Swan (Borstein) has a trainee (McDonald) tend her store while she's away in Swan: The Homecoming. PBS tries to compete with The Sopranos with its own gritty drama in a loose parody of The Sixth Sense, Hallie Kate Eisenberg (Borstein) realizes everyone in a Pepsi commercial is a ghost Lida (Sullivan) and Melina (Wilson) get tickets to see Ricky Martin celebrities appear on Hollywood Squares Ms.
News anchors run for their lives in a parody of Kipper babies get their own T-shirts stamped with insults Lisa Loeb sings the theme song for Pretty White Kids with Problems Stuart Larkin (McDonald) gets trapped in a well Britney Spears (Sullivan) argues with the crew on the set of her new music video Will Sasso and Alex Borstein conduct red-carpet interviews at the Emmys Billy Blanks (Spears) stars in his own movie a commercial parody for dish soap. When the last cast member is introduced, the music stops and the title sequence ends with the phrase "You are now watching Mad TV." Cast members are introduced alphabetically.
The Mad TV logo appears and the theme song, which is performed by the hip-hop group Heavy D & the Boyz, begins. Aries Spears and Debra Wilson introduced a sketch called Reality Check, a fictitious talk show on BET.įormer Mad TV alumnus Artie Lange made a special appearance, as well as celebrities Carmen Electra, Catherine O'Hara, George Carlin, Regis Philbin, Tim Robbins, and Alex Borstein's Family Guy co-star Seth Green (as recurring character Mr. Nicole Sullivan would be the first cast member to portray pop star Britney Spears. After a noticeable weight loss, Will Sasso began to impersonate more celebrities such as James Gandolfini. Swan starred in the multi-part sketch "Swan: The Homecoming," which featured special celebrity appearances in each episode by Garry Marshall, Mark Hamill, Dennis Hopper, Susan Sarandon, and Tony Shalhoub. The previous year's newcomers, Michael McDonald and Mo Collins, reprised their wacky mother/son duo Stuart and Doreen Larkin separately, Collins played Lorraine Swanson and McDonald played Marvin Tikvah and Rusty Miller.
This would be the final season for the Spy vs. This was the last season for Pat Kilbane and original cast member Phil LaMarr, and would be the only season for Brooke Totman. Season 5 of Mad TV began with only a few changes to the cast: Nelson Ascencio (the show's first Cuban-American cast member and first cast member to have an identical twin brother who sometimes appeared in sketches with him) and Brooke Totman joined the show as featured players.