Mr. Moose had a number of ways to bombard Captain Kangaroo with ping-pong balls. Cite
Bullwinkle: “Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!”
Rocky: “AGAIN?”
Well, no wonder. The catapult was made by the Road-Runner Manufacturing Co., after all.
More Simpsons:
Nelson Muntz: “Ha-Ha!”
Lucy and the football
Schroeder and his piano (with the bust of Beethoven on it).
Snoopy typing “It was a dark and stormy night.”
Charlie Brown and the kite-eating tree.
Linus and the Great Pumpkin.
Snoopy, the World War I flying ace.
Woodstock’s erratic flying.
Lucy and her psychiatric advice booth. (5¢).
And the Cracked Vase With The Big Daisies.
Actually, on re-viewing them on the archive channels (I know, I’m sad) I’m impressed by the way the non-repeat gags emerge by a perfectly logical (in the context - the essence of farce, it seems to me) sequence of events into something that sounds as though it’s come from a completely surreal phrase book:
“General! Your nose is smouldering!”
“Arrest all gypsies driving fire engines!”
“I will NOT pour carrot soup down my mother’s ear-trumpet!”
Welcome Back Kotter had several.
Kotter: “Did I ever tell you about…”
Horshack: “Oh oh oh oh…”
Freddie Washington: “Hi there”.
Juan Epstein: The note from his mother.
Vinnie Barbarino: “What…”
During his first appearance, SNL’s motivational speaker Matt Foley noted that he’s thrice-divorced and living in a van down by the river — and warned folks to change their ways, lest they wind up living in a van down by the river. Son, you oughta be writing papers for school, not rolling papers for doobies — or else you’re gonna be doing a LOT of doobie-rolling when you’re LIVING IN A VAAAN down by the RIVER! Young lady, what do YOU want to do with your life?
[she replies the only way that makes sense]
“I want to live in a van, down by the river.”
[audience is already losing it]
“Well, you’ll have plenty of time to live in a van down by the river when [pauses as it sinks in; awkwardly barrels ahead] yer livin’ in a VAN down by the RIVER!”
(Next week: “¡Yo vivo en VAN circa de un RIO!”)
“Up your nose with a rubber hose!”
In Mr. Belvedere, Belvedere was often seen going about the house with a feather duster and humming Ride of the Valkyries. Except in one episode where he was singing, “Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit!”
Mitchell and Webb have an repeating sketch about a dickish snooty service person where the script is largely the same each time, the identity of the service gets changed - waiter, clothes shop assistant, vicar…
And of course, that’s Numberwang!
Been a bit, so I can’t remember if it was already mentioned (ha, said the OP) -
In “Team America: World Police”: Matt Damon
Austin Power’s issue with moles
David Letterman:
“Ham, ham, ham.”
“Hailstones the size of canned hams.”
“They pelted us with rocks and garbage.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, once again… this is why the rest of the world hates us.”
also:
“I was hyp-no-tized”
“Goodnight, ladies and gentlemen. Drive home safely.” (often said only a minute or two in)
Dare I mention the “Ber-mu-da-aaa…”? (Paul)
“Hey, that’s not egg nog!” :eek:
“You want me to get that?”
“If you don’t mind.”
“Whatchu talkin’ 'bout, Willis/Dad/Kimberly?”