"in a BBC poll to find Britain's Best Sitcom. It had been placed 13th in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and voted for by industry professionals. The series has influenced British popular culture, with the series' catchphrases and characters being well known. The ""Radio Times"" magazine listed Captain Mainwaring's ""You stupid boy!"" among the 25 greatest put-downs on TV. A second feature film of ""Dad's Army"" with a largely different cast was released in 2016. Originally intended to be called ""The Fighting Tigers"", ""Dad's Army"" was based"
"a ""school night."" Theo responds that he should accept his son's weaknesses and love him unconditionally because they are father and son—a typical sentimental idiom in family sitcoms of that time, and one which generated the typical applause from the studio audience. Cliff, however, to the audience's surprise and amused approval, immediately and angrily calls this sentiment ""the dumbest thing I've ever heard in my life"". He completely rejects the notion that loving his son means he must quietly and willingly accept it when the boy does not give his best effort in school, and famously threatened him with the"
"almost never does. Fred often insults his son, usually calling him ""dummy."" Lamont returns the favor, referring to Fred as an ""old fool."" Despite their disagreements, the two share a close bond and regularly come to each other's aid. An episode in the second season featured a plot in which Fred and Lamont had a heated argument over the business; Lamont quit and went to work for one of his father's business competitors. Meanwhile, Fred filled Lamont's position with a slacker who squandered Fred's money on a worthless item. When Lamont quits his new job and Fred fires the slacker,"
"the show. """"Who says I'm dumb?"":"" Agarn contributes something to a scheme, and a character (usually Sergeant O'Rourke) says to Agarn, ""I don't know why people say you're dumb,"" Agarn seems pleased that he has contributed, but later on, and following a scene change, Agarn belatedly gets angry and says, ""Who says I'm dumb?"" The series is a broad, lighthearted military farce which usually played fast and loose with historical events and persons. However, though the series was meant to be comical rather than historically accurate, writers Austin and Irma Kalish, interviewed for the 2007 DVD release of the series,"
"appear in ""Absent Friends"". The humour ranges from the subtle (especially the class-reversed relationship between grammar school-educated Mainwaring, the local bank manager, and public school-educated Wilson, his deputy at the bank) to the slapstick (the antics of the elderly Jones being a prime example). Jones had several , including ""Don't panic!"" (while panicking himself), ""They don't like it up 'em"", ""Permission to speak, sir?"" and talk about the ""Fuzzy-Wuzzies"". Mainwaring says ""You stupid boy"" to Pike in many episodes. The early series occasionally include darker humour, reflecting that, especially early in the war, the Home Guard was woefully under-equipped but"
"as ""Ta-da!"", ""Huh?"", or, more commonly, panting ""Yeah, yeah, yeah!"" He has said more intelligible sentences, such as ""No horsey?"" in the episode ""Dessert in the Desert"", and in the first episode he even says ""Right!"" while agreeing with Jon. When he talks on the show, he speaks by actually moving his mouth, although other dogs have also been shown to do so. A running gag throughout the strip is Odie's idiocy. Garfield frequently calls him a moron, to the point where Odie was completely shocked one day when Garfield didn't insult him. He is mostly viewed as an idiot,"
"writing for the ""Radio Times"", branded the Ellisson family ""Holby’s tiny band of violently industrious fascists"" and called Mickey ""gormless"" and a ""dope"", quipping he is ""too dumb to draw breath"". She also grew bored of the storyline featuring Ethan Hardy's (George Rainsford) revenge on Scott, commenting, ""There are only so many shots of Ethan looking wan and tragic that any human being can stand."" The critic later labelled Scott ""the omnipresent Holby fascist"" and noted that whenever a member of the family are admitted into the ED, the remaining members of the family ""hover like moths at a barbecue""."
