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* DontExplainTheJoke: The short Confucius sketches where he tells a classic dirty joke. He explained the "Wife who puts man in doghouse will soon find him in cathouse" joke in two words when closing.
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* DontExplainTheJoke: DontExplainTheJoke:
** The short Confucius sketches where he tells a classic dirty joke. He explained the "Wife who puts man in doghouse will soon find him in cathouse" joke in two words when closing.
** The short Confucius sketches where he tells a classic dirty joke. He explained the "Wife who puts man in doghouse will soon find him in cathouse" joke in two words when closing.
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* OverlyLongGag: One sketch involved Special Ed interviewing someone by repeatedly asking him: "Do you know any slow or special people?" It went on for nearly ''five minutes'' before the guy finally hung up.
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* OverlyLongGag: OverlyLongGag:
** One sketch involved Special Ed interviewing someone by repeatedly asking him: "Do you know any slow or special people?" It went on for nearly ''five minutes'' before the guy finally hung up.
** One sketch involved Special Ed interviewing someone by repeatedly asking him: "Do you know any slow or special people?" It went on for nearly ''five minutes'' before the guy finally hung up.
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* DirtyOldMan: Niles Standish, a rich British earl, he likes to do things like calling up a woman who does calligraphy and try to have her make up an invitation for "an ass-slapping competition."
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* DrinkingOnDuty: This is the main thrust of the "We Get To Drink" call, adapted from a call originally recorded by the Touch Tone Terrorists. A woman dials up what she thinks is United Parcel Service ([=UPS=]), hoping to find out what's going on with her missing package, not realizing that she was one number off and has instead reached the Yankerville Parcel Service ([=YPS=]), where she's certainly [[TheOperatorsMustBeCrazy not likely to get any actual customer service.]] She is eventually passed off to "Blade," who may have set her package on fire, and finds him to be apparently stoned. However, when she is then transferred to Junkyard Willie...
-->'''Willie''': Yeah, he drunk off his ass. He drunk. That's all. He just drunk. He ain't always like that.
-->'''Customer''': Drunk? That's not supposed to go on at UPS.
-->'''Willie''': Come on. It's Saturday.
-->'''Customer''': What you mean, "come on"?
-->'''Willie''': I said it's Saturday.
-->'''Willie''': Yeah, he drunk off his ass. He drunk. That's all. He just drunk. He ain't always like that.
-->'''Customer''': Drunk? That's not supposed to go on at UPS.
-->'''Willie''': Come on. It's Saturday.
-->'''Customer''': What you mean, "come on"?
-->'''Willie''': I said it's Saturday.
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''Crank Yankers'' is a live-action and puppet show that used to air on Creator/ComedyCentral.
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''Crank Yankers'' is a live-action and puppet show that used to air on Creator/ComedyCentral.
Creator/ComedyCentral and also for a brief time on [=MTV2=].
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* HaveAGayOldTime: After each basket scored on Niles Standish's basketball team, the Las Vegas Showman, they have to cheer, "Hurrah, hurrah, what fine chaps we are. What a gay occasion."
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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Karl Malone calls about a collector's gallery asking about Beanie Babies, which they don't have and don't want. He then inquires about Barbie dolls, which they have, but he won't go into specifics about what he supposedly wants, instead beginning a rambling story about some Barbies that his little sister once had. After a while of this, he asks again if they have Beanie Babies and when is again told no asks "What about the Beanie Barbies?" at which point the owner hangs up.
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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Karl Malone calls about a collector's gallery asking about Beanie Babies, which they don't have and don't want. He then inquires about Barbie dolls, which they have, but he won't go into specifics about what he supposedly wants, instead beginning a rambling story about some Barbies that his little sister once had. After a while of this, he asks again if they have Beanie Babies and when is again told no asks "What about the Beanie Barbies?" at which point the owner hangs up.
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* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Karl Malone calls about a collector's gallery asking about Beanie Babies, which they don't have and don't want. He then inquires about Barbie dolls, which they have, but he won't go into specifics about what he supposedly wants, instead beginning a rambling story about some Barbies that his little sister once had. After a while of this, he asks again if they have Beanie Babies and when is again told no asks "What about the Beanie Barbies?" at which point the owner hangs up.
-->'''Karl''': Don't hang up on [[ThirdPersonPerson Karl Malone]]!
