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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The cast during the second season (1968–69).[[note]]From top to bottom, starting from the left -- '''First column:''' Dave Madden. '''Second column:''' Dick Whittington, Chelsea Brown, Judy Carne. '''Third column:''' Creator/GoldieHawn, Creator/HenryGibson, Dan Rowan. '''Fourth column:''' Creator/ArteJohnson, Creator/RuthBuzzi, Dick Martin. '''Fifth column:''' Alan Sues, Creator/JoAnneWorley. '''Not pictured:''' Creator/GaryOwens.[[/note]]]]
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5	->'''Gary Owens:''' This show has been prerecorded to give the cast a chance to get away.\
6	'''Wolfgang:''' Veeeeery eenteresting, but they'll never make it across the border. ''laughs maniacally''
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8	An iconic, anarchic hour-long SketchComedy series broadcast on Creator/{{NBC}} from 1968 to 1973 (after a one-off {{Pilot}} special aired in September of 1967). Created by George Schlatter, it broke new ground in American TV comedy with its rapid-fire jokes, outrageous characters and -- for the time -- utterly insane and over-the-top humor. The show's ostensible hosts were the urbane Dan Rowan and the somewhat dim Creator/DickMartin, but this tuxedo-clad pair were frequently outshone by the platoon of seeming lunatics who made up the rest of the cast.
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10	The show is best known today for the future stars whose careers it launched -- Creator/GoldieHawn, Creator/LilyTomlin, Music/TinyTim, Creator/HenryGibson, Creator/RuthBuzzi, Creator/ArteJohnson, Pat Paulsen, and Creator/JoAnneWorley among others -- and the incredible comic moments it managed to pull off (such as then-presidential-candidate UsefulNotes/RichardNixon asking America to "sock it to him"). Until the birth of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' several years later, ''Laugh-In'' was the touchstone of modern American humor. (''SNL'' emulated it, in some ways -- perhaps unsurprisingly, because many ''Laugh-In'' writers later worked on ''SNL'', including the later show's creator and executive producer, Creator/LorneMichaels.) It was possibly the single largest source of {{Running Gag}}s, {{Catch Phrase}}s and other pop culture contributions during the middle of the 20th century, and developed during its surprisingly brief run an utterly unique and frenetically subversive style that carried them directly into the subconscious of the viewer. Because of its wild and unpredictable yet ''intelligent'' style, it was also often very successful at getting surprisingly risque material (for the era) on the air -- usually by setting up apparently-innocent situations where the viewer's mind would fill in the blanks with suitably dirty punchlines and speculations of their own.
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12	Regular features of the show included Rowan and Martin's opening "monologue", Gladys and Tyrone the DirtyOldMan on the park bench, the "cocktail party", the not-quite adventures of the Farkel family, "Laugh-In News" and the end-of-episode "joke wall". (The joke wall started to be used intermittently in season six, with some episodes not having joke wall at all.) In addition to the videotaped studio sketches, there were also a large number of filmed bits, most of them running gags, including most famously Judy Carne and Goldie Hawn go-go dancing, and the raincoated man on his tricycle. Every episode had a celebrity SpecialGuest who participated in the anarchic goings-on, usually with gleeful good humor. Certain stars, like Tiny Tim, were particular favorites and were brought back episode after episode until they were almost members of the main cast themselves. Video clips of previous guest stars would also frequently show up on later shows as punchlines, setups or simple {{Reaction Shot}}s.
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14	Part of the show's charm was due to Schlatter's tendency not to do retakes, leaving bungles, bloopers and cast crack-ups in place for broadcast. (In fact, he often deliberately provoked Goldie Hawn into fits of giggles on-camera just so he could film and broadcast her laughing.) This gave the impression of a show that was often completely out of control and on which almost anything could happen. The often psychedelic set design just added to it, although ''Laugh-In'' never did any kind of overt hard drug humor (although most episodes had a coy marijuana one-liner or two).
