell, Christ Butler | |
C | The Peanut Vendor | 1933 | Len Lye | |
C | The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! | 2012 | Peter Lord, Jeff Newitt | |
C | Plasticine Crow | 1981 | Alexander Tatarsky | |
C | Plastiphobia | 1962 | Fred O'Neal, Val Federoff | |
C | Pos Eso | 2015 | Samuel Ortí Martí | |
H | Return to Oz | 1985 | Walter Murch | The Will Vinton Studio created the Nome King sequences; Vinton was nominated for an Oscar. |
H | Reveries of a Solitary Walker | 2015 | Paolo Gaudio | |
C | Seryi Volk & Krasnaya Shapochka | 1990 | Garri Bardin | |
C | Shaun the Sheep Movie | 2015 | Richard Starzak, Mark Burton | |
H | Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger | 1977 | Sam Wanamaker | |
C | Stage Fright | 1997 | Steve Box | |
C | Tengers | 2007 | Michael J. Rix | |
C | Tiap-Liap, House Painters | 1984 | Garri Bardin | |
H | Toys in the Attic | 2009 | Jiří Barta | The film is a mix between claymation, drawing, and live action.[4] |
C | Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | 2005 | Nick Park, Steve Box | |
C | The Wanted 18 | 2014 | Amer Shomali | |
C | The Wrong Trousers | 1993 | Nick Park | The second Wallace and Gromit film from the franchise. |
In television[edit]
Show/Series | Year | Creator(s) | Notes |
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ABC bumpers | 1987 | Olive Jar Films | |
A Claymation Christmas Celebration | 1987 | Will Vinton | |
A Claymation Easter | 1992 | Will Vinton | |
Arnold Escapes From Church | 1988 | Craig Bartlett | |
Arnold Rides a Chair | 1991 | Craig Bartlett | |
The Arnold Waltz | 1990 | Craig Bartlett | |
Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures | 2008 | Fransesco Misseri | |
Bump in the Night | 1994 | Danger Productions | |
The California Raisin Show | 1989 | Fred Wolf Films | |
Celebrity Deathmatch | 1998 | Eric Fogel | |
Claymation Comedy of Horrors | 1989 | Will Vinton | |
Community | 2010 | Duke Johnson | Episode: 'Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas' |
Creation | 1980 | Will Vinton | |
Creature Comforts | 1990 | Aardman Animations | |
Davey and Goliath | 1960 | Art Clokey, Ruth Clokey, Dick Sutcliffe | |
Follow that Goblin | 1992 | Craig Bartlett | |
Gary and Mike | 2001 | Will Vinton | |
Gogs | 1993 | Deiniol Morris, Michael Mort | |
Good Night, Little Ones | 1981 | Aleksandr Tatarskiy | Animated caption for a TV Show under the same name. |
The Great Cognito | 1982 | Will Vinton | |
Gumby | 1956 | Art Clokey | Series consists of The Gumby Show (1956–1968) and Gumby Adventures (1988). |
H. P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and Other Stories | 2007 | Toei Animation | |
I Go Pogo | 1979 | Stowmar Enterprises | |
Inside-Out Boy | 1990 | Tom Gasek | |
Kot v sapogakh | 1995 | Garri Bardin | |
Legacy | 1979 | Will Vinton | |
The Little Prince | 1979 | Will Vinton | |
Mad TV | 1995 | Corky Quakenbush | Segments: 'Raging Rudolph', 'The Reinfather', 'Clops', and 'A Pack of Gifts Now' (1995–1997) |
Martin the Cobbler | 1977 | Will Vinton | |
Meet the Raisins! | 1988 | Will Vinton, Barry Bruce | |
Mio Mao | 1974 | L+H Films | |
Moral Orel | 2005 | Dino Stamatopoulos | |
Morph | 1976 | Peter Lord, David Sproxton | |
Mr. Bill shorts on Saturday Night Live | 1976–1981 | Walter Williams | |
Mr. Go[5] | 1996-2006 | Argentina | |
Oscar and Friends | 1995 | Cameron Chittock | |
Pingu | 1986 | Otmar Gutmann | |
The PJs | 1999 | Will Vinton | |
Plasmo | 1996 | Anthony Lawrence | |
The Raisins: Sold Out! The California Raisins II | 1990 | Will Vinton | |
The Red and the Blue | 1976 | L+H Films | |
Rex the Runt | 1998 | Richard Goleszowski | |
Rip Van Winkle | 1978 | Will Vinton | |
Robot Chicken | 2005 | Seth Green, Matthew Senreich | |
Taiko no Tatsujin | 2005 | Kids Station | |
The Trap Door | 1984 | Terry Brain, Charlie Mills |
In music videos[edit]
Song | Year | Musician | Director(s) |
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'A Christmas Gift' | 1980 | Paul Stookey | Will Vinton |
'Aberdeen' | 2011 | Cage the Elephant | Isaac Rentz |
'All Your Light' | 2011 | Portugal. The Man | Justin Kramer, Lee Hardcastle |
'Bedshaped' | 2004 | Keane | Corin Hardy |
'Bones' | 2006 | The Killers | Tim Burton |
'Darkness' | 2013 | King Khan and the Shrines | Hylas Film |
'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' | 1998 | Primus | Mike Johnson |
'Feels Like We Only Go Backwards' | 2012 | Tame Impala | Joe Pelling, Becky Sloan |
'I Stay Away' | 1994 | Alice in Chains | Nick Donkin |
'Jurassic Park' | 1993 | 'Weird Al' Yankovic | Mark Osborne, Scott Nordlund |
'Misty' | 2011 | Kate Bush | |
'My Baby Just Cares for Me' | 1987 | Nina Simone | Peter Lord |
'Prison Sex' | 1993 | Tool | Adam Jones |
'Ready, Able' | 2009 | Grizzly Bear | Allison Schulnik |
'Reet Petite' | 1986 | Jackie Wilson | Giblets Studio |
'Resilient' | 2020 | Katy Perry | Aya Tanimura |
'Rifles Spiral' | 2012 | The Shins | Jamie Caliri, Alexander Juhasz |
'Road to Nowhere' | 1985 | Talking Heads | Stephen R. Johnson, David Byrne |
'Rock-A-Lott' | 1986 | Aretha Franklin | |
'Same Ol' Road' | 2002 | Dredg | American McGee[6] |
'Save Me' | 2010 | Killswitch Engage | Jim Starace[7] |
'Sledgehammer' | 1986 | Peter Gabriel | Stephen R. Johnson |
'Sober' | 1993 | Tool | Fred Stuhr[8] |
