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As it is a comedy show, there are a lot of funny moments in Studio C.

Season 1

  • "Shoulder Angel" had Matt playing the "Good Angel" part of the Good Angel, Bad Angel trope... by physically climbing the person's body to perch on their shoulder. He then transfers to other people's shoulders without touching the ground. "Shoulder Devil" later in the season had him playing the other half of the duo... in a devil-themed Fat Suit. But the funniest was watching Matt climb to the summit of the 7'6" Shawn Bradley.
    Shawn: Who are you?
    Matt: I am your shoulder—GOOD HEAVENS! I just came to see if you needed some help, but clearly you have everything covered so, uh...
    Shawn: Actually, no, um, I think I could use your help.
    Matt: (to Stephen) It's like somebody put a pair of pants on a ladder.
  • "Channel Surfing", where Stephen flips channels between an exercise tutorial, a cooking show, a soap opera, and a NASA press conference. Naturally, the dialog mashes together in absurd and ridiculous ways.
    Cooking show: Now take a whisk, and really beat your—
    Soap opera: —your arthritic grandmother...That's rich! Especially coming from a man who was raised by—
    Press conference: —feral monkeys which contracted Hepatitis. [...] One NASA authority said—
    Soap opera: —sometimes, I cry in the shower. You're not fooling anyone! All you've ever cared about is—
    Dance video: —your glutes!
    • Or:
      Cooking Show: Now we're ready to put this in the oven, along with—
      Press Conference: taxpayer's dollars.
    • Or:
      Soap opera: All I ever wanted was—
      Dance video: the flexibility of a Russian gymnast.
    • Or:
      Cooking Show: Now this recipe is simple, it calls for flour, eggs and—
      Soap Opera: —YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL! And we never heard from you, you never called, you never wrote, you never even—
      Press Conference: —learned how to use a special rat toilet.
  • "Dana's Dead", the first of the "Tongue Twister" sketches, is particularly hilarious, as every time they flub a line they must start again from the beginning. During the scene, Jason performs a Spit Take on Adam, and each time Jason's spitting becomes increasingly exaggerated. The cast's composure is pretty much nonexistent as Adam gets more and more drenched.
  • "Weighty Matters" has a super-spy tied up, while the bad guy demands the launch codes for a nuclear submarine. His threat should he refuse to comply? He'll release the Bond Girl's exact weight on social media.
  • In "Trip to the ER", Mallory and Jason seem to not be terribly concerned about Matt's severed arm.
    Jason: Hey, how come we're slowing down?
    Mallory: Some ducks are crossing the road.
    Matt: (Death Glare)
    Mallory: Well, what else am I supposed to do?
    Matt: (pointing emphatically with the severed arm) KILL THEM!
  • "Prop Switch" starts with a relatively uninteresting scene about a couple discussing an undesirable pastry. Then the scene is played again, with the only change being that the pastry is replaced with a baby.
    Matt: Great, now it's dripping all over me. Honestly, these things are such a mess. Hold this. (tosses baby to Mallory)
    Mallory: Honey, you could've stained the carpet!
  • "Google Translate" has Jason carrying on a long-distance Internet romance with Helga Gatha (Mallory). Because they don't speak the same language, they converse using Google Translate. Unsurprisingly, some things get Lost in Translation:
    Jason: I'm so happy! I hope to impress your family when I come to your house so that I can marry you, Helga Gatha.
    Jason (translated): I am so happy. I hope to come to your home and MURDER YOUR FAMILY so that I can marriage you, Helga Gatha.
    Helga (translated): Please, don't hurt me.
    Jason: I'm scared, too, but I promise I won't hurt you. I stick to my guns.
    Jason (translated): Fear, also. It will not hurt. I stick with guns.
    Jason: My heart bleeds, bleeds, bleeds without you.
    Jason (translated): Blood, blood, blood, your organs.
  • "Miss Frizzle's Performance Review", in which Miss Frizzle is fired for recklessly endangering her kids with her exotic field trips on her quote-unquote "Magic School Bus".
    Principal Jones: No. I'm afraid there's nothing funny about turning your students into raindrops?
    Miss Frizzle: Oh, just some harmless exploration of the water cycle.
    Principal Jones: No, "harmless" is a diagram. What you did was change the molecular structure of your students' bodies. And then evaporated them into a cloud. All, I might add, without parental consent.
    Miss Frizzle: Sounds exciting, doesn't it?
    Principal Jones: No, it sounds like a lawsuit! Miss Frizzle…
    Miss Frizzle: Please, call me "The Friz".
    Principal Jones: [beat] I'd rather not. I wish I could say this was the worst of it, but if… my information is accurate, you took your students into a volcano?
    Miss Frizzle: An underwater volcano!
    Principal Jones: So there was no lava then?
    Miss Frizzle: Oh no, there was lots of lava!
    Principal Jones: What about that sentence doesn't raise any red flags for you?
    Miss Frizzle: I remember Dorothy Ann got third-degree burns, but that's all right, because the next day we dove into her skin and analyzed blisters.
    Principal Jones: Yes, that brings me to the next issue, which is "the entering of the nervous and digestive systems of Arnold and Ralphie"?
    Miss Frizzle: Oh, yes! We were studying Ralphie's brain. Unfortunately, Carlos stepped on Ralphie's medulla oblongata, and Ralphie hasn't been able to talk since! It was a great object lesson.
    Principal Jones: No! You are a public educator! You are not a neurosurgeon, or a meteorologist, or a geologist! You have no business shrinking, evaporating or flying, and, for goodness sake, we are not allowed to take students out of the county, let alone the world! You have been to space four times!
    Miss Frizzle: Seven, actually.
    Principal Jones: That is not better.
    Miss Frizzle: The last time, we found ourselves at the heart of a supernova. I felt like we crossed a line at that point. But I would do anything to instill a love of education in these students. Why I even used Liz for our unit on taxidermy!