-->'''Karl''': Don't hang up on [[ThirdPersonPerson Karl Malone]]!
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-->--'''Creator/JonStewart''' [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter to Tucker Carlson]], ''[[Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart The Daily Show]]''
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-->--'''Creator/JonStewart''' [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter to Tucker Carlson]], ''[[Series/TheDailyShowWithJonStewart The ''Series/{{The Daily Show]]''
Show|WithJonStewart}}''
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The premise: transcripts of real crank calls are re-enacted, cutting between the rooms of each end of the call (usually with lots and lots of BackgroundGags going on). The victims and pranksters are played by Muppet-esque puppets. It's an ensemble cast.
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The premise: transcripts of real crank calls are re-enacted, cutting between the rooms of each end of the call (usually with lots and lots of BackgroundGags going on). The victims and pranksters are played by Muppet-esque puppets. It's an ensemble cast.
puppets.
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How To Create A Works Page explicitly says "No bolding is used for work titles."
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* TitleThemeTuneTitleThemeTune: Two different ones, actually. The first one, "Come one, come all, 'cause we're having a ball / We're just making some calls to strangers..." is by far the most well known. The second, "This the new edition, Mr. Telephone Man..." was only used on the brief revival seen on [=MTV2=].
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'''''Crank Yankers''''' is a live-action and puppet show that used to air on ComedyCentral.
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'''''Crank Yankers''''' is a live-action and puppet show that used to air on ComedyCentral.
Creator/ComedyCentral.
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* VerbalTic: For Niles Standish, "Let me just ask you" or "Let me ask you this" and "Yes, yes?"
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* {{Gasshole}}: Bobby Fletcher.
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* {{Gasshole}}: Bobby Fletcher.Fletcher of the belching variety.
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* ThisIsaWorkOfFiction: Mercilessly inverted and parodied with the disclaimer seen at the beginning of the show,, which gleefully informs viewers that "The calls you are about to hear are real. The names have not been changed. Screw the innocent."
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* ThisIsaWorkOfFiction: ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: Mercilessly inverted and parodied with the disclaimer seen at the beginning of the show,, which gleefully informs viewers that "The calls you are about to hear are real. The names have not been changed. Screw the innocent."
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* ThisIsaWorkOfFiction: Mercilessly inverted and parodied with the disclaimer seen at the beginning of the show,, which gleefully informs viewers that "The calls you are about to hear are real. The names have not been changed. Screw the innocent."
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->''"You're on {{CNN}}! The show that leads into me is puppets making prank phone calls! What is ''wrong'' with you?"''
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->''"You're on {{CNN}}! Creator/{{CNN}}! The show that leads into me is puppets making prank phone calls! What is ''wrong'' with you?"''
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** Another time, Special Ed had AOL Mail open during a call, and every time he got an e-mail, he would say "I've got mail! YAAAAAAYYY!". At one point, he did this ''eighteen times in a row''.
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** Many of Special Ed's calls are like this, but in that particular one, they failed to get any sort of reaction out of the person being called. YMMV on whether that makes it funnier or just painful to watch.
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** Many of Special Ed's calls are like this, but in that particular one, they failed to get any sort of reaction out of the person being called. YMMV on whether that makes it funnier or just painful to watch.
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* OverlyLongGag: One sketch involved Special Ed interviewing a caller by repeatedly asking him: "Do you know any slow or special people?" It went on for nearly ''five minutes'' before the caller finally hung up.
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* OverlyLongGag: One sketch involved Special Ed interviewing a caller someone by repeatedly asking him: "Do you know any slow or special people?" It went on for nearly ''five minutes'' before the caller guy finally hung up.
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* OverlyLongGag: One sketch involved Special Ed interviewing a caller by repeatedly asking him: "Do you know any slow or special people?" It went on for nearly ''five minutes'' before the caller finally hung up.
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** He normally closes with "Get it?" which [[YourMileageMayVary can easily kill]] the other jokes he tells.
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** He normally closes with "Get it?" which [[YourMileageMayVary can easily kill]] kill the other jokes he tells.
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->''"You're on {{CNN}}! The show that leads into me is puppets making prank phone calls! What is ''wrong'' with you?"''
-->-'''[[TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] ([[LetsSeeYouDoBetter to Tucker Carlson]])'''
'''''CrankYankers''''' is a live-action and puppet show that used to air on ComedyCentral.
