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* : A Season 1 skit featuring "Otto the Director" (Rita Moreno as a frustrated director who can never seem to get her actors to say their lines properly) is a takeoff of "The Three Musketeers," with Creator/BillCosby in the featured role. His line, "All for one and one for all!" Cosby clearly improvises the incorrect lines and ad libs his "I forgot my lines" explanation to Otto, prompting [[{{Corpsing}} very real out-loud laughter from Morgan Freeman]] (playing the cue card guy); it is all Moreno can do to stifle her own laughter.
** Before one take, Otto tries to give Cosby a pep talk, telling him he needs to "say 'all' at the beginning and 'all' at the end." What does Cosby say on the next take? [[ExactWords "All at the beginning... and all at the end!"]] Oops!
* The "Last Word" in episode 10 is "crackpot", yelled by J. Arthur Crank, whose voice is so loud the lightbulb in the closer shakes and dims itself out!

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* : A Season 1 skit featuring "Otto the Director" (Rita Moreno as a frustrated director who can never seem to get her actors to say their lines properly) is a takeoff of "The Three Musketeers," with Creator/BillCosby in the featured role. His line, "All for one and one for all!" Cosby clearly improvises the incorrect lines and ad libs his "I forgot my lines" explanation to Otto, prompting [[{{Corpsing}} very real out-loud laughter from Morgan Freeman]] (playing the cue card guy); it is all Moreno can do to stifle her own laughter.
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laughter. Before one take, Otto tries to give Cosby a pep talk, telling him he needs to "say 'all' at the beginning and 'all' at the end." What does Cosby say on the next take? [[ExactWords "All at the beginning... and all at the end!"]] Oops!
* The "Last Word" in episode 10 is "crackpot", yelled by J. Arthur Crank, whose voice is so loud the lightbulb in the closer shakes and dims itself out!out!
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsGlb7knTaQ "That is not the note",]] a temperamental Italian conductor (Luis Avalos) tries to lead an orchestra in a performance of the first movement of [[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Beethoven]]'s Symphony No.5, only for the tuba player (Jim Boyd) to keep derailing things by hitting wrong notes, leading to the exclamation that gives the sketch its name. The laughs come from the other musicians (the rest of the adult ''TEC'' cast) apparently needing to turn their pages every few notes, the conductor's increasingly over-the-top anger, and the ultimate explanation for the tuba player's mistakes:
-->''[after a third failure]''\\
'''Conductor:''' Are you trying to turn me into a little bowl of pasta!? What would my mama say to you? You're trying to kill me! You hate me! ''[the tuba player shrinks back from the conductor's fury]'' You hate everyone like me! I know you! You're trying to ruin my favourite piece of music, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony!\\
'''Tuba player:''' ''[gets a puzzled look]'' Oh, maestro, did you say Beethoven's ''Fifth'' Symphony?\\
'''Conductor:''' ''Si! Si!'' Beethoven's ''Fifth'' Symphony! Symphony No.5!\\
'''Tuba player:''' Ohh, yeah, see, I was, I was playing Beethoven's ''Fifteenth'' Symphony.\\
'''Conductor:''' ''The Fifteenth Symphony!?'' Beethoven only had '''nine''' symphonies!\\
'''Tuba player:''' ... Well, that'd explain it...\\
''[the conductor roars with anger and snaps his baton in half, revealing it to be a breadstick, which he starts munching]''
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* {{Corpsing}}: A Season 1 skit featuring "Otto the Director" (Rita Moreno as a frustrated director who can never seem to get her actors to say their lines properly) is a takeoff of "The Three Musketeers," with Creator/BillCosby in the featured role. His line, "All for one and one for all!" Cosby clearly improvises the incorrect lines and ad libs his "I forgot my lines" explanation to Otto, prompting very real out-loud laughter from Morgan Freeman (playing the cue card guy); it is all Moreno can do to stifle her own laughter.

