Paul putting up handwritten DEAD PERSON signs with arrows to help the police find Marcy's body so he can leave the loft is a quintessential bit of Black Comedy.
Given Paul's string of bad luck, of course this just happens to be the night that the subway fare increase goes into effect.
Marcy talking about her husband's fetishy obsession with The Wizard of Oz.
A cherry on the top is undoubtedly the Brick Joke in the bar.
Particularly when a random background character (actually Cracked contributor Cody Johnston) points out that Principal Bellding (aka "Buffalo Billding") was the creepiest because he followed Zach across the country and obsessed over him... only for Soren to realize that the same background character had followed them to their new hangout.
Michael's connecting the Gremlins movies to Gizmo literally murdering his species' adulthood is such a downer that Katie is stuck with a frown even as her cake comes out.
Soren in How Breakfast Cereal Mascots Brainwashed You
"Cereal comes in bags?"
"But the authorities are our friends"
The Indiana Jones episode:
Katie: He is dragging us backwards! Don't you see? He is always dragging us backwards! Michael:(looking into the camera) That's my shtick! Dan and Soren glance behind themselves following Michael's eyeline, confused
Katie's constant attempts at Double Entendre with a "if you know what I'm saying." They get weirder and weirder, until:
Katie: ...If you know what I'm saying- Dan: Nobody knows what you're saying! Michael (guiltily/haunted expression): I know...
The start of the discussion has Katie detailing some rather... odd fantasies about Indy (strongly hinted as being fabricated in an effort to fit in), but this is followed up by Soren's and Michael's adolescent fantasies involving Adult!Nalanote He liked her being "all self-possessing and assertive and Human-sized Gadget respectively.
''The Only Eight Types of TV Shows That Get Made'' is one of these by virtue of the constant pop-up ads each time a character suggests a series—and sometimes even when they don't. "Screw the protagonist!"note Cue a pop-up of Soren in a white shirt, standing in front of a giant love heart, smirks at the viewer.
In this one, Katie refers to the four of them as "a bunch of internet comedy dicks and their sexy friend", gesturing to herself with a smug little smile on "sexy friend", and sure enough, a pop-up ad appears depicting the four of them...except that the show is merely called Internet Comedy Dicks.
Michael is obsessed with making a show starring himself, subtitled Vagina Whisperer. He goes through Michael Swaim: Vagina Whisperer, Civil War Vagina Whisperer and Complicated Vagina Whisperer before eventually conceding that you can't show vaginas on prime-time, and it'll have to be Butt Whisperer, although he realises he can "pitch 'Vag-Whisp' to Colgate." Katie eventually proposes making the protagonist female, and sure enough there's a pop-up for Katie Willert: Vagina Whisperer.
The only pop-up ad starring Dan is for a show called He Sweats So Much.
Katie lists off a bunch of supervillians to back up her point that Spider-Man indirectly says that science and progress are evil, and then fully admits that half of her list she made up off the top of her head.
Michael: I thought Sharkanox made a deal with Poseidon.
Dan trying to open his giant lolly in the Disney episode.
In "6 Insane Stereotypes That You Still See in Every Movie" Soren asks when have they last seen a black man ending up with a white woman in a movie, where that wasn't the focus of the movie. While everyone struggles to think of an example, Michael immediately thinks of porn.
Soren's choice is the dimension Homer wound up in at the end of "Homer³"... which is our reality.
Because of Dan coming to the conclusion that "almost every parallel universe is essentially Hell", Soren goes into a crazed rant about how our reality is in actuality Heaven compared to every other parallel universe.
Eventually, Soren passes out on the table, and Dan is the only one who doesn't care, trying to force the conversation to continue by bringing up Narnia, despite the fact that as he's talking, Michael and Katie leave to take Soren home.
Michael likes how simple everything is, citing Coincidental Broadcast before musing about how nice it'd be to say "Hey, gimme a beer, buddy!" to a bartender and just receiving your drink. As he says this, the waitress puts one in front of him, which Soren and Katie notice and Double Take to.
