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  • The opening titles, which show a curtain and the sound of an orchestra tuning, features introductions by Doug Walker talking in an exaggeratedly deep voice about the film to be shown. He always concludes each opening with some strange sound.

Mr. Bungle's Lunch-Room Manners

  • At the beginning of the PSA...
    • "Remember when you asked your kid what they did today and they said 'nothing'? This is the nothing they're talking about."
    • "Because it's the 1950s, and we haven't acknowledged drugs existed yet."
    • "Millions of tax dollars and five PhDs to tell you to how to eat lunch."
  • Doug and Rob twice express Flat Joy. First:
    Film narrator: (about the puppet show) It was fun to watch.
    Doug and Rob: (monotone) Yaaaay.
    • Later:
      Film narrator: Phil and his friends wouldn’t like to have a Mr. Bungle at their table. Then lunchtime wouldn't be as much fun as it is.
      Doug and Rob: (monotone) Wheeee.
  • As Mr. Bungle pushes everyone in line out of the way to get to the front of the line...
  • Referencing the silence in the film, except for the narrator, Doug remarks, "Apparently, the kids took a vow of silence."
  • This:
    Film narrator: Phil didn't want to be like Mr. Bungle.
    Doug: Thus, a young Larry Craig begins his descent.
  • Doug continuously imitating Phil when he does something to avoid being like Mr. Bungle.
  • Doug and Rob chiding Phil in the bathroom for the extremes he goes to to avoid being like Mr. Bungle, such as washing his hands with LOTS of soap ("God, kid! Howard Hughes didn't use that much!") and combing his hair (not that he has that much there) nice and neat ("What hair?! Charlie Brown had more hair than that!").
  • Doug and Rob react to a very large slice of the cake Phil grabs.
    "Damn! Damn, kid! Would you like some meal with your cake?!"
  • This:
    Narrator: Phil would rather be like Freddie than like Mr. Bungle.
    Doug: GOT IT!
  • This:
    Narrator: While Phil and his friends ate, a boy ran past their table.
    (The lunch lady spots him and stops him.)
    Narrator: "You shouldn't run in the lunchroom. Only Mr. Bungle would do that."
    Doug: CRUCIFY THE BUNGLER!
    Rob: HANG HIM BY HIS UNCLEAN HANDS!
  • This, as everyone at the lunch table finishes their lunch:
    Narrator: Everyone at the table cleaned his own place well.
    (They notice another table.)
    Narrator: But look at that table!
    Doug: I smell a Bungle...
    Narrator: It was left very messy.
    Doug and Rob: (both gasp exaggeratedly)

Boys Beware

  • As Ralph, a homosexual man, treats Jimmy, a teenage boy, to a Coke at a drive-in...
    Narrator: During their conversation, [Ralph] told several off color jokes, but Jimmy had heard others before, and, well, it made him feel big to so easily win the confidence of an older person.
    Doug!Stranger: Ya hear the one about the black, Jewish, female Polack who wasn’t a human being?
    Doug!Jimmy: It’s the 1950s. That’s every joke I hear.
  • Another homosexual man is wearing a tuxedo for some odd reason while playing basketball with a teen boy. Having reviewed The Room (2003) in which Tommy Wiseau’s character Johnny plays football with his friends while all wearing tuxedos, Doug mimics, “I play in my tux because I went to the Tommy Wiseau School of Sports. Haha haha.”

Superman

  • At the beginning of the short, Doug introduces the "plot"
    Man: Up in the sky, look!
    Woman: It's a bird!
    Man: It's a plane! It's Superman!
    Doug: Yes, Superman, the man of steel, the son of Krypton. Disguised as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, Superman spends most of his time trying to get nookie with Lois Lane, but she won't put out until he marries. So they got married and lives in his Fortress of Sexitude, but then they discover that Superman couldn't get it up in the sky. The man of steel was a floppy deal. Lois was crushed and wanted a divorce, but Superman refused to pay alimony and wanted custody of the kids, but Superman couldn't get custody because of his uncontrollable addiction to jager bombs. Superman tried to break in and steal his kids, but he was so drunk that he accidentally broke into the home of Bruce Wayne who fought him off with his Kryptonite nunchucks. Thus Superman spends most of his days punching his dog Krypto, drinking himself into an oblivion while Lois stands on the edge of rooftops and cries.

  • As we get a worm's-eye view of the Mad Scientist's somewhat penile shaped layer, Doug riffs, "Meanwhile, at the Museum of Phallic Looking Buildings, the Little Mermaid poster is being put on display."

  • As the Mad Scientist turns on his machine, his vulture watches with excitement as bubbles flow through its clear pipes, prompting this:
    Doug!Vulture: (stoner voice) Whoa! The bubbles are alive, man!

