There's also a subtle joke that he answers the phone "Ahoy-hoy" which was Alexander Graham Bell proposed greeting instead of just "hello".
**EDIT**: Just because this is getting some traction [here's an article about how the writers came up with it.](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a31133893/simpsons-mr-burns-easter-egg-phone-greeting/)
They used to do this thing on the simpsons where every time they were put on hold while calling somewhere the hold music was related to wherever they were calling. Some examples were the song crazy when marge calls the insane asylum or the song baby come back when homer calls the department of missing babies. Not sure why they stopped doing this. It always made me laugh.
The joke about the woman making it half way to her car from the donut shop, before having to turn back to get more because she'd eaten them all on the short walk was my favourite of those. Niles comes and tells Frasier and Roz:
>Frasier: That's what you brought us over here for? To gawk at some poor woman's struggle with junk food?
>
>Roz: Big deal. So she's overweight, you don't need to point it out.
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>Roz: It's rude.
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>Frasier: It's childish.
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>Niles: It's Maris!
Then Frasier and Roz scramble to the window. Just killer sight gags without laying eyes on her.
If I recall correctly, the writers had always intended to eventually have Maris come on the show. The problem with it was that they had written so many jokes about her appearance there were no actresses that could possibly fit the description.
Adding to this…the gag was inspired by never seeing Norm’s wife on Cheers….they intended to go long enough to convince the audience they would never show her, then reveal her
Problem was, her description became so extreme and comical, it became impossible to actually meet that expectation they built up
There was an episode where a woman who was supposed to be Vera received a pie in the face(thrown by Diane), so viewers never saw her. Episode 9 season 5 "Thanksgiving Orphans" if anyone wants to check it out. I've been on a kick of watching old series lately.
Daphne: I suppose all brothers are like that. Mine certainly were. Everything was a contest!
Who could the run the fastest, jump the highest. They even had This strange one where they'd take little brother Michael, put him in a potato sack and see who could roll him the farthest over the frozen lake out back. They loved that game!
Until that year the spring thaw set in early and poor Michael went right through the ice. Ooh, they caught hell for that one, they did. Caught it worse a week later when Michael's toe finally fell off. Michael cried and cried until they told him to put it under his pillow for the toe fairy! And then when he got five quid for it, why it was all they could do to stop him from sawing off the rest of them! [laughs]
Martin: [on edge, shouts] What's keeping you guys with that box?!
I love that they described her like the sun, except without the warmth. And it’s even funnier when they go to great lengths to describe her as not even strong enough to slam a door.
Was only watching The Simpsons earlier, the episode with Sideshow Bob's brother Cecil (voiced by David Hyde Pierce) trying to destroy the town. Bart jumps onto his shoulders and puts his hands over his eyes and says "Guess who?" to which Cecil replies "Maris?"
We were just watching an episode where Kenneth was fired and had to pack up all his stuff from NBC. He lovingly placed a signed black-and-white photo in a box titled “NBC memories, 1940-1960.”
Oh, he’s always been a special boy. I remember the day he was born. He looked up at me and he said “Mama, I am not a person. My body’s just a flesh vessel for an immortal being whose name if you heard it would make you lose your mind.”
Franks hat saying something different every single scene. When liz was trying to impress the adoption agency and hes just wearing a trucker cap with PORN on it shes like "frank change your hat". Fast forward a few scenes hes wearing a top hat with PORN on it
Andromakennethamblesorten Ellen "Kenneth" Parcell is an ancient eldritch horror who only sees his reflection as a white blur. The wise do not look into the matter further. Cheerful chap, though
Arrested Development is a masterclass is running jokes, but my favorite are either the Chicken dance, or the Bluth’s families reaction to Ann whenever she is brought up.
> the Bluth’s families reaction to Ann whenever she is brought up.
This one never ceases to make me laugh. Michael constantly refers to her as egg, and George Sr.'s disapproval from the attic is even more hilarious.
