FROST/Undercover Claus

Season 2, Episode 14: FROST/Undercover Claus

Aired: December 5, 2011

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FROST/Undercover Claus is the 14th episode of MAD Season 2, and the 40th overall episode of MAD.

Episode Summary
FROST: Woody, Buzz, and the Toy Story gang get "lost" on a mysterious island of misfit toys.

Undercover Claus: Santa Claus goes undercover to see how his workshop really runs.

Segments

 * 1) MAD News - The MAD News anchor announces that Herb McCrawley was breaking into homes in December.
 * 2) Opening Scene
 * 3) FROST (TV Parody of LOST / Movie Parody of Disney and Pixar's Toy Story 3)
 * 4) Animated Marginals segment
 * 5) Time Machines are not toys - ACT 1 (Animated by Mike Wartella)
 * 6) Tree Bazooka 9000 (Ad Parodies segment)
 * 7) Time Machines are not toys - ACT 2 (Animated by Mike Wartella)
 * 8) Rejected Reindeer (Spoof on Santa's Reindeer) (Rejected segment)
 * 9) MAD Security Cam - Kevin's House (MAD Security Cam segment) (Stop-motion Cartoon)
 * 10) Snowman vs. Wild (Spoof on Frosty the Snowman and Man vs. Wild) (Ad Parodies segment)
 * 11) Spy vs. Spy - Christmas Rocket (Spy vs. Spy segment) (Stop-motion Cartoon)
 * 12) Animated Marginals segment
 * 13) Merry Christmas, Charlie Sheen! (TV Parody of A Charlie Brown Christmas / Spoof on Charlie Sheen)
 * 14) Undercover Claus (TV Parody of Undercover Boss / Spoof on Santa Claus)
 * 15) Credits
 * 16) 5-second Cartoon - (from Rejected Reindeer) Rudolpho tries to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, but gets shot by the Tree Bazooka 9000. (5-second Cartoon segment)

Trivia

 * This is the first time Spy vs. Spy was in color, and the seventh time Spy vs. Spy was done in stop-motion.
 * This episode of MAD is the second Christmas special, the second time MAD Security Cam and Spy vs. Spy are both in stop motion, and the second time Man vs. Wild showed up.
 * This is the sixth time MAD does two television parodies instead of just one. The previous ones were:
 * S'UP / Mouse M.D.
 * Pokémon Park / WWER
 * So You Think You Can Train Your Dragon How to Dance / Yo Gagga Gagga!
 * HOPS / Naru210
 * Kitchen Nightmares Before Christmas / How I Met Your Mummy
 * This is the eighth appearance of the Rejected segment. The previous appearances were:
 * Avaturd / CSiCarly
 * Star Blecch/uGlee
 * Cliffordfield/Big Time Rushmore
 * Class of the Titans/Zeke and Lex Luthor
 * Da Grinchy Code/Duck
 * Are You Karate Kidding Me?/The Fresh Prawn of Bel-Air
 * ArTHOR/The Big Fang Theory
 * Ninth appearance of the MAD Security Cam segment. The previous appearances were:
 * Fantastic Megan Fox/MAD vs. Wild
 * S'UP / Mouse M.D.
 * The Straight A-Team/Gaming's Next Top Princess
 * The Social Netjerk/Smallville: Turn Off the Clark
 * Ribbitless/The Clawfice
 * Fast Hive/Minute to Flynn It
 * X Games: First Class/Criminal Minecraft
 * Spy vs. Spy Kids/The Superhero Millionaire Matchmaker
 * In MAD Security Cam, it took place in Kevin's House (on Christmas Eve), December 24th, 11:02 PM.
 * Stephen Stanton reprises his role as Buzz Lightyear from The Buzz Identity, Cowboys & Alien Force, and Toy Story 3: the Video Game.
 * This is the only episode of MAD to have an Mike Wartella segment in two acts.
 * In FROST, the CGI animation was the same one from The Buzz Identity which the Toy Story 3 sketch was on.
 * Fred Tatasciore voiced Santa Claus in every sketch he appeared in.
 * In the "Time Machines are not toys" sketches, it's revealed that the boy (the dad's son) and the young dad are both named "Bobby Jr." and "Bobby".