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Since 1990, the antic has been on us — or at atomic on our minds. Whether it’s in our appointment hallways (not so abundant lately) or on Slack (too abundant lately), we at EW adulation to barter admired curve from our admired comedies, bartering with commemoration added for bigger laughs. As the magazine’s 30th commemoration commemoration continues, let’s accessory aback at the accomplished three decades through the punchlines that authentic them. Aback EW launched in 1990, sitcoms were on the bend of a revolution, ushering in an era of ball that would be added meta, added neurotic, added pop-culture-obsessed, added mocku-mentacular…if that were a word. (‘More single-camera-y’ doesn’t cycle off the tongue, either.) To attenuated bottomward this list, we had to set some parameters: We looked at half-hour comedies that authentic the ’90s and above (we adulation you, Cheers and The Golden Girls, but you were ’80s trailblazers); no dramedies, account comedies, or late-night allocution shows; and all of the jokes had to assignment on the folio with little-to-no context. This isn’t a account of the 30 funniest curve — that’s an altercation for accession day — but rather 30 (okay, 31, because we had to accommodate both Offices) august punchlines that we can’t stop talking about, complete with tales from the creators, writers, and stars who brought these action to life.
Great punchlines are “divinely advancing aback they’re right,” says exec ambassador Michael Patrick King. “And they sometimes don’t alike accomplish sense!” Both things are accurate about this baking bang he wrote for Miranda. (After all, best golf pencils don’t accept erasers.) The punchline, from the division 1 afterpiece “Oh Appear All Ye Faithful,” acquired a bit of centralized agitation amid HBO execs. “One actuality anticipation it was the funniest thing,” recalls King, “and accession was like, ‘I don’t get it.’” All doubts were asleep already cameras rolled. “The complete guy abandoned the boom, he laughed so hard,” says King. “He snotted and abandoned the boom. That’s validation.” —Kristen Baldwin
Homer Simpson has said affluence of not S-M-R-T things over the aftermost three decades. (“Ohhh! I accept three kids and no money? Why can’t I accept no kids and three money?”) On the added hand, he additionally has delivered statements of hasty depth. This arced thinker from division 8’s “Homer Vs. the Eighteenth Amendment” — in which bootlegging Adjudicator offers this episode-capping acknowledgment (to the town, to the audience) — arrested all the appropriate boxes. “It’s accompanying agreeable and a sad accuracy while actuality abundantly relatable to all,” says writer-producer Mike Scully. “It’s a band that hits so abounding spots with so few words.“
While the show’s scribes were wowed by this about activated alms from episode-writer John Swartzwelder — “To me, the best Swartzwelder curve assignment as air-conditioned koans about the animal condition,” says writer-producer George Meyer — they offered one advancement to aerate its impact. “What abashed us the best was it was affectionate of active in the average of the script,” recalls Scully. “It aloof speaks volumes about what a funny biographer John Schwartzwelder is — alike he didn’t admit the accuracy of the band he had written!” Scully and Meyer lobbied to backpack the antic to the end of the script. “It had that reverberating, encompassing affection you accessory for in a closing line,” says Meyer. “A walk-off adjudicator that sends the admirers home happy.”
The antisocial Swartzwelder affably beneath to comment, but Scully can’t say abundant about the bequest of the line: “Here we are, 32 years into the appearance and 700 episodes, and aback anyone asks, ‘What’s your favorite Simpsons joke?’ it should be a adamantine choice. But your apperception instantly goes to that line. We’d adulation to say we’ve baffled it, but we haven’t.” The bar, like our glasses, charcoal consistently raised. —Dan Snierson
NBC
“This is bigger than the moon landing.”
“One behemothic footfall for man-on-mankind.”
—Jack (Sean Hayes) and Will (Eric McCormack), anticipating arrangement TV’s aboriginal gay kiss, on ‘Will & Grace’ (NBC, 2000)
It was a momentous breach at the about-face of the millenium as Will and Jack (with Debra Messing’s Grace adherent amid them on the couch) acclimatized in to watch the first-ever primetime arrangement kiss amid two gay men on the fabulous sitcom Along Came You. They bidding their action by referencing accession arch cultural battleground accident and partaking in the sitcom’s ambrosial syntax games. “That’s one of those curve that formed on a meta akin because it’s self-referential — the appearance is authoritative the kiss that it’s talking about,” explains alternation co-creator David Kohan, “and ‘one behemothic bound for mankind’ was [a first-time event].”
Even acceptance Will and Jack didn’t get to see that kiss — cameras on the fabulous ball panned abroad — Will & Grace viewers still got to attestant a big one: Afterwards in the episode, the two guys spontaneously locking aperture alfresco the Today show, afterlight the censorship while appeasing and adorable a agitable Peacock. “We were accepting issues with the network,” says co-creator Max Mutchnick, “and this was how we got abroad with it.” —Gerrad Hall
“It’s activity to be legend—wait for it, and I achievement you’re not lactose antipathetic because the additional bisected of that chat is—dary!”
—Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), on ‘How I Met Your Mother’ (CBS, 2005)
Creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays still haven’t absolutely gotten over how Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the writers of the division 1 adventure “Sweet Taste of Liberty,” were the ones to ability this acutely layered demand. Afterwards Barney’s (Neil Patrick Harris) “Wait for it!” adage was accustomed in the alternation premiere, the showrunners were alert about giving him accession to consistently repeat. But they aloof couldn’t abide aback Lord addled ball gold creating what would become Barney’s series-long signature adage “legendary”— first heard (and afresh 12 times!) in this episode.
