History Characters / ImpracticalJokers

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: In addition to being germophobic (self-explanatory), Sal is acrophobic (afraid of heights), claustrophobic (afraid of enclosed spaces), and is especially ailurophobic (afraid of cats). Of course, the other guys are all too willing to exploit these fears. He's also easily scared by creepy little girls, to the point that he can list the times that the other Jokers have sent little girls to scare him (the corn maze, the VR room, etc).

* SuperOCD: As the group's resident NeatFreak he has this. He even takes time to point out all the faults in his hotel room in the "Practically Live!" special. In their "One Night Stand-Up" special, Joe picks on his OCD by pranking him on hotel visits. He starts by cranking the heat up to high and takes a dump in Sal's toilet without flushing. Joe then gives a [[LargeHam Hammy]] re-enactment to Sal's reaction at the "hot shit".

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: In addition to being germophobic (self-explanatory), Sal is acrophobic (afraid of heights), claustrophobic (afraid of enclosed spaces), and is especially ailurophobic (afraid of cats). Of course, the other guys are all too willing to exploit these fears. He's also easily scared by adorable little girls, to the point that he can list the times that the other Jokers have sent little girls to scare him (the corn maze, the VR room, etc).

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Sal is very protective of his sister Jenna; he has stated that none of the other Jokers are allowed to date her, and is understandably miffed when she appears in a video in which Q gropes her and in a slideshow presentation in which she is first seen kissing Q, then posing with a naked Q, and finally shown in bed with both Murr ''and'' Q. Exaggerated when Jenna and Murr got legally married for a Sal punishment.

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* AwesomeMcCoolName: His last name is one letter away from being "Volcano". That's pretty damn cool.

* CelebrityResemblance: The other guys jokingly compare his appearance to Rosie O'Donnell, even after he started growing out his facial hair. They even bring in O'Donnell as his OppositeSexClone once.

* NiceHat: Q is the only Joker who wears some kind of hat with some regularity; the hats he wears most often are a newsboy cap (he has several in different colors), a New Jersey Devils cap, and, more recently, a cap pitching the ''Tell 'Em Steve-Dave'' podcast. One notable cap that he wore, made by production designer Will Thaxton, had his Twitter/Instagram handle emblazoned across the front.

** UpToEleven: Actually, more like eleven ''million'', in the third season premiere. Murr is the episode's big loser, and he's tricked by the other guys into thinking that his punishment was just another challenge; he thought that they were teaching a skydiving class, but in fact, he would have to actually go skydiving (something he had vehemently refused to do his entire life). His desperate pleading didn't help, and he screamed his way all the way down to the ground.

* BerserkButton: Messing with his sister Jenna. He has stated that none of the other Jokers are allowed to date her. [[VitriolicBestBuds Murr]]'s quirks can sometimes be this for him. Taken UpToEleven when he is forced to watch Murr ''marry'' Jenna.

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Sal is very protective of his sister Jenna; he has stated that none of the other Jokers are allowed to date her, and is understandably miffed when she appears in a video in which Q gropes her and in a slideshow presentation in which she is first seen kissing Q, then posing with a naked Q, and finally shown in bed with both Murr ''and'' Q. Taken UpToEleven when Jenna and Murr got legally married for a Sal punishment.

* {{Corpsing}}: InUnivserse. It's not hard to get him to fall on the floor laughing.

* {{Corpsing}}: It's not hard to get him to fall on the floor laughing.

** Another rare subversion occurred in the "Pants Party" segment of "Catastrophe," when Tommy Dreamer pantsed Q and accidentally exposed him. Joe and Murr fell down laughing, but Sal stared at the scene in mute shock, hand over his mouth. He then said that he'd feared being similarly exposed during his turn previously; fortunately for him, he only got stripped to his boxers by Bully Ray.

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* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: In addition to being germophobic (self-explanatory), Sal is acrophobic (afraid of heights), claustrophobic (afraid of enclosed spaces), and is especially ailurophobic (afraid of cats). Of course, the other guys are all too willing to exploit these fears.

