For running gags specific to individual characters, see '' Characters On Drawn Together ''.
- After one character says something extremely obvious, another will respond with a drawn-out "Duuuuuhhhh!", during which the character's face and mouth will take on the appearance of a Donkey . This gag debuted in Clara's Dirty Little Secret , and was used most prominently in A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special .
- ---In a similar gag, a character will demonstrate ignorance by suddenly displaying a horse-like face with a severe overbite. Often, these effects are accompanied by the character Drooling .
- After a pun or corny joke, the show will cut to an island native with a drum kit who plays the classic Sting of two beats and a cymbal hit to signify the "humor" the character is trying to create. This joke began in The One Wherein There Is A Big Twist- Part II , the episode in which the island natives were introduced. This character has come to be known as "Rim-Shot Guy."
- Several episodes feature an offscreen voice yelling disparaging remarks at the characters. The voice is that of creator Matt Silverstein , and would seem to be the producers' way of directly criticizing their own characters. This gag was first used at the end of Ghostesses In The Slot Machine , when Captain Hero is told that he sucks following his fixed fight.
- Alzheimer's Disease serves as the Punch Line to a joke in several episodes. In Clum Babies , Farmer Alfalfa has the disease until he is cured by Wooldoor's clum baby. In Ghostesses In The Slot Machine , Ling-Ling remarks that Captain Hero's fixed fight against the League of Heroes is more boring than his grandmother's extended battle with Alzheimer's. In Terms Of Endearment , Wooldoor even mentions suffering from it at one point, though in this instance, it is clearly a joke. The joke hits its climax in Alzheimer's That Ends Well when it is revealed that the disease is completely fake (in the show's world), and seniors only pretend to have the disease in order to receive preferential treatment.
- When Foxxy talks about people in tragic situations, the show cuts to a clip of a tearful Foxxy in the confessional saying, "Poor little Timmy, Mommy misses you." Timmy is Foxxy's oft-mentioned (but never seen) child, who appears to have had quite an unfortunate life. In Dirty Pranking No. 2 , Foxxy hinted that she'd sold him on the Black Market to pay bills, but in A Tale Of Two Cows , she implies that she shot him because she thought he had contracted Rabies . After a brief, random mention in The Lemon-AIDS Walk , Foxxy elaborates further on Timmy in A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special . In that episode, Foxxy's role-playing character, a prostitute named Chocolandra, pleads with Xandir to find Timmy in an orphanage in Kansas City, Missouri, and tell him she's sorry and that she misses him (though since she is role-playing, this information doesn't necessarily reflect hers or the child's actual history).
- Several episodes use a piece of Stock Footage known as "The Monkey Man", believed to come from the 1925 film version of '' The Lost World ''. It is often inserted into scenes where a character is supposed to be thinking deeply, or during moments of tension. It was first used in the episode The Other Cousin .
- When there is a shocking disturbance of some sort, such as a character coming to a horrible realization about something, he or she will scream, and the scene will cut to a long shot of the house, where a large flock of birds will suddenly fly away from the house in an extremely agitated fashion. This is parodied in A Tale Of Two Cows when the birds are shown to have been released from a truck when Wooldoor accidentally shot the trucker.
- On more than one occasion the show has used a grotesque up-close oil painting of a character's personal appearance or hygiene with a sound of a Foghorn in the background. For example, when Toot places Xandir's gold ring between her Cleavage in Gay Bash , Xandir hesitates because her chest is hideous in appearance. In Super Nanny , Captain Hero reveals that he has eaten all his vegetables and opens his mouth to prove it. A similar closeup is shown of Wooldoor going through puberty in Clum Babies . Jokes like this were commonly used on '' The Ren And Stimpy Show ''.
- ---In A Tale Of Two Cows , Foxxy uses grotesque but undoctored photographs to explain why animation and live action don't go together, citing obviously false images of her feet and teeth. The foghorn sound does not accompany these images. Both of the photographs are running gags in themselves; the feet and teeth previously appeared in Hot Tub and The One Wherein There Is A Big Twist , respectively. The teeth would appear a third time in The Drawn Together Clip Show .
- In moments of happiness, the show very often uses the classic song "An die Freude" (" Ode To Joy "), familiar to listeners as part of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony . The "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel 's '' Messiah '' has also made multiple appearances in this type of situation.
- The song "I Wanted You To Know" is often played during poignant moments. The song is performed by Brooke Ramel , and originally appeared on her 2000 album ''Make Tomorrow Up''.
- The song " Amazing Grace " often plays in the background whenever a character is making a speech of some sort.
- The show often uses the sound effect of Cat s screaming during a commotion of some kind. It was first used in Hot Tub during the " Catfight " between Foxxy and Clara, and is generally employed whenever characters fight, or when something gets thrown, smashed, or blown up.
- Every time something mildly surprising happens, there is always a quick, dramatic "dun-dun" tone. This is common throughout many of the episodes, especially those of Season 2. Sometimes, during an especially surprising or climactic moment, a more drawn out "dun-dun-dunnnn" tone plays followed by the background turning red and the camera slowly zooming in. Both of these gags come from Old-time Radio dramas, which always punctuated sudden story twists with dramatic music cues. The latter gag is parodied in Ghostesses In The Slot Machine when Spanky Ham plays the tone on a tape recorder he has with him, and in Alzheimer's That Ends Well when Toot sings the phrase.
- When a character delivers a Moral of some sort, the screen will briefly freeze while a children's show-type musical cue plays. This is a parody of TV Public Service Announcement s, particularly NBC 's " The More You Know " series. It was first done in Requiem For A Reality Show where the musical cue was accompanied by a Caption reading "What You Already Know". Future instances of the gag would eliminate the caption and just play the musical cue. The caption returns in Alzheimer's That Ends Well in a segment called "The More You Don't Know When To", and even uses the NBC spots' star background.
- There are numerous jokes involving/about Judaism , as creators Dave Jeser and Matt Silverstein are both Jewish . Similarly, there are many Anti-Semitic jokes as well, jokes which serve as both Self-deprecating humor, and as a Satirical way of making fun of Bigoted attitudes against Jews.
- ---In addition to the usual references to Jewish Stereotypes , there are frequent references to the more Arcane aspects of Judaism which are quite obscure to the non-Jewish viewer. For instance, in A Tale Of Two Cows , Captain Hero leads the housemates in Sabbath rituals, and in A Very Special Drawn Together Afterschool Special , Toot, role-playing as Xandir's father, recites the Mourner's Kaddish .
- --- On a few occasions, after something very strange and inexplicable is brought up---for example, Captain Hero claiming to have once married a Filipino Transvestite in Albany---a character will mention that "That was one crazy Yom Kippur ."
- A running theme on the show is that the characters will often learn a Moral , but not the moral they should be learning; for example, in Ghostesses In The Slot Machine , Captain Hero endangers the lives of thousands in order to win rigged bets, but all he is able to learn from the experience is that Indians shouldn't have casinos.
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