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16	George Schlatter attempted to recreate the success of ''Laugh-In'' for ABC by cloning it into a show called ''Series/TurnOn''. However, the first episode of ''Turn-On'' was met with so many complaints about its quality that it was either banned from airing, cancelled fifteen minutes into the episode (Website/TheOtherWiki says the last sketch that aired was one where a woman violently shakes a vending machine that dispenses birth control pills), or aired in full and then never again. (Viewers also complained about flashing animations and rapid-fire visual switching -- which some of ''Series/SesameStreet'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WSHvbGM6oE&list=PLLTqQpssWvJ6R-W2zfOeVzbk-lN_pg1-L&index=21 animations]] normalized and made commonplace a few months later.)
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18	Before the 1970's were over, Schlatter would try once again with a proper revival of ''Laugh-In''. It too, failed, but even so, it proved that Schlatter's eye for comedic talent had in no way diminished -- the cast he assembled for the revival included several performers who later went on to stardom or superstardom, including a then-unknown Creator/RobinWilliams.
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20	''Laugh-In'''s influence is extremely obvious in such shows as ''Series/SesameStreet'', ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'', and the aforementioned ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.
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22	In 1969, Brown & Bigelow made a deck of ''Laugh-In'' [[http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks03/d01900/d01900.htm playing cards]], and NBC had a short-lived daytime PanelGame, ''Letters to Laugh-In''. There were also a syndicated NewspaperComic based on the show and a Hasbro BoardGame called "Squeeze Your Bippy".
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25	!!Trope it to me!
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27	* AlliterativeFamily: Frank Farkel and his wife, Fanny, and their kids (some alliterated, some rhymed, and some were just puns) - Sparkle (and her sometimes twin Charcoal) Farkel, twins [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Simon & Gar Farkel]], Mark Farkel, Fritz, Flicker, and Fred Farkel.
28	* AmbiguouslyGay: Alan Sues' characters often fit into this slot, so to speak.
29	* AnimatedAdaptation: '
30	** ''WesternAnimation/BaggyPantsAndTheNitwits'' featured as its titular "Nitwits" animated versions of Gladys and Tyrone -- the latter with ''super powers'' (specifically, a magic sentient cane). They were remade into a husband-and-wife pair.
31	** Edith Ann got three animated specials; ''Edith Ann: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle'' and ''Edith Ann: Homeless Go Home'' in 1994, and ''Edith Ann's Christmas (Just Say Noël)'' in 1996.
32	* AscendedExtra:
33	** Wolfgang appeared quite a bit more during season four, due to Arte Johnson wanting star billing.
34	** Gary Owens was seen a lot more during the parties and in some other sketches starting from season four's beginning, as well.
35	* BerserkButton: Jo Anne Worley doesn't like to hear {{chicken joke}}s.
36	* BigRedDevil / TheDevilIsALoser: Dennis Allen as Satan in the hellish news briefs that Dan and Dick sometimes invoke in their season six news sketches, as a direct contrast to Lily Tomlin's AngelicBeauty character and heavenly news reporter Angel Goode.
37	* {{Blackface}}:
38	** Done three times and mostly in the style of the traveling minstrel, with the first of it in season two's 25th episode and for the news portion intro by Judy, Goldie, Jo Anne and Ruth, with Chelsea doing equally whiteface with the singing portion with Tony Curtis. It was done in that episode in a brief sketch with Judy and Chelsea, as well.
39	** Ruth Buzzi did so again in season four's 14th episode as well for a segment about the late show movies.
40	** Barbara Sharma did it briefly as well for a Shirley Temple-Black joke near the end of season four, which could be considered cringeworthy at this point.
41	* BrainlessBeauty: Pamela Rodgers and Donna Jean Young were both very attractive and known for their airheadedness on-show; While Pamela often made vapid sexual jokes in season three, Donna Jean played this relatively straight in season six.
42	* TheBusCameBack:
43	** Larry Hovis, in a huge callback, ended up coming back as a regular performer for season five after having left at the end of season one... which ended with him leaving at the end of season five.
44	** Creator/TeresaGraves, who had disappeared at the end of season 3 due to ''Get Christie Love'', came back for two episodes in season four near its end before she left again.
45	* ButtMonkey:
46	** '''JUDY'''. ''Judy Carne'', so '''very''' much. She got it the worst... though whenever it ''wasn't'' her, it was everyone else's turn at one point. Here are some notable non-Judy examples...
