Michael M. Wartella is an animator that does many of the short cartoon segments.
Season 1[]
Avaturd / CSiCarly[]
TransBOREmores / Star Wars: the Groan Wars[]
- Inflate-a-clown at a Water Fountain
- Doggie Air
- Jargle Germ Audition
- Spacenook
- Batman Sleeps In (Spoof on Batman)
2012 Dalmatians / Grey's in Anime[]
- Gingerbread serial killer
- SLASHERair
- Astronaut Brawl!
- Robot Dad gets oil again
- Bob "fixes" a sandwich
Star Blecch / uGlee[]
WALL·E·NATOR / Extreme Renovation: House Edition[]
Pirates of the Neverland: At Wit's End / Batman Family Feud []
- Pirates of the Neverland: At Wit's End (Spacenook Aliens)
- Toys "4" Brats (Ad Parodies segment)
- Dog-O-Phone
- Larry puts away human parts
Cliffordfield / Big Time Rushmore[]
Fantastic Megan Fox / MAD vs. Wild[]
I Love You, Iron Man / Ben 10 Franklin[]
Class of the Titans / Zeke and Lex Luthor[]
S'UP / Mouse M.D.[]
- Crocodile Shoes
- Bad Idea #267: Strobe Lighthouse (Bad Idea segment)
Da Grinchy Code / Duck[]
Snott Pilgrim vs. the Wonderful World of Disney / Malcolm in the Middle Earth[]
Pokémon Park / WWER[]
- Slop N' Shop (Ad Parodies segment)
- Tightrope sleep walking
So You Think You Can Train Your Dragon How to Dance / Yo Gagga Gagga![]
The Straight A-Team / Gaming's Next Top Princess[]
The Buzz Identity / Two and a Half Man[]
- Mousetrap Emergency Meeting
- Thor Plays Bop-A-Rodent (Spoof on Thor / Parody of Whack-A-Mole)
Are You Karate Kidding Me? / The Fresh Prawn of Bel-Air[]
HOPS / Naru210[]
Ko-Bee Movie / Law & Ogre[]
Pooh Grit / Not a Fan a Montana[]
The Social Netjerk / Smallville: Turn Off the Clark[]
- Silver Rejects the Lone Ranger (TV Parody of the Lone Ranger)
- Snakes play Sssscraddle
TwiGH School Musical / Avenger Time[]
ArTHOR / The Big Fang Theory[]
Ribbitless / The Clawfice[]
Force Code / Flammable[]
Season 2[]
RiOa / Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine[]
Super 80's / Captain America's Got Talent[]
- Mr. Peanut dances but gets eaten (Mascot Parody of Mr. Peanut)
- Tiny man windshield wipers
Kung Fu Blander / Destroy Bob the Builder Destroy[]
Pirates of the Pair of Tweens / Konan the Kardashian[]
Fast Hive / Minute to Flynn It[]
Cowboys & Alien Force / ThunderLOLcats[]
TransBOREmores 3: Dark of the Blue Moon / The Walking Fred[]
- Christopher Coolumbus (Spoof on Christopher Columbus)
- Lava Floor
X Games: First Class / Criminal Minecraft[]
Kitchen Nightmares Before Christmas / How I Met Your Mummy[]
Dances with Wolverine: A Footloose Parody / Tater Tots & Tiaras[]
- Human Torch tries to start the grill (Spoof on Human Torch from the Fantastic Four)
- Toy Car Crash
Moneyball Z / Green Care Bear[]
Spy vs. Spy Kids / The Superhero Millionaire Matchmaker[]
Captain American't / My Supernatural Sweet 16[]
- Stork has napkins that aren't wrinkled
- The Tin Man steals the heart (Spoof on the Tin Man from MGM's the Wizard of Oz)
FROST / Undercover Claus[]
- Time Machines are not toys - ACT 1
- Time Machines are not toys - ACT 2
Twilight: Staking Dawn / Cookie Blue[]
- Bad Idea #317: Black Hole Bungee Jumping (Bad Idea segment)
- Bad Idea #827: Strawberry Scented Sleeping Bags (Bad Idea segment)
WWe Bought a ZOO / 2 Broke Powerpuff Girls[]
DolPhineas and Ferb Tale / VICTORious[]
My Little War Horse / The Tonight Show with Jay Lion-O[]
- People and Dog Doors
- Lover Couple gets shot by Shooting Star (Restaurant Parody of Carl's Jr.)
