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* While talking about how bringing up the Japanese internment camps is bad form, he decides to show the scene of Film/HydeParkOnHudson where [[{{Squick}} FDR gets a handjob from his distant cousin]] [[SoBadItsGood while in the middle of a field of flowers with soft focus cinematography.]] After showing it, he says, "Did I have to show you that? No. Did I want to show you that? Absolutely I did."
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-->'''George H.W. Bush:''' This is crack cocaine. Seized a few days ago by drug enforcement agents in a park just across the street from the white house. It could easily have been heroin or PCP. It's as innocent looking as candy. And now, with the help of this bag's contents, I shall ascend into the cosmos on the wings of a dragon to a place where joy is everlasting and fear is but a memory! ''(snort)'' LET'S DO THIS THING! LET'S DO THIS THING Y'ALL!!!!!
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'''John:''' ''(as Bush)'' And now, with the help of this bag's contents, I shall ascend into the cosmos on the wings of a dragon to a place where joy is everlasting and fear is but a memory! ''(snort)'' LET'S DO THIS THING! LET'S DO THIS THING Y'ALL!!!!!
'''John:''' ''(as Bush)'' And now, with the help of this bag's contents, I shall ascend into the cosmos on the wings of a dragon to a place where joy is everlasting and fear is but a memory! ''(snort)'' LET'S DO THIS THING! LET'S DO THIS THING Y'ALL!!!!!
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** From that same episode, John's [[BriefAccentImitation brief impression]] of [[Series/TheAndyGriffithShow Andy Taylor]], explaining a very bad day at prison to Opie, to call attention to President Creator/BarackObama's questionable phrasing when describing torture:
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---> '''John:''' ''[imitating Creator/AndyGriffith]'' You see, Opie, things got a little out of hand down at the jailhouse. And Barney and I? Well... we tortured some folks. We tortured those folks good, Ope!
** astonishment that 46 percent of Americans don't believe in the big bang theory when the theme from [[Series/TheBigBangTheory the sitcom]] explains it every week.
---> '''John:''' And sadly, there is no sitcom theme that explains torture to us, at least not since they cancelled ''[[Series/TwoGuysAGirlAndAPizzaPlace Two Guys, a Girl and a]]'' ''[[BreadEggsMilkSquick Black Site Prison]]''.
** There's also one [=YouTube=] commenter's astute observation:
---> ''"Waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay" sounds like great fun if you don't know what either of those things are.''
---> '''John:''' ''[imitating Creator/AndyGriffith]'' You see, Opie, things got a little out of hand down at the jailhouse. And Barney and I? Well... we tortured some folks. We tortured those folks good, Ope!
** astonishment that 46 percent of Americans don't believe in the big bang theory when the theme from [[Series/TheBigBangTheory the sitcom]] explains it every week.
---> '''John:''' And sadly, there is no sitcom theme that explains torture to us, at least not since they cancelled ''[[Series/TwoGuysAGirlAndAPizzaPlace Two Guys, a Girl and a]]'' ''[[BreadEggsMilkSquick Black Site Prison]]''.
** There's also one [=YouTube=] commenter's astute observation:
---> ''"Waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay" sounds like great fun if you don't know what either of those things are.''
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* On pharmaceutical companies spending more on marketing than on R&D:
-->'''John:''' Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends. They're much more concerned with getting inside of you than being effective once they're in there.
* The show prepared a [[http://youtu.be/3FCioWz7aps?t=1m37s farewell message for Radioshack to use]], with the commercial asking WhatTheHellHero at the jokes made at their bankruptcy.
* From the ''How is This Still a Thing?'' featurette on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8QNDRbjong Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue]]:
-->'''Narrator:''' Even S.I. seems to know it's losing relevance -- which may be why, every year, like clockwork, they provoke an attention-grabbing controversy, whether it's [[MightyWhitey using other countries' citizens as props]] [...] objectifying woman with [[{{Franchise/Barbie}} an actual object]] [...] or ''this'' year, baiting the media with THIS bullshit.\\
''(The 2015 issue appears, featuring model Hannah Davis pulling down her bikini bottom)''\\
'''Carl Quintanilla:''' When the line goes this far, what's left?\\
'''Narrator:''' ''[[AskAStupidQuestion The vagina.]]'' The vagina is what's left.
* The footage of Vladimir Putin, after making a big show of Russia's military force while visiting Egypt, having to listen to his country's national anthem be butchered by a soggy, off-key brass band. He looks so [[TranquilFury sternly bellicose]] that even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-_-XpfpLPE John cracks up.]]
-->'''John''': ''(barely containing his laughter)'' LOOK HOW ANGRY HE IS! And yet, he's got to just stand there and ''take it''!
* John when talking about our infrastructure and how highway funds get money from a gas tax, but the tax hasn't increased with inflation.
-->'''John:''' The fact that it hasn't increased means that in real terms the gas-tax has gone down 39% since 1993. Much like koosh ball sales or respect for [[CrossesTheLineTwice Bill Cosby]].
** [[MundaneMadeAwesome John tries to make infrastructure exciting]] with a fake movie trailer called "Infrastructure", featuring Creator/EdwardNorton and Creator/SteveBuscemi.
--->'''Norton:''' Well then tighten [the bolt] goddamn it!... Okay, listen to me! Listen to me, [[RuleOfThree listen to me]]... [[TheComicallySerious lefty-loosey, righty-tighty.]]\\
'''Buscemi:''' I'm the best damn inspector in the business - and I'm here to [[{{Pun}} inspect this dam]].
** This exchange:
--->'''John:''' Here's how obvious our need is -- just two days ago, even ''a total idiot'' agreed.\\
''[[TakeThat [cut to Donald Trump at the 2015 CPAC]]]''\\
'''Trump:''' We have to rebuild our infrastructure! Our roads are crumbling; everything's crumbling, and we're rebuilding China!\\
'''John:''' Okay, now, glossing over [[NonSequitur whatever the fuck he was talking about regarding "rebuilding China"]], that upside-down piece of candy corn in a wig made of used medical gauze is ''right!''
** "[[PrankCall You've been]] [[ShockJock Badgered!]]"
* When John makes the red-tailed hawk the official raptor of ''Last Week Tonight'', [[https://youtu.be/uiN_-AEhTpk?t=169 a live hawk is brought out to demonstrate]]. John does his level best to keep going while cringing in fear of it, and the trainer even stretches his arm so it will be closer to John.
** Watch closely: the trainer looks at John cringing, and then ''grins at the audience'' before he sloooowly moved the hawk closer.
* John takes on the government surveillance:
** After flying to Russia to interview Edward Snowden, he waits for an hour longer than he expected to - and halfway through that hour, he was informed that their Russian producer had booked them a room that overlooked [[ParanoiaFuel the former KGB headquarters, and current FSB headquarters in Russia]].
