History YMMV / ImpracticalJokers

** One toy Sal had to pitch to a focus group was Toilet Soldiers: an army base that could be built around a toilet, and soldier action figures. Sal's attempts to justify it were quashed by the group pointing out how unsanitary it would be for kids to be playing in such fashion. The commercial for the product validated their concerns by showing someone dunking the soldiers in the toilet water.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: During one of the White Castle challenges, Q, Murr and Joe had someone put on a full-sized cat costume to scare Sal (who hates cats) out of the store and chase him around the parking lot. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments It works.]]

** Before he was [[Series/YoungSheldon Young Sheldon]], Creator/IainArmitage was the kid in the hat who asked Murr for a pretzel during the hot dog cart challenge in "Look Out Below".

** In early Season 1, a challenge required the Jokers to convince people to get inside the trunk of a car. Sal was the only one to do it. Come Season 3, and he gets a punishment in which he must secretly get inside the trunk of a stranger's car, whose owner drives off with him. [[spoiler:The stranger turned out to be a friend of Joe's who was in on the punishment.]]

** Any of the instances where Joe backs out of a challenge because of his marriage (such as refusing to kiss a stranger at the food court because his wife was standing right there next to her) come across as this after Joe announced that he and Bessy had separated on New Year's Eve 2021.

** In "G.I. Jokers," Murr and Joe gave a presentation where they claimed all helicopters would be destroyed spectacularly by 2020. Less than a month into 2020, a helicopter crash killed 9 people, including basketball star Kobe Bryant.

* GeniusBonus: In one game, Joe makes Sal say, "I use dimethylmercury instead of inorganic mercury salts when calibrating my nuclear magnetic resonance device, like I'm some kind of asshole." Anyone who knows how incredibly toxic dimethylmercury is (pretty much ''any'' exposure to even a tiny amount is pretty much fatal) would agree that if Sal is using it for ''anything'', he ''is'' an asshole.

* TearJerker: Joe Gatto left the show on December 31st, 2021 because he and his wife Bessy got divorced. Because of it, Joe is gonna be a good parent to his kids since the couple aren’t together.

** In the Season 3 episode "Snow Way Out", Murr has to get a signature for a made-up holiday. He goes up to a woman and says he need to get a signature for "Bill the Cosby," then does an impression of Cosby. The woman ends up refusing to sign it, giving Murr the loss. Cosby would face a wave of rape allegations later that year, so it suddenly became ''very'' understandable why she wouldn't sign it.

** In the Season 3 episode "Snow Way Out", Murr has to get a signature for a made-up holiday. He goes up to a woman and says he need to get a signature for "Bill the Cosby," then does an impression of Cosby. The woman ends up refusing to sign it, giving Murr the loss. After Cosby's rape allegations, it suddenly became ''very'' understandable why she wouldn't sign it.

** Q in "Birds and the Bees", "The Lost Boy", "Make Womb for Daddy", "Car Sick", "Bidder Loser", "Spider Man", and ''especially'' in "X-Man", one of the show's most sadistic impromptu punishments ever ([[spoiler: he refused to draw a big red "X" on onto a drawing in a children's art class, which turned him into the episode's big loser. The other jokers decided that his punishment was to do that to ''every drawing'' made by the class, which left Q feeling beyond terrible and was enforced by the sound of Toccata and Fugue in D Minor playing as he did it]]).

