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A typical issue of ''Mad'' magazine will include at least one full parody of a popular movie or television show. The titles are changed to create a play on words; for instance, ''The Addams Family'' became ''The Adnauseum Family''. The character names are generally switched in the same fashion. These articles typically cover five pages or more, and are presented as a sequential storyline with caricatures and word balloons. The opening page or two-page splash usually consists of the cast of the show introducing themselves directly to the reader; in some parodies, the writers sometimes attempt to circumvent this convention by presenting the characters without such direct exposition. Many parodies end with the abrupt deus ex machina appearance of outside characters or pop culture figures who are similar in nature to the movie or TV series being parodied, or who comment satirically on the theme. For example, Dr. Phil arrives to counsel the ''Desperate Housewives'', or the cast of ''Sex and the City'' show up as the new hookers on ''Deadwood''. The parodies frequently make comedic use of the fourth wall, breaking character, and meta-references. Within an ostensibly self-contained storyline, the characters may refer to the technical aspects of filmmaking, the publicity, hype, or box office surrounding their project, their own past roles, any clichés being used, and so on. Several show business stars have been quoted to the effect that the moment when they knew they'd finally "made it" was when they saw themselves thus depicted in the pages of ''Mad''. The following list of all the TV show spoofs in ''Mad Magazine'' is ordered by the decades in which they were produced. == Overview == ;Total TV show spoofs and the most prolific writers and illustrators by decade The following table indicates how many TV show spoofs in total were made in each decade as well as whom were the most prolific writers and illustrators in each decade. ;''Mad's'' most prolific TV show spoofs writers and illustrators of all-time The following writers and illustrators, both past and current, are ''Mad's'' most prolific TV show spoofs writers and illustrators of all-time (as of June 2013). A number of writers and illustrators whom appear in the following table created film spoofs on their own and also as part of a collaboration. |} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of television show spoofs in Mad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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