Shark Bytes

I remember watching Mad Movies late at night on the weekends in the mid 80s. Although I have not seen a single episode since that time they were funny enough that I've kept hoping they would be released on DVD. When MST3K came along and got a lot of attention, but never gave any credit to Mad Movies it puzzled me somewhat, but oh well, I love MST3K also. The Mad Movies concept was also tried in skits on 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' the late great improv comedy show, the US version anyway. Enough rambling. Comedy is great as long as it is done well, no matter the source.

Awwwww! Looks like someone dumped on Just Dave's favorite widdle puppet show! Too bad! Mad Movies never jumped the shark! Mike Nelson's fans need to grow up and deal with the fact that people do not have to revere the incredibly untalented Mike Nelson and Mary Jo Pehl the way they do. DVD's of Mad Movies would be huge sellers I'd bet.

This show ruled!!! NEVER ever jumped the shark...

We need it released on DVD ASAP!

This show never jumped the shark, no matter how much that may tic off childish Mike Nelson fans like the previous poster. And yes, I know "childish Mike Nelson fan" is redundant.

For Just Dateless,er, Just Dave, if he thinks that idiotic puppet show was original he needs to check out the countless bad movie shows of the past that were on the air long before Really Pretentious Puppet Show 3000. Shows like Svengoolie, The Film Vault, Laraine Newman's Canned Film Festival, Ghoulardi and many others made fun of bad movies and showed many of the same movies the puppet show did.

Mad Movies was a terrific show that Mumbling Mike Nelson's fans are painfully ignorant about.

Man, I loved this show. Sad to see that peole need to boost it at the expense of MST3K. For the last two people, seeing as how you have no idea of anything but late Sci-Fi channel MST, you're too clueless to worry about, except to say that Both of these shows were incredibly funny in different ways. And if you think the complete dialog replacement that Mad Movies did was original, please look up 'Fractured Flickers', rather than be painfully ignorant.

Hilarious show that never ever jumped the shark. This show deserved all the groveling praise that is normally heaped on that undeserving Sci Fi Channel piece of crap that always sucked worse than the movies being shown. No wonder that thing got canceled so quickly! If you want a movie show that will really make you laugh until tears come to your eyes this was the show for you! No puppets, no guy in an ape suit, no skits about ancient Rome, no stupid songs and best of all no Mike Nelson and Mary Jo Pehl.

This show never jumped the shark! And it was always much funnier and far better written than a certain Sci Fi Channel puppet show that came along in the late 1990's! Mumbling Mike Nelson would never have even qualified as a gofer on this brilliant show! My favorite was the Sherlock Holmes movie where they found a way to work in that annoying coffee commercial where the people remember the waiter's name....."JEAN-LUC!"

from Cyrano D'bergerac. "The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout, took a left at the gas station and started to twist and shout."
foreign legion. "Hey Beaver, where'd you get the ugly jacket?" "uhh-I got it out of your closet Wally."

Never EVER jumped! Night of the Living Dead - favorite line - Cousin "Duane" to "Chlorine" - "We'll serve it on a bed of lettuce (a box of nails)...Even hospital food looks good when you serve it like that!" Loved the Ronald Regan movie "This is the Army", and Beneath the 12-Mile Reef sea chanty - "Oh to be a sailin' man you've got to think fast. You've got to get a tattoo and put is on your arm. They used to sing songs that rhymed w/ swear words, and put a clean one in its place that didn't rhyme! Wish they'd show these again.

I remember loving this show, the only one I remember was a scene where some older dude was helping a kid take his boots off by holding them to his behind while the kid pulled his feet out:
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Cowboy? (Dad?): "Put yer foot on my butt and make a wish..."
<Kid puts boot on guy's butt and pulls his foot out>
Kid: "Didn't work!"
Cowboy: "Try again..."
<Second foot>
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Killed me...

hey i am trying to get my hands on the mad movie television series.The website listed above I could not get to work, My sister in law is wanting this series bad any other ideas how to get it?

Shirley Temple's possessed doll telling her "Your Mother sews socks that smell" classic. Red Scarlet as Robin Hood. DOA as I Love Lucy. I also thought the home movies redubbed were pretty funny. Anyone remember "La Chica Ting Ting?"
I wish these would be released on DVD.

I still to this day chant "Rickey, Rickey, your club is so small" from a Edmund O'Brien movie. My sister and I thought it was the funniest thing on TV. I wish that I could get copies of the old show.

I was very young when this was on, but my brother and I loved it. I only remember two things, the Shirley Temple "Walk like a jerk across the floor..." and from a different episode, "My heart burns, I have heart burn!"

I would love to see these again.

Mad Movies is absolutely one of the best TV shoes ever made! Don't forget the version of a Star is Born with Janet Gaynor as Ester and Fredric March as Stormin Norman (oh and Andy Divine as Tom Selleck lol) In this version Ester went to a dating agency to find a man. Here are some of my favs from that one: Lady to Ester: "There are plenty of bulgy eyed, scraggly haired, flat-chested women out there just like you and we'll find you a man, or something darn close" Abdy Devine "Sure my name is Tom Selleck and sure I look like him, but I can't always perform like him." Andy Devine: "You know when I squat down like this I can see right up your nose" Stormin Norman to Ester: (getting ready to change in the camper) "I'm a little shy so don't look!" Ester, in the middle of cooking: "Get me a horse a real big horse and a great big kangaroo and let me yahoo, yahoo, yaaahoooo." (the camper stops short and drops the steak on the floor) "Ohhhhh! It's all burnt and dirty!" Stormin Norman: "Hey I told you not to look!" Stormin Norman: "What is my address anyway? " (thumbing through phone book) "Needlebaum? Nishiama? Norman? Norman! Right here. Say, I live in a pretty nice neighborhood! Ah, that was exhausting" (grabs liquor bottle from off his bed) "Move over Genie, I need a nap!" Ester to bald Justice of the peace: (Wearing an awful black hat sticking up every which way) "I'm sorry for my hat exploding earlier and blowing your hair off." manager of hotel scratching his bald head doing a crossword puzzle: "Hmmmmm, what's a 4 letter word for hairless?" Oh and as for The Little Princess don't forget the other lines to the exorcism song "Look in the mirror and straighten your tie, if you tie it too tight you will die." and "Stay clear of souop that's made from peas" Gems! Absolute gems, we should get together and buy it and burn copies!