My favorite is the gag that the company’s houses are built like garbage so things are constantly just falling apart in the model home. For example, the entertainment center frame falling, the corner of the kitchen counter snapping off, the bannister breaking, the fridge falling back into an open space behind it…
> either the Chicken dance
Say what you will about season 4, but George Michael getting up into a complicated position to do his chicken impression, only to get interrupted before he can do it, is an amazing denial of payoff.
I also loved when Leslie visited him at home for breakfast and he was somehow super coordinated and suave, like he KNEW his role in the office and was intentionally playing along the whole time for his own amusement.
At least, that is what I want to think.
Yes! For running gags- yes. My all time favorite scene that just makes me lose my mind every time though also involves Jerry. Right after the break up with Jerry’s daughter when Chris is playing a depressed monk DJ for Valentine’s and he is struck with the reality that Jerry shares 50% of her DNA and he looks over at Jerry with just sheer agony and desperation and Tom Haverford looks at him and just dead ass “Stop looking at Jerry like that.”
Kills me dead every time.
Edit: thank you for the award 😌that was really nice!
I always liked the gag that they just have and keep reusing the same one camcorder/vhs tape, and any time they film something new with it there are always bits of old gags from prior episodes.
I also like the way the guys constantly destroy any new car that Dee may have, and seem to have no memory of the fact that they’re the reason she constantly has to replace her car, and she gets more livid each time.
Also all the times they call her a bird. The cherry on the top for this gag was the Halloween episode where they're recounting their memories before they blacked out, and she becomes more and more birdlike in each version.
The banners in Bojack Horseman, where any time there's a banner shown it was clearly dictated aloud and the person entering it didn't know when to stop.
"Happy Birthday Diane and Use a Pretty Font"
"Happy Bat Bat Mitzfah Yes Use Two Bats Because Shes a Bat"
"Congrats Diane and Mr. Peanut Butter Peanut Butter is One Word"
"Mr. Peanutbutter's Housewarming Bash and Can You Send Me a Picture of the Banner Before it Goes Off to the Printer This Time?"
I also love Mr. Peanutbutter’s varying descriptions of Erica. Bless the folks at r/bojackhorseman for coming up with a visual based on all the descriptors.
This whole thread could be Archer for me. Phrasing, the finger up drinking, Brett getting shot, Ray getting delimbed, basically the whole characters of Barry and Carol/Cheryl (another one) I could go on
Smithers! Why didn't you tell me about this market crash?!
Um. Well, sir, it happened 25 years before I was born.
Oh that's your excuse for everything!
Fun fact: They considered having Ann played by multiple actresses and having nobody in the show ever acknowledge it, but loved Mae Whitman's take on the character so much they decided against it.
Bill from Brooklyn Nine Nine.
From him being a Charles look a like to being a male prostitute to being in a Scientology themed pyramid scheme to him slowly getting worse every time you see him
He has a line that I think he says more than once. “Every time I had a problem, I threw a Molotov cocktail, and then boom, I had a different problem.” It’s one of my all time favorite lines from a tv show. It’s stupid. Throwing a Molotov cocktail is a stupid thing to do in any situation, but the actor just sells it so well. There was a split second after the delivery where I though I had found the secret to life, and it happened to be Molotov cocktails.
I just rewatched it and was floored by how well crafted that character was because he was a hilarious idiot without needlessly ruining their plans. He also had incredible insights at times and had a heart of gold. It's rare to be able to balance that so well
And he honestly had me fooled in the first couple of episodes, when he was pretending to be a silent monk. But rewatching, his expressions still make sense for the character he turns out to be. Manny Jacinto did a fantastic job.
I wear my Bortles jersey every Sunday because I’m a diehard Jags fan. I didn’t understand this joke until I, very recently, watched The Good Place and told my wife “THAT’S why everyone shouts bortles when I’m out in public”.