** He also asks random people on the street who Edward Snowden is. The answers he got range from "I don't know" to "He's the founder of [=WikiLeaks=]," the latter of which actually refers to Julian Assange. John then said to ''not'' confuse Snowden with Assange.
--->'''John:''' Julian Assange is not a likable man. Even ''Creator/BenedictCumberbatch'' [[Film/TheFifthEstate could not make him likable]]! He's un-Cumberbatchable! That was supposed to be physically impossible!
** John frames the debate in terms everyone can understand: dick pics. Snowden has an amazingly baffled look upon opening a folder John has told him contains very sensitive information. [[spoiler: It's a picture of John's dick.]] The level of InnocentInnuendo in the explanation given by Snowden of the programs that follows (e.g. "Upstream is how they snatch your junk" and "PRISM is how they pull your junk out of Google, with Google's involvement") is huge.
** John's look of terror at the conclusion of their interview, when Snowden tells them that now they're "associated" and the NSA will be putting him on "the list".
--->'''John:''' Okay, just to be clear, NSA, [[ImplausibleDeniability I never met this guy]] ''[[[ImplausibleDeniability a still picture of the interview is still on the screen]]]'' so take me off your f***ing list! 'Cause I ''do not'' want to get stuck in Russia! ''[running through Moscow]'' I-wanna-go-home-I-wanna-go-home-I-wanna-go-home-I-wanna-go-home!
* "Standardized tests! The fastest way to terrify any child with five letters outside of just whispering the word [[MonsterClown "clown"]]!"
** The episode starts with school-made videos to motivate kids during testing season, including of one of a pep rally with a monkey mascot. John says that the videos put him in the mood and calls in the monkey.
** After a heartwrenching video of a eigth grader giving a tearful speech about how she was asked to leave her AP classes due to her low test scores, John calls the monkey in again, [[PapaWolf only to yell at him for making the girl cry.]]
** When teacher pay getting tied to student test scores gets explained:
--->'''John:''' That explains why the signs that used to say "believe in yourselves" now read, "Don't fuck me on this!"
* When John [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0DF4qjoaFTY#t=288 rolls out his mascots for various federal agencies]], the mascot for the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, and Explosives is Bob Balaban... that is, the real Bob Balaban, standing there in a jacket and tie, looking awfully confused. You honestly get the impression that they hired him and then deliberately told him nothing about the gig, just to sell that reaction.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr6ar3xJL_Q The sequel to his disdain for FIFA]] (or as he called it "FIFA II: Electric Boogaloo"), when the news hit of FIFA officials being arrested. To say he was gleefully and hilariously vindictive would be an understatement; he probably had jokes prepared ''years'' in advance in case this happened.
-->'''John:''' [[TakeThat It's like a Sony executive green-lighting a sequel in the middle of watching]] ''Film/{{Aloha}}''. "This is absolutely terrible and I need to make sure there's more of it. We'll call it ''Aloha 2: This Time We Mean The Other Meaning''."
* And the ''followup'' to that: just two days after he ran the FIFA II episode talking about the arrests in the FIFA scandal, the universally hated president of FIFA Sepp Blatter ''resigned''. Oliver at the time, due to the unlikelihood of Blatter leaving office, mockingly asked FIFA sponsors in the previous episode to pull support in order to pressure Blatter by saying he'd wear a truly ridiculous pair of Adidas shoes, take a bite out of everything in the Dollar Menu at UsefulNotes/McDonalds, and even drink a Bud Light Lime. Despite the fact (stated by John himself) that there was no indication of any of those companies pulling sponsorship or that Blatter resigning was because of them, John proved he was a man of his word and did ''all three''; Special mention goes to the Bud Light Lime segment: while he said he'd claim it was delicious, [[ExactWords he never said about what he'd say before drinking it]].
-->'''John:''' ...Bud Light Lime tastes like Jolly Green Giant's ejaculate, it tastes like the Great Gazoo urinating in a public pool or a lime Jolly Rancher fished out of Mickey Rourke's mouth!
** Not only did Oliver drink the bottle, he CHUGGED IT.
*** His remark about the Dollar Menu? "It's like there's a party in my mouth and my stomach has called the cops to have it shut down!"
** There was also the matter of Blatter's resignation happening around the same time as the North American release of ''Film/UnitedPassions'', a biopic about the history of FIFA that had been ''financed by'' FIFA and was suspiciously glowing in spite of the years of accusations of corruption directed at the organization.
-->'''John:''' The reviews so far have been phenomenal: ''The Guardian'' said that, "As cinema it is excrement," and ''The New York Times'' called it "...one of the most unwatchable films in recent memory." And remember, this is the same week the ''Film/{{Entourage}}'' movie came out. #THEBOYSAREBACK
** His comment about the Adidas, which was unfortunately almost lost in the crowd's reaction: "Who needs arch support when you look like Louis XIV going to a rap battle?"
* Discovering that [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Thailand has a weird obsession with Hitler]], [[AdolfHitlarious featuring him in chicken restaurants, laxative ads and boy bands]], John suggests Rip Taylor as a better replacement -- he's also ostentatious, fun, and has a mustache, but isn't a reviled genocidal madman.
* On his segment, John got Creator/HelenMirren to narrate for the CIA Torture Report Book. Afterwards, he got her to narrate a Beatrix Potter book to alleviate the disgust of torture, this is what he got:
-->'''Mirren:''' "But while Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail were on their way to pick blackberries, Peter was chained to a wall in farmer [=McGregor's=] basement. He'd been badly beaten, and a tray of carrots and raisins [[CrossesTheLineTwice was pureed and rectally infused]]."
* During his segment on online harassment, John JustForFun/{{rickroll}}s the audience twice and briefly brings back the [[Series/TheDailyShow "Carlos Danger" dance]] after an Anthony Weiner joke.
* The spot-on recreation of a '90s {{internet ad|s}}, replacing its characters with two men marveling at how they can use the Internet to destroy women's lives, all with the same cheerful delivery as the original.
* In order to celebrate [[https://youtu.be/U2WlQZf9zSg the "Leap Second"]], LWT staff bought the domain name "[[TheProblemWithPenIsland JohnOliverSecsTapes.com]]" - [[DidNotThinkThisThrough John points out that no one had thought to say it out loud prior to purchase]].
* The 5-year montage of [[ItWillNeverCatchOn all the conservatives who predicted that Obamacare would soon be repealed]], ending [[HereWeGoAgain with one]] ''[[HereWeGoAgain still]]'' [[HereWeGoAgain thinking about trying to repeal it]].
