# Your favorite recurring jokes from TV shows

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**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")\
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**Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/101 "2009-04-06T04:59:38Z")

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_Friends_ had several stick-in-your-mind catchphrases:

“We were on a break!”  
“Could you _be_ any more \_\_\_\_\_\_?”  
“How _you_ doin’?”

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**Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/102 "2009-04-06T05:35:01Z")

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Vicar of Dibley.

Alice’s abject failure to get the joke told at the end of each episode by Geraldine Grainger.

Jim’s “No, no, no, no, no, no, yes.”

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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-recurring-jokes-from-tv-shows/491454/103 "2009-04-06T14:48:18Z")

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Danny John-Jules’s “Dwayne Dibbley” character in Red Dwarf, or more specifically, Cat’s reaction to _becoming_ Dwayne

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