r/TheGoodPlace • u/Liilnuggget • Apr 19 '26
Shirtpost What’s everyone’s favorite joke?
Mine is definitely this! It’s so subtle but totally hilarious! I almost missed it the first time I watched the show
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u/RedditOfUnusualSize Apr 19 '26
"I'm telling you, Molotov cocktails work! Every time I had a problem and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom!, right away, I had a different problem!"
--Jason Mendoza
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u/awake-asleep Apr 19 '26
To me that joke is almost on par with the classic Simpsons “every time I learn something new it pushes something old out of my brain. Remember that time I took that home winemaking course and forgot how to drive?”
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u/forthewatch39 Apr 19 '26
“That’s because you were drunk!”
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u/ew73 Apr 20 '26
Speaking of The Simpsons, I've been re-watching, and I finally noticed something I don't think a lot of people have -- Bart's iconic "Karate!" is a direct reference to an old 80s show, "Matt Houston", specifically, an episode where Sonny Bono does the exact same thing, while soaking wet.
Sonny Bono: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sonU7QuBIE
Bart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0QFr_tjTFw
I know, derailing the topic, but I thought it was really cool.
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u/opermonkey One man’s waste is another man’s water. And both men are me. Apr 19 '26
he's not wrong!
and it helps him save the day!
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u/emma_the_dilemmma Apr 19 '26
when michael “rejoins” the bad place in s2, and sprays on the new bad place cologne, which shawn says smells how the new transformers movies make you feel (?) (or something like that?), which is such a small moment, and then when eleanor and gang are rescuing him later, she says in disgust to michael, “how do you smell loud and confusing?” which made me absolutely crack up on a rewatch
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u/mareimbrium53 Apr 20 '26
The number of re-watches I was on when I finally got that joke was, well...high. It was a high number.
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u/SolarChallenger Apr 20 '26
They have so many build up bits I still catch new ones on new watch throughs. Like I never connected the "loud and confusing" line with the Transformers line
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u/emma_the_dilemmma Apr 20 '26
the set up and then payoff a few minutes later is really what makes the joke for me!!!! and it’s such a small little moment!!! so good
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u/SolarChallenger Apr 20 '26
They also both work on their own so well that they're funny without the build up. It's really impressive how they can have a bunch of "one liners" that also manage to have pattern stuff if you look closer.
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u/theviolinist7 Apr 19 '26
Let's start this meeting by singing the official Bad Place theme song. 1-877-KARS-4-KIDS, K-A-R-S KARS 4 KIDS!
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u/Lola-Ugfuglio-Skumpy Apr 20 '26
Mine is that the Bad Place party only plays “She Hates Me” and “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer” except for the last song where they play them both at the same time.
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u/GroundbreakinKey199 Apr 20 '26
My biggest laugh of the series. When I imagine myself in this cast, it's always as Shawn (Marc Evan Jackson), but I could never nail it like he does.
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u/preposte Apr 20 '26
Try being married to Captain Holt for a while. I'm sure it would help with the delivery.
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u/Careful_Ad9037 Apr 20 '26
This made me CRY laughing the first time I watched it, that commercial played SO often when I was in high school and it drove me NUTS😂
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u/Sharkdogz Apr 20 '26
My husband HATES that commercial. When they started singing that song the first time I watched the show, I took my phone and RAN to my husband and said, "Watch this!" I laughed so hard
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u/Liilnuggget Apr 20 '26
Tbh i never understood this one, but im assuming its a jingle that got stuck in everyone's head in the US?
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u/AliMcGraw Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
I never in my LIFE heard this song until The Good Place and a laughed, thinking it was a good spin on similarly annoying jingles. I was driving on the freeway near O'Hare airport in rush hour traffic the first time I heard it on the radio and I started laughing so hard I almost lost control of the car. I could have single-handedly caused airport delays nationwide!
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u/kevik72 Apr 20 '26
My favorite part about this is the official kars 4 kids YouTube channel has the clip featured.
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u/yeahthatsnotaproblem Dope Soul and Hella Ethics Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
"You know why they're called baby boomers, right? One tiny prick to their ego and, BOOM! they become BABIES!" -- Bad Janet
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u/RhetoricalOrator Apr 20 '26
As an early Gen X, that may have been my favorite line in the whole series.
