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Ross: We were on a break!
Chandler: Oh my God, if you say that one more time, I'm gonna break up with you!

"...Yeah, this part stopped being funny by now."
raocow, SMWCP (in relation to his gag about singing badly while farming for 1-Ups)

"It wasn't even a funny joke to begin with but they hammer it down, they hammer it down all the way to bloody China!"

Mega Man: Dr. Wily, the wisest course of action would be to actually finish me off before announcing your evil schemes aloud.
Dr. Wily: Oh, super. We're back to doing this joke again, are we?

"Why do they always want the cake?"

Brandon Nightsking: We cut to Tyrion and Jaime having a drink at a deserted pub when Bronn enters with a crossbow and threatens them by saying he hasn't been paid. Tyrion says that he's been made a knight, which Bronn claims is worthless, and then for some reason, Tyrion shoehorns in saying "power resides where men think it resides."
Brandon Nightsking: Yeah, that's certainly not getting old. Bronn then says that Cersei offered him Riverrun to kill them, and Tyrion brings up the offer of beating any deal that anyone else makes.
Greg: And that's a season one reference! [musical sting]
Brandon Nightsking: I think Greg may need to die.

"If the swivel gag wasn't dead yet, I'm doing my best to kill it."

This joke has got legs like you would not believe. This is like a millipede, this joke. All legs...
Richard Ayoade in response to Greg Davis once again cracking up at "Bad Dong", Big Fat Quiz of the Year

My grandmother used to say, "First time is funny, second time is silly, third time is a spanking."
Ramona's father, Ramona and her Father

The shortest jokes are the best.
French proverb used in response to joke/prank overuse.

Removed herob…. (ok, this is getting old, I know)

Michelangelo: Cowabunga, I'm fighting Batman!
Batman: You need a new catchphrase.
Michelangelo: No way, dude. It's classic.

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