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Season 1
The Matter Transfer Array
- The opening, when Korvo where is building a drill machine outside while getting unwanted advances from a neighbor.Debbie: Ooh, build that Earth drill, Korvo. Work those blue arms...
Korvo: Stop undressing me with your eyes, Debbie! I just want to work out here in peace! I'm not out here for your sexual titillation!- Korvo's trip to the Earth's core to recover material to repair the ship. It results in Big Ben and the Wall of China getting knocked down, a massive tidal wave, and lava melting through the drill's haul and burning his legs off. He just manages to teleport back to the surface before he fell into the lava. Just so that he could fall to the ground and be licked and nibbled on by a group of dogs and the Pupa. So not a great day for Korvo so far.
- At least Terry's happy.
Terry: (To Korvo, who is writhing on the ground in agony) Oh you guys, there was a shooting at the dog park, but you would never know 'cause these dogs word just so happy, aren't they? (To the dogs) Yeah you like those little stumps? You can lick 'em? - Yumyulack shrinks a school bully, Lydia, takes her home and dumps her into a maze for her to do laps in as an experiment. He forgets to time her because he's busy arguing with Jesse on what to do with her as if she was a animal.Jesse: This is stupid! Are you sure we aren't gonna get like, super-duper-crazy trouble for this?
Yumyulack: Humans test lower species all the time!
Jesse: Let's just to let her go in a field so she can live with the animals!
Yumyulack: And lose this data? D-Do you even want to study humans!?
Jesse: No, I want to eat lunch with friends and see movies with boys!
Lydia: Done!
Yumyulack: I forgot to time you, do it again.
Lydia: Man, this is fucking stupid.- The fact that she's still threatening to beat them up even after they shrink her.
Lydia: Look, make me big right now! I'm going to beat you up really bad, but I promise I won't kill you.
Yumyulack: Just do the maze! You're screwing up my metrics!
The Unstable Gray Hole
- Korvo struggling to carry down a machine from upstairs. Terry, just noticing it and having no idea what it is, suggests selling it on eBay.Korvo: It has an unstable gray hole inside.
Yumyulack: You're an unstable gray hole. (Fist-bumbs Jesse)
Korvo: It's too big to fit in the trash, I'm gonna dump it behind the Burger King.- Right before he can get it out, he gets an oddly specific letter from the Homeowners Association.
Korvo: "Gardeners need to have marked trucks, no RV parking in the driveway, all spaceships sticking out of houses need to be painted on to march the trim!?" Are you hearing this!?
Terry: Ooh, we should totally get an RV!
Korvo: It looks fine the way it is! I don't want it to blend into the house. My whole thing on the spaceship guy!- And during his small rant, he kicks the machine holding the gray hole, which swallows the machine and flies out through the window.
- The part about the RV is the only thing he got out from Korvo's ranting, even while Korvo's chasing the gray hole through the house.
The Quantum Ring
- Korvo set up Tuesday Taco Night, complete with a Mariachi Simulation, or "Mariachi Simulacion" as he puts it. Unfortunately, the rest of the family ghosts on him (or just forgot, in Terry's case) so that they could go out to see a magic party.
- He also set up a banner on the house that says "Let's talk ship repair and eat tacos".
- The running gag of Pupa staring at you in the background, something of which he makes clear of when he crawls up against the camera and stares even harder after the family leaves the house.
- The episode acknowledges right away what kind of plot this is; where one of the characters becomes famous, lets it go to their head and abandons their friends and family. One magic trick for his own family and Korvo already goes through this, 6 minutes in.Korvo: You're all too provincial and lame for me now.
Terry: You're intoxicated with fame off one performance?
Korvo: Yes.
Jesse: But we're not even, like, a little provincial. Where's he gettin' this bullshit?- Then Korvo goes and outright describes it.
Korvo: Now that I'm better than you, I'm going to become the greatest magician of all time, and you will be collectively portrayed as the first wife who didn't believe in me in my biopic. I always stop the movie at that point, so I assume it goes great for the protagonist after he cuts ties with his friends and family.- After his speech he drops a smoke bomb and disappears. you can see Korvo's feet as he walks up stairs unnoticed by anyone else.
- The existence of the Bowinian Church; A religious group within the Wall that has deified Jesse because she gives them food, clothes and medicine.
- Just as he's done explaining it, Tim only just realizes that they're called the Bowinian church because Jesse has a bow.
- Cherie lampshades the fact that there's already an entire religion.
Cherie: How long have you people been in here?
Tim: Time moves differently in the wall. It changes a man.
