What's really impressive is that the two actors sharing a table with him were able to keep a straight face during those takes.

As a ghost, I can confirm that they’re even better when you’re DEAD!

If I were ridiculously wealthy, I’d hire Maurice LaMarche to narrate my living will. I’ve always wanted my will to contain a story about probate, beneficiaries, and goblins.

“That’s not Bill Clinton! That’s just one of your drunken hillbilly bears!”

“Oooooh, yew or-most ‘ad me!”

One of my many favourite Duke gags is when he’s in Jay’s apartment to offer Jay his job back and Jay asks “How did you get in?” and Duke casually buffs his nails on his shirt and says “Oh, I have my ways...” and then the camera pans over to a perfectly Duke-shaped hole in the wall.

My favorite dumb-funny moment with Franklin was his back and forth with an owl.

The main reason I was sad when Queen Elizabeth died was because The Critic’s gag where Charles tries to poison her was no longer relevant.  

“We got a sayin’ down in Texas — ‘be a mensch, not a shmendrik’” is one of my all-time favourite line deliveries from Jay’s girlfriend Alice. 

It’s a toss-up for me on who my favorite character is: Franklin or Duke. 

It has a joke that’s so dark that, when I first heard it, I didn’t know whether to gasp or laugh.

Police Officer: Did he have any enemies?

Jeremy Hawke: Dr. Haing S. Ngor.

*Cut to a clip of Coming Attractions*

Jay Sherman: Maybe next time, he should visit The Acting Fields.

As they say in Tennessee, “Be a mensch, not a schmendrick.”

“We’re the bears that sing for Duke, doo-da, doo-da!”

“After its 1995 cancelation, the series existed as a dream only accessed through the Simpsons crossover episode”

Um...and also a ten episode Flash series. Some of it is hilarious, some of it aged worse than Flash.

Started rewatching the show about a month ago and caught this scene:

That’s not Clinton, it’s one of your mechanical hillbilly bears.

been a while since I’ve seen it, but I recall the pilot being fairly weak compared to the rest of the series. The Fox season also changed the tone a fair bit as well.

I still use the word “quyzbuk” today.

Every time I’m reminded that The Critic only ran for 23 episodes I’m surprised. It seems like I watched too many reruns on Comedy Central and have too many of its jokes stuck in my head for that to be possible. Despite the short run it can be considered among the shows with a bad final season we pretend doesn’t exist,…