In this instance, Lord accumulated both catchphrases (to accomplish it alike more awesome, natch), and afresh Miller couldn’t abide his adulation of lactose-intolerant jokes. “When I saw that Phil had accounting ‘legend—wait for it—‘dary,’ I aloof thought, ‘dary’ is sitting out there all abandoned on an island,” Miller explains in how he came to milk this joke. “So I was like, ’Here we go!’” “What is this captivation with lactose, Chris?” Lord asks. Answers Miller: “Well, listen, some of us, it makes us a little gassy, I’m not adage who. This is a chic publication.” But Thomas and Bays absolutely got the aftermost laugh; they added “the additional bisected of that chat is … ” to accomplish the gag alike longer. “This was adventure 3 and this was already an abundantly long, clunky, intricate antic on purpose,” Thomas says. “It’s this coil of a sentence. That was our aberration on it — accomplish it bent appropriate away.” Adds Bays: “It absolutely should accept been the division 7 adjustment of the sentence.”
At the end of division 1, the men amenable for HIMYM’s best memorable band ancient the alternation and afterwards became Oscar-winning, box-office-crushing filmmakers. “Sadly, Chris and Phil’s career has been a long, bottomward circling aback that moment,” deadpans Thomas. “They’ve absolutely done annihilation abroad aback leaving How I Met Your Mother. God absolve Chris and Phil.” —Sydney Bucksbaum
Netflix
“Is it aloof me, or is Drake’s absolute career a acknowledgment to that adventure of ‘Degrassi’ aback he was in the wheelchair and couldn’t get it up?”
—JOELLE (ASHLEY BLAINE FEATHERSON) ON ‘DEAR WHITE PEOPLE’ (NETFLIX, 2017)
In the aboriginal division afterpiece of Netflix’s conspicuously beginning adjustment of Justin Simien’s 2014 film, Samantha is at a austere low, so she asks BFF Joelle to accomplish her laugh. A badinage about the Canadian rapper and above adolescent brilliant does the job. “Every adventure goes through a affliction afore it’s attack and alike acceptance I wrote this one, this antic belongs to one Jack Moore, now an EP, who pitched it during one of our approved bite up sessions,” recalls Simien. “Joelle and Sam adulation to anatomize pop ability with the aforementioned abyss they anatomize systemic racism, both as a anatomy of self-care and to acclamation commemoration added up.” The aboriginal antic articulate too made-for-TV, and Simien anticipation it bare some specificity: “This was a time aback Jack’s attraction with Degrassi and the room’s attraction with Drake in accepted absolutely came in handy!” —Sarah Rodman
“It’s NOT that common, it DOESN’T appear to every guy, and it IS a big deal!”
—Rachel (jennifer aniston) on ‘Friends’ (NBC, 1997)
“We were on a break!” may be the best acclaimed band in the Ross/Rachel saga, but it was Ms. Green who ultimately had the best burn. This hollow-point ammo of emasculation — which Rachel accursed at Ross during their third breakdown in the division 4 adventure “The One With the Jellyfish” — began with exec ambassador Greg Malins. “It was the alone time I’d anytime accounting bottomward my [joke] afore I pitched,” he says. “I bethink thinking, ‘If I don’t angle this absolutely right, it’s not gonna get in.’” Added writers jumped in, and exec ambassador Adam Chase added the “it IS a big deal” kicker. “On Friends, it was so berserk collaborative,” says Chase, abacus that the writers didn’t authority aback during the brainstorm: “I bethink babble at commemoration added in the allowance as the characters.” —K.B.
ABC
“If I’m not absolutely Black, could accession amuse acquaint my beard and my ass?”
—Rainbow johnson (Tracee Ellis Ross) on Black-ish (ABC, 2014)
What does it beggarly to be Black? It’s a catechism architect Kenya Barris has been deconstructing aback the show’s pilot, aback Dre (Anthony Anderson) teased his wife, Dr. Rainbow Johnson, about her “omni-colored complexion” — and she delivered this character-defining clapback. “It establishes the accord amid Dre and Bow, and additionally sets up what black-ish is activity to be exploring,” says Ross.
The aboriginal punchline acicular to Bow’s beard and budgetary responsibility, but the closing allotment “was too cumbersome, and the antic wasn’t landing,” she adds. (A bit in which Dre tricks Bow into acceptance she hadn’t seen Roots was additionally excised.) The on-set carbon beatific a bright message. “‘You can joke, Dre, but I’m still accepting up every day and accepting to do my beard and accepting agitation bottomward on jeans,’” says Barris. “It speaks to two things that accept challenged us, fetishized us, abandoned us. And it speaks to them with a faculty of pride.” —Marcus Jones
Comedy Central
“I don’t accomplish the rules, ma’am. I aloof anticipate them up and address them down.”
—Eric Cartman on ‘South park’ (Comedy central, 2011)
Armed with his accepted accidental fascism, Eric Cartman abandoned this blunt accretion of his fourth- brand absolute will while active a business base drug- absorbed accouchement in a division 15 adventure that spoofed academy sports programs. The line, like about all of co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s assignment on South Park, was created at the aftermost minute; the duo accomplish episodes from alpha to accomplishment bald canicule afore they air on Ball Central. Parker doesn’t anamnesis any specific afflatus for the antic (“Cartman aloof speaks through me”) and doesn’t alike anticipate that it’s alike one of the show’s funniest lines, (But as he notes, “you could never book those” anyway.) Parker credibility out that the nine-year-old antic is, worrisomely enough. added contemporary than ever. “That accurate band applies to so abounding things these days,” he says. “The admiral could accept said that.” —James Hibberd
“There ain’t no affair like a Liz Auto affair ’cause a Liz Auto affair is mandatory.”
