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1''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'', being one of the funniest shows of TheNineties, has too many to list. But to name some highlights:
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3* Every Chicken Lady sketch.
4** Dave's face and Mark's smirk in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDYnFy4rCJY Chicken Lady's Blind Date]]'' after Mark delivers the "Straight out of my body and onto your plate" line makes this whole sketch.
5** "Gotta get laid. Gotta get laid. Gotta get laid."
6* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04jd0Jm-_6E The difficult thing about being a mass murderer isn't the 'murdering' part. It's the 'mass' part.]]"
7* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKc3LiLGKcg The Affair]]" is RefugeInAudacity at its finest.
8* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Spg84eNDU Sex Girl Patrol]]" is amazingly stupid.
9* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFZDrOCLX2Y The guy who just can't remember the name of "Citizen Kane."]]
10* The best Kids sketches are the ones that go ''way'' down the rabbit hole very quickly, such as the sketch where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJznDopX7ys one couple is way too comfortable around another couple.]]
11* The "Empty Promises" guy who keeps making increasingly generous promises and stoically never follows through.
12* ''"My pen! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ1pO-tZbYA My pen]]!!!"''
13* The one with the guy who [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq0S5QGX_co sexually harassed himself]] is classic ''Kids In The Hall'' nonsense.
14** And speaking of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlmNgAIgpEA sexual harassment.....]]
15** Hell, speaking of nonsense, how about the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soYhy0zOwZY potato salad lady]]?
16* The "[[https://youtu.be/4myQhdh4LD4 Womyn]]" sketch, in which five poker buddies one-by-one cycle with absolute sincerity through reasons why they want to be more like women, all from a bizarrely quasi-pro-feminist-but-utterly-clueless standpoint:
17-->'''Guy #5''': I'd like to be a dyke.
18-->'''Guy #4''': Who wouldn't? [''snickers'']
19-->'''Guy #5''': Don't be crass! I meant that. [''beat''] I'd like to be buried in the sisterhood of women.
20-->'''Guy #3''': Yeah. Lesbians are so great. They get so much done in a day.
21-->'''Guy #5''': Yeah. Yeah, you know why? Cause they get it done together. There's no competition. With them, it's "Go team!", all the way.
22-->'''Guy #1''': Wow. Womyn together, huh?
23-->'''Guy #4''': Is that "womyn" with a "y"?
24-->'''Guy #1''': [''disgusted''] Aw -- d'you have to ask?
25* "The Nap" sketch, where Dave wakes up from a nap to discover [[RipVanWinkle that he's been asleep]] [[{{Subversion}} for 20 minutes]]. In that time his job has become redundant, his wife has had a baby, and left him for his best friend.
26--> Dave: I've lost my job, I've lost my wife, I've lost TWENTY MINUTES OF MY LIFE!
27* Pretty much the whole [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKkb0qXbyUY "Art Studio" sketch]], making fun of political correctness. But especially this exchange.
28-->'''Black Student''': Where are the nude models of colour?
29-->'''Transgender Student''': The people of girth? The handicapable? The elderly?
30-->'''Gay Student''': The queer?
31-->'''Teacher''': I'm sorry, but naked, black, fat, crippled dykes are hard to find!
32* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJzFDBkFhdM The Shitty Soup sketch.]] It is an absolutely idiotic idea for a sketch, that's peppered with a gratuitous amount of BreakingTheFourthWall. It's the kind of skit only the Kids In The Hall would do.
33* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZlmjZ-rIBU This scene was written in haste.]]
34-->'''Dave''': [''dressed as a teenage girl''] Would anyone like a cop of coffee?
35-->[''Cut to reveal Mark standing next to him, dressed as a Toronto police officer, stoically staring into the middle distance while coffee streams from his sleeves'']
36* The one with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lStcwT_RGrQ the dock worker who cannot stop using the word "ascertain."]]
37* Buddy in "Girls of Summer":
38-->'''Buddy:''' Hang on, Sylvia! Gimme that stick!\
39'''Sylvia:''' But you're a man!\
40'''Buddy:''' ''(to camera)'' Labels.
41**
42--->'''Umpire:''' Strike one!\
43'''Buddy:''' ''(to camera)'' It had attitude.\
44'''Umpire:''' Strike two!\
45'''Buddy:''' ''(to camera)'' I was thinking about something else.
46* The final episode had "Banned" sketches, one of which was a {{Parody}} of CrossesTheLineTwice, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBM8j9Na2ok Hitler [Blanks] A Donkey]]":
47-->'''Kid:''' Daddy, what's that bad man doing to my pet donkey?\
48'''Farmer:''' Well, that's not just a bad man, son. That there's Hitler. And he's ''[[CensoredForComedy bleep]]''ing your pet donkey.\
49''(Cue Bruce [=McCulloch=] dressed as Hitler fucking a donkey.)''\
50'''Farmer:''' Damn shame.
51* Paul Bellini dancing on The Kids' grave in the final episode.
52-->'''Paul:''' Thank ''God'' that's finally ''over''.
53* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgILxqN_jxE Dr. Seuss Bible.]] Pure genius.
54* From the 2022 season, the "Masturbation Policy" sketch, which... quickly escalates.
55* The first "Hotel La Rut" sketch, which makes hilarious use of the "Mr. Wu" technique as described by Creator/OrsonWelles: two women named Sylvie (Mark) and Michelle (Scott) wonder continually about where Michelle's boyfriend Tony is, repeating themselves about him to the point where, when Michelle tries to have sex with another guest (Kevin) he can't get it up because ''he's'' wondering about where Tony is too.
56* Queen Elizabeth II (Scott) [[ItMakesSenseInContext hooking up with Buddy Cole's adopted humanoid beaver son]] (Bruce) in the "Chalet 2000" episode.
57* Buddy Cole on finding love in prison.

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