History Series / RowanAndMartinsLaughIn

** "Look ''that'' up in your Funk & Wagnalls!" -- the closest thing you could get to an {{PrecisionFBomb}} on late-1960's television.

** "Look ''that'' up in your Funk & Wagnalls!" -- the closest thing you could get to an PrecisionFBomb on late-1960's television.

* {{Blackface}}: Done mostly in the style of the traveling minstrel, with the first of it in season two's 25th episode and for the news portion intro by Judy, Goldie, Jo Anne and Ruth, with Chelsea doing equally whiteface with the singing portion with Tony Curtis.

** Dennis Allen got this regularly in season four with a LOT of drenchings and trap doors, but primarily as Chaplain Bud Homily and at times, himself. It continued in season five by way of him as Homily receiving snow, balloon boulders, water and trap doors all in one. A constant gag with him is that whenever he seems to talk with anyone in some sketches, the one person he usually talks to punches him, making him a pretty regular case of this.
** Lily Tomlin received a bit of it too as Mrs. Earbore at times, along with a few trap doors. Sometimes she also received water as the cheerleader character that she played, too.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Done for laughs during the series by Dennis Allen, particularly whenever he does do something good in a sketch only for his luck to horribly change.

* OnlySaneMan: Dan Rowan often played this role, reacting to the other regulars' zaniness.

* PutOnABus: Brian Bressler in season six, as he was replaced by Kathy Speirs, who was soon replaced by Lisa Ferringer for the remainder of the show's existence.

* RunningGag: Quite a bit of them. Some like the blah-blah man played by Chet Dowling were a bit more prominent in season four onwards, especially his other role Mervin the Magnificent.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Season two had Chelsea Brown paired up with Byron Gilliam, while in season three had Byron paired up with Teresa Graves; Pamela Rodgers was paired up at times with Jeremy Lloyd, too. Dennis Allen and Alan Sues were paired up together as badminton players in some segments during season four. Season five had Richard Dawson either paired up with Larry Hovis or Barbara Sharma while season six had Jud Strunk and Brian Bressler paired up at times, as well.
** One of the few pairings in-show that was constant were Dennis Allen and Lily Tomlin, roughly on the same level of Ann Elder and Dick Martin whenever that happened in season five.

** Dan Rowan, despite his OnlySaneMan nature, is a frequent corpser whenever Dick is involved. Some other ones who made him crack include Arte Johnson, Ann Elder and Barbara Sharma.
** Dick Martin was not above cracking up, as the San Clemente dateline bloopers he repeatedly tried to correct had shown. It happens repeatedly again in season five with a wedding sketch that Dan and Ann Elder had either he had corpsed, or Dan himself had corpsed due to Dick... or unexpectedly, Ann corpsing both of them with a raspberry. However, he DID crack up Willie Tyler in season six as well as Dan in a western sketch.
** Arte Johnson cracked up whenever Robot Theatre was involved. He also made Dick corpse at times, too.
** Richard Dawson is the '''king''' of this in his time during the series, combining this with MetaGuy to the point where he managed to make Lily Tomlin, Larry Hovis, Johnny Brown and Barbara Sharma corpse all at once in season five during a doctor sketch. He did it again with Barbara in another episode as their newlywed characters, to which he tried to make Dennis corpse by placing Barbara in his arms as a 'tip', but only succeeds in causing Barbara to completely laugh throughout the sketch. Season six saw him making Dan, Sarah and Dennis crack in record time and visibly making Dan laugh from the sheer force of the W.C. Fields impression and during the rest of the series, cracking nearly everyone in any sketch he did, including guests like Robert Goulet, with two exceptions: Jud Strunk and Ruth Buzzi.

** Dennis Allen surprisingly did this to Patti Deutsch in season six at one point, where both of them started laughing a bit after flinging mashed potatos at each other and a few other things.

** Richard Dawson is virtually a '''king''' of this in his time during the series, combining this with MetaGuy to the point where he managed to make Lily Tomlin, Larry Hovis, Johnny Brown and Barbara Sharma corpse all at once in season five during a doctor sketch. He did it again with Barbara in another episode as their newlywed characters, to which he tried to make Dennis corpse by placing Barbara in his arms as a 'tip', but only succeeds in causing Barbara to completely laugh throughout the sketch. Season six saw him making Dan, Sarah and Dennis crack in record time and visibly making Dan laugh from the sheer force of the W.C. Fields impression. Around mid-season six most of the regulars don't hide their corpsing whenever Richard is around, with the possible exception of Jud Strunk and Ruth Buzzi.

* BrainlessBeauty: Pamela Rodgers, Donna Jean Young and Lisa Farringer were all very attractive and well-known for their airheadedness; While Pamela often made vapid sexual jokes in season three, both Donna Jean and Lisa play this relatively straight in season six.

** Dick Martin was not above cracking up, as the San Clemente dateline bloopers he repeatedly tried to correct had shown. It happens repeatedly again in season five with a wedding sketch that Dan and Ann Elder had either he had corpsed, or Dan himself had corpsed due to Dick... or unexpectedly, Ann corpsing both of them with a raspberry.

* GiftedlyBad: Lisa Farringer. Just about most of her "jokes" ended with the word ''whoopee'' and a camera shot panning towards her face.