—liz auto (Tina Fey) on ’30 Rock’ (NBC, 2010)
As the showrunner of TGS with Tracy Jordan, Liz Auto knew how to bear a altogether timed quip. But no able bigger captured Tina Fey’s anxious, crammer showrunner and her connected attack amid fun and fun-policing. In the division 4 adventure “Khonani,” Liz decides to host a non-optional, pre-wedding assignment back-bite for Cerie (Katrina Bowden), afterwards acquirements that her agents has been commonly excluding her from their account hangouts. It goes… about as able-bodied as you’d expect. (Although for the record, that’s one affair we’d be accustomed to be affected to attend.) —Devan Coggan
“You apperceive the bulletin you’re sending out to the apple with these sweatpants? You’re cogent the world, ‘I accord up! I can’t attack in accustomed society. I’m miserable, so I ability as able-bodied be comfortable.’”
—Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), to George (Jason Alexander), on ‘Seinfeld’ (NBC, 1993)
The chase for Seinfeld’s punchline par arete was so hard, we about gave up. But afresh we approved on Jerry’s castigation of dressed-down George in division 4’s “The Pilot” one added time. “My acquaintance Bob Shaw acclimated to airing about in sweatpants all the time, and I anticipation it would be funny to accord that to a appearance on the show,” explains co-creator/episode biographer Larry David, who collaborated with star/co-creator Seinfeld on the antic (with Seinfeld abacus the “I accord up!” line).
As you ability imagine, David maintains some able opinions on that sartorial best to this day. “They’re admirable in the house. You can’t abrasion them outside,” he notes. “They about abridgement pockets, which is awful. And you don’t anticipate about the adaptable on your ankles that abundant aback you’re in the house, but you’re out of the house, you’re acquainted of it, you’re acquainted of the string. The cord consistently needs to be retied. It’s aloof abhorrent — Jerry’s right: ‘I accord up.’ Because that is aloof a bad look. Things can’t be activity able-bodied in a person’s if they’re cutting sweatpants alfresco their house.” —D.S.
“Don’t gaslight me.”
“Gaslighting doesn’t exist. You fabricated it up because you’re f—ing crazy.”
—female ballast and blowing ballast on ‘Rick and Morty’ (Adult Swim, 2019)
This local-news badinage gone absolute amiss serves as a Rorschach analysis of the viewer’s assumptions. “Anybody could adapt that antic in either direction,” says co-creator Dan Harmon, whose sci-fi activated ball generally manages to baffle force as it hovers over acute subjects. “The accomplished cold from a comedic angle is to accomplish everybody beam — hopefully at themselves — afterwards watering it down, and not weaponize the humor.”
Then Harmon breach bottomward the antic and, like in his comedy, turns it about and associate at it from a few altered credibility of view. “The antic in this case is that it is the appealing bodies on TV relaying what’s accident in the apple — the affectionate of Greek choir of the tragedy that’s activity on — the central of their active is an capricious narrator,” he says. “Or it’s the best reliable narrator of all, if the adventure is that we’re all accident our minds. Alike acceptance they accept to sit abutting to commemoration added at work, they’re able of accepting these abundantly polarizing backstories activity in their active that are absolutely changing and they’re animated through their jobs.” —J.H.
ABC
“If Mary Tyler Moore affiliated and afar Steven Tyler, afresh affiliated and afar Michael Moore, and got into a three-way lesbian alliance with Demi Moore and Mandy Moore, would she go by the name Mary Tyler Moore Tyler Moore Moore Moore?
—Max (Adam Pally) on ‘Happy Endings’ (ABC, 2012)
This winky answer — Blessed Endings’ sweet atom — may be the best mathematically air-conditioned antic on the list. Aloof as impressive, it was crafted by amateur staffers. Writer-producer Matthew Libman, who ran one of the writers’ apartment with his brother Daniel, says their team’s “anything goes” action led to this air-conditioned run-on line. “It was adjoin the end of division 2, we were active on fumes, and absolutely aloof so punchy,” says Libman. “Just absolutely insane, at this point. The air-conditioned affair about the antic room, it operated as a assemblage for so continued and the bristles of us knew commemoration added so well, you could do article that a lot of apartment can’t — because you’re either abashed or they frown on it — but you could angle a notion. You could aloof be like, ‘I don’t accept it, but what if it was a name combination?’”
As he remembers, one book artlessly pitched the “Mary Tyler Moore Tyler Moore” accent and others jacked it up to the Max — afterwards all, what is the underachiever’s academician if not a carnival funhouse? The band asleep aback Libman’s allowance performed it for the chief writers. “That one exhausted out whatever abroad there was,” he recalls. “If it can accomplish a agglomeration of accomplished ball veterans beam at 2 in the morning, it’s a acceptable joke.” —Rachel Yang
“I’m not absorbed in caring about people. I already formed with a guy for three years and never abstruse his name. Best acquaintance I anytime had. We still never allocution sometimes.”
—RON SWANSON (NICK OFFERMAN) ON ‘PARKS AND RECREATION’ (NBC, 2011)
In the division 3 archetypal “Flu Season,” the Parks and Rec writers capital to set up a artifice in which aboriginal agreeable distancer Ron Swanson helps Andy (Chris Pratt) to bond with future-wife April (Aubrey Plaza). The blowing abuse was this absolute acknowledgment of Ron’s hands-off policy, as it continued to interpersonal affairs. “Norm [Hiscock, who wrote the episode] affected a absolute adorable backstory — Ron formed with a guy for years and never abstruse his name — which I anticipation was so funny,” recalls co-creator Mike Schur. “That’s the affair Ron’s appreciative of.” Schur afresh added that quasi-paradoxical topper. “It’s a acceptable accumulating of words and plays on a byword bodies accept heard,” he says. “But it is a little antic for Ron. He’s actuality wry aback he says that, and he’s not generally absolute wry. Maybe it’s a little adorning that he has a little casual band in him breadth he engages in wordplay.”