The premise: transcripts of real crank calls are re-enacted, cutting between the rooms of each end of the call (usually with lots and lots of BackgroundGags going on). The victims and pranksters are played by Muppet-esque puppets. It's an ensemble cast.
In the U.S., it is illegal to record and broadcast prank calls without both parties' consent... except for Nevada, which only requires one (i.e., the callers). So, nearly all the calls are made in Nevada. However, this made taping and broadcasting episodes fairly uneven due to many of the celebrities being based in California.
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!!Tropes:
* BearTrapBed: Featured in one segment.
* CandidCameraPrank: A variant, as the show consists of re-enactments, but it's the same idea.
* DontExplainTheJoke: The short Confucius sketches where he tells a classic dirty joke. He explained the "Wife who puts man in doghouse will soon find him in cathouse" joke in two words when closing.
** He normally closes with "Get it?" which [[YourMileageMayVary can easily kill]] the other jokes he tells.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first season featured a different 'Cammie' who was blind, has [[EightiesHair curly blonde hair]], and was accompanied by a seeing-eye dog.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Sometimes the gags going on in the background are actually funnier than the contents of the calls themselves.
* HypocriticalHumor: Elmer (old man character) called a cable provider and complained about a show featuring "sick, puppet things".
* ICantHearYou: Elmer tries to make an appointment to get hearing aids. Over the phone. You can see how this could go wrong, can't you?
* PottyFailure: One sketch involves the mentally handicapped character "Special Ed" tearfully phoning a health club to apologize for peeing in the pool. The manager acknowledges his apology, and kindly reassures him that it's okay... which prompts Ed to happily shout, "I peed in your pool! YAAAAAAYYY!" repeatedly.
* SoundEffectsBleep: For certain names and establishments, but phone numbers are interestingly bleeped out with their respective [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTMF DTMF]] counterparts.
* SuperOCD: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly-named OCD Ken]], who requests bizarre things from his callers such as pushing certain buttons on the phone.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Karl Malone. "Don't hang up on Karl Malone!"
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->''"You're on {{CNN}}! The show that leads into me is puppets making prank phone calls! What is ''wrong'' with you?"''
-->-'''[[TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] ([[LetsSeeYouDoBetter to Tucker Carlson]])'''
'''''CrankYankers''''' is a live-action and puppet show that used to air on ComedyCentral.
The premise: transcripts of real crank calls are re-enacted, cutting between the rooms of each end of the call (usually with lots and lots of BackgroundGags going on). The victims and pranksters are played by Muppet-esque puppets. It's an ensemble cast.
In the U.S., it is illegal to record and broadcast prank calls without both parties' consent... except for Nevada, which only requires one (i.e., the callers). So, nearly all the calls are made in Nevada. However, this made taping and broadcasting episodes fairly uneven due to many of the celebrities being based in California.
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!!Tropes:
* BearTrapBed: Featured in one segment.
* CandidCameraPrank: A variant, as the show consists of re-enactments, but it's the same idea.
* DontExplainTheJoke: The short Confucius sketches where he tells a classic dirty joke. He explained the "Wife who puts man in doghouse will soon find him in cathouse" joke in two words when closing.
** He normally closes with "Get it?" which [[YourMileageMayVary can easily kill]] the other jokes he tells.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first season featured a different 'Cammie' who was blind, has [[EightiesHair curly blonde hair]], and was accompanied by a seeing-eye dog.
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Sometimes the gags going on in the background are actually funnier than the contents of the calls themselves.
* HypocriticalHumor: Elmer (old man character) called a cable provider and complained about a show featuring "sick, puppet things".
* ICantHearYou: Elmer tries to make an appointment to get hearing aids. Over the phone. You can see how this could go wrong, can't you?
* PottyFailure: One sketch involves the mentally handicapped character "Special Ed" tearfully phoning a health club to apologize for peeing in the pool. The manager acknowledges his apology, and kindly reassures him that it's okay... which prompts Ed to happily shout, "I peed in your pool! YAAAAAAYYY!" repeatedly.
* SoundEffectsBleep: For certain names and establishments, but phone numbers are interestingly bleeped out with their respective [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTMF DTMF]] counterparts.
* SuperOCD: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly-named OCD Ken]], who requests bizarre things from his callers such as pushing certain buttons on the phone.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Karl Malone. "Don't hang up on Karl Malone!"
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