Cherie: Wait, the aliens can control time?
Tim: No, no. It's more like a metaphor. Just, look; we eat a lot of candy and that makes everything weird. Plus, there's no calendar of clocks. T-Think of it like Vegas. Okay, could you just go with it?
Cherie: Ok, geez. It tracks. - After Korvo fails miserably at his audition, he starts performing tricks and throwing them into a dumpster in shame and frustration while yelling "Ta-Dah!". This is what actually gets his career started, when two teens walking by start recording his not-performance and uploading the footage to Insta-Blam. And Korvo just rolls with his newfound fame.Yo, look! trash magic! [...] I usually only post breast-feeding reaction videos, but this is sick!
- The video's title: "Burn Victim/Voldemort Guy Trash Magic". And the fact that Korvo's title is "The Incredible Burn Victim Trash Man".
- Korvo gets a show with Jimmy Fallon. And he looks totally unenthused when he's introduced. Not because Fallon referred to him as "The Incredible Burn Victim Trash Man", but because he wanted to be on the Jimmy Kimmel Live instead.
- A group of magicians visit the house to convince Korvo to stop his latest magic trick involving a black hole. Because it's too amazing and it would put them out of business. Their "conversation" barely lasts a minute.Korvo: I thought I smelled the stench of lesser magicians.
Magician #2: Listen, listen, listen. You can't do this black hole trick. It's too amazing!
Wilkins Micawber: If you survive, our careers die.
Korvo: I do what I want! Leave me alone! (Throws a smoke bomb on the ground and walks up stairs)- The fact that Korvo still ran upstairs after the smoke bomb. Even more hilarious when he blatantly teleported to greet (i.e, mock) them at first.
- On a side note, the magicians' appearances. Wilkins Micawber, the only named one, is also the only he dresses in garish clothing you would expect from a performer. The only other of the group is only wearing jeans and a T-shirt. The other two are in suits, but seemed to be made to look as look as dumb as possible. Both of them are staring into space, one of them is just smiling and drooling, and the other has a drooping-mouth.
- When negations didn't work, they opt to murder Korvo instead.
"Now I know murder is frowned upon by magic law, but I love weed and prostitutes, so I need that money!"- Jesse overhears this just in time, because she ran outside to try and get their autographs.
Jesse: Now I'll never get their autographs! And they're gonna kill Korvo. Pretty convenient I came out here. (Notices Pupa at her left, still staring at... something) What is your deal today, Pupa?
The Booster Manifold
- Yumyulack's plan for fitting in with the cool kids:Yumyulack: My plan is to just slip into the seat, do nothing, then eventually it'll seem normal that I'm there.
Jesse: It worked for Hulu!
The Lavatic Reactor
- Terry annoying the hell out of Korvo by studying about how to get into a drumline.
- What makes this funny is the face Korvo makes and Terry's happiness.
- A book on molecular biology that when hit by the dumb ray turns into the Holy Bible.
- Pretty much anything dumb Korvo says or does.
The P.A.T.R.I.C.I.A. Device
- The opening. A panicked Terry runs out of a store, carjacks someone, speeding all the way back home (hitting and killing no less than three birds including an ostrich that appeared out of nowhere.) just tell the family this;Terry: Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God! WE DON'T HAVE NOSES! (Everyone gasps)
- This has nothing to do with the actual plot.
- The fact that Korvo and Terry constantly mispronounce “man cave” as “manc ave”.
- About the Henpecked Husband robot Korvo built for P.A.T.R.I.C.I.A. when they bury her container:Korvo: I didn't try to make him look like Ted Cruz, it just happens with these things.
- In a sort of handsight-y way, the fact that Korvo scolds Terry for using his abacadactyls to count like a little kid...except the name suggests it is their main functionnote , making Korvo sound extra petty.
Terry and Korvo Steal A Bear
- Pupa spies on Tim and Cherie in the middle of having sex and starts recording them on his smartphone.
- Jean-Pierre's dying last words to Tim is that he used to jerk off and think about Tim while he did it.Jean-Pierre: There's something else. You remember in the cell when we would turn our backs to jerk off?Tim: Uh, yeah, but is this important? Because you should be clinging to life right now.Jean-Pierre: I would think about you when I did it.Tim: Uh, well yeah, that's nice, but don't sweat it.Jean-Pierre: I plugged you into my fantasy.Tim: Well, you don't need to tell me all the details. Just keep breathing.Jean-Pierre: It was about you and me on a water polo team. We were both captain and we showered together. Your cute little tush.
