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As it ran during the same stretch as ''BillNyeTheScienceGuy'', the two shows get [[DuelingShows compared often]].
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As it ran during the same stretch as ''BillNyeTheScienceGuy'', ''Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy'', the two shows get [[DuelingShows compared often]].
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* ShaggyDogStory: One segment (on camouflage) has Lester trying to hide from a bill collector, getting all sorts of tips on how to hide in plain sight from Beakman and Liza. The bill collector shows up at the end of the segment. Turns out his name is Bill Collector, and he just wants Lester's autograph!
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* LogoJoke: This show had a rocket flying around the Columbia logo, which had just recently changed when the show debuted.
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* LogoJoke: This show had a rocket flying around the Columbia logo, Torch Lady, which had just recently changed when the show debuted.debuted, and the music changed during the run as well (though in the first season, the 80s Columbia print logo was featured in the credits; the modern one was in the credits from season 2). Sadly, recent syndication runs plastered it with the infamous Sony "Bars of Boredom" logo, though Univision reruns, thankfully, retain the logo.
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* TheProfessor: I.M. Boring, originally of Inert State University, the resident substitute for sleeping pills.
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* TheProfessor: I.M. Boring, Boring (or ocassionally I.B. Boring instead), originally of Inert State University, the resident substitute for sleeping pills.
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The show lasted from September, 1992 to March, 1997. A total of three-and-a-half seasons' worth of shows stretched out to a full five seasons, first on TLC, then on CBS. The show has also run in syndication (first before moving from TLC to CBS, then more recently starting in 2007), as well as Spanish-dubbed reruns on Univision's kids block, '''Planeta U'''.
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The show lasted from September, 1992 to March, 1997. A total of three-and-a-half seasons' worth of shows stretched out to a full five seasons, first on TLC, then on CBS. The show has also run in syndication (first before moving from TLC to CBS, then more recently starting in 2007), as well as Spanish-dubbed reruns on Univision's kids block, '''Planeta U'''.
''Planeta U''.
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The show lasted from September, 1992 to March, 1997. A total of three-and-a-half seasons' worth of shows stretched out to a full five seasons, first on TLC, then on CBS.
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The show lasted from September, 1992 to March, 1997. A total of three-and-a-half seasons' worth of shows stretched out to a full five seasons, first on TLC, then on CBS.
CBS. The show has also run in syndication (first before moving from TLC to CBS, then more recently starting in 2007), as well as Spanish-dubbed reruns on Univision's kids block, '''Planeta U'''.
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* HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation: Lester does this several times with a hand puppet (literally) named "Scratchy the Chicken".
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* HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation: Lester does this several times with a hand puppet (literally) named "Scratchy the Chicken". He also does this with a poorly-constructed facsimile of a parrot to cover for not picking up the real one they were going to use.
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* HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation: Lester does this several times with a hand puppet (literally) named "Scratchy the Chicken".
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* CreepyCockroaches: The second "THOSE DISGUSTING ANIMALS!" segment. So disgusting, they freaked Liza out enough to require a second take.
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--> '''Lester''': *holds a basket of berries* And these are my ''[[IncrediblyLamePun dingo berries]]''
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--> '''Lester''': *holds a basket of berries* And these are my ''[[IncrediblyLamePun dingo berries]]''''dingo berries''.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Many of the Famous Dead Guys were done in the style of a celebrity: Ben Franklin was a Rodney Dangerfield-esque joke-cracker; Albert Einstein was a German-style Jackie Mason, and Charles Goodyear was Jim Backus as Thurston Howell from GilligansIsland.
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* {{Gesundheit}}: When the caveman inventor of the wheel introduces himself, he gives the name "Og." "Og who?" "Gesundheit!" ...Lester [[ComicallyMissingThePoint then calls him "Mr. Gesundheit"]].
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* WhyAreYouLookingAtMeLikeThat: Whenever something demeaning needs to be done, all eyes turn to Lester, who says the line.
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No, not even this is a correct wick to Your Mileage May Vary. It\'s an index. Not a trope, not a stock phrase either. It should not be linked from any trope or work page for any reason.
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** Every time a reference to miles comes up: "Of course, {{YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY}}."
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** Every time a reference to miles comes up: "Of course, {{YOUR YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY}}.VARY."
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** Every time a reference to miles comes up: "Of course, YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY."
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** Every time a reference to miles comes up: "Of course, YOUR {{YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY.VARY}}."
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* WhatsAHenway: Don and Herb use the titular joke, but also use another version:
-->'''Don''': So I'm skating down the ice, knitting a sweater, and a penguin cop tries to stop me.
-->'''Herb''': What'd he say?
-->'''Don''': He said, "Pull over"! And I said, "No! Cardigan!"
