# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/41 "2018-05-22T18:37:48Z")
The Flintstones were mostly unfunny rote Hanna-Barberra style jokes. There was one though that had perfect comic delivery and timing…Fred’s “I was a slug” line was delivered with perfection. Fred Flintstone: Well one year I was in the spring play at Public School 158. Television Producer: And you were Hamlet? Romeo? King Arthur? Fred Flintstone: No, none of those things. Some of the kids were trees, some were flowers, some were butterflies… Television Producer: And what were you? Fred Flintstone: I was a slug. ---
**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, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/42 "2018-05-22T18:43:14Z")
More _ **Batman** _: Catwoman (Julie Newmar) is coming on to the Caped Crusader, and he’s trying hard to fight temptation: \*\* BATMAN:\*\* But what about Robin? **CATWOMAN:** Robin? We’ll kill him. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/43 "2018-05-22T19:02:38Z")
More _Batman_: That’s all water over the … embankment, Robin. Because Batman would never say “dam.” ---
**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, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/44 "2018-05-22T19:08:30Z")
**_MTM_:** Ted is visiting Lou in the hospital after he’s had surgery to remove an old piece of shrapnel from his body: \*\* TED:\*\* How come you never told us anything about it, Lou? **LOU:** (_Shrugs_) What was there to tell? It was World War II … France… **TED:** Rotten Nips! ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/45 "2018-05-22T19:12:52Z")
Bart has exchanged the choir’s religious music with “Inna Gotta Davida”; it slips by the Reverend at the beginning “In the garden of eden, baby, don’cha know that I love you…” Homer: Hey Marge, remember when we used to make out to this hymn? ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/46 "2018-05-22T19:46:13Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > Bart has exchanged the choir’s religious music with “Inna Gotta Davida”; it slips by the Reverend at the beginning “In the garden of eden, baby, don’cha know that I love you…” > > Homer: Hey Marge, remember when we used to make out to this hymn? I still use “Isn’t that “rock, and or, roll”?” ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/47 "2018-05-22T20:03:09Z")
Sheesh, so many. I’ll throw in my favorite Night Court exchange: (setup - a Japanese man who was supposed to be honored at a dinner with the governor dropped dead in the courtroom. His body was put in a wheelchair and Bull was supposed to bring it to the morgue. But the wheelchair was electric, and a kid turned it on, sending it into an elevator while Bull’s back was turned) Harry: Bull, how do you lose a dead Japanese industrialist? Bull (sheepishly): He outsmarted me, sir. Harry: Outsmarted you?? A corpse is a corpse! Dan: Of course, of course. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/48 "2018-05-22T21:35:59Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > I still use “Isn’t that “rock, and or, roll”?” Also from The Simpsons: “This Friday you will have the chance to ‘party down’ in the church basement with the Jesus rock stylings of [Testament.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVbTXg8x2EA)” I’ve actually had people try and convince me that this wasn’t a reference to the _real_ Testament and was just a coincidence, which is plain silly. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/49 "2018-05-22T21:55:59Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > 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? Same episode (they all have to share a tent because of a shortage of heating oil during a brutal winter), Frank Burns comes into the tent carrying a rifle. Hawkeye: Chickie, the house dick! I don’t know why, but that one still makes me laugh! ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/50 "2018-05-22T22:14:13Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Sheesh, so many. I’ll throw in my favorite Night Court exchange: I like [this one:](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660723/quotes/qt0269185?mavIsAdult=false&mavCanonicalUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.imdb.com%2Ftitle%2Ftt0660723%2Fquotes) [Christine is stuck in the elevator, in labor] Harry Stone: Is there room for a person to lie down in there? Dan Fielding: Full-grown man, two women, and a midget with a camera. But I’m pretty sure that Dan’s line concludes with “…but that’s just an estimate!” after half a beat. ---
**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, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/51 "2018-05-22T22:32:13Z")
Speaking of _ **Night Court** _… Remember Bob and June Wheeler? :dubious: "If it weren't fer the nursin', Ah'd have breasts like that too!" :o ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/52 "2018-05-22T22:42:07Z")
One from the _Dick Van Dyke Show_, when they were trying to write a sketch. “But WHY would someone travel to the center of the Earth?” “To find out whether it’s chewy or cream-filled.” One from Star Trek TOS (Episode\* The Naked Time)\* that went by so fast we kids missed it. Sulu: I’ll protect you, fair maiden. Uhura: Sorry, neither. And one from _Cheers_. Sam and Diane are in his office arguing, while there’s another meaningless debate around the bar. Suddenly over all the other voices, Norm yells, “Oh yeah? THEN I GUESS THAT MAKES WILE E. COYOTE THE ANTICHRIST!” ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2018, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/53 "2018-05-22T23:04:31Z")
