Spy vs. Spy

White Spy and Black Spy

Spy vs. Spy is a segment about Black Spy and White Spy battling against each other, with the spy who starts the conflict usually losing because of the other spy's counter plan or Grey Spy's plans. It is based on the monthly comic strip feature in MAD Magazine bearing the same name as the show.

List of segment appearances

Season 1

• (Episode 1) - White Spy finds Black Spy guarding a toll gate atop the branch of a tree, with a bomb beside him. He climbs the tree, secretly places a lid over the bomb, climbs back down, and drives through the toll gate in an army tank. An enraged Black Spy attempts to drop the bomb on him, but grabs the lid that White Spy placed atop the bomb, and drops it on White Spy's head, leaving him unharmed, and leaving Black Spy to be blown up by the bomb.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #124, and the first segment to be adapted from an Antonio Prohias-penned Spy vs. Spy strip; this strip also was previously adapted for MADtv; this segment marks White Spy's first victory.

• (Episode 2) - Black Spy places what appears to be a large stick of dynamite behind a bench that White Spy is sitting on. Black Spy lights the fuse and runs behind a nearby bush. White Spy notices the explosive and snips off the lit tip of the fuse, but finds that the fuse is really the tail of a lion that was hiding inside the "dynamite stick". White Spy is then mauled by the creature as revenge for cutting off the tip of its tail.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #160; this segment marks Black Spy's first victory.)

• (Episode 3) - White Spy sneaks microbombs into Black Spy's gloves. While White Spy plays his tuba, Black Spy puts his fingers in his ears to block out the sound, setting the bombs off.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #152; this strip was also previously adapted for MADtv.)

• (Episode 4) - Black Spy infiltrates White Spy's submarine and opens a safe inside, but it turns out there is no safe at all, only a hole in the side of the submarine. Water fills the submarine and begins to sink, taking Black Spy along with it.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #284; this is the first segment adapted from a Duck Edwing/Bob Clarke/Dave Manak-penned Spy vs. Spy strip; additionally, White Spy makes a cameo in uGlee.)

• (Episode 5) Black Spy launches a torpedo at White Spy's boat. White Spy tries to foil his nemesis by activating a spring-loaded mechanism in his boat that splits it into two halves, but the torpedo has the exact same mechanism and splits in half, too. White Spy screams in terror as the two torpedo halves collide with the two halves of his boat and blow him up.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #242; this strip was also previously adapted for MADtv; additionally, the spies also make a cameo in WALL·E·NATOR.)

• (Episode 6) - Black Spy carries a bundle of dynamite over to White Spy's HQ, in an attempt to blow up his adversary. He lights the fuse, but as soon as he rings the building's doorbell, a spring-loaded floor piece beneath him, as well as a spring-loaded manhole cover behind him, spring out and squash him flat between the two of them. White Spy then exits the building, takes the dynamite, and rolls up Black Spy with it. He leaves it to detonate outside and chuckles as his opponent is obliterated by the explosion.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #283.)

• (Episode 7) - White Spy is flying in his helicopter and spots Black Spy riding on an elephant. White Spy attempts to shoot at them, but the bullets bounce off the elephant, which Black Spy reveals to be a tank when he fires a missile from the "trunk" that sends White Spy and his helicopter crashing to the ground.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #286.)

• (Episode 8) - White Spy gets himself a cannon hat to destroy Black Spy, but it backfires when Black Spy uses a bow and shoots an arrow with a large cork-shaped tip to back up the cannon.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #306.)

• (Episode 9) - Prison guard Black Spy puts a file in a cake and sends it to an imprisoned White Spy, pretending that it was sent to him from his mother. White Spy finds the file within the cake and files off the window bars in his cell. He crawls out of his cell, but it turns out to be a trap, and White Spy is crushed by the spring-loaded walls on the sides of the opening.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #166; this strip also was previously adapted for MADtv.)

• (Episode 10) - Black Spy uses a wrecking crane to destroy White Spy's HQ, but it backfires when White Spy uses a baseball bat built into his car and knocks the wrecking ball back at him. The ball wraps around the crane and smashes the cockpit.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #287.)

• (Episode 11) - Black Spy is driving a tank and sees White Spy in a jail cell. He drives up to the cell and prepares to blast his adversary, but the bars turn out to be a multi-barreled machine gun, as White Spy aims it and riddles both Black Spy and his tank with shots.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #122.)

• (Episode 12) - White Spy snoops around Black Spy's secret airfield to survey his new jet - with devastating consequences. The jet has a rotating lawnmower blade in the back, which shreds White Spy to smithereens when Black Spy takes it for a spin.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #287.)

• (Episode 13) - White Spy is shooting some hoops outside his HQ, but Black Spy interrupts his fun by swiping his basketball and making a slam dunk. White Spy then presses a button on a remote, which reveals that the hoop is actually a rocket, which latches onto Black Spy, fires into the air, and explodes.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #320; this strip also was previously adapted for MADtv.)

• (Episode 14) - Black Spy chases White Spy in his car, and fires a rocket at White Spy's car. White Spy fights back by raising the car off its wheels, revealing an elastic sheet tied to the poles that join the car to the wheels, which is used to spring the rocket back to Black Spy's car and blow it up.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #273.

• (Episode 15) - Strolling through the park, Black Spy spots White Spy's hat peering out from behind a rock. He runs behind a tree and breaks off one of the branches; he then puts his own hat on the tip of the branch to use as a decoy to try and lure out his nemesis so he can shoot him. But White Spy is one step ahead, as he left his hat on the rock as his own decoy - and he's been hiding inside the tree all this time; he pops out from the hole where the branch was broken off, and clobbers Black Spy over the head with a club.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #193.)

• (Episode 16) - Black Spy spots White Spy in the desert, and sneaks up behind him with a club. However, he falls into a pit disguised as White Spy's shadow, and White Spy buries Black Spy in the sand.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #308; this strip also was previously adapted for MADtv; additionally, Black Spy makes a cameo in Celebrities Without Their Makeup.)

• (Episode 17) - White Spy attempts to pogo stick his way into Black Spy's top secret base, but as soon as he bounces through the window, he finds out too late that Black Spy has installed a spiked ceiling, as he bounces right up into it and is skewered.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #124; this strip also was previously adapted for MADtv, where, unlike the original strip, the roles are reversed with Black Spy as the perpetrator/victim and White Spy as the victor.)

• (Episode 18) - White Spy drives up to a bridge between two cliffsides, only for Black Spy to show up in a turret shaped like a nail, which he uses to blow up the bridge. White Spy responds by raising the body of his car high up on a tall piston, converting it into a giant hammer, which then swings down and pounds Black Spy and his turret repeatedly.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #345.)

• (Episode 19) - Black Spy shoots down White Spy's airplane from his boat and heads to the crash site: a desert island. However, he finds only an inflatable White Spy on the island. The real White Spy is in a rowboat next to the island and points out that the palm tree on the island is a lit fuse, therefore the island is a giant bomb, which blows Black Spy up.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #436; this is the first segment to be adapted from a Peter Kuper-penned Spy vs. Spy strip.)

• (Episode 20) - Black Spy finds White Spy at a shed in a building site for his makeshift factory, and notices multiple wrecking cranes in a row next to the shed Black Spy uses a nearby boulder to start a domino effect with the wrecking balls, which essentially become a Newton's cradle as the final wrecking ball crushes White Spy inside the shed.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #304; this is also the first time that the plotting snicker was used as a victory chuckle.)

• (Episode 21) - White Spy infiltrates Black Spy's observatory, and looks through the telescope inside. The "telescope" is actually a cannon, which Black Spy uses to blast White Spy from outside.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #339.)