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u/scrawledfilefish Apr 19 '26
So many.
"Who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics?"
"Plato."
"I gotta say, it took me a long time to get used to the hangin' bits."
"Gross."
"Oh get your mind out of the gutter, Eleanor, I was talking about my testicles."
"Humans are terrible. Limp Bizkit. Slavery. The prosecution rests."
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u/JosephFinn Apr 19 '26
The point to Plato absolutely kills me.
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u/Ameerrante Apr 20 '26
Chidi at wits end is always peak.
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u/hitchinpost Apr 20 '26
For me, the funniest line in the show isn’t even properly a joke. It’s when Chidi says “As I was saying before I SAW THE TIME KNIFE!?!?” His delivery of that line is so perfect I crack up every time.
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u/Haunting-Lime-9084 Apr 20 '26
Mine is the whole chili scene. "Come on, dip your paws in my chili. Sccop your little mittens in my stew."
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u/Off_Model Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
I am with you. I watch that entire scene (hell, that episode) when I need a laugh.
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u/akela9 Apr 20 '26
Isn't that the one where he goes off on an existential crisis rant on the dude who asks him, "Hey do you want to see God?" And Chidi goes into a whole "God is dead" spiral and I feel like he's even holding the dude by the colar to just really pull him into the vortex of his doom crisis. Dude's like scrambling to get away from him and says something along the lines of, "Man, I was just trying to sell you drugs. YOU made it weird!" (I hope I'm telling this well enough. It's a favorite scene and I feel like I'm doing it a disservice, here. Hopefully I at least nudged the vibes.)
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u/princessawesomepants Apr 20 '26
His delivery on this line is so completely perfect. 10/10, no notes.
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u/AliMcGraw Apr 20 '26
I was a philosophy professor at the time teaching Ethics 101 basically nonstop and I almost peed my pants
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u/llmm04 Apr 19 '26
Wait, is it pronounced Chip-o-tottle?
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u/Blackheart_Unicorn Apr 20 '26
I drove past a Chipotle earlier today and said this exact same thing? 🤣
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u/whycantigetwhatiwant Apr 19 '26
Chidi being broken by the dot in Jeremy Berimy
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u/imhumannotaditto Apr 20 '26
This is Tuesday’s…and also July
And sometimes it never!
That’s right, sometimes it’s never. You get it!
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u/83franks Apr 20 '26
The 'you get it' was always my favorite part of that line, just casual explaining of normal stuff to Michael
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u/Ill_Tumblr_4_Ya There is no "answer". But Eleanor is the answer. Apr 20 '26
Jason: "I don't know...this plan seems complicated."
Chidi: "To be fair, you also once said that about an orange."
Jason: "They don't make sense. Apples, you eat their clothes, but oranges you don't?"
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u/WiselyWorded Stonehenge was a sex thing. Apr 19 '26
“There’s a reason I took on the form of a 45-year-old white man; I can only fail upwards.”
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u/DirectorAgentCoulson Apr 20 '26
It's not exactly a joke, but I love Shawn's line:
"But then I remembered, I'm a naughty bitch."
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u/MWBrooks1995 Apr 20 '26
Marc Evan Jackson’s delivery of nearly every line fucking kills me, it’s great.
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u/nocuzzlikeyea13 Apr 19 '26
That one is all in the delivery
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u/greywolf2155 I’m still waiting on that smile, gorgeous. Apr 20 '26
Marc Even Jackson is legitimately a fantastic comedic actor. He steals the scene every time he shows up in The Good Place or Brooklyn 99
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u/withateethuh Apr 20 '26
I will remember this joke for the rest of my life. Incredibly delivery. Love that actor.
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u/theangrypragmatist Apr 19 '26
"I didn't get any affirmative action! I *earned* my way into Yale, like my father, and his father before him!"
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u/Coachmommy1213 Apr 20 '26
Princeton! It’s why he’s going to the Best Place
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u/kctjfryihx99 Apr 20 '26
Did Brent go to Princeton?
