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* BlackComedy: In ''Gross Jokes'', Aargh tells Slobulus that the easiest way to get to the cemetery is to jump in front of a truck.
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* ShoutOut: ''Escape from Orb'' has a tattered [[CareBears Care Bear]] [[FreezeFrameBonus among the junk flying]] when Freakella beats up Bruise Brother. ''Gross Jokes'' also has a few nods to ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' as well as a parody of ''Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'' called ''Lifestyles of the Poor and Wretched''.
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* ShoutOut: ''Escape from Orb'' has a tattered [[CareBears [[Franchise/CareBears Care Bear]] [[FreezeFrameBonus among the junk flying]] when Freakella beats up Bruise Brother. ''Gross Jokes'' also has a few nods to ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' as well as a parody of ''Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'' called ''Lifestyles of the Poor and Wretched''.
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The Madballs were a toyline of rubber balls with grotesque faces and amusing names released by American Greetings back in the 1980's. In 1986, {{Nelvana}} released two animated direct-to-video films about the Madballs, ''Escape from Orb'' and ''Gross Jokes''. ''Escape from Orb'' was about a rock group known as the Madballs (Screamin' Meemie, Freakella, Dusty, Skull Face, and Horn Head) hoping to escape planet Orb so that they can be free of the tyranny of Commander Wolfbreath. Gross Jokes was a film about the Madballs telling crummy jokes and performing inane skits.
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The Madballs were a toyline of rubber balls with grotesque faces and amusing names released by American Greetings back in the 1980's. In 1986, {{Nelvana}} released two animated direct-to-video films about the Madballs, ''Escape from Orb'' and ''Gross Jokes''. ''Escape from Orb'' was about a rock group known as the Madballs (Screamin' Meemie, Freakella, Dusty, Skull Face, and Horn Head) Head, Aargh and Slobulus) hoping to escape planet Orb so that they can be free of the tyranny of Commander Wolfbreath. Gross Jokes was a film about the Madballs telling crummy jokes and performing inane skits.
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** Freakella isn't the only Madball to note the poor quality of ''Gross Jokes''. A few of the other balls have mocked the film as well (ex. Bash Brain responding to the character list by saying that he's never seen anything so awful in his life, besides maybe that one time at the hospital...). It's as if the balls themselves[[labelnote:*]]besides maybe Aargh and Slobulus[[/labelnote]] know that the film is terrible and just don't care.
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* CanonForeigner: Freakella was created specifically for the animated series and was never made into a Madballs toy.
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* CanonForeigner: CanonForeigner[=/=]ToylessToylineCharacter: Freakella was created specifically for the animated series and was never made into a Madballs toy.
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* EvilOverlooker: Wolf Breath is depicted this way on the cover of the Escape from Orb VHS.
* GenderFlip: The original toy for Dust Brain was male. In the cartoon, the character was made into a female named Dusty Dustbrain.
* GenderFlip: The original toy for Dust Brain was male. In the cartoon, the character was made into a female named Dusty Dustbrain.
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* GenderFlip: The original toy for Dust Brain was male. In the cartoon, the character was made into a female named Dusty Dustbrain.
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* [[StraightMan Straight Woman]] Freakella's aforementioned SelfDepreciation makes her this in ''Gross Jokes'', although Screamin' Meemie gets a turn at being a straight man in the school sketch.
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* BlackComedy: ''Gross Jokes'' features a rather amusing example where Aargh tells Slobulus that the easiest way to get to the cemetery is to jump in front of a truck.
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* MakeMeWannaShout: At the end of ''Escape From Orb'', after being called "mop-head" one time too many by the bad guys, Freakella lets out a scream of rage so loud it sends the Badballs flying, forcing them to retreat.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When the Madballs get into an asteroid field, Dusty congratulates Aargh and Slobulus for using their expert skills to maneuver through the asteroids and lose Wolf Breath, only for Slobulus to say that they have gone out of control. On board the Badballs' ship, Bruise Brother correctly guesses that the Madballs' ship has o
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: When the Madballs get into an asteroid field, Dusty congratulates Aargh and Slobulus for using their expert skills to maneuver through the asteroids and lose Wolf Breath, only for Slobulus to say that they have gone out of control. On board the Badballs' ship, Bruise Brother correctly guesses that the Madballs' ship has ogone out of control, but Wolf Breath assumes that the Madballs are using their expert skills to maneuver through the asteroid field.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: All the Madballs are based off of various movie monsters, but they're good guys.
