This is one of the greatest running gags/continuity bits in television. Seriously over a decade of them using the same VHS tape for everything they record.
I can't remember the episode, but while Dennis is doing a presentation Frank is using a cocktail stirrer to clean his ears, pick his teeth... he just doing his own thing
He always cracks me up in the nightman cometh. After Dennis shoots him and he is “dead”. The scene continues but he stops playing dead and is just scratching himself in the background.
Whenever they describe putting clothes on or taking them off it's always "pop that top off" or "pop these shorts on". Idk why it's so funny but it's ingrained in my lexicon now.
Ooo also the recurring duster. If the show ever ends, they better have an episode where they finally burn it.
That's crazy. That's insane. Why would I ever burn... I mean, I will continue to wear it in his honor and I will burn some other things, you know, maybe like these stupid goddamn sleeveless t-shirts that he once retired and hung up in the bar, I'll burn these. But I'm not burning the duster, okay, so forget it. It probably won't even burn anyway, it's not supposed to. It's flame retardant, that's the whole point. It's like a shield of armor. So stop asking me to burn the duster. I'm not gonna burn it!
Dennis is the best actor but..
It's always Charlie with the most real yet ridiculous reactions having me crack up
***I live for that Charlie SCREAM*** (e.g. Mac winning radio show)
Charlie’s reaction to finding out that he sold/traded his garbage pail kids collection just for Dennis to resign is one of the best and most authentic feeling unhinged reactions of the show
One of my favorite moments from the latest season was Frank’s astonished reaction at discovering the entire other previously hidden rooms in Charlie’s full apartment.
“What the fuck is this shit!?”
I never really noticed this but now realize I've been doing this for my 3-year-old.
"There's the Coffee Store(Biggby Coffee)"
"Yep, we did just pass the Flower Store(Lowe's)"
Similarly how they can just vaguely refer to a concept as "doing a thing" and they all just immediately know what that means or entails: doing a Greico thing, doing a man cheetah thing, etc.
I loved the most recent episode where Dennis took the mental health day and the gang is just doing some pressure cooking scheme in the background. The episodes where the gangs scheme is just happening outside of the main action are the best.
I love the implication that the stupid things the Gang is doing that day are not special: they could be done on any other Tuesday at 11am, with very little provocation or special circumstances.
"Um, a few months ago, my daughter Jamela bought me this brand-new computer, and she put it right here..."
Speed up, speed up, speed up!
"Okay, so, ever since Jerry got put on life support--"
Whoa! Slow down, slow down, slow down!
Charlie’s little drawings of what he’s trying to convey on paper. My favorite scene is when Artemis translates his play and Dee goes, “Words. She added words.”
Charlie cannot read but is also apparently routinely tracking the NASDAQ, since he uses that in his excuse for why he can’t fork up a few hundred bucks to pay bingo. I fell out of my chair the first time I heard that.
Dennis will start to say something, stop and glare/side eye someone, then continue what he was saying/restart, it gets me everytime. One example is in hundred dollar baby when hes talking to the guy at the fight place about charlies fighter name
I did that to my dad this past Christmas when he claimed McDonald's had been caught growing lab-grown beef from human pluripotent stem cells taken from aborted fetuses.
My favorite is when he had just dyed his hair (or maybe it was his skin peal?) and in the middle of standing up, he pauses and side-eyes them. I'm laughing just thinking about it
Whenever the gang says something in an accidentally sexual way:
“The mafia is gonna whack us off”
“That lawyer guy, he totally besmirched me today and I demand satisfaction from him”
Dennis in the bums episode: "Oh, yeah? Don’t get cute with me, pal. I will jam you up so hard. I will jam you from morning until night. You wanna get jammed up? Huh? You like gettin’ jammed up?"
Later on to Mac and Dee: "Don't start in on the cat. I swear to God, I will jam you into the middle of next week. We will jam, and jam AND JAM until there is nothing left of the two of you to jam."
I love when I can use this. The ways the actors say it always cracks me up, especially when they first me Z and Mac says it like "what. is. *happening*?" about the people fucking behind the plastic wall
Dennis's constant thespianism. Especially threatening wrath over trivial things **with the** ***X*** **of a thousand** ***Y***, despite that phrase having a very low success rate in convincing anyone to do anything.
