# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/81 "2009-04-03T19:56:38Z")
> [@jharvey963](#): > > (From a movie, I know…) > > “This one time? At Band Camp?” … When I first met my ex’s mother, she was wearing a T-shirt that said that. She had no idea what it meant. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/82 "2009-04-03T20:46:08Z")
Anyong. Ever noticed on WKRP that Les Nessman always had a bandage on one finger, but never the same one? ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/83 "2009-04-03T23:22:31Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > In one scene she brings back a framed poster from the real Broadway show “BABY” and holds it over her bulging stomach. They seem to be doing something similar on HIMYM with Lily entering hot dog eating contests and playing guitar, hope that continues. Also love the slap bet (anyone know how many slaps are left?) and the goat party. Love anything to do with Mr Turtle on My Name is Earl. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/84 "2009-04-03T23:43:33Z")
_Blackadder_: “I have a cunning plan . . .” _Jeeves and Wooster_: Bertie always trying to buy and wear some newfangled item of fashion, and Jeeves’s (thinly veiled) expressions of horror at the effect. Similarly, Bertie singing some new popular ditty at the piano and Jeeves in the background trying to conceal his pained expression. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/85 "2009-04-03T23:50:35Z")
The “Cool Whip/Cool Hhwip” and “Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Conway Twitty!” routines on Family Guy. Red calling everybody “dumbass”, and all the different permutations of “foot in your ass” on That '70’s Show. Jimmy James’ bizarre logic and crush on Dave’s mom on NewsRadio. Colin Mochrie’s baldness and Ryan Stiles’ ridiculous shoes on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and from some older shows: Jack Benny’s bad violin playing, stinginess, Frank Nelson’s floorwalker, the Si/Sy routine with Mel Blanc, and The Sportsmen Quartet singing Lucky Strike commercials from The Jack Benny Program. Red Skelton’s adlibbing through scenes, teasing the sound effects guy, and laughing at his own jokes on The Red Skelton Show. Rob Petrie’s clumsiness, Buddy Sorrell’s non-stop wisecracks, Mel Cooley’s absolute lack of a sense of humor (being the producer of a comedy show), and not seeing Alan Brady’s face from The Dick Van Dyke Show. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/86 "2009-04-04T00:01:40Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Ever noticed on WKRP that Les Nessman always had a bandage on one finger, but never the same one? Somewhere on his body - not just the finger. They’re bites from his vicious dog Phil. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/87 "2009-04-04T08:53:36Z")
> [@Small\_Hen](#): > > "Hi, I’m Troy McClure. " That’s got to be my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/88 "2009-04-04T10:40:08Z")
Not sure if it was intentional, but the whole “Jan as the family punching bag” thing on the Brady Bunch. And I love Jan’s schizo voice in her head. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2009, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/89 "2009-04-04T13:50:14Z")
Jim Rockford’s answering machine messages. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/90 "2009-04-04T13:57:05Z")
The Red Guy on **Cow and Chicken / I Am Weasel** : “ **It’s me,** ” - Rear-admiral Floyd - Ivan Panced - Lance Sackless - the gym leader! Ben Panced! - Larry Lackapants, Arkansas Cheese master, soon to be the King & Queen of Cheese! ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/91 "2009-04-04T14:20:59Z")
John Crichton’s references to Earth culture in Farscape, completely confusing his Uncharted Territories companions, informally referred to as [Crichtonisms](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0187636/quotes) On a rural, countryside-like planet" John Crichton; this looks kinda’ like Kansas, or Dagobah… General Ka D’Argo; Dagobah? John Crichton; Yeah, where Yoda lives General Ka D’Argo; Yoda? John Crichton; Yeah, little green guy, trains warriors John Crichton (to Scorpius): I hate it when villains quote Shakespeare. John Crichton: Haven’t you read the Super Villain’s Handbook? This is where you’re supposed to twirl your mustache and gloat. General Ka D’Argo: Zhaan, let me explain to you what’s going on inside my nose right now. There’s large pieces of green mucus gunk… John Crichton: D’Argo. D’Argo. D’Argo. No, no, no, no. Stop it with the Luxan poetry. [John and D’Argo are playing ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’] John Crichton: Again? General Ka D’Argo: Yeah. John Crichton: One, two, three. [John throws paper. D’Argo throws rock] General Ka D’Argo: [Laughs] Again, I win. John Crichton: No, I win. Paper wraps rocks. General Ka D’Argo: No, paper cannot possibly beat rock. John Crichton: It does. Paper beats rock. General Ka D’Argo: Rock rips through paper. John Crichton: D’Argo, that’s not how it works. Paper beats rocks. General Ka D’Argo: That’s unrealistic. John Crichton: Well, it’s the rules. And it’s not supposed to be realistic, it’s supposed to be entertaining. General Ka D’Argo: My coma was more entertaining. [about using wormholes to travel through time and space and to alter history] John Crichton: Ah, screw it. But I am not Kirk, Spock, Luke, Buck, Flash or Arthur frelling Dent. I’m Dorothy Gale from Kansas. ---
**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 4, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/92 "2009-04-04T15:26:39Z")
_2 1/2 Men_ is nothing but a string of jokes about stereotypical characters: Charlie’s drinking and whoring, Alan’s lack of cajones, Jake’s stupidity, Evelyn’s bad mothering & whoring, Rose’s stalking, and Berta’s white trash family & sarcasm. Don’t ask me why it works, but it does. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/93 "2009-04-04T18:45:03Z")
From _Sanford and Son_ Fred Sanford: [insult with vague sexual subtext] Uptight Old Lady: “Well! I never!” Fred Sanford: “And you probably never will!” Also the way Fred could never bring himself to say the word “gay”. He always got a terrified look on his face and used a hand gesture. From _The Carol Burnett Show_ The way Harvey Korman and Tim Conway would desperately try not to laugh at each other’s jokes. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/94 "2009-04-04T19:02:16Z")
Bob Newhart’s telephone conversations, regardless of what character he was playing. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/95 "2009-04-05T02:57:17Z")
> [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](#): > > \ > Rob Petrie’s clumsiness, Buddy Sorrell’s non-stop wisecracks, Mel Cooley’s absolute lack of a sense of humor (being the producer of a comedy show), and not seeing Alan Brady’s face from The Dick Van Dyke Show. Don’t forget Buddy’s recurring references to the never-seen Pickles. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/96 "2009-04-05T03:14:49Z")
Mrs. Slocumbe’s pussy references on Are You Being Served? Otis locking himself in the cell after going on a spree. Jack Tripper femming it up for Mr. Roper. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/97 "2009-04-05T05:44:26Z")
> [@Gorgon\_Heap](#): > > - dary. Bahaha, my favorite was the season 2 cliff-hanger they did with that. Also see the various variations on “High Five”. There was a subtle running gag about compressor coils on Firefly. Kaylee bugging Mal about needing them for a few episodes, then the compressor coil failing with no spares in “Out of Gas”, then in a later episode, Wash and Kaylee are digging through a junkyard for spare parts, and Wash picks up a compressor coil and tosses it aside. Commander Ivonova and the word “Boom” on Babylon 5. ---
**Author:** ![nivlac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3bc359/32.png) [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2009, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/98 "2009-04-05T06:27:22Z")
Of course the show that was nothing but a string of running gags was Get Smart. “Missed it by that much!” “Would you believe …?”, “… and loving it!” and of course the infamous Cone of Silence. ---
**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 5, 2009, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/99 "2009-04-05T23:33:06Z")
> [@cactus\_waltz](#): > > That’s [Troy McClure] got to be my favorite. The collected works: [http://www.snpp.com/guides/troy.mcclure.html](http://www.snpp.com/guides/troy.mcclure.html) ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Second\_Star\_to\_the\_Right](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Star_to_the_Right)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/100 "2009-04-06T02:49:42Z")
I also love the chicken fights on Famiy Guy, and how they get longer and more ridiculous each time. One of my favorites is from _Friends_. “Oh. my. God!!” hee. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454.md?page=6)