* During the Pride Week episode, John plays a clip from CNN where the commentators seem eminently fearful of a picture of an "ISIS flag" marching unnoticed at a parade in London, speculating about its purpose and calling in one of the network's terrorism analysts. What nobody reporting happened to notice, however, is that it wasn't a "very bad mimicry" of the ''actual'' ISIS flag, but a parody by sexual activist and performance artist Paul Coombs, with all the writing replaced by dildos and butt-plugs. And, yes, [[EpicFail CNN held on the graphic image for over 7 straight minutes]]. John delightedly mentions that, as of airtime, not only had they not apologized, [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain but had ignored the incident completely.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk2oW4SDDxY July 4th, the annual American tradition of reminding the sky who runs shit.]]
* While talking about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwJt4bcnXs stadiums]] and discussing how they failed to stimulate the economy, he brought out a clip of an economist saying that it would be more stimulating for the economy to take the money that would be spent on the stadium and dump it out all over the city and let the populace grab it and spend it. This led him to pitch a new Reality TV show.
-->'''John:''' Tune in this Sunday for ''Ryan Seacrest's Billion Dollar Dump''! ONLY on NBC!
** From the same episode, John talks about a group of fans who created a rap song to promote the idea of a stadium by noting that San Diego was the "second largest" city in California, as if rappers normally boasted in ''any'' of their songs about being the ''second'' best anything.
--->'''John:''' ''Yo, I got the second-hottest car 'cause I'm the second most paid / When I go to the club, I get the second most laid!'' Second most! Second most! I'm up there! I'm #2, yo! #2!
** At the end of the episode, John gives a RousingSpeech to a group of assorted sports fans who had been taken for granted in stadium-related politics (e.g., having their taxes go to expensive stadiums that primarily benefit billionaire team owners, or having their teams threaten to leave if their host cities don't agree to financing new stadiums) on AnAesop of [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre not basing their civic pride and identity solely in terms of sports teams]]. When talking to [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Cincinnati Bengals]] fans, John attempts to appeal to their civic pride by reminding them that they are the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the hometown of astronaut Jim Lovell and actress Creator/CarolKane. However, a Bengals fan corrects John by telling him that these distinctions belong to UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, not Cincinnati, leaving the latter unable to think of anything noteworthy about Cincinnati and then concede that Cincinnati [[BrokenAesop might have to keep the Bengals after all]].
* John getting baffled by Music/{{Laibach}} and their work.
-->'''John:''' ''[after playing the band's cover of "[[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Sympathy for the Devil]]"]'' Finally, we have an answer to the question: ''What if [[Music/{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]] was trapped in a cave, had just swallowed a frog, and was trying to sing it out?''
* The advert encouraging Canadians not to cheat on their spouses has a few gems.
** "Moose, you keep right on moosing. This doesn't concern you."
** Showing a bunch of idyllic locations supposedly of Ottawa, then admitting it's actually Paris.
** The segues into random sex acts, such as "unsolicited cunnilingus" and finger banging in the carport.
** "So in conclusion, don't have sex with someone else's husband named Gordon. [[PlanetOfSteves Have sex with yer OWN husband named Gordon."]]
* John having a bunch of kids sing a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18bBvJuEwxM modified version]] of the 50 States song describing how Congress is screwing over Washington, D.C.
** The kids, having a blast, are [[DissonantSerenity smiling brightly]] as they sing about the injustice with LyricalDissonance.
** Highlights include [[RefugeInAudacity "'cause some asshole with a rider]] [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes who might live in Tennessee can destroy a needle program for preventing HIV!"]]
** The song ends with the suggestion that, if people only want there to be 50 states, then "[[CrossesTheLineTwice let's all kick out Florida]] [[TakeThat 'cause no one thinks they're great.]]" Repeated twice, and sung in three-part harmony!
* Concerned that teenagers aren't getting decent sex-ed from their own schools due to statewide abstinence-only mandates or low funding, John puts together [[https://youtu.be/L0jQz6jqQS0?t=17m51s his own star-studded instructional video]].
-->'''Laverne Cox:''' Here's how you put a condom on a banana.\\
'''Megan Mullally:''' Oh, this is a lot less curvy than I'm used to.\\
''(Nick Offerman[[note]]Megan Mullally's real-life husband[[/note]] nods at the camera with a "Yeah, that's right" grin on his face)''
** Near the beginning of the segment, Oliver screens a now-famous clip from the 1974 film "Linda's Film on Menstruation", featuring a young Creator/JonathanBanks as "Johnny", Judy's befuddled boyfriend who can't understand how she's suddenly doing so well at the bowling lanes; [[BrickJoke at the very end]], Banks appears to bitterly remark that periods don't actually make you any better at sports.
** Especially funny for WesternAnimation/GravityFalls fans - it's impossible to hear [[Creator/KristenSchaal Mabel]] explaining puberty and sex to you without laughing.
** While showing several pro-abstinence videos, one example is a man showing a woman's ragged sneakers, claiming the entire football team has been in them. While the woman defends herself saying she made them all wear socks, the man responds "socks don't protect my heart." John's angry not because of the metaphor of shaming his wife, but because "socks don't protect my heart" might be the funniest line said on the show, and the show's team hadn't written it.
** John is impressed with the creativity of one teacher putting a sock on his foot to demonstrate proper condom use.
--->'''John:''' That is very clever! That's very clever. Although, although, it's not perfect. If you can't get a sock out of the packaging, you don't then lose your foot for a minute and need to think of Rihanna to get it back, but-it's back.
** John is very confused when a senator suggests sex education should be taught at home.
--->'''John:''' Here's an exchange that has never happened: "How are you so good at sex?" "I was home-schooled."
* Go ahead, call 1-800-THIS-IS-LEGAL, as advertised at the end of the televangelist special. Go ahead and call it. John Oliver will eventually break down into a hilarious psychotic tirade commanding the caller to give him money.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqKJsV3icbg For those of you too cheap to even bother calling]].
** After the initial segment, the Right Mega-Rev. Oliver reviews the many seed-faith donations sent in by his flock, including an "inexplicable" package of beef jerky, [[LiteralMetaphor an enormous canvas bag of seeds]], and a one-hundred trillion Zimbabwean dollar bill, which -- as John bitterly notes -- [[RidiculousFutureInflation is worth only about $0.40 American]].
--->'''Reverend John Oliver:''' I wouldn't bless you if you fucking ''sneezed''.
** One of the seed donations is simply a five-dollar bill attached to a very blunt and direct note: "[[DoubleEntendre Take my seed,]] you rat faced bastard."
** Even better, going to the website now brings you to a short letter detailing that [[http://www.ourladyofperpetualexemption.com they're shutting down]], [[https://youtu.be/GrwOLITIe7U?t=764 and why]] (but not before saying that it wasn't because of the law).
