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Aquarium Repairmen

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The setup

Two aquarium repairmen cannot stop answering everything with celebrity-comparison wisecracks, and both a dinner party and a doctor's office pay for it.

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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.

ScriptEnglish · 99 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors.

  1. 00:04

    Thanks for inviting us over. You have a really beautiful house.

  2. 00:08

    I'm sorry I'm tied up over here.

  3. 00:10

    Oh, yeah, the aquarium broke down right before you guys came over.

  4. 00:14

    We have some repairmen coming over.

  5. 00:17

    Oh, and that must be them.

  6. 00:21

    Oh, I'm so glad you guys are here.

  7. 00:23

    Don't worry, ma'am, you're in good hands.

  8. 00:26

    Where's the tank?

  9. 00:27

    Uh, it's over here, guys.

  10. 00:28

    Whoa, whoa, what are these, piranhas?

  11. 00:31

    No, they're goldfish.

  12. 00:33

    Whoa! Sorry, Mr. Fish Expert.

  13. 00:37

    We got a real Jacques Cousteau over here.

  14. 00:40

    Well, no, I'm not an expert, but I do like fish.

  15. 00:43

    Say no more, my friend. Just give us a few minutes.

  16. 00:45

    We'll be out of your way in two seconds.

  17. 00:47

    Roger,

  18. 00:49

    Roger,

  19. 00:50

    you have to look at these pictures.

  20. 00:52

    They are gorgeous. Gina took them on her vacation.

  21. 00:55

    Hey, Bobby, what do we got?

  22. 00:57

    Freaking Annie Leibovitz over here?

  23. 00:59

    We got a freaking Kodak Mormon up in here.

  24. 01:03

    um excuse me i'm just saying it sounds like uh you take a lot of photos like annie leibowitz or

  25. 01:10

    peter parker if you will over here no i just happened to take some pictures when i was in

  26. 01:15

    hawaii

  27. 01:15

    yeah we got how would you like a nice hawaiian punch over here we got a pure cane sugar that's

  28. 01:30

    the one over here we got book them down over here we got kamfunga's chin

  29. 01:36

    over here.

  30. 01:39

    We got...

  31. 01:43

    hey guys uh how's the tank coming it's fine i think we got the right size filter out in the

  32. 01:48

    room all right great because uh we're just about to have dinner here so oh

  33. 01:52

    Dino! Well, well, well, well, well, Dino.

  34. 01:56

    We got a friggin' Chef Boyardee over here.

  35. 02:02

    Where's your white hat, Bobby Flay, over here?

  36. 02:05

    Oh, we got a regular, can you smell what the rock is cooking?

  37. 02:11

    It's like a regular, uh, that guy who says bam.

  38. 02:15

    Well, bam, I don't know.

  39. 02:16

    Emeril Lagasse.

  40. 02:18

    Over here!

  41. 02:20

    Don't help them.

  42. 02:23

    All right, guys, listen, uh, just, you know, fix the tank.

  43. 02:26

    If you can't, then, uh, you know, just leave,

  44. 02:28

    because my friends and I, we're just trying to have a good time.

  45. 02:30

    Oh, good time, all right.

  46. 02:31

    Oh, boy, Bobby!

  47. 02:32

    Good times!

  48. 02:34

    We got a Jimmy J.J. Walker over here!

  49. 02:39

    Temporary layoffs over here.

  50. 02:41

    Stop it! Stop it, the both of you.

  51. 02:44

    You're acting like children.

  52. 02:45

    Oh, who's this now over here?

  53. 02:46

    Is this Dr. Benjamin Spock?

  54. 02:49

    Give me a break.

  55. 02:50

    Give me a break!

  56. 02:52

    Oh, give me a break.

  57. 02:54

    We got a friggin' Nell Carter over here.

  58. 02:57

    Yeah, you look like Nell Carter a little bit over here.

  59. 03:00

    Looks like Joe Theismann over here.

  60. 03:02

    Oh, give me a break.

  61. 03:04

    Give me a break.

  62. 03:05

    Break me off the beat today.

  63. 03:07

    Take it over here.

  64. 03:10

    We got a...

  65. 03:11

    I'm kind of tapped out now.

  66. 03:14

    Yeah, I'm tapped out too, unfortunately.

  67. 03:18

    Not a best work over there.

  68. 03:20

    Yeah, well, what do you know?

  69. 03:21

    Hey, hey you guys. Hey, you guys what the electric company over here? No, I just you know, I

  70. 03:27

    Sammy Davis, Jr

  71. 03:30

    No, I yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

  72. 03:33

    God, they know your dad's over here

  73. 03:37

    No, no, I just oh my god the fish what you killed the fish

  74. 03:44

    What are you all your wisecracks? You killed the fish guy?

  75. 03:49

    Okay,

  76. 03:49

    god! My family pictures!

  77. 04:00

    Okay

  78. 04:01

    guys, you know why you're here.

  79. 04:03

    You were fired from your last job

  80. 04:04

    because you compulsively made wisecracks

  81. 04:06

    to the degree that you killed an entire tank of fish.

  82. 04:10

    Now, to really understand this problem,

  83. 04:11

    I'm going to have to do a few tests.

  84. 04:12

    I'm going to say a sentence,

  85. 04:13

    and you say the first thing that comes into your head, okay?

  86. 04:16

    I like movies.

  87. 04:23

    We got...

  88. 04:24

    We got full-rigging Puerto Rico fallini over here.

  89. 04:36

    I like water.

  90. 04:41

    We got a freaking molecule joint with two hydrogen molecules on a covalent bond over here.

  91. 04:49

    Okay, guys.

  92. 04:52

    Okay, guys, it's very funny, but it's pretty clear to me that you both have some pretty serious compulsions.

  93. 04:58

    I'm going to recommend that we proceed with a course of aggressive shock therapy.

  94. 05:02

    God, Mr. Daly, how did you get out of your room?

  95. 05:07

    Sorry,

  96. 05:14

    I'm sorry,

  97. 05:15

    this man is very mentally ill.

  98. 05:18

    Don't let this happen to you.

  99. 05:20

    Call Gary's Fishtanks, a name you can trust since 1982.

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