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  • Frequent examples of Mr. and Mrs. Weir Comically Missing the Point. From "Tricks and Treats:"
    Mr Weir: Who did this to you?
    Sam: (pointedly looking at Lindsay, who egged him) Just some freaks.
    Mrs. Weir: Freaks? You mean like circus freaks?
    Mr. Weir: Jean, I don't think there's bearded ladies running around throwing eggs at kids. He means hippies.
  • From "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers", we have Nick's hilariously awful love song for Lindsay, 'Lady L', followed by Ken doing him a favour.
  • Bill's "sexy dance"
  • Daniel's Punk hair.
  • Lindsey stoned. She says God isn't logical and then gets paranoid that she just exists in the dream of the dog of the people whose children she is babysitting.
    • In a moment that's both funny and a little heartwarming, Millie assuages her fears by rubbing the dog's tummy until it wakes up, thus proving they still exist.
  • Bill's Halloween costume.
    • Furthermore, Bill doing a mini-roleplay session as Jaime Sommers from The Bionic Woman in front of the mirror, including such gems as, "I'm sorry, Steve Austin, I can't marry you. I'm mad at you right now", and "Oscar Goldman, it's me, Jaime Sommers. Steve Austin is trapped in the — in the reacting — Hi, Mom. Okay. You can use the phone."
  • Lindsay's first party. Sam, Bill and Neil swap the keg with a non-alcoholic one. Everyone acts wasted anyway.
    Sam: Ken, it's okay, it's not real beer.
    Ken: I know. I've won 87 bucks at quarters.
  • Lindsay's "Sam, you have a beautiful body" speech.
  • Nick's skimpy briefs, seen when he stays with the Weirs.
  • Lindsay bursting into laughter in "Tests and Breasts" after hearing Daniel tell the adults in the room a big sob story about how he was told he was dumb as a child. She's laughing because she fell for the same sob story earlier. The adults have no idea what's going on and think she's high.
  • "Screw you, I'm hilarious."
  • Sam getting trapped naked in the school hallway.
  • Neal playing Spin the Bottle. It lands on Bill every time, even after Neil makes him change places with someone else.
  • In "The Diary", Bill, frustrated at always being the last picked for baseball and at how Coach Fredricks handles the situation, Prank Calls him with a rambling series of insults. Coach Fredricks writes out the whole speech and calls students individually to read it out loud to him so he can recognize the culprit by voice: Neal decides to read it while impersonating William Shatner.
  • This conversation from the beginning of "The Garage Door" for being spot-on teenage boy gags:
    Neal: I woke up this morning and guess what I found on the edge of my bed?
    Bill: A turd?
    Bill: Ew, gross.
  • The Freaks during their band practice sessions in "I Am The Band."
  • The Secret Service Agent (played by Ben Stiller) transforming from a stiff, formal Jerkass that takes his job very seriously into an insecure 'student' suddenly whinging about his job and asking Mr. Rosso for some basic careers advice (and filling out an aptitude test) in back to back scenes.

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