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  • While Q is a badass who loves bending some of the rules, there were times when he pulled a move that was completely idiotic.
    • In the "What's the Scoop?" challenge, Q dumped his entire bowl of mashed potatoes onto one diner's plate. After that happened, Murr and Joe told him that the object was to dish out the most number of scoops, not to actually empty the bowl. What makes matters worse is that during Sal's and Murr's turns previously, Q seemed to have understood the game's objective. Q's single giant scoop of potatoes gave him the loss and contributed to his losing the whole episode.
    • In the "Sashay Away" challenge, the Jokers' goal was to get someone to dance with them without talking. Q had his win disqualified when they discovered that he begged two girls to dance with him under his breath. The second time they tried this challenge, they changed the rule from "No talking" to "No talking about dancing." Despite repeated warnings, Q still tried to verbally convince someone to do the hokey pokey with him. He was disqualified again and eventually lost the episode.
    • Another Q one comes from "Bigger in Texas." During the final challenge, in which the Jokers must do and say what they're told while wearing the famous blackout sunglasses, Murr is told to tell an elderly couple that they look like they clearly remember the Alamo. Q, sure that Murr wouldn't do it, volunteered to take the loss for the whole episode if Murr said what he was told to. Guess what the next thing out of Murr's mouth was? To make matters worse, had Q not said that, Murr would've been the one to be punished anyway, as he had already lost the previous two challenges while Q had only lost one. At worst, Q would have been in a double punishment with Murr if he lost his turn, so all his bet did was save Murr from being punished.
  • Murr asking if two school children were over 18 right in front of a police officer, though this is justified because children under 18 are not allowed to be on the show without parental consent. Murr had to blow his cover and lose the challenge in order to avoid getting in trouble.
  • Murr came up with a bright idea to have himself get buried in the sand to introduce a challenge. Guess what the other Jokers did after that introduction ended? When it came time for Murr to do said challenge, he couldn't get out of the sand so the others gave him an instant loss.
  • Joe, in "Do Something To My Face," when he bet that Q couldn't get someone to march with him holding a sign that read "Wash It After," after Joe was himself unsuccessful during the task; if Q managed to complete the task, Joe would take the loss for the whole episode. At the time, Murr had the most losses and would've been the episode's big loser. Q accepted the challenge, and got someone to hold the sign and march with him, sending Joe straight to the punishment and sparing Murr.

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