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Aquarium Repairmen
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
At a couple's dinner party the aquarium has just broken, and two AAA Aquarium Repair workers arrive to fix it. Instead they heckle everyone in sight with rapid-fire celebrity comparisons, from a famous underwater explorer to celebrity chefs, until the embarrassed host orders them to just fix the tank. When one of their wisecracks kills the fish, they are sent to a medical office, where a man at a desk lectures them about their compulsion and starts a word-association test that they answer with more comparisons. The test ends in a scuffle, and a white-coated doctor walks in to explain that the man at the desk is an escaped patient. A cheerful tag for Gary's Fish Tanks closes it out.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 8
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
We got a real Jacques Cousteau over here.
We got a friggin' Chef Boyardee over here.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Aired January 11, 2003, in the episode hosted by Jeff Gordon with Avril Lavigne as musical guest.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors.
- 00:04
Thanks for inviting us over. You have a really beautiful house.
- 00:08
I'm sorry I'm tied up over here.
- 00:10
Oh, yeah, the aquarium broke down right before you guys came over.
- 00:14
We have some repairmen coming over.
- 00:17
Oh, and that must be them.
- 00:21
Oh, I'm so glad you guys are here.
- 00:23
Don't worry, ma'am, you're in good hands.
- 00:26
Where's the tank?
- 00:27
Uh, it's over here, guys.
- 00:28
Whoa, whoa, what are these, piranhas?
- 00:31
No, they're goldfish.
- 00:33
Whoa! Sorry, Mr. Fish Expert.
- 00:37
We got a real Jacques Cousteau over here.
- 00:40
Well, no, I'm not an expert, but I do like fish.
- 00:43
Say no more, my friend. Just give us a few minutes.
- 00:45
We'll be out of your way in two seconds.
- 00:47
Roger,
- 00:49
Roger,
- 00:50
you have to look at these pictures.
- 00:52
They are gorgeous. Gina took them on her vacation.
- 00:55
Hey, Bobby, what do we got?
- 00:57
Freaking Annie Leibovitz over here?
- 00:59
We got a freaking Kodak Mormon up in here.
- 01:03
um excuse me i'm just saying it sounds like uh you take a lot of photos like annie leibowitz or
- 01:10
peter parker if you will over here no i just happened to take some pictures when i was in
- 01:15
hawaii
- 01:15
yeah we got how would you like a nice hawaiian punch over here we got a pure cane sugar that's
- 01:30
the one over here we got book them down over here we got kamfunga's chin
- 01:36
over here.
- 01:39
We got...
- 01:43
hey guys uh how's the tank coming it's fine i think we got the right size filter out in the
- 01:48
room all right great because uh we're just about to have dinner here so oh
- 01:52
Dino! Well, well, well, well, well, Dino.
- 01:56
We got a friggin' Chef Boyardee over here.
- 02:02
Where's your white hat, Bobby Flay, over here?
- 02:05
Oh, we got a regular, can you smell what the rock is cooking?
- 02:11
It's like a regular, uh, that guy who says bam.
- 02:15
Well, bam, I don't know.
- 02:16
Emeril Lagasse.
- 02:18
Over here!
- 02:20
Don't help them.
- 02:23
All right, guys, listen, uh, just, you know, fix the tank.
- 02:26
If you can't, then, uh, you know, just leave,
- 02:28
because my friends and I, we're just trying to have a good time.
- 02:30
Oh, good time, all right.
- 02:31
Oh, boy, Bobby!
- 02:32
Good times!
- 02:34
We got a Jimmy J.J. Walker over here!
- 02:39
Temporary layoffs over here.
- 02:41
Stop it! Stop it, the both of you.
- 02:44
You're acting like children.
- 02:45
Oh, who's this now over here?
- 02:46
Is this Dr. Benjamin Spock?
- 02:49
Give me a break.
- 02:50
Give me a break!
- 02:52
Oh, give me a break.
- 02:54
We got a friggin' Nell Carter over here.
- 02:57
Yeah, you look like Nell Carter a little bit over here.
- 03:00
Looks like Joe Theismann over here.
- 03:02
Oh, give me a break.
- 03:04
Give me a break.
- 03:05
Break me off the beat today.
- 03:07
Take it over here.
- 03:10
We got a...
- 03:11
I'm kind of tapped out now.
- 03:14
Yeah, I'm tapped out too, unfortunately.
- 03:18
Not a best work over there.
- 03:20
Yeah, well, what do you know?
- 03:21
Hey, hey you guys. Hey, you guys what the electric company over here? No, I just you know, I
- 03:27
Sammy Davis, Jr
- 03:30
No, I yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
- 03:33
God, they know your dad's over here
- 03:37
No, no, I just oh my god the fish what you killed the fish
- 03:44
What are you all your wisecracks? You killed the fish guy?
- 03:49
Okay,
- 03:49
god! My family pictures!
- 04:00
Okay
- 04:01
guys, you know why you're here.
- 04:03
You were fired from your last job
- 04:04
because you compulsively made wisecracks
- 04:06
to the degree that you killed an entire tank of fish.
- 04:10
Now, to really understand this problem,
- 04:11
I'm going to have to do a few tests.
- 04:12
I'm going to say a sentence,
- 04:13
and you say the first thing that comes into your head, okay?
- 04:16
I like movies.
- 04:23
We got...
- 04:24
We got full-rigging Puerto Rico fallini over here.
- 04:36
I like water.
- 04:41
We got a freaking molecule joint with two hydrogen molecules on a covalent bond over here.
- 04:49
Okay, guys.
- 04:52
Okay, guys, it's very funny, but it's pretty clear to me that you both have some pretty serious compulsions.
- 04:58
I'm going to recommend that we proceed with a course of aggressive shock therapy.
- 05:02
God, Mr. Daly, how did you get out of your room?
- 05:07
Sorry,
- 05:14
I'm sorry,
- 05:15
this man is very mentally ill.
- 05:18
Don't let this happen to you.
- 05:20
Call Gary's Fishtanks, a name you can trust since 1982.
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