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* GenderFlip: The original toy for Dust Brain was male. In the cartoon, the character was made into a female named Dusty Dustbrain.
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* [[TheAllegedCar The Alleged Spaceship]]: The spaceship Slobulus and Aargh put together looks like a rusty pile of scrap metal...and it is.
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* AliensStealCable: The Madballs are inspired to head to Earth in ''Escape from Orb'' after intercepting some TV broadcasts, including a rock concert.
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* BigRedButton: This is how Freakella starts the spaceship in ''Escape from Orb''. "It's ''always'' the big red button!"
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* NotHyperbole: Freakella was being quite literal when she said she'd like to "pound [Bruise Brother] flat, fold him into a paper airplane, and send him flying, hopefully into an open garbage can."
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* ShoutOut: ''Escape from Orb'' has a tattered [[CareBears Care Bear]] [[FreezeFrameBonus among the junk flying]] when Freakella beats up Bruise Brother. ''Gross Jokes'' also has a few nods to MontyPythonsFlyingCircus as well as a parody of ''Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'' called ''Lifestyles of the Poor and Wretched''.
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* ShoutOut: ''Escape from Orb'' has a tattered [[CareBears Care Bear]] [[FreezeFrameBonus among the junk flying]] when Freakella beats up Bruise Brother. ''Gross Jokes'' also has a few nods to MontyPythonsFlyingCircus ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' as well as a parody of ''Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'' called ''Lifestyles of the Poor and Wretched''.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Three inhabitants of Orb seen in ''Escape from Orb'' bear a resemblance to TheThreeStooges.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Three inhabitants of Orb seen in ''Escape from Orb'' bear a resemblance to TheThreeStooges.Film/TheThreeStooges.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The box art of the video tapes are not consistent with the art style of the show, instead depicting realistic renderings of the Madballs toys with arms and legs.
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* [[LastOfHisKind Last of Their Kind]]: In ''Escape from Orb'', it is explained that the Madballs are the last remaining rock band on Orb, Wolf Breath having eliminated the others due to his hatred for music.
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* ModestyTowel: Freakella wears one when she prepares to take a bath in ''Escape from Orb'', only to find that Aargh and Slobulus had mistakenly shot the bathtub out of the spaceship. Fortunately for her, Wolf Breath retaliates by shooting the tub back.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Three inhabitants of Orb seen in ''Escape from Orb'' bear a resemblance to TheThreeStooges.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Three inhabitants of Orb seen in ''Escape from Orb'' bear a resemblance to TheThreeStooges.
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* OhCrap: The Madballs have one when they find out that Aargh and Slobulus had not been flying the ship, as well as pretty much any time Wolf Breath suddenly finds them. Their manager-to-be Skip also has one when he hears from his sister Sandy that the band planned to play at his studio were unable to make it.
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* NonIndicativeName: The ''A Boring Travelogue'' segment is a travelogue narrated by Dusty, but because of the Madballs' humorous antics, it is hardly boring at all.
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* NonIndicativeName: The ''A Boring Travelogue'' segment in ''Gross Jokes'' is a travelogue narrated by Dusty, but because of [[FunnyBackgroundEvent the Madballs' humorous antics, antics]], it is hardly boring at all.
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* ShoutOut: ''Escape from Orb'' has a tattered [[CareBears Care Bear]] [[FreezeFrameBonus among the junk flying]] when Freakella beats up Bruise Brother. ''Gross Jokes'' also has a few nods to MontyPythonsFlyingCircus as well as a parody of LifestylesOfTheRichAndFamous called ''Lifestyles of the Poor and Wretched''.
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* MediumAwareness: The Madballs frequently acknowledge that they are in a cartoon in ''Gross Jokes''.
* NonIndicativeName: The ''A Boring Travelogue'' segment is a travelogue narrated by Dusty, but because of the Madballs' humorous antics, it is hardly boring at all.
* SelfDeprecation: Freakella constantly uses this trope in ''Gross Jokes'' in regard to the skits.
* ShoutOut: ''Escape from Orb'' has a tattered [[CareBears Care Bear]] [[FreezeFrameBonus among the junk flying]] when Freakella beats up Bruise Brother. ''Gross Jokes'' also has a few nods to MontyPythonsFlyingCircus as well as a parody ofLifestylesOfTheRichAndFamous ''Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous'' called ''Lifestyles of the Poor and Wretched''.