Season 2

  • Pretty much everything in "Flirting Academy", but especially Matt's attempts at approaching Natalie.
  • Mallory pulling back her sleeve to reveal her fish oil IV hooked to an actual fish in "Naturally".
  • Operation Breakup. Also Part 2.
  • Fan favorite "Lobster Bisque", where 100% of the humor is James's bizarre portrayal of the restaurant's owner and the way he says the word "bisque."
  • It's hard being roommates with Darth Sidious, because he really, really wants you to join the Dark Side.
  • Mallory's completely deadpan, white-bread delivery of the example sentence in "Inner City Spelling Bee".
    Mallory: 'Sup, yo, it ain't aiight if you fittin' to roll up in my crib wit' yo outdated steelo, flossin' like ya got cheddar, cuz it ain't crunk to front when you drivin' that hooptie.
    Matt: What?
    Mallory: Would you like me to use another sentence? I have them all up in the heezy.
  • "Lady Shadow" infiltrates an enemy installation... while very pregnant.
  • In "Death Bed Repentance", José Delgado (played by Jeremy) pulls off his fake wig and mustache... that look exactly like the real hair and mustache underneath.

Season 3

  • "International Relations" features Nations as People, including Mallory as USA, Whitney as Canada, Matt as Britain, Adam as France, Stephen as North Korea, and James as Switzerland.
    USA: (on the phone) China, baby! How's it goin'? Yes, I know I owe you a lot of money. Always makin' it about money! You know what, listen, I will get it to you tomorrow! (to Canada) Do you have, like, $4 trillion I could borrow? What am I saying? You're Canada! (to China) Okay, listen, I will give you my watch until I can pay! Oh, that's right, you did make this... China, you can't tell me what to do! Okay, I'll do that. Bye.
  • The "Shoulder Angel and Devil" return! Another sketch shows that shoulder angels have their own shoulder angels, as well.
  • Jason's reaction to the Almost Kiss in "Dungeons and Dragons" is hilarious. Matt and Mallory are clearly fighting to stay in character.
  • Teddy's Story Joint:
    Matt: Hey, boss, the new batch of characters came in real bland.
    Teddy: Just save it for the new Twilight book.
  • "Jingle Disasters", featuring an advertiser with horrible tastes in product slogans.
    "It's a huggable teddy bear, that's not wearing clothes, it's a naked bear!"

