“Entertainment 4 Every 1” (Season 3, Episode 3) An extremely brief bit made instantly classic by the presence of “Choo-Choo” the Herkey-Jerky Dancer, practically a GIF before GIFs even existed. “Talking Junkie” (Season 2, Episode 2) Who says there’s no such thing as a talking junkie?
Sure. That’s why I’m on your penny.”. Let’s find out! 110. “The Story of Everest” (Season 4, Episode 4) The best sketch in Mr. Show’s overall run can be taken as some pretty harsh commentary on the nature of sketch comedy in general — specifically, the ever-present potential to take a decent concept and run it into the ground. “Writer in Audience” (Season 1, Episode 3) There’s some truth in this brief bit — specifically, that giving your friend notes on their writing is something of a nightmare for twenty- (and thirty-) something creatives the world over. Advertisers lay out their bracing new vision for a soulless mega-corporation. Or maybe you, also like me, lived in a house that didn’t spring for HBO until after the show’s run ended. “Asshole At Party” (Season 1, Episode 1) How far would you go to satisfy a friendly bet? 52. 153. 30. 96. Who’s in charge of what’s going on? 83. Unfortunately, the conceit doesn’t make for gut-busting comedy in the end. “Our Secret Love” (Season 3, Episode 6) The concept for this sketch starts simple enough: A couple’s having an affair with other people — wait, make that the same person, behind each other’s backs, simultaneously.
115. What Does It Take To Reopen A Hotel During The Pandemic? Just honest hardworking Americans doing honest American work. Yes, I know I literally just said Run, Ronnie, Run wasn’t a perfect movie, but this part made it all so worth it. You didn’t know marching band music could be so dramatic, intense and filled with ghosts, did you? Ooh la la! Yeah, Mr. Show called that. 29. Not me, and not you, either. A talk-show host would love to discuss today’s topic, if only viewers wouldn’t make it so complicated. Evil geniuses have feelings too! David might break character and say, “Fuck, Bob, HBO spent more on Fraggle Rock than on us,” or Bob would record a giggling voice-over for Mr. Pickle’s Fun-Time Abortion Clinics: “We’ll bring out the kid in ya!”. Which you very well may be. Here’s the problem: All I want to do here is rattle off the fake horse names in this sketch. jokes nodding to cults like Heaven’s Gate, ending with the truism that assholes will make fun of anyone’s beliefs.
Already a subscriber? “The Dewey Awards/Bob Lamonta” (Season 3, Episode 2) The first of this pair of interconnected sketches was a full decade ahead of Tropic Thunder’s satirization of actors portraying developmentally disabled characters as awards-season bait. I would personally watch an entire sketch focusing exclusively on Odenkirk’s proto–Toby Keith country singer C.S. I mean, provided you weren’t already hungry for a sandwich. 12. I’m sure there’s someone out there who gets off on the sound of Bob Odenkirk exclaiming, “The incredible, edible … RUMP ROAST!” Hey, it’s not unimaginable. 154. “Kissing Booth” (Season 1, Episode 3) This sketch where Odenkirk sends away for a mail-order bride to take Cross’s place in a sketch about a kissing booth ultimately isn’t as funny as playing a who-wore-it-better with the blue-and-white (NOT black-and-gold) dress that Cross and Sarah Silverman don. Genius idea, guys. 148. Mr. Show is often at its best when exploring pretzel-logic concepts, and so this proto-Inception sketch is loopy in its brilliance. “Swearing Preacher” (Season 3, Episode 5) He’s a preacher, and he swears — that’s about it for this brief segment. Anyone who’s ever even touched a magical flute (if you get my drift) will relate to the paranoid exclamation, “THEY KNOW!!!”. — is funny, but not as funny as hearing Odenkirk read the phrase “Baby loves headrub” from the TV Guide in the sketch’s opening minutes. “Sarcasmo” (Season 3, Episode 9) A brief sketch that teaches an important lesson about sarcasm: Nobody will get that you’re being sarcastic, especially if you’re attempting to convey it through the written word. The appearance of Jack Black as a kindly farmer and the Devil is just one highlight of this marvelously absurd musical theater parody that pokes holes at Our Town, Damn Yankees, Oklahoma, and much more. The short-lived HBO sketch show from the late ‘90s was destined to be a cult favorite considering the network’s inability to keep it in a regular time slot or really understand how to promote it. “Erotic tangerines,” anyone? The insanity piles higher and higher until you think it can’t possibly get any crazier…and that’s when Odenkirk wanders onstage as a singing milking machine. 24. I cannot tell a lie: This is, without a doubt, one of the most essential Mr. Show sketches. Like a lot of the lists we do here at Paste, this one could have been at least five times as long as it is. 151. As Cross memorably says in this sketch, “Get used to it, Hitler.” Bonus points for featuring a small, Hitler-mustached appearance from Mr. Show writer and future Comedy Bang! “Phone Sex” (Season 4, Episode 3) Demanding phone sex from a friend as part of a bet is one thing — but what if your friend’s really, really good at giving phone sex? Mr. Show was a good show.
Pre-Taped Call-In Show (Ep. “The DeLongpre Dannon Show” (Season 3, Episode 3) This parody of outlandish talk-show guests is, at best, well-worn fodder for sketch shows of all stripes — even if the notion of multiple people suffering mistaken-identity disorders all at once is faintly amusing. And by all accounts, the pair’s new Netflix series W/ Bob & David is going to be a continuation and deepening of their place in the comedy firmament.
8. “Supermodel Hotline” (Season 1, Episode 3) What if the people at the other end of phone-sex hotlines called you back — and never stopped? 44. That’s what makes it both hilarious and impressive. 78. 5. “Marilyn Monster Pizza Parlours” (Season 4, Episode 10) A sketch that will be all too familiar to anyone who’s done time working at a chain restaurant. Three Times One Minus One, “The Greatest Love in History” Yes, I know I literally just said Run, … “Blind Girl” (Season 4, Episode 5) Mr. Show does Neil LaBute, kind of. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are Bob, David and dozens of other loosely-connected characters in this iconic series that blends sketch comedy with absurdist insight. “Gay Son/Grass Valley Greg/GVG Cleans” (Season 2, Episode 4) The just-OK “Gay Son” sketch ends up providing a perfect lead-in for this thinly veiled critique of Steve Jobs tech-entrepreneur types, which was spot-on when it first aired (1996) and even funnier and more biting now. The sketch itself lands somewhere between funny and sad, but doesn’t really possess enough force in either direction to feel truly effective. 100. Eh, I’m thinking too hard about this. 152. Maybe they’ll revisit it for Netflix …. 32. Celebrates His Run While Passing The Torch, In ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,’ The ‘Victims’ Have Become The Performers, The Rundown: Jeremy Strong Is Hollywood’s Prince Of Bold Choices, Documentarian John Wilson On Capturing The Intimacy And Absurdity Of New York Life In His New HBO Series, Iraqi-Canadian MC Narcy Explains The Danger Of Internet Deep Fakes, The Best Ways To Research Down Ballot Candidates And State Measures, Talking With NBA Veteran Al Harrington About Black Representation In Cannabis, Master Brewer Jaega Wise On Getting More Women Into The Beer Industry And Brewing During A Pandemic. Again, a simple situation—in this case, two old friends parting ways and then running into each other again after they’ve said their farewells—escalates and escalates into something strange and sublimely funny. 130.
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