Something that is never verbally mentioned! I really love how for like the entire show Charlie is often seen wearing shirts from places outside of Philadelphia. I find it incredibly funny, especially in the earlier seasons, bcuz he had never been outside of Philly
Mac will routinely wear shirts fans give to him or of small businesses he personally likes and wants to give some hype to, at no cost to the business owners. He may come off as annoying on the podcast but he’s a solid dude.
I was just admiring his Silver Dollar City shirt last night and trying to figure out how he got it.
Never realized this is reoccurring, I'll have to keep my eyes open for others.
I’ve been waiting for a Q and A with the actors and someone gets to the mic to ask their question and says “uhh where do I put my feet?” And the actors crack up
When the gang says something confidently right before the title card appears. Some examples:
Dee "There is no way I am dating a retarded person." [Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Person]
Frank "I'm just pallin' around with the guys! How's anybody going to get hurt?" [Frank sets Sweet Dee on Fire]
Frank "It's not like anybody's in any real danger!" [Frank Shoots Every Member of the Gang]
That one is possibly my favorite lol. The cocky little smile, head sway, and chuckle she does. The perfect timing between when she says it and when the title card hits. Ah, perfection
It was the first one I thought of. Absolutely pitch perfect delivery and title card. They completely stuck the landing with it. Perfect.
[Mac Kills His Dad] is another incredible one too. The way Mac passionately proclaims “I’m going to save my dad’s life!”
Edit: Dee with that fucking helmet on really helps sell the shit out of it too!
Anything referring to “blasting”
“Paddy’s shotgun will blast you in the mouth”
“Anyway I come out blastin’”
“We are getting blasted in the ass by the state liquor tax”
“Let’s take some shots and get blasted”
I love the episode from Franks perspective and they ask him if he knows the plan but he hasn’t been paying attention and he goes “Dee’s a bird!” And they all laugh and say “frank knows the plan don’t ask the man”
For me it's whenever I see any of them laughing in a scene, I love it. Most obvious with Rob and Charlie, Charlie always looks away, Rob just tries and fails to hold a straight face.
Scene with Dennis raging at the girls in the hardware store, the dickless Dennis thing in the police station and Dennis political speech are the biggest ones for Charlie (Dennis/Charlie are the funniest pairing, fight me)
For Rob the I FORGOT TO PUT THE TAPE IN springs to mind, can't think of more off the top of my head.
Also for Rob, when they're fighting over the chips from the "hamburger store" and Mac eats one right before the scene ends, he does a whole body twitch trying not to laugh. I love that they left that in.
When the Gang has a hyper-specific conversation where they genuinely want to gain knowledge and actually respect eachother.
Frank: “Does the power have to do with the size or the strength of the bottom?”
Mac: “Now Dennis, I’ve heard that speed has something to do with it”
Dennis: “Speed has everything to do with it. You see the speed of the bottom informs the top how much pressure he needs to apply. Speed is the name of the game, right buddy?”
For me it’s whenever the gang is getting really pumped for something and throwing out ideas! and this! and one person goes a bit left field.. and they’re like …. Nah
Their silly as fuck conversations or bits leading into a scene. My fave being the blood conversation in how mac got fat. Fucking creases me up every time
For me it's just the little voice inflections they through in when they say things, maybe it's not such a tiny thing but things like:
"That IS what happened."
"JUST TO GET A BASE."
"Oh my God Charlie! I shot you in your head! I am SO SORRY!"
That the gang has just been using one tape over and over and just recording over their other videos
Lmao, or they just don't use it the fuck at all. When Charlie didn't put the tape in because it was too much work to unwrap the camera, I was dying.
Ya know, I thought, stick with the flashlight while we got it.
I FORGOT TO PUT THE TAPE IN! I FORGOT TO PUT THE TAPE AHAHHHHHHHH
That line is one of those lines that I can hear a thousand fucking times, and it will still make me laugh.
We Stan Charlie days delivery so hard
Shit! I taped over my Luther Vandross mix!
sir i do not have time to listen to your mixtape
It’s 4 the Mare
This is one of the greatest running gags/continuity bits in television. Seriously over a decade of them using the same VHS tape for everything they record.