Season 4

  • "The Truth About Running" takes the form of a PSA about the dangers of running as if it were a drug.
  • With Disney buying Star Wars, you know that Studio C wasn't going to pass up making a sketch about it.
    Darth Sideous: Take my weapon. Ask an adult if you can use it, and if they give you permission, make sure there is adequate space before you swing—I hate myself for this.
  • "Most Realistic Video Game of All Time" is Studio C's hilarious take on games like the Grand Theft Auto series:
    Jason (in game): Get out of the car! Get out of the car!
    Adam (in game): I have a family! (shows photos)
    Matt: What are you doing? It's just a game! I've seen you pull old women out of their cars and then burn their walkers!

    Matt: That is a baby. And that is a retired navy SEAL. And that's a baby seal. That is adorable. Take this.
    Matt tosses the controller aside, accidentally firing the bazooka.
    Game: Achievement unlocked: baby seal terminated.

    Jeremy: You gotta change your clothes! They're gonna recognize you!
    Jason: Good idea. All right, here we go. Let's go... um... let's see... how 'bout that? There we go.
    Matt: Are you a hot dog?
  • "Our Wedding Day" is a look through a wedding album, where the photos show that one of the guests turns out to be a Wicked Witch. The funniest part is where Jeremy loses his legendary mustache. And Jason gets turned into a bunny.
  • "A Bold New Soap Opera" has funny exaggerated versions of soap opera tropes, but the real hilarity is watching Mallory, Whitney and Matt all losing it when Mallory's beard is revealed.
  • Jason and Whitney don't know how respond to Matt and Mallory's hideous child in "Ugly Baby". Turns out their own baby looks like Jeremy.
    Whitney: Oh, such a precious name for such a precious bundle of—GOODNESS!! Oh, oh, yeah— (gags) Oh, oh, she— she is even... more than I couldn't imagined.
  • In "The Queen On Twitter", Queen Elizabeth II is rather disappointed with her lack of online popularity.
    Queen Elizabeth: SUFFERING CATS! Look how many followers Putin has! Putin! The man was in the KGB!
    David Cameron: Well, that sort of makes him awesome.
    Queen Elizabeth: And yet Reddit is crawling with memes of him riding bears!
    David Cameron: Also awesome.

    David Cameron: You are a figurehead known throughout the world.
    Queen Elizabeth: Oh, please, David. If the world still cared about me, then I'd still own it!

    Queen Elizabeth: Oh, look, I made BuzzFeed! "The Top Ten Most Irrelevant Old People."
    David Cameron: Oh, I'm sorry.
    Queen Elizabeth: I MADE BUZZFEED!

Season 5

  • Studio C's most-viewed YouTube video is "Top Soccer Shootout Ever With Scott Sterling", where the titular goalie ("The man!" "The myth!" "THE LEGEND!!") takes increasingly-improbable shots to the face. The Large Ham Announcers make the video even better. If you've somehow managed not to see it, do yourself a favor and watch it now.
  • "Rebel Alliance Life Insurance" explores what the healthcare plans were like for the Rebel Alliance soldiers, filled with many familiar Star Wars gags.
  • "Republicans vs. Democrats" perfectly portrays the two major U.S. political parties, casting them as divorced parents fighting over custody of their daughter (USA):
    Judge: What should we give the poor?
    Republican: Nothing.
    Democrat: Handouts.
    Judge: So you agree they should stay poor?
    Both: Yes.
    Judge: Look at that! What else can we agree on?
    Republican: Well, I would like a giant fence all along the southern border.
    Democrat: And I want legalized drugs.
    Judge: So a fence with holes in it?
    Republican: Yeah, that would work, yeah.
    Democrat: Yeah, sure.
    • And then, of course, Britain's appearance:
      Britain: Oh, hiii, USA! Heard you've been having some family problems and thought maybe we should get back together.
      Both the Republican and Democrat pull out weapons.
      Republican: Stay away from my daughter. (Dramatic Gun Cock)
      Britain: God save the queen! (door closes in his face)
  • In "Voicemail Problems", Jason can't decide what his outgoing voicemail greeting should be. He ends up doing a boatload of impressions: Al Capone, Kramer from Seinfeld, Barack Obama, Captain Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean, Christopher Walken, Batman and Gollum from The Lord of the Rings.
  • Matt and Mallory hide in Whitney's car to scare her in "Halloween Prank Gone Wrong", but things take an unexpected turn:
    Whitney: (sobs, then answers her phone) Hello? Yeah, it's over. I'm fine I just—I didn't think I'd take it this hard, though. I can't believe it: he's dead. But it had to be done.
  • The Breaking Bad parody "Fixing Good":
    Skyler: People who use math after college deserve to go to prison.