- The fact that the Terry and Korvo stealing a bear plot line happens entirely in the background throughout the episode.
Retrace-Your-Step-Alizer
- Possibly the darkest bit of comedy on the show so far: Jesse cleaning out the wall of the shrunken people with a fish tank cleaning net... and scooping out Molly, the domesticated mouse whose death in the previous episode was one of the saddest moments of the show, and throwing away her body like trash.
Season 2
The Sacred Non-Repeating Number
- When the other family arrive at the Solar Opposites' house to take the Pupa, the house defenses activate, including a laser catapult, Roman centurion holograms and a laser catapult. Just as both sides are about to clash, the episode just cuts to a post-it note of Mike Mendel asking for an extra million for the episode's budget for the action scene, and then cuts to the aftermath.Terry: Jesus shit, that was the craziest battle I've ever been in. And all in one unbroken take. That must have cost a million dollars!
The Earth Eraser
- Just the premise of the episode alone, Korvo getting dinner parties outlawed and forming a police unit to arrest people for having them.
The Rad Awesome Terrific Ray
- The unexpected gay sex scene between Korvo and Red Chris. They are both heard moaning like an alarm clock to the point where some of the other bachelor party guys think that Red Chris is sleeping through his alarm clock. We then actually see Korvo and Red Chris in the act to where they both have an orgasm.
The Solar Opposites Almost Get an Xbox
- Yumyulack has a ray gun that can cause whatever it hit to be able to read. He uses it on a baby, a famous novelist, a hat, a car and a police officer. Who becomes horrified since now he could possibly learn things that challenge his worldview.
Season 3
The Extremity Triangulator
- The Pupa spends most of the episode piloting a Frankenstein-like robot with a human face attached to the head "cockpit", somehow managing to have a relationship and have a corporate job despite not even being able to speak in full sentences. Nobody sees through the obvious disguise; not even his girlfriend's father, who runs a complete background check on him and still finds nothing.
Edamame Duffle Bag
- The Pupa has been stuffing itself with things it picks off of the ground:Korvo: See if Terry's retainer is in there. His teeth are starting to look like Justin drew them himself.
The Pupa's Big Day
- Korvo has a ray gun that turns things into cigarettes, and thanks to Terry he accidentally shoots the Space Station with it.Astronaut 1: OH FUCK! Huston, the space station turned into cigarettes!
Astronaut 2: Just like the fortune cookie said it would!
Hululand
- "And it's not going to be like that Itchy & Scratchy Land episode of The Simpsons!" "We'll see about that!"
- The Solar Opposites' storyline basically runs on Biting-the-Hand Humor about Hulu:
- Korvo wanting to go see a Bosch stage show. He insist that it's on Hululand, saying he wouldn't even be allowed to mention it if it weren't on Hulu.
- Yumyulack mentions that Korvo bought season passes, meaning they won't have to watch a bunch of ads as they walk through the park.
- The park has a "thrilling but grossly insensitive" ride called The Looming Tower of Terror.
- While it's dark depending on how you view it, but the fact Tim died with a priapism is pretty hilarious.
99 Ships
- The black-and-white montage of the surprisingly many Pupa teams that were killed by T. rexes (and a Stegosaurus), set to Sarah McLachlan's "Angel".
- When Jesse asks if there are other teams that aren't fighting dinosaurs, Aisha points to Team 63... which got devoured by a giant flightless blue-and-yellow macaw. Yumyulack angrily points out that a giant bird is basically a T. rex.
- One of the teams fell apart when the replicants killed the adults and then made out next to their corpses. The Solar Opposites' facial expressions upon hearing this range from shocked to really uncomfortable.Jesse: I got nothing.
Yumyulack: That was fucked!
Season 4
The Mobile AISHA Emitter
- Jesse's homework includes a question about which Jonas Brother went to college.Jesse: It's gotten weird since Spotify bought the school. But without that, I wouldn't have known that Post Malone freed the slaves.
The Pronunciation Cassette Tapes
- In a hilariously twisted sort of way, there's the way Deeno is disposed of: the Solar Opposites lure him into a natural history museum. And what's waiting for him there? A trio of palaeontologists, who close in on him like predatory wild animals while stating that they'd love to study his bones... while they're still "wet".Deeno: Wait, wait, stop! I'm a living dinosaur! Observe me! Learn from my behaviors! W-we can work together!
Black-haired palaeontologist: If we wanted to study living things, we would've been zoologists!
The palaeontologists close in on Deeno, the camera panning up as he panics and screams