47	** Dennis Allen could be considered the second major version of this as got this regularly from season four onwards with a LOT of drenchings and trap doors, but primarily as Chaplain Bud Homily and at times, himself. It continued in seasons five and six by way of him as Homily receiving snow, balloon boulders, water and trap doors all in one. Sometimes overlaps with NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished, as shown below.
48	** Lily Tomlin received some of it too as Mrs. Earbore at times with water, along with a few trap doors. Sometimes she also received water as the cheerleader character that she played, too.
49	** Barbara Sharma WAS this at the end of season four with a few drenchings herself, though it only happened sometimes whenever she said "Why not?" to Dennis or mockingly laughed at whoever received it.
50	** Even Gary Owens wasn't immune to this. He shockingly got a sock-it clock nearly pummeling him as well as a dousing of water, a trap door and a balloon mallet in season two. It was revisited in season four when he was ran over by a giant wheel and for a final time in season six when he was doused with water for the 'Emergency Comedy System'.
51	* CallBack: SO MANY!
52	* CatchPhrase: The show had several:
53	** "Sock it to me!"
54	** "You bet your sweet bippy."
55	** "Here come da judge! Here come da judge!"
56	** "Is that a ChickenJoke?!"
57	** "Veeeeerrrrrrry eeenteresting...but stupid!"
58	** "And that's the truth! (''[[BlowingARaspberry raspberry]]'')"
59	** "Look ''that'' up in your Funk & Wagnalls!"[[note]]"That's a dictionary, y'know."[[/note]]
60	** "Blow in my ear and I'll follow you anywhere."
61	** "Beautiful downtown Burbank."
62	** "Here comes the big finish folks!"
63	** "Which Henny Youngman?" "Oh THAT Henny Youngman!"
64	** "AM and FM."
65	** "Mervin, that was magnificent!"
66	** "Pookie-pookie-pookie!"
67	** "That's funny, so did I!" said by Dick whenever Dan would disbelievingly repeat a particularly outlandish claim of Dick's (which was often)
68	** [[RepeatAfterMe "Say Goodnight, Dick." "Goodnight, Dick."]]
69	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
70	** Goldie Hawn, very much so. She vacillated between this and TheDitz. Donna Jean Young, too, proved to play this straight, combined with KindheartedSimpleton.
71	** On the guest side of things... ''Tiny Tim''! Though he proved he was SmarterThanYouLook coupled with BeneathNotice.
72	** Danny Kaye was one too, as well.
73	* CommutingOnABus: Judy Carne was absolutely tired of being the [[ButtMonkey "sock it to me"]] girl due to the constant splashings and trap doors she endured and with some of the more irascible fans doing this to her off-screen as well, declared it "one big, bloody bore" and originally leaving after season two but guested through season three, although her appearances in Laugh-In became less and less frequent, especially once Lily Tomlin became a core cast member.
74	* CouchGag: From season four onwards, Gary Owens would have a different explanation as to what the acronym NBC stood for while reading the opening credits each episode.
75	* CrossOver: One episode of ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' featured many ''Laugh-In'' cast guest appearances as Jeannie is discovered and set to guest star in an episode. ''Series/MadAboutYou'' had one as a DreamWithinADream, as well.
76	* CutawayGag: Due to the rapid-fire one-liners and commonly employed.
77	* DeadpanSnarker: Patti Deutsch is a regular example of this in season six, especially as both her characters Sister Mary Youngman and Helen Cosell.
78	* DirtyOldMan: Arte Johnson's character Tyrone F. Horneigh, who was always making crude come-ons to Gladys Ormphby (Ruth Buzzi's repressed spinster character) and getting bopped in the head with her handbag.
79	* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Dan Rowan often smoked a pipe during the show, when he wasn't smoking cigarettes.
80	* TheDitz: Played absolutely straight by Goldie.
81	* EarlyBirdCameo:
82	** Byron Gilliam started out as early as season two, but wasn't in the intros until season three. Also counts as [[DemotedtoExtra demoted to extra]] due to Gilliam being only a dancer during the remainder of season three and permanently for seasons four and five.
83	** Richard Dawson had a few in season one and was uncredited during parts of season four, but became a regular performer in season five, serving all the way to the end.
84	** Johnny Brown near the end of season three as well, but became a regular on season four.