--->"We're closing because multiple people sent us sperm through the mail. And when someone sends you [[{{Squick}} jizz]] through the mail, it's time to stop whatever you're doing."
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT3NRkllI3E In the very last segment detailing exactly that]], John reveals they were sent a four-foot-high wooden phallus and the message "Rub this for the seed you seek!"; after he angrily demands they "shut this shit down" and give all the cash donations to a more worthy cause, workmen take away everything save the giant dildo, which Oliver clutches tight and insists he's keeping.
*** They also sent a shirt reading "John Oliver is a rat-faced bastard!"
*** Also they were sent 12 bobbleheads of Jonny Flynn of the Minnesota Timberwolves, "which, to be honest, is eleven too many."
** Regarding the vials of semen received:
--->"And I think some were fake, but some were not!"
** Those who sent a donation in the mail received a response letter which contained among other things, a paper with what claims to be the outline of John Oliver's buttocks with the text "Sit on this and think about what you've done!", and a notice that their monetary donation will be forwarded to Doctors Without Borders.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5d667Bb_iYA#t=785 John asked every single presidential candidate from both parties]], "Would you support a passage of a federal law or laws that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, specifically in the areas of employment, housing, public accommodation, and access to credit?" Only four candidates provided an answer: three of them said "Yes" and a spokesman for Rand Paul responded with, "We'll pass. Thanks." John was, understandably, confused.
* The end of [[https://youtu.be/umqvYhb3wf4 the segment about the Refugee crisis facing Europe]], where they managed to get Sammy and E.J. from ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'' to appear in-character solely for Noujain Moustaffa's benefit, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff as she'd literally taught herself English by watching their show]], and felt sad that EJ had been killed off.
* During his segment on Mental Health, John Oliver points out that prisons hold more mentally ill people than state-funded psychiatric care hospitals. While that is [[TearJerker absolutely horrifying]], he quickly makes it funny.
-->'''John:''' That is terrible. Finding out jails are our largest providers of mental health treatment is like finding out Music/LilWayne lyrics are our greatest source of sexual education. ''[picture of a teenager with a Lil' Wayne poster]'' No, Darren, you can't "smack it up, flip it like a spatula". Where did you even learn that? What does it mean? "Flip it like a spatula." Would you like it if I did that to your mother? No, you wouldn't. You wouldn't, Darren. So don't say it.
* In order to convince North Dakota to get angry about their ridiculously under-regulated oil industry, John had an actual animated billboard put up telling them "Be Angry. (Please.)"
** Before that, as the narrator is trying to convince them to get angry, it cuts to a hissing possum.
--->'''Narrator:''' Holy shit, not you possum!
* John brings Creator/MikeMyers out to help him tell Canadians not to re-elect Stephen Harper, capping off with this reference to Music/KanyeWest's [[https://youtu.be/zIUzLpO1kxI outburst during a Hurricane Katrina fundraiser]] (during which Myers was left next to him in StunnedSilence).
-->'''John:''' Exactly, don't [vote for him], and I'll tell you why: Stephen Harper doesn't care about black people! ''[[[RecordNeedleScratch music stops abruptly]]]''\\
'''Myers:''' Oh god... [[OhNoNotAgain not again]]!\\
'''John:''' Oh, sorry, my mistake. What I meant to say was 'Stephen Harper doesn't care about ''Muslim'' people'!\\
'''Myers:''' ...Totally fair! I think he made that pretty clear.
** The NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer regarding a Canadian law that seeks to charge non-citizens (up to $5000 and/or six months imprisonment) who induce Canadians to vote or not vote for a candidate. Then the end of the skit where he and Myers [[WorthIt happily]] throw Canadian $20s at the camera.
*** Which either becomes less funny or more funny when you find out that Elections Canada[[note]]the organization responsible for running the federal election[[/note]] pointed out that John had actually gotten it wrong. Inducement is offering something tangible in exchange for someone voting or not voting for a certain candidate or party, a.k.a. ''bribery''. Simply stating your opinion in an attempt to get people to vote a different way is not illegal in the slightest, so John was at no risk of breaking the law.
* During his "Medicaid Gap" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5d3nASKtGas episode]], he goes to talk about the Mississippi elections and how Phil Bryant repelled the Medicaid Expansion. Luckily, his opponent said that he'd expand it... problem is, his opponent is a trucker who didn't even spend more than [[NoBudget 100 dollars]] on his campaign and then forgot to mention he was running for Governor ''[[EpicFail to his own mother!]]''
-->'''John:''' Holy shit! There is a difference between running a low-key campaign and not having name recognition within your own family!
** In the same episode, when he goes on to talk about Virginia and how one person who's a massive obstacle to Medicaid is a man whose name is Dick Black.
--->'''John:''' Whose name, yes, sounds like a category heading in an adult bookstore, but believe me, he's considerably less fun than his name suggests.
** Also, as it turns out, Senator Dick Black shares the name with an accordionist who actually released an album called ''[[https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/a-taste-of-dick-black/id262252032 A Taste of Dick Black.]]''
* If Sepp Blatter got a yogurt in the FIFA office refrigerator before he got suspended, it could still be there when he returned... if not for the fact that [[http://49.media.tumblr.com/eba705c1b3ec2fda9f796e217e68e223/tumblr_nw3l94XwsV1ti116do1_500.gif Janice in Accounting don't give a fuck.]] If the fridge had [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156155032175717&set=a.10151049068495717.777271.669590716&type=3 an euthanized lion]], she wouldn't give a fuck either! [[https://twitter.com/LastWeekTonight/status/661928191024582656 And let's not talk about that disputed South China Sea territory.]]
* While discussing a certain Crown Jewel that was stolen from India, which India now wants back, John gives what's probably the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BRwrwnxSi-o real reason]] England is refusing to do it: they stole virtually ''everything'' they have, so that the entire British Museum is basically an active crime scene, and if they gave anything back then they'd have to give it ''all'' back, until they're left with only a painting of Tennyson and a pair of Gary Oldman's running shorts.
** The entirety of their cameo-studded fake Fantasy Sports commercial, but special note goes to [[HilariousOuttakes the credits]]: while improvising between a pregnant couple deeply in debt, Kathryn Hahn spitefully remarks that [[BlackComedy she just felt her baby die inside her]]. Seth Rogan, in response, [[{{Corpsing}} begins helplessly laughing]].
* While talking about how bringing up the Japanese internment camps is bad form, he decides to show the scene of Film/HydeParkOnHudson where [[{{Squick}} FDR gets a handjob from his distant cousin]] [[SoBadItsGood while in the middle of a field of flowers with soft focus cinematography.]] After showing it, he says, "Did I have to show you that? No. Did I want to show you that? Absolutely I did."
