# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/61 "2009-04-01T16:14:58Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > From The Kids In The Hall: > > 30 Helens agree. Made even funnier when 30 Helens didn’t agree. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/62 "2009-04-01T17:10:51Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > Of course, the ultimate irony is that Redd Foxx eventualy would die of a heart attack. I guess he wasn’t lying after all. And when he did (this is per Della Reese, who was there) people thought he was joking and laughed until he started drooling and changing color. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/63 "2009-04-01T17:19:22Z")
Yoink! ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/64 "2009-04-01T18:45:51Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > The special guest star (William Shatner, Florence Henderson, etc.) getting offed in the opening credits. I heard they made one with John Belushi, but never aired it because he actually died. ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/65 "2009-04-01T18:47:34Z")
Oops. I duplicated. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/66 "2009-04-01T19:07:35Z")
Lenny & Squiggy opening Laverne & Shirley’s door: “Hello.” Murphy Brown’s revolving secretary. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/67 "2009-04-01T23:32:30Z")
Reno 911 has had a ton of recurring jokes like when they’re trying to read a license plate and end up crashing their car. My favorite is when they go to visit Mike Powers, the former D.A./serial killer in prison and ask him mundane things about his job. Then they follow it up with something like “Oh, and by the way, what happened to the third body?” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/68 "2009-04-02T05:51:46Z")
> [@Nom\_de\_Plume](#): > > I heard they made one with John Belushi, but never aired it because he actually died. The producers wanted to include it for the DVD release, but apparently, the footage was disposed of and is well and truly lost for all time. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/69 "2009-04-02T06:22:12Z")
Two of my favourites have already been mentioned. “Hello, _Newman_.” “Hello, this is Carlton your doorman,” and Rhoda’s weary, eyes-to-heaven response. I also like many of the Seinfeld recurring gags and ‘in-jokes’, such as ‘Vandelay Industries’, ‘I don’t wanna be a pirate!’, ‘Get _out!_’, ‘Rochelle, Rochelle’. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2009, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/70 "2009-04-02T12:25:18Z")
On _The Nanny_, when Lauren Lane, who played C C Babcock, got pregnant in real life but not on the show, they kept making gags about hiding it. She talks about watching a Seinfeld rerun where Elaine was “I don’t know, about 39 months pregnant,” and how tacky it was that they kept trying to hide it. In one scene she brings back a framed poster from the real Broadway show “BABY” and holds it over her bulging stomach. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/71 "2009-04-02T12:42:14Z")
“Her?” ---
**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 2, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/72 "2009-04-02T14:04:04Z")
On _The West Wing_, the President never being able to remember the names of two of his junior aides. Also, C.J.'s ability to lip-synch “The Jackal” by Ronny Jordan. On _My Name Is Earl_, Earl always has his eyes shut in any photo taken of him. ---
**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:** [April 2, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/73 "2009-04-02T14:12:38Z")
_The Nanny_–The longest running gag was Maxwell Sheffield’s hatred of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Supposedly Sheffield passed on CATS (hardly true, but funny) and regretted the fact that ALW was so much more successful than he was. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/74 "2009-04-02T14:34:45Z")
Stewie: How you uh, how you comin’ on that novel you’re working on? Huh? Gotta a big, uh, big stack of papers there? Gotta, gotta nice litte story you’re working on there? Your big novel you’ve been working on for 3 years? Huh? Gotta, gotta compelling protaganist? Yeah? Gotta obstacle for him to overcome? Huh? Gotta story brewing there? Working on, working on that for quite some time? Huh? Yea, talking about that 3 years ago. Been working on that the whole time? Nice little narrative? Beginning, middle, and end? Some friends become enemies, some enemies become friends? At the end your main character is richer from the experience? Yeah? Yeah? - Family Guy. ---
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/75 "2009-04-02T15:00:47Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Just about everything from Police Squad: > > The opening title card with: > > Police > > Squad! > > In color And at the end of the episode they’d say something like “He’ll join (list the names of the criminals from the previous episodes) in the State Penn.” ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/76 "2009-04-02T18:28:18Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > “Her?” And the thread is won. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Nom\_de\_Plume](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Nom\_de\_Plume](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nom_de_Plume)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/77 "2009-04-02T19:18:18Z")
“How about some H-h-h-whipped cream? Some nice Miracle H-h-h-whip?” “Why do you keep saying that?” _-Family Guy_ ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/78 "2009-04-02T19:56:46Z")
Too many from Monty Python to really list, **Elendil’s Heir** - th eappearances of Spiny Norman (not the doper), the 16-ton weight, The Spanish Inquesition, the Gumbys, Conrad Poon and his dancing teeth, “But that was my only line!”, etc … Also, though it’s not the best comedy ever, there are parts of \*How I Met Your Mother \* that are Legen - ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/79 "2009-04-02T19:59:24Z")
- dary. ---
**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/80 "2009-04-03T19:51:24Z")
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