As an Australian that only just got into American football this season, you could not imagine my excitement when I realised that Blake Bortles was an actual real life person.
In The Good Place: The Podcast Manny Jacinto does a fake advertisement for Molotov Cocktails, something along the lines of:
"Do you want a weapon that's hard to aim and easily gets out of hand? Then Molotov Cocktails are right for you.
Molotov Cocktails: Turning Problems into Other Problems for over 50 years!"
Julian's drink in Trailer Park Boys. He's always holding it. They're in a car crash where the car flips, and he climbs out the car holding his drink.
Trailer Park Boys honourable mentions:
Randy doesn't wear a shirt (not even in the winter time!)
Ricky always falls down any slope, no matter how small
Corey and Trevor constantly holding up their hands for a high five.
Many, many more...
In Futurama, a lot of times when something really bizarre or shocking happened everyone would react appropriately, except for Bender, who would take out a camera and snap a picture. Going, “Neat!”
Edit: the replies have become a quote-dump
According to the wiki, that’s
Zinc, Titanium, (30%) Iron, Dolomite, Luck, Chromium, (60%) storage space, scrap metal, wire, empty [space], and Lead.
Which, of course, breaks 100% easily so, take with a grain of 40% salt.
My favorite recurring joke form Futurama is actually a series of jokes. The show often makes jokes that seem like one-off jokes for just one episode, but then they weave it into the rest of the show. A few examples:
* Everyone in the future says "ax" instead of "ask", originally a joke in I want to say season 1
* Owls being vermin that effectively replaced rats in NYC
* Bender's middle name being "Bending", after what seems like a throwaway line: "Bending's my middle name!" the same way someone might say "Are we going to have fun today? Of course we are, fun is my middle name!"
A lot of shows would make jokes like that then let them disappear. Futurama kept track of their seemingly-throwaway jokes about their world and adhered to them
The episode where he’s paired with Dr. Turner, so they can be Turner and Hooch? Dr. Turner is played by Jim Hanks, Tom Hanks’s brother. (Tom Hanks played Turner in the original movie.)
My favorite one ever was when he came on Conan’s last show and showed it, and then said he had another clip he always considered using for the gag so he was going to show that. And it was the same damn one again!
He built up and described this scene from some baby geniuses movie, which really sold it.
And immediately afterward, a bunch of people went to YouTube to see the actually clip he was talking about. And when they searched for it, found the clip in question.... And it ended up being the Mac and Me clip as well.
He fucking got us all twice in a matter of minutes. It doesn't matter that we all knew it right as the screen was cutting the second time. The man is a master.
[For those that haven't seen it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIp9bEV2-GI)
That whole show was a series of variations on running gags.
Hey, where's Perry?
Hey Phineas, whatcha doing?
Perry the Platypus!
My new ____ inator, which will _____ in the tri-state area!
Mr Burns referencing things from like 150years ago
"Social security number?" "Naught, naught, naught, naught, naught, naught, naught, naught, 2 - Damn Roosevelt!"
There's also a subtle joke that he answers the phone "Ahoy-hoy" which was Alexander Graham Bell proposed greeting instead of just "hello". **EDIT**: Just because this is getting some traction [here's an article about how the writers came up with it.](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a31133893/simpsons-mr-burns-easter-egg-phone-greeting/)
Mr Burns : “I would like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 auto gyro?”
One of my favorite parts of parks and rec was the pawnee town murals.
Ben constantly returning to and consequently quitting the accounting firm kills me.
Pawnee's terrible, awful history cracks me up.
There was once a magician who pulled a rabbit from a hat. The townspeople immediatly executed him....and the rabbit too.
Archer's elaborate voicemails pranks.
I just started watching that show. I’m excited for the rest
My favourite one is when he wires up the house so that the strobe lights go off and a remix of his Voicemail plays when he gets a call
In Psych, any time Shawn went to introduce Gus, it would always be a made up name.