* This speech from George Bush Sr. that John Oliver adds onto with his commentary:
-->'''George H.W. Bush:''' This is crack cocaine. Seized a few days ago by drug enforcement agents in a park just across the street from the white house. It could easily have been heroin or PCP. It's as innocent looking as candy. And now, with the help of this bag's contents, I shall ascend into the cosmos on the wings of a dragon to a place where joy is everlasting and fear is but a memory! ''(snort)'' LET'S DO THIS THING! LET'S DO THIS THING Y'ALL!!!!!
* The ContinuityCavalcade in the season finale: John brings out several of his past mascots, Wanda Jo and the wooden phallus from his church, the band that does his theme song, and [[https://www.facebook.com/jilltwiss/media_set?set=a.10156253652895717.1073741835.669590716&type=3 Janice from Accounting in person.]] She steals his chair and his mug.
* When talking about the Washington Redskins getting their trademarks cancelled by federal courts for offensive names, John brings up their counter-attack: pointing out all the trademarks that have been approved with even more offensive names. These names cannot be mentioned on prime time news because of how ''hilariously'' offensive they are, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4kSBzjiI6o HBO has no such restrictions.]] "I could go on, so I will!"
-->'''John:''' Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention: if you have children in the room, they should have left before the previous thirty seconds.
* On Mohammad Usafi, a translator who worked with US forces, getting his name changed to FNU (First Name Unknown) Mohammad on his SIV visa (that he had spent far too long trying to get):
-->"Fnu is fnot a fnucking fname!"
-->'''John:''' Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends. They're much more concerned with getting inside of you than being effective once they're in there.
* The show prepared a [[http://youtu.be/3FCioWz7aps?t=1m37s farewell message for Radioshack to use]], with the commercial asking WhatTheHellHero at the jokes made at their bankruptcy.
* From the ''How is This Still a Thing?'' featurette on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8QNDRbjong Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue]]:
-->'''Narrator:''' Even S.I. seems to know it's losing relevance -- which may be why, every year, like clockwork, they provoke an attention-grabbing controversy, whether it's [[MightyWhitey using other countries' citizens as props]] [...] objectifying woman with [[{{Franchise/Barbie}} an actual object]] [...] or ''this'' year, baiting the media with THIS bullshit.\\
''(The 2015 issue appears, featuring model Hannah Davis pulling down her bikini bottom)''\\
'''Carl Quintanilla:''' When the line goes this far, what's left?\\
'''Narrator:''' ''[[AskAStupidQuestion The vagina.]]'' The vagina is what's left.
* The footage of Vladimir Putin, after making a big show of Russia's military force while visiting Egypt, having to listen to his country's national anthem be butchered by a soggy, off-key brass band. He looks so [[TranquilFury sternly bellicose]] that even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-_-XpfpLPE John cracks up.]]
-->'''John''': ''(barely containing his laughter)'' LOOK HOW ANGRY HE IS! And yet, he's got to just stand there and ''take it''!
* John when talking about our infrastructure and how highway funds get money from a gas tax, but the tax hasn't increased with inflation.
-->'''John:''' The fact that it hasn't increased means that in real terms the gas-tax has gone down 39% since 1993. Much like koosh ball sales or respect for [[CrossesTheLineTwice Bill Cosby]].
** [[MundaneMadeAwesome John tries to make infrastructure exciting]] with a fake movie trailer called "Infrastructure", featuring Creator/EdwardNorton and Creator/SteveBuscemi.
--->'''Norton:''' Well then tighten [the bolt] goddamn it!... Okay, listen to me! Listen to me, [[RuleOfThree listen to me]]... [[TheComicallySerious lefty-loosey, righty-tighty.]]\\
'''Buscemi:''' I'm the best damn inspector in the business - and I'm here to [[{{Pun}} inspect this dam]].
** This exchange:
--->'''John:''' Here's how obvious our need is -- just two days ago, even ''a total idiot'' agreed.\\
''[[TakeThat [cut to Donald Trump at the 2015 CPAC]]]''\\
'''Trump:''' We have to rebuild our infrastructure! Our roads are crumbling; everything's crumbling, and we're rebuilding China!\\
'''John:''' Okay, now, glossing over [[NonSequitur whatever the fuck he was talking about regarding "rebuilding China"]], that upside-down piece of candy corn in a wig made of used medical gauze is ''right!''
** "[[PrankCall You've been]] [[ShockJock Badgered!]]"
* When John makes the red-tailed hawk the official raptor of ''Last Week Tonight'', [[https://youtu.be/uiN_-AEhTpk?t=169 a live hawk is brought out to demonstrate]]. John does his level best to keep going while cringing in fear of it, and the trainer even stretches his arm so it will be closer to John.
** Watch closely: the trainer looks at John cringing, and then ''grins at the audience'' before he sloooowly moved the hawk closer.
* John takes on the government surveillance:
** After flying to Russia to interview Edward Snowden, he waits for an hour longer than he expected to - and halfway through that hour, he was informed that their Russian producer had booked them a room that overlooked [[ParanoiaFuel the former KGB headquarters, and current FSB headquarters in Russia]].
** He also asks random people on the street who Edward Snowden is. The answers he got range from "I don't know" to "He's the founder of [=WikiLeaks=]," the latter of which actually refers to Julian Assange. John then said to ''not'' confuse Snowden with Assange.
--->'''John:''' Julian Assange is not a likable man. Even ''Creator/BenedictCumberbatch'' [[Film/TheFifthEstate could not make him likable]]! He's un-Cumberbatchable! That was supposed to be physically impossible!
** John frames the debate in terms everyone can understand: dick pics. Snowden has an amazingly baffled look upon opening a folder John has told him contains very sensitive information. [[spoiler: It's a picture of John's dick.]] The level of InnocentInnuendo in the explanation given by Snowden of the programs that follows (e.g. "Upstream is how they snatch your junk" and "PRISM is how they pull your junk out of Google, with Google's involvement") is huge.
** John's look of terror at the conclusion of their interview, when Snowden tells them that now they're "associated" and the NSA will be putting him on "the list".
--->'''John:''' Okay, just to be clear, NSA, [[ImplausibleDeniability I never met this guy]] ''[[[ImplausibleDeniability a still picture of the interview is still on the screen]]]'' so take me off your f***ing list! 'Cause I ''do not'' want to get stuck in Russia! ''[running through Moscow]'' I-wanna-go-home-I-wanna-go-home-I-wanna-go-home-I-wanna-go-home!
* "Standardized tests! The fastest way to terrify any child with five letters outside of just whispering the word [[MonsterClown "clown"]]!"