    Gus: The classroom has everything that you'll need to prepare math.
    Walt: And how much math are you expecting, exactly?
    Gus: Two hundred equations a week.
    Jesse: What? That's like, a hundred equations per day, yo!
    Gus: I'm not sure he should be teaching.
  • "A Bold New Telenovela" is a remake of season 4's "A Bold New Soap Opera" in the style of an exaggerated novela, complete with hilarious Spanglish.
  • "Couchville" has Matt discovering that an entire civilization lives in his couch.
    Matt: I'm sorry, I'm just not comfortable with couch Narnia!
  • Bloopers

Season 6

  • Eckelstone returns!
    Mr. Eckelstone: Country roads, as John Denver once said, take you home!
    Natalie: What's wrong with home?
    Mr. Eckelstone: Your eternal home!

    Mr. Eckelstone: Welcome to winter driving! The weather outside is frightful, and the fire from our impending crash will burn us to ashes
  • "Elf on the Shelf Gone Wrong". Two kids, Timmy and Susie (played by Matt and Whitney respectively) are introduced to an Elf on the Shelf by their mother (played by Natalie). She tells them that the elf will keep watch of the kids to see if they've been good or bad, and at night he'll report their behavior to Santa. Howeve, the elf is able to utilise Offscreen Teleportation akin to the Weeping Angels, and as such Hilarity Ensues.
    • After their mother leaves, Timmy and Susie start to argue before the elf suddenly appears with a miniature notebook and pencil. They start to panic and keep looking back and forth towards the elf, whose notebook mysteriously disappears, before the elf himself disappears the next time they look away. At this point, the kids are in hysterics.
    • As they search for the elf, Susie notices the elf under a cushion on the couch, who is recording them with a phone. They both scream in panic, with Susie comparing their situation to living in Communist Russia.
    • The kids become increasingly desperate to get rid of the elf, with Susie grabbing a brush. Timmy spots the elf in the Christmas tree and pulls him out while he is holding miniature binoculars to spy on them, and wants to incapacitate the elf with a rope and tiny chair. Unfortunately, the elf escapes again, and Timmy says that the elf escaped with his "witch magic".
    • At this point, the kids have gone insane and trash the room to find the elf (with Timmy adding that the elf would go for the eyes). That's when they see the elf in a black stealth outfit, dangling above a bungee cord and carrying a radar dish. Timmy grabs him and kicks him out of the house while calling him a "mini Edward Snowden"... before finding him on his back!
    • After Matt/Timmy backflips onto the table and breaks it, his wig falls off and he begins Corpsing. Natalie returns and sees the chaos (along with Matt's slip-up), and the kids try to explain. Susie is worried that the elf is going to report them to Santa and suggests they switch to Hannukah. When Natalie turns to face the elf's original position, she sees him with the notebook and pencil from before. After that, she tells them to "get the rope", suggesting she's aware what the elf can do.
  • Dungeons and Dragons 3: First Date: In a line up between Adam, Jason and Matt, Stacey needs to pick which of them best resembles his date's height and build. All three of them immediately turn towards Matt.
    Matt: Well, she must be a very masculine woman!
  • According to Studio C, the Indominus Rex in Jurassic World is able to alter its body temperature at will and change its skin to camoflage itself, is part raptor and part ghost (and is therefore immortal), has irritable bowel syndrome, is hypoallergenic, has "a little bit of Hitler," had its voice box replaced with an alto saxophone, and was given a Golden Globe nomination to inflate its ego. The researchers also gave it a huge inheritance and murdered its parents so that it would be likely to become Batman, added a little Rebel Wilson so it would be a "large and in charge blonde bombshell," and it tastes great with cilantro because it's part tomato.
  • In "Wonder Woman Fights Justice League For Equality", Natalie's Wonder Woman slams Jason's Batman's head into a console much harder than she intended. The reactions of the other actors—especially Matt—are priceless. Remarkably, the one who most stays in character is Jason himself.
    • Jason makes a falsetto voice to mock Natalie, but when he gets slammed, he keeps talking in falsetto for a while until he regains his senses. During that time, Matt's Flash is eating fries all while trying his hardest not to laugh.
    • In the comment section, Natalie herself confesses that she didn't intend to slam Jason into the table but she was way too into her role as Wonder Woman. She also mentions that there was a permanent crack in the table from the impact of Jason's head.
  • "Aww Yeah", particularly the various ways in which Mallory delivers the titular line.
  • In their spoof of Sherlock, Holmes and Moriarty are continually one-upping each other's ability to predict what the other will do, culminating in Sherlock manipulating Moriarty into throwing a birthday party for a little girl.
  • "Lady Shadow Returns", this time accompanied by Baby Shadow!
  • Matt corpses while playing a corpse in "A Friend's Dying Secrets".
  • The brilliant "'Mono' Monologue":
    Matt: Fatigue may sometimes last for months...
    Mallory: ...but it generally passes within two years.
    Matt: The most prominent sign is often pharyngitis...
    Both: ...and pus.
  • Scott Sterling returns, this time playing volleyball.
    "When the apocalypse comes, I want to be in a bunker MADE OF THAT MAN'S FACE!"
  • The "Most Deadly Pirates" have increasingly strange beards.
  • On the grade school playground, love is Serious Business.
  • Bloopers
  • The Crayon Song. Good god, the Crayon Song. To summarize, the sketch is about a bunch of crayons on a kids show singing about themselves...except the black crayon keeps interrupting by linking the colors to things you would not want on a kids show (red and blood, yellow and jaundice, etc.). Highlights include:
    • A subtle Funny Background Event: the box holding the crayons reads "Semi-Toxic Crayons."
    • When Green sings, his verse is about him eating a green poisonous bug and his subsequent puking. Black decides not to change it.
    • Purple decides he's had enough and shoves Black out of the way. Black's response? Taser!
    • During White's verse, Black sings about how "if you want to buy [ivory], just email me."
    • When it's Brown's turn, he forgets his lines.
      Brown: I guess it's my turn. There are brown things like dirt. I can't remember the words. Please don't hurt...me... (Black tasers him)
    • Black starts to sing his own depressing verse...until Purple shoves him so hard he apparently dies offscreen, as Purple yells at the others to help him get rid of the body.
    • After that, we have one last crayon... tan, labeled as "skin tone". As played by a black actor.
      Stacey: (singing) I'm the last crayon in the box you see and the colour that they assigned to me- (spoken) IS THIS! (shows off the "skin tone" label angrily) Just think about that for one. Moment. (drops the mic)
    • Green's Running Gag of him saying "Hooray!" after each verse, even when the song really starts going Off the Rails.
  • "A Chess Player Prodigy" where the announcers try to make the chess grandmaster seem evil for playing against a sweet little girl.
    Matt: Look at that sweet angel play! No wonder they call her "Angela!"
    Jeremy: And no wonder they call her opponent "Devin", which is clearly a combination of the words devil and demon.