"Andy Sipes Andy Sipes (sometimes credited as Andrew) is a writer, Actor, and Art Director. His voice can be heard on the G4 animated series ""Code Monkeys"" as the insane Texan Mr. Larrity, as well as Mr. Larrity's idiot son, Dean. He also played a number of different characters on Adult Swim's ""Minoriteam"", including Larry Bird. Andy can be seen playing Stromulus Guandor, Birdbat Leader (voiced by Carlos Alazraqui), on the Adult Swim series ""Saul of the Mole Men"". He regularly makes appearances on NBC's ""Last Call with Carson Daly"", usually playing a crude slob or one of Carson Daly's"
"voice that borders on deep-funereal, Dad is still somehow a warm guy, despite his overall stiffness. His full name was revealed in the episode ""Fault Line"" by Milo's mom. Owen-Only: (voiced by Scott Beaudin) Owen-Only is an over-protected only child. He's been padded, helmeted and parentally locked out of most of the thrills of being a kid. And pop-culturally, he's way behind. This character has never tasted junk food, or felt the wind in his hair while riding his scooter, or told a joke where the punch line was ""poo."" So you have to forgive him for not getting stuff,"
"be pre-recorded. In episode 2 of the 2015 series, actor Nicholas Hoult was heard saying ""oh fuck it"" after Chris Evans asked him to play the trombone. Evans immediately apologised afterwards. The show gained more notoriety when as part of a competition, two children were forced to go head to head in a stare-out contest to win their parents a car. After the competition was won, the boy who had lost then started to cry, which led the tabloid press to attack the show. The next edition showed the boy with the consolation prize of an assortment of toys, an"
"does special sessions. They have been given full names also: Padraig Judas O'Leprosy and Rodraig Spartacus O'Leprosy. Each episode follows the same pattern: Rodge, the dumber of the two, arrives home. Originally the pair would get into bed but in recent seasons they sit at the kitchen table. They talk about what Rodge was doing, with Podge usually insulting him. This leads Podge on to telling a story (acted out by live actors) about some people (whose names are usually sexual innuendos, e.g. Enda Meshank, Chris Peacock, Ulick McGee) who inevitably come to an unpleasant end. Rodge interrupts the story"
"kid"", was a troublemaker who never really liked listening to his parents and who disobeyed his mother frequently often to his own dismay. Skelton's famous catchphrase ""I dood it!"" was first heard on this program. It was used as the official catchphrase of ""widdle"" Junior. Anytime Junior was about to do something his parents would disapprove, he would think a moment and say ""If I dood it, I gets a whipping."" Then he would break something or cause trouble and exclaim the phrase ""I dood it!"" The phrase became so popular and so synonymous with Skelton that it was the"
"full of mischief, who typically did things he was told not to do. ""Junior"" would say things like, ""If I dood it, I gets a whipping."", followed moments later by the statement, ""I dood it!"" Skelton performed the character at home with Edna, giving him the nickname ""Junior"" long before it was heard by a radio audience. While the phrase was Skelton's, the idea of using the character on the radio show was Edna's. Skelton starred in a 1943 movie of the same name, but did not play ""Junior"" in the film. The phrase was such a part of national"
"misadventures of a dachshund father-and-son team. Doggie Daddy (voiced by Doug Young, based on a Jimmy Durante impersonation) tried to do the best he could at raising his rambunctious son Augie (voiced by Daws Butler). Augie, who loved his father, would often refer to him as ""dear old Dad."" Their mutual admiration included Daddy gently chiding, ""Augie, my son, my son"", when he would disappoint his father; and when his son would say or do something that inspired pride, Daddy would turn to the audience and say with a grin, ""Dat's my boy who said dat!"" The segments and characters"
"with Gorcey and Hall re-enacting gags borrowed from the Stooges. (Huntz Hall cited Shemp Howard, who had appeared in three Little Tough Guys films, as a major influence during this latter phase in the series.) Leo's character ""Slip"" was famed for his malaprops (always delivered in a Brooklyn accent), such as ""a clever seduction"" for ""a clever deduction,"" ""I depreciate it!"" (""I appreciate it!""), and ""I regurgitate"" (""I reiterate""). In the 1940s, Abbott and Costello appeared in a quartet of ""service comedies"", one for each branch of the military. The Bowery Boys duplicated this feat a decade later with ""Bowery"
"Mr. Wise Guy Mr. Wise Guy is a 1942 American film starring The East Side Kids and directed by William Nigh. In New York, the East Side youth gang, consisting of Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey), Danny Collins (Bobby Jordan), Glimpy Stone (Huntz Hall), Scruno (Ernest Morrison), Skinny (Bill Lawrence), and Peewee (David Gorcey), are falsely arrested on the wharf because the truck they are playing in was stolen. They are remanded to Wilton Reform School, where Muggs, the wise-cracking leader of the gang, is dubbed ""Mr. Wise Guy"" by the brutal guard Jed Miller (Dick Ryan). Jim Barnes (Jack Mulhall),"
