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* In ''The Boy's Night Out Job'' the Directors wife showed up to say hi to him on their anniversary right as he was filming a scene with a woman in a bikini, with the writers joking about why she couldn't have showed up just minutes earlier and seen him overworked and keeping a bunch of tired and disorganized people in line to finish a key scene.

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* In ''The Boy's Boys' Night Out Job'' Job''
** John Rogers discusses
the Directors issues of writing and directing an episode:
--->'''John Rogers''': I found that director John was really not happy with writer John a lot of times.
** John Rogers's
wife showed up to say hi to him on their anniversary right as he was filming a scene with approving the wardrobe of a woman in a bikini, with the writers joking about why she couldn't have showed up just minutes earlier and seen him overworked and keeping a bunch of tired and disorganized people in line to finish a key scene. scene.
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* ''The Office Job''
** "I like to say we stole another series."
** It was hard to write bad cards from Parker because there are enough companies writing ironic cards that they kept coming up with cards that might have been real.
** Chris Downey describes being Christian Kane's stunt double as the best job since being Creator/KevinJames's dietician on ''Series/TheKingOfQueens''.
--->'''John Rogers''': I've never heard someone end their career on a DVD commentary before.
** Discussing the symbolism of the villain being tripped by a water cooler:
--->'''Chris Downey''': I'm a very douchey writer.\\
'''John Rogers''': Is there some sort of award from Wesleyan about the most pretentious television things you can make in a mainstream television show? Are you bucking for that? Creator/JossWhedon had locked that down for years, but you're gunning for it in this one.\\
'''Jeremy Bernstein''': With a water cooler? I don't think we're gonna take down Joss Whedon with a water cooler.
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* ''The Experimental Job''
** "That's a CGI splash, because they wouldn't let me dump a body in the river."
** Beth Riesgraf starts singing the ''Film/ChariotsOfFire'' theme at the scene where Hardison and the other pledges are running around in their boxer shorts.
** In the scene when Eliot gets hit with a taser, they forgot to put the pad in, and he really got shocked.
** Every time Eliot and the interrogator started a scene, they had a staring contest to see who would blink first.
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* ''The Queen's Gambit Job'':
** Discussing the fight between Eliot (Christian Kane) and Sterling (Mark Sheppard) in an earlier episode:
--->'''John Rogers''': The table collapsed, and the two actors punched the ground. Immediately, Mark's son ran out onto the set, looked at Christian Kane and went, "Are you OK?" as Kane gets off his dad.
** Discussing how Aldis prepares to do accents:
--->'''Aldis Hodge''': Fun times, fun times. I go kidnap somebody from that region, I tie them to a chair. I sit there, talk to them for a little bit, force them to teach me the accent.\\
'''John Rogers''': So that's why your accents feel a little panicky, a little stressed out.
** As Parker starts to break in and Eliot starts to wake up:
--->'''John Rogers''': "This is one of the few times we've set up something is already going wrong, when the heist is going wrong. For those of you studying at home, that's called dramatic tension, when the audience knows something the characters don't."\\
'''Mark Sheppard''': And you call me a smug bastard.
** Christian Kane would read scripts for his recurring role on Series/{{Angel}}, and refuse to show up for episodes where his character would get killed off.
** Discussing the car chase:
--->'''Mark Sheppard''': Can I get the Ferrari next time?\\
'''John Rogers''': No. You get to be the cool character, you don't get the cool car at the same time.
** After Jonathan Frakes (the director) comments that he felt some of the script was a bit heavy-handed with the hints about Olivia's real father, John Rogers has a lovely rant.
--->'''John Rogers''': If Creator/LevarBurton would sit in a fucking director's chair, I'd hire him. Does Creator/BrentSpiner want to direct? Can I get somebody else from [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration that goddamn show]] on my set, please?
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* ''The Cross My Heart Job'':
** Somebody walked into the fake Crab-O-Rama shell that they built in the convention center they were using to film the airport scenes, and freaked out because there was no actual restaurant behind it. At 4am.
** "We've never seen Beth and Chris [take their shirts off] at the same time. I think my first draft of the script, I actually wrote '[[FanService Yes, you're welcome, fans]]' in the action line."
** "Leverage: punching rich white dudes in the neck since 2009!"
** The direction given to the woman at the National Weather Service: "Everybody is an idiot."
** The director cursed out the crabs for being asleep while they were filming. And then, after that, the director, the production manager, and Timothy Hutton ate the crabs.
--->'''John Rogers''': This is the best commentary ever. We've never had one where we ate an actor!
** Discussing getting the crabs to move by pounding on the glass to rile them up.
--->'''John Rogers''': We do that with the actors, too. Poke Aldis with a stick, tell Beth that maybe she's gained some weight. We just shake Gina's trailer. Very method.
** They shot a version where, instead of the fake cooler containing a snow globe, it contained a crab.
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* ''The Boiler Room Job'':
** Describing Chris Downey's one-year-old son's first encounter with chocolate.
--->'''John Rogers''': He'd never had chocolate before in his life, and there's a moment, his eyes rolled back, and he literally slams his face down into the chocolate.
** Discussing how Christian Kane should play Jungle Eliot:
--->'''John Rogers''': Play it like you wanna kiss him, but you can't. And Kane dug in on it, and there is an uncomfortable sexual tension in this entire sequence.
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* The bra scene.

