Pacific Ring / Horton Hears a Whodunnit! is the 19th episode of MAD Season 4, and the 97th 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[]
- MADvent Calendar - Been picking apples all month? Here are some MAD moments you may have missed:
- Monday, 8:00 AM: Recent father, Kanye West, names his fall tour, the "Anything to Avoid Changing Diapers" Tour.
- Friday, 3:00 PM: NASA joins social media and posts amazing photos... of their pizza party.
- Monday, 7:00 PM: Simon Cowell celebrates his birthday by judging this!
- Opening Scene
- Pacific Ring (Movie Parody of Pacific Rim / TV Parody of WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment))
- Animated Marginals segment
- Dads: On Top of Things Since 2004 (Animated by Mike Wartella)
- Travelociraptor (travel Parody of Travelocity / Movie Parody of Jurassic Park) (Ad Parodies segment)
- Dwarf Mix-Up (Movie Parody of the Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
- Snoring Strips (Cartoon)
- Little House Down (TV Parody of Little House on the Prairie / Movie Parody of White House Down) (Ad Parodies segment)
- Nurse of the Year (Cartoon)
- Spy vs. Spy - Black Spy's Dynamite Detonator (Spy vs. Spy segment) (Stop-motion Cartoon)
- Animated Marginals segment
- Two Birds with One Stone (Spoof on Emma Stone / Video Game Parody of Angry Birds)
- Horton Hears a Whodunnit! (Book/Movie Parody of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! / TV Parody of ABC's Whodunnit?)
- Credits
- 5-second Cartoon - (from Dwarf Mix-Up) (5-second Cartoon segment)
Gallery[]
- Main article: Pacific Ring / Horton Hears a Whodunnit!/Gallery
Transcript[]
- Main article: Pacific Ring / Horton Hears a Whodunnit! (Transcript)
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 - John Cena, Bilbo
- Will Friedle - CM Punk
- Jim Meskimen - Gandalf the Grey
- Jason Nash - Horton the Elephant
- Rachel Ramras - Witch
- Kevin Michael Richardson - Stacker Pentecost
- Meredith Salenger - Emma Stone
- Kevin Shinick - The MADvent Calendar Announcer
- Stephen Stanton - Will Smith