terentii: > [@](#): > > Remember Bob and June Wheeler? They were great - I imagine their jokes would qualify as “popular” rather than belong in this thread. So many great lines, but I wouldn’t type them - they lose so much if they’re not said in those soft, slow voices. But Yakov Smirnoff as a Russian immigrant was another great recurring guest. One of my favorites of his, when his wife was finally joining him from the USSR: Yakov: I haven’t been with a woman in two years…I’m very, how do you say… Harry: Excited? Yakov: Right (Christine walks in) Christine: What’s everyone smiling about? Harry: Yakov’s finally going to see his wife again! Christine (to Yakov): That’s great, I’m so excited for you! Yakov: Thanks, but I can wait a few more days. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/54 "2018-05-23T02:18:58Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > 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. My favorite joke from Wings is also the only one I remember. The whole cast including the dumb mechanic Lowell and Helen the girlfriend gets on the plane for some sort of event. Something goes horribly wrong with the plane. Lowell: It sounds like catastrophic engine failure. Helen: What causes that? Lowell looking at her like she is a complete idiot: A catastrophe. My favorite throw away line from Seinfeld. When George’s boss is doing everything he can to make him quit. “Tomorrow they are putting in asbestos.” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/55 "2018-05-23T03:26:08Z")
One of my favourite Simpsons jokes is from Kent Brockman: Just miles from your doorstep, hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it “the Army”, but a more alarmist name would be… **The Killbot Factory**! ---
**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 23, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/56 "2018-05-23T13:11:33Z")
Dharma has a bird statue that she gives to people who have had sex in the strangest places, called the Duck Award. When her staid in-laws end up having sex on the courthouse steps, she gives it to her mother-in-law. MIL: This isn’t even a duck, it’s a goose. Why do you call it the duck award. Dharma: Because “goose” doesn’t rhyme. ---
**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 23, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/57 "2018-05-23T13:44:14Z")
Young Sheldon arguing the Bible vs. The Big Bang with a pastor Pastor: The Bible clearly states "In the beginning was the Word. Sheldon: And was that word “KERPOW”? ---
**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 23, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/58 "2018-05-23T16:02:52Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > But Yakov Smirnoff as a Russian immigrant was another great recurring guest. One of my favorites of his, when his wife was finally joining him from the USSR: > > Yakov: I haven’t been with a woman in two years…I’m very, how do you say… > Harry: Excited? > Yakov: Right > (Christine walks in) > Christine: What’s everyone smiling about? > Harry: Yakov’s finally going to see his wife again! > Christine (to Yakov): That’s great, I’m so excited for you! > Yakov: Thanks, but I can wait a few more days. In the first episode with Yakov, when he’s telling how much he misses home, he pulls a photo out of his wallet and hands it to Harry: **HARRY:** (_Looking at the photo_) Oh, Brezhnev. \*\* YAKOV:\*\* (_Mildly surprised_) Sonja! ---
**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 23, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/59 "2018-05-23T16:07:53Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > One of my favourite Simpsons jokes is from Kent Brockman: > > Just miles from your doorstep, hundreds of men are given weapons and trained to kill. The government calls it “the Army”, but a more alarmist name would be… **The Killbot Factory**! The best Kent Brockman line ever came during Homer’s space flight, when it looked like Earth was going to be invaded by aliens: **KENT:** I, for one, welcome our new Ant overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515/60 "2018-05-23T16:32:53Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The infamous sign from The Simpsons: > > SNEED’S FEED & SEED > > (formerly Chuck’s) Dude, totally not an unpopular joke. A classic lots of people know. > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Thanks for explaining “Kim Luck-y day;” first round at Rosie’s is on me (grape Nehi, anyone?) Kim sounds like “our”?? I have to see this episode. It sounds nothing like it. No way is that a pun. What episode is it? > [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > 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.” I think Dead Poets Society used that joke. Robin Williams says, “You think they are laughing at you? No, no. They are laughing _near_ you.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-unpopular-joke-from-a-tv-show/814515.md?page=4)