History YMMV / ChappellesShow

** "HIDE THE MONEY Y’ALL, THERE’S POOR PEOPLE AROUND! [laughs] WITH YOUR BROKE ASS."

** In lieu of a musical guest at the end of the episode that featured the "White People Can't Dance" sketch, Dave showed an outtake of a jam session he had with John Mayer, Questlove, and keyboardist John Sanchez, where they performed the theme songs to ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'', ''Series/TheFactsOfLife'', and, during the credits, ''Series/TheJeffersons''.

** Even though the "Time Haters" sketch didn't air, most of the buildup before hand was pretty damn hysterical: First, the Time Haters deliver a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to [[AcceptableTargets Adolf Hitler]], and even the parts on the slave ranch ''before'' Silky shoots the slave master (up to calling the master a 'cracker' and 'honky', and then holding him at gunpoint) were pretty funny too. Even the part where Silky shoots the master has a [[BlackComedy darkly humorous line]]:

** Similarly, a masked Music/KanyeWest expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler on Alex Jones' ''InfoWars'' was practically the Clayton Bigsby sketch brought to life.

--->'''Chappelle:''' I went to Disneyland... and even MickeyMouse did it! [Mickey voice] "I'm Rick James bitch! Ha-HA!"

** The "Love Contract" sketch involves Dave getting a sexual partner to sign a consent form to show that they're a willing participant. Some time later, California and New York introduced the controversial "yes means yes" policies for universities, where people having sex are instructed to confirm that they have a partner's "enthusiastic consent"[[note]]instead of the usual "rape is when someone refuses to give or is incapable of giving informed consent"[[/note]]. Many critics snarked that the only real way to prove this was to have both people sign a consent form. And then it [[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420870/college-affirmative-consent-contract actually]] [[http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/08/sexual-consent-contracts-are-now-a-real-thing-you-can-buy/ happened]].

* AcceptableTargets: [[EqualOpportunityOffender Dave pretty much goes after everyone]] but he specifically targets Republicans and White America in general.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

* GeniusBonus: In the "Racial Draft" sketch, the representative of the white delegation yells "Ungawa!" at the black crowd to get them to be quiet. That's not just a random African-sounding nonsense word, it's specifically the phrase that Literature/{{Tarzan}} uses to [[CrossesTheLineTwice communicate with apes.]]
* GrowingTheBeard: The first season was largely ignored until around episode eight, when two sketches aired that basically caught the public's attention: The first was an Music/RKelly parody, which had Dave as R. Kelly singing a song making fun of the singer's [[{{Squick}} sexual fetish of urinating on women]]. The second was a ''[[Series/TheRealWorld Real World]]'' parody, where Dave made fun of the white-people-to-black-people ratio of the show by imagining what would happen if MTV would cast an edition of the show where there was one white guy (comic Christian Finnegan) and the rest of the cast were crazy black people, who mercilessly torment the sole white guy.
* HarsherInHindsight: The Playa Hata Pitbull (not the rapper) wins the award for "Most Likely to Gain Weight and Die." Patrice O'Neal later died of complications from diabetes, his weight being a big factor.

** Dave actually chewed out fans at a concert for endlessly repeating the Music/RickJames line around the same time he left the show (famously reducing the prospective third season into "half" a season).

** The "Love Contract" sketch involves Dave getting a sexual partner to sign a consent form to show that they're a willing participant. Some time later, California and New York introduced the controversial "yes means yes" policies for universities, where people having sex are instructed to confirm that they have a partner's "enthusiastic consent"[[note]]instead of the usual "rape is when someone refuses to give or is incapable of giving informed consent"[[/note]]. Many critics snarked that the only real way to prove this was to have both people sign a consent form.
*** And then it [[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420870/college-affirmative-consent-contract actually]] [[http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/08/sexual-consent-contracts-are-now-a-real-thing-you-can-buy/ happened]].

** During the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nMB1u5ocS4 "Racial Draft"]] sketch, Tiger Woods becomes [[ButNotTooForeign fully]] black. After clamoring about how he'll be going from eating fried rice to eating fried chicken and getting the chance to say "Fo'shizzle", the commentators receive word that he's lost ''all'' of his endorsements. After his later stint as a man who's cheated on his wife with an astronomical number of women and his falling out with the media and some of the people who admired him, Tiger Woods has lost ''most'' of his endorsements, to the point that his appearance at the Masters had him with his own logo. Your sympathies towards the man are subjective, of course.
-->'''Dave''': "Tough break, nigga. There's always [=FUBU=]!"

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the aftermath of Chappelle's fallout with the show, ''a lot'' of humorous but still envelope-pushing moments take on this tone.
** During the "Niggar Family" skit, Chappelle's character follows up a collection of n-word puns by saying in a humorous tone, "This racism is killing me inside." After his existential-angst-fueled trip to Africa brought on by the racism of his show, it's hard to laugh at that line, because that racism really was killing him inside.
** The Wayne Brady episode gives us an intro of Dave quitting over negotiations for the third season, this line especially stands out following the "Lost Episodes" run:
--->'''Network Official:''' Suit yourself Dave, you've already shot all your sketches. At this point in the season you're replaceable.