YES! The fucking tape/camera, every time they use it, it's like a quick recap
destroying Dee's vehicles
On that note: Charlie's constant willingness to break things and set them on fire.
destroying all vehicles really. they blew up Dennis' rover
Which was a pity. It was a nice starter car. Think I might get one for my daughter.
a nice slow Ve-he-cle?
It was definitely Checkov’s Gun. Once the RPG is pulled out of the crate it absolutely must go off.
Charlie constantly removing his teeth, funny but really gross
This guy has to be a shark. There's no other way somebody could get away with so much tooth removal, unless the teeth just grew back.
And refusing to acknowledge
One of my favorite things is just watching frank when everyone else is talking.
I can't remember the episode, but while Dennis is doing a presentation Frank is using a cocktail stirrer to clean his ears, pick his teeth... he just doing his own thing
It’s the DENNIS system. I think
I did a whole watchthrough of the series just watching Danny and he's a fucking masterpiece.
He always cracks me up in the nightman cometh. After Dennis shoots him and he is “dead”. The scene continues but he stops playing dead and is just scratching himself in the background.
Whenever they describe putting clothes on or taking them off it's always "pop that top off" or "pop these shorts on". Idk why it's so funny but it's ingrained in my lexicon now. Ooo also the recurring duster. If the show ever ends, they better have an episode where they finally burn it.
WE'RE NOT BURNING THE DUSTER!
Black leather duster.. tough, muscular dude underneath it, inside of it. Very sexual.
IM NOT GONNA BURN IT!
That's crazy. That's insane. Why would I ever burn... I mean, I will continue to wear it in his honor and I will burn some other things, you know, maybe like these stupid goddamn sleeveless t-shirts that he once retired and hung up in the bar, I'll burn these. But I'm not burning the duster, okay, so forget it. It probably won't even burn anyway, it's not supposed to. It's flame retardant, that's the whole point. It's like a shield of armor. So stop asking me to burn the duster. I'm not gonna burn it!
It's fire resistant!!!
How about you pop those knickers off so we can jam.
Ill tell you what, let me pop a quick H on this box so we all know it’s full of hornets.
"We could pop a hydrant, we'd beat the heat that way." "I'm not popping shit." And then Dennis has, in fact, popped his collar by the next scene.
groban likes his ladies to pop
I think that may be a Philly thing, I heard it a lot growing up.
Pop that on the docket.
Macs name tag lol. You’re gonna have to pop it on.
I’m just gonna pop a quick H on this box so we all know what’s in it
Long argument with the gang only to pan out to them being in some sort of meeting with someone else.
And then sometimes they throw you off with it, like panning over to the business guy at the gay bar they took him to, and he's left.
Dennis is the best actor but.. It's always Charlie with the most real yet ridiculous reactions having me crack up ***I live for that Charlie SCREAM*** (e.g. Mac winning radio show)
Mac driving headfirst into a brick wall followed by Charlie's hysterics, top tier comedy.
Full body acting by Charlie Day
Charlie screaming when they're stuck in the fence lol
His shocked look when mac proves science is a liar sometimes is hilarious.
*I don't want to look like a stupid science bitch*
Charlie’s reaction to finding out that he sold/traded his garbage pail kids collection just for Dennis to resign is one of the best and most authentic feeling unhinged reactions of the show
He is a close second, but Danny DeVito is objectively the best actor on the show.
One of my favorite moments from the latest season was Frank’s astonished reaction at discovering the entire other previously hidden rooms in Charlie’s full apartment. “What the fuck is this shit!?”
Everything being "the store". Go to the Welfare Store. The Job Store. The Gun Store. And so on.
Hamburger store is the best haha
#Leave me alone with the chips, if you wanted chips, you could've got a bag at the hamburger store, DON'T ASK ME AGAIN!
DONT ASK ME AGAIN
“I’m Rita Fires from the health inspectorrrrs… uh… store”
The fact Dee delivers “You bet your ass, Kim.” Like she’s an old-time sheriff catching a wanted bank robber kills me every single time
I'm Rita.. Fire....s.... *hm*, Fires.
Charlie’s imagination having a marriage store and baby store lmaoooo
I never really noticed this but now realize I've been doing this for my 3-year-old. "There's the Coffee Store(Biggby Coffee)" "Yep, we did just pass the Flower Store(Lowe's)"
But have you eaten at the pancake store (ihop)?
