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* "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E2DayOne Day One]]":
** When the crew is called in to see what happened, the club's bouncer explains that the [[NoBodyLeftBehind pile of dust on the floor used to be a person that had sex with the host of the Sex Gas...]]
-->'''Jack:''' The question is ''how did you know that used to be a body?''
-->'''Bouncer:''' ''[[{{Beat}} (awkwardly looks over at Jack)]]''
-->''(SmashCut to the bouncer [[ADateWithRosiePalms enjoying himself]] while watching the host of the sex gas and the victim going at it.)''
** The crew's initial reaction to host of the sex gas's first kill:
-->'''Tosh:''' Oh my god...
-->'''Gwen:''' He just...--
-->'''Jack:''' ''[[{{Pun}} Came]]'' and went.
-->'''Owen:''' ''[[ActuallyPrettyFunny (chuckles)]]'' Now, that's how ''I'd'' like to go!



--> ''Tosh walks in; Owen's recent autopsy has gone a bit wrong and Gwen is NOT holding back.''
-->'''Gwen''': "It turns out that Owen has made a few mistakes. That body is what gender again, Owen?"
-->'''Owen''': "A...male....a man... a very girly man!"
-->'''Gwen''': "That's not all of it, remember, you said gunshot wound, right? Well, what was the true cause of death?"

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--> ''Tosh ''[Tosh walks in; Owen's recent autopsy has gone a bit wrong and Gwen is NOT holding back.''
]''
-->'''Gwen''': "It It turns out that Owen has made a few mistakes. That body is what gender again, Owen?"
Owen?
-->'''Owen''': "A...male....A... male.... a man... a very girly man!"
man!
-->'''Gwen''': "That's That's not all of it, remember, you said gunshot wound, right? Well, what was the true cause of death?"death?



-->'''Gwen''': "Yes, but what can definitely be ruled out?"
-->'''Owen''': "Gunshot wound..."
-->'''Gwen''': "Gunshot wound!!!! So, Owen, did you actually get any part of your diagnosis correct?"
-->'''Owen''': "....I got that... It...eh...was a skeleton?"
-->'''Gwen''': [[SarcasmMode "Yes you did! Yes you did!"]]

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-->'''Gwen''': "Yes, Yes, but what can definitely be ruled out?"
out?
-->'''Owen''': "Gunshot wound..."
Gunshot wound...
-->'''Gwen''': "Gunshot Gunshot wound!!!! So, Owen, did you actually get any part of your diagnosis correct?"
-->'''Owen''': "....
correct?
-->'''Owen''': ....
I got that... It...eh...was a skeleton?"
skeleton?
-->'''Gwen''': [[SarcasmMode "Yes Yes you did! Yes you did!"]]did!]]
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* "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E3GhostMachine Ghost Machine]]"
** [[ChaseSceneObstacleCourse Owen chasing Bernie through the streets]] is rife with [[FunnyBackgroundEvent little background moments of humor]]:
-->''(Owen and Bernie bump into an old woman who dropped her groceries.)''
-->'''Woman:''' You mind out!
-->'''Bernie:''' Sorry!
-->''(Owen trips on said groceries.)''
-->'''Owen:''' Sorry!
-->''(They then run through some kids playing football in an alleyway.)''
-->'''Kid:''' ''(to Owen)'' GO ON! KICK HIS HEAD IN!
-->''(The chase then leads to Bernie running into a woman's garden. When Owen arrives, the woman just nods him in the direction Bernie went.)''
-->''(Bernie, as soon as he gets over the fence, lands in a small pool in a backyard where a girl is playing.)''
-->'''Little Girl:''' DAD, THERE'S A MAN IN THE GARDEN!
-->''(Owen soon rushes by.)''
-->'''Little Girl:''' THERE'S ''TWO'' MEN IN THE GARDEN!
-->''(Bernie climbs over another fence and into a dead end, with Owen cornering him immediately after.)''
-->'''Owen:''' Bernie Harris...
-->'''Bernie:''' Who?
-->'''Owen:''' That wasn't a question. ''(advances towards Bernie)''
-->'''Bernie:''' ''(cowering)'' Don't hurt me! Please, I have asthma!
-->'''Owen:''' [[FalseReassurance I'm not gonna hurt you...]] I'm gonna '''bloody''' '''''kill''''' '''you.'''
** The Torchwood Crew go down to Splott [[TerribleIntervieweesMontage to find any info on Sean "Bernie" Harris]]:
-->'''Tosh:''' Hi, I'm looking for Bernie, is he in?
-->'''Mrs. Harris:''' Friends of his, are ya?
-->'''Tosh:''' Well, I'm from-
-->'''Mrs. Harris:''' Well, I'm his mother. And he's a robbing little ''bastard'' who's not setting a foot in this house 'till he pays me the 50 quid he owes me! ''(slams door in Tosh's face)''
-->''(Cut to a bar, where we meet the bar's owner.)''
-->'''Barman:''' He's barred.
-->''(Cut to an arcade, where we meet a young boy.)''
-->'''Boy:''' He said he'd give me an Ipod, and he never. And he smoked my fags.
-->''(Cut to a girl working in a store.)''
-->'''Girl:''' I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire!
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[[folder: Season one]]One]]