"muddy ditch with only a metal detector and bagging bear poo while investigating a bear attack, brushing off McGee's protests with ""because I can"". In ""Singled Out"", a frustrated McGee futilely tells Tony to stop calling him ""probie""; Gibbs later tells McGee that his former mentor Mike Franks still calls him ""probie"" even though he retired nearly a decade ago. McGee's most notable nicknames come from DiNozzo, either ""Probie"", due to his junior (probational) status on the team, or ""McGeek"", alluding to McGee's intelligence. DiNozzo uses multiple variations on both of these names to make fun of McGee, some of"
"responsible."" Mr Lucas snarkily replied, ""All the other times the American air force was responsible."" At various times, often while drunk, Mrs Slocombe tried to flirt with various male staff members. Though she often sparred with Mr Lucas, she was heard to remark that he had ""very smooth hands"" when he accidentally tries to straighten her stockings instead of a display dummy's, and she was very pleasant towards him in the early episodes (although he was young enough to be her son). Mrs Slocombe often cast an eye towards Captain Peacock, usually calling him ""Stephen"" in a conspiratorial tone and"
"He is well known for referring to his father as ""Daddy."" Fred would tell Clarence he was too old or too big (usually referring to his ""lumpiness"") to call him ""Daddy."" A running gag on the show was to have Fred, who always referred to his son as Clarence, call him ""Lumpy"" when angry. Fred would also call Lumpy a ""big boob"" or a ""big oaf."" Lumpy's mother Gwendolyn (""Geraldine"", in some early episodes) and his younger sister, Violet (who is about Beaver's age), round out the family. Violet gives Beaver a black eye in an early episode. Lumpy also"
"as a comedian as part of a G.I. variety show called ""Stars and Gripes"". His ventriloquist act included a dummy named Danny ""Hooch"" Matador. In a ""TV Guide"" magazine interview in the 1970s, he said that he had grown tired of playing straight man for a hunk of wood when he was in the Army. According to Knotts, he tossed the dummy overboard off a ship in the South Pacific. He swore that he could hear the dummy calling for help as the ship sailed on, leaving him bobbing helplessly in the waves. Knotts served in the U.S. Army from"
"outlandish pronunciation and grammatical errors, the nasally-voiced Preston Manning (Ferguson) who loved to shout ""REFOOOOOOORM!"", a screaming, bitchy Sheila Copps (Goy), the tyrannical Lucien Bouchard, the dopey and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day, the strutting, clucking, pompous Joe Clark, and the power-hungry Paul Martin (all Ferguson). Many of the real politicians also made guest appearances on the show, often interacting directly with their parodic counterparts. However, Colonel ""Teresa"" Stacy (Ferguson) quickly emerged as the show's most popular character — each time he appeared, Stacy would load up the Chicken Cannon and fire rubber chickens and other assorted projectiles at whomever he"
"is that they are so anxious to avoid hurting each other's feelings that they rarely tell each other what they really think. They have a son, Arthur Jr., whom they sent off to military school on Mama Carlson's advice; this proved to be a mistake when it turns ""Little Arthur"" into a nasty, racist, borderline fascist. In the first season, Mr. Carlson takes his son out of military school, to live with his parents and go to public school, but later references suggest that Little Arthur gets worse, not better; in one episode, it is revealed that Little Arthur wants"
"a member of the gang. Mr. Wise Guy Mr. Wise Guy is a 1942 American film starring The East Side Kids and directed by William Nigh. In New York, the East Side youth gang, consisting of Muggs McGinnis (Leo Gorcey), Danny Collins (Bobby Jordan), Glimpy Stone (Huntz Hall), Scruno (Ernest Morrison), Skinny (Bill Lawrence), and Peewee (David Gorcey), are falsely arrested on the wharf because the truck they are playing in was stolen. They are remanded to Wilton Reform School, where Muggs, the wise-cracking leader of the gang, is dubbed ""Mr. Wise Guy"" by the brutal guard Jed Miller (Dick"
"ostensibly the producer of the show as the head of ""Melman Productions"", although this facet of the character was quickly dropped. The character's teenage son, Troy ""Chipper"" Melman (who rarely spoke, and usually just coughed uncontrollably) was seen occasionally alongside his father in various ads. Outside the pre-taped ads, Melman would sometimes be given odd chores to perform by Letterman, such as handing out hot towels to arrivals at the Port Authority Bus Terminal. At other times, Melman would give (pre-scripted) answers to unlikely audience questions, or appear at unexpected moments to heckle Letterman or the audience. Melman also appeared"