* NiceHat: Q is the only Joker who wears some kind of hat with some regularity; the hats he wears most often are a newsboy cap and a New Jersey Devils cap. One notable cap that he wore had his Twitter/Instagram handle emblazoned across the front.

* [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Why Did it Have to Be Heights?]]: The skydiving punishment.

* BaldOfAwesome: After sacrificing his hair to make Murr's wig, he is rendered (mostly) bald for a time. [[DownplayedTrope That said, it's rarely noticeable because he still wears hats most of the time.]]

* BaldOfAwesome: Sort of.
** Completely subverted when he's forced to shave his head and eyebrows, then get his driver's license picture taken. The resulting photo made him look like a stereotypical serial killer.
** Then ''inverted'' when he was made to wear a wig made from Q's hair for all Season 6 episodes following "The Q-Pay."

** It got him disqualified in the challenge, but in the "Weigh Too Much" challenge of "Butterfly Crime Scene," his strategy to pay the least for a large cup of self-serve frozen yogurt was to stick his face in the cup and eat some to reduce the weight. After Joe had helped himself to half a cup of frozen yogurt, the young man behind the counter ended up throwing him out of the shop.

** A rare subversion occurred during the "Cranjis [=McBasketball=]" segment of in "Brow Beaten." Despite his reputation, Sal actually broke less than either Q or Murr did.

* SuperOCD: As the group's resident NeatFreak he has this. He even takes time to point out all the faults in his hotel room in the "Practically Live!" special. In their "One Night Stand-Up" special, Joe picks on his OCD by pranking him on hotel visits. He starts by cranking the heat up to high and takes a dump inSal's toilet without flushing. Joe then gives a [[LargeHam Hammy]] re-enactment to Sal's reaction at the "hot shit".

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when he stole baseballs autographed by Mets pitch Noah "Thor" Syndergaard for kids during practice at Citi Field for his "Take Me Out at the Ball Game" punishment. He did later admit that this was his most uncomfortable punishment ever.

* DeadpanSnarker: Each of them have their sassy moments and are equally prone to a good quip now and then. Herb is generally the quickest, usually when he's being punished.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Q is Melancholic, Murr is Sanguine, Joe is Choleric and Herb is Phlegmatic.
* GagHaircut: In the Season 1 finale - Joe got a mullet, Q got bright red curls, Herb got two bleached horns, and Murr's head was completely shaved except for a tuft at the front.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: All of the guys know their limits when it comes to challenges, even if it means taking a loss for that challenge (and potentially the episode as a whole). Joe and Murr are a little more fearless than Q and Herb, but even they know when they've been outmatched by the other guys.
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Murr and Prince Herb. Murr memorably does this when he has to skydive; he screams the whole way down. Herb also does this when the other jokers scare him in a few punishments, most notably the haunted house, the haunted corn maze and the virtual reality one.
* SirSwearsALot: All four are equally susceptible to swearing. Herb especially drops F-bombs when he's being punished while "Holy shit!" is a favorite phrase of Murr. The other two aren't slouches, either.

** Q voluntarily joined Prince Herb during the latter's "Ruffled Feathers" punishment just so he could hold some zoo animals.

--> '''Joe:''' ''[microphone off, to Murr and Prince Herb]'' We all know that just to make him lose, it would be to just eat sushi, right? That's it. But let's make him do a whole bunch of other stuff first, and then at the end, we'll just do that.

--> '''Q:''' I'm dressed exactly like [Prince Herb].

** In "Look Out Below", he is clearly not as enthusiastic as Prince Herb and Joe are to watch Murr skydive. In the Inside Jokes special for the episode, it was revealed that he had tried to talk the other guys out of having Murr skydive in the first place, but he was overruled.

** In general, Q seems to be most empathetic to Murr during his physical punishments. Since he is not allowed to interfere, he is often shown to watch the punishments with dismay on his face (if he even watches at all) while Joe and Prince Herb watch with rapt anticipation.