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Benjamin Cat, Sloppy Joe, The Fat Crow, and Dr. Frank were all popular and memorable enough to be brought back for multiple episodes.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Benjamin Cat, Sloppy Joe, and The Fat Crow were all popular and memorable enough to be brought back for multiple episodes.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
** During a live clip show, they played a montage of the other Jokers intentionally teasing Murr rather cruelly and even smacking him around a couple of times. At the end of it, Q turns to Murr, in front of the live audience, and tells him, "I just want to state officially that I love you," and hugs him.
** Another Q and Murr one: during Murr's skydiving punishment, where he was so terrified that he was legitimately in tears, Q saw how distressed he was and wanted to change course, but Sal and Joe wouldn't budge. Considering that, not too long ago, Q was just fine with Murr getting turned into a human pinata, it's nice to see he does feel concern for his buddy.
*** In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, Q pats Murr's shoulder right before he (Murr) and his trainer take the leap.
*** Ironically, when all the Jokers are back on terra firma, ''Q'' is the one that Murr chases to deliver a punch to in retaliation for his punishment!
** Sal and Murr are each tasked with trying to convince a stranger coming in for an apartment tour to come and live with them. Sal does a piss-poor job, but when it's Murr's turn, he instantly picks up on the guy's friendliness and matches it, both of them quickly getting more and more enthusiastic, high-fiving and hugging and excitedly running around the apartment looking at all the rooms, and even jumping on the couch; they're that giddy at the idea of living with each other. It's nice to see a challenge go genuinely well for both people, and the rest of the Jokers abandon all other potential commands for Murr because they're so ecstatic at the fact that the two of them are getting along so happily.
** Q and Sal both get these moments in "Bidder Loser" on the first challenge that has them get someone to help bury a random item. Q buries the sex robot without any qualms and even chatted up the girl who helped him, but he wouldn't bury a bag containing live goldfish, since he's a dedicated animal lover. Additionally, Sal was supposed to bury his niece, but he refuses to bury her and tells her to never conspire with the guys ever again.
** One challenge requires Murr to solicit donations for "some serious shit." A cop contributes a dollar, then starts to talk about her own "serious shit" -- namely her two kids in college and three at home. Murr immediately pours out the jar for her.
** [[https://youtu.be/nPpHDzG2UL8 Joe announcing to the other Jokers that he and his wife were expecting.]] Has the standard jokes and ribbing, [[TrueCompanions but each one is clearly happy for him; congratulations and hugs follow.]]
** "The Coward" manages to sneak in a couple of sweet moments in between Sal's bouts of dry heaving. Q encourages the viewers to call their mothers, and Sal, despite still being extremely grossed out, takes a moment to pet the newborn calf and tell it "everyone loves you."
** During "Silence The Lame", Murr strikes up a conversation with a bystander as part of a bit. After the gang insists that he invite the bystander to a Broadway showing of Aladdin, Murr does. The guy actually shows up, and it appears that he and Murr actually had an enjoyable time.
** During Season 4's "Watch My Kid" challenge, Q is prepared to take his turn with Luke, the same kid the other 3 had uses... only for the others to surprise him with Alex, a big fan of his that was dressed just like him. The two played amazingly off of each other, and Q even told Alex that he was the kind of son he wanted to have.
** During bonus footage of Season 8's "Autograph Corrector," Q, whose punishment was ruining pictures that Yankee great Tino Martinez autographed for fans, saw that a little girl with her father was headed his way. Q begged for a pass, which Joe (himself a father to a young daughter) [[EveryoneHasStandards gave without hesitation.]]
** Q adopting a cat he [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome saved from traffic]] hours before Murr's pinata punishment was taped, which he named Brooklyn.
** After [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtZTBkG2afY a challenge in a grocery store]], it comes out in conversation that the random stranger Q selected is retired "superhuman athlete" Dave Jacobs, a former national champion gymnast. The other three jokers spontaneously abandon their backstage post and take turns entering the scene to react as though they are having a celebrity sighting. The expression on Jacobs' face is priceless.

** I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU![[labelnote:explanation]]Sal screams this to the other Jokers after they leave him on a trash barge while he's looking for his cell phone. This has been used in the intro since Season 3.[[/labelnote]]

* TheyWastedaPerfectlyGoodPlot: The "find a person named Beth" challenge would've been more entertaining if they were instead looking for Larry, something even Joe seemed to think.

** Genie does as you wish! [[labelnote:explanation]]A punishment involved Joe being cast as the genie in a play of ''Aladdin'', in which he was only allowed to say that line while suspended on a wire and destroying the set.[[/labelnote]]

** After a challenge in a grocery store, it comes out in conversation that the random stranger Q selected is retired "superhuman athlete" Dave Jacobs, a former national champion gymnast. The other three jokers spontaneously abandon their backstage post and take turns entering the scene to react as though they are having a celebrity sighting. The expression on Jacobs' face is priceless.