85	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
86	** Segments from the 1st season often were slow-paced, especially in the pilot special.
87	** Morgul the Friendly Drelb counts as one, too, due to being a pink AbominableSnowman who was supposed to be a regular gag. He was horribly received however, so Gary Owens started mentioning him along with himself during cast introductions from seasons one to three, which stopped at season four's beginning.
88	** Some earlier episodes also had shots of the audience too, as well, but was stopped after the first episode in season one, as well as whenever the parties had happened the cast and guest stars would often go in rows of two whenever telling jokes. It stopped in season two.
89	* FairForItsDay:
90	** {{Invoked\|Trope}}. A few examples include Dennis Allen and Richard Dawson as the Chinese and Russian border guards in the news sketches respectively in season six; Sarah Kennedy was also no different as a stereotypical Japanese woman within that season, while back in seasons four and five Ann Elder portrayed a Native American for laughs. Some of the ethnic humor back then invokes this by name for its time.
91	** Some of it can be found in the beginnings of the news sketches, as well. Season six is one of the worst offenders in that regard to this trope.
92	* FlippingTheBird: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] as it was unknowingly done rather innocently by Dennis Allen in season five's 7th episode during a movie theatre sketch.
93	* GagSeries: One very much for its time, still timeless today.
94	* GiftedlyBad: Lisa Farringer, coupled with HighHopesZeroTalent and being TheScrappy for season six's later episodes. Just about most of her "jokes" ended with the word ''whoopee'' and a camera shot panning towards her face.
95	* KidAppealCharacter: Eight-year-old Moosie Drier was added to the cast in 1972, seemingly with this trope in mind.
96	* LargeHam: Alan Sues and '''Jo Anne Worley'''. Both of them could be ChewingTheScenery like no other could, though everyone had their moments.
97	* LaughTrack: The SmashCut-heavy nature of the show made it necessary to use "sweetening" to avoid abrupt cuts in laughter.
98	* LovableSexManiac:
99	** Dick Martin's entire show persona in a nutshell. This was especially evident in the cocktail party, where most of his segments were him making come-ons and other sexually-themed jokes to various ladies.
100	** Arte Johnson's "Tyrone F. [[MeaningfulName Horneigh]]" character, who was constantly making crude come-ons to Gladys.
101	** Jo Anne Worley's jokes during the cocktail party were often raunchy gags about her and Boris' various naughty escapades.
102	* ManOfAThousandVoices: Frank Welker whenever he was a guest. He was a real king of this, too.
103	* MoralGuardians: Lily Tomlin's Mrs. Earbore, a.k.a. the "Tasteful Lady" was a parody of this trope.
104	* MusicalEpisode: Subverted as they were more like musical interludes, such as season one having Strawberry Alarm Clock, Holy Modal Rounders and most notably from Music/TheBeeGees and Music/KennyRogers in the form of the First Edition. Some of it returned in season five with Three Dog Night.
105	* {{Narrator}}: Sort of -- Creator/GaryOwens as the announcer.
106	* NewsParody: Several variations, including Dick doing a standard satiric look at today's headlines, Alan Sues' sportscaster, Ruth Buzzi's gossip columnist, and Dan providing the "News of the Future" -- a couple of which proved to be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MfoUMZAbuQg#t=67s startlingly accurate]], including [[HilariousInHindsight the fall of the Berlin Wall and Ronald Reagan becoming president.]]
107	* NWordPrivileges: Innocently invoked by Pamela Rodgers in a season three episode when she asks why cigarettes were called 'fags', with Jeremy Lloyd humorously turning the joke back on her with a case of DoubleEntendre.
108	* NoFourthWall: Dan would often invite the audience along with himself and Dick before they walked into the cocktail party.
109	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Done for laughs during the series by Dennis Allen, particularly whenever he does do something good in a sketch only for his luck to horribly change. A particular sign of whenever it happens is when either he says something that the other character or characters take offensively and punch him or whenever a word gets spoke from him to trigger the punch. It's also more prominently found in 'The Innocent Bystander' sketches.
110	* NostalgiaFilter: Much of the show's humor hasn't aged particularly well, and will likely be lost on non-Baby Boomer viewers, although it does have its fans among young audiences today.