Al Pacino and the Chipmunks / That's What Super Friends Are For[]
Real Veal / Celebrity Wife Swamp[]
- What Makes Mexican Jumping Beans Jump
- Push Your Luck (Game Show Parody of Press Your Luck)
Garfield of Dreams / I Hate My Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles[]
The Adventures of TaunTaun / Everybody Loves Rayman[]
Potions 11 / Moves Like Jabba[]
- Evil Medieval gets stopped by crossing bridge (Spoof on Evel Knievel)
- McSpidee's (Restaurant Parody of McDonald's and Hardee's / Bug Parody of a Spider)
Addition Impossible / New Gill[]
- Woman saves herself on the train tracks
- Bad Idea #211: Tug-o-Worm (Bad Idea segment)
iChronicle / Hulk Smash[]
- "Superman is Awesome" Monument (Spoof on Superman)
- Computer Crash
Season 3[]
The Iron Giant Lady / Raising a New Hope[]
Yawn Carter / Franklin & Crash[]
Battleship vs. Titanic / Jurassic Parks and Recreation[]
- Bad Idea #7: Gastronaut (Bad Idea segment)
- Anamorphic Food Fight
Betty White & the Huntsman / Ancient Greek MythBusters[]
I Am Lorax / Modern Family Circus[]
- Obi-Wan Kenobi Shows Darth Maul His Spork (Spoof on Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Maul from Star Wars)
- And That's How Science Works!
This Means War Machine / iCharlie[]
The Mixed Martial Artist / Aquaman vs. Wild[]
The Blunder Games / The Poop-seidon Adventure[]
Average-ers / Legend of Dora[]
- Bank Robin
- The Perfect Solution for Dry Skin (Parody of the Ark of the Covenant from Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Men in Black to the Future / Pokémon of Interest[]
- Follow Your Nose (Mascot Parody of Toucan Sam from Kellogg's Froot Loops)
- Dinner Time for the Bears
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Icarus / Adjustment Burro[]
Taking Nemo / Once Upon a Toon[]
Outtagascar / F·I·E·N·D·S[]
The Amazing Spider-Minaj / Go, Dragon Ball, Go![]
FrankenWinnie / ParaMorgan[]
- Wizard of Oz Zombies Try to Eat the Scarecrow's Brain (Spoof on MGM's the Wizard of Oz)
- Rabbit's Face Melting Nightmare
Dark Knight at the Museum / Lemming Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Video Game Deaths[]
Total Recall Me Baby / The Asgardigans[]
The Bourne Leg-a-Turkey / PilGrimm[]
- History, It's All Hazy Anyway!
- Bad Idea #24: Turkey Gumstick (Bad Idea segment)
Here Comes the Doom / Brain Purge[]
- Pied Piper's Wrong Pipe
- Bad Idea #445: The Girafft (Bad Idea segment)
Fantastic Four Christmases / Red & White Collar[]
Hip Hop Hobbit / The Monday Project[]
The Perks of Being a Wallcrawler / Regular Shogun Warriors[]
Twilight: Breaking Down / GOllum ON[]
Life of Rhyme / Here Comes Yogi Boo Boo[]
Reply All / Randy Savage: 9th Grade Wrestler[]
George Washington: Cherry Tree Chopper / Star Wars Earned Stripes[]
Season 4[]
Linkong / Rainbow Dash & Bernstein[]
- Fortune Yeller (Spoof on a Fortune Teller)
Pokémonsters, Inc. / Bane & Kate[]
Wreck It Gandalph / The Big Bird Theory[]
Les the Miz / The Lex Factor[]
Papa / 1600 Finn[]
G.I. E.I. Joe / Dog with a Captain's Log[]
"S" Cape from Planet Earth / The X-Mentalist[]
- Feeding the Ducks - Parts 1, 2, and 3
- Feeding the Ducks - Part 4 (5-second Cartoon segment)
POblivion / Umbrellamentary[]
Jaws the Great and Powerful / Old Spock's Off Their Spockers[]
- Golf! If Only It Were Like That
- Owls: Don't Be Fooled by their Wisdom (Candy Parody of Tootsie Pop)
Jacks the Giant Slayers / The Most Beautiful Voice[]
The Great Batsby / Big Time Gold Rush[]
First White House Down / McDuck Dynasty[]
After Bert / Downton Shaggy[]
Lone Rango / Doctor Who's Line is it Anyway?[]
Iron Bland 3 / Monsters Community[]
Star Blecch Into Dumbness / Stark Tank[]
The Flash & the Furious / Saved by Adele[]
Lukewarm Bodies / Does Someone Have to GOa?[]
Pacific Ring / Horton Hears a Whodunnit![]
World War ZZZ / SHAZAM! & Cat[]
Doraline / Monster Mashville[]
MAD's 100th Episode Special[]
Dullverine / Under the Dumb[]
Still Hungry Games / Agents of S.M.U.R.F.[]
Alfred's Game / We Are X-Men[]
Irregular Sketches[]
- Hamburglar Jaywalks (Spoof on Hamburglar from McDonaldland)
- Bad Idea #882: Lip Bomb (Spoof on Lip Balm) (Bad Idea segment)
- Magic Baby
Trivia[]
- Mike Wartella's website has a page listing some of his work for the show.