• (Episode 22) - White Spy is skiing on a mountaintop, and just as he jumps a ramp into midair, Black Spy attempts to attack him in his helicopter. White Spy reveals that his skis are missiles, and launches them at Black Spy's helicopter. White Spy also activates propellers built inside his ski poles to keep him suspended in the air as his opponent blows up.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #341.)

• (Episode 23) - White Spy is asleep on a hammock, and Black Spy decides to disturb his slumber by shooting down his hammock from a helicopter. White Spy grabs a plunger, a hacksaw, a bow, and a piece of string. He uses the string to tie the hacksaw to the plunger, then fires the two objects at Black Spy's helicopter with the bow. The plunger adheres to one of the helicopter's rotors, and as the rotors spin, the attached hacksaw slices off the helicopter's tail, sending it plummeting to the ground.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #221.)

• (Episode 24) - White Spy's attempt to hit Black Spy with a rock flung by a slingshot backfires when Black Spy has a slingshot hidden in his hat that flings the rock backward into White Spy's face.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #225; additionally, MAD Kids also adapted the same strip for Spy vs. Spy spin-off, Spy vs. Spy Jr.)

• (Episode 25) - Late at night, White Spy places a top-secret file in a large mousetrap, and goes to sleep in a small house next to the mousetrap. In an attempt to steal it, Black Spy sets off the mousetrap with a twig, and just as he grabs the file, White Spy pushes the wall of the house facing Black Spy down, crushing his adversary.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #141; this strip also was previously adapted for the MAD Magazine TV Special.)

• (Episode 26) - White Spy ties up Black Spy and puts him in a canoe headed straight for a waterfall. Black Spy manages to escape his bonds and grabs a tree branch nearby to avoid his fate, but the tree turns out to be on wheels, and Black Spy plummets to the bottom of the waterfall.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #157; additionally, this is the first segment to feature more than one victory chuckle. there were two victory chuckles in a row, and marks the first time White Spy wins in a season finale.)

Season 2

• (Episode 27) - While walking across a bridge, Black Spy spots a balloon that looks like White Spy anchored to the bridge. A frustrated Black Spy grabs a nearby slingshot and uses it to fling a rock at the balloon and pop it. Unfortunately, Black Spy notices too late that the balloon turns out to be what's holding the bridge up. From a ledge underneath where the bridge was, White Spy watches with glee as Black Spy plummets to the ground.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #90; additionally, the e spies also made a cameo in MAD News.)

• (Episode 28) - White Spy steals Black Spy's briefcase, but when White Spy opens he finds it doesn't contain anything top-secret, but contains pieces of a picture puzzle. White Spy assembles it and finds that the picture it forms is a target. Black Spy flies by in an airplane and drops a bomb on the picture puzzle, blasting White Spy as well.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #77, where it was originally a Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy strip - this is the only segment to be adapted from Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy; this is also the first segment to be animated in stop-motion by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios; additionally, Black Spy makes a cameo in Captain America's Got Talent.)

• (Episode 29) - Black Spy tries to drop a bomb on White Spy from a rooftop, but White Spy reveals a hidden spring under his hat to bounce it back up to his nemesis, where it explodes. Black Spy then seemingly admits defeat as he waves a white flag, but as he seemingly surrenders himself to his nemesis, it turns out that the "flag" is really an axe, which he uses to chop White Spy in half.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #362; additionally, the spies also make a cameo in Kung Fu Blander.)

• (Episode 30) - From behind a tree, Black Spy spots White Spy capturing a radio transmission, and digs a hole under White Spy. He puts a bomb underneath, but White Spy is one step ahead; it turns out his transmission equipment is connected to a large board on the ground, as is the tree, which is a fake. He drags the board (and everything on it) a safe distance away, just so that the fake tree is directly above the bomb. Black Spy waits behind the "tree" for the explosion, but he gets blasted instead.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #69; this is also the second segment animated in stop-motion by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.)

• (Episode 31) - Black Spy places a lit stick of dynamite in a sleeping White Spy's house window. White Spy discovers the stick through his mirror and puts it out with water from a nearby vase. As soon as White Spy goes back to sleep, Black Spy removes the glass from the mirror, places it in the window frame, and places a bomb in the mirror frame. White Spy then notices the bomb and pours water on the bomb's reflection in the mirror. White Spy soon notices Black Spy's trick, but notices it too late and is blown up alongside his house.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #143.)

• (Episode 32) - White Spy and Black Spy are facing off in a boxing match. Black Spy secretly puts a horseshoe in his glove to punch out White Spy easily. In the match, Black Spy throws a hard punch at White Spy's face, but breaks his hand on impact. White Spy reveals he is wearing a mask of his own face, and underneath is a knight's helmet.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #102; also the third segment to be animated in stop-motion by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.)

• (Episode 33) - White Spy spots Black Spy going fishing and attaches a bomb to his fishing line from underwater, but Black Spy's fishing line is attached to the door of a shark cage. Black Spy reels in his line, opening the cage door. releasing the shark inside. The shark then attacks White Spy. Black Spy then cuts the fishing line attached to the bomb, dropping it into the water, leaving White Spy and the shark to get blown up.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #278 - here, the roles are reversed, as Black Spy was the perpetrator/victim and White Spy the victor in the original strip; this is also the fourth segment to be animated in stop-motion by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.)

• (Episode 34) - Intruding on White Spy's hangar, Black Spy knocks out his nemesis by clapping two ping-pong paddles against his head, then attempts to steal his plane, but when White Spy regains consciousness, he presses a button on his remote, causing the the wings to flip upward and clap together, smashing Black Spy.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #453.)

• (Episode 35) - On Halloween, White Spy tries to infiltrate Black Spy's costume party by dressing up in a Black Spy costume. He looks at himself in the mirror to find he looks exactly like his adversary. He strikes a pose while holding a gun for added fun, but notices that his reflection in the mirror did not put his gun away when he did. The "reflection" was actually Black Spy in a mirror costume, who shoots White Spy.
  • (Note: This is the first segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, being a series original.)

• (Episode 36) - Black Spy sees White Spy training an attack dog to attack his nemesis on sight. White Spy then takes the dog over to Black Spy's HQ. On the roof of the building, Black Spy pours a bucket of black paint on White Spy, making him look like Black Spy. The dog walks outside the building, spots the paint-coated White Spy, and attacks him as Black Spy claims his victory.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #279; this is also the fifth segment to be animated in stop-motion by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.)

• (Episode 37) - White Spy is on a street corner playing a music box, accompanied by his pet monkey, who is holding a cup for donations. Black Spy comes by and pours mini-bombs into the monkey's cup as if it were change. The monkey puts the bombs in the music box, which turns out to be a crank-operated gatling gun, which White Spy uses to blast his nemesis. The monkey gives the victory chuckle.
  • (Note: This is the second segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, being a series original; additionally, this is the first segment to utilize an additional music track alongside the traditional theme music.)

• (Episode 38) - An imprisoned White Spy receives a cake from his mother, delivered by prison guard Black Spy. It contains a nail file that White Spy slips underneath his cell to Black Spy. Also found in the cake is a picture of an open-cell window, which he pastes over the real cell window. Thinking White Spy filed off the window bars and escaped, Black Spy attempts to dive through the "open" window and gets knocked unconscious, allowing White Spy to escape prison successfully.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #136.)

• (Episode 39) - White Spy is working on a giant stone monument in his own likeness when Black Spy spots him from his helicopter. He flies up to the statue's nose and drops a bomb on it, but White Spy presses a button on his remote, revealing that the nose is actually a rocket, which launches at Black Spy's helicopter, blowing him up.
  • (Note: Adapted from the Spy vs. Spy sunday comic strips, making this the first segment to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip outside of MAD magazine; this is also the fifth segment to be animated in stop-motion by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios; additionally, the spies also make an appearance in Spy vs. Spy Kids along with Marissa Wilson as Grey Spy.)