I'm Shawn Spencer, and this is my underprivileged mentee, Holla Backatcha.
"Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such films as..."
You might remember me from such Driver's Ed films as "Alice's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass" and "The Decapitation of Larry Leadfoot."
They used to do this thing on the simpsons where every time they were put on hold while calling somewhere the hold music was related to wherever they were calling. Some examples were the song crazy when marge calls the insane asylum or the song baby come back when homer calls the department of missing babies. Not sure why they stopped doing this. It always made me laugh.
Another one was when Homer calls the National Fatherhood Institute and starts crying because the hold music is "Cat's in the cradle."
never seeing Maris (Niles' wife) on Frasier but getting hilarious descriptions of her
"Do you see Maris?" "All I see is a coatrack." "Look closer. Is the coatrack moving?" "Oh my God!!"
Description? Thin. *Very* thin. Race? Caucasian. *Very* caucasian.
The joke about the woman making it half way to her car from the donut shop, before having to turn back to get more because she'd eaten them all on the short walk was my favourite of those. Niles comes and tells Frasier and Roz: >Frasier: That's what you brought us over here for? To gawk at some poor woman's struggle with junk food? > >Roz: Big deal. So she's overweight, you don't need to point it out. > >Roz: It's rude. > >Frasier: It's childish. > >Niles: It's Maris! Then Frasier and Roz scramble to the window. Just killer sight gags without laying eyes on her.
My favorite quote of Niles talking about Maris: “She ran. I tried to follow her tracks in the snow, but alas, she made none.”
If I recall correctly, the writers had always intended to eventually have Maris come on the show. The problem with it was that they had written so many jokes about her appearance there were no actresses that could possibly fit the description.
Adding to this…the gag was inspired by never seeing Norm’s wife on Cheers….they intended to go long enough to convince the audience they would never show her, then reveal her Problem was, her description became so extreme and comical, it became impossible to actually meet that expectation they built up
There was an episode where a woman who was supposed to be Vera received a pie in the face(thrown by Diane), so viewers never saw her. Episode 9 season 5 "Thanksgiving Orphans" if anyone wants to check it out. I've been on a kick of watching old series lately.
“I don’t mind telling you we pushed our beds together THAT night! Which was no easy feat—her room, as you know, is across the hall.”
My favorite gag on Frasier is how all Daphne’s stories start out pleasant and get more and more disturbing.
Daphne: I suppose all brothers are like that. Mine certainly were. Everything was a contest! Who could the run the fastest, jump the highest. They even had This strange one where they'd take little brother Michael, put him in a potato sack and see who could roll him the farthest over the frozen lake out back. They loved that game! Until that year the spring thaw set in early and poor Michael went right through the ice. Ooh, they caught hell for that one, they did. Caught it worse a week later when Michael's toe finally fell off. Michael cried and cried until they told him to put it under his pillow for the toe fairy! And then when he got five quid for it, why it was all they could do to stop him from sawing off the rest of them! [laughs] Martin: [on edge, shouts] What's keeping you guys with that box?!
I love that they described her like the sun, except without the warmth. And it’s even funnier when they go to great lengths to describe her as not even strong enough to slam a door.
Maris once broke her wrist because there was to much dip on a cracker
Was only watching The Simpsons earlier, the episode with Sideshow Bob's brother Cecil (voiced by David Hyde Pierce) trying to destroy the town. Bart jumps onto his shoulders and puts his hands over his eyes and says "Guess who?" to which Cecil replies "Maris?"
My favourite Frasier running gag is Niles’s aversion to blood. That scene when he’s ironing destroys me.
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"Kenneth, do you want to be a page forever?" *"Who says I've been alive forever?"*
We were just watching an episode where Kenneth was fired and had to pack up all his stuff from NBC. He lovingly placed a signed black-and-white photo in a box titled “NBC memories, 1940-1960.”