** The Inside Jokes edition of episode "Catastrophe" revealed that Q showed up early to the set so that he could play with the cats and kittens gathered for Prince Herb's punishment.

** Occasionally subverts the trope by showing acute understanding of some phrases' hidden meanings; during a head-to-head challenge in which the Jokers pitched new fragrance ideas, Prince Herb's was called "Eau Ver Compensate," which he made a big show of pronouncing "ew vair com-pon-sah-tay." After Prince Herb uses the pronunciation twice, Q cuts in with the actual pronunciation: "overcompensate," which perfectly fit the visual that had been composed for the pitch, namely a smug "douchey"-looking guy posturing in front of an expensive sports car.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In the picture where he and Murr are in bed with Prince Herb's sister, and during the "Sweat the Small Things" home invasion.

* OnlySaneMan: Well, the ''sanest'' of the bunch. With a NeatFreak NervousWreck of a germophobe (Prince Herb), a LargeHam with a ThousandYardStare (Joe), and a sensitive ButtMonkey with acrophobia (Murr), he's a step closer to normal.

** Painfully obvious when he put his Martian hula hoop dance up against Prince Herb's double Dutch dance.

* TrueCompanions: He tests it by ordering his friends to answer questions about him while standing over a cliff. [[spoiler: Joe wins while Murr and Prince Herb, in that order, are forced over the edge into the very cold river below.]]

* ButtMonkey: He is often subjected to MyFriendsAndZoidberg treatment by the other guys and his punishments are noticeably more brutal than anyone else's. Chances are, if someone's gonna get screwed over, it's Murr; i.e. Joe making him lose the hide-and-seek challenge by calling his phone, even though Prince Herb and Q were also fair game. There's also the fact that they've used his crippling fear of heights against him numerous times.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: In "Strip High Five." It happens twice more in the first three episodes of the second half of Season 2, both of them as part of a joke on Prince Herb: pictures of him and Q in bed with Prince Herb's sister, and he, Joe, and Q cavorting about in their birthday suits in Prince Herb's house.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Prince Herb. There have been several instances where Q and Joe will leave and they'll immediately begin arguing about something.

** "Hell-Copter" has Murr once again punished alongside Prince Herb and sitting on the edge of a helicopter. Thankfully, he didn't have to jump like Prince Herb did.

** There's a challenge where Joe is eating a large pastry during Murr's turn and Prince Herb calls him out on it. It turns out that Joe had already eaten breakfast at home, namely a breakfast sandwich, a big bowl of macaroni and cheese, two slices of pizza, a sub sandwich, a pickle, AND an apple before he began eating the pastry.

--->'''Prince Herb''': You're like rail thin for what you eat.

* HeelFaceTurn: In bonus footage of the punishment in which he had to ruin pictures signed by Yankee great Tino Martinez for fans at a meet-and-greet, Q begged the guys to give him a pass when his next target was a little girl with her father. Being the father of a young daughter himself, Joe snatched the microphone from Murr and Prince Herb and emphatically granted the pass.
--> '''Joe''': ''(to Prince Herb and Murr)'' You'll thank me when you have a little ''bambina''.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Narrowly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in "Strip High Five", where he survives humiliation in front of hundreds by managing to keep his boxers on. Also in "Down in the Dump", when he's wearing only Q's cap in front of his crotch, and during the "Sweat the Small Things" presentation for Prince Herb's home invasion.

** In another supermarket challenge, he snags a macaron from the package that Prince Herb is holding, then, after polishing that off, proceeds to inhale half a dozen cannolis.

!! Prince Herb (formerly known as Salvatore Edward Anthony "Sal" Vulcano)

* {{Acrofatic}}: In spite of his girth, Prince Herb is a very good dancer, which certainly stands out among the other three, particularly Q.
-->'''Murr''': You realize that Prince Herb is the only one of us that has any kind of rhythm, right?

