Linkong/Rainbow Dash and Bernstein

Season 4, Episode 1: Linkong/Rainbow Dash and Bernstein

Aired: April 1, 2013

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Linkong/Rainbow Dash and Bernstein is the first episode of MAD Season 4, 79th episode overall.

Episode Summary
Linkong: It's a classic tale of America's greatest giant ape president.

Rainbow Dash & Bernstein: Wyatt Bernstein builds a new bestie: Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic!

Segments

 * 1) MADvent Calendar - Been dying eggs all month? Here are some MAD moments you may have missed:
 * 2) *Sunday, 9:00 AM: Children finally find proof of the Easter Bunny when they wake to find candy and rabbit turds. Gross!
 * 3) *Monday, 2:00 PM: A week after giving Steven Spielberg's Lincoln an Oscar, the Academy yells, "APRIL FOOLS!"
 * 4) *Monday, 8:00 PM: Good things come in threes, so MAD starts Season 4 with this!
 * 5) Opening Scene
 * 6) Linkong (Movie Parody of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln / Spoof on King Kong)
 * 7) Animated Marginals segment
 * 8) Fortune Yeller (Spoof on a Fortune Teller) (Animated by Mike Wartella)
 * 9) Truth Paste (Ad Parodies segment)
 * 10) Man with the Flu Never Getting a Baby (Cartoon)
 * 11) Rejected Merry Go Round Characters (Rejected segment)
 * 12) Keeping Up with the Carebearshians (TV Parody of Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-lot) (Ad Parodies segment)
 * 13) Spy vs. Spy - Mixed Martial Arts (Spy vs. Spy segment) (Stop-motion Cartoon)
 * 14) Animated Marginals segment
 * 15) Ice Diver in the Winter Olympics (Cartoon)
 * 16) Rainbow Dash and Bernstein (Spoof on Rainbow Dash from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic / TV Parody of Crash & Bernstein)
 * 17) Credits
 * 18) 5-second Cartoon - (from Fortune Yeller) The Fortune Yeller keeps on yelling. (5-second Cartoon segment)

Trivia

 * This episode is the MAD Season 4 Premiere, and it premiered on April Fools' Day 2013!
 * This is the only time Crash & Bernstein gets spoofed.
 * This is the third time Abraham Lincoln showed up. The first was Big Time Rushmore and the second was the Flunco! products from Episode 57.
 * This is the fourth time where a 2012 movie gets spoofed (Lincoln). The previous ones were:
 * Real Veal/Celebrity Wife Swamp
 * iChronicle/Hulk Smash
 * Total Recall Me Baby/The Asgardigans
 * This is the fifth episode of MAD to feature a guest star (Gilbert Gottfried), and the fifth time My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic gets spoofed.
 * This is the ninth episode of MAD to have only one Mike Wartella segment. The previous ones were:
 * Star Blecch / uGlee
 * Cliffordfield / Big Time Rushmore
 * The Straight A-Team / Gaming's Next Top Princess
 * HOPS / Naru210
 * Outtagascar / F·I·E·N·D·S
 * Fantastic Four Christmases / Red & White Collar
 * Hip Hop Hobbit / The Monday Project
 * Life of Rhyme/Here Comes Yogi Boo Boo
 * 13th appearance of the Rejected segment.
 * Ironically, seven days after the MAD Season 4 Premiere, the real Margaret Thatcher died on Monday, April 8, 2013 where a third episode of MAD Season 4 has been premiered (Pokémonsters, Inc./Bane and Kate). Margaret Thatcher, we bet you're in heaven right now looking down on us. Your death will be avenged!

Voices

 * Keith Ferguson - Citizen and Truth Paste Announcer
 * Gilbert Gottfried - Linkong, Crash, and Father
 * Jim Meskimen - Thaddeus Stevens and Puppeteer
 * Rachel Ramras - Cleo Bernstein, Tiny Twins aka Shobijin, Fortune Yeller, Cheer Bear, and Daughter
 * Meredith Salenger - Mel Bernstein, Bentley Bear, and Mother
 * Kevin Shinick - Fortune Yeller Tourist, Man #1, Man #2, Boy, General Lee, Son, and the MADvent Calendar Announcer
 * Kath Soucie - Wyatt Bernstein
 * Tara Strong - Mecha-Thatcher, Bling Bear, Beauty Bear, and Rainbow Dash