Funny / Hot Bench

• Like on its parent show, any particularly egregious Bad Liar.
• If one pays attention to the judges, there's a trend in the judges' responses which indicates how poorly a litigant is doing. Judge Acker being short-tempered with a bumbling or mouthy litigant is expected. Judge DiMango tends to raise her voice just a little less than Acker, often if the litigant is being evasive or lying. When Judge Corriero gets mad at a litigant, though, it is quite likely that the litigant is gonna lose the case (usually for some truly outrageous behavior, either in the courtroom or in events leading to the case). The judges actually act like a scale that shows when a litigant is about to have their ass handed to them.
• One case between roommates featured the male defendant becoming belligerent in the course of trying to drive the plaintiffs out. During the case, the defendant claimed that poorly-disposed feces from the plaintiffs' iguana had made his chickens sick (believing that they had simply thrown the feces out in the yard). This came as no surprise to the plaintiffs, as the defendant had sent them a voicemail threatening to kill the iguana. Which the plaintiffs played for the judges. Cue chuckles from the judges when the defendant maliciously calls the iguana a "gecko", quickly followed by the judges poking fun of the defendant.
  Judge DiMango: (at the defendant while everyone else laughs) "What did that iguana do to you!?"
• February 4, 2020: Part of a defendant's complaint lists the plaintiff coughing on everything while they were living together. Judge DiMango is delivering a summary before they commence, wherein she describes herself as a hypochondriac. In a break in her words, Judge Corriero coughs. Cue the entire courtroom, including all three judges, breaking out in laughter as DiMango playfully slaps him. DiMango then quickly scrambles to grab a folder and hold it up as a shield as she continues.
  Judge DiMango: "Ma'am, you say he signed house rules, and he breached them. He smoked marijuana in the house. He didn't clean up after himself. He coughed everywhere, including in the refrigerator. I'm gonna tell you, I'm a hypochondriac, and that would drive me crazy."
  (cough)
  • After coming up with a verdict, DiMango had this to say to the two litigants.
    Judge DiMango "Y'know, some people shouldn't live together. You two should not even be in the same state."
• 2021: A debt dispute between a boyfriend and girlfriend gets off to a poor start due to the boyfriend (defendant) being unable to create a cohesive sentence, eventually prompting Judge Acker to ask if he's stoned. It gets worse from there, as the judges rib the boyfriend for not taking responsibility for a debt that he agreed to pay back after a cross-country road trip. His inability to produce a thought leaves him without a defense, which the judges have to give to him based on his pre-court statement. The best they finally get out of him is that the aggravation between the two is "not about the money", to which Judge Corriero declares "It's never about the money for the person who doesn't have the money!" During deliberation, a giggling Acker tells Corriero that his above comment was the best thing she had heard from the whole case.