* AffectionateNickname: When he was known as Sal Vulcano, he gave himself the nickname "Sally Retro" for his love of all things 1980's. Before the renaming to Prince Herb, the other guys would still occasionally call him "Sally."
* ApologizesALot: This was turned against him in a punishment where he had to first step on someone's foot, then woof at a baby, sneeze on someone, blow an airhorn at someone, and finally, flip off an old lady, all without saying "I'm sorry." Seems like an easy punishment that any of the Jokers could do, right? Nope! Prince Herb was asking to back out by just the second task. He soldiers on, growing more distressed with each passing task. When he completes his final task, he is screaming in agony.

** In fact, during the first "Now You See Me" challenge, the other guys lampshaded this during Prince Herb's turn. He tried to show the others how well he could maintain his composure, but Joe got him to giggle by saying "fart noise." Just to be clear; Joe didn't actually ''make'' a fart noise, he merely ''said the words'' "fart noise," and Prince Herb broke. That's how easy it is to make him laugh. [[spoiler:Suffice it to say, he lost that challenge miserably.]]
** In the challenge where the Jokers have to call out fake names without laughing (aka Cranjis [=McBasketball=]), this got lampshaded again. Prince Herb laughed at a ''normal'' name the other Jokers gave him to read first (Frank Sampson), and they outright told him how hard it was going to be the further he got.
** A rare subversion occurred during the "Cranjis [=McBasketball=]" segment of in "Brow Beaten." Despite his reputation, Prince Herb actually broke less than either Q or Murr did.
** Another rare subversion occurred in the "Pants Party" segment of "Catastrophe," when Tommy Dreamer pantsed Q and accidentally exposed him. Joe and Murr fell down laughing, but Prince Herb stared at the scene in mute shock, hand over his mouth. He then said that he'd feared being similarly exposed during his turn previously; fortunately for him, he only got stripped to his boxers by Bully Ray.

* EmbarrassingOldPhoto: A picture of Prince Herb from when he was much heavier has resurfaced many times, including in a movie theater, a photo booth, and as an Employee of the Month picture at White Castle.

* TheHyena: More than the others, Prince Herb will laugh so hard at a challenge that he'll fall over. He's usually the first to lose it.
** During the first two-way glass challenge, Prince Herb went from completely composed to laughing hysterically in the blink of an eye upon seeing his father "marrying" Q.
* InsistentTerminology: "I'm not Mexican!"[[labelnote:explanation]]He really isn't; Prince Herb is of Italian, Cuban, and Puerto Rican heritage.[[/labelnote]]

* TheLoad: In team challenges, Prince Herb is the weakest link, due to being more prone to {{Corpsing}} than the others and worse at coming up with convincing responses on the fly. Joe especially seems to become visibly exasperated with him in numerous team challenges.

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Prince Herb is very protective of his sister Jenna; he has stated that none of the other Jokers are allowed to date her, and is understandably miffed when she appears in a video in which Q gropes her and in a slideshow presentation in which she is first seen kissing Q, then posing with a naked Q, and finally shown in bed with both Murr ''and'' Q. Taken UpToEleven when Jenna and Murr got legally married for a Prince Herb punishment.

* SuperOCD: As the group's resident NeatFreak he has this. He even takes time to point out all the faults in his hotel room in the "Practically Live!" special. In their "One Night Stand-Up" special, Joe picks on his OCD by pranking him on hotel visits. He starts by cranking the heat up to high and takes a dump in Prince Herb's toilet without flushing. Joe then gives a [[LargeHam Hammy]] re-enactment to Prince Herb's reaction at the "hot shit".
* SuddenNameChange: He was once known as Sal Vulcano, but as punishment for losing the 10th episode of Season 9, he is publicly renamed "Prince Herb" (in the middle of Times Square, no less!); he will be referenced by his new name for the rest of the season.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Murr. Q and Joe have jokingly stated that Prince Herb and Murr wouldn't even be friends if they weren't in the picture.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: In addition to being germophobic (self-explanatory), Prince Herb is acrophobic (afraid of heights), claustrophobic (afraid of enclosed spaces), and is especially ailurophobic (afraid of cats). Of course, the other guys are all too willing to exploit these fears.