Robot Chicken has the Stupid Monkey character about to die in a different way at the end of every show.
I remember another one, where, after a particularly angsty episode, the monster moped, “I’m so depressed!”
I found a list of all of them:
“Becoming, Part Two” — He says “Oooh, I need a hug” instead.
“Amends” — He wears a Santa hat.
“Graduation Day, Part Two” — He wears a graduation cap.
“Once More, with Feeling” — He sings the line in falsetto.
“Storyteller” — He sings a line from the episode, “We are as Gods”.
“Chosen” — He turns and pulls a face at the viewer.
I’ve been watching The Big Bang Theory on DVD, and they have the vanity cards at the end. It being DVD, I can pause it just then and read the whole thing. A couple of times, though, it’s just been something that looks like an audio player control with the caption “Click to play”. On the off-chance that it was an Easter egg on the disc, I tried clicking it, but it didn’t do anything. Were those the ones I was supposed to dig up online?
Amigos de Garcia, the production company for My Name is Earl and Yes, Dear creator Gregory Garcia, rotates a different picture of somebody Garcia knows wearing a sombrero.
I don’t watch Two and a Half Men, but I do watch The Big Bang Theory. When I first picked it up at the beginning of this season I started pausing the TiVo and reading his vanity cards. One of them related stories that “weren’t funny then; are funny now” about things that happened to him over his TV career. The last one told about how when working on Cybil, Cybil Shepard told him to fire a certain writer because he was a misogynist, which Lorre admitted was true. But he responded “What do you care? You’re not a woman!” So she fired Lorre instead. On the card, he wrote that this was one instance that still wasn’t funny all these years later.
That was the last time I read his cards. What a self-justifying douchebag. He seriously thought he could have gotten away with such a slimy thing to say? Sure, Shepard’s supposed to be an unpleasant person, but who cares? You say that shit to anybody, they’ll kick your ass for you.
–Cliffy
I don’t love Two and Half Men. It is one of those: I’m bored, I can’t find anything else to do and I don’t feel like reading shows.
Some of the vanity cards are funny. I saw one a few weeks ago that made me laugh. In short, he said that he likes to imagine that we are all god and feels more connected that way, then he turns on Fox news and becomes an atheist.
That’s the one I was thinking of.
re “Two & 1/2 Men” - The first couple times I watched it, I couldn’t believe how incredibly vulgar it was. But I was also laughing very hard. So I watched the reruns late night sometimes, and some ep.s I’ve seen numerous times still make me laugh. Definitely a very guilty pleasure.
Slightly off-topic - Isn’t it one of the few successful TV shows to depict a child growing up as a child of divorce, being shuttled between homes? When I consider that, oh, 80% of the students at the high school where I work have divorced parents, that makes poor Jake a pretty interesting character.
I used to like tow & a half men but I’m bored with it now. I liked it that the kid wasn’t cute or particularly bright. & I liked that the adults had more than their share of human frailties - but I’m over it now. I think they have run out of ideas.
maplekiwi - That’s the problem with most American TV shows. If they are successful at all they inevitably stay on the air long past the point where they are good.
I can’t think of another show where it’s been done. I think the writers have handled it well in not making a big deal of it. All of Alan and Judith’s fights are about each other – they don’t use Jake as a weapon and they’re both trying to be good parents. And Jake handles it well too. He doesn’t whine, doesn’t play one parent against the other. Bit of a stoic, actually, our Jake. He has three people who care deeply about him (four if you count Evelyn) and he’s turning out okay.
Maybe a downside is that the show makes divorce seem like no big deal for the kids. ?
5 if you count Rose.
Gosh yes. Every kid could use a friend like Rose. Hell, I could use a friend like Rose. 
I think that Two and a Half Men catches a lot of flak because it’s Strictly Formula, and a lot of people have the knee-jerk reaction that “formulaic = automatically bad”. I don’t think that’s necessarily the case.
It’s okay, for a sitcom; not great, just okay. I suspect that a lot of people that rag on the show don’t particularly like sitcoms in the first place. That makes about as much sense as me going around saying that (for instance) Brooks & Dunn make bad music when I’m not even into country music anyway. Plus it seems like it has the dubious honor of being the go-to “bad show” that other TV shows pick to make fun of (except Family Guy, which goes after Dharma & Greg).
Max the Immortal, yeah, it’s definitely got a formula. The 2.5 Men writers make it interesting – it’ll look like they’re changing the formula but they always get back to it. Like Evelyn’s marriage to Teddy, Charlie deciding he might be in love with Rose, Judith softening toward Alan, etc. It’s almost like the Simpsons sometimes – the beginning of an episode seems to have no relationship to the ending. You think “How did they get here from there?”
I watch it mostly for Evelyn and Berta. The way those two cut down Charlie and Alan is worth it.
I prefer Family Guy’s version
I miss Rose.
She’s gone? We’ve only seen the repeats and about half of this last season’s episodes. Where’d she go? IMDB says she’s making movies (five coming soon) but where’d she go on the show?
You, sir, are worse than Hitler.
I hate that show so much and its popularity among the American people troubles me so much I could only crack a half-smile when Obama was elected.