• (Episode 40) - At the beach, Black Spy finds White Spy surfing a wave, and shoots at him from a tank, but unknown to Black Spy, White Spy's surfboard is really a torpedo in disguise; White Spy dives off the torpedo as the wave sends it right into Black Spy's tank, blowing him up.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #339; this is also the second segment to feature an additional music track alongside the traditional theme music, and the first segment to be animated in a lineless art style.

• (Episode 41) - While Black Spy trims his Christmas tree, White Spy arrives in a rocket-powered sleigh and drops a bomb down the chimney, destroying it. This proves to be White Spy's undoing, as Black Spy presses a button on a remote, revealing the tree to be a large missile, which seeks out White Spy and destroys him.
  • (Note: Adapted from the Spy vs. Spy Sunday comic strips, being the second segment adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip outside of MAD magazine; this is also the seventh segment to be animated in stop-motion by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, and also the first segment to be in color; additionally, Black Spy makes a cameo in Undercover Claus.)

• (Episode 42) - Black Spy manages to sneak into White Spy's HQ after evading a series of booby-traps, including a guillotine blade, lasers, and a flamethrower. However, when Black Spy looks into White Spy's top-secret safe, he discovers that it only contains a piece of paper that says "Look up". White Spy pops out from a hole in the ceiling, whereupon he blasts Black Spy with a shotgun.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #297.)

• (Episode 43) - White Spy, on skis, chases after Black Spy attempting to shoot him. Instead, Black Spy manages to convert one of his own skis into a bow using a piece of his clothing as the bowstring; he uses this makeshift bow to fire one of his ski poles as an arrow, impaling White Spy with it.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #327; this is also the eighth segment to be animated in stop-motion by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.)

• (Episode 44) - Black Spy wraps one end of a chain at the rear of a cannon and attaches the other end to a cannonball, which he loads into the cannon. White Spy, while unsure of his enemy's motives, decides to light the fuse and blast Black Spy. However, as Black Spy runs away, the chained cannonball launches forward, and because the other end of the chain is attached to the cannon's backside, the cannon flips backward and clobbers White Spy over the head.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #222.)

• (Episode 45) - While taking a walk at "Lookout Point", White Spy notices Black Spy, who is seemingly hanging on for dear life to the cliff's edge, then losing his grip. Assuming his nemesis has fallen to his doom, White Spy heads over for a look, but it turns out to be a trap, as Black Spy is on another nearby cliff below, on the opposite side of the canyon, with a stick holding up the edge of the cliff that White Spy is standing on. Black Spy removes the stick, and, with nothing to support it, the tip of the other cliff crumbles, sending White Spy falling to his doom, while Black Spy snatches his top-secret briefcase in the process.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #458; this is also the ninth segment to be animated in stop-motion by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.)

• (Episode 46) - White Spy plays tennis with Black Spy and secretly uses a bomb for the tennis ball. However, Black Spy manages to defeat White Spy by blowing him up with the "ball". Black Spy thinks he is victorious until White Spy presses a button on a remote, causing pieces of the tennis court floor to spring up and smash Black Spy.
  • (Note: Adapted from the Spy vs. Spy Sunday comic strips, making this the third segment to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip outside of MAD magazine; this is also the second segment to feature two victory chuckles, and the second to be animated in a lineless art style.)

• (Episode 47) - White Spy is having a picnic in a park, but Black Spy drives by him in his car and snatches his picnic basket. Black Spy drives up to the park's pay toll and while depositing money, the pay toll locks onto his arm. The booth is really a rocket, which launches Black Spy into the air and crashes down to the ground in an explosion. As a result of the force from the explosion, White Spy's apple flies back into his hand.
  • (Note: Adapted from the Spy vs. Spy Sunday comic strips, and the final segment with this distinction, also being the third segment to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy segment outside of MAD magazine; this is also the tenth segment to be animated in stop-motion by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios.)

• (Episode 48) - White Spy puts a swing on a tree costume he is wearing. Black Spy finds the swing, and begins to use it, but then gets smashed into a nearby brick wall after White Spy moves in front of the wall.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #89; this is also the third sketch to be animated in a lineless art style.)

• (Episode 49) - White Spy goes skiing, but Black Spy tries to ambush him with a machine gun while riding a gondola car down the mountain. White Spy makes a jump and uses his skis like scissors to cut the gondola cable, making Black Spy fall to his doom.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #327; this is also the eleventh segment to be animated in stop-motion by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, and the second segment to be in color.)

• (Episode 50) -  Late at night, White Spy walks up to Black Spy's house with a ladder and a smoke bomb. He climbs up the ladder to a sleeping Black Spy's bedroom window, throws the smoke bomb through the window, and upon hearing the blast, White Spy chuckles with glee. However, Black Spy pops out from his house's front door and places a detonator wired to some dynamite at the bottom of the ladder. Black Spy pops back inside as White Spy climbs down the ladder and ends up stepping on the detonator's plunger, resulting in him getting blown up. Black Spy then reveals that he used decoy feet to fool White Spy into thinking he was in his bed.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #143; this is also the fourth and final sketch to be animated in a lineless art style, as well as the final traditionally-animated segment overall, as going forward, all segments are animated in stop-motion by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios; this is also the second time the plotting snicker is used for the victory chuckle, plus the first time that the title card wasn't used; additionally, the spies also make a cameo in Parent Trainer.)

• (Episode 51) - Black Spy's attempt to drop a bomb on White Spy during his daily stroll backfires when White Spy reveals a spring underneath his hat that bounces the bomb back up to Black Spy and blows him up.
  • (Note: An abridged adaptation of the strip from Mad magazine issue #362, which was previously adapted in full in Episode 29; from this segment onward, all segments are animated in stop-motion by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios; additionally, MAD Kids adapted the same strip for Spy vs. Spy Jr.)

• (Episode 52) - White Spy sneaks into Black Spy's HQ attempting to rob his safe. White Spy manages to open the safe, but he sees is a rope tied to the inside of it. White Spy unties the knot, resulting in another safe, tied to the other end of the rope and hooked up to a pulley, falling from the ceiling and crushing him. Black Spy then reveals to the viewers that he was hidden inside a picture frame waiting for it to happen.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #469; this is also the third time the plotting snicker was used for the victory chuckle, and the first time Black Spy wins in a season finale.)

Season 3

• (Episode 53) - Black Spy sneaks into White Spy's HQ in an attempt to crack his safe and find top-secret plans, but the plans turn out to be for a bomb that turns out to be the safe itself, and Black Spy is blown up.
  • (Note: This is the third segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this is also the second time that the title card wasn't used; additionally, the spies make a cameo in MAD News.)

• (Episode 54) - Black Spy is flying his helicopter and spots White Spy on what appears to be a desert island, and begins to shoot at him. White Spy pulls a lever on the "island" which is really another helicopter, even bigger than Black Spy's, complete with a large cannon, which White Spy uses to blast his adversary.
  • (Note: Adapted from Spy vs. Spy: The Updated Files #7, making this the fifth and final segment to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip outside of MAD magazine.)

• (Episode 55) - White Spy goes bowling, but Black Spy secretly glues a bowling ball bomb to White Spy's hand. When White Spy throws the ball, however, the bomb flies straight at the pins, and takes White Spy with it. White Spy comes out the ball return right next to Black Spy, and both spies are blown up by the bomb, resulting in their first draw.
  • (Note: This is the first segment to end in a draw; additionally, this is the fourth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original.)