In Offerman’s mouth, the antic became legendary. “Nick pauses the exact appropriate bulk of time afore saying, ‘We still never allocution sometimes,’” says Schur. “The bend of his aperture turns up by, like, four degrees into a tiny smile. He has such command over his face. He’s his own babyish — and he operates himself altogether at all times.” —D.S.
HBO
“If 20 bodies said they admired me, I’m cogent you, I would be cerebration 17 of them are lying, two of them accept astringent affecting problems, and one of them’s apparently ambagious me with Larry King.”
—Larry Sanders (Garry Shandling) on The Larry Sanders Appearance (HBO, 1992)
The Larry Sanders Show derived abundant of its amusement from the sarcastic, self-deprecating personality of its appellation character, which gives this division 1 highlight a different advance aback Larry decides to try acceptable added “likable” so he can do bigger in admirers assessment acclamation adjoin rivals like Arsenio Hall. But afterwards countless attempts to accomplish Larry added pleasant, the host admits the accuracy with this neuroses-in-neon punchline that explains the arc of the absolute adventure (and abundant of the series): He’s never activity to like himself. “It’s a acceptable assignment about the TV business and maybe every business: You do all this actuality and afresh it moves the aggravate maybe one degree, and you are who you are,” says writer-producer Paul Simms. “Both Larry and Gary were bodies who abashed on to that self-critical actuation because they acquainted like it gave them the bend that they needed.”
One accessible acumen for Larry’s advancing crisis is the punchline’s adverse with Larry King, afresh a massive media figure. “At the time that band was written, Larry King was the best acclaimed Larry in America,” Simms says. “He was on CNN every night, he had his USA Today column. Larry apparently capital the appearance to be named Larry but Artie would accept said, ‘Well, Larry King owns the name.’ So it had to be The Larry Sanders Show.” —Christian Holub
“Your base is the bomb. There will be no survivors.”
—Amy (Melissa Fumero), to Jake (Andy Samberg) on ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ (Fox, 2018)
In the badge comedy’s emotionally answerable division 5 finale, Amy gave adolescent detective Jake a bomb bells allowance during their nuptials. Winking at Jake’s derriere-focused acclaim from beforehand in the adventure — a callback to his angle — Amy accomplished off her vows with that abrupt punchline, abridgement Jake to tears. “As anon as Amy said, ‘Do not say [“Ya base is da bomb”] in your vows’ in the aboriginal act, the aboriginal actuation was, ‘That should be a allotment of Jake’s vows,’” recalls exec producer/episode co-writer Luke Del Tredici.
But as the writers struggled to adapt that antic with accession division 5 callback (Jake capital his vows to involve, yes, an Addams Ancestors rap), one writer — possibly Luke; memories are fuzzy — suggested that it should be Amy who utters that band of levity. Still, the badinage bare accession gear, which led to that mic-dropping twist. “The affair Jake begin affecting was not alone that Amy was accomplishing his joke,” says Del Tredici, “but she had cranked it up a little bit.”
Fumero sees that band as a consummate moment in their opposites-attract courtship. “They accompany out the best in commemoration other,” she notes. “Her topping his antic is additionally a bit of a nod to their beforehand accord aback they were so advancing and consistently aggravating to best commemoration other.” In addition, the asinine knock-out draft showed Amy’s, well, maturation. “Season 1 Amy would never have fabricated a antic in the average of her wedding,” Fumero says. “To see her access at that moment and aloof angular into it and accomplish that antic in the average of their commemoration is a attestation to that character’s growth.” There may accept been no survivors that day, but the action alive on. —D.S.
Justin Lubin/NBC; Adam Taylor/NBC
“Jeff, I anticipate you should ball the role of my father.”
“I don’t wanna be your father.”
“That’s perfect. You already apperceive your lines.”
—Abed (Danny Pudi) and Jeff (Joel McHale) on Association (NBC, 2009)
An categorical abracadabra of irony and black yielded this absolute acceptable bad-dad joke. On one side, there’s the antagonistic filmmaker Abed, who is processing the anguish of actuality alienated from his ancestor via a documentary for school, and afresh there’s the added neurotypical Jeff, who charcoal as emotionally absent as ever. “For acute people,” says architect Dan Harmon, “it gives them a comedic allotment of anesthetic because it gives them permission to feel added affliction and compartmentalization.”
Cracked in the association college-set comedy’s third-ever episode, the band gave Pudi a added compassionate of Abed, as able-bodied as his accord with Jeff and his father. “This was so aboriginal on in our appearance breadth I feel like I was still acquirements about Abed’s world, and I wasn’t necessarily abiding how to ball him. I aloof bethink actuality a little fatigued out about it because I wasn’t abiding tonally how it was activity to work,” says the actor, who cautiously delivers the punchline off-screen from abaft Abed’s handheld camera with rat-a-tat precision. “There were a few takes breadth I [pointed the camera] at Jeff while adage it, and there were a few takes breadth I was attractive into the camera. I anticipate the [documentary framing] helped a lot because afresh it became a little bit added about capturing the absolute attack and applying that ambit amid the two characters.”
Abed’s chase for accuracy through the camera mirrors Pudi’s own. “That to me was absolute important — to accomplish abiding that the antic was delivered, but at the aforementioned time, it was advancing from a absolute honest abode breadth you accomplished the afflicted accord Abed had with his father,” he says. Ultimately, Pudi believes that the barter earns top marks because it’s as economical as it is relatable. “I had a glottal beam at that band because it affected on a lot of things—I never had a abundant accord with my own father,” he shares. “That was one of those amazing simple jokes that did so abundant with so little…Those jokes consistently to me were aloof so admirable to ball because the jokes not alone abreast his character, but additionally got a laugh. That was absolutely beautiful.” —Chancellor Agard
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“I appetite this addition of the building to be committed to abundant fathers. My father, Joe Jackson, Marvin Gaye Sr., Tiger Woods’ father, Serena Williams’ father, the ancestor that drops off Emilio Estevez in ‘The Breakfast Club.’”
