While the 2010 shorts have a sorta charm, the 1995 shorts have much better animation and are overall less rushed.

Both have their advantages. The rudimentary style of the 2010 version does have it's charm but the 95 version clearly has more time put into it.

Repetitive or not, I fucking love the music from the 2010 shorts.

I personally don't think the newer ones were rushed. I think they just made them faster paced.

Even tho I grew up with 2010 Spy vs Spy shorts, I absolutely prefer everything about the 1995 shorts more. The music, the sound effects, the pacing, the animation, etc.

Mad TV's Spy Vs Spy Has Always Been More Dramatic With There Scenes

MAD TV's Spy vs Spy were a bit more graphic with it's violence than CN's MAD. Also pretty neat how in the CN'sz version of the pogo stick trap they swapped Spys

Like others say, I prefer the 1995 version. The art style looks just like the original comics. Some of the artwork on MAD was clearly rushed; mainly on season 1, other times it looks fine.

I wonder if anyone's ever gambled on which of the Spies would win? On another subject, out of the Cartoon Network Spy vs. Spy shorts, I prefer the stop-motion ones.

I hadn't noticed these skits were from the original MADtv series. MAD definitely had a way of reintroducing these skits in its own way.

In defense of some of the 2010 episodes, things were explained better for the jokes to land. Episodes like Splitting Torpedo, Basketball Hoop, Shadow, and Pogo Stick are good examples. Splitting Torpedo: The split is shown long enough to explain why this is funny and clever. Basketball Hoop: Black Spy celebrating his "victory" with his arm in the hoop gives more time to show why White Spy's trap is funny. Shadow: In the 1995 version, Black Spy's club is only shown for less than a second, so we wouldn't have much time to process what Black Spy was going to do. In the 2010 version, it's explained better by showing the club for a moment before Black Spy charges. The brief pause before he falls helps with the explanation too. Pogo Stick: In the 1995 version, the picture on the wall diverts attention away from the spikes (which are already out of view and also make it a little less clear that the ENTIRE ceiling is full of them) and the spy dies too quickly before we could look at the ceiling. The 2010 version instead directs the attention to the ceiling spikes by removing the picture, having a wider view of them, and waiting a bit before the spy enters.

I think the exception where the 2010 version was better is the Mousetrap one, because the original Spy vs. Spy Sketch was not from MADtv but from an old TV special. The TV special has the sketch take place in the daytime, but the new version took place at night.

Fun Fact: Klasky Csupo Is The One Behind The 1995 Spy Vs Spy Shorts, At least a few of them

Sometimes I regret seeing CN's spy vs spy before this MadTv kind

5:25 When I first thought white spy was reading his top secret paper, After black spy falls in white spy's shadow trap, White spy throws it onto the ground which shows what it looks like. I forgot to mention: *_WHITE SPY'S TOP SECRET IS JUST THE WORD TOP SECRET_*

1995 felt better.

6:13 looks like a fever dream

4:51 Shadow Trap (original) 5:11 Shadow Trap (remake)

MAD's version is rushed

5:38 they legit swap black spy defeat to white spy defeat on this episode

I grew up with the 2010 version, but the 1995 version is much better

I initially thought it was odd that with a few hundred comic strips this many would be reused but apparently 103 cartoons were made for the second "MAD" series in three years, a far greater number than appeared on Madtv (from my recollection) so it is probably inevitable that some would be reused and that they would have a relatively low budget.

7:21 I prefer this laugh

While I like both versions, the old one on mad tv has so much more fluent animation than the reboot of mad

If you ask me, comparing both versions is like comparing a cartoon made on go animate to a cartoon made on source film maker.

Oh yeah now I see the difference

6:15 is probably like the oldest one. It's not the 1990's version, we know that for sure.

Honestly, there are some aspects to both that work. I will say, in terms of the music track, the original one is way better; that little bit of Spy music massively beats out, just the same few notes being played over and over. In terms of the punch-line, most of the jokes are supposed to be rapid, so the payoff is funnier. Part of what makes 1995's entries so funny, is you were never sure who would win. So many of the jokes build up a plan one Spy makes, only to then discover the other had a plan to counter that exact plan ahead of time. It really fits into the theme of tactical espionage because "how would they know?" They are Spys, their whole job is learning the secrets of their opponent before they can do it, and finding ways to stop it. 2010's versions have a unique artstyle, drawing closer to the comic sketches, but I find that often times, some of the jokes are way too obvious in them. The speed of the shorts has also been revved up, destroying the buildup and humor a lot of the jokes have.

6:13 the only one in color

I love how much more angular 2010 spy vs spy was

Even though I grew up with the Cartoon Network version, the 1995 ones were better. The CN versions were kinda stiff.

While the 2010 versions have a sort of rudimentary charm to them the MadTV versions clearly have more time and effort put into them

Spies In Their Characters: Foes Spies Out Their Characters: Friends

I was today years old when I learned Spy Vs Spy came out in the 90s

These guys are like the Kings of April Fools Day

Mad 2010 has a new grounds style that’s why I like it and it’s evolución true the internet

I don't mind both. Even though I watched the MAD variant of those, I never knew I might've remembered the ✌😁. You know?

The 2010 versions music sounds like it came out of Homestar Runner

The 2010 version of Spy vs Spy was what I saw. True to the magazine.

If you notice from minute 5:40 to 5:54 the spies change roles

The spiked celling cartoon in the magazine also has Black winning.

