Jacks The Giant Slayers/The Most Beautiful Voice

Season 4, Episode 9: Jacks The Giant Slayers/The Most Beautiful Voice

Aired: June 24, 2013

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Jacks the Giant Slayers/The Most Beautiful Voice is the 9th episode of MAD Season 4, and the 87th overall episode of MAD.

Episode Summary
Jacks the Giant Slayers: When the famous Jack gets crushed by giants, the kingdom has to call in whatever other Jacks are left.

The Most Beautiful Voice: When Ariel's voice has been stolen by Ursula, a competition judges the singing voice by beauty.

Segments
[Opening Scene
 * 1) MADvent Calendar - Been hearing the ringing in your ears all month? Here are some MAD moments you may have missed:
 * 2) *Monday, 7:00 PM: Children everywhere get excited for the Fourth of July, or as they call it the 17th Anniversary of the movie, Independence Day.
 * 3) *Wednesday, 8:00 PM: Angus T. Jones gets replaced on Two and a Half Men as the producers change the title to "Just a Matter of Time, Jon Cryer."
 * 4) *Friday, 5:00 PM: The Lone Ranger starts wearing a mask, because he worked on this!
 * 1) Jacks the Giant Slayers (Movie Parody of Jack the Giant Slayer)
 * 2) Animated Marginals segment
 * 3) A Jury of Fears (Animated by Mike Wartella)
 * 4) Crate & Arrow (Store Parody of Crate & Barrel / Spoof on Hawkeye) (Ad Parodies segment)
 * 5) Know the Difference (Cartoon)
 * 6) Gandalf the Grey's Anatomy (Spoof on Gandalf the Grey from The Lord of the Rings / TV Parody of ABC's Grey's Anatomy)
 * 7) Walkie-Talkie in a Toy Boat (Cartoon)
 * 8) Spy vs. Spy - Black Spy's Punching Machine (Spy vs. Spy segment) (Stop-motion Cartoon)
 * 9) Animated Marginals segment
 * 10) Dog vs. Man (Cartoon)
 * 11) The Most Beautiful Voice (TV Parody of NBC's the Voice / Book Parody of the Little Mermaid)
 * 12) Credits
 * 13) 5-second Cartoon - (from Jacks the Giant Slayers) Jack Frost was crushed by a giant shoe. (5-second Cartoon segment)

Trivia

 * This is the only time Jack the Giant Slayer, NBC's The Voice, and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack showed up.
 * This is the second time DreamWorks' Rise of the Guardians, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, Independence Day, and The Lone Ranger showed up.
 * Jacks the Giant Slayers is the third time Cartoon Network was mentioned. The first was I Am Lorax and the second was Episode 62.
 * This is the fourth episode of MAD where Rachel Ramras has returned. The previous episodes were:
 * Pirates of the Pair of Tweens / Konan the Kardashian
 * Diary of a Wimpy Kid Icarus / Adjustment Burro
 * POblivion/Umbrellamentary
 * This is the fifth time Disney's The Little Mermaid showed up. The previous ones were:
 * Snott Pilgrim vs. The Wonderful World of Disney/Malcolm in the Middle Earth
 * Fast Hive/Minute to Flynn It
 * Addition Impossible/New Gill
 * Taking Nemo/Once Upon a Toon
 * This is the 12th episode of MAD to have only one Mike Wartella segment.
 * This is the 49th time Spy vs. Spy was done in stop-motion.

Voices

 * Chris Cox - Jack Skellington, Hawkeye, and Carson Daly
 * Brian T. Delaney - Jack Black, Referee, and Know the Difference Announcer
 * Mark-Paul Gosselaar - Prince Eric, Jack, and Kid
 * Grey DeLisle - Ariel, Vanessa / Ursula, and Dr. Meredith Grey
 * Arif S. Kinchen - Usher, Judge, and Dog
 * Jim Meskimen - Gandalf the Grey and Sir Elmont
 * Rachel Ramras - Shakira, Dr. Miranda Bailey, Teacher and Woman
 * Kevin Shinick - Jack Frost, Grimsby, Kang the Conqueror, Fallon the Two-Headed Giant, Jack White, Pops, Guy and the MADvent Calendar Announcer