• (Episode 56) - Black Spy is envious of the attention that White Spy's hit movie is getting. Meanwhile, after the movie's grand premiere at a nearby cinema, White Spy exits the theater, where the press is waiting to take photos. As he struts down the red carpet, White Spy puts his hands in wet cement to make a handprint. Unfortunately, he gets stuck. Suddenly, Black Spy comes around the corner with a steamroller and squashes White Spy flat as a pancake.
  • (Note: This is the fifth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original. This is also the fourth segment to feature an additional music track alongside the traditional theme music.)

• (Episode 57) - Black Spy uses a giant, monstrous gorilla to lay waste to the city and abduct White Spy. In response, White Spy summons a giant robot ape to intimidate Black Spy, who seemingly surrenders. White Spy comnands his robot to offer a truce. But, as the robot ape reaches out for a handshake, Black Spy's gorilla reaches out with the hand that it is holding White Spy with, and the resulting handshake between the two giants crushes White Spy.
  • (Note: This is the sixth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; additionally, the spies also make a cameo in Modern Family Circus.)

• (Episode 58) - Black Spy spots White Spy building a snowman outside his house. As he finishes putting on the snowman's head, he goes inside to get a carrot for the nose. Meanwhile, Black Spy sneakily paints a bomb to look like the head of a snowman, then pushes off the head of White Spy's snowman to swap it out with the bomb. However, upon placing the bomb atop the snowman, he hears the distinct clank of metal! The outer layer of snow falls off the two other segments of the snowman, which, as it turns out, are really lit bombs that were merely covered in snow. Black Spy is blown up, and immediately after, White Spy exits the house, snacks on a carrot, and chuckles in victory.
  • (Note: This is the seventh segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original.)

• (Episode 59) - While Black Spy prepares for pole vaulting tryouts, White Spy sneaks a bomb underneath the base of the high bar. As Black Spy begins his vault, he sets off the bomb, which explodes and launches both him and his pole several feet into the air. However, he manages to reposition himself on the way down, and he impales White Spy through the chest with his pole when he lands.
  • (Note: This is the eighth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this is also the fifth time that an additional music track was used alongside the traditional theme music.)

• (Episode 60) - At the gymnasium, White Spy's treadmill jog is interrupted when Black Spy brings in an attack dog and ties the end of its leash to a support pole at the back of the room. The dog barks aggressively and gives chase, restrained by the leash, of course. Panicking, White Spy accelerates the speed of the treadmill to its maximum setting. Black Spy then unplugs the treadmill, and the sudden stop flings White Spy forward off the treadmill and smack into a rack of dumbbells on the other side of the room.
  • (Note: This is the ninth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; additionally, this was the first time a spy chuckles with teeth, and the spies also make a cameo in Alfred E. Neuman for President.)

• (Episode 61) - Black Spy, who is cosplaying as Captain America, exits a movie theater after a night of watching The Avengers, but also finds White Spy, who is cosplaying as Thor, exiting the theater as well. Recognizing his nemesis, White Spy chases down Black Spy attempting to smash him with his Mjolnir hammer. Cornered in an alley, Black Spy attempts to fight back by throwing his shield, but it misses White Spy and ricochets off of a high-voltage power switch. White Spy knocks down and disarms his adversary, then raises his hammer for the finishing blow, but before he can deliver it, his hammer conducts an electrical surge from the now-activated power switch, and he is electrocuted, leaving Black Spy victorious. Talk about a shock to the system!
  • (Note: This is the eleventh segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; additionally, this is the first segment to be based around pop culture, and the fourth segment to be in color, as White Spy is wearing a red cape.)

• (Episode 62) - As a Jedi, White Spy tries to steal the secret plans of the Sith Lord Black Spy. The two spies engage in a lightsaber duel; White Spy uses the Force to pull Black Spy's double-bladed lightsaber out of his hands and into his own. However, Black Spy pulls out a remote, and, with the push of a button, a third blade in his lightsaber, embedded in the side of the handle, ignites, impaling White Spy through the chest.
  • (Note: This is the twelfth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original. This is also the first segment where the traditional theme music is not used, the second segment to be themed around a pop culture reference, and the fifth segment to be in color, as White Spy and Black Spy's respective lightsabers glow blue and red, as well as the title card.)

• (Episode 63) - Black Spy finds out from the daily newspaper that he has been challenged by White Spy to a drag race. He accepts the challenge, but, unbeknownst to his nemesis, Black Spy's car is the DeLorean time machine from the Back to the Future film trilogy. The two spies race each other down the city streets, and, as Black Spy reaches a speed of 88 miles per hour, the flux capacitor in his DeLorean activates, and the car vanishes in a flash! The segment then cuts to White Spy reading the daily newspaper, where he is elated to see that the headline is celebrating his victory, reading "White Spy wins race!"; suddenly, to his shock, the headline text dissolves into an entirely different headline - "Black Spy alters history!"; Black Spy, now having changed the course of history to become a colossal Tyrannosaurus rex, stomps up to White Spy from behind, and devours him in one bite. That's one for the books!
  • (Note: This is the thirteenth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; additionally, this is the third segment to be based around a pop culture reference, the sixth time an additional music track is used alongside the traditional theme music, and the first time a Spy has won five consecutive times.)

• (Episode 64) - Black Spy breaks into White Spy's HQ to snatch White Spy's secret plans, but White Spy folds them into a paper airplane and tosses them out the window. Black Spy frantically chases after them, running from rooftop to rooftop, until a gun suddenly pokes out from beneath the airplane and shoots him down.
  • (Note: This is the fourteenth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; additionally, this is the seventh time an additional music track is used alongside the traditional theme music.)

• (Episode 65) - Driving an "Ultra Tank", Black Spy spots White Spy's weapons testing facility; outside the building is a cow grazing on grass. Black Spy drives his tank onto the property and fires his weapons, completely destroying the facility. He thinks he has won, but, to his surprise, the cow stands up on its hind legs and opens up its udder to reveal a minigun! Black Spy screams in terror and he and his tank are shot to smithereens. White Spy pops out of the cow disguise and gives the sign for victory.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #351; additionally, this is the eigth sketch to use an additional music track alongside the traditional theme music, and the third time that there were two victory chuckles in a row.)

• (Episode 66) - Today is White Spy's birthday, and he gets a birthday present in the mail from Black Spy, but considering that Black Spy is his nemesis, White Spy fears it may be a trap. So, he uses an X-ray screen to look in the box and sees that it's a birthday cake, complete with candles. White Spy lights the candles and waves to Black Spy, who is outside his window. Suddenly, Black Spy launches a heat-seeking missile, which locks onto the candles' flames and blows up White Spy.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #415; additionally, this is also the ninth segment to use an additional music track in addition to the traditional theme music.)

• (Episode 67) - Black Spy, dressed as a green-skinned witch, goes trick-or-treating on Halloween night, and makes a stop at the house of his adversary, White Spy, who is dressed as a robot. Recognizing his nemesis, White Spy decides to give Black Spy a trick rather than a treat; he grabs a stick of dynamite and lights it, but as he reaches into Black Spy's back to drop it in, he hears a loud snap; he finds out - the hard way - that Black Spy has hidden a bear trap inside of his bag! Consequently, the stick of dynamite gets stuck to White Spy's hand, and there is nothing he can do but helplessly run around in panic before he is blown to smithereens. Black Spy has gotten the best Halloween treat of all - victory!
  • (Note: This is the fifteenth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this is also the sixth segment to be in color, and the tenth segment to use an additional music track alongside the traditional theme music.)