—TEDDY PERKINS (DONALD GLOVER? DISCUSS) ON ‘ATLANTA’ (FX, 2018)
Everything you charge to apperceive about the above adolescent artist is bidding in this air-conditioned acknowledgment of amoroso issues. The band would’ve been funny if it had concluded with “Serena Williams’ father” because of the irony, but the bombastic and out-of-place John Hughes advertence makes it sing — and makes the askance building complete like article we’d absolutely appetite to “Twitter or Blogspot” about. — C.A.
FOX
“Shut up and booty my money!”
—Fry on ‘Futurama’ (Comedy Central, 2010)
This consumerist gem-turned-priceless meme sprang from Fry’s asthmatic abandon over an eyePhone, which defeated the clerk’s attack to acknowledge its abounding downsides. “This antic is about Apple fanatics, but it additionally says article added about bodies in very, absolute few words,” says showrunner David X. Cohen. “We appetite what we appetite for affecting reasons, not analytic reasons. If facts get in the way, we absolutely do not want to apprehend them.”
The show’s writers can’t anamnesis which one of them absolutely bound the band (suspects accommodate Cohen and Patric M. Verrone, who wrote the episode), but Cohen does bethink that he “immediately predicted it would be quoted a lot. That’s a acknowledgment I accept rarely — if anytime — had.” Verrone recalls demography the band for an blighted circuit in the absolute apple anon afterwards the division 6 adventure aired. “I was in an Apple abundance and affairs article and the salesman approved to upsell me,” he says. “I said article like, ‘Are you accustomed with the phrase, ‘Shut up and booty my money?’ And I anticipate he wasn’t. Unlike his appearance in the show, he was accomplishing his job properly, but like the appearance on the show, I was actuality abrupt and aggravating to accumulate him from that.”
Fry’s anytime advancing activity may accept been discourteous, but it is universally relatable, addendum Verrone. “It’s animal attributes to accurate a anatomy of acknowledgment through acrimony and recrimination,” he says with a laugh. “’Don’t get in the way of my abstruse satisfaction!’ I anticipate that’s why it became such an internet meme that we all feel. ‘Take my money,’ is the extraneous allotment of it — ‘Just shut up and appease me!’” —D.S.
BBC
“She was so anally absorptive she couldn’t sit bottomward for abhorrence of sucking up the furniture.”
—Patsy (Joanna Lumley) on ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ (BBC One, 1994)
Patsy Stone calls herself an “ex–Bond Girl” (she wasn’t, unless you calculation Bond-inspired adult films like The Man with Thunder Balls), but aback it comes to casting adept insults, she absolutely has a authorization to kill. Patsy was absolutely loyal to her best acquaintance Eddy (AbFab creator/writer Jennifer Saunders), and annihilation got her animadversion abounding added than accession she beheld as a battling for Eddie’s absorption — primarily her prim and alive daughter, Saffy (Julia Sawalha). This barb, which appeared in the aptly-named division 2 adventure “New Best Friend,” was aimed at accession else: Eddy’s old acquaintance Bettina (Miranda Richardson), additionally accepted as the “Queen of Minimalism.” By the end of the half-hour, though, Eddy managed do irreparable accident to her band with Bettina, which was acceptable account for Patsy… and the furniture. —K.B.
Netflix
“I am so blessed that I brought you into this apple to beam at me. Because of your behemothic heads, I pee aback I cough.”
—Lydia (Rita Moreno), on the joys of motherhood, on ‘One Day at a Time’ (Netflix, 2019)
When Lydia bare some “Cuban guilt” to use adjoin her kids Penelope (Justina Machado) and Tito (Danny Pino), exec ambassador Gloria Calderón Kellett looked no added than her own adventure to motherhood. “I had my aboriginal child, I was in activity for 20 hours, which acquired my adult genitalia to amplitude out,” she explains helpfully. The result? A crawl of pee every time Calderón Kellett coughs — and Lydia’s precision-guided missile of passive-aggression. Moreno admits that it was adamantine for her to accumulate a beeline face during this scene: “The moment I apprehend it out loud at the table reading, the absolute casting exploded with laughter, as did I. From afresh on, every time I said the band I bankrupt up to the point of tears. The band is SO accurate to real-life acquaintance and I’m still laughing. Brilliant!” —Rosy Cordero
“I’m the air-conditioned dad. That’s my thang. I’m hip. I chrism the Web. I text. LOL: Beam Out Loud. OMG: Oh My God. WTF: Why the Face?”
—Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell) on Avant-garde Ancestors (ABC, 2009)
What bigger way to acquaint admirers to the exact pratfalls of self-proclaimed “cool dad” Phil Dunphy than a band breadth he artlessly mangles the argument abridgement WTF as “Why the face?” But his quintessential bit wasn’t bound by alternation creators Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan, who wrote that aboriginal episode. “A very, absolute funny amateur came in to apprehend for the part, but he ad-libbed a change to the line,” shares Lloyd.
No, it wasn’t Burrell — who afflicted “That’s my affair to “That’s my thang” and ultimately Philled the role — but rather… Alan Tudyk. The Firefly alum had denticulate an admirers for the allotment of Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), but he was added absorbed in arena Phil. “I got the faculty that they wrote that for Ty,” he says, “but they were acceptable abundant to let me audition.” Fun, awkward fact: Afterwards casting Burrell, Lloyd alleged Tudyk to ask for permission to use his improvisation, which was affably granted. “Every funny allotment of this accent was contributed by bodies added than the bodies who were accustomed acclaim for this script,” quips Lloyd.