** Even Gary Owens wasn't immune to this. He shockingly got a sock-it clock nearly pummeling him as well as a dousing of water, a trap door and a balloon mallet in season two. It was revisited in season four when he was ran over by a giant wheel.

* TheCastShowoff: In season six, Jud Strunk became this as he was already an established country singer-songwriter who eventually got a OneHitWonder of his own with 'Daisy a Day'.

* BrainlessBeauty: Goldie Hawn, Sarah Kennedy and Pamela Rodgers were both very attractive and well-known for their airheadedness; Goldie and Sarah tended toward general [[TheDitz ditziness]] while Pamela often made vapid sexual jokes.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Oh boy, Tiny Tim! Though he proved he was SmarterThanYouLook coupled with BeneathNotice. Danny Kaye was one too, as well.
** Goldie herself also vacillated between this trope and TheDitz.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Season two had Chelsea Brown paired up with Byron Gilliam, while in season three had Byron paired up with Teresa Graves; Pamela Rodgers was paired up at times with Jeremy Lloyd, too. Dennis Allen and Alan Sues were paired up together as badminton players in some segments during season four.

* PerkyFemaleMinion: Barbara Sharma played this up as a devotee of Spiro Agnew in season four's goodnights or whenever she did so.

* BrainlessBeauty: Goldie Hawn and Pamela Rodgers were both very attractive and well-known for their airheadedness; Goldie tended toward general [[TheDitz ditziness]] while Pamela often made vapid sexual jokes on-show, ultimately subverted in her case by an outtake.

* BrainlessBeauty: Goldie Hawn and Pamela Rodgers were both very attractive and well-known for their airheadedness; Goldie tended toward general [[TheDitz ditziness]] while Pamela often made vapid sexual jokes.

** In an season three outtake, Pamela Rodgers ultimately made Dick (and everyone by extension) crack up bigtime when Dan asked her about what she'd do if she was on a plane and said airplane losing altitude. Her answer subverts everything that she played up on the show, proving she stood with everyone equally and won on laughs, big time.

* TheBusCameBack: Larry Hovis, in a huge callback, ended up coming back as a regular performer for season five after having left at the end of season one.

** Dennis Allen got this about as regularly as Alan Sues in season four with a LOT of drenchings and trap doors, but primarily as Chaplain Bud Homily and at times, himself. It continues for him in season five by receiving snow, balloon boulders, water and trap doors all in one. A constant gag with him is that whenever he seems to talk with anyone in some sketches, the one person he usually talks to punches him, making him a pretty regular case of this.
** Alan took over afterwards in receiving the drenching from Judy, both as himself and in his Uncle Al guise. Season five at one point gave him an element of a sock-it alarm clock that whenever it went off, he got drenched.
** Lily Tomlin received a bit of it too as Mrs. Earbore whenever she wanted something 'tasteful' for the program, the first few times getting drenched and then in season five, a few trap doors.
** Barbara Sharma started becoming this at the end of season four with quite a few drenchings herself, whenever someone else primarily received this while she was slightly mocking them for it.

** Dan Rowan, despite his OnlySaneMan nature, is a frequent corpser whenever Dick is involved. Some other ones who made him crack include Dick, Arte Johnson, Ann Elder and Barbara Sharma unwittingly enough.

** Alan Sues took over afterwards in receiving the drenching, both as himself and in his Uncle Al guise. Season five added a new element to the mix in that for each time he had a sock-it alarm clock go off any sketch, he got a drenching, quickly making him a regular case of this.
** Dennis Allen got this about as regularly as Sues in season four with a LOT of drenchings and trap doors, but primarily as Chaplain Bud Homily and at times, himself. It continues for him in season five by receiving snow, balloon boulders, water and trap doors all in one.

** After Rowan would announce "it's now time to say goodnight, Dick," several shots of cast members and guests stars saying "Goodnight, Dick" would follow, as well as a random joke ("Who's Dick?"). It had stopped after the first season.

* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Johnny Brown played a form of this in season four playing a king that was using some more smarter words for a station break at times.

** Dick Martin was not above cracking up, as the San Clemente dateline bloopers he repeatedly tried to correct had shown. It happens again with Ann Elder and Dan in a wedding sketch in season five.

* {{Corpsing}}: Other than the Joke Wall near most everyone did at one point and it was left in. There are some pretty notable exceptions though:
** Dan Rowan, despite his OnlySaneMan nature, actually started corpsing near the end of season two due to Arte in character as Tyrone, aboard a subway train. He cracked up again on Dick Martin's San Clemente dateline gaffe in a news segment in season four, nearly losing it in season five to Barbara Sharma's joke about peanut butter in a cocktail party.
** Arte Johnson corpsed at times too, with a robot theatre sketch back in season three where it was more pronounced with the food bag within that sketch along with Judy's reactions, too.
** Goldie herself as Sparkle Farkel near the end of season three in the Founding Farkels sketch made Dan, [=Dick=] and Ruth crack up along with herself, cementing her mastery of this. Ruth cracking up in it due to Goldie made Teresa and Jo Anne somewhat corpse, as well.

** Dick Martin was not above cracking up, as the San Clemente dateline bloopers he repeatedly tried to correct had shown.

** Season one had musical interludes, from Strawberry Alarm Clock, Holy Modal Rounders and most notably from Music/TheBeeGees and Music/KennyRogers in the form of the First Edition.