History WesternAnimation / Madballs

* 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.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The box art of the video tapes isn't consistent with the art style of the show, instead depicting realistic renderings of the Madballs toys with arms and legs.

* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: Early in "Escape from Orb", Freakella sneaks out to play with the other Madballs at night and stops to admire her reflection on a window.

* GenderFlip: The original toy for Dust Brain was male. In the cartoon, the character was made into a female named Dusty Dustbrain. In the current series of Youtube cartoons, Dust Brain is back to being male.

* GassHole: The 2017 Youtube cartoon series gave Dust Brain this trait.

* GenderFlip: The original toy for Dust Brain was male. In the cartoon, the character was made into a female named Dusty Dustbrain. In the current series of YouTube cartoons, Dust Brain is back to being male.

* GenderFlip: The original toy for Dust Brain was male. In the cartoon, the character was made into a female named Dusty Dustbrain.

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, Creator/{{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, Horn 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.

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, Horn 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.

* {{PhotoprotoneutronTorpedo}}: Parodied in ''Escape from Orb'', when Aargh and Slobulus accidentally launch a photon ''bathtub'' at the bad guys to slow them down.

* DistractedByMyOwnSexy: Early in "Escape from Orb", Freakella sneaks out to play with the other Madballs at night and stops to admire herself in the reflection.

* StraightMan: Freakella's aforementioned SelfDeprecation makes her this in ''Gross Jokes'', although Screamin' Meemie gets a turn at being a straight man in the school sketch by being a teacher having to deal with really dumb students.

* 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."
* 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.

* SelfDeprecation: Freakella constantly uses this trope in ''Gross Jokes'' in regard to the skits.
** 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.
* [[StraightMan Straight Woman]] Freakella's aforementioned SelfDeprecation makes her this in ''Gross Jokes'', although Screamin' Meemie gets a turn at being a straight man in the school sketch.

* DarkIsNotEvil: All the Madballs are based off of various movie monsters, but they're good guys. [[DarkIsEvil Averted with the Badballs]].

* 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.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Aargh and Slobulus.

* BigBad: Commander Wolfbreath in ''Escape from Orb''.

* TheCameo: Bash Brain and most of the second series Madballs in ''Escape from Orb''.

* 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.

* DemBones: Skullface.

* EvilOverlooker: Wolf Breath is depicted this way on the cover of the Escape from Orb VHS.

* 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]].

* ExtremeOmivore: Horn Head. He implies in the school sketch that he tried to eat his book, saying he only didn't finish it because he "wasn't very hungry". And that's not even getting into the weird foods he mentions in "Mr. Horn Head's Big Musical Number."

* [[OneEpisodeWonder Two Episode Wonder]]: Only two episodes were ever made before the show was canned.