• (Episode 68) - Astronaut White Spy is in outer space surveying an asteroid field, but he's not alone, because Black Spy has hitched a ride on his shuttle. He disconnects White Spy's airline from the shuttle, thinking White Spy will run out of air. But instead, the shuttle itself runs out of air, spins out of control, smashes into an asteroid, and explodes, with Black Spy on board. White Spy connects an oxygen tank to his suit and chuckles in victory.
  • (Note: This is the sixteenth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; notably, an echo effect is applied to the theme music in this segment)

• (Episode 69) - Sitting in his office at his headquarters, Black Spy is visited by an uninvited guest - White Spy - who draws a revolver and shoots him, causing him to fall backwards out of the open window behind him. Segueing into a parody of the Mad Men opening title sequence, Black Spy free-falls towards the ground, as White Spy races down the floors of the building via an elevator and staircases to lean out of other windows and continue firing shots at him, all of which seem to miss. Eventually, White Spy reaches the ground floor and steps outside, but his nemesis is nowhere in sight. Suddenly, he looks up, and Black Spy lands on him, breaking his fall and knocking his adversary out cold; Black Spy gives the victory sign. Looks like White Spy "fell" for this one!
  • (Note: This is the seventeenth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this is also the fourth segment to be based around a pop culture reference and the second segment where the traditional theme music isn't used; stills from several MAD sketches from past episodes line the the building's windows and appear in Black Spy's visions, consequently making this the seventh sketch to be in color; additionally, the spies also make a cameo in Total Recall Me Baby.)

• (Episode 70) - Black Spy, as a Pilgrim, has reached land aboard his ship, the Spyflower (a parody of the Mayflower), and sets out to explore. White Spy, as a Native American chief, leaps out from the surrounding foliage and tosses a tomahawk at Black Spy, but it misses… or does it? Before Black Spy can strike back, the tomahawk cuts a rope tied to the tree behind him, which is holding up a large boulder inscribed with the words "Plymouth Rock"; the rock drops and Black Spy is crushed beneath it. White Spy gives the victory chuckle and chows down on a turkey leg - thankful to have triumphed!
  • (Note: This is the eighteenth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this is also the eleventh segment to use an additional music track alongside the traditional theme music.)

• (Episode 71) - White Spy and Black Spy exit a movie theater after seeing Spider-Man. Suddenly, both spies, inspired by the film, get the same idea to invent their own web-slinging technology. After some time is spent constructing their new web-slinging gloves, the two spies confront one another in an alley for a standoff. Black Spy uses his glove to sling a web that pins White Spy to the wall behind him. White Spy responds by activating his glove, which instead slings out an extending mechanism ending in a giant boot that stomps Black Spy flat.
  • (Note: This is the nineteenth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this is also the fifth segment based around a pop culture reference, plus the first of which where White Spy is victorious; additionally, this is the twelfth segment to use an additional music track alongside the traditional theme music.)

• (Episode 72) - On Christmas Eve, Black Spy's house gets a visitor… but it's not Santa Claus. White Spy invades the house through the chimney and spots Black Spy's stocking hung on the fireplace. He reaches inside and pulls out a stick of dynamite, addressed to Black Spy from Santa. White Spy decides to pocket the dynamite for himself and instead fills his adversary's stocking with a lump of coal. Suddenly, White Spy hears his nemesis enter the room and scrambles back through the fireplace and up the chimney to hide. Black Spy enters the room and reaches into his stocking to find the lump of coal. But he isn't disappointed - he lights the fireplace and then throws the coal into the flames, causing them to to flare up in size and travel up the chimney, igniting the dynamite and blowing up White Spy. Merry Christmas once again, spies!
  • (Note: This is the twentieth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this is also the thirteenth segment to use an additional music track in addition to the traditional theme music, and the only segment to have two plotting snickers.)

• (Episode 73) - Hiding out in Black Spy's headquarters, White Spy secretly watches his nemesis looking into a retina scanner and unlocking a vault, which he enters. White Spy goes up to the retina scanner and pulls out a special Black Spy contact lens. He inserts the lens and looks into the retina scanner, only for a gunshot to erupt from the scanner and blow his face to shreds, and he drops dead. On the other side of the vault door, Black Spy is revealed to have shot White Spy through the scanner with a blunderbuss.
  • (Note: This is the twenty-first segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this is also the eighth sketch to be in color, as the retina scanner emits a beam of red light.)
• (Episode 74) - White Spy sets up a trap picnic for Black Spy, placing a beehive inside a cake. Black Spy has been spying on him, however, and pushes the cake full of bees aside with a stick. As Black Spy steps on the picnic blanket, it gives way underneath him as he falls into a pit that the blanket was concealing. White Spy then comes along and uses a stick to push the cake full of bees into the pit. Black Spy screams as he is repeatedly stung by the angry bees, and White Spy chuckles in victory.
  • (Note: This is the twenty-second segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; additionally, this is the fourteenth segment to use an additional music track alongside the traditional theme music.

• (Episode 75) - White Spy watches from afar as Black Spy exits his house, places top-secret plans inside of his mailbox, and sets up the carrier signal flag before heading back inside. Intent on stealing the plans, White Spy cases the property before making his way to the mailbox, which he casually opens, only for the carrier signal flag to swing a full 360 degrees and slice his arm clean off, causing him to faint. Black Spy pops out from underneath a manhole and chuckles in victory.
  • (Note: This is the twenty-third segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; it is also the fifteenth segment to use an additional music track alongside the traditional theme music.)

• (Episode 76) - White Spy delivers a bomb to Black Spy's penthouse via elevator, but before he can leave, Black Spy secretly pushes all of the elevator buttons behind his back, forcing White Spy to stop on every single floor. Surprise, surprise, White Spy isn't able to escape in time and is blown to bits when the bomb destroys the building. Black Spy, parachuting down to safety from the roof, gives the victory sign.
  • (Note: This is the twenty-fourth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; it is also the sixteenth segment to use an additional music track alongside the traditional theme music, and the ninth sketch to be in color, as both the elevator button lights and the title card glow light blue.)

• (Episode 77) - Astronaut White Spy has landed on the moon, and he plants a flag on its surface, claiming it for himself. However, he finds that not only has Black Spy beaten him to the moon, but has also already claimed 82% of the moon for himself, leaving White Spy with the remaining 18%. Unfazed, White Spy presses a button on a remote control to launch his spacecraft like a missile; it flies straight into Black Spy's claim of the moon, obliterating it, and Black Spy along with it. White Spy's claim remains, forming a crescent moon, which White Spy sits on as he gives the victory chuckle.
  • (Note: This is the twenty-fifth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; an echo effect is applied to the theme music in this segment.)

• (Episode 78) - In a parody of the James Bond "gun barrel" opening sequence, Black Spy, as James Bond, is seen through what appears to be the barrel of a gun, which follows him as he walks. Black Spy suddenly turns around, draws a pistol, and fires. It turns out the view was not through a gun barrel, but the lens of a set of mounted binoculars, as White Spy, fooled into paying five dollars for an attraction labeled "See Your Future", has been shot through the eye, and drops dead. Black Spy pockets his fallen adversary's five-dollar bill and gives the victory sign. Sorry, White Spy - but it looks like you don't have a future!
  • (Note: This is the twenty-fifth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; additionally, this is the third segment not to use the traditional theme music, the sixth segment based around a pop culture reference, and the second and final time Black Spy wins in a season finale.)

Season 4

• (Episode 79) - Black Spy and White Spy duke it out in a mixed martial arts match. White Spy uses the ring ropes on his side of the ring to slingshot forward and deliver a painful punch to Black Spy. Not to be outdone, Black Spy tries to pull off the same move, but when he makes contact with the ropes on his side of the ring, he gets sliced to pieces. Turns out that White Spy had installed specialized “razor rope” on Black Spy’s side of the ring. Well played!
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #446, although this segment reverses the roles, as the original strip has White Spy as the victim and Black Spy as the victor; additionally, the spies also make a cameo with Alfred E. Neuman in the MADvent Calendar, plus Black Spy makes another cameo in Rejected Merry Go Round Characters.