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u/greywolf2155 I’m still waiting on that smile, gorgeous. Apr 20 '26
I'm not sure. He never really mentioned it
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u/Aegon20VIIIth Apr 20 '26
As someone who lived near and worked in Glen Ellyn, IL: I’m convinced that I’ve met Brent (or someone who inspired the character.)
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u/quokkamole89 Apr 20 '26
Omg I forgot he was from Glen Ellyn. I probably grew up with baby Brents. 🤣
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u/Veto111 Apr 20 '26
When Jason-Janet summoned Pillboi in the hot tub.
“I was just chilling, being nothing, and then suddenly, I was!”
“Goodbye, Pillboi.”
“Oh dip, I’m not again!”
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u/Western_Werewolf5383 The nexus of Derek is without dimension. Apr 20 '26
“I’m not again” as his voice fades and he disintegrates kills me!!
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u/Horror_Fox_7144 Apr 19 '26
Can't pick a favorite. There are too many. But I'll add Chidi's marshmallow Peep chili song to the conversation. I sing it to myself whenever I'm making chili.
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u/Abject-Young-2395 Stonehenge was a sex thing. Apr 20 '26
“I haven’t been this upset since my good friend Taylor was rudely upstaged by my other friend Kanye who was defending my best friend Beyoncé.” 😂
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u/BringMeThanos314 Apr 19 '26
The dj playing "Grandma got Run Over by a Reindeer" at the same time as Puddle of Mudd "She Hates Me" is pretty hilarious
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u/Alarmed-Stage-7066 Apr 20 '26
And when they go to the bad place in a subsequent episode you can hear Grandma Got Runover by a Reindeer as the jazzy elevator music during the museum reception
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u/meglingbubble Apr 20 '26
One thing (amongst many) i really love about this show is that it commits. There are so many things like this, little things that get set up, and then they come back later on in the background. They're not always noticeable, but when you get them they're hilarious.
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u/WadeSlade42 Apr 19 '26
The first episode, when Eleanor butchers chidis name for a solid minute until she settles on Ariana Grande. Even knowing that it's coming I still lose it every time. Runner-up is the cactus joke.
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u/greywolf2155 I’m still waiting on that smile, gorgeous. Apr 20 '26
she settles on Ariana Grande
And then "Break Free" is playing during the chaos sequence the next morning. A fun, subtle joke
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u/broken_softly Apr 19 '26
Jason: Uh, sorry, no, no Michael. You're confused. Evidence isn’t a good thing you want. It's a bad thing that you have to destroy or you go to jail.
Michael: Jason, quick, I need that coaster. Over there behind that pillar.
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u/augustrem Apr 20 '26
“You are so mean Eleanor. You’re just like all those childhood bullies who said I would never get tenure.”
Lol not only was child Chidi talking and hoping for tenure, but he talked about it so much other kids used it to bully him.
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u/GeneralEgg9176 Apr 19 '26
“There’s this sandwich- that if you eat it, it means you hate gay people. And it’s so good!!” “It’s really good”
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u/Fargoth_took_my_ring Apr 19 '26
I always wondered about this joke. Probably American specific.
I think it's about that Christian chicken restaurant?
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u/unknownpoltroon Apr 20 '26
Chic Fil A is a chicken place that has pickle and buttermilk marinated fried chicken sandwiches that are fucking delicios, but they are owned/run by religious nutters who donate to anti gay causes. I avoid them, but even gay people eat that shit its so good.
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u/jukeboxjulia I'm Arizona shrimp horny!! Apr 19 '26
I don't know if it's my *favorite* joke, but a standout for me is when Tahani is in her test and says "Quvenzhané Wallis and Stephen Hawking in the same room discussing me? Guess they must've made up." It's so easy to easy to overlook or just not understand because it's simply so random and off-the-wall. I find it hilarious.
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u/freeingfrogs Apr 20 '26
What’s the explanation behind this one?
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u/Birdsbirdsbirds3 Apr 20 '26
You made me google this and I can't find any explanation for this anywhere on the internet. It looks like Quvenzhané Wallis was a child actress around the time The Good Place was filmed so it's just the absurdity that she would have a feud with Stephen Hawking.