It's worth noting that Michael's reason for wanting the Coincidental Broadcast convention has... questionable motives:
Katie: (snaps; to Michael) You just don't wanna watch the news! You know, no one's making you watch it, you don't have to!
Michael: (defensive) I am sick of having to incite a riot everytime I want to see myself on TV!
Michael's pick of L.A. Confidential actually made a twisted sort of sense.note Dan, being a "white middle-class male from a good neighborhood", would be the exact type of victim that the department would be on a manhunt to avenge
Michael's contingency plan? The cops from Elf. You know? The ones that barely appear in the movie?
Their final pick for the only movie where the police are presented as unambiguously good, rather than plagued with either Cowboy Cops at best and Corrupt Cops at worst? Police Academy.
The episode starts in the middle of a conversation Dan and Michael are having while waiting for Soren and Katie. That conversation?
Katie: He betrayed who to the what-now? Dan: He's dipping into The Silmarillion, he does this sometimes. Soren: I'm sorry.The Lord of the Rings is very important in my family.
Katie utilizes Malicious Misnaming to annoy Soren throughout the episode after learning this.
The lead-up to the Hilarious Outtakes when the group realizes that Soren and his siblings were actually named after Tolkien characters.
From Living Inside a TV Show, when Dan mentions a desire to live in The West Wing, Katie decides to (as politely as possible) explain to him why that would not work.
Katie: Crash time comes, and you fall apart faster than that car at the end of The Blues Brothers.
Michael then backs up the conversation to something that'd been criminally neglected to that point - that Dick Wolf's name is Dick Wolf, and thus his shows are technically "dick pics".
First show on the chopping block: The Cosby Show, which Michael proceeds to ruin by pointing out that when Bill was picking which college to attend, he based it off the one his wife wanted to go to - the problem being that his wife would have been twelve at the time, and that they were also dating when she was 15 and he was 21.
And then, apropos of nothing, Katie just decides to mention that Eddie was portrayed by two different dogs, and both are now dead.
Soren then fires back by citing... Friends. While he struggles to actually formulate the thought due to math being involved (to the point where he's literally shaking), Daniel backs him up with the realization that Phoebe's surrogate pregnancy was likely her own and not her brother's: the time between the procedure and her birth was four months, not nine, making her struggle with giving them up to her brother and sister-in-law muchHarsher in Hindsight. He also made himself sad when realizing this.
In "4 Movie Apocalypses That Would Be More Fun Than Reality", the gang wind up stuck in a desert when Daniel's car breaks down as he is taking a shortcut. Katie is the one most angry.
Daniel: C'mon! We've got ten minutes. Gotta kill time somehow.
Katie: (barely contained annoyance) We wouldn't have to kill time if stupid you weren't so stupid and learned how to take stupid care of your idiot car, you stupid.
Daniel's pick is a "Time Enough at Last" deal, but as Soren points out after Daniel goes into greater detail:
Soren: So, your idea of what to talk about when we're stuck out in the middle of the desert because your car broke down, because of a shortcut you insisted on taking... is how you'd never miss any of us.
However, Daniel immediately recants upon when Soren points out that in that world, there would be no new pop culture.
Due to the fact that they are in the middle of a desert, Michael keeps failing to make obvious jokes due to the heat. Eventually he steals and eats the gang's only candy bar, but that ultimately winds up making him hyper, to the point where he goes all in on his apocalypse of choice being Waterworld.
Soren: (taken aback) Okay, we need to strike some kind of balance, a little bit of sugar keeps him alive, but too much sugar makes him like Waterworld.
Daniel keeps finding opportunities to complain about The Walking Dead, prompting Michael (while still hyper) to snap "If you don't like the show, then just don't watch it, okay, like us."
Daniel: I-I can't, I can't not watch it. I started it.
In "Awkward Conversations That Must Have Happened In Marvel Movies", Cloud Cuckoolander Kimia reveals that she didn't learn about sex in public school but at home, because she grow up on a boat:
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