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Jowls

The Carol Burnett Show
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The setup

A man-eating shark is loose in an apartment building's plumbing, and only a grizzled Roto-Rooter Man can catch it.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

In this Jaws spoof, a TV reporter covers rumours that a killer sewer shark has eaten a tenant in her bubble bath. The stubborn building superintendent refuses to close the brownstone and instead summons a legendary Roto-Rooter Man, who sets up in a bathroom with a fishing rod and a city water-department expert. While they wait, the men trade scar stories until the shark strikes back through the toilet, and the superintendent is drafted as bait. Dynamite finally settles the matter, mostly at the superintendent's expense, while the plumber and the expert praise each other's bravery and head off on a date.

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Highly quotable.

Sewage is in my blood.

Boy, if we're going to catch him, we're going to need a bigger toilet.

We need something short, fat, and stupid.

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One more couldn’t hurt.

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