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icondude 05-28-03 08:58 AM

No. This should be a poll.

Norm de Plume 05-28-03 10:56 AM


Originally posted by Jepthah
I think they should just dump all the other characters and rename this the Bobby Fletcher Show

He's definitely the funniest; I love the deadpan delivery of the actor.
Applying for a job at a youth drug counselling centre: "BEELLCHH. Sorry, hang on just a second, lady; my roommate just walked in. (offline) Hey Dave, yeah just put the weed on the table and we'll smoke a bowl in a minute."


I only saw one episode.......the first part dealing with a UPS company & the lady wanting to find out what happened to her package,& she keeps getting re-directed to the same people over in over..including one guy who's very rude was hialrious since it's so true for anyone who's ever had to go through this!
That was one of the best calls. Willie is one of the best characters, and Jim-Bob the stuttering manager was amusing too.

Roto 05-28-03 11:37 AM


Originally posted by tygloalex
Jimmy Kimmel from The Man Show does Karl Malone.
rotfl One of these days Karl Malone will find Jimmy and kick his ass. Those Karl Malone bits kill me.

Best Crank Yanker call last week was Bobby Fletcher calling about a telemarketing job, and the manager thought it was one of his employees on the line constantly burping. By the end of the call he said he was going to find whoever it was, fire them and give them a good beating :lol:

but I completely disagree about making Bobby Fletcher the only character. I'd say Bircham is probably my favorite, butthere are a lot of good ones.

Mittman 05-28-03 12:11 PM

Best Bobby Fletcher one is where he is on the phone with the water company and he runs over a guy on the road and tries to tell the operator it's a deer.

Finch03 05-28-03 12:27 PM

I love this show. I have all three Crank Yanker CD's and they are well worth the price.

Jepthah 05-28-03 01:01 PM

I haven't watched the show in a while, they have improved though frem the last ones I saw. Fletcher is still one of my favorites but they're all better in general. In the first few episodes Fletcher was one of the only good routines they had.

Breakfast with Girls 05-28-03 01:41 PM

To paraphrase Steve Carrel of the Daily Show in reference to a Crank Yankers ad:

(sarcastically) "Wow, that Comedy Central network has some quality programming!"

Cornholio 05-28-03 02:31 PM

i used to watch it when it first came out but i got bored. im suprised its not cancled yet

atari2600 05-28-03 03:22 PM

great show! i love spoonie luv, ken (the OCD guy), special ed and bobby fletcher (who does his voice?)

atari2600 05-28-03 03:24 PM


Originally posted by Mittman
Best Bobby Fletcher one is where he is on the phone with the water company and he runs over a guy on the road and tries to tell the operator it's a deer.
:thumbsup:

atari2600 05-28-03 03:24 PM


Originally posted by Roto
rotfl One of these days Karl Malone will find Jimmy and kick his ass. Those Karl Malone bits kill me.

Best Crank Yanker call last week was Bobby Fletcher calling about a telemarketing job, and the manager thought it was one of his employees on the line constantly burping. By the end of the call he said he was going to find whoever it was, fire them and give them a good beating :lol:

i think the guy knew it was him but was being professional about it. didnt want to get pissed and let bobby "win" since he knew it was a prank.

inVectiVe 05-28-03 03:51 PM

"Special" Ed and Bobby Fletcher are both voiced by Jim Florentine (I think?).

TheMadMonk 05-28-03 06:45 PM

I like Niles Standish best.

inVectiVe 05-28-03 07:18 PM

"Cut it in half. Then, double it! Yes-yes?"

Norm de Plume 05-28-03 07:39 PM


Originally posted by Breakfast with Girls
To paraphrase Steve Carrel of the Daily Show in reference to a Crank Yankers ad:
Whatever happened to Carell, and his wife, whose name escapes me?

TheMadMonk 05-28-03 09:14 PM

Nancy Walls is (or was?) Carell's wife. He kinda left the daily show to do "Watching Ellie" (now cancelled), and movie roles like "Bruce Almighty". But I think he is still doing the Daily Show part time, and maybe he'll go back to doing it more, now that Ellie is done.

He might want to look at other people who were on the daily show, like Vance Degeneres, Brian Unger, etc, who left that show and disappeared off the face of the earth.

DRG 05-29-03 02:21 AM

I hated this the first time I saw it, but once I learned to stop watching and just listen to it I like it much more. I understand they have to show something, but the puppets take me out of the crank call feel and make me think I'm just watching some bad scripted show.

Roto 05-29-03 10:51 AM


Originally posted by atari2600
i think the guy knew it was him but was being professional about it. didnt want to get pissed and let bobby "win" since he knew it was a prank.
Well, if I knew it was a prank I would just hang up instead of wasting 5 minutes on the phone talking to some idiot that is constantly burping. It was a telemarketing office. Some prisons do this instead of stamping license plates! Professional :lol:

Norm de Plume 05-29-03 12:33 PM


Originally posted by TheMadMonk
Nancy Walls is (or was?) Carell's wife. He kinda left the daily show to do "Watching Ellie" (now cancelled), and movie roles like "Bruce Almighty". But I think he is still doing the Daily Show part time, and maybe he'll go back to doing it more, now that Ellie is done.

He might want to look at other people who were on the daily show, like Vance Degeneres, Brian Unger, etc, who left that show and disappeared off the face of the earth.

He was on last night for the first time in quite a while. I thought Walls was away due to pregnancy.
Too bad Degeneres left; he was especially talented at spoofing news reporters' pseudo-seriousness, studied body tics and vocal intonations.

Here's another one who vanished: Rachel ___man (blonde; don't remember the last name). She was with The Daily Show for only a short time, but I found her hilarious.

atari2600 05-29-03 05:50 PM


Originally posted by Roto
Well, if I knew it was a prank I would just hang up instead of wasting 5 minutes on the phone talking to some idiot that is constantly burping. It was a telemarketing office. Some prisons do this instead of stamping license plates! Professional :lol:
dude i WANT them to call me! id love to play along if i knew it was CY! that would be so friggin fun.

like bobby fletcher or special ed...omg, that would rule.

i wonder how many times theyve made a call and it backfired. these types of shows start to have that problem once words gets around (such as tom green...its hard for him to play pranks on people because everyone on the street knows him now).

G. Noel Gross 05-29-03 05:57 PM


Originally posted by inVectiVe
"Cut it in half. Then, double it! Yes-yes?"
"Betty! Niles Standish calling!"

inVectiVe 05-29-03 07:57 PM

"'Kandra'?! Well, that's rather silly!"

HistoryProf 05-29-03 09:38 PM

I always thought the retard was voiced by Dave Attell.....

inVectiVe 05-29-03 09:54 PM

Unless there are multiple retards on the show (and there may very well be, as I've only seen the first season and suddenly stopped getting Comedy Central a couple days ago :(), a quick check of the IMDB "Crank Yankers" page confirms that "Special" Ed and Bobby Fletcher are voiced by the same amazingly talented man: the great Jim Florentine.

Here's the IMDB page: Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

atari2600 01-25-04 03:00 PM

eminem on crank yankers??
 
was that him i saw on the commercial for the season premiere where they kept saying "hold on, let me put my brother on"

that looked helarious (it had special ed on it too)...i cant wait to see that episode! i know eminem is a huge fan of the show so that might be him.


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