Season 7

  • "Jeremy Isn't Real" reveals that the part of Jeremy is actually played by other members of the cast. It turns out that Mallory isn't real, either, and is played by Jason.
  • "Jason Bourne Resurfaces in 2016". Jason tells Pam to get some rest. She looks tired. It escalates from there.
  • In "My Dad Could Beat Up Your Dad", two kids (Stacey and James) are arguing about whose dad is tougher, when Matt joins the conversation claiming that his father could beat theirs—separately or together—and proceeds to make arrangements to actually hold the fight:
    Matt: Will this fight take place in a formal setting, or will they just have 48 hours to complete the objective?
    James: I don't know. My dad has to work a lot.
    Stacey: Yeah.
    Matt: As does mine. He spent the last six months working on Operation Flying Dragon.
    Stacey: Well, what's that?
    Matt: It's the reason you're speaking English today.
    James: My dad works at Comcast.
  • "I'm Adopted?" has Stacey believing that he was adopted by his parents, Matt and Mallory. Turns out he was Switched at Birth and the parents were too stupid to notice. Oh, and his biological parents are Asian!
  • ""Blood Donor Saves Little Girl". It's that kind of sketch.
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  • "Stranded on a Deserted Island with Mark Rober", where the guest in question comes up with insanely brilliant, yet equally counterproductive inventions.
  • "Accountant Tax Party": Apparently, tax prep firms celebrate the end of tax season with an incredibly boring party, followed by a fight club.
  • "Microsoft Punishes Apple Users" portrays Microsoft workers like Crystal Dragon Jesus extremists who hate touching Apple products and try to destroy them, and banning the word "apple" and the letter I in their presence, going so far as to call actual apples "large strawberries" and eyes "vision spheres". They even have garlic, a cleansing flute, and even stocks and a Windows branding iron! What really sells it is Siri's appearance.
    Siri: Ha. Ha. Ha. You fools. You can never stop Apple from taking over the world.
    Mallory: It's Siri! The purest form of evil!
    Siri: Your Mom is the purest form of evil. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.
    *The Microsoft worshippers notice that James has been turned into an apple, and they all scream*
  • "The Bacon Cleanse". It's packed with funny dialog, but just Matt in a Fat Suit is funny enough.
    Adam: You look...
    Matt: ...different?
    Adam: ...largely different.