[[folder: Season two]]

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[[folder: Season two]]Two]]
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** ''The title.'' If you're not laughing at ''that'', you have no sense of humour.

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** ''The title.'' If you're not laughing at ''that'', you have no sense of humour.title itself'' is pretty funny in its own right.
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*** John Barrowman playing Imagination!Jack as the most overly americanized cliche possible. All of his lines are angry southern yelling.

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*** John Barrowman playing Imagination!Jack as the most overly americanized cliche Americanized cliché possible. All of his lines are angry southern Southern yelling.



** The entire episode is just the cast doing impressions of eachother, and honestly, all of them are quite good at it which adds to the humor.

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** The entire episode is just the cast doing impressions of eachother, each other, and honestly, all of them are quite good at it it, which adds to the humor.



** Orr says that she can sense "the love" Mr. Colchester and Colin had in the back of their car, in front of Ng.
** Gods attempt to take back their powers from Orr involves making out with them furiously.
** Tyler disguises himself as a Pizza Delivery Man to rescue Yvonne from house arrest.


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** Orr says that she they can sense "the love" Mr. Colchester and Colin had in the back of their car, in front of Ng.
** Gods God's attempt to take back their her powers from Orr involves making out with them furiously.
** Tyler disguises himself as a Pizza Delivery Man pizza delivery man to rescue Yvonne from house arrest.

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** Jack Harkness, posing as a barman makes a drink called A Jack Harkness.

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** Jack Harkness, posing as a barman barman, makes a drink called A Jack Harkness.
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** Tyler assumes Colchester is a bigot, and that's why he hates him. Colchester is happy to inform him of the contrary: No, Colchester is gay and married, he just really doesn't like him.

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** Tyler assumes Mr Colchester is a bigot, and that's why he hates him. Colchester is happy to inform him of the contrary: No, Colchester is gay and married, married to a man, he just really doesn't like him.
Tyler.
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--> ''Ianto and Tosh open fire with hand-guns.''

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--> ''Ianto and Tosh open fire with hand-guns.hand-guns and the "reapers" all go down handily.''
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** Just how much of a show off is the TARDIS? As we learn in Utopia, ''she doesn't even land '''in''' the lab'' and still makes a goddamn mess of the place on her arrival... There's ''several tonnes of concrete'' between her and the lab, and she ''still'' trashed it.

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** Just how much of a show off is the TARDIS? As we learn in Utopia, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia "Utopia"]], ''she doesn't even land '''in''' the lab'' and still makes a goddamn mess of the place on her arrival... There's ''several tonnes of concrete'' between her and the lab, and she ''still'' trashed it.
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** One of Fairies, in trying to get into the garden, smashes through a fence. A fence that, mind you, ''has done nothing to offend said fairy at all.''

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** One of Fairies, the fairies, in trying to get into the garden, smashes through a fence. A fence that, mind you, ''has done nothing to offend said fairy at all.''
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-->'''Jack''': Don't move you shape-shifting [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!

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-->'''Jack''': Don't move Get back, you shape-shifting ugly [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]!
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* "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E4Cyberwoman Cyberwoman]]": Owen and Gwen nearly getting caught and killed by Ianto's [[BrainwashedAndCrazy]] girlfriend because they stopped to make out is a funny moment in an episode that's otherwise filled with [[Tearjerkers]].
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*"[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E4Cyberwoman Cyberwoman]]": Owen and Gwen nearly getting caught and killed by Ianto's [[BrainwashedAndCrazy]] girlfriend because they stopped to make out is a funny moment in an episode that's otherwise filled with [[Tearjerkers]].
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** And Owen's response: "That'd be me. I'm a twat."

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** And Owen's response: "That'd -->'''Owen''': That'd be me. I'm a twat."
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** ** Followed immediately by Jack contacting Torchwood via a CB radio.
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** ''The Title.''

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** ''The Title.''title.'' If you're not laughing at ''that'', you have no sense of humour.

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