The Iron Giant Lady / Raising a New Hope

Episode Summary
The Iron Giant Lady: A female giant robot learns how to become a true prime minister.

Raising a New Hope: Obi-Wan Kenobi sends Anakin Skywalker's newborn son to live with his brother.

Segments

 * 1) A series of funny and ridiculous pop culture events that happened recently.
 * 2) Opening Scene
 * 3) The Iron Giant Lady (Movie Parody of the Iron Giant and the Iron Lady)
 * 4) Animated Marginals - (Animated Marginals Segment)
 * 5) Genie Lamp Used on Noisy Wanderer (Parody of Disney's Aladdin) (Animated by M. Wartella)
 * 6) The Visibility Cloak (Parody of the Invisibility Cloak from Harry Potter) (Ad Parodies Segment)
 * 7) MAD News - The MAD News anchor announced that Alfred E. Neuman is running for president. (MAD News Segment)
 * 8) Aliens play with imaginary guns and their father shows them what a real gun is like.
 * 9) A band leaves, leaving the audience in a frenzy.
 * 10) Nessie (TV Parody of Jessie/Spoof on Loch Ness Monster) (Ad Parodies Segment)
 * 11) Super Duper Cuts Grand Opening (Parody of Supercuts)
 * 12) Spy vs. Spy - Safe Bomb (Spy vs. Spy Segment) (Stop-motion cartoon Segment)
 * 13) Animated Marginals - (Animated Marginals Segment)
 * 14) Lumberjack Mistakens Warning as an Echo (Animated by Don Martin)
 * 15) Edna the Kangaroo leaves money in her other pouch.
 * 16) Horse and Cowboy Enter Saloon (Animated by M. Wartella)
 * 17) Raising a New Hope (TV Parody of Raising Hope/Movie Parody of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope)
 * 18) Credits
 * 19) 5-second Cartoon - The audience at the band are still in a frenzy. (5-second Cartoon Segment)

Trivia

 * This episode is the MAD Season 3 Premiere.
 * This is the first episode with CGI animation - A MAD First!
 * This is the first time a British/Foreign film gets spoofed on MAD to promote the London 2012 Olympic Games, and also the first time the Iron Giant, the Iron Lady, Raising Hope, and Jessie get spoofed.
 * In The Iron Giant Lady, three female robots appear, EVE from Disney and Pixar's WALL·E, XJ-9 (a.k.a. "Jenny Wakeman") from My Life as a Teenage Robot, and Bunnie Rabbot from Sonic the Hedgehog.
 * This is the first episode since TransBOREmores / Star Wars: the Groan Wars where the MAD News segment interrupts another sketch, with a timeline of events, and since FROST / Undercover Claus with a shown (in the episode) 5-Second Cartoon.
 * 14th Stop Motion Spy vs. Spy segment.

Voices

 * Hugh Davidson - Ewan McGregor, Rock Star, Egyptian and Bartender
 * Larry Dorf - Bank Robber and Horse
 * Will Friedle - Owen Lars
 * Melinda Hamilton - Edna the Kangaroo
 * Jim Meskimen - Harry Potter
 * Rachel Ramras - Miley Cyrus and Margaret Thatcher
 * Kevin Shinick - The Iron Giant, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Bank Robber, Egyptian and the MAD News anchor
 * Tara Strong - Beru Lars