** The "Real Movies" sketch of ''Film/DeepImpact'' had the black president played by Chappelle hold up a newspaper with the headline [[http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/asteroid-coming-black-presidents-fault-21.jpg "Asteroid Coming... Black President's Fault"]]. In 2013, after a ''meteor'' passed over Russia, Fox News supposedly speculated that [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama President Obama]], the first black president, [[InsaneTrollLogic made it happen as a plot to prove that global warming is real]], [[http://twitchy.com/2013/02/16/hilarious-van-jones-falls-for-ridiculous-photoshop-smearing-fox-news-as-russian-meteor-truthers/ though it turned out to be a hoax]].

* FountainOfMemes
** The Music/RickJames sketch is easily the most quotable. Highlights include (but are not limited to) "I'm Rick James, bitch," "Cocaine is a hell of a drug," "FUCK YO' COUCH,", "ARGGH! YOU DARKNESS! YOU EVIL BLACK MAGIC!", "UNITYYYYYYY," and "What'd the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!"

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Dave's own son abandoning him, and adopting Nick Cannon as his "new daddy."
** Even though the "Time Haters" sketch didn't air, most of the buildup before hand was pretty damn hysterical: First, the Time Haters deliver a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to [[AcceptableTargets Adolf Hitler]], and even the parts on the slave ranch ''before'' Silky shoots the slave master (up to calling the master a 'cracker' and 'honky', and then holding him at gunpoint) were pretty funny too.
*** Even the part where Silky shoots the master has a [[BlackComedy darkly humorous line]]:
---->'''Silky Johnson:''' ''(after delivering a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to the slave master)'' --But the point is, is that in the future, all black people are gonna be free!!\\

* DiscreditedMeme: Dave actually chewed out fans at a concert for endlessly repeating the Music/RickJames line.
-->'''Chappelle:''' You know why my show is good? Because the network officials say you're not smart enough to get what I'm doing, and every day I fight for you. I tell them how smart you are. Turns out, I was wrong. You people are stupid.

* CrazyAwesome: Music/RickJames as played by Dave Chappelle.

* CrazyAwesome: Rick James as played by Dave Chappelle.

** The Rick James sketch is easily the most quotable. Highlights include (but are not limited to) "I'm Rick James, bitch," "Cocaine is a hell of a drug," "FUCK YO' COUCH,", "ARGGH! YOU DARKNESS! YOU EVIL BLACK MAGIC!", "UNITYYYYYYY," and "What'd the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!"
* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** In the aftermath of Chappelle's fallout with the show, ''a lot'' of humorous but still envelope-pushing moments take on this tone.

** Also, the unaired Daddy Day Care sketch became a lot funnier when ''Film/DaddyDayCamp'' came out the following year.

** Before that outburst, Dave was taking it a little easier, to the point of putting a ''hilarious'' bit about it into one of his stand-up specials.

%%* EnsembleDarkhorse: Tron Carter, Silky Johnson.

** The "Real Movies" sketch of ''Film/DeepImpact'' had the black president played by Chappelle hold up a newspaper with the headline [[http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/asteroid-coming-black-presidents-fault-21.jpg "Asteroid Coming... Black President's Fault"]]. In 2013, after an asteroid passed over Russia, Fox News supposedly speculated that [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama President Obama]], the first black president, [[InsaneTrollLogic made it happen as a plot to prove that global warming is real]], [[http://twitchy.com/2013/02/16/hilarious-van-jones-falls-for-ridiculous-photoshop-smearing-fox-news-as-russian-meteor-truthers/ though it turned out to be a hoax]].

** The Rick James sketch is easily the most quotable. Highlights include (but are not limited to) "I'm Rick James, bitch," "Cocaine is a hell of a drug," "FUCK YO' COUCH," "UNITYYYYYYY," and "What'd the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!"

** The Musi/RKelly parody, after his pee tape was later revealed to be very, very far from being his worst offense.

* DiscreditedMeme: Dave actually chewed out fans at a concert for endlessly repeating the Rick James line.

* MisaimedFandom: One of the factors in Dave Chappelle's CreatorBacklash was the realization that a significant chunk of his audience was racist white people taking the racial stereotyping at face value and/or just being way too excited by hearing the n-word a lot.

** The R. Kelly parody, after his pee tape was later revealed to be very, very far from being his worst offense.

* GrowingTheBeard: The first season was largely ignored until around episode eight, when two sketches aired that basically caught the public's attention: The first was an R. Kelly parody, which had Dave as R. Kelly singing a song making fun of the singer's [[{{Squick}} sexual fetish of urinating on women]]. The second was a ''[[Series/TheRealWorld Real World]]'' parody, where Dave made fun of the white-people-to-black-people ratio of the show by imagining what would happen if MTV would cast an edition of the show where there was one white guy (comic Christian Finnegan) and the rest of the cast were crazy black people, who mercilessly torment the sole white guy.