-->'''Don''': So I'm skating down the ice, knitting a sweater, and a penguin cop tries to stop me.
-->'''Herb''': What'd he say?
-->'''Don''': He said, "Pull over"! And I said, "No! Cardigan!"
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** An amusing version of this, after a Beakman "a-ha" moment:
-->'''Lester''': Oh, let's all say "A-ha", shall we?
-->'''All''': A-ha!
-->'''Lester''': ...shall we?
-->'''Lester''': Oh, let's all say "A-ha", shall we?
-->'''All''': A-ha!
-->'''Lester''': ...shall we?
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** Some other gags are set up this way. Observe:
-->'''Josie''': MAIL CALL!
-->'''Beakman''': All right, Josie, what do we got?
-->'''Josie''': Mail. That's why I yelled Mail Call.
-->'''Josie''': MAIL CALL!
-->'''Beakman''': All right, Josie, what do we got?
-->'''Josie''': Mail. That's why I yelled Mail Call.
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** In the hair segment, Beakman reveals that the big ol' tower o' hair is not his real hair...revealing that his "real hair" is actually a big red clown fright wig--I mean, 'do.
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* LastSecondWordSwap: They have to get creative whenever they rhyme something ending in "ass". Example, one Beakmania introduces us to:
-->'''Phoebe''': The Ron Glass of you bet your...bass!
-->'''Phoebe''': The Ron Glass of you bet your...bass!
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** When Lester introduces Beakman to his "fiancee", Cindy the Camel, Beakman asks what happened to Wanda the Cow from the previous season. Cue the cow puns.
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** When Lester introduces Beakman to his "fiancee", Cindy the Camel, Beakman asks what happened to Wanda Rhonda the Cow from the previous season. Cue the cow puns.
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** Not only are all of the dances Beakman references in the Beakmania intro real dances (and pretty much done the way he does 'em), but the assistants always shout out actors and other people in entertainment that would have been relevant to parents of kids who would've watched the show in the mid-'90s.
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* ShoutOut: Aside from Don and Herb (to Mr. Wizard), we have:
** Several letters "written in" by the kids of members of the cast and crew. If they shared a name with a cast and/or crew member, and were from the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, you can be reasonably sure it was a kid of a crew member.
** The Nurse Phoebe segments featured a schoolboy version of Lester, the "poor boy from Mr. Guenther's class". This is referring to Al Guenther, the science consultant.
** Several letters "written in" by the kids of members of the cast and crew. If they shared a name with a cast and/or crew member, and were from the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, you can be reasonably sure it was a kid of a crew member.
** The Nurse Phoebe segments featured a schoolboy version of Lester, the "poor boy from Mr. Guenther's class". This is referring to Al Guenther, the science consultant.
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* DontExplainTheJoke: "See, it's not funny when you have to explain it." "Well, could you draw me a picture, then?"
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* DontExplainTheJoke: [[LampshadeHanging "See, it's not funny when you have to explain it." "]] [[CompletelyMissingThePoint "Well, could you draw me a picture, then?"then?"]]
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-->'''Herb''': Don, did you hear what Beakman said about our snow?
-->'''Don''': Yeah! He said it [[{{Pun}} melts in your mouth, not on your land!]]
-->'''Don''': Yeah! He said it [[{{Pun}} melts in your mouth, not on your land!]]
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* PostModernism: They don't even try to pass Lester off as a real rat, he's always just been an actor in a suit. The Famous Dead Guys are played straighter in that the cast actually plays along, but it's clear they're in on Beakman's {{Paper Thin Disguise}}s and the audience is expected to be, too.
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* PostModernism: They don't even try to pass Lester off as a real rat, he's always just been an actor in a suit. The Famous Dead Guys are played straighter in that the cast actually plays along, but it's clear they're in on Beakman's {{Paper Thin Disguise}}s and the audience is expected to be, too. (Several times he comes back and starts talking in the style of the Dead Guy he just impersonated.)
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* ServiceSectorStereotypes: Art's Diner empoloys several of the Diner type 2 type of waitresses (young and slightly rude) that look suspiciously like the assistants with beehive wigs.
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* ServiceSectorStereotypes: Art's Diner empoloys several of the Diner type 2 type of waitresses (young and slightly rude) that look suspiciously like the assistants with beehive wigs.wigs and Joisey accents.
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* ServiceSectorStereotypes: Art's Diner empoloys several of the Diner type 2 type of waitresses (young and slightly rude) that look suspiciously like the assistants with beehive wigs.
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** Lester was a Famous Dead Guy exactly once: As one-half of the Montgolfiers, the brothers who popularized the hot-air balloon.
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* RepeatAfterMe: There are several examples of Beakman saying "Let's say X", with someone else (usually Lester) immediately saying X.