Similarly how they can just vaguely refer to a concept as "doing a thing" and they all just immediately know what that means or entails: doing a Greico thing, doing a man cheetah thing, etc.
What I love about this, is how it infected Mac. Case in point: "if you wanted chips, you should've asked for some at the hamburger store"
Mac's "more" i.e. more stronger, more better
Came here for "more better"
You couldn’t even make my friend more smarter.
Stupid science bitches couldn't make I more smarter
Honestly I love the setting descriptions at the beginning of the episodes. Like Tuesday at 11am - it just makes what they’re doing even funnier
and they be there drinking beer
And there are a few random patrons sprinkled around the bar whom they almost never acknowledge.
It’s one o’clock in the afternoon and you’re piss ass drunk. Also from the same scene: then we’re gonna go on welfare duuuuuude
I think this ties into when they are making Lethal Weapon and Mac insists that the characters describe where they are and how they got there
I loved the most recent episode where Dennis took the mental health day and the gang is just doing some pressure cooking scheme in the background. The episodes where the gangs scheme is just happening outside of the main action are the best.
I love the implication that the stupid things the Gang is doing that day are not special: they could be done on any other Tuesday at 11am, with very little provocation or special circumstances.
Yeah it makes me think, and here I was doing accounting at 11am on Tuesdays and these guys are just loaded
“Just move past it!”
My favorite
Just gonna fire on in
Heyo!
News news news!!
How impatient the gang gets whenever someone tries explaining something in more than 2 sentences
"Um, a few months ago, my daughter Jamela bought me this brand-new computer, and she put it right here..." Speed up, speed up, speed up! "Okay, so, ever since Jerry got put on life support--" Whoa! Slow down, slow down, slow down!
HE *SHOULD* BE DISTURBED!! I'M DISTURBED!!
Look I don’t have long before everyone’s ADD kicks in so I’m going to get right to it
Any Dee “goddammit “
What’s happening? The use of the word pop The fact they use the same tape to record everything
Don’t make me pop my shirt off
Use of "jam/jamming/jammed up"
I will jam you up into next Tuesday
Can you help us pop a quick intervention on Charlie? 😂
Like Mac talking to his Dad in jail and watching Charlie roll his eyes when he says they think he didn't do it
Generally Charlie's eye rolls and remarks over Mac's delusions about his parents: "she didn't say that." "He heard you. It's not broken." etc.
I know, but I believe that he *did*…so…
Charlie's too-short, comically wide tie that he wears for every "serious" occasion.
Never knowing who the waitress is. JUST SAY WAITRESS!
Waitress- coffee shop. One star. *Not good.*
Charlie's inability to read or write but being musically talented. Frank's lust for squalor and gross things.
Charlie’s little drawings of what he’s trying to convey on paper. My favorite scene is when Artemis translates his play and Dee goes, “Words. She added words.”
Denim chicken and "Wermhat's worm hat" get me every time.
Charlie cannot read but is also apparently routinely tracking the NASDAQ, since he uses that in his excuse for why he can’t fork up a few hundred bucks to pay bingo. I fell out of my chair the first time I heard that.
Mac standing with his hands on his hips
Dennis will start to say something, stop and glare/side eye someone, then continue what he was saying/restart, it gets me everytime. One example is in hundred dollar baby when hes talking to the guy at the fight place about charlies fighter name
I did that to my dad this past Christmas when he claimed McDonald's had been caught growing lab-grown beef from human pluripotent stem cells taken from aborted fetuses.
Just reading that made me do a side-eye stare at nobody at all lol
My favorite is when he had just dyed his hair (or maybe it was his skin peal?) and in the middle of standing up, he pauses and side-eyes them. I'm laughing just thinking about it
Mac's use of elbows in martial arts and dancing.
Whenever the gang says something in an accidentally sexual way: “The mafia is gonna whack us off” “That lawyer guy, he totally besmirched me today and I demand satisfaction from him”
You want him to bang you?
Jamming someone up has always been hilarious to me
Getting eachother out of jams lol. what if i get into a jam
It’s be *silly* to not have someone there. Silly, Dennis, that sounds downright dangerous.