* NonIndicativeName: The ''A Boring Travelogue'' segment is a travelogue narrated by Dusty, but because of the Madballs' humorous antics, it is hardly boring at all.
* SelfDeprecation: Freakella constantly uses this trope in ''Gross Jokes'' in regard to the skits.
* ShoutOut: ''Escape from Orb'' has a tattered [[CareBears Care Bear]] [[FreezeFrameBonus among the junk flying]] when Freakella beats up Bruise Brother. ''Gross Jokes'' also has a few nods to MontyPythonsFlyingCircus as well as a parody of
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* TheDragon: Bruise Brother to Wolfbreath.
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* ShoutOut: ''Escape from Orb'' has a tattered [[CareBears Care Bear]] [[FreezeFrameBonus among the junk flying]] when Freakella beats up Bruise Brother. ''Gross Jokes'' also has a few nods to MontyPythonsFlyingCircus as well as a parody of LifestylesOfTheRichAndFamous called ''Lifestyles of the Poor and Wretched''.
* ShoutOut: ''Escape from Orb'' has a tattered [[CareBears Care Bear]] [[FreezeFrameBonus among the junk flying]] when Freakella beats up Bruise Brother. ''Gross Jokes'' also has a few nods to MontyPythonsFlyingCircus as well as a parody of LifestylesOfTheRichAndFamous called ''Lifestyles of the Poor and Wretched''.
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* AnimationBump: Inverted. ''Gross Jokes'' has significantly cheaper animation than ''Escape from Orb''.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Subverted. Oculus Orbus disappears during ''Escape from Orb'' after the Madballs decide to use a spaceship to escape to Earth, but he inexplicably returns in ''Gross Jokes''.
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* BlackComedy: ''Gross Jokes'' features a rather amusing example where Aargh tells Slobulus that the easiest way to get to the cemetery is to jump in front of a truck.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The second series Madballs became the Badballs, an evil gang led by [[BigBad Commander Wolfbreath]] that hate music and fun. Interesting in that the Madballs comic book published by MarvelComics subsidiary Star Comics depicted them as good guys alongside the first series Madballs, though they did [[HeelFaceTurn start out as minions of Dr. Frankenbeans]].
* AscendedExtra: Bash Brain first appeared in ''Escape from Orb'' in a cameo as an inhabitant of the planet Orb being forced to build the monument of Commander Wolfbreath. In the second episode, ''Gross Jokes'', he is made a part of the main cast and even has a speaking role.
* AscendedExtra: Bash Brain first appeared in ''Escape from Orb'' in a cameo as an inhabitant of the planet Orb being forced to build the monument of Commander Wolfbreath. In the second episode, ''Gross Jokes'', he is made a part of the main cast and even has a speaking role.
* TheCameo: Bash Brain and most of the second series Madballs in ''Escape from Orb''.
* {{Cephalothorax}}: The Madballs are depicted as heads with arms and legs.
* DemBones: Skullface.
* DemBones: Skullface.
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* [[OneEpisodeWonder Two Episode Wonder]]: Only two episodes were ever made before the show was canned.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Bash Brain is present in both episodes, but his appearances are drastically different.
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Bash Brain is present in both episodes, but his appearances are drastically different.
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* BigBad: Commander Wolfbreath in '''Escape from Orb'''.
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The Madballs were a toyline of rubber balls with grotesque faces and amusing names released by American Greetings back in the 1980's. In 1986, {{Nelvana}} released two animated direct-to-video films about the Madballs, '''Escape from Orb''' and '''Gross Jokes'''. '''Escape from Orb''' was about a rock group known as the Madballs (Screamin' Meemie, Freakella, Dusty, Skull Face, and Horn Head) hoping to escape planet Orb so that they can be free of the tyranny of Commander Wolfbreath. Gross Jokes was a film about the Madballs telling crummy jokes and performing inane skits.
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*BerserkButton: If you know what's good for you, do not call Freakella a mop head!
*BigBad: Commander Wolfbreath in '''Escape from Orb'''.
*CanonForeigner: Freakella was created specifically for the animated series and was never made into a Madballs toy.
*TheDragon: Bruise Brother to Wolfbreath.
*ThoseTwoGuys: Aargh and Slobulus.
*TooDumbToLive: When the Madballs were fleeing from their planet in the spaceship Aargh and Slobulus built, they find to their horror that the two were not flying the ship and instead had been making parachutes, something they should have done before getting into the spaceship.
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