# Your favorite recurring jokes from TV shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454 "2009-03-31T16:40:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/21 "2009-03-31T20:23:07Z")
Also from **Arrested DEvelopment** : The same three cops that always show up and arrest a character with a final smack with the nightstick. And the too-literal Doctor: “He’s going to be all right.” ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/22 "2009-03-31T20:24:00Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Anything to do with Maris on _Frasier_. Or Vera on _Cheers_. I also like not knowing the name of Malcolm’s family on _Malcolm in the Middle_. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/23 "2009-03-31T20:25:18Z")
Gomez Addams: I love it when you talk French Pinky: Are you pondering what I’m pondering? Homer Simpson: Mmmmmmmmm…(insert food item here) ---
**Author:** ![Eklektik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Eklektik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eklektik)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/24 "2009-03-31T20:26:06Z")
> [@Iggins](#): > > A bit obscure, “Did you get that thing I sent ya?” In the same vein, I like when ever Phil makes a completely random double entendre with that laugh… Ha ha cookies on dowels! ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/25 "2009-03-31T20:28:04Z")
OK, it’s from a movie rather than a TV show, but Shirley “Don’t call me Shirley” has to get an honorable mention. RR ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/26 "2009-03-31T20:28:12Z")
…Back in St. Olaf… Honorable mention goes to any newscast on Family Guy, especially if it involves Ollie. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/27 "2009-03-31T20:29:49Z")
Another from **Arrested Development** : Tobias’s inadvertent gay references. Tobias (talking about the dance troupe for the party): “Hot Sailors! Or maybe Hot Seam-” Michael (quickly): “I like Hot Sailors.” ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/28 "2009-03-31T20:35:37Z")
I love how every so often they make a little reference to Anya’s fear of bunnies on _Buffy_. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/29 "2009-03-31T20:38:37Z")
> [@Drain\_Bead](#): > > …Honorable mention goes to any newscast on Family Guy, especially if it involves Ollie. And the big angry chicken. Gotta love the chicken. Veiled references to Mulder’s too-frequent masturbation on _The X-Files_. Foghorne Leghorne’s insults. Homer Simpson’s “D’oh!” in all its permutations. Kirk and McCoy needling Spock at the end of many _Star Trek_ episodes - and him getting them back with the occasional zinger. The changing - and silly - forms of the soul-capturing receptacles provided by the Devil in _Reaper_ (a Dustbuster “forged in the fiery bowels of Hell,” anyone?). “This is Carlton, your doorman” on _Rhoda_. Both Joey’s cluelessness and his success with the ladies on _Friends_. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/30 "2009-03-31T20:41:08Z")
From _Only Fools and Horses_, Trigger always calling Rodney “Dave”. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/31 "2009-03-31T20:41:56Z")
The whole idea of Kramer’s life. As summed up by George Castanza: Kramer goes to a fantasy camp. His whole life is a fantasy camp. People should plunk down two-thousand dollars to live like him for a week. Do nothing, fall ass-backwards into money, mooch food off your neighbors and have sex without dating; that’s a fantasy camp. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/32 "2009-03-31T20:42:42Z")
I think the show with the most re-occurring gags was the Beverly Hillbillies: Jethros Appetite The country menus Elly’s cooking Granny’s white Lightning Cement Pond Elly’s Critters Jethros 6th grade education Elly looking for a husband Jethros career search Granny soap cooking Drysdale’s tightness Miss Janes plainess Granny wanting to go home to the hills Jeds clothes Elly being a Tomboy Fancy eating table in the Billiard Room hillbillies not realizing just how much money they Drysdale storing their money in bank…free of charge The Truck So so many Married w/ Children had a lot too. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/33 "2009-03-31T20:51:26Z")
_“Tish! That’s French!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/34 "2009-03-31T20:55:02Z")
Your last name’s [Garelli](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Garelli)? > [@Small\_Hen](#): > > "Hi, I’m Troy McClure. " 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/35 "2009-03-31T20:55:52Z")
It’s small, but Cliff and Rudy Huxtable loved to “zerbert” each other on _The Cosby Show._ It was cute because it seemed so genuine. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/36 "2009-03-31T20:57:47Z")
“That’s what she said!” ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/37 "2009-03-31T21:40:18Z")
In _Malcolm in the Middle_, the appearance of Dewey’s hamster exercise ball never failed to elicit a chuckle in our house. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/38 "2009-03-31T22:49:26Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > I also quote Cosmo’s line in this repeated exchange a lot (only a running gag in one episode, but, still): > > Wanda: ‘\’ > Cosmo: ‘And that was our slogan!’ Practically every _Fairly Oddparents_ has a running gag in it that’s only used for that episode- but most of them are usually funny. (True story- I actually found a nickel in a bathroom once. I didn’t pick it up, but I _did_ name it Philip- at least in my head. Yes, it was a girl nickel.) Some other running gags I enjoy: _Futurama_: Professor Farnsworth walking into a room and starting a sentence with “Good news, everyone!” _SpongeBob Squarepants_: An offscreen voice shouting “My leg!” during chaotic or violent scenes. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/39 "2009-04-01T00:11:45Z")
_SpongeBob_ has a lot: SB’s nerdiness Mr. Krabs’s stinginess and love of money Squidward’s sneeringly superior love of culture Patrick’s incredible idiocy Sandy’s Texas pride ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/40 "2009-04-01T00:38:18Z")
The endless parade of secretaries and “Close the door!” on _Murphy Brown_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454.md?page=3)