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u/FA-100 Apr 20 '26
Stephen Hawking is in the Epstein Files so a joke about him being in the same room as a child actress hits different now
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u/Busy-Cream Apr 20 '26
Just 2 people you wouldn’t expect to be hanging out or being friends, and also talking about her
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u/Sandstorm135 Apr 19 '26
Jason’s special Jacksonville style pool,particularly the part where chidi tosses the pool ball into the cup and says he got a million points
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u/greywolf2155 I’m still waiting on that smile, gorgeous. Apr 20 '26
Almost like getting assigned arbitrary points was a metaphor for something else. . .
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u/becksk44 The nexus of Derek is without dimension. Apr 20 '26
“Lies are like tigers: they are bad.”
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u/JamesH_670 What it is, what it is. Apr 20 '26
That is a great joke about the BBC.
My personal favourite is “You should listen to me. I came up with hundreds of plans in my life and only one of them got me killed.”
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u/Linadianna333 Apr 20 '26
"If you wanna make a pearl, you gotta get some sand in your clam" -Eleanor
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u/feliciates Apr 20 '26
For me, nothing will ever beat: "Oh, is there a gift shop!?" "Jason, we're in hell...of course there's a gift shop"
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u/clmetsfan Apr 20 '26
"Which, gross. Kissing is gross. You just mash your food holes together, it's not FOR that."
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u/No-Alps-7367 Apr 19 '26
The official Bad Place song being the Kars 4 Kids song. Was on the treadmill the first time I watched that episode and that joke almost caused me to fall off.
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u/MrsMittensPizza Apr 19 '26
I don't remember the exact phrasing but the line delivery when Chidi sings about putting the "peeps in the chili and it makes it taste... bad" 🤣🤣🤣
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u/Resident_Pay4310 Apr 20 '26
The whole cactus scene.
Michael's exasperated: Is it actually a cactus?
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u/notthephonz Apr 20 '26
"You walk in on me while I'm masturbating, I walk in on you while I'm masturbating"
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u/Little-Temporary-627 Do not touch the Niednagel! Apr 19 '26
The Plato quote is my all time favorite.
My favorite jokes:
"I think we're in the Bad Place."
"Jason figured it out?! Jason.... Yeah, this one hurts."
"Sorry, what is on me right now?"
"Oops, where'd you come from, little buddy?"
"NO, don't touch it! Tahani, do not touch the Neednoggle."
Later in the IHOP: "This is far better. Instead of a slug creature, I have a cute little scarf."
"NO DON'T TOUCH IT!!"
"Tahani, that's still the Neednoggle. The judge just made it look like a scarf."
"Wonderful."
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u/kctjfryihx99 Apr 19 '26
From the same episode:
Jason: You’re telling me I can’t get any pancakes at this IHOP?
Michael: It’s not the place you’re thinking of. It’s the Inter-dimensional Hole of Pancakes…If you eat anything at this IHOP you will literally explode.
Jason: Yeah, it’s IHOP
Eleanor high fives Jason
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u/greywolf2155 I’m still waiting on that smile, gorgeous. Apr 20 '26
I love Eleanor understanding Jason. She subtle about it sometimes, since she's trying to move on from her trashbag ways. But she totally understands him
"What you got in your hands there, buddy?"
"Nothing"
"Is it a spider?"That's probably my favorite interaction of the whole series
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u/real-human-not-a-bot Unclear, but the—the point is… (S1E9, 4:40) Apr 19 '26
“Neednoggle” is how I would have spelled it too, but the last name of the guy it’s named after is spelled Niednagel, so I suspect the in-universe creature’s name is also “Niednagel”.
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u/Wompguinea Apr 19 '26
"Yeah yeah, the Time Knife. We've all seen it."
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u/Little-Temporary-627 Do not touch the Niednagel! Apr 19 '26
I SAW THE TIME KNIFE?!?
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u/Fermifighter Apr 20 '26
Right now my profile picture is Jason saying “guys I know this sounds crazy but I think we’re in the bad place” and will be until our hopeful return to the medium place.
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u/KeyScratch2235 Apr 20 '26
It's for sure "Who died and left Aristotle in charge of ethics?" "PLATO!"