• (Episode 80) - Black Spy chases White Spy throughout the arctic on a snowmobile, shooting at him all the way, but White Spy takes refuge in an igloo. The igloo is then revealed to be a tank - Black Spy panics and tries to flee, but is blown to smithereens. White Spy then pops out of the tank, victorious.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #336.)

• (Episode 81) - White Spy, dressed as the Easter Bunny, hides a series of eggs in a park for an Easter egg hunt. Black Spy hopes to snag the eggs for himself, but, knowing White Spy, fears that any number of the eggs could really be bombs in disguise. Using a scanner, Black Spy scans an egg hidden in a tree hollow and another egg hidden behind a flower pot atop a picnic table - both of them turn out to be real. He scans a third egg hidden at the foot of a tree, which also turns out to be real… and also turns out to belong a gigantic chicken, for the "tree" was actually the chicken’s leg. The angry giant chicken pecks Black Spy to death, giving White Spy the win. Egg-cellent!
  • (Note: This is the twenty-sixth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this is also the tenth sketch to be in color and the seventeenth segment to use an additional music track alongside the traditional theme music.

• (Episode 82) - Black Spy tries to destroy White Spy by dropping a bomb on him from a helicopter. White Spy runs to his house for shelter, but Black Spy hovers over the house and prepares to drop the bomb down the chimney. Suddenly, a large blast erupts from the chimney, blowing both Black Spy and his helicopter to bits. The walls of White Spy’s "house" fall over, revealing that it was not a house, but rather a cleverly-disguised cannon.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #79.)

• (Episode 83) - White Spy breaks into Black Spy's HQ, but panics when he sees Black Spy coming. He grabs a nearby hammer and hides against the wall, waiting for Black Spy to open the door and enter the room so he can clobber him. As he watches the door locks unlock one by one, White Spy is prepared… or so he thinks! It turns out that the door was a fake, and the real door, disguised as a section of the wall, crushes White Spy against another wall when Black Spy opens it.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #107; this is also the fourth segment not to feature the tratitional theme music; additionally, the spies also make a cameo in Snoozeum.)

• (Episode 84) - White Spy receives a package in the mail, and feels a vibration inside. He opens the box and finds a smartphone inside. The phone suddenly gets a text message, reading "BOOM!”. White Spy is confused at first, but thinks nothing of it. Suddenly, a blast erupts from the phone and blows him up. As he drops dead, his phone receives another text message - this one depicting a chuckling Black Spy giving the victory sign - revealing Black Spy as the mastermind behind this clever scheme!
  • (Note: This is the twenty-seventh segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this is also the only segment where a spy doesn’t physically appear, although Black Spy’s likeness does appear as an image in the second text message he sends to White Spy.)

• (Episode 85) - Outside White Spy's HQ, Black Spy rappels down to White Spy’s office window and snatches a blueprint from a file cabinet, but only manages to steal half of the blueprint as White Spy notices him and shuts the window, causing the blueprint to get caught in the middle and tear in half. Black Spy takes the half-blueprint to his HQ and finds that they are for an attack robot, and so he spends the whole night building it. The next day, White Spy invades Black Spy’s HQ, armed with a machine gun, but is startled to see Black Spy piloting the attack robot. Black Spy activates the machine, only to be fed into it as it shreds him to pieces. White Spy chuckles in victory and reveals the other half of the blueprint, which, as it turns out, was not for a robot, but rather a "top-secret paper shredder"!
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #334.)

• (Episode 86) - White Spy enters the bathroom of Black Spy's HQ and sees Black Spy's feet dangling from underneath a stall. Drawing a machine gun, White Spy enters an adjacent stall attempting to shoot him, but his plan quite literally goes down the tubes when a glass wall rises up from the floor outside the stall, forming a chamber that seals him inside. The chamber floods with water, and the floor beneath opens up to reveal a pit, which White Spy is flushed down as he drowns. Black Spy gives the victory sign from beneath his stall.
  • (Note: This is the twenty-eighth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this is also the fifth segment not to use the traditional theme music; it is also the only segment where a spy’s face is not shown, despite the spy appearing physically.)

• (Episode 87) - White Spy tries to survey Black Spy’s secret fortress, deliberately ignoring the sign on the wall reading "No peeking!"; he spots a trampoline nearby, and, also ignoring the sign beside it reading "Keep off!", uses it to bounce all the way up to the top of the wall to peek over it. Too bad that Black Spy catches him in the act, and presses a button on a remote, causing the trampoline to flip over and jut out several large, sharp spikes from its underside, on which White Spy is impaled upon when he comes back down.
  • (Note: This is the twenty-ninth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this is also the sixth segment not to use the traditional theme music.)

• (Episode 88) - White Spy sneaks into Black Spy's HQ while he is sleeping, and finds a blueprint for a machine on his desk, as well as the parts to build it. White Spy grabs the blueprints and parts before taking off, returning to his own HQ where he uses the blueprints to build the machine. White Spy turns the machine on to see what it does - big mistake! The machine uses a pair of spring-loaded hands to beat him up. As White Spy drops to the floor, the hands of the machine attach a label to its side, revealing that it is a "punching machine”, which gives a double victory sign, claiming victory in Black Spy’s name.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #77, although the roles here are reversed, as the original strip has Black Spy building the machine and being strangled by it)

• (Episode 89) - White Spy is out in his yard, where he feeds his chicken before heading back into his house. Snooping from outside White Spy’s property, Black Spy leans over the fence and sprinkles black gunpowder onto the lawn. This attracts the attention of White Spy’s chicken, who abandons its chicken feed and begins feasting on the gunpowder instead. Later on, White Spy finds that his chicken has laid an egg; some time later he heads to the kitchen, deciding to fry the egg. When he taps it on the side of his frying pan, the egg explodes as a result of his chicken’s new gunpowder diet, blowing him up. Watching from outside the fence, Black Spy chuckles in victory.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #63; this is also the seventh segment not to use the traditional theme music.)

• (Episode 90) - Intruding on White Spy’s airfield, Black Spy sneaks up to his nemesis’ fighter jet and paints a hole onto one of the equipped bombs. He plants a hand drill on the ground nearby and pours gunpowder underneath the bomb. Noticing White Spy coming over, Black Spy runs away to hide. Approaching his fighter jet, White Spy sees the bomb, the drill, and the gunpowder - he’s fooled into thinking that someone has drilled into the bomb and emptied it. He grabs a new bomb and brings it over to the jet before tossing the "emptied" bomb aside, which, upon landing, blows him up. Black Spy chuckles victoriously.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #185; this is also the eighth segment not to use the traditional theme music.)

• (Episode 91) - A target-shooting contest is held between the two spies. Black Spy is able to successfully shoot a cannonball through his target. White Spy, of course, tries to one-up him; he aims his cannon carefully, then fires, only to find out that his target is a sheet of rubber, which ricochets the cannonball off of the bouncy target and back at White Spy, hitting him in the stomach and launching him backwards into a large rock, giving Black Spy the win.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #88; this is also the ninth segment not to use the traditional theme music, and also marks the first time a Spy has won more than five consecutive times.)

• (Episode 92) - Black Spy is waiting at a bus stop with a handbag. White Spy sneaks up behind him with another handbag, which he slips a lit bomb into. He tries to swap out Black Spy’s handbag with the bag containing the bomb, which he places on the pavement next to Black Spy, but upon grabbing Black Spy’s bag, he has a bit of a struggle lifting it. He gives the bag a hard pull and successfully lifts it, but discovers that the bag has been glued to the section of the pavement below it - taking with him the bag with the bomb inside - and he is blown up.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #141; this strip also was previously adapted for MADtv, and is the only strip previously adapted there to be animated by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios here; additionally, this is the tenth segment where the traditional theme music wasn't used, and marks the first time a spy has won more than six consecutive times.)