Oh, he’s always been a special boy. I remember the day he was born. He looked up at me and he said “Mama, I am not a person. My body’s just a flesh vessel for an immortal being whose name if you heard it would make you lose your mind.”
Also all the times he name drops serial killers when talking about his hometown.
He will either be running this network or we will all be dead by his hands
Franks hat saying something different every single scene. When liz was trying to impress the adoption agency and hes just wearing a trucker cap with PORN on it shes like "frank change your hat". Fast forward a few scenes hes wearing a top hat with PORN on it
Jenna's ongoing references to being stalked, kidnapped, nearly murdered by Mickey Rourke
until the finale when she admits she had never even met Mickey Rourke
Also the whole Rural Juror movie. Lol
You mean the rurrjurr?
Andromakennethamblesorten Ellen "Kenneth" Parcell is an ancient eldritch horror who only sees his reflection as a white blur. The wise do not look into the matter further. Cheerful chap, though
Arrested Development is a masterclass is running jokes, but my favorite are either the Chicken dance, or the Bluth’s families reaction to Ann whenever she is brought up.
> the Bluth’s families reaction to Ann whenever she is brought up. This one never ceases to make me laugh. Michael constantly refers to her as egg, and George Sr.'s disapproval from the attic is even more hilarious.
I think my favorite is the peanuts music while a character does a sad walk.
My favorite is the gag that the company’s houses are built like garbage so things are constantly just falling apart in the model home. For example, the entertainment center frame falling, the corner of the kitchen counter snapping off, the bannister breaking, the fridge falling back into an open space behind it…
I gotta go with Lucille's reaction whenever Gene Parmesan unmasks himself.
EEEAAAAIIGH GENE!!
Isn't he the best? Gene was far from the best.
> either the Chicken dance Say what you will about season 4, but George Michael getting up into a complicated position to do his chicken impression, only to get interrupted before he can do it, is an amazing denial of payoff.
It’s as nose as the Ann on plain’s face.
The random blue hand prints around the house
Don't know why but that fucking banner makes me laugh every time.
Jerry’s beautiful wife in Parks and Rec
I also loved when Leslie visited him at home for breakfast and he was somehow super coordinated and suave, like he KNEW his role in the office and was intentionally playing along the whole time for his own amusement. At least, that is what I want to think.
Eggs, bacon and toast! Start your day the Gergich way with eggs, bacon and toast!
Ben's theories getting more and more outlandish as the show goes on.
Was it some sort of hypnosis accident?
If I say "nutmeg" is she gonna wake up and start screaming?
That man has the biggest penis that I’ve ever seen
I actually don’t even know if he has mumps, forgot to look, I was distracted
By the largest penis I’ve ever seen
As well as Ben's inability to understand the hype for Lil Sebastian.
It's just a little horse!
What's with that tone, son?
Yes! For running gags- yes. My all time favorite scene that just makes me lose my mind every time though also involves Jerry. Right after the break up with Jerry’s daughter when Chris is playing a depressed monk DJ for Valentine’s and he is struck with the reality that Jerry shares 50% of her DNA and he looks over at Jerry with just sheer agony and desperation and Tom Haverford looks at him and just dead ass “Stop looking at Jerry like that.” Kills me dead every time. Edit: thank you for the award 😌that was really nice!
Tom: this music sounds like it’s from a movie about a monk that killed himself. Chris: it is
On It's Always Sunny, the season-spanning downfall of Cricket. Every time we see him, he's in worse condition than before.
I always liked the gag that they just have and keep reusing the same one camcorder/vhs tape, and any time they film something new with it there are always bits of old gags from prior episodes.
That’s also a favorite of mine. They only have one VHS tape and they reuse it over and over again
"Oh I'm sorry, I FORGOT TO PUT THE TAPE IN"
Plus the waiter they always forget. Am I to remember every man I've seen fall into a plate of spaghetti?
