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That's What Super Friends Are For
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That's What Super Friends Are For is a parody of Super Friends.

This segment is from MAD Season 2, Episode 20 (46): Al Pacino and the Chipmunks / That's What Super Friends Are For.

Summary[]

The DC Comics superheroes sing a song about the virtues of super friendship.

References[]

Characters[]

Transcript[]

(Cuts to the SUPER FRIENDS' WATCHTOWER.)

(Something's playing on TV.)

Batman: Hey, Gummi Guy! How about grabbing me a soda?

Plastic Man: And why would I do that?

Batman: Because we're, you know, friends! Super Friends?

Plastic Man: We're not friends. You don't even know my name!

Batman: Sure I do! It's, uhh... Hey, Blacktricity, what's our friend's name here?

Black Lightning: You know, you called this the Super Friends, but really, none of us is feeling the love.

Superman: Is that true?

Plastic Man: How can we put this?

(Lights out. Lights on)

Plastic Man: Ahem!

Wonder Woman: Here we go...

Plastic Man: ♫ "Super Friends" is what we're called, but really, that is bogus ♫

Black Lightning: ♫ At best, we'd say we're work colleagues, no matter how you coach us ♫

Plastic Man, Black Lightning: ♫ There's really only three of you, the rest of us are tokens, robots, fish, and aliens, a female hocus-pocus ♫

Random Super Friends: ♫ Dibi-dibi-di, dibi-dibi-dum-dum-dum, dibi-dibi-di,dibi-dibi-dum-dum... ♫

Hal Jordan / Green Lantern: ♫ If Super Friends are what we are, then come and help me move ♫

Black Canary: ♫ I asked if you could feed my cat, you left to save the Louvre ♫

Doctor Mid-Nite: ♫ Can you drive me to the airport? You said... ♫

Batman: ♫ "Best to call a cab" ♫ (drives off)

Doctor Mid-Nite: ♫ So how are we the Super Friends? ♫

Green Arrow: Hey, let me take a stab! (shoots arrow)

(HEY!)

Random Super Friends: ♫ Dibi-dibi-di, dibi-dibi-dum-dum-dum, dibi-dibi-di,dibi-dibi-dum-dum... ♫

Blue Beetle: ♫ Super Friends is just a name, on Facebook, you won't poke us ♫

All Super Friends: ♫ It's all about the union dues, which really kind of soak us ♫

Booster Gold: ♫ Your members change so frequently, commitment is a sham ♫

Doctor Fate: ♫ You say you don't charge minors, but then you bill SHAZAM! ♫

(HEY!)

Random Super Friends: ♫ Dibi-dibi-di, dibi-dibi-dum-dum-dum, dibi-dibi-di,dibi-dibi-dum-dum... ♫

Hawkman: ♫ Super Friends are there for you, they've always got your back ♫

Robin: ♫ Yet clearly, you said nothing when I went out dressed like that ♫

(He pulls out a photo of him in a different costume.)

Elongated Man: ♫ I was really strapped for cash and things were really, really tight ♫

(He tries to take money from Superman.)

Elongated Man: ♫ But asking you for money seems to be your Kryptonite ♫

(POW!)

Random Super Friends: ♫ Dibi-dibi-di, dibi-dibi-dum-dum-dum, dibi-dibi-di,dibi-dibi-dum-dum... ♫

Barry Allen / Flash #1: ♫ Sure, we've saved the world and all... ♫

Barry Allen / Flash #1 and Wally West / Flash #2: ♫ Plus all the other Earths ♫

Kid Flash: ♫ Just sit through Twilight with me and you'll really prove your worth ♫

Jay Garrick / Flash #3: ♫ That's what Super Friends are for, sings Elton John J'onn J'onzz ♫

Martian Manhunter: (playing piano) ♫ If only you would change the name, this place would feel like home ♫

All Super Friends: ♫ If only you would change the name, this place would feel like HO-O-O-O-O-O-O-OME! ♫

Superman: Okay. Well, how about... the Justice League?

All Superheroes: Yeah! Sure! I'm okay with that.

Batman: Great! Hey Justice League, how about grabbing me a soda?

(segment ends)

Trivia[]

  • This is the second segment that hasn't shown a title card. The first was Flammable, but the words "Super Heroes" were shown in the song.
  • Antagonists, sort of: The Justice League, and the Elongated Man (when he took money from superman).
  • This is the third time Captain Marvel appears. He appeared in Shazamwich! and Superheroes: They're Just Like Us.
  • This skit is similar to Smallville: Turn Off the Clark and VICTORious.
  • Kid Flash / Bart Allen is voiced by Jason Marsden, who also voiced the character (in his Impulse identity) in Young Justice.
  • This is the 24th segment that the name of the MAD parody is said.
  • Despite the name reference to That's What Friends Are For, the tune sounds more like Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from Mary Poppins, so it's in no way a parody of the former.
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