    Mallory: We've been worried about you, but now... I feel like maybe we weren't worried enough.
    Matt: Oh, sorry I haven't been answering your calls. My phone is in my back pocket, and I can no longer reach that area.

    Mallory: Matt, you can't just eat bacon for every meal. That's not how cleanses work!
    Matt: Of course that's how cleanses work: You pick one thing and eat only that thing. Juice, bacon, bacon juice...
    Mallory: That's grease.
    Matt: I've heard it both ways.

    Matt: I am as healthy as an ox... and weigh as much as an ox.
    Mallory: Matt, you need a more balanced diet.
    Matt: Bacon has everything you need to survive, Mal: meat... (He trails off, unable to think of anything else.)

    Adam: When was the last time you exercised?
    Matt: When did Shrek come out?
    Adam: 2001!
    Matt: I've never exercised.
    Adam: Well, at least he has to get up to cook the bacon.
    Matt: Actually, it's pre-cooked, and I have it delivered by Amazon drone. Sometimes it just hovers above my head and feeds me, like an angel dropping bacon manna from heaven.
    Mallory: So you get no physical activity?
    Matt: I chew! Usually.

    Matt: Okay, maybe I'm not well, but I can't stop now. My cuddling opportunities have increased tenfold!
    Mallory: Matt, your everything has increased tenfold!

    In the bumper after the sketch on YouTube:
    Matt: Thank you for watching that sketch. Make sure to subscribe and share with all of your vegetarian friends. They're the self-righteous ones; that's how you'll know them.
  • In "The Last Player Picked", Jason and Stephen choose players to join their teams for their baseball game. After everyone is picked except for Jeremy, Jason and Stephen choose people who aren't even playing the game while Jeremy's responses are hilarious. Those chosen include:
    • Daniel, who has crutches and a broken leg. Jeremy says, "Really?"
    • Hector, a park worker who is mowing the lawn. When he is picked, he exchanges a friendly chest slam with Stephen. When Jeremy asks who's going to finish mowing the lawn, Hector throws the mower's keys at him.
    • A random kid. Jeremy only reacts with Stunned Silence.
    • An armed robber with a knife is chosen, along with the guy that he robbed and stabbed. The victim tries to get up and join in, while Jeremy says, "He just got stabbed, he's in no position to play!"
    • Whitney's dad. Jeremy remarks, "That's nepotism." (makes sense considering that Stephen is Whitney's husband).
    • Jason picks Sparky, a dog, while Stephen gestures in frustration since he wanted to pick Sparky first. Jeremy complains that Sparky is a dog and he can't hit the ball, and Jason reacts by saying "How dare you" to him.
    • Cornelius from Planet of the Apes (represented by a guy in a chimpanzee mask). "He's not even real! He's a fictional character!"
    • The mailbox from Jason's childhood home. It replies "Oh yeah!" in a sultry voice. "That is an inanimate object!"
    • The ghost of Abraham Lincoln, who puts on a baseball hat. "That's highly improbable."
    • Barry Bonds' baseball card. "That thing is on steroids, man."
    • A test tube containing the Ebola virus, because "nothing gets past it". At this point, Jeremy has had enough.
    Jeremy: You would rather have Ebola than have me on your team?! Are you serious?! Why am I even friends with you people?!

