Pacific Ring/Horton Hears a Whodunnit!

Season 4, Episode 17: Pacific Ring/Horton Hears a Whodunnit!

Aired: September 23, 2013

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Pacific Ring/Horton Hears a Whodunnit! is the 17th episode of MAD Season 4, and the 95th overall episode of MAD.

Episode Summary
Pacific Ring: Giant monsters can only be defeated by one thing: giant robot wrestlers!

Horton Hears a Whodunnit!: A group of strangers are asked to solve a murder by an elephant in a tuxedo.

Segments

 * 1) MADvent Calendar - Been picking apples all month? Here are some MAD moments you may have missed:
 * 2) *Monday, 8:00 AM: Recent father, Kanye West, names his fall tour, the "Anything to Avoid Changing Diapers" Tour.
 * 3) *Friday, 3:00 PM: NASA joins social media and posts amazing photos... of their pizza party.
 * 4) *Monday, 7:00 PM: Simon Cowell celebrates his birthday by judging this!
 * 5) Opening Scene
 * 6) Pacific Ring (Movie Parody of Pacific Rim / TV Parody of WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment))
 * 7) Animated Marginals]] segment
 * 8) Dads: On Top of Things Since 2004 (Animated by Mike Wartella)
 * 9) Travelociraptor (travel Parody of Travelocity / Movie Parody of Jurassic Park) (Ad Parodies segment)
 * 10) Dwarf Mix-Up (Movie Parody of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
 * 11) Snoring Strips (Cartoon)
 * 12) Little House Down (TV Parody of Little House on the Prairie / Movie Parody of White House Down) (Ad Parodies segment)
 * 13) Nurse of the Year (Cartoon)
 * 14) Spy vs. Spy - Black Spy's Dynamite Detonator (Spy vs. Spy segment) (Stop-motion Cartoon)
 * 15) Animated Marginals segment
 * 16) Two Birds with One Stone (Spoof on Emma Stone / Video Game Parody of Angry Birds)
 * 17) Horton Hears a Whodunnit! (Book/Movie Parody of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! / TV Parody of ABC's Whodunnit?)
 * 18) Credits
 * 19) 5-second Cartoon - (from Dwarf Mix-Up) (5-second Cartoon segment)

Trivia

 * This is the first time Pacific Rim showed up.
 * This is the second time White House Down appeared.
 * This is the fourth episode that Angry Birds appeared on MAD, because up until now, they have never been in the show since MAD Season 2.
 * This is the seventh time Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs showed up.
 * This is the 11th time MAD does two movie parodies instead of just one.
 * This is the 16th episode of MAD to have only one Mike Wartella segment.
 * This is the 58th time Spy vs. Spy was done in stop-motion.
 * This is the only time Little House on the Prairie, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, and ABC's Whodunnit? showed up, and the only time MAD showed a 1954 Dr. Seuss book (Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!).

Voices

 * Keith Ferguson - ?
 * Will Friedle - ?
 * Jim Meskimen - Gandalf the Grey
 * Jason Nash - Horton the Elephant
 * Rachel Ramras - ?
 * Kevin Michael Richardson - ?
 * Meredith Salenger - ?
 * Kevin Shinick - The MADvent Calendar Announcer
 * Stephen Stanton - Will Smith