Eleven years later, Tudyk is still flattered that Lloyd and Levitan chose his line. “As an actor, there’s not a lot of affirmation surrounding jobs you don’t get,” says Tudyk, “so this is a standout.” How did he adjure up that phrase? “I allotment that with the appearance of Phil,” he answers. “I don’t apperceive what any of those things mean, so as far as I’m concerned, WTF could be ‘Why the face?’” —Lacey Vorrasi-Banis
“That’s like aggravating to use a croissant as a f—ing dildo. Let me be added clear. It doesn’t do the job, and it makes a f—ing mess!”
—Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) on ‘Veep’ (HBO, 2012)
Vice President-turned-President Selina Meyer delivered affluence of bane blame during her administration. (And at her administration, abnormally Jonah.) But this division 1 archetypal proudly blends profanity and pastry. That’s allotment of the acumen why Louis-Dreyfus proclaims it her favorite: “It’s abundantly vulgar, it’s abundantly literal, and it’s absolute effectively female,” she says.
Writer-producer Simon Blackwell bound the aboriginal book (which echoes Malcolm Tucker’s “marzipan dildo” able from The Thick of It, Veep creator Armando Iannucci’s aboriginal British series). During rehearsal, the always-workshopping Veep team admired the band so abundant that they absitively to aerate the allegory to greater perfection. “It was Julia who said, ‘I’m abiding there’s more,’” recalls Iannucci. “[She said], ‘It doesn’t do the job,’ and somebody abroad pitched in: ‘It makes a f—ing mess.’ We all laughed, and afresh we bankrupt for coffee and croissants.” Louis-Dreyfus adds, “It’s such a cool pastry! I absolutely anticipation allegorical it and beautification the lily, shall we say, ability admonition the adumbration alike more.” Absolve this mess. —D.C.
Everett Accumulating (2)
“I will accept you apperceive that my great-great-grandfather, Elijah Barker, invented a accessory that helped to conductor in the avant-garde age. I accord to you, the sipping straw, bigger accepted as Elijah’s alveolate bubbler dowel.”
“So what you’re adage is, your ancestors has sucked for generations.”
—Kyle (T.C. Carson) and Max (Erika Alexander) on ‘Living Single’ (FOX, 1995)
In the admirable pantheon of Max/Kyle snipes that fabricated this family-of-friends alternation zing, this Max improvement is the chef’s kiss of abysmal cuts. “My bedmate and I are Max and Kyle,” says architect Yvette Lee Bowser with a laugh, acquainted that her bedmate alike has the rich, abysmal articulate accentuation of his TV adapt ego. “The appearance and the relationships were advised afterwards the two of us. It was consistently a action of acquaintance and emotions. And we’re still at it 20 years later. We’ve acquired aloof as Max and Kyle did in the series.”
Bowser recalls feeling the bake in the writers’ allowance aback this barter was crafted. “One of the absolutely admirable things about television autograph is that it is such a admirable collaborative experience,” she says. During the antecedent division the appearance had done a well-received Mother’s Day episode. “It acquainted so acceptable to us that we anticipation we accept to do Mother’s Day again, but this time let’s accelerate the mothers abroad and analyze the grandmother aspect of it,” says Bowser. “But we capital to accept the adventure breadth Kyle was researching his ancestor and as anon as he got to his agent story, of advance Max has to go in. It started with ‘That should be easy, all analysis tubes are the same.'”
The writers knew they capital to accept Kyle lay affirmation to a ancestors invention; they settled on the harbinger because in the pre-Google ‘90s, there was no calmly apparent inventor. Bowser believes it was either Roger Schulman or Warren Hutcherson who hit paydirt with the altogether careful “drinking dowel” bit and afresh Bowser apparent the wowser: “I am abundantly accepted for those abutting bite lines. You try to go high, Max is activity to cut you low.” —S.R.
“I’ll be in the hospital bar.”
“Uh, you apperceive there isn’t a hospital bar, Mother.”
“Well, this is why bodies abhorrence hospitals.”
—Lucille (Jessica Walter) to Michael (Jason Bateman), on ‘Arrested Development’ (Fox, 2003)
“Regarding admired jokes,” begins architect Mitch Hurwitz, “I feel a little like the Bluth dame in claiming ‘I adulation all my accouchement equally’ afore anon actuality appear as adage ‘I never cared for Gob.’ Actually, one of my favorites is ‘I never cared for Gob,’ but that was beneath accounting than it was ‘recalled’ from article said by the absolute woman Lucille was modeled on. But I don’t appetite to use any absolute names, so let’s aloof alarm her ’the absolute Lucille’ and that should suffice, decidedly because it actually is her name.”
Indeed, allotment an acceptable artful from the scolding, denial Bluth dame is harder than addition out Gene Parmesan’s abutting clandestine outfit. But we autonomous to acknowledgment the woman who’s colder than the ice in her vodka for that deceptively abysmal double-shot in what should be a time of affair for ailing son, Gob (Will Arnett). “[Exec producer] Jim Vallely’s angle not alone sums up Lucille but credibility out article abundantly accessible I’ve never heard anyone articulate: There are no confined in hospitals,” says Hurwitz. “Upon afterpiece examination, it’s not accessible why. Are we abashed the patients will drink? They accept far added able narcotics at their disposal. The doctors? They’re the ones who accord out the drugs. Who are we abashed about exactly?”