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* The bra scene. Sophie is hanging around at Nate's place after spending the night, and only after the rest of the crew arrives do they realize that her bra is hanging off one of the stairs. Nate tries to nonchalantly hide it, pick it up, and sneak it over to her without anyone else noticing.
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** Explaining how they got such an excellent emotional performance out of Erik Jensen, the actor who played the mark:
--->'''John Rogers''': We took Erik's daughter hostage. It really helped. We actually kidnapped his daughter.

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** Explaining how John Rogers claiming they got such an excellent used EnforcedMethodActing to get a deeply emotional performance out of about Erik Jensen, the actor who played the mark:
Jensen as his character reassured his kidnapped daughter:
--->'''John Rogers''': [[BlatantLies We took Erik's daughter hostage. It really helped. We actually kidnapped his daughter.]]
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** Beth complains that she didn't get to say, "Dammit, Hardison!" this season.
---> '''Beth Riesgraf''': Dammit, Rogers!
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* ''The Hot Potato Job'':
** They wrote a lot more of the video shown to the kids, and discuss it.
--->'''John Rogers''': Corn! America's weapon against hunger and communism!
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** Explaining how they got such an excellent emotional performance out of Erik Jensen, the actor who played the mark:
--->'''John Rogers''': We took Erik's daughter hostage. It really helped. We actually kidnapped his daughter.
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** The tips given on how to beat carnival games are real, and many of the commenters on John Rogers's blog talk about how they won prizes using them.
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* ''The Carnival Job'':
** John Rogers mentions one of the few notes he gets from the network, saying the network insisted on a line making it clear that Parker is not being replaced by a robot. Beth Riesgraf's response: "Can I swear on this thing?"
** In response to the comment, the writer's room made a version of the show's poster with the robot from ''Film/IRobot'' replacing Parker.
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** When [[TheCon the mark]] sees Nate's latest CoolHat, he's convinced that it's just there to hide a bald spot.

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** When [[TheCon the mark]] sees Nate's latest CoolHat, hat, he's convinced that it's just there to hide a bald spot.
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** The cast and crew were staying at the hotel where they filmed ''Film/TheShining''.
---> '''Dean Devlin''': [[BlatantLies So, not creepy at all, at night.]]
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* ''The Long Way Down Job'':
** Three days after they wrapped filming, an avalanche hit their filming location.
--->'''Aldis Hodge''': So, we didn't have to clean up, yay!\\
'''John Rogers''': I almost died for basic cable.
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* The San Lorenzo Job
** Asked where a shot of the city from above was taken, John Rogers says, "I don't know, stock," then names the country "Stocksylvania".
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** After Christian Kane says that all the shots in the gunfight scene were of him, John Rogers comments that Christian's stunt double has the easiest job in Hollywood.
--->'''John Rogers''': "Oh, what are you going to do today?" "Ah, I'm gonna have a latte, watch him bust his ass."
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* The Big Bang Job
** Aldis and Christian have fun introducing themselves in the beginning.
--->'''Aldis Hodge''': This is Cookies, the good-looking half of Milk and Cookies.\\
'''Christian Kane''': ''(laughing)'' That's Aldis Hodge. I'm Christian Kane, and I play Eliot Spencer.\\
'''Aldis Hodge''': That's Milk.
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* The Ho Ho Ho Job
** At the end, as Parker goes out into the snow, John Rogers says, "I'm crying. I have tears running down my cheeks...oh, no, that's Guinness."
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** On the ending: "We just took the stuff the guy from BP Oil actually said, and it was so dick-ish there was really no way to improve it. Look at his face. You just want to burn Parliament down."
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* The Rashomon Job
** Summing up the episode: "It's ''Theatre/NoisesOff'', but with crime."
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No attention is drawn to it, and it's not cool to laugh at the traits of someone else's body that they can't control


** The umpire in the baseball game is cross-eyed. He's an actual baseball umpire.
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** The umpire in the baseball game is cross-eyed. He's an actual baseball umpire.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys, a pair of Irish mobsters, have a debate over whether or not a church basement counts as holy ground, and somehow the conversation turns to the Boy Scout oath.