'Three Little Pigs' | 1993 | Green Jellÿ | Fred Stuhr[8] |
'Vanz Kant Danz' | 1985 | John Fogerty | Will Vinton |
'Walkie Talkie Man' | 2004 | Steriogram | David Kahne |
'Weasel Stomping Day' | 2006 | 'Weird Al' Yankovic | The Robot Chicken team |
'Speed Demon' | 1988 | Michael Jackson | Will Vinton |
'When It Began' | 1991 | The Replacements | |
'White Winter Hymnal' | 2008 | Fleet Foxes | Sean Pecknold[9] |
References[edit]
- ^Suzanne-Mayer, Dominick (September 24, 2014). 'Everybody, Meet Laika: The Critics' Choice for Film Animation'. Consequence of Sound. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
- ^Jessen, Taylor (December 15, 2004). 'Hydronicus Inverticus: An Interview with Henry Selick'. Animation World Network. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
- ^Neumaier, Joe (June 11, 2015). ''Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' review: Not just another teen movie'. Daily News. Mortimer Zuckerman. Retrieved July 5, 2015.
- ^Hoffman, Jordan (March 16, 2012). 'The Best Czech Movies You Probably Haven't Seen'. /Film. Retrieved March 2, 2015.
- ^https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dsbGFKSjUE
- ^'Same Ol' Road'. Dredg - Official Site. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
- ^Firecloud, Johnny (May 24, 2010). 'World Premiere: Killswitch Engage 'Save Me' Video'. CraveOnline. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ^ ab'In Passing...'Animation World Magazine. Animation World Network (2.9). December 1997. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
- ^Cone, Justin (July 8, 2008). 'Sean Pecknold: Fleet Foxes 'White Winter Hymnal''. Motionographer. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
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Mad Tv Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Parody
I can vividly remember growing up and watching those Rankin/Bass holiday specials every year. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, The Year Without a Santa Claus, Rudolph’s Shiny New Year. The New Year’s one I recall best, because I had, shall we say, “prominent” ears as a child, so I felt the Baby New Year’s pain when everyone cried “Those EARS!!” It was still a great program. And who can forget the Heat Miser and the Snow Miser from The Year Without a Santa Claus?
In Silver Screen Fiend, his forthcoming follow-up to his 2011 memoir Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt discusses in great detail his twentysomething years as an addict of cinema, and part of the tale involves his stint as a writer on MADtv in the mid-1990s. Oswalt excoriates himself for being a terrible employee of Rupert Murdoch, pitching abstruse sketch ideas and then not bothering to try to execute them properly and sneering at anyone in his orbit who didn’t happen to be swooning over Sam Peckinpah that very minute. He’s very hard on himself, but I suspect he threw in more useful writing ideas and was easier to get along with than he remembers—there’s a reason he stayed there for roughly two years, after all, and a reason The King of Queens wanted him as a featured player even though his acting chops were still being honed.
In any case, one of his cinephile pitches was to do a version of Francis Ford Coppola’s fractured 1979 masterpiece Apocalypse Now in the form of a Rankin/Bass Christmas special. It turns out they did it, but only after Oswalt was no longer on staff. Here’s a brief excerpt from Silver Screen Fiend on the subject in which he spreads the credit around as widely as possible:
There I was … at MADtv, struggling to explain to a network suit what Apocalypse Now was, and how it could be funny if done through the prism of a Rankin Bass special.*
* They eventually shot my idea—a year after I left the show. Well, I really didn’t leave. They didn’t have me back. And with good fucking reason. I was a judgmental, sour asshole of a writer. Quick with a criticism and never with a fix. A comedy and film snob who rolled his eyes half the time and turned in typo-filled scripts. But they shot it. And put my name in the credits. Misspelled. Revenge? They were entitled. The sketch was called “A Pack of Gifts Now,” and it was lovingly animated by a stop-motion genius named Corky Quakenbush. An elf [actually a reindeer—Editor] is sent by toy makers to the North Pole to terminate “the Kringle” and his cultlike operation of toy makers “with extreme prejudice.” And, ironically enough, one of the producers I clashed with, Fax Bahr—who codirected the documentary Hearts of Darkness, about the making of … Apocalypse Now—shepherded the sketch through, with all of my visual jokes and references intact, and plenty of his own, which made the sketch even better. Even got a mention in TV Guide. Thanks, Fax. Sorry I was such a dick. Part of being in your twenties is not knowing an ally when you see one.
Not too surprisingly, given Oswalt’s status as a passionate consumer of comic books, movies, and TV shows, the details of the sketch, also executed to perfection, are what make it work—the use of eggnog as a substitute for scotch, the substitution of “Saskatchewan” for “Saigon” and “the Kringle” for “the colonel.”
For more on those early Rankin/Bass TV specials as well as “A Pack of Lies Now,” check out The Enchanted World of Rankin/Bass by Rick Goldschmidt.