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  • One episode features Special Ed making a call to NASA; after some time, the receptionist realized this was a Crank Yankers call. Special Ed, or at least the actor who played him, performed a subtle congratulations to her for being the first person to realize what was going on.
  • Wanda Sykes was a recurring guest star, and one of her calls was to a video store, saying that she rented a movie for her kid's birthday party, put it on and left the room for a few minutes, only to come back and realize that the video was accidentally switched with a hardcore porno.
  • Many of the background gags, which were very well thought-out even sometimes when the calls themselves weren't very entertaining.
  • Spoonie Luv Places a Personal
    Lady at the Village Voice: You can't put that in your ad; you can't put that in print.
  • "We get to drink booze over here if we wanna. It's Saturday."
  • "Hits a Deer," in which Bobby Fletcher is supposedly in a car accident while talking on the phone with someone from the electric company about his bill. He claims that he hit a deer, but you can hear someone moaning and shouting in pain in the background the whole time. Finally...
    Bobby: Okay, listen, between us two... it wasn't a deer.
  • Gladys calls a bank telling them that their ATM gave her more money than it was supposed to. They then basically start panicking as she claims it's just spitting out $20 bills, demanding that she tell them where she is and threatening that they can track her down, but she says she won't tell them anything else they discuss a reward first. Oh, and the ATM has a sign on it reading "$3 fee to be you and me."

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