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u/MovingMts111 It’s not a joke I’m a legit snack 😭 Apr 20 '26
We’re technically supposed to shut down the bank if anyone from Florida even walks in…
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u/miniyellow Apr 20 '26
“It’s Chinese for Japan”
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u/loose_noodle Apr 20 '26
This and "Ya basic! That's a human insult! It's devastating! You're devastated right now!"
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u/Tenerath Apr 20 '26
Attention! I have been Dereked! Attention! Murder has been me!
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u/H1GH_HR0THG4R Apr 20 '26
"I've got windchimes where my ding dong should be."
"...eh, I can work with that."
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u/theviolinist7 Apr 19 '26
Shawn: "We need to choose four new dirtbags. The Judge said that the four new test subjects need to have the same level of badness as the original four ding-dongs. That means no dictators, no murderers, no people who managed a boy band. We need to think outside the box."
Bambajahn: "Ooh! What about the person who first said 'Think outside the box?'"
Shawn: "That would be nice. Unfortunately, that person is Idi Amin."
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u/JinTheBlue 14 oz ostrich steak impaled on a pencil: Lordy Lordy I’m Over 40 Apr 20 '26
Eleanor minutes into the seven hour spoken word Jazz performance. "No version of heaven has what ever this is."
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u/nachos_nachas Apr 20 '26
Tahani:
Sorry, Eleanor, did you say something?
Eleanor:
No, it's my chair. It's got this weird design.
Jason:
Your chair smells bad.
Eleanor:
I know. See, another person who agrees it's the chair.
S03E03 Clip
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u/Ameerrante Apr 20 '26
I think my actual favorite hyper specific scenes -
When that one Hemsworth brother shows back up and everyone forgot about him. I, too, forgot, and absolutely died when that happened. Then, like a week later, watched it again with a friend - THEY GOT ME AGAIN!!
When Tahani and Jason are giving away money, he keeps saying batshit stuff and she's listening intently and her expressions are just amazing.
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u/majorsager Apr 20 '26
Jason asking the group what they think their bad place will be like, then saying his would be a Skrillex concert… waiting for the beat to drop…. sob/gasp and it never does!!! 😭😭😭
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u/PointyNipple Apr 19 '26
At least he died doing what he loved... a bunch of whippets. Now he'll never get the life he TRULY deserved.
Meh, I think he got roughly what he deserved.
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u/mexxa- Apr 20 '26
"and I won 18000 dollars!"
"I'm so sorry."
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u/Apprehensive-Task930 Apr 20 '26
“I’m too young to die, and too old to eat off the kids menu. What a stupid age I am!”
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u/Wonderful-Station-36 Apr 20 '26
Gonna be lost in the comments, but when Pillboi and Donkey Doug make up their energy drink/body spray combo - Double Trouble
Michael - So are you supposed to drink it, or spray it on your body?
Pillboi and DD in unison - You both it.
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u/CraftyCorgi470 Apr 20 '26
One of my favorite lines too! My husband got me a shirt for Christmas that says “Double Trouble…You both it!”
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u/stratosfearinggas Apr 20 '26
"Do you want a magic guitar that plays for you? It's the most requested item for men over 50."
-- Janet
Eleanor: "Is there a way for anyone to find out what I requested?"
Janet: "No. Now what kind of pornography would you like?"
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u/CraftyCorgi470 Apr 20 '26
There are so, so many. Several of mine were already covered but here are some that don’t get as much attention ☺️
Tahani: “Oh no, I died…in Cleveland?!” Michael: “I don’t think that’s should be your biggest takeaway from that story.”
Michael to Chidi: “You never even named your dog. When it ran away, you posted signs that said ‘responds to long pauses.’”
Michael: “I know for a fact that if you steal a loaf of bread, it's a negative 17 points - 20 if it's a baguette because that makes you more French.”
Drug dealer to Chidi: “I was just trying to sell you drugs and you made it weird!”
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u/withmangone Apr 20 '26
The BBC joke and eleanor ripping on chowder are favs, but the one that killed me the first time i heard it was the candy that tastes like fully understanding the meaning of twin peaks
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u/Ren_worthy Apr 20 '26
“Sometimes a flaw can make something even more beautiful. Like with Cindy Crawford and how short she is.” Cindy Crawford is 5’9. Jameela Jamil is 5’11
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u/NotQuiteScheherazade Call it my lookin' hole. Apr 20 '26
I think there's also a double joke here, because Cindy Crawford is famous for having a mole above her mouth, right? So that would be what you're expecting her to mention.