Season 8

Season 9

  • In "Customer Service Hotline", James calls customer support because his new refrigerator is spilling ice on his floor. After asking a bunch of seemingly irrelevant questions, customer support operator Natalie repeats back to confirm:
    James: (sighs, hangs up)
  • "The Devil's Dilemma" is perhaps the most punchline-dense sketch they've ever done. Here's the transcript:

    Aaron: (on a ladder in his living room) Just a little more to the—AAAGGGHHH! (He falls to the floor. A chime is heard, and he stands dressed in all white.)
    Aaron: Oh my gosh! Am I dead? Have I always looked that bad in those pants?
    Devil: (played by Matt) Aaron Fielding! You're dead. (looks at his corpse) You look really bad in those pants. Come on, I'm here for your soul.
    Aaron: What? No, there must be some mistake.
    Devil: I thought so too, but it turns out redheads do, in fact, have them.
    Aaron: No, no, I mean, why am I going with you instead of going to heaven?
    Devil: Don't blame me. This is just the results of the coin toss. Is that pizza fresh? I don't care. (takes a slice)
    Aaron: Coin toss?
    Devil: Yeah. It's when two people flip a coin and they guess whether it's heads or—
    Aaron: I know what a coin toss is, I—
    Devil: Okay, good, because I was about to be like, "You dumb."
    Aaron: My eternal judgment was decided by a coin toss?
    Devil: Yeah, well, sometimes it's difficult to know where to put someone when they die. (about the pizza) This is terrible, by the way.
    Aaron: So, I was right on the line between good and evil—
    Devil: No, nobody wanted you.
    Aaron: But you said there was a coin toss.
    Devil: Yeah. And I lost. (laughing) You think I'm here because I want your soul? Trust me, this is more my punishment than yours.
    Aaron: Am I that bad?
    Devil: No, I love bad. Bad is like my whole thing. If you were bad, I'd be doing cartwheels right now. You're not bad; you're boring. You are the most blah human being. (picking up Aaron's wallet) Oh my goodness. Is this a Velcro wallet?
    Aaron: Is Velcro boring?
    Devil: (opens the wallet) I wish you could die twice.
    Aaron: I— I thought I lived a pretty good life. I didn't steal or lie.
    Devil: I know. You were a constant disappointment to me.
    Aaron: But that's good, right? It's not like I killed anybody.
    Devil: Oh, you didn't kill anyone? Well, let's get you a seat in heaven next to Mother Teresa. You know, when people talk about her accomplishments, they usually don't mention how many people she didn't kill. "Look at all these people Mother Teresa didn't kill! What a saint!" They talk about how many she helped.
    Aaron: I help people.
    Devil: Who?
    Aaron: Point taken.
    Devil: Yeah. It's time to go. You have done nothing, good or bad, with your life. You went to work, you came home, you watched Netflix, and you mostly ate microwavable chimichangas, which I personally think should be (looking up) A SIN, but I digress.
    Aaron: I paid my taxes.
    Devil: Hitler paid his taxes, Aaron. It's not exactly the demarcation line between good and evil.
    Aaron: My dog! He proves that I'm good. I bought him from a rescue shelter instead of a breeder.
    Devil: Because you're poor?
    Aaron: Yeah.
    Devil: Yeah.
    Aaron: I can't believe this. Nobody wants my soul?
    Devil: Why would they? You're a fence-sitter, Aaron. You are room temperature Coca-Cola. You are the plain yogurt of people.
    Aaron: I like plain yogurt.
    Devil: I know. Because you're the worst.
    Aaron: I kind of wish redheads didn't have souls.
    Devil: Yeah, you guys were a lot more interesting when I thought that.
    Aaron: What if you didn't take me? What if you let me return to my body and give life another try?
    Devil: Mmm. Ordinarily, second chances aren't really my domain, but I do hate you. All right, fine. You can go back to your body, but please remember, Aaron, good isn't just the absence of bad. It's also the presence of good.
    Aaron: You want me to be good so you don't have to see me again?
    Devil: Yeah. Good luck, ya human rice cake.
    Aaron: (standing after rejoining his body) I'm alive! From now on, I will fill my life with good works and— (Ding!) Ooh, my chimis!

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