111	* OnlySaneMan: Dan Rowan often played this role, reacting to Dick's or the other members' zaniness.
112	* TheOperatorsMustBeCrazy: Ernestine exemplifies this trope perfectly. However, her most famous line, ("We don't care. We don't have to. We're the telephone company.") was actually from a later Ernestine bit Lily Tomlin did on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''.
113	* PerkyFemaleMinion: Barbara Sharma played this up as a devotee of Spiro Agnew all throughout season four.
114	* {{Pilot}}: Produced in 1967 and aired as a special on NBC a few months before the series debut. There's some notable EarlyInstallmentWeirdness (a slightly slower pace, a studio audience, no Creator/GaryOwens, a clean-shaven Dan Rowan), but the format and several of the cast mainstays are already in place. Rowan even gives a TitleDrop in the opening monologue, after explaining the connection to "love-ins" and "be-ins".
115	-->'''Dan Rowan''': A "laugh-in" is a frame of mind. A chance to sit back, laugh and forget about the other "-ins".
116	* PunBasedTitle: A play on the various "____ -in" protests of the era (sit-in, love-in, pray-in, be-in, etc.).
117	* PutOnABus: Brian Bressler in season six, as he was replaced by [[HighHopesZeroTalent Kathy Speirs]], who was soon replaced by [[GiftedlyBad Lisa]] [[TheScrappy Ferringer]] for the remainder of the show's existence.
118	* RapidFireComedy: An early example, which made the censors uncomfortable. Lampshaded in the ReunionShow.
119	* ReunionShow: ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In 25th Anniversary Celebration''. Netflix did one in late 2019 entitled "Still Laugh-In", which also doubled as an anniversary show.
120	* {{Revival}}: George Schlatter attempted to near the end of the 70's, which didn't work out so well without Dan and Dick's permission.
121	* RevolvingDoorBand: A non-musical example. Other than the hosts, announcer Gary Owens and actress Ruth Buzzi were the only constants in the entire five-year run.
122	* RunningGag: Quite a bit of them. Some like the blah-blah man played by Chet Dowling were prominent in season four, especially his other role Mervin the Magnificent.
123	* SelfDeprecation:
124	** Done regularly, by both the regular cast members and the SpecialGuest stars. One of many examples:
125	--->'''Tony Curtis:''' Wherever I go, people always ask me about ''Laugh-In''. And they always ask the same thing; why?
126	** At the end of his introduction, Owens would usually make some reference to "Morgul, the Friendly Drelb"; this was in reference to a [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti pink yeti-like thing]] that appeared in the first few episodes and was horribly received.
127	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Johnny Brown used this at times in season four playing a king using much bigger and smarter words for allowing station identification breaks.
128	* SignatureTransition:
129	** Dan introduced Dick for "News of the Present" with the {{Motor Mouth}}ed intro phrase "And now for the News of the Present, here's the man for whom the news wouldn't be the news without the news. Heeeeeere's Dicky!" along with turning and pointing from his waist. When Dick finished his bit, he mimed swinging a golf club to transition over to Goldie so she could introduce Dan for "News of the Future".
130	** The "Cocktail Party" skit was almost always introduced by Dan, at the end of the opening monologue, saying something about going to the party and inviting the audience to join them; he and Dick would then walk through a double door into the Party's set.
131	* SigningOffCatchPhrase
132	-->'''Dan Rowan:''' Say goodnight, Dick.\
133	'''Dick Martin:''' Goodnight, Dick.
134	** That might've been the origin of the "[[Radio/TheBurnsAndAllenShow say goodnight, Gracie]]" [[BeamMeUpScotty misquote]].
135	** After Rowan would announce "it's now time to say goodnight, Dick," several shots of cast members and guests stars saying "Goodnight, Dick" would follow, as well as a random joke ("Who's Dick?"). For a long time after the first season it had stopped, but it returned in season five in full form.
136	* {{Slapstick}}: Dennis Allen specialized in this, to which Richard Dawson and Alan Sues utilized on him with [[ButtMonkey mostly predictable results]].
137	* SmallNameBigEgo: If some of it is to be believed, George Schlatter might be considered this. It may have ultimately been the reason why Dan Rowan and Dick Martin wrested control of the producing credits from him for season six, which proved to be the last.