• (Episode 93) - White Spy peeks through the window of Black Spy’s HQ and spots his nemesis working on a contraption, but his attention is suddenly turned to an "anti-gravity belt" on a table. He robs Black Spy of his anti-gravity belt at gunpoint, then presses the button on it labeled "Up" - only to launch upward into the stratosphere. White Spy frantically and repeatedly presses the belt’s button, but he keeps soaring upwards. As it turns out, Black Spy reveals he had not yet installed the "Down" button on the belt. Unable to go back downwards, White Spy flies all the way into space where he hits his head on an asteroid. The stars in the sky form an image of Black Spy giving the victory sign (complete with an arrangement of "Also sprach Zarathustra" playing).
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #333; also the eighteenth segment to use an additional music track in addition to the traditional theme music, and marks the first time a spy has won eight consecutive times, the longest streak in the series’ history.)

• (Episode 94) - White Spy is in his kitchen, making cake batter. While he is busy fetching a mixing bowl from his cupboard, Black Spy, who has been hiding in the oven, briefly comes out of hiding to cover a hand grenade with white paint and plant it in White Spy’s bowl of eggs, before returning to the oven to hide. This choice of hiding spot proves fatal, however! White Spy grabs the grenade and taps it on the side of the bowl to crack it - surprisingly, it actually cracks open! After stirring the grenade’s contents into the batter, he puts the bowl into the oven and turns on the heat before stepping backwards and bracing for the inevitable explosion, which destroys the oven and completely atomizes Black Spy.
  • (Note: This is the thirtieth segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this segment is also the eleventh not to use the traditional theme music, and also marks White Spy’s first victory since Episode 85 - nine episodes prior.)
• (Episode 95) - As White Spy is preparing to launch a large fireworks rocket for Independence Day, Black Spy sneaks up behind him and uses a rope to tie the rocket to his nemesis’ ankle. Seconds after lighting the fuse, the rocket shoots high into the sky, and White Spy is rocketed high into the sky with it. The rocket explodes into a dazzling display of sparks in the shape of White Spy’s likeness (complete with an arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner" playing). Think Black Spy got his victory? Think again! The sparks rain down on Black Spy, literally burning him up, and White Spy gives the victory sign while parachuting down to safety. What a show!
  • (Note: This is the thirty-first segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this segment is also the nineteenth segment to use an additional music track alongside the traditional theme music, and the eleventh segment to be in color.)

• (Episode 96) - Snooping around Black Spy's HQ, White Spy spots his nemesis inflating a large, blimp-shaped balloon with a helium air pump - and on the balloon, in big bold letters, are the words "Black Spy Rules!"; White Spy decides to put an end to Black Spy’s moment of conceit, pulling out a blowgun and firing a dart at the balloon to pop it. However, upon popping, the balloon releases three bombs inside of it that fall down and land on White Spy, blowing him to smithereens, and Black Spy claims his victory.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #277; this is also the twelfth segment where the traditional theme music is not used.)

• (Episode 97) - White Spy sneaks around outside of Black Spy's house, and looks through the bedroom window where he spots his adversary finishing up with wiring a bundle of dynamite to a detonator before crawling into bed. As Black Spy sleeps, White Spy sneaks into the house through the window and places the dynamite underneath the bed. He then grabs the detonator and crawls back out the window. Cackling mischievously, he pushes down on the detonator’s plunger, but, strangely, nothing happens. He pushes again and again, but to no avail. But Black Spy is one step ahead of his nemesis - it turns out that the "dynamite" was the real detonator all along. He presses a button on it, and the fake detonator opens up to reveal that the real dynamite is inside of it - and then it explodes, blowing White Spy to smithereens.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #374, and the final segment to be adapted from a Peter Kuper-penned Spy vs. Spy strip; additionally, this is the thirteenth segment where the traditional theme music is not used.)

• (Episode 98) - As he is pursued by a gun-toting White Spy, Black Spy manages to escape into an elevator with his top-secret briefcase. Unfortunately for White Spy, the doors close before he can also get inside. White Spy presses the elevator button repeatedly in frustration, growing more and more impatient all the while as he continuously waits for the elevator doors to open again. Finally, the elevator bell dings, and the doors open… but not in any way that White Spy expected! The doors swing out downwards and squash White Spy flat, and Black Spy, still inside the elevator, stands victorious.
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #288; additionally, this is the fourteenth segment where the traditional theme music wasn’t used.)

• (Episode 99) - White Spy is participating in a pumpkin carving contest on Halloween. Black Spy comes across him, and, elated by the words "BIG CA$H PRIZE" on the banner for the contest, decides to enter as well. He grabs a pumpkin and a knife, carves a perfect jack-o-lantern, and shows it off to White Spy, confident he will win… but White Spy then reveals his jack-o-lantern - he has carved the outline of a pistol into it; White Spy presses the trigger and shoots Black Spy dead. Sometimes a trick is the ultimate treat!
  • (Note: This is the thirty-second segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; additionally, this is the fifteenth segment where the traditional theme music wasn't used, plus the twelfth segment to be in color.)

• (Episode 100) - Once again, White Spy and Black Spy engage in another lightsaber duel. Black Spy uses the Force to rip a panel from a wall and throw it at White Spy, knocking him to the floor. Black Spy then slices off his adversary’s hand with his lightsaber. But White Spy comes out on top when he uses the Force to control his severed hand and form it into a fist, using it to punch Black Spy into submission, before giving the victory sign. The Force is strong with this one!
  • (Note: This is the thirty-third segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this is also the sixteenth segment where the traditional theme music wasn't used, plus the seventh and final segment based around a pop culture reference, and the thirteenth and final segment to be in color; in addition, the spies also make an appearance in the 100th episode special opening, where they steal the reel of the special episode, only to be confronted by Alfred E. Neuman, who defeats them both and retrieves the reel, resulting in the spies’ second and final draw.)
• (Episode 101) - Through a telescope, White Spy spots Black Spy hammering something in the attic of his house. Curious, White Spy enters Black Spy's house and quickly finds the door leading to the attic, but he finds that the door is locked. White Spy is disappointed, until he spots some dumbbells, barbells, and other fitness equipment in the room. He suddenly gets the idea that if he uses this equipment to build muscle, he’ll be able to open the door without a problem. He races over to a 500 lb. barbell and tries to lift it, but has no luck. Suddenly, the barbell is pulled all the way up to the ceiling, taking White Spy with it, and his neck is crushed between the barbell and the ceiling. It turns out that Black Spy has wired a large electromagnet to a car battery up in the attic to thwart his nemesis. Looks like brains beats brawn!
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #77, and the final segment to be adapted from an Antonio Prohias-penned Spy vs. Spy strip; additionally, this is the seventeenth segment where the traditional theme music isn’t used.)

• (Episode 102) - Black Spy, as a Pilgrim, is setting a table for a Thanksgiving feast. White Spy, as a Native American chief, approaches a cornucopia on one end of the table and fills it with vegetables. But he has a trick up his sleeve - he places a stick of dynamite inside a corn husk, lights the fuse, and puts it into the cornucopia. He runs to the other side of the table and awaits the inevitable explosion. Suddenly, the sound of the sizzling fuse grows slightly ever louder… as it turns out the cornucopia is connected to the muzzle of a blunderbuss, which Black Spy has pointed at White Spy. Black Spy fires the blunderbuss, obliterating his nemesis.
  • (Note: This is the thirty-fourth and final segment not to be adapted from a pre-existing Spy vs. Spy strip, making this segment a series original; this segment also marks Black Spy’s final victory in the TV series, and also marks the final time the traditional theme music is used; additionally, the spies also make a cameo in Agents of S.M.U.R.F.)