"not hurt a fly, unless it landed on his hot dog."" Chris is also willing to take drastic measures to get what he wants or needs, especially when it comes to getting good grades. He, at one point, believed that he got a bad grade on a mathematics test when he tickled his brain by sticking an army man's rifle into his nose and accidentally puncturing a lobe. Stewart Gilligan ""Stewie"" Griffin, voiced by Seth MacFarlane. Stewie is the youngest Griffin family member at one year old. Stewie originally served as the main villain of the show. Though he was"
"gang of four boys, and is usually the loudest one in proclaiming his hatred of girls. His arch-rival is Lottie, who is not only a girl, but a girl who is more talented than he is and on rare occasions, he and the other boys hatched plans to get rid of her. Despite his aggressive attitude, he's actually very cowardly, and has also been shown to be quite insecure. His voice is provided by Keith Wickham. Trevor Clever Trevor is Oddsburg's token Nerd, and the second-in-command in Pipsquawk's gang. With big cokebottle glasses, and sporting a lisp, Trevor is the"
"known for using an expletive in a nationally televised interview with NBC's Jim Gray after Pittsburgh defeated the Indianapolis Colts in the 1995 AFC Championship. Lloyd's son Greg Lloyd Jr. was a linebacker for the University of Connecticut football team, and he wears #95 like his father, but the two do not have any contact with each other. The younger Lloyd was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the seventh round of the 2012 NFL Draft. In 2001, Lloyd was accused of sticking a gun in his son's mouth due to the 12-year old's bad grades in school, but two"
"The Stupids The Stupids are a fictional family which appear in a series of children's books written by Harry Allard and James Marshall. The Stupids draw their humor from the fact that they are incompetent to the point of confusing the most simple concepts and tasks. ""The Stupids"" series of books rank number 62 on the American Library Association's list of 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of the entire 2000's decade. Challengers of the books claim that they describe families in a derogatory manner and may encourage children to be disobedient. They also claim that they promote low self-esteem and"
"spoofed both women, especially in their later appearances on television variety shows in the 1970s. Lola's oft-repeated catch-phrase was ""I wanna bear your children!"", usually followed by a loud stage-laugh. In ""The Simpsons"" episode ""The Trouble with Trillions"" (Season 9, Episode 20), the character Moe Szyslak says that if granted one wish it would be a night with Joey Heatherton before regretting the choice when another character suggests an ironed shirt. In another episode of ""The Simpsons"" entitled ""Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"", Bart sees a picture of Principal Skinner taken during his Military service in Vietnam. The picture is"
"benefits Spike, who promises not to interfere ever again; causing Jerry to frantically leave the house and run into the distance (in Hic-cup Pup). Spike is well known for his famous """"Listen pussycat!"""" catchphrase when he threatens Tom, his other famous catchphrase is """"That's my boy!"""" normally said when he supports or congratulates his son. Tyke is described as a cute, sweet looking, happy and a lovable puppy. He is Spike's son, but unlike Spike, Tyke does not speak and only communicates (mostly towards his father) by barking, yapping, wagging his tail, whimpering and growling. Tyke's father Spike would always"
"Kremenko, a writer for the ""New York Journal"", began to refer to Mays as the 'Say Hey Kid' after he overheard Mays say, ""'Say who,' 'Say what,' 'Say where,' 'Say hey'"". Another story is that Jimmy Cannon created the nickname because Mays did not know everybody's names when he arrived in the minors. ""You see a guy, you say, 'Hey, man. Say hey, man,'"" Mays said. ""Ted [Williams] was the 'Splinter'. Joe [DiMaggio] was 'Joltin' Joe'. Stan [Musial] was 'The Man'. I guess I hit a few home runs, and they said 'There goes the 'Say Hey Kid."""" Years before"
"show ""Spicks and Specks"", and American sitcom ""How I Met Your Mother"". Dad joke ""Dad joke"" is a pejorative term used to describe a corny or predictable joke, typically a pun. Generally inoffensive, dad jokes are traditionally told by fathers among family, either with sincere humorous intent, or to intentionally provoke a negative reaction to its ""dagginess"". One of the most common ""dad jokes"" goes as follows: A child will say to the dad, ""I'm hungry,"" to which the dad will reply, ""Hi, Hungry, I'm Dad."" Many dad jokes may be considered anti-jokes, deriving humour from an intentionally unfunny punchline."
"series. The character is named after Germain's son. Tommy last appeared in the ""All Grown Up!"" episode ""Golden Boy"". Tommy is the eldest son of Stu and Didi, and the brother of Dil. He has appeared in other media relating to ""Rugrats"", including video games, films, and comic strips. Hallmarks of the character include his all-purpose screwdriver and his catchphrases: ""A baby's gotta do what a baby's gotta do!"" and ""Hang on to your diapies babies, we're going in."" In the unaired ""Rugrats"" pilot episode, Tommy was voiced by Tami Holbrook. In all other media, he is voiced by actress/singer"