138	* SmashCut: All over the place, as an essential part of the RapidFireComedy.
139	* SpecialGuest: Just about every star of the day, often popping up unannounced in the midst of sketches. Creator/SammyDavisJr was probably the most frequent, but Nixon was by far the best-known example.
140	* SubvertedKidsShow: "Uncle Al".
141	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Blonde, ditzy Sarah Kennedy, who joined the cast in the sixth and final season, was clearly intended to be "Creator/GoldieHawn v2.0".
142	* TakeOurWordForIt: The Joke Wall from the [[Music/TheMonkees Monkees]] guest-episode goes particularly off the rails, with almost everyone either fumbling or corpsing.
143	-->'''Judy:''' Jeremey! Um...it's the "long black wig joke".\
144	'''Jeremy:''' Oh yes, and it's very funny too!\
145	'''Judy ''to the audience'':''' You would have loved it!
146	* TenPacesAndTurn: Played for laughs. Dan Rowan and another man each take a pistol from a case being held by a woman (presumably she's the one they're dueling over). They each take three paces, turn and fire - at the woman, killing her. The two men then walk off-screen together, arm in arm.
147	* ThrowItIn: Laugh tracks in those days were created via a machine with several keys that would cue up tape loops of prerecorded laughter in a way similar to a Mellotron. When the first episodes were being "laughed up", a key stuck after the closing credits' "standing ovation" was recorded. That key cued up a recording of Charley Douglass - the man who invented the LaughTrack for television - clapping by himself. The operator later apologized for the accident, but the producers loved how unintentionally funny the sarcastic-sounding one-man applause was, and used it regularly during the show's end titles after that.
148	* ThoseTwoGuys:
149	** Season two had Chelsea Brown paired up with Byron Gilliam, while in season three had Byron paired up with Teresa Graves; Pamela Rodgers was paired up at times with Jeremy Lloyd, too. Dennis Allen and Alan Sues were paired up together as badminton players in some segments during season four. Season five had Richard Dawson either paired up with Larry Hovis or Barbara Sharma while season six had Jud Strunk paired with Brian Bressler initially, but then paired him up with either Willie Tyler or Dennis Allen; Richard Dawson saw more interaction with Patti Deutsch or Ruth Buzzi as a result.
150	** One of the few pairings in-show that was constant were Dennis Allen and Lily Tomlin, roughly on the same level of Ann Elder and Dick Martin whenever that happened in season five. Dennis then got paired at times with Sarah Kennedy as Lance and Tina Proudfoot in season six.
151	* [[ThoseWackyNazis That Wacky Nazi]]: Arte Johnson's Wolfgang.
152	* TotallyRadical: Humor for and about Sixties youth culture, presented by middle-aged comedy veterans. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.
153	* TrapDoor: Along with regular water drenchings, very much so. The first few seasons had Judy Carne as a regular target due to her designated role as the show's ButtMonkey, but after her departure, nearly everyone had become a target... especially Sammy Davis, Jr..
154	* UnusualEuphemism:
155	** "Bippy" for the rear end. You'll be betting your sweet bippy before long though.
156	** "Look ''that'' up in your Funk & Wagnalls!"
157	* VanityPlate: "[[http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/Z5Zfw6I6XX-hfUhuFhIRqg17184/GW430 George Schlatter/Ed Friendly Productions]], in association with [[http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/ZAJkRzPFu-PSRbqMBeS8bg22145/GW430 Romart]]", accompanied by Charley Douglass' clapping (see above).
158	* {{Ventriloquism}}: Willie Tyler is definitely this with Lester in the final season, though without him Tyler has shown he could pull off sketches by [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct bringing laughs on his own]], too.
159	* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: New Yorker [[GiftedlyBad Lisa Farringer]] as the [[TheScrappy Whoopee girl]].
160	* WholesomeCrossdresser:
161	** Dick Martin actually did some of this in a few episodes, but the most prominent of it was Alan Sues in his Jo Anne Worley impersonation.
162	** Willie Tyler also did this in season six's beginning as the Edith to Lester's "Archie" in an All in the Family parody sketch.
163	** Subverted with Brian Bressler near the last of his appearances in season six, as he plays a detective DisguisedInDrag, instead.
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