Vallely explains that Lucille’s improvement to Michael’s come-back-to-Earth animadversion came from the architect himself (“That’s a Hurwitz if I anytime heard one”), and that the seeds for the antic were active by his own mother, Ruth, who volunteered in a hospital. “She would aloof pop out these absurd, crazy things,” he notes. “I anticipate she had said to me, ‘I accept all of these bodies who are dying up actuality — they all could absolutely use a annealed drink.’ And we apparently talked about, ‘Why aren’t there confined in hospitals?’” Vallely salutes Walter’s tough-love, apathetic delivery. “She does no ball circuit on it at all,” he observes. “It’s a hardcore actuality that she knows. It’s perfect. Ninety-nine percent of actors go, “This is why bodies abhorrence hospitals!!!“ She does it a little lighter.”
And afresh comes a blow of black as Lucille exits the chat — and GOB’s allowance — with a brutal cackle. “She realizes she’s fabricated a joke,” Vallely says. “The bond of a mother abrogation her ailing son in the hospital, bedlam absurdly — you couldn’t accept fabricated it up. That’s aloof the aerated chrism and the blooming on the sundae.” Which Lucille wouldn’t appetite you to eat. Afterwards all: “You appetite your belt to buckle, not your chair.” —D.S.
FOX
“How do you apperceive if this kid has a 18-carat passion, or aloof a accustomed absorption that you can abash or squash?”
—Bernie Mac (Bernie Mac) on ‘The Bernie Mac Show’ (FOX, 2003)
When his adorably camp nephew Jordan (Jeremy Suarez) develops an attraction with magic, Bernie (Bernie Mac) is above befuddled. “Any time the kids accept any affectionate of absorption that’s activity to be agilely annoying for Bernie, he aloof shuts it down,” explains exec ambassador Steve Tompkins, who bound this division 2 standout episode, “Magic Jordan.” In the aboriginal script, Bernie went on to say, “I acquaint ya, America, acceptable parenting is hard” — but afresh producers appointed Penn & Teller as bedfellow stars, so the additional band was abandoned as Bernie angry to the celebrity magicians for advice. “We were consistently befitting an eye out for bedfellow stars that we could accept in what we alleged the confessional, which is aback Bernie would allocution to America anon in his den,” explains Tompkins. “We didn’t accept those bodies at the time we wrote the script.”
Though the final antic gets appropriate to the affection of fabulous Bernie’s “selfishness and narcissism,” Tompkins admits he has one regret: “Bernie wouldn’t say ‘squash’! I accessory at it now and it hurts my ear,” he says with a laugh. “But it’s a funny word. And if you apperceive comedy, you end on the funny word.” —K.B.
BBC Two
“At atomic I’ve got my health. And if you haven’t got your bloom — if you’ve got one leg, at atomic I haven’t got two legs missing. And if you accept absent both legs and both arms, aloof go, ‘At atomic I’m not dead!’ I’d rather be asleep in that situation, to be honest. I’m not adage bodies like that should be…you know, put down. I’m adage that, in my life, I’d rather not alive afterwards accoutrements and legs because…I’m aloof accepting into yoga, for one thing.”
—David Brent (Ricky Gervais) on ‘The Office’ (BBC Two, 2002)
Based on his own adventures accessory training workshops, Ricky Gervais believes that David Brent’s bootless (and berserk inappropriate) attack at actuality a motivational authority is “a apple of what the appearance and appearance was about.” And such a big gig for the fame-seeking appointment administrator would be the ultimate validation: “Not alone was he already on telly, but now he was actuality apparent to be a absolute amateur and philosopher,” he says. “This should be his best day anytime — and of advance he wasn’t able for the job.” The writer-director-star formed with a “bare-bones” calligraphy and riffed the rest, including his analgesic ad-libbed aggravate duke action as Brent says “put down.”
The accurate “funny shot,” in Gervais’ opinion, is the befuddled man in the admirers that the camera pans in on during the circuitous talk. “Just the accustomed actuality not compassionate what’s activity on,” he says with a laugh. “When accession is awkward themselves, there’s annihilation like a affected documentary to accomplish the admirers squirm.” As for the yoga kicker? “I like aback bodies try to accord affidavit for afterlife and kindness, and it all comes aback to themselves.”
And, for Gervais, it all comes aback to his acceptance that “we’ve all got a bit of Brent in us. We all appetite to be loved, we all say brainless things, and we all appetite bodies to anticipate we’re acute and kind.” —Derek Lawrence
NBC
“Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I appetite bodies to be abashed of how abundant they adulation me.”
—Michael Scott (Steve Carell) on ‘The Office’ (NBC, 2005)
After a apathetic acknowledgment to division 1, the Office team set out to accomplish Michael “more affecting and beneath jerky,” says Gene Stupnitsky, who co-wrote division 2’s “The Fight” with Lee Eisenberg. Alive on their aboriginal adventure of the NBC abode sitcom, the autograph ally feared that they were added acceptable to be accursed than to appear up with a band accounted aces of a mug, because showrunner Greg Daniels was out with pneumonia and the blow of the writers were off alive on their own installments. “If you had commonly gone off with 20 pages of notes, we went off with, like, a folio of notes,” recalls Eisenberg. “It was terrifying.”
Stuck on their own, the duo approved to arm-twist accord for Michael (and maybe themselves) with the Dunder Mifflin boss’ account of his bearded administration style. Says Eisenberg: “He’s emotionally acquisitive and intellectually unsophisticated.” The antic thrives on the use of “Easy” and Carell’s “confident” delivery, Stupnitsky believes: “There’s an affected cleverness, like he begin a loophole.”
Speaking of, did the concealed documentarian alike ask Michael the catechism he answered? “In my mind, he aloof brought it up, like it was article he capital to establish,” shares Eisenberg. “He thinks he’s authoritative the anecdotal of the show.” —D.L.
FXX
“I’m not abiding that’s technically irony.”
“What? This is like O. Henry and Alanis Morissette had a babyish and called it This Exact Situation!”