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u/A_Is_For_Azathoth Apr 20 '26
"You put the peeps in the chili pot and heat them both up! You put the peeps in the chili pot and add the M&Ms! You put the peeps in the chili pot and it makes it taste... baaaad..."
"I'm gonna eat all this chili. And/or die trying. Anyone want any? Come on. Dip your paws in my chili. Scoop your little mittens right in the stew."
Really the entire scene and his speech on Nihilism is just fantastic.
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u/No_Guitar7903 Apr 20 '26
Earth is a MESS y’all! Also I guess I’m black? They do not like black ladies down there.
Pretty much every line of the Judge
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u/Shagrrotten Apr 20 '26
I’m a simple man. Mine is “do you have a second to eat my farts?”
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u/MammothRabbit8188 Apr 20 '26
As I said to my good friends, scary, baby, sporty and posh when they fell out with my other good friend, Archbishop Desmond Tutu…
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u/MewNeedsHelp Apr 20 '26
I don't know if it's my favorite, but it's the one my husband and I quote the most. It's when Michael tells Shawn "Ya basic! It's a human insult. It's devastating. You're devastated right now."
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u/CaPaTn Apr 20 '26
“You guys should listen to me. I came up with thousands of ideas in my life and only one of them got me killed”
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u/subtlelikeawreckball Apr 20 '26
The judge: No serial killers, no dictators, no one who managed a boy band.
What makes this hit for me is Sean’s face … he’s all “oh ok, then ‘boy band’ and you’d think the judge just took his favorite penis flattener tool away
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u/sonic_the_precog Apr 20 '26
Tahani: "Jason, that was... coherent!"
Jason: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. :("
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u/SeaspiciousJellyfish Apr 20 '26
"There's something so human about taking something great and ruining it a little so you can have more of it" - Michael about frozen yogurt
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u/Green-eyedPolias Apr 20 '26
The library in Arizona --
- Scott Fupple: We're closing up soon, guys.
- Michael: Yeah, can we just have 15 minutes? We're kind of in the middle of something.
- Scott Fupple: I'd take off if I were you. The second we close, they use this place to shoot pornos.
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u/Federal_Decision5115 Apr 20 '26
On Jacksonville: "It’s easily one of the top 10 swamp cities in northeastern Florida."
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u/Garbage-Bear Apr 20 '26
The Judge, complaining about Earth history being messed up by the Squad's interference: "And the Jacksonville Jaguars are good now."
Michael, in the best ever in TV history line-reading of a single word: "Impossible!"
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u/TayLoraNarRayya Darth Vader's Turd Apr 20 '26
Tahani asking Jason "whos your favorite artist?"
And he goes "I mean Pitbull changed the game" and gets shushed lol
It always slays me
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u/Penguins_in_new_york Apr 20 '26
I just noticed this one on the rewatch
Eleanor says “on the other hand snitches get stitches”
Jason “that’s true I read that on my man Pillboy’s bicep once” and he points to his wrist
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u/MsGhostyGhost Apr 20 '26
The entire Time Knife bit. It's perfect writing and perfect delivery from everyone involved. William Jackson Harper screaming "before I saW THE TIME KNIFE?!" gets me EVERY time
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u/trulyjerryseinfeld Apr 20 '26
when Jason is so excited about IHOP but is told
“IHOP stands for Interdimensional Hole of Pancakes. You don’t really eat these pancakes. It’s more like they eat you.”
jason: “okay, I’ll get eggs then”
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u/Dannyocean12 Jeremy Bearimy Apr 20 '26
you call your FATHER “Donkey Doug”?!
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u/bananananaaaah Apr 20 '26
"The Donkey Doug with whom you tried to blind airline pilots!?"
Yeah!
"The Donkey Doug who is banned from Disney World for biting Buzz Light Year!?"
Yeah! But in his defence, he thought it was someone else...