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* ThoseTwoBadGuys, a A pair of Irish mobsters, mobsters have a debate over whether or not a church basement counts as holy ground, and somehow the conversation turns to the Boy Scout oath.

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* Eliot and Sophie discover that their NoodleIncidents may have overlapped.
-->'''Nate:''' When was the last time you met a Victor?\\
'''Eliot:''' Vietnam. Town called Banho Zay.\\
'''Sophie:''' Chinese border.\\
'''Eliot:''' ...That's an odd thing for you to know.\\
'''Sophie:''' That's an odd place for you to be.
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** Everyone’s amazement at the discovery that Sophie has a fan for all of her BadBadActing roles in the past, even her performance of Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic (which was shut down after two shows), where she intentionally played Maria as tone deaf. When she asks why his scrapbook doesn't have reviews, he says he's waiting for good ones, once the critics finally accept her acting genius. Elliot coughs nearby at this, and Sophie tells herself that it must have just been from the fog.

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** Everyone’s amazement at the discovery that Sophie has a fan for all of her BadBadActing roles in the past, even her performance of Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'' (which was shut down after two shows), where she intentionally played Maria as tone deaf. When she asks why his scrapbook doesn't have reviews, he says he's waiting for good ones, once the critics finally accept her acting genius. Elliot coughs nearby at this, and Sophie tells herself that it must have just been from the fog.

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* While questioning what secrets the mark could be hiding, Parker randomly brings up the possibility his right hand man Reed [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} used to be a Rita]].

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* While questioning what secrets the mark could be hiding, Parker randomly brings up the possibility his right hand man Reed [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} used to be a Rita]].



* Nate and Parker hijack a school field trip to get into the building. One of the kids, Trevor, later wanders into the room where Nate and Hardison are monitoring the goings-on, and spends the rest of the con with them getting tips on the scams they're running and providing some priceless reaction faces.

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* Nate and Parker hijack a school field trip to get into the building. One of the kids, Trevor, later wanders into the room where Nate and Hardison are monitoring the goings-on, goings-on and spends the rest of the con with them getting tips on the scams they're running and providing some priceless reaction faces.



* In order to clear out the carnival, Hardison has Eliot gather up a handful of chemicals for an explosion and tells Eliot to 'run like hell' when the mixture gets going. Seconds after the concoction blows up in Eliot's face:
-->'''Eliot:''' Dammit, Hardison. A little more warning next time.\\
'''Hardison:''' What'd you think 'run like hell' ''meant''?



* The sheer absurdity of whatever the team's [[NoodleIncident last job]] was. At one point Hardison apparently ''faked a volcanic eruption''.

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* The sheer absurdity of whatever the team's [[NoodleIncident last job]] was. At one point point, Hardison apparently ''faked a volcanic eruption''.




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* As part of the con, Sophie fakes a twisted ankle to get her hands on an access pass. Parker then assumes they're going to injure the others in similar ways in order to get the other passes, suggesting they break Eliot's wrist for one and ''set Nate on fire'' for the other.
* Hardison needs a PIN to get into the air traffic tower, and the only ID he has is for a woman. His solution? Pretend to be a trans man and launch into an angry rant to throw the security guys off long enough to get what he needs. His rant is absolutely priceless (though YMMV on how well you think it's aged).
-->"You all up in the mix don't even know the flavor! Racism, sexism, ''[[BrickJoke antisemitism!]]'' You know what, shame on you, shame on yo mama, shame on yo kids!"



* Basically the fact that the entire episode is an AffectionateParody of ''Series/TheOfficeUS''.

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* Basically the The fact that the entire episode is an AffectionateParody of ''Series/TheOfficeUS''.



* Nate tells Parker to start a fight with the grifter who is working on Hardison. He, of course, intends for her to start an argument. So of course Parker walks over with a huge grin on her face and starts ''[[LiteralMinded beating the shit]]'' out of the girl. Later, Nate promises Parker, who's nursing a wound, that next time he'll say 'argument' as opposed to 'fight'.

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* Nate tells Parker to start a fight with the grifter who is working on Hardison. He, of course, intends for her to start an argument. So of course course, Parker walks over with a huge grin on her face and starts ''[[LiteralMinded beating the shit]]'' out of the girl. Later, Nate promises Parker, who's nursing a wound, that next time he'll say 'argument' as opposed to 'fight'.
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* The whole time Eliot's working his way through the mooks sent after him... his students just... accept it. He's been so Eliot the whole time that they're a ''little'' surprised, but they accept it. He's ''chef''.
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** Better yet, the mook flinches when Eliot comes at him with a spoonfull of sauce, then tastes it.

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