** The episode starts with school-made videos to motivate kids during testing season, including of one of a pep rally with a monkey mascot. John says that the videos put him in the mood and calls in the monkey.
** After a heartwrenching video of a eigth grader giving a tearful speech about how she was asked to leave her AP classes due to her low test scores, John calls the monkey in again, [[PapaWolf only to yell at him for making the girl cry.]]
** When teacher pay getting tied to student test scores gets explained:
--->'''John:''' That explains why the signs that used to say "believe in yourselves" now read, "Don't fuck me on this!"
* When John [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=0DF4qjoaFTY#t=288 rolls out his mascots for various federal agencies]], the mascot for the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, and Explosives is Bob Balaban... that is, the real Bob Balaban, standing there in a jacket and tie, looking awfully confused. You honestly get the impression that they hired him and then deliberately told him nothing about the gig, just to sell that reaction.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr6ar3xJL_Q The sequel to his disdain for FIFA]] (or as he called it "FIFA II: Electric Boogaloo"), when the news hit of FIFA officials being arrested. To say he was gleefully and hilariously vindictive would be an understatement; he probably had jokes prepared ''years'' in advance in case this happened.
-->'''John:''' [[TakeThat It's like a Sony executive green-lighting a sequel in the middle of watching]] ''Film/{{Aloha}}''. "This is absolutely terrible and I need to make sure there's more of it. We'll call it ''Aloha 2: This Time We Mean The Other Meaning''."
* And the ''followup'' to that: just two days after he ran the FIFA II episode talking about the arrests in the FIFA scandal, the universally hated president of FIFA Sepp Blatter ''resigned''. Oliver at the time, due to the unlikelihood of Blatter leaving office, mockingly asked FIFA sponsors in the previous episode to pull support in order to pressure Blatter by saying he'd wear a truly ridiculous pair of Adidas shoes, take a bite out of everything in the Dollar Menu at UsefulNotes/McDonalds, and even drink a Bud Light Lime. Despite the fact (stated by John himself) that there was no indication of any of those companies pulling sponsorship or that Blatter resigning was because of them, John proved he was a man of his word and did ''all three''; Special mention goes to the Bud Light Lime segment: while he said he'd claim it was delicious, [[ExactWords he never said about what he'd say before drinking it]].
-->'''John:''' ...Bud Light Lime tastes like Jolly Green Giant's ejaculate, it tastes like the Great Gazoo urinating in a public pool or a lime Jolly Rancher fished out of Mickey Rourke's mouth!
** Not only did Oliver drink the bottle, he CHUGGED IT.
*** His remark about the Dollar Menu? "It's like there's a party in my mouth and my stomach has called the cops to have it shut down!"
** There was also the matter of Blatter's resignation happening around the same time as the North American release of ''Film/UnitedPassions'', a biopic about the history of FIFA that had been ''financed by'' FIFA and was suspiciously glowing in spite of the years of accusations of corruption directed at the organization.
-->'''John:''' The reviews so far have been phenomenal: ''The Guardian'' said that, "As cinema it is excrement," and ''The New York Times'' called it "...one of the most unwatchable films in recent memory." And remember, this is the same week the ''Film/{{Entourage}}'' movie came out. #THEBOYSAREBACK
** His comment about the Adidas, which was unfortunately almost lost in the crowd's reaction: "Who needs arch support when you look like Louis XIV going to a rap battle?"
* Discovering that [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Thailand has a weird obsession with Hitler]], [[AdolfHitlarious featuring him in chicken restaurants, laxative ads and boy bands]], John suggests Rip Taylor as a better replacement -- he's also ostentatious, fun, and has a mustache, but isn't a reviled genocidal madman.
* On his segment, John got Creator/HelenMirren to narrate for the CIA Torture Report Book. Afterwards, he got her to narrate a Beatrix Potter book to alleviate the disgust of torture, this is what he got:
-->'''Mirren:''' "But while Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail were on their way to pick blackberries, Peter was chained to a wall in farmer [=McGregor's=] basement. He'd been badly beaten, and a tray of carrots and raisins [[CrossesTheLineTwice was pureed and rectally infused]]."
* During his segment on online harassment, John JustForFun/{{rickroll}}s the audience twice and briefly brings back the [[Series/TheDailyShow "Carlos Danger" dance]] after an Anthony Weiner joke.
* The spot-on recreation of a '90s {{internet ad|s}}, replacing its characters with two men marveling at how they can use the Internet to destroy women's lives, all with the same cheerful delivery as the original.
* In order to celebrate [[https://youtu.be/U2WlQZf9zSg the "Leap Second"]], LWT staff bought the domain name "[[TheProblemWithPenIsland JohnOliverSecsTapes.com]]" - [[DidNotThinkThisThrough John points out that no one had thought to say it out loud prior to purchase]].
* The 5-year montage of [[ItWillNeverCatchOn all the conservatives who predicted that Obamacare would soon be repealed]], ending [[HereWeGoAgain with one]] ''[[HereWeGoAgain still]]'' [[HereWeGoAgain thinking about trying to repeal it]].
* During the Pride Week episode, John plays a clip from CNN where the commentators seem eminently fearful of a picture of an "ISIS flag" marching unnoticed at a parade in London, speculating about its purpose and calling in one of the network's terrorism analysts. What nobody reporting happened to notice, however, is that it wasn't a "very bad mimicry" of the ''actual'' ISIS flag, but a parody by sexual activist and performance artist Paul Coombs, with all the writing replaced by dildos and butt-plugs. And, yes, [[EpicFail CNN held on the graphic image for over 7 straight minutes]]. John delightedly mentions that, as of airtime, not only had they not apologized, [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain but had ignored the incident completely.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk2oW4SDDxY July 4th, the annual American tradition of reminding the sky who runs shit.]]
* While talking about [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcwJt4bcnXs stadiums]] and discussing how they failed to stimulate the economy, he brought out a clip of an economist saying that it would be more stimulating for the economy to take the money that would be spent on the stadium and dump it out all over the city and let the populace grab it and spend it. This led him to pitch a new Reality TV show.
-->'''John:''' Tune in this Sunday for ''Ryan Seacrest's Billion Dollar Dump''! ONLY on NBC!
** From the same episode, John talks about a group of fans who created a rap song to promote the idea of a stadium by noting that San Diego was the "second largest" city in California, as if rappers normally boasted in ''any'' of their songs about being the ''second'' best anything.
--->'''John:''' ''Yo, I got the second-hottest car 'cause I'm the second most paid / When I go to the club, I get the second most laid!'' Second most! Second most! I'm up there! I'm #2, yo! #2!