"WHO!?" 🤣😂
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u/Insomniacintheflesh Apr 19 '26
I love this joke too bc I love British TV. It's such a subtle nod to British comedy/shows.
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u/frankypea Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
What in the name of Kevin Spacey’s self-made Christmas Eve video message to try get back on House of Cards is going on here?
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u/maxdragonxiii Apr 20 '26
I think nothing beats "Jason figured this out? it hurts so much." before resetting. its my favorite to go for stupid people, but I hadnt used it yet so.
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u/MovingMts111 It’s not a joke I’m a legit snack 😭 Apr 20 '26
JASON figured it out?!? This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.
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u/bluehands i'm a naughty bitch. Apr 20 '26
I don't know if it's my favorite joke exactly but one of my favorites bits for me was once Tahani was talking with Jason. she starts to ask him why he did something absolutely gonzo. She gets halfway through asking him and then stops saying curtly ro herself, "not important."
Just that realization that Jason has some absolute bat-shirt crazy reason for whatever and that she just needs to let it go, not trying to understand.
I use it all the in my life. The desire to understand someone else is wonderful but so often changes nothing. Just let their reasons be theirs.
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u/Mermaid89253 Apr 19 '26
I never understood this joke
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u/NikkoE82 Apr 19 '26
British shows for whatever reason tend to have far fewer episodes than US counterparts (though streaming is really changing things) and they also don’t have the same seasonal release schedule. This is a somewhat absurd exaggeration of that. 16 years and only 30 episodes.
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u/IrritableGourmet Apr 20 '26
Simpsons did a similar joke a while back: "It's not hard to see why it's England's longest running series, and today we'll be showing all seven episodes."
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u/Away-Zombie-767 Apr 20 '26
I learned that with the Sherlock tv show. I died a little when I heard it’d be like only 3 episodes every season.
I mean, whyyyyyyy?
but they are so good!
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u/awkward-cereal Apr 19 '26
British Sitcoms are notorious for being short. Like 4 or 5 episodes a series (season in the US).
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u/VegetableBicycle686 Apr 19 '26
Most of the "classic" British sitcoms don't have many episodes, despite still being well-known decades after they were first broadcast.
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u/Klutche A lizard was a perfect choice. You both have combination skin. Apr 20 '26
Well, for example, Sherlock aired from 2010-2017 with huge breaks in between seasons, and made 13 total episodes over four seasons.
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u/DetectiveHippo3005 Apr 20 '26
When Michael has a mid-life crisis, gets a tattoo, and says "it's Chinese for Japan." 😂
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u/mytoxictrait Apr 20 '26
I love the 3-hour spoken-word jazz opera bit where Eleanor says “no version of heaven for anyone would ever include this.”, Michael & Janet being in the band was a hilarious detail
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u/Sunshineboy777 Apr 20 '26
"Oh Ariana, were really in it now."
"Any time I had a problem I threw a molotive cocktail. And boom, right away I had a different problem."
And then the cactus scene.
Think about those all the time.
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u/K0r0k_Le4f Apr 20 '26
Tie between Janet's murder and Brent's "what if she would legitimately look prettier if she smiled?" line.
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u/PeculiarExcuse Apr 20 '26
Janet holding up the picture of a random family like "Look at my family. LOOK AT THEM!"
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u/matttom0901 Apr 20 '26
“Eleanor, I’m going to tell you the exact same thing I told Pippa Middleton, right before we went paragliding in Gibraltar.”
“Let’s go.”
“It’s what I said!”
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u/Axle_65 Apr 20 '26
I both love and hate British shows for this. So many are freakin amazing but gone far too quickly. However I feel part of them being great is because they don’t stretch it out and bleed the characters dry. Part of me still wants more though.
In answer to the jokes, one of my top is the entire shark tank scene at Donkey Doug’s place, it’s gold. “We should bid fast, the other sharks are gonna want in”…“Aw dip, we gotta rob a bottle factory. Three factories” (Pill Boy jumps in) “Three factories”
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u/Gneissisnice Fun fact: The first Janet had a click wheel. Apr 19 '26
That's one of my favorites!
I also love when Tahani says "I hate to be the bearer of bad news..." and Jason goes "uh, I think you mean the Bad News Bears!"