  • The arrival of Lois to the Mad Scientist's lair forces him to turn off the machine briefly while he goes to meet her at the door:
    Doug!Mad Scientist: You know, I just want to blow one metropolitan city, and suddenly, everybody wants a quote from you.
    Doug!Vulture: I'm so ticked off that I'm molting!

  • As the Mad Scientist takes Lois captive, there's this:
    Mad Scientist: So, you want a story? I'll give you the greatest story of destruction the world has ever known!
    Doug!Mad Scientist: I'm going to bring back Jersey Shore. Don't try to stop me, it's already begun!

  • As Superman punches the light from the villain's death ray, Doug mocks, "Superman fights off the mighty beam of light by simply punching it. Remember, kids, brute violence always wins over scientific understanding."

  • This:
    Mad Scientist: I don't believe it! He [Superman] isn't human!
    Doug!Mad Scientist: It's almost as if he's super! A super man, if you will!

  • As Superman throws the villain in jail, head hitting on the concrete floor, Doug comments, "Jesus! One fractured skull later."

Casper

Soapy the Germ Killer

  • The Avis Films logo: "Making your letters look phallic for 69 years! We also did the Little Mermaid poster."
  • Doug screaming at the top of his lungs at the sight of the giant bar of soap with arms and legs for a sustained period of time.
    Doug: How does it eat?! How does it breathe?! What am I looking at?!?
  • Whenever Doug riffs that Soapy is a pervert with a past.
  • Doug riffs at the redundancy of calling germs "disease germs".
    Soapy: The animals I help you control are called disease germs.
    Doug: Disease germs? Repetitive.
    Soapy: They are so tiny, you can't see them except with a microscope like this man is using.
    Doug!Soapy: Or a person man, as I like to call him.
    Soapy:...and they can be on almost anything children touch or handle even on things that look clean.
    Doug!Soapy: Like this doll toy or this letter mail or this play plane or this... cash register that's outside for some reason.
  • This exchange:
    Doug!Billy: You know, Soapy, my mom told me never to talk to strangers.
    Doug!Soapy: Ah, but did she say never talk to humanistic, talking bars of animal fat?
    Doug!Billy: No...
    Doug!Soapy: Then shut up!

The Snob (featuring Brad Jones)

  • Opening on the titles, which features a distribution tag from McGraw-Hill Book Company...
    Doug: (imitating Quick Draw McGraw) Quick Draw McGraw here! I'm here to talk about ostracizing others in the name of conformity!
  • On the title itself, "The Snob":
    Doug: The Brad Jones Story!
    Brad: How you too can make a living selling porn.
  • As Sarah writes, there is a knock at the door; it's her mother...
    Doug!Sarah's mother: Are you doing math in there?
    Brad!Sarah: No.
    Doug!Sarah's mother: Are you planning to commit suicide?
    Brad!Sarah: Maybe.
    Doug!Sarah's mother: Good, as long as it's not math.
  • As Sarah does algebra, Doug says, as Sarah's mother, "Just remember, X equals lonely old cat lady."
  • As Sarah writes, the riffers take turns wondering what she's writing...
    Doug!Sarah: "Dear Mr. Disney, I think Cubby may have touched me inappropriately. Please alert the other Mouseketeers."
    Brad!Sarah: "P.S., I think Donald is a Nazi."
  • "DO THE EISENHOWER!"
  • At the party, Sarah is accused of being a snob, which offends her and causes her to storm out of the party, prompting Brad to remark: "Thus began her fascination with Bruno Mattei movies."

Mickey Mouse and the Mad Doctor

  • On the opening titles...
    Rob: The Dr. Phil Story!
    Doug: "Mad", as in "angry"? Or "mad", as in "crazy"?
    Rob: Yes...
  • When an ember hits Mickey's butt...
    Doug!Mickey: Fire in my hole! I'm searching for Pluto, but I got hit in my Uranus!
  • The infamous Frank as named by Rob and Doug.
    • As Mickey is walking up the stairs, each skeleton opens up the board of the stairs like they are opening a coffin from the inside and says...
    Doug!Skeleton 1: Do...
    Rob!Skeleton 2: Re...
    Doug!Skeleton 3: Me...
    Rob!Skeleton 4: Fa...
    Doug!Frank: Boo!
    All: DAMMIT FRANK!
    • Later some skeletons are throwing their skulls at Mickey while Rob and Doug make puns.
    Rob!Skeleton 1: Head's up!
    Doug!Skeleton 2: Keep a head!
    Rob!Skeleton 3: Head 'em off!
    Doug!Skeleton 4: Heads will roll!
    Doug!Frank: Head pun.
    All: DAMMIT FRANK!
  • Rob's Lame Pun Reaction:
    Mickey tickles the rib cage of a six legged spider.
    Doug: Must have gotten him in the funny bone
    Rob: I have no brother.

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