• (Episode 103) - Black Spy peeks over a brick wall to see a "big top secret telescope”. With his curiousity peaked, Black Spy hops over the wall and runs up to the telescope to take a look through it. After focusing the lens, he sees White Spy in a spacesuit, out in space, holding a sign that says, "Did you know you're looking through the barrel of a gun?" He then discards the sign before pulling out a remote control and pushing the button on it. The "telescope" sprouts a crosshair, and Black Spy screams in terror as the gun fires a single, massive shot that blows him to smithereens, leaving White Spy to claim the series' final victory. Now that’s one way to go out with a bang!
  • (Note: Adapted from MAD magazine issue #315; additionally, aside from being the show’s final overall Spy vs. Spy segment, this is the second and final time White Spy wins in a season finale, as well as White Spy's final overall victory, the eighteenth and final segment not to use the traditional theme music, and the final segment to be adapted from a Duck Edwing/Bob Clark/Dave Manak-penned Spy vs. Spy strip; additionally, the spies also make a cameo in Alfred's Game.)

Other Episodes/Cameos

• Star Blecch / uGlee - White Spy makes a cameo in a cheerleader outfit among the cheerleaders in uGlee.
• WALL·E·NATOR / Extreme Renovation: House Edition - The spies make a quick cameo in the MAD building before WALL•E bursts in.
• The Straight A-Team / Gaming's Next Top Princess - Black Spy makes a cameo as Adrien Brody without makeup in the Celebrities Without Their Makeup sketch.
• RiOa / Thomas the Unstoppable Tank Engine - White and Black Spy make cameos in MAD News. With a picture of White Spy making his usual victory sign and Black Spy's confusion with the bomb explosion delay that was supposed to start off MAD's second season "with a bang" according to the MAD News Anchor.. and later it does explode, cutting off the anchor.
• Super 80's / Captain America's Got Talent - Black Spy is seen on the MAD Times newspaper in Captain America's Got Talent.
• Kung Fu Blander / Destroy Bob the Builder Destroy - The spies are revealed behind a curtain by Soothsayer in Kung Fu Blander. Where they defeat Lord Shen and his MAD-made Angry Bird army with their bombs, then later blow each other up with fake arms filled with dynamites after shaking hands.
• Spy vs. Spy Kids / The Superhero Millionaire Matchmaker - The spies make their major roles in Spy vs. Spy Kids as they work together again to invade the Wilsons' spy base to steal their spy gadgets, seemingly defeated by Rebecca and Cecil (which their spy outfits are that of the spies, White for Rebecca and Black for Cecil), disguised as Carmen and Juni Cortez, and later finally defeated by Marissa Wilson (as Grey Spy).
• FROST / Undercover Claus - The spies make brief cameos (very brief for White Spy if you look hard enough at the very left) as plush dolls being created in Santa's Workshop.
• Potions II / Moves Like Jabba - The spies are seen on TV in Parent Trainer. Oddly, both spies are black instead of one of them being white.
• The Iron Giant Lady / Raising a New Hope - The spies make cameos as Alfred E. Neuman's security when it is announced that Alfred is running for president in and according to MAD News.
• I Am Lorax / Modern Family Circus - The spies make cameos by the families holding family portraits in Modern Family Circus.
• The Blunder Games / The Poop-seidon Adventure - The spies make a cameo appearance in the Alfred E. Neuman for President sketch, when Alfred promised to lift the ban on Cuba... Gooding, Jr. And as Cuba is crushed by a falling safe (revealing White Spy inside), the spies laugh at his pain.
• Total Recall Me Baby / The Asguardians - The spies briefly appear in a Spy vs. Spy book that Doug Quaid was reading before entering Rekall in Total Recall Me Baby.
• Linkong / Rainbow Dash & Bernstein - The spies appear with Alfred E. Neuman in MADvent Calendar in the Monday, 8:00 PM picture.
  • Black Spy makes a cameo as a Rejected Merry-Go-Round character in the Rejected sketch, labeled as "The Detonator" before blowing up the Merry-Go-Round.
• Papa / 1600 Finn - The spies make a small cameo as figurines on Martin Luther King Jr.'s desk in the Snoozeum Ad parody sketch.
• MAD's 100th Episode Special - The Spies make a second major appearance as steal the 100th episode but Alfred E. Neuman comes to retrieve the stolen episode à la Kill Bill style as he dodges the Spies' traps. Alfred then successfully defeats the spies and wins the 100th episode back.
• Still Hungry Games / Agents of S.M.U.R.F. - The spies make cameos as Gargamel fires them out of S.M.U.R.F. As the spies leave in disappointment, White Spy is blown up by a bomb disguised as a doorknob by Black Spy. As Black Spy laughs at White for falling for his trick, he falls through a hole under him set up by White Spy, and White Spy laughs back at him.
• Alfred's Game / We Are X-Men - The spies make their final cameos in Alfred's Game. Black Spy and White Spy ride one of the Star Wars ships.

Trivia

• The spy wins are: White Spy - 51, Black Spy - 51, Grey Spy - 1 (see Spy vs. Spy Kids), two draws/ties.
• The spies teamed up three times. First was Kung Fu Blander, second was Spy vs. Spy Kids, and third was in MAD's 100th Episode Special.
• The spies are briefly seen in the MAD intro, where White Spy pops out of one of the magazines and runs off before Black Spy spots him then chases after him.
• There is a Spy vs. Spy video game for Xbox, PlayStation 2 (or "PS2" for short), NES, etc.
  • There was an app based on the original 1984 video game but is no longer available.
• There are three types of animation styles used for the Spy vs. Spy skits: traditional (Seasons 1-2), lineless traditional (Season 2), and stop-motion (Seasons 2, 3 and 4). Beginning with the second-to-last segment from Season 2, all segments were animated in stop-motion.
• All segments in Season 1 were adapted from MAD Magazine; meanwhile, Season 3 features more series-original segments than any other season, with a total of twenty-three.
• The spies made a brief cameo appearance in Family Guy Season 8, Episode 3 (129): "Spies Reminiscent of Us", where White spy mentioned that they actually resolved their differences. It's also indicated that they are in a romantic relationship, in the scene where White spy and Black spy hold each other's hands.
• The spies appeared in Robot Chicken, where Stoopid Buddy Studios also worked on. Where in a sketch in the Season 2 episode "Password: Swordfish", Black Spy simply shoots White Spy while he is working on a punch-surprise vending machine rather than using a more elaborate counter-plot as seen in the original comic strips. And in the Season 7 episode "Panthropologie" another sketch parodying Spy vs. Spy with Casino Royale, where Black Spy tortures White Spy.
• They first appeared in MAD #60, and have appeared in every comic since 1961.
• In 1962, another spy known as Grey Spy appeared in the Spy vs. Spy comics in the strip Spy vs. Spy vs. Spy, in MAD #73. Grey Spy was supposed to represent neutrality against the spies but she was later removed because Prohìas found her to be too predictable and boring. Despite this, when Peter Kuper took over the strip, the Grey Spy would occasionally make a return.
• In 2004, the spies appeared in four Mountain Dew commercials.
• In 1986, Milton Bradley released a Spy vs. Spy board game involving digging tunnels and retrieving bombs.
• Nine of the Spy vs. Spy sketches on MAD were previously featured on MADtv on FOX; all nine of them originally appeared in the magazine.

Gallery

The spies' first ever appearances and early designs in the MAD magazines.

The spies as they appeared in MADTV.

The spies as they appear in "Spy vs. Spy Kids".

To be fair, their spy stuff from their skits was stolen.

"*(Gasping)*"

Cameo in "Agents of S.M.U.R.F.".

Cameo in one of the MADvents.