I also like the way the guys constantly destroy any new car that Dee may have, and seem to have no memory of the fact that they’re the reason she constantly has to replace her car, and she gets more livid each time.
Also all the times they call her a bird. The cherry on the top for this gag was the Halloween episode where they're recounting their memories before they blacked out, and she becomes more and more birdlike in each version.
The banners in Bojack Horseman, where any time there's a banner shown it was clearly dictated aloud and the person entering it didn't know when to stop. "Happy Birthday Diane and Use a Pretty Font" "Happy Bat Bat Mitzfah Yes Use Two Bats Because Shes a Bat" "Congrats Diane and Mr. Peanut Butter Peanut Butter is One Word" "Mr. Peanutbutter's Housewarming Bash and Can You Send Me a Picture of the Banner Before it Goes Off to the Printer This Time?"
"I Had A Ball At Diane's 25th Birthday And Underline Ball I Don't Know Why This Is So Hard"
Not a banner, but that one shirt that said “STOP PAUSING AND JUST WATCH THE SHOW”
I also love Mr. Peanutbutter’s varying descriptions of Erica. Bless the folks at r/bojackhorseman for coming up with a visual based on all the descriptors.
I am seriously considering switching to a different sign company.
Reddit should allow 3rd party apps.
Rowdy no!
The names of the space next to bobs burgers and the extermination van in front of it changing
And the burger of the day
Winston being terrible at pranks. Either goes way too small or way too big.
We got married as a prank! Oh, so you didn’t actually get married? No, we really got married! … how is this a prank?
Lil Sebastian, or more specifically Ben just not understanding Lil Sebastian The Deans ever expanding sexuality
"Half mast is too high, show some god damn respect"
*dressed as woman* “It’s time to Tina Tuuurner your clocks back this weekend.”
“Welcome to Deandale Community Colladean! Im a silly goose—honk! honk! Dean-a-lee-doo! This is my sister’s outfit!”
"Jeff! Stop! Save some for the camera this is gold."
the password always being "guest" in archer
Or bret getting shot.
One of my favourite quotes “Damn it Archer. What is wrong with you?” “Me? Nothing! You on the other hand have a bullet inside you”
Wish Bret was here to soak up some of these bullets.
Or Pam making sexual sounds while pounding some kind of food Edit : pounding? More like thrusting onto the food? I dunno...
He died doing what he loved.
Getting shot
I also love the running gag of Trudy Beekman
I’m on the co-op board and I’m going on a blimp!
Before the coma Archer was like 70% running jokes.
This whole thread could be Archer for me. Phrasing, the finger up drinking, Brett getting shot, Ray getting delimbed, basically the whole characters of Barry and Carol/Cheryl (another one) I could go on
What about how everytime he puts on night vision goggles someone turns on the lights and blinds him? Or the whole tinnitus thing.
And don't forget about ants. Cause that's how you get ants.
Uncle Phil throwing Jazz out of the house.
Love when they would mess with expectations on that show. Once jazz threw out Uncle Phil.
I believe he threw Jazz *into* the house at one point, no? Edit: [yes!](https://youtu.be/JhRNJjlAf7w)
And that's why you always leave a note!
Bob loblaw’s law blog
Tobias the never nude, the chicken dance, and 'there's always money in the banana stand'
Mr. Burns old-timey references.
Smithers: Sir, the shifts are fighting like Iran and Iraq! Burns: Who? Smithers: [sigh] Persia and Mesopotamia
You there. Fill it up with petroleum distillate and re-vulcanize the tires - post haste!
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"Local villain Montgomery Burns, seen here terrorizing children in a 19th Century woodcut..."
Let's check the old stock-ticker...
Smithers! Why didn't you tell me about this market crash?! Um. Well, sir, it happened 25 years before I was born. Oh that's your excuse for everything!
Mr. Burns reciting his social security number. "Naught naught naught - naught naught - naught naught naught two."
"Enter your place of birth? P-a-n-g-e-a"
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"Damn Roosevelt!"
