# Favorite unpopular joke from a TV show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 20, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515 "2018-05-20T17:48:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/21 "2018-05-22T13:29:18Z")
> [@Sauron](#): > > Two more _M_A_S_H \*one-liners I’ve always loved, and oddly enough, they’re both from the “Officer of the Day” episode: > > A Korean has shown up for medical attention, and shows his ID card. His name is Kim Luck. Hawkeye remarks to Radar that’s the second Kim Luck they’ve seen today. > > Hawkeye (to Korean): Can you identify yourself? > > Korean (thumps chest, smiles): This is me! > > Hawkeye: Well, I guess you wouldn’t kid me about a thing like that. > > I still use the “This is me” line when I’m asked for identification sometimes. > > At the end of the day, Hawkeye is dictating his report to Radar. Trapper sticks his head around the door, and asks if they want to see the greatest pinstripe suit of all time. (He’d commissioned a Korean tailor to make one for him.) He walks in and models the suit, which has the pinstripes going horizontally, instead of vertically. Both Radar and Hawkeye collapse in laughter. > > Hawkeye: He’s a great tailor, but he’s got a lousy sense of direction. The last line in that exchange actually bugged me because I felt it was an overdub to explain the joke (in case people didn’t notice the pinstripes being screwed up). Note the earlier reference explains the Kim Lucky day joke which someone above didn’t understand. (I too use the “this is me” line). ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/22 "2018-05-22T13:37:30Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > \*\*\*Seinfeld \*\*\*was full of jokes no one would get unless they were familiar with the backlog of episodes. > > My favorite so far came when Kramer and Newman were hiring homeless guys to pull rickshaws in NYC. One of the men was named Rusty: > > **KRAMER:** Oh, I once knew a horse named Rusty! > > Rusty was the horse Kramer fed Beef-a-Reeno to when he was a Hansom cab driver. The horse became unbearably flatulent right in the middle of an important fare (the late Susan Ross’s parents). > > Cough and you would have missed it. I laughed out loud! One of my favorite Seinfeld callbacks is the episode when Mr. Lippman decides to open the muffin top bakery and Elaine is giving him advice on how to run the business. Elaine: And one more thing. It’s not “Top of the Muffin… TO YA!!” Mr. Lippman: Yes! It is! ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/23 "2018-05-22T13:41:21Z")
There was an episode of Wings where the two pilots are stuck on the tarmac with some incredibly annoying guy who keeps asking things. One of his questions was “If you were bitten by a monkey, what sort of medicine would they give you?” Later he says “My mother always said there’s no stupid questions” to which one of the brothers quips “Did you ever ask her the one about the monkey?” To this day, that’s my immediate thought when I hear that there’s no dumb questions. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/24 "2018-05-22T13:44:51Z")
From Night Court, when a man is in court because a customer complained that while he was blowing up his sex doll, she “busted a boob.” Manufacturer: These dolls are sturdy. See, I’ll blow up one now. Dan: Do you know how long that is going to take? Judge Harry: No. (long pause) But I bet you do. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/25 "2018-05-22T14:26:34Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > From Night Court, when a man is in court because a customer complained that while he was blowing up his sex doll, she “busted a boob.” > > Manufacturer: These dolls are sturdy. See, I’ll blow up one now. > Dan: Do you know how long that is going to take? > Judge Harry: No. (long pause) But I bet you do. One joke from _ **Night Court** _ that sticks in my mind was nonverbal: The defendant is a little old lady with a husky voice. She identifies herself as Miss So-and-So from a sex hotline. Dan reacts immediately by turning to look at her in open-mouthed shock, as if to say “\*You’re \*Miss So-and-So?!?” :eek:. Got a huge roar from the audience! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/26 "2018-05-22T14:42:27Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > When the guys are trying to help Sheldon overcome his fear of public speaking, referring to themselves as his “X-men.” Sheldon responds “X-men were named for Professor Xavier’s last name. Since my last name is Cooper, you are my C-men.” > > There is a long silence before Wolowitz says “That is not a good name.” Then, of course, there’s the classic bit where Sheldon, Howard, and Raj are playing an RPG where they’re building settlements: **SHELDON:** I need wood. Do either of you guys have wood? Howard and Raj start laughing. Sheldon’s oblivious to the humor. **SHELDON:** What are you laughing at? Come on, I need wood for my erection. A few minutes go by, and they go off on another topic. Finally, after a moment of silence: **SHELDON:** Now, then: Who here has wood? I know this is junior-high grade humor, but I almost fell out of my chair laughing! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/27 "2018-05-22T14:55:21Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > \*\*\*Seinfeld \*\*\*was full of jokes no one would get unless they were familiar with the backlog of episodes. Seinfeld also occasionally had a joke that you’d have to be a New Yorker to get. My favorite was the episode in which Kramer gets lost in downtown and calls Jerry for help. Jerry asks him if he can point out any recognizable landmarks. Kramer: "I’m outside a “Ray’s Pizza”! Jerry: “Is it Original or Famous?” The joke being that in NY, there is (or at least was in the 1990s) a “Ray’s Pizza” on practically every corner in Manhattan. They were all different, independent stores with the same name, although they had some variation on the terms “original”, “famous” in their name: “Famous Ray’s Pizza”, “Ray’s Famous Original Pizza”, “Original Ray’s Famous Pizza”, etc. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/28 "2018-05-22T15:04:55Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Mahaloth: > > It sounds like “our lucky day”, except he added the first name of the Korean(s) whose last name is (supposedly) “Luck”. Thanks for explaining “Kim Luck-y day;” first round at Rosie’s is on me (grape Nehi, anyone?) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/29 "2018-05-22T15:06:54Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The infamous sign from The Simpsons: > > SNEED’S FEED & SEED > > (formerly Chuck’s) Let’s not forget KRUSTY’S KRAZY KWANZAA! ---
**Author:** ![Trisha\_Gaurav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@Trisha\_Gaurav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_Gaurav)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/30 "2018-05-22T15:09:21Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The infamous sign from The Simpsons: > > SNEED’S FEED & SEED > > (formerly Chuck’s) Unpopular? That’s all over 4chan! ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/31 "2018-05-22T15:23:00Z")
In the Seinfeld episode where George has to pick up Mr. Steinbrenner’s lunch, he drops money in the restaurant tip jar, but the worker doesn’t notice. George is complaining to Jerry that the whole point of the tip is that the person sees you giving it. Jerry: “So you don’t make a habit of giving to the blind.” George: “Not _bills_.” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/32 "2018-05-22T15:35:32Z")
Another from M_A_S\*H: Radar: [as Hawkeye and Trapper wrestle with Frank Burns, for his battery-warmed socks] They’re hunting socks, sir. Henry Blake: At this hour? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/33 "2018-05-22T15:46:36Z")
There’s an episode of Futurama, where a robot has a “Bot Mitzva.” During the party, there is a banner with Hebrew on it in the [background](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRYaPV9tQoZeT2LhmCpdDLU4JKWG5gIYmInfY5i2hZoyPaRiiVW). I was watching this with a friend, and I said “hey, pause that!” Even with my grade-school Hebrew education, I could figure out that it said “Today you are a Robot." ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/34 "2018-05-22T15:50:42Z")
My favorite joke of all time that went by unnoticed was in the Spongebob Squarepants Movie (ok it’s a move, but it’s based off a tv show). SB and Patrick are filling up their burger car at a gas station and these two hillbilly-like fish are making fun of them for various reasons. This exchange happens: Patrick: Are they laughing at us, Spongebob? SB: Noooo Patrick, they’re laughing next to us. No one in the theater laughed but me. It’s a preposition joke! Also, while I’m already cheating, second-funniest-joke-ever came from Monsters vs. Aliens where the Creature from the Black Lagoon guy comes out of hiding after 20 years and says “Man it’s hot, is it hot? Did the globe get warmer? Because that’d be a real convenient truth.” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/35 "2018-05-22T15:54:28Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > There’s an episode of Futurama, where a robot has a “Bot Mitzva.” > During the party, there is a banner with Hebrew on it in the [background](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRYaPV9tQoZeT2LhmCpdDLU4JKWG5gIYmInfY5i2hZoyPaRiiVW). > I was watching this with a friend, and I said “hey, pause that!” > Even with my grade-school Hebrew education, I could figure out that it said “Today you are a Robot." Was it a girl robot? Double whammy joke. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/36 "2018-05-22T17:18:42Z")
Going way back: On _ **That Girl** _, Don Hollinger has just been introduced to Nigel Prince, the English photographer who eventually falls in love with Ann: **NIGEL:** Hollinger, Hollinger … I once knew a polo player named Hollinger. **DON:** I once knew a dog named Prince. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/37 "2018-05-22T17:24:56Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Still one of my favorites! > > As was “Tuttle,” in which Hawkeye and Trapper had made up a fictitious surgeon named Tuttle, in order to donate his salary to an orphanage. When the gag spirals out of control, they “kill off” Tuttle, and Hawkeye speaks at the memorial service: > > “We can all be comforted by the thought that he’s not really gone, there’s a little Tuttle left in all of us, in fact you might say that all of us together made up Tuttle.” Didn’t the end credits also list Tuttle as himself? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/38 "2018-05-22T17:48:21Z")
> [@Edward\_The\_Head](#): > > Didn’t the end credits also list Tuttle as himself? Indeed, they did. 😃 > **["M\*A\*S\*H" Tuttle (TV Episode 1973) ⭐ 8.9 | Comedy, Drama, War](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638468/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)** > > 25m | TV-PG ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/39 "2018-05-22T17:57:50Z")
One of my favorites is from [House MD](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QK9jYVNhxc): Cameron (coming in with Foreman and Chase): We’ve got rectal bleeding. House: What, all of you? ---
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Batman: The villain is about to transform Batgirl into a flat piece of paper, the male sidekick eyes her and says. “What a shame.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515.md?page=3)