Moneyball Z/Green Care Bear

Season 2, Episode 12: Moneyball Z/Green Care Bear

Aired: November 21, 2011

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Moneyball Z/Green Care Bear is the 12th episode of MAD Season 2, and the 38th overall episode of MAD.

Episode Summary
Moneyball Z: The future of baseball is super charged when Super Saiyans join the game.

Green Care Bear: Hal Jordan gets recruited by a different kind of colorful guardians to become the Green Care Bear.

Segments

 * 1) MAD News - The MAD News anchor announces that there is life on other planets, but then says who cares, because the new Twilight movie is out.
 * 2) Opening Scene
 * 3) Moneyball Z (Movie Parody of Moneyball / TV Parody of Dragon Ball Z)
 * 4) Animated Marginals segment
 * 5) Man saves little girl's "kitty" (Animated by Mike Wartella)
 * 6) Barry Kirschbaum, Ghost Attorney (Ad Parodies] segment)
 * 7) In Loving Memory "Rodolfo" 1990-2011 (Cartoon animated by Jorge R. Gutierrez)
 * 8) The Greatest Thing Ever! #2 (Animated by Nate Theis)
 * 9) Floating Head in the Ocean (Animated by Don Martin)
 * 10) Optimus Prime Suspect (Spoof on Optimus Prime / TV Parody of Prime Suspect) (Ad Parodies segment)
 * 11) Stunt Turkey (Stop-motion Cartoon segment)
 * 12) Spy vs. Spy - Jail Cell: Part 2 (Spy vs. Spy segment)
 * 13) Animated Marginals segment
 * 14) Papa Smurf's Pizza (Restaurant Parody of Papa John's Pizza / Spoof on Papa Smurf) (Ad Parodies segment)
 * 15) Log Saw Ride (Animated by Mike Wartella)
 * 16) Green Care Bear (Movie Parody of Green Lantern / Spoof on Care Bears) (Ad Parodies)
 * 17) Credits
 * 18) 5-second Cartoon - (from Moneyball Z) Vegeta continues charging. (5-second Cartoon segment)

Trivia

 * This is the only time Moneyball showed up, the only time that MAD shows a cartoon that says "In Loving Memory", and the first time when the second movie parody is styled like an ad parody.
 * This is the second time The Greatest Thing Ever! appeared.
 * This is the third time Dragon Ball, Green Lantern, and Care Bears get spoofed, and also the third time MAD does two movie parodies instead of just one.
 * This is the sixth time the Smurfs appeared on MAD.
 * Moneyball Z was originally going to air along with The Superhero Millionaire Matchmaker, but it was changed into Green Care Bear. This stinks, right?

Voices

 * Hugh Davidson - Indian, Piccolo, Customer, and Grumpy Bear
 * Larry Dorf - Skeleton, Trunks, Good Luck Bear, and Man
 * Keith Ferguson - Billy Beane, Turkey, and Optimus Prime Suspect Announcer
 * Jim Meskimen - Detective, Gargamel, and Narrator
 * Dan Milano - Goku, Barry Kirschbaum, and Papa Smurf
 * Rachel Ramras - Bulma, Little Girl, Female Ghost, and Cheer Bear
 * Kevin Shinick - Peter Brand, Hal Jordan, Vegeta, Superman, Todd, RoboCop, Tenderheart Bear, the Old Carnival Owner, Papa Smurf's Pizza Announcer, and the MAD News Anchor
 * Fred Tatasciore - Art Howe, Optimus Prime, and Slimer