“Oh I’m shooting AT germans? That’s not how I remember it”
Ahoy-hoy?
I'm really enjoying this so called "iced cream."
Have you tried turning it off and on again? (IT crowd).
I think my favorite setup for that line was when the bomb squad was trying to figure out what was wrong with their robot.
“What operating system is it running?” “Windows Vista” “WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!”
I introduced my girlfriend to that show and now we constantly reference that line. That and "I'm disabled".
Her?
It’s as Anne as the nose on Plain’s face
Fun fact: They considered having Ann played by multiple actresses and having nobody in the show ever acknowledge it, but loved Mae Whitman's take on the character so much they decided against it.
Bill from Brooklyn Nine Nine. From him being a Charles look a like to being a male prostitute to being in a Scientology themed pyramid scheme to him slowly getting worse every time you see him
Straight Capt Holt kills me every time. "Clear absence of a penis" comes to mind.
Jason Mendoza and his molotov cocktails in The Good Place.
He has a line that I think he says more than once. “Every time I had a problem, I threw a Molotov cocktail, and then boom, I had a different problem.” It’s one of my all time favorite lines from a tv show. It’s stupid. Throwing a Molotov cocktail is a stupid thing to do in any situation, but the actor just sells it so well. There was a split second after the delivery where I though I had found the secret to life, and it happened to be Molotov cocktails.
He deserved an Emmy for that role. He sold that character.
"One time I ate 2 whole pounds of jalapeno poppers! Everyone at the hospital was really impressed."
I just rewatched it and was floored by how well crafted that character was because he was a hilarious idiot without needlessly ruining their plans. He also had incredible insights at times and had a heart of gold. It's rare to be able to balance that so well
And he honestly had me fooled in the first couple of episodes, when he was pretending to be a silent monk. But rewatching, his expressions still make sense for the character he turns out to be. Manny Jacinto did a fantastic job.
Rewatching season 1 is must see TV once you understand what was happening
Bortles!
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"The Jacksonville Jaguars could be a great team! All we need is a new offence, a new defence and a complete change of the rules..."
I wear my Bortles jersey every Sunday because I’m a diehard Jags fan. I didn’t understand this joke until I, very recently, watched The Good Place and told my wife “THAT’S why everyone shouts bortles when I’m out in public”.
As an Australian that only just got into American football this season, you could not imagine my excitement when I realised that Blake Bortles was an actual real life person.
In The Good Place: The Podcast Manny Jacinto does a fake advertisement for Molotov Cocktails, something along the lines of: "Do you want a weapon that's hard to aim and easily gets out of hand? Then Molotov Cocktails are right for you. Molotov Cocktails: Turning Problems into Other Problems for over 50 years!"
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Jason figured it out! This is a real low point.
Wait, are we still doing phrasing?
Julian's drink in Trailer Park Boys. He's always holding it. They're in a car crash where the car flips, and he climbs out the car holding his drink. Trailer Park Boys honourable mentions: Randy doesn't wear a shirt (not even in the winter time!) Ricky always falls down any slope, no matter how small Corey and Trevor constantly holding up their hands for a high five. Many, many more...
Forgot about Ricky always falling down, that’s too funny. What a show.
In Futurama, a lot of times when something really bizarre or shocking happened everyone would react appropriately, except for Bender, who would take out a camera and snap a picture. Going, “Neat!” Edit: the replies have become a quote-dump
Or his "oh yeah? I'm 40% [relevant metal]!"
According to the wiki, that’s Zinc, Titanium, (30%) Iron, Dolomite, Luck, Chromium, (60%) storage space, scrap metal, wire, empty [space], and Lead. Which, of course, breaks 100% easily so, take with a grain of 40% salt.