- Mike Wartella segments are usually right after the first Animated Marginals and right before the second longer sketch.
- Episode 37 is the only episode of MAD that did not have an Mike Wartella segment or two.
- Episode 2 and Episode 3 were both tied for most Mike Wartella segments with a count of five segments in each.
- There are only five episodes of MAD that had three Mike Wartella segments:
- Avaturd / CSiCarly
- Pirates of the Neverland: At Wit's End
- Fantastic Megan Fox / MAD vs. Wild
- Class of the Titans / Zeke and Lex Luthor
- "S" Cape from Planet Earth / The X-Mentalist
- There are only nine episodes of MAD that had their Mike Wartella segments as 5-second Cartoon segments:
- The Social Netjerk / Smallville: Turn Off the Clark
- TwiGH School Musical / Avenger Time
- TransBOREmores 3: Dark of the Blue Moon / The Walking Fred
- Outtagascar / F·I·E·N·D·S
- Linkong / Rainbow Dash & Bernstein
- Les the Miz / The Lex Factor
- "S" Cape from Planet Earth / The X-Mentalist
- After Bert / Downton Shaggy
- Alfred's Game / We Are X-Men
- There are only nine Mike Wartella segments that were Bad Idea segments:
- Bad Idea #267: Strobe Lighthouse
- Bad Idea #317: Black Hole Bungee Jumping
- Bad Idea #827: Strawberry Scented Sleeping Bags
- Bad Idea #894: Launch Box
- Bad Idea #19: Bear Room Dancing
- Bad Idea #211: Tug-o-Worm
- Bad Idea #7: Gastronaut
- Bad Idea #24: Turkey Gumstick
- Bad Idea #445: The Girafft
- Here are the episodes of MAD that had only one Mike Wartella segment:
- Star Blecch / uGlee
- Cliffordfield / Big Time Rushmore
- The Straight A-Team / Gaming's Next Top Princess
- HOPS / Naru210
- Outtagascar / F·I·E·N·D·S
- Fantastic Four Christmases / Red & White Collar
- Hip Hop Hobbit / The Monday Project
- Life of Rhyme / Here Comes Yogi Boo Boo
- Linkong / Rainbow Dash & Bernstein
- Wreck It Gandalph / The Big Bird Theory
- Papa / 1600 Finn
- Jacks the Giant Slayers / The Most Beautiful Voice
- After Bert / Downton Shaggy
- Iron Bland 3 / Monsters Community
- The Flash & the Furious / Saved by Adele
- Pacific Ring / Horton Hears a Whodunnit!
- World War ZZZ / SHAZAM! & Cat
- Doraline / Monster Mashville
- Still Hungry Games / Agents of S.M.U.R.F.
- Alfred's Game / We Are X-Men
- (Note: There are 20 episodes of MAD that had only one Mike Wartella segment. Yep, count 'em, 20!)
- Here are the episodes of MAD that each had two Mike Wartella segments:
- WALL·E·NATOR / Extreme Renovation: House Edition
- I Love You, Iron Man / Ben 10 Franklin
- S'UP / Mouse M.D.