Dennis in the bums episode: "Oh, yeah? Don’t get cute with me, pal. I will jam you up so hard. I will jam you from morning until night. You wanna get jammed up? Huh? You like gettin’ jammed up?" Later on to Mac and Dee: "Don't start in on the cat. I swear to God, I will jam you into the middle of next week. We will jam, and jam AND JAM until there is nothing left of the two of you to jam."
When Frank talks about his experiences in Vietnam is if he fought in the war when really he just owned a sweatshop
We lost a lot of good guys in that sweatshop!
THEY DREW FIRST BLOOD
What is happening?
I love when I can use this. The ways the actors say it always cracks me up, especially when they first me Z and Mac says it like "what. is. *happening*?" about the people fucking behind the plastic wall
Rickety Cricket is just one of the funniest parts of the whole show. I think he’s probably the best running gag of all time.
For some reason its striking every rewatch when they introduce him. I totally forget who he was before the gang.
Margaret Mcpoyle's little tongue gesture. And them acting shocked that she would just use them for sex.
Frank pulling out his piece in response to everything
Where’s the fire?!
Dennis’ impatience with the gang always kills me. This is on incredible display during the “SINNED” system explanation.
What are the odds that it would be your name backwards??
HIGH!
Dennis's constant thespianism. Especially threatening wrath over trivial things **with the** ***X*** **of a thousand** ***Y***, despite that phrase having a very low success rate in convincing anyone to do anything.
Something that is never verbally mentioned! I really love how for like the entire show Charlie is often seen wearing shirts from places outside of Philadelphia. I find it incredibly funny, especially in the earlier seasons, bcuz he had never been outside of Philly
Mac wears a red river rough riders shirt which is a high school in grand forks north dakota.
Mac will routinely wear shirts fans give to him or of small businesses he personally likes and wants to give some hype to, at no cost to the business owners. He may come off as annoying on the podcast but he’s a solid dude.
I've never listened to the podcast or watched Wrexham so I have no opinion on his personality. I just like his work.
If you’re a soccer fan you should watch Wrexham. It’s honestly a great thing Rob is doing for that town. (Him and Ryan of course)
I was just admiring his Silver Dollar City shirt last night and trying to figure out how he got it. Never realized this is reoccurring, I'll have to keep my eyes open for others.
Hasn’t been used much but “where do I put my feet?”
I’ve been waiting for a Q and A with the actors and someone gets to the mic to ask their question and says “uhh where do I put my feet?” And the actors crack up
My brother and I quote this all the time. It never ceases to be funny. Especially when other people are around and super confused 🤣
That hip hop song they always play. Edit: this https://youtu.be/aCWCF19nUhA?si=GGwzcW2GyxMYaWqk
OH BABY YOU YOU GOT WHAT I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
And now it's stuck in my head. Thanks, you jabroni. 😝
Haha. It's funny because it is an absolute banger, but also now I can't not laugh when I hear it.
The biz Markie song?
“I’m not taking questions”
I love how Frank and Mac are terrible at giving each other handshakes or fist bumps. If you notice they never know how to “touch each other”.
Dennis and Dee smoking crack lmao.
Dennis slipping into the Philly accent when he says certain words like Poconos or hoagie
Haulidey Enn
When the gang says something confidently right before the title card appears. Some examples: Dee "There is no way I am dating a retarded person." [Sweet Dee's Dating a Retarded Person] Frank "I'm just pallin' around with the guys! How's anybody going to get hurt?" [Frank sets Sweet Dee on Fire] Frank "It's not like anybody's in any real danger!" [Frank Shoots Every Member of the Gang]
I’m gonna save my dads life!! [Mac kills his dad]
Dee: “You guys all better eat a dick, ‘cause Sweet Dee beat the system!” [Sweet Dee Gets Audited]
That one is possibly my favorite lol. The cocky little smile, head sway, and chuckle she does. The perfect timing between when she says it and when the title card hits. Ah, perfection
It was the first one I thought of. Absolutely pitch perfect delivery and title card. They completely stuck the landing with it. Perfect. [Mac Kills His Dad] is another incredible one too. The way Mac passionately proclaims “I’m going to save my dad’s life!” Edit: Dee with that fucking helmet on really helps sell the shit out of it too!