** At the end of the episode, John gives a RousingSpeech to a group of assorted sports fans who had been taken for granted in stadium-related politics (e.g., having their taxes go to expensive stadiums that primarily benefit billionaire team owners, or having their teams threaten to leave if their host cities don't agree to financing new stadiums) on AnAesop of [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre not basing their civic pride and identity solely in terms of sports teams]]. When talking to [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Cincinnati Bengals]] fans, John attempts to appeal to their civic pride by reminding them that they are the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the hometown of astronaut Jim Lovell and actress Creator/CarolKane. However, a Bengals fan corrects John by telling him that these distinctions belong to UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, not Cincinnati, leaving the latter unable to think of anything noteworthy about Cincinnati and then concede that Cincinnati [[BrokenAesop might have to keep the Bengals after all]].
* John getting baffled by Music/{{Laibach}} and their work.
-->'''John:''' ''[after playing the band's cover of "[[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Sympathy for the Devil]]"]'' Finally, we have an answer to the question: ''What if [[Music/{{Queen}} Freddie Mercury]] was trapped in a cave, had just swallowed a frog, and was trying to sing it out?''
* The advert encouraging Canadians not to cheat on their spouses has a few gems.
** "Moose, you keep right on moosing. This doesn't concern you."
** Showing a bunch of idyllic locations supposedly of Ottawa, then admitting it's actually Paris.
** The segues into random sex acts, such as "unsolicited cunnilingus" and finger banging in the carport.
** "So in conclusion, don't have sex with someone else's husband named Gordon. [[PlanetOfSteves Have sex with yer OWN husband named Gordon."]]
* John having a bunch of kids sing a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18bBvJuEwxM modified version]] of the 50 States song describing how Congress is screwing over Washington, D.C.
** The kids, having a blast, are [[DissonantSerenity smiling brightly]] as they sing about the injustice with LyricalDissonance.
** Highlights include [[RefugeInAudacity "'cause some asshole with a rider]] [[FromTheMouthsOfBabes who might live in Tennessee can destroy a needle program for preventing HIV!"]]
** The song ends with the suggestion that, if people only want there to be 50 states, then "[[CrossesTheLineTwice let's all kick out Florida]] [[TakeThat 'cause no one thinks they're great.]]" Repeated twice, and sung in three-part harmony!
* Concerned that teenagers aren't getting decent sex-ed from their own schools due to statewide abstinence-only mandates or low funding, John puts together [[https://youtu.be/L0jQz6jqQS0?t=17m51s his own star-studded instructional video]].
-->'''Laverne Cox:''' Here's how you put a condom on a banana.\\
'''Megan Mullally:''' Oh, this is a lot less curvy than I'm used to.\\
''(Nick Offerman[[note]]Megan Mullally's real-life husband[[/note]] nods at the camera with a "Yeah, that's right" grin on his face)''
** Near the beginning of the segment, Oliver screens a now-famous clip from the 1974 film "Linda's Film on Menstruation", featuring a young Creator/JonathanBanks as "Johnny", Judy's befuddled boyfriend who can't understand how she's suddenly doing so well at the bowling lanes; [[BrickJoke at the very end]], Banks appears to bitterly remark that periods don't actually make you any better at sports.
** Especially funny for WesternAnimation/GravityFalls fans - it's impossible to hear [[Creator/KristenSchaal Mabel]] explaining puberty and sex to you without laughing.
** While showing several pro-abstinence videos, one example is a man showing a woman's ragged sneakers, claiming the entire football team has been in them. While the woman defends herself saying she made them all wear socks, the man responds "socks don't protect my heart." John's angry not because of the metaphor of shaming his wife, but because "socks don't protect my heart" might be the funniest line said on the show, and the show's team hadn't written it.
** John is impressed with the creativity of one teacher putting a sock on his foot to demonstrate proper condom use.
--->'''John:''' That is very clever! That's very clever. Although, although, it's not perfect. If you can't get a sock out of the packaging, you don't then lose your foot for a minute and need to think of Rihanna to get it back, but-it's back.
** John is very confused when a senator suggests sex education should be taught at home.
--->'''John:''' Here's an exchange that has never happened: "How are you so good at sex?" "I was home-schooled."
* Go ahead, call 1-800-THIS-IS-LEGAL, as advertised at the end of the televangelist special. Go ahead and call it. John Oliver will eventually break down into a hilarious psychotic tirade commanding the caller to give him money.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqKJsV3icbg For those of you too cheap to even bother calling]].
** After the initial segment, the Right Mega-Rev. Oliver reviews the many seed-faith donations sent in by his flock, including an "inexplicable" package of beef jerky, [[LiteralMetaphor an enormous canvas bag of seeds]], and a one-hundred trillion Zimbabwean dollar bill, which -- as John bitterly notes -- [[RidiculousFutureInflation is worth only about $0.40 American]].
--->'''Reverend John Oliver:''' I wouldn't bless you if you fucking ''sneezed''.
** One of the seed donations is simply a five-dollar bill attached to a very blunt and direct note: "[[DoubleEntendre Take my seed,]] you rat faced bastard."
** Even better, going to the website now brings you to a short letter detailing that [[http://www.ourladyofperpetualexemption.com they're shutting down]], [[https://youtu.be/GrwOLITIe7U?t=764 and why]] (but not before saying that it wasn't because of the law).
--->"We're closing because multiple people sent us sperm through the mail. And when someone sends you [[{{Squick}} jizz]] through the mail, it's time to stop whatever you're doing."
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT3NRkllI3E In the very last segment detailing exactly that]], John reveals they were sent a four-foot-high wooden phallus and the message "Rub this for the seed you seek!"; after he angrily demands they "shut this shit down" and give all the cash donations to a more worthy cause, workmen take away everything save the giant dildo, which Oliver clutches tight and insists he's keeping.
*** They also sent a shirt reading "John Oliver is a rat-faced bastard!"
*** Also they were sent 12 bobbleheads of Jonny Flynn of the Minnesota Timberwolves, "which, to be honest, is eleven too many."
** Regarding the vials of semen received:
--->"And I think some were fake, but some were not!"
** Those who sent a donation in the mail received a response letter which contained among other things, a paper with what claims to be the outline of John Oliver's buttocks with the text "Sit on this and think about what you've done!", and a notice that their monetary donation will be forwarded to Doctors Without Borders.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5d667Bb_iYA#t=785 John asked every single presidential candidate from both parties]], "Would you support a passage of a federal law or laws that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, specifically in the areas of employment, housing, public accommodation, and access to credit?" Only four candidates provided an answer: three of them said "Yes" and a spokesman for Rand Paul responded with, "We'll pass. Thanks." John was, understandably, confused.
