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{{quote| ''"[[Memetic Mutation|I'm Rick James, bitch]]!"''}}

Comedy Central, tired of waiting, ultimately aired the filmed sketches as "the Lost Episodes" with introductions from Chappelle's co-stars. This did not go over well with Dave, who disliked the sketches he filmed and did not want them to see the light of day. As such, the series is dead (although Dave has said he might bring it back if he's allowed a massive retool).

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* [[Audible Gleam]]

* [[Author Appeal]]: While talking about the "Time Haters" skit, Silky Johnson & co. traveling to a 1800s plantation and insulting and killing a taskmaster [[Refuge in Audacity|made the show come to a screeching halt]].

* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: During the Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories skit about [[Prince]], Charlie Murphy remarks how Micki Free, a member of Prince's crew, looked like a girl.

{{quote| ''"When he joined the group, I heard mad cats like, 'Yo, Shalamar got a new girl in there, man, that bitch fine like a motherfucker.' They was talking about Micki Free, man, okay? Micki Free is not a girl."''}}

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Dave comments after his first "A Moment in the Life of Lil' Jon" skit that [[Lil Jon]] does this when the song "Get Low" plays on the radio, since it contains the word "skeet".

{{quote| '''Dave:''' And you know what the most dope thing about "skeet" is? White people don't know what it means yet. When they figure it out, they're going to be like, "My God, what have we done?"}}

* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: Parodied with the ''[[Roots]]'' gag reel.

* [[Left It In]]: In one segment, a reporter is investigating a Jedi abuse scandal analogous to the Catholic priest pedophilia scandals. While interviewing a "Jarth Mader", an anonymous victim who wears a helmet and has a respiration problem, Mader puts his head in his hands in tears. The reporter says "Cut" to the cameraman, but mouths the words "keep rolling" since Mader's not looking.

** Similarly, after appearing on the series, Wayne Brady landed a multi-episode stint on the FX show "Dirt", playing an [[Affably Evil]] [[The Dragon|employee]] for a murderous rap mogul who threatens to castrate one of the cast members and force-feed them their own penis. Not to mention breaking a basketball player's kneecaps.

** The famous Wayne Brady ep opens with a prologue segment in which Dave Chappelle "quits" the show due to the insane filming schedule and [[Executive Meddling]]. Even on the [[DVD Commentary]], he admits that the schedule line was very true.

* [[Running Gag]]: "Cocaine is a hell of a drug." Mildly amusing the first time, downright hilarious by the time it's finally said in context.

{{quote| '''Rick James:''' I mean, can you imagine two grown men doing this?... Cocaine is a hell of a drug.}}

** In a sketch using the Jedi knights as a metaphor for Catholic priests, Mace Windu (with [[Pulp Fiction|Jules']] Afro) makes an appearance to decry the child sex scandal tearing apart the Jedi order.

* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]: Parodied by inversion in [http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?title=tron-carter-s-law---order&videoId=219426 "Tron Carter's Law & Order"]. In response to the [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Enron scandal]], Dave did a skit where the titular Tron got the lenient, white-collar treatment and got to plead the "fif" in front of Congress while his white-collar business counterpart got treated harshly, abused, and sentenced to life in prison. And in a month, Tron will be out and back to trafficking rocks... to the community.

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