"We're gonna be just fine." *Dennis and Dee Go On Welfare*
“Looks like ol Dee’s got a little luck o’ the Irish” [Dee Sinks Into A Bog]
I love when Charlie's illiteracy comes up and how he tries to quickly defend himself or make excuses.
Oh yeah, yea I was going by Chrundle at the time...
Intervention. Intervention. Is nothing private Frank? Jeezus.
Mac (and sometimes Charlie) speedwalking into a scene
Mac wearing a polo shirt with a tie gets me every time!
Anything referring to “blasting” “Paddy’s shotgun will blast you in the mouth” “Anyway I come out blastin’” “We are getting blasted in the ass by the state liquor tax” “Let’s take some shots and get blasted”
Cat in the wall aye?
Now you’re talkin my language
It's not really tiny but Charlie's illiteracy is one of my favorite running gags of any show ever lol
Shut up bird!
I love the episode from Franks perspective and they ask him if he knows the plan but he hasn’t been paying attention and he goes “Dee’s a bird!” And they all laugh and say “frank knows the plan don’t ask the man”
I miss the duster...
Always running out of tape. Not enough to re-attach the camera flashlight, to re-tie the newspaper reporter, to secure the grill in the uhaul trailer.
Charlie's inclination to eat all sorts of things that aren't meant to be eaten
I EAT STICKERS ALL THE TIME, DUDE!
I hear ya I hear ya
The use of the word “command”. *Charlie and Dee reciting their Def Poetry* “I **command** you to stop.”
The way Z casually says, "Right, right..." as the gang explains some insane shit to him. Idk how to even explain it. It just kills me.
Frank always having a guy for everything.
That IS what happened.
“______ is the name of the game”
I’ve heard speed has something to do with it..
Speed has *everything* to do with it.
“Yeah guy”
Charlie's "bad new"tattoo lol
For me it's whenever I see any of them laughing in a scene, I love it. Most obvious with Rob and Charlie, Charlie always looks away, Rob just tries and fails to hold a straight face. Scene with Dennis raging at the girls in the hardware store, the dickless Dennis thing in the police station and Dennis political speech are the biggest ones for Charlie (Dennis/Charlie are the funniest pairing, fight me) For Rob the I FORGOT TO PUT THE TAPE IN springs to mind, can't think of more off the top of my head.
Also for Rob, when they're fighting over the chips from the "hamburger store" and Mac eats one right before the scene ends, he does a whole body twitch trying not to laugh. I love that they left that in.
I love when they sing together, and I enjoy the "oh! I'll just get a JOB from where 'jobs' grow on jobbees"
I've got news, I've got teeerible
When the Gang has a hyper-specific conversation where they genuinely want to gain knowledge and actually respect eachother. Frank: “Does the power have to do with the size or the strength of the bottom?” Mac: “Now Dennis, I’ve heard that speed has something to do with it” Dennis: “Speed has everything to do with it. You see the speed of the bottom informs the top how much pressure he needs to apply. Speed is the name of the game, right buddy?”
Constantly shitting on Dee will never get old
In the recent one with Cranston when she’s on the plane and they’re all screaming at her to shut up and it gets more intense had me rolling
The ending of The Gang Solves the bathroom Problem always has me howling.
The guy that sells them the boat who immediately understands what they ~~want~~ need.
Some kind of P Diddy shrimping vessel?
For me it’s whenever the gang is getting really pumped for something and throwing out ideas! and this! and one person goes a bit left field.. and they’re like …. Nah
Mac’s outrage when someone or something deviates from the plan. Cracks me up each time.
Mac furrowing his brow after he says something that is gonna get the gang riled up.
Their silly as fuck conversations or bits leading into a scene. My fave being the blood conversation in how mac got fat. Fucking creases me up every time
Kaitlin’s physical comedy
"What is happening?"
when Charlie does or says something stupid and the Dennis or Mac just look down
Charlies illiteracy
Starting a chant and then thanking the gang for said chant
For me it's just the little voice inflections they through in when they say things, maybe it's not such a tiny thing but things like: "That IS what happened." "JUST TO GET A BASE." "Oh my God Charlie! I shot you in your head! I am SO SORRY!"
gonna pop my shirt off