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* {{Corpsing}}: *: A Season 1 skit featuring "Otto the Director" (Rita Moreno as a frustrated director who can never seem to get her actors to say their lines properly) is a takeoff of "The Three Musketeers," with Creator/BillCosby in the featured role. His line, "All for one and one for all!" Cosby clearly improvises the incorrect lines and ad libs his "I forgot my lines" explanation to Otto, prompting [[{{Corpsing}} very real out-loud laughter from Morgan Freeman Freeman]] (playing the cue card guy); it is all Moreno can do to stifle her own laughter.
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* Included on the first "Best of" DVD set are a series of outtakes featuring the cast members blowing lines and other bloopers. One such skit features Skip Hinnant and Judy Graubart as house decorators demonstrating past/present/future tense and first, second and third person. (For example, as one of the painters hangs a section of wallpaper, Graubart might say, "I paste," followed by Hinnant saying, "She pastes," and after that, "I pasted," and "She pasted," etc.") After a prop fell over forcing taping to stop, Graubart began laughing so hard that she wet her pants. Mimicking the script, a hysterical (if not embarrassed) Graubart spit out, "I peed!" to which Hinnant humorously replied "She peed!". Then, the dialogue box displayed said words at the bottom of the screen--colored ''green!''

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* Included on the first "Best of" DVD set are a series of outtakes featuring the cast members blowing lines and other bloopers. One such skit features Skip Hinnant and Judy Graubart as house decorators demonstrating past/present/future tense and first, second and third person. (For example, as one of the painters hangs a section of wallpaper, Graubart might say, "I paste," followed by Hinnant saying, "She pastes," and after that, "I pasted," and "She pasted," etc.") After a prop fell over forcing taping to stop, Graubart began laughing so hard that [[BringMyBrownPants she wet her pants.pants]]. Mimicking the script, a hysterical (if not embarrassed) Graubart spit out, "I peed!" to which Hinnant humorously replied "She peed!". Then, the dialogue box displayed said words at the bottom of the screen--colored ''green!''
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-->"No, he isn't. The boy is ''quitting''!"
---> Announcer: "B-but...what about Naomi?!!"

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-->"No, he isn't. The boy is ''quitting''!"
---> Announcer:
''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere quitting!]]''"
-->'''Announcer''':
"B-but...what about Naomi?!!"
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** Before one take, Otto tries to give Cosby a pep talk, telling him he needs to "say 'all' at the beginning and 'all' at the end." What does Cosby say on the next take? [[ExactWords "All at the beginning... and all at the end!"]] Oops!
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* The final "Love of Chair" sketch, which culminates in Skip Hinnant storming off set midway.
-->"No, he isn't. The boy is ''quitting''!"
* In one [[DerangedAnimation animated sketch]], the husband's response to "[[LiteralMinded Gordon,]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint you drive me up the wall!]]"
* [[ComicallyMissingThePoint WE ARE OUT OF SWEET ROLLS!]]
* The "[[DrivesLikeCrazy Swerve]] [[Film/TaxiDriver Sweeney]]" sketch.
* Included on the first "Best of" DVD set are a series of outtakes featuring the cast members blowing lines and other bloopers. One such skit features Skip Hinnant and Judy Graubart as house decorators demonstrating past/present/future tense and first, second and third person. (For example, as one of the painters hangs a section of wallpaper, Graubart might say, "I paste," followed by Hinnant saying, "She pastes," and after that, "I pasted," and "She pasted," etc.") After a prop fell over forcing taping to stop, Graubart began laughing so hard that she wet her pants. Mimicking the script, a hysterical (if not embarrassed) Graubart spit out, "I peed!" to which Hinnant humorously replied "She peed!". Then, the dialogue box displayed said words at the bottom of the screen--colored ''green!''
* {{Corpsing}}: A Season 1 skit featuring "Otto the Director" (Rita Moreno as a frustrated director who can never seem to get her actors to say their lines properly) is a takeoff of "The Three Musketeers," with Creator/BillCosby in the featured role. His line, "All for one and one for all!" Cosby clearly improvises the incorrect lines and ad libs his "I forgot my lines" explanation to Otto, prompting very real out-loud laughter from Morgan Freeman (playing the cue card guy); it is all Moreno can do to stifle her own laughter.
* The "Last Word" in episode 10 is "crackpot", yelled by J. Arthur Crank, whose voice is so loud the lightbulb in the closer shakes and dims itself out!

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