Another one from “Just Shoot Me”: Elliot and Nina discover that they are both big fans of a blues musician named Cholera Joe Hopper. As the episode unwinds, we follow poor Joe’s medical disasters and deteriorating health through his music. His final album is called “Don’t Need No Doctor”.
As a person who can’t understand anyone considering Gilligan’s Island to be a bad show, I must correct that quote.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be!
Do not forget: stay out of debt.
Think twice and take
this good advice from me.
Guard that old solvencyyyyyyy
There’s just one other thing
You ought to do:
To thine own self be truuuuue!
“What kind of scary-ass clowns did you have at your birthday parties?”
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On “Growing Pains” Mike’s best friend was called “Boner” for years. Finally it was revealed his real name was Richard Stabone.
On one epsiode Mike asked him what his father’s first name was:
Boner: Sylvester.
Mike pauses, then says "Wait a minute. Your father’s name is Sylvester Stabone?.
Boner: Who knew?
The funniest gag from Happy Days came from The Simpsons:
Marge: Time to go to the reunion.
Homer: It’ll be great to see the old gang again. Potsie, Ralph Malph, The Fonz…
Marge: That was Happy Days!
Homer: No, they weren’t all Happy Days, like the time Pinky Tuscadero crashed her motorcycle, or the night I lost all my money to those card sharks and my dad Tom Bosley had to get it back.
Art imitating schlock.
Paraphrasing from my muddled memory…
One segment of the Flintstones, Fred was reminiscing about not getting any respect, even when young.
“During our elementary school play, other children got to be trees, birds, and butterflies. I…I was a slug.”
We only saw a couple of episodes of the Brooke Sheilds sitcom “Suddenly Susan”, but KH and I still get the giggles at the only scene we remember from it.
Brooke Shields was in a bookstore trying to hide from someone, and she wandered into the science-fiction section. A short, obviously nerdy man was standing there browsing. He looked up, admired her, and said: “I bet you’re as tall as a Wookie.”
Whenever we’re out in public and we spot a particularly tall woman, we’re still apt to say (quietly), “Bet she’s as tall as a Wookie.”
You saw the only good joke of the series. tdn, I gotta say, I’ve got a slight problem with your OP. This is a good thread, but Suddenly Susan made ALF look like Frank’s Place.
I also didn’t watch “Just Shoot Me” very much but I remember the “Biography” episode they did for Nina, which I thought was hilarious. At the end of the show they ask all of the people they interviewed for the episode to sum up Nina in one word. Don Henley (from the Eagles) rattles off a couple of adjectives that are completely dissimilar, then says “Is there a word that means both? I’ll bet the Germans have one.”
(It would be a lot funnier if I could remember what the hell the two words were…)
Not really a joke, but one Gilligan’s Island, they found, I think it was a stone of some sort, that was supposed to grant wishes. At the end, they’re all standing on a corner of the island, at the edge of the island, Gillian holding the stone, ready to make the last wish. Everyone tells him to wish them off the island, so he does. The piece of land they’re on breaks away a few inches from the island. About the only cleaver thing I ever saw on the show.
Also, I liked a Christmas episode of Married With Children, where Kelly gets a CD from Herman’s Hermits, and reads it out loud “I’m Henry the V I I I I am” Bud corrects her and…darn, I’m blanking, hearing Kelly pronounce each Roman numeral as an individual letter was funny enough for me.
FRIENDS:
Joey: All right, Rach. The big question is, “does he like you?” All right? Because if he doesn’t like you, this is all a moo point.
Rachel: Huh. A moo point?
Joey: Yeah, it’s like a cow’s opinion. It just doesn’t matter. It’s moo.
ROSEANNE:
[Lights go out as electricity is shut off]
Roseanne: Well, middle class was fun.
It’s actually “What kind of scary-ass clowns came to your birthday?” Link I remember it because I found it odd that he didn’t say the word “party” at the end.
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Well, I liked most of the episodes of Friends, but since it’s been trashed somewhat, I guess I’m free to share one of my favorite scenes:
The gang is watching an old home-movie of Ross and Monica, when they were in high school. Unbeknownst to some of them, Monica was very fat in high school.
When she’s first seen on the video, the gang recoils in shock.
Joey (pointing, horrified): That girl ate Monica!
Monica: Shut up. The camera adds ten pounds.
Chandler: So how many cameras were ON you, anyway?
Some people considered The John Larroquette Show bad (they were wrong, of course).
One of my favorite scenes was when John walked into work one day wearing whiskers under his lower lip. Daryl Mitchell asked, “What the hell do you call that?” and Chi McBride replied, “It’s called a soul patch, and they were considered cool until about twenty seconds ago.”
My favorite part of that scene was when Monica opened a box and pulled out an old bathing suit, and Chandler commented “That’s what they use to cover Connecticut when it rains.”
Then the video shows Rachel with her old nose, and he says, “No, that’s what they use to cover Connecticut when it rains.”
Just Shoot Me was usually only remotely funny when focusing on the character of Finch.
I liked the episode where they did a takeoff on, “The Ginch Who Stole Christmas” to the tune of, “You’re a mean one, Mr. Finch.” Basically Finch thinks no one’s getting him anything for Christmas and starts plotting against people in the office. The songs and narration they came up with were clever.
Does anyone remember the show “The Grubbs” starring Randy Quaid?
No? That’s because it was cancelled before it even aired.
However, apparently there was a short time when they were still in purgatory and they were running some promos for it from which we were left this gem. . .“when life hands you crap, make crapenade”.
From the sitcom so bad, it didn’t even make it to TV.
There was also the “ketchup” joke from “Fox Force Five”.
I came in here specifically to post this one. Damn you, Sauron!
Life imitating…art, I guess if you want to be kind to Suddenly Susan.
There was this girl who dated most of my group of friends. One time, when talking about her, one of the guys says:
(Spoiler box for the easily offended/disgusted/I don’t wanna hear no bitchin’ if you highlight the spoiler box)
It was like going down on a wookiee.
Ouch.
-Joe, tangential
“Destructive…no, vibrant.”