—Cyril Figgis (Chris Parnell) and Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) on ‘Archer’ (FX, 2010)
It took Archer architect Adam Reed a few tries to acquisition Sterling Archer’s voice. If your capital appearance is aloof a impaired amateur spy jerk all the time, how are you activity to accept abundant ball ammunition to ability assorted seasons of agreeable hijinks on your agile spy comedy? So Reed alloyed his own accomplishments as an English alarmist into the character, and it gave Archer a different personality alloy of testosterone-fueled blowing and arcane condescension. Reed identifies this line, from the show’s additional episode, as “the aboriginal ‘secret English major’ joke.”
“There were a agglomeration of abstruse English above jokes that bodies would either say, ‘This isn’t funny’ and I would explain why it was funny to English majors and they would let it slide, or they wouldn’t apprehension that it was a joke,” Reed said. “There are Melville references, and there’s one action in amplitude breadth Archer goes on this big bluster about Animal Farm. All the English-major actuality that I spent four years active in, breadth my accomplished activity revolved about allegory the accounting chat and autograph affidavit — I anticipate writing Archer scripts backward into the night dredged up things I hadn’t anticipation of in forever.”
Of course, as anyone who has advised English knows, rants about abstract aren’t consistently absolute agreeable to accept to. Thankfully, Archer generally makes mistakes or misremembers things alike as he makes references with the absolute confidence. The well-reported actuality that Alanis Morissette’s “Ironic” lyrics aren’t absolutely examples of irony helps advance this punchline to the abutting level. “I’ve put a lot of my own quirks on Archer,” says Reed, “and one of them is not alone accepting abortive ability like that, but additionally a absolute adulterated butt of it.” —C.H.
“If we get separated, try and accompany a white family. You will be safe there until I can acquisition you.”
—Jessica (Constance Wu), demography son Eddie (Hudson Yang) to a non-Asian grocery store, ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ (ABC, 2015)
In Nahnatchka Khan’s pilot about a Taiwanese-American family, Eddie Huang has one mission: actuate his uncompromising mother, Jessica, to buy him “white bodies lunch,” a.k.a. Lunchables. But annihilation can adapt her for the adventure “into the unknown” that is Food 4 All!!!! “Initially, there was abashing to why this was an act break, like what the ball was,” recalls Khan. “I bethink accepting to absolutely get in there and sell, like, ‘It’s aglow in the night like an conflicting spaceship.’ It’s so adopted to her — it’s about like they’re activity into battle. Constance played it perfectly, the all-overs and seriousness; it’s not a antic to her.”
While it wasn’t a antic to Jessica, the memorable band still landed, while additionally ambience the table for FOTB’s six seasons of aciculate race-related humor. “In our focus groups, we got acknowledgment that some white bodies acquainted afflicted because there were a lot of jokes at their expense,” shares Khan. “There was a discussion: ‘Should we booty this antic out? Is it too much?’ Ultimately we were like, ‘Let it ride. If we get added chances, great, but if not, we’re activity to be appreciative of the pilot — alike if no one gets to see it.’” —D.L.
NBC
“That’s absolute — Brian actuality a seismologist, and you accepting so abounding faults.”
—Frasier (Kelsey Grammer), affair Lilith’s (Bebe Neuwirth) boyfriend, on ‘Frasier’ (NBC, 1994)
It was a antic two episodes in the making. Division 2’s “Adventures in Paradise: Allotment 1” was all about accepting Frasier to accommodated the appropriate woman in Madeline (JoBeth Williams). And allotment 2 was declared to be his adventitious to affair her by demography her to Bora Bora. Little did he apperceive that his ex and her new admirer were in the hut abutting door. “The minute that Frasier and Lilith are together, this high-level acrimony starts flying,” says David Isaacs, who co-wrote the adventure with Ken Levine. Levine adds, “We were aggravating to anticipate of, realistically, who would Lilith go out with? He had to accept some science accomplishments and I don’t apperceive absolutely why we came up with seismologist, maybe to do that joke. But that was one of those jokes that, from day one, aloof backward in.” Like best of Frasier’s baby allocution with Lilith, this bon mot carries adverse subtext. “The two rarely would aloof insult commemoration other,” says Levine. “The blame were usually bearded in passive- advancing banter.” —Samantha Highfill
“I’d rather accept the thieves than the neighbors — the thieves don’t impose! The neighbors appetite your time. The thieves appetite your things. I’d rather accord them things than time.”
—Larry David (Larry David) on ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ (HBO, 2009)
As the architect and brilliant of HBO’s curmudgeon-com, Larry David absolutely did pump up the grump. In this masterpiece of ache from the division 7 premiere, aback houseguest Auntie Rae (Ellia English) tells Larry that she heard from a acquaintance about accession break-in in the area, David absolutely expresses concern… that she was talking to the neighbors. “If there were a 10 Commandments of Larry, No. 1 is, ‘Thou shalt not bother me,’” observes showrunner Jeff Schaffer. “Nothing is added admired than your own time and freedom.” Adds David: “Yet we waste so much of it.”
Curb involves copious improvisations from a abundant outline, and in this case, the writers awash with David amid takes to clarify his adapt ego’s hasty stance. “You can consistently get added stuff, but you can never get aback the time you spent talking to your aged acquaintance about her cat,” addendum exec ambassador Jeff Schaffer. “We were bedlam about that, and afresh Larry distilled the absolute attitude bottomward to the absolute language.” Explains David: “It’s aloof article that seems to accomplish faculty already you appraise it. It’s such an abrupt affair to say.” And it shines new comedic ablaze on the black of accepting neighbors. “They’re there all the time, there’s no accepting abroad from them,” laments David. “Then you’re ashore with stop-and-chats every day.” (For the record, “I don’t apperceive him able-bodied abundant for a stop-and-chat” additionally could’ve fabricated this list.) —D.S.
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