Old White spy: *cuts every bar a little in his jail cell window and it breaks because it makes sense* New white spy: *cuts one bar and it somehow breaks them all*

Eek! I didn’t know Cartoon Network did a take on clip from “The Mad Magazine TV Special” from 1974.

i love spy vs spy stop motion style

3:11 wow he was in the wrong field Fr. Vince Carter arm in the rim basket without a running start. Bro coulda been the next kobe

What's interesting is that almost every short episode uses cartoon-like sounds and noises.

That stop-motion (or maybe it’s digital and supposed to look stop-motion?) one was pretty cool tho, I don’t like the laugh but I’ve always liked that animation style

The 1995 ones are obviously better quality animation wise, but I personally prefer the music and faster paced nature of the newer ones. Also, and I cant really explain it, but the worse quality of the newer ones somehow makes the jokes even funnier.

I didn't even know there was a 1995 version of Spy vs. Spy.

I personally like the music and animation of the 1995 version over the 2010 version. Also, the spies laughs I think were better in 1995. The 2010 version sounds too much like a chipmunk laughing or something silly

Me I love the original and the Cartoon Network version

The 95 versions feel like something youd see in an actual cartoon, while the 2010 versions look like old school flash animations. Both are good though.

1995 has animation and pacing, but 2010 Has the music

2010's cartoons looked heavily rushed, no charm to them at all. 1995 ones look like they had faith in them, well drawn and little to no rush.

I think the pacing is better in the newer ones, but the quality is indisputably worse and the sound effects are grating.

Okay Some of the 1995 versions are better, but actually quite enjoy the later 2010’s versions, I just think they’re a lot funnier. The best one is honestly the pogo one. It’s far funnier with that close up “oh shit” reaction

Interesting how they switched roles in the Pogo Shtick one

6:25 How did that wall get LONGER when it falls down?

I'd say before the stop motion style happened for MAD, the original Spies felt a little rushed and sloppy.

So it’s the comparison of the MAD from 1995 and 2010 Sadly, I miss MAD 2010 😔

I think the old ones just had a particular charm that is unmatched

1:45 something I do prefer about the 2010 version is that it makes it more clear why black spy explodes showing the little bombs going into the fingers where as in the 1995 version it just show them going in the gloves when I watched the 1995 version I was always really confused at why he exploded

Some unmentioned: Target Jigsaw: Originally Spy VS Spy VS Spy strip The camp dig: Inspiration from Mountain Dew commercial starring these guys.

bruh. the mouse trap cartoon was from the 70s MAD special

6:13 mad max sine speaks 0:00 madtv 1:45 mad Spy vs spy history

When I was younger, I used to play spy vs spy PS2 game with friends and we had fun doing random things and killing each other

I always wondered if Spy vs Spy from 1995 was animated by

1995's version has much more appeals rather than the ones from 2010.

You'd think that, by 2010, accomodating lower dial-up speeds by compressing flash-animation file sizes would no-longer be necessary.

it would be perfect if it kept the animation effort from 1995 and the catchy ass music from 2010

Sorry, but the nostalgia around that old theme is always going to make it a preference for me. Oh, how I wish you could find thank you a high quality MP3 of the original theme without background noise.

Can we just agree that both versions are good

The thing I like more about the cn ones is that boppin tune

Never new MAD was a kid version of MADtv

The 1995 ones kinda remind me of Season 1 Spongebob Because the sounds and art

Spy vs spy be balling 4:03

I grew up with the MAD 2010 version

i never notice how bad the 2010 animation is bad, but it still makes me nostalgic

I don't see a single one of these that looks better in the 2010s

Is it just me or does the 1995 version eerily resemble the original sonic the hedgehog cartoon? Like with the sfx, animation, and the music even. Who knows this could have been made by the same people.

Madtv Mouse trap spy vs spy is actually a magazine from the 1970s

A mi me gustan los dos

Thirty minutes time slot vs. fifteen minutes time slots. Makes a bit of a difference eh?

I love the music and there laughs spy vs spy is great😁

The 2010’s one fits the show more; the 90’s is pretty much better, but it really doesn’t fit that version well.

1995: more effort into the animation, giving people enough time to understand what one of the spies plan is. 2010: faster and less care in the animation to keep time for the other skits on the episode.

These two outsmart each other

I'll admit the MADTV versions are much better animated, and that second intro they used in the shadow one is unironically phenomenal, I must say the handbag one was done a lot better by the MAD version. It's done in one shot, it gets to the payoff quicker, and the stopmotion style far outdoes MADTV's animation.

Lol when it would become stop motion in 2010 was when it beat the original. But the original will always look better than the 2010 cartoon versions.

The music from the newer ones are infinitely better

I really prefer the old version as the cartoons was better before

There are two (2) instances where I prefer the new ones: the mousetrap and the spiked roof. The stopmotion one at the end was nice tho

I prefer the madtv overall tbh

the 2010’s one was the one i most remember so it has it’s charm, but there’s no denying the original is the superior version.

Somehow the "older" version looks more modern than the "modern" version

I’m pretty sure most of us can agree that the 1995 Skits are better than the 2010 ones, yea sure they may have their charm, however the 1995 Skits are just more well-made than them.

we can all agree this was the best part about Mad

It's good to hear Antonio Prohías again

The 90's rad surfer music sounds so uncharacteristic for a show about 2 hackers griefing each other.

I will say, I like their chipmunk laugh in the 2010 version