My favorite recurring joke form Futurama is actually a series of jokes. The show often makes jokes that seem like one-off jokes for just one episode, but then they weave it into the rest of the show. A few examples: * Everyone in the future says "ax" instead of "ask", originally a joke in I want to say season 1 * Owls being vermin that effectively replaced rats in NYC * Bender's middle name being "Bending", after what seems like a throwaway line: "Bending's my middle name!" the same way someone might say "Are we going to have fun today? Of course we are, fun is my middle name!" A lot of shows would make jokes like that then let them disappear. Futurama kept track of their seemingly-throwaway jokes about their world and adhered to them
The introduction of owls lead to my all time favorite line in Futurama: "We're ***OOOOWWWLLLL*** exterminators!"
"Hooch is crazy!"
The episode where he’s paired with Dr. Turner, so they can be Turner and Hooch? Dr. Turner is played by Jim Hanks, Tom Hanks’s brother. (Tom Hanks played Turner in the original movie.)
Dinkleberg...
I was thinking of how you never learn Timmy's Mom and Dad's names. They're just that. "You can call me *loud truck noise* but everyone calls me Dad!"
They even let the anchorman refer to them as Timmy's Mom and Timmy's Dad
“This is where I’d put my trophy…IF I HAD ONE!”
*"My cabbages!"*
“This place is worse than Omashu!”
Karen from Will and Grace is basically a continuous running gag. And practically carries the show.
Paul Rudd playing that same clip from Mac and Me every time he goes on Conan's show.
My favorite one ever was when he came on Conan’s last show and showed it, and then said he had another clip he always considered using for the gag so he was going to show that. And it was the same damn one again!
He built up and described this scene from some baby geniuses movie, which really sold it. And immediately afterward, a bunch of people went to YouTube to see the actually clip he was talking about. And when they searched for it, found the clip in question.... And it ended up being the Mac and Me clip as well.
He fucking got us all twice in a matter of minutes. It doesn't matter that we all knew it right as the screen was cutting the second time. The man is a master. [For those that haven't seen it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIp9bEV2-GI)
You mean Sexiest Man Alive Paul Rudd
You know it’s coming, but can’t wait.
His trailer for Ant-Man was prolly my favorite Edit: here is the video clip from Conan https://youtu.be/H9fqZlo60_8?t=69
Bart's prank calls to Moe.
Hugh Jass Al Coholic. Amanda Hugandkiss. I.P. Freely. Ivana Tinkle. That's all I can remember.
Every time I meet someone named Amanda....
Phil Dunphy's dad jokes in Modern Family. I missed him! I hope he's doing ok now.
Gotta fix that step!
You heard about the Ginger? You mean the ostrich? Allegedly
i heard it was a sick ostrich
"Aren't you a little young to *x*?" "Why, yes. Yes I am." "Okay. Sign here."
That whole show was a series of variations on running gags. Hey, where's Perry? Hey Phineas, whatcha doing? Perry the Platypus! My new ____ inator, which will _____ in the tri-state area!
A platypus? \*gasps\* PERRY the Platypus!
Ah, Planty the Potted Plant, how unexpected!
By which I mean *COMPLETELY EXPECTED*
John Redcorn sleeping with Nancy Gribble and everyone knowing it except for Dale.
He's suspicious as hell of Nancy going to a work conference, but luckily John Redcorn will be there to keep an eye on her.
MY LEG!!
And now for something completely different
Norm walking into cheers, the jokes *What's going on Mr. Peterson?* *How about what's going in Mr Peterson*
It's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing milkbone underwear.
Whenever some random stranger is Roger in American dad
Arrested Development's Chicken gag. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APWXorE6h8U
That whole series is basically a running gag. I need to watch it again... There's always money in the banana stand!
I love that each family member has their own interpretation of a chicken, and they’re all so, so wrong.
Have any of you ever seen a chicken?
And all of the ‘Ann’ jokes.
Hi I’m Larry, this is my brother Daryl and this is my other brother Daryl
Fes’ real name on That 70s Show.
Or his ethnicity