* The end of [[https://youtu.be/umqvYhb3wf4 the segment about the Refugee crisis facing Europe]], where they managed to get Sammy and E.J. from ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'' to appear in-character solely for Noujain Moustaffa's benefit, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff as she'd literally taught herself English by watching their show]], and felt sad that EJ had been killed off.
* During his segment on Mental Health, John Oliver points out that prisons hold more mentally ill people than state-funded psychiatric care hospitals. While that is [[TearJerker absolutely horrifying]], he quickly makes it funny.
-->'''John:''' That is terrible. Finding out jails are our largest providers of mental health treatment is like finding out Music/LilWayne lyrics are our greatest source of sexual education. ''[picture of a teenager with a Lil' Wayne poster]'' No, Darren, you can't "smack it up, flip it like a spatula". Where did you even learn that? What does it mean? "Flip it like a spatula." Would you like it if I did that to your mother? No, you wouldn't. You wouldn't, Darren. So don't say it.
* In order to convince North Dakota to get angry about their ridiculously under-regulated oil industry, John had an actual animated billboard put up telling them "Be Angry. (Please.)"
** Before that, as the narrator is trying to convince them to get angry, it cuts to a hissing possum.
--->'''Narrator:''' Holy shit, not you possum!
* John brings Creator/MikeMyers out to help him tell Canadians not to re-elect Stephen Harper, capping off with this reference to Music/KanyeWest's [[https://youtu.be/zIUzLpO1kxI outburst during a Hurricane Katrina fundraiser]] (during which Myers was left next to him in StunnedSilence).
-->'''John:''' Exactly, don't [vote for him], and I'll tell you why: Stephen Harper doesn't care about black people! ''[[[RecordNeedleScratch music stops abruptly]]]''\\
'''Myers:''' Oh god... [[OhNoNotAgain not again]]!\\
'''John:''' Oh, sorry, my mistake. What I meant to say was 'Stephen Harper doesn't care about ''Muslim'' people'!\\
'''Myers:''' ...Totally fair! I think he made that pretty clear.
** The NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer regarding a Canadian law that seeks to charge non-citizens (up to $5000 and/or six months imprisonment) who induce Canadians to vote or not vote for a candidate. Then the end of the skit where he and Myers [[WorthIt happily]] throw Canadian $20s at the camera.
*** Which either becomes less funny or more funny when you find out that Elections Canada[[note]]the organization responsible for running the federal election[[/note]] pointed out that John had actually gotten it wrong. Inducement is offering something tangible in exchange for someone voting or not voting for a certain candidate or party, a.k.a. ''bribery''. Simply stating your opinion in an attempt to get people to vote a different way is not illegal in the slightest, so John was at no risk of breaking the law.
* During his "Medicaid Gap" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5d3nASKtGas episode]], he goes to talk about the Mississippi elections and how Phil Bryant repelled the Medicaid Expansion. Luckily, his opponent said that he'd expand it... problem is, his opponent is a trucker who didn't even spend more than [[NoBudget 100 dollars]] on his campaign and then forgot to mention he was running for Governor ''[[EpicFail to his own mother!]]''
-->'''John:''' Holy shit! There is a difference between running a low-key campaign and not having name recognition within your own family!
** In the same episode, when he goes on to talk about Virginia and how one person who's a massive obstacle to Medicaid is a man whose name is Dick Black.
--->'''John:''' Whose name, yes, sounds like a category heading in an adult bookstore, but believe me, he's considerably less fun than his name suggests.
** Also, as it turns out, Senator Dick Black shares the name with an accordionist who actually released an album called ''[[https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/a-taste-of-dick-black/id262252032 A Taste of Dick Black.]]''
* If Sepp Blatter got a yogurt in the FIFA office refrigerator before he got suspended, it could still be there when he returned... if not for the fact that [[http://49.media.tumblr.com/eba705c1b3ec2fda9f796e217e68e223/tumblr_nw3l94XwsV1ti116do1_500.gif Janice in Accounting don't give a fuck.]] If the fridge had [[https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156155032175717&set=a.10151049068495717.777271.669590716&type=3 an euthanized lion]], she wouldn't give a fuck either! [[https://twitter.com/LastWeekTonight/status/661928191024582656 And let's not talk about that disputed South China Sea territory.]]
* While discussing a certain Crown Jewel that was stolen from India, which India now wants back, John gives what's probably the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BRwrwnxSi-o real reason]] England is refusing to do it: they stole virtually ''everything'' they have, so that the entire British Museum is basically an active crime scene, and if they gave anything back then they'd have to give it ''all'' back, until they're left with only a painting of Tennyson and a pair of Gary Oldman's running shorts.
** The entirety of their cameo-studded fake Fantasy Sports commercial, but special note goes to [[HilariousOuttakes the credits]]: while improvising between a pregnant couple deeply in debt, Kathryn Hahn spitefully remarks that [[BlackComedy she just felt her baby die inside her]]. Seth Rogan, in response, [[{{Corpsing}} begins helplessly laughing]].
* While talking about how bringing up the Japanese internment camps is bad form, he decides to show the scene of Film/HydeParkOnHudson where [[{{Squick}} FDR gets a handjob from his distant cousin]] [[SoBadItsGood while in the middle of a field of flowers with soft focus cinematography.]] After showing it, he says, "Did I have to show you that? No. Did I want to show you that? Absolutely I did."
* This speech from George Bush Sr. that John Oliver adds onto with his commentary:
-->'''George H.W. Bush:''' This is crack cocaine. Seized a few days ago by drug enforcement agents in a park just across the street from the white house. It could easily have been heroin or PCP. It's as innocent looking as candy. And now, with the help of this bag's contents, I shall ascend into the cosmos on the wings of a dragon to a place where joy is everlasting and fear is but a memory! ''(snort)'' LET'S DO THIS THING! LET'S DO THIS THING Y'ALL!!!!!
* The ContinuityCavalcade in the season finale: John brings out several of his past mascots, Wanda Jo and the wooden phallus from his church, the band that does his theme song, and [[https://www.facebook.com/jilltwiss/media_set?set=a.10156253652895717.1073741835.669590716&type=3 Janice from Accounting in person.]] She steals his chair and his mug.
* When talking about the Washington Redskins getting their trademarks cancelled by federal courts for offensive names, John brings up their counter-attack: pointing out all the trademarks that have been approved with even more offensive names. These names cannot be mentioned on prime time news because of how ''hilariously'' offensive they are, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4kSBzjiI6o HBO has no such restrictions.]] "I could go on, so I will!"
-->'''John:''' Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention: if you have children in the room, they should have left before the previous thirty seconds.
* On Mohammad Usafi, a translator who worked with US forces, getting his name changed to FNU (First Name Unknown) Mohammad on his SIV visa (that he had spent far too long trying to get):
-->"Fnu is fnot a fnucking fname!"