- Da Grinchy Code / Duck
- Snott Pilgrim vs. the Wonderful World of Disney / Malcolm in the Middle Earth
- Pokémon Park / WWER
- So You Think You Can Train Your Dragon How to Dance / Yo Gagga Gagga!
- The Buzz Identity / Two and a Half Man
- Are You Karate Kidding Me? / The Fresh Prawn of Bel-Air
- Ko-Bee Movie / Law & Ogre
- Pooh Grit / Not a Fan a Montana
- The Social Netjerk / Smallville: Turn Off the Clark
- TwiGH School Musical / Avenger Time
- ArTHOR / The Big Fang Theory
- Ribbitless / The Clawfice
- Force Code / Flammable
- RiOa / Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine
- Super 80's / Captain America's Got Talent
- Kung Fu Blander / Destroy Bob the Builder Destroy
- Pirates of the Pair of Tweens / Konan the Kardashian
- Fast Hive / Minute to Flynn It
- Cowboys & Alien Force / ThunderLOLcats
- TransBOREmores 3: Dark of the Blue Moon / The Walking Fred
- X-Games: First Class / Criminal Minecraft
- Kitchen Nightmares Before Christmas / How I Met Your Mummy
- Dances with Wolverine: A Footloose Parody / Tater Tots & Tiaras
- Moneyball Z / Green Care Bear
- Spy vs. Spy Kids / The Superhero Millionaire Matchmaker
- Captain American't / My Supernatural Sweet 16
- FROST / Undercover Claus
- Twilight: Staking Dawn / Cookie Blue
- WWe Bought a ZOO / 2 Broke Powerpuff Girls
- DolPhineas and Ferb Tale / VICTORious
- My Little War Horse / The Tonight Show with Jay Lion-O
- Al Pacino and the Chipmunks / That's What Super Friends Are For
- Real Veal / Celebrity Wife Swamp
- Garfield of Dreams / I Hate My Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- The Adventures of TaunTaun / Everybody Loves Rayman
- Potions 11 / Moves Like Jabba
- Addition Impossible / New Gill
- iChronicle / Hulk Smash
- The Iron Giant Lady / Raising a New Hope
- Yawn Carter / Franklin & Crash
- Battleship vs. Titanic / Jurassic Parks and Recreation
- Betty White & the Huntsman / Ancient Greek MythBusters
- I Am Lorax / Modern Family Circus
- This Means War Machine / iCharlie
- The Mixed Martial Artist / Aquaman vs. Wild
- The Blunder Games / The Poop-seidon Adventure
- Average-ers / Legend of Dora
- Men in Black to the Future / Pokémon of Interest
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid Icarus / Adjustment Burro
- Taking Nemo / Once Upon a Toon
- The Amazing Spider-Minaj / Go, Dragon Ball, Go!
- FrankenWinnie / ParaMorgan
- Dark Knight at the Museum / Lemming Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Video Game Deaths
- Total Recall Me Baby / The Asgardigans
- The Bourne Leg-a-Turkey / PilGrimm
- Here Comes the Doom / Brain Purge
- The Perks of Being a Wallcrawler / Regular Shogun Warriors
- Twilight: Breaking Down / GOllum ON
- James Bond: Reply All / Randy Savage: 9th Grade Wrestler
- George Washington: Cherry Tree Chopper / Star Wars Earned Stripes
- Pokémonsters, Inc. / Bane & Kate
- Les the Miz / The Lex Factor
- G.I. E.I. Joe / Dog with a Captain's Log
- POblivion / Umbrellamentary
- Jaws the Great and Powerful / Old Spock's Off Their Spockers
- The Great Batsby / Big Time Gold Rush
- First White House Down / McDuck Dynasty
- Lone Rango / Doctor Who's Line is it Anyway?
- Star Blecch Into Darkness / Stark Tank
- Lukewarm Bodies / Does Someone Have to GOa?
- MAD's 100th Episode Special
- Dullverine / Under the Dumb
- (Note: There are 75 episodes of MAD that each had two Mike Wartella segments.)
- There were two Mike Wartella segments that were leaked into the Dream Factory Animation website , but both were deleted segments and didn't make it to any MAD episode or season. One was called "Hamburglar Jaywalks", the other one was "Bad Idea #882: Lip Bomb".