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* [[Acceptable Inevitable Targets]]: Walter.

* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: The aforementioned [[Audience Participation]] scene:

** Likewise, Peanut's story about ordering food from a Chinese restaurant is so offensive that it becomes purely hilarious. (And in case you didn't catch it, Peanut ''will'' remind you several times!!) It gets even funnier when Jeff tries to get Peanut to apologize for the joke and read a letter from an Asian fan.

** There was a bit at a live show in Winnipeg where Peanut finds the idea of a vomiting giraffe ''hilarious''.

** At one show, there was no roof and an airport nearby. Achmed was on stage...

* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: Dunham was adopted, which wasn't a big deal to him. He mentions he doesn't have an interest in finding his birth parents. The moment of heartwarming is in his autobiography when he has his first child and as he holds his infant daughter he realizes this is the first blood relative he's ever met.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Achmed, Walter.

* [[Harsher in Hindsight]]: Half of Walter's shtick is how much he hates his wife. Then some time between the third and fourth comedy specials Jeff got a divorce.

* [[Just Here for Godzilla]]: Even Jeff acknowledges that people aren't here to see the traditional stand up he does.

* [[Love It or Hate It]]: Oh, so much.

* [[Older Than They Think]]: Jeff's been doing ventriloquism his whole life - started in elementary school (fourth grade), high school, college and on. He's done local commercials in Texas, and bits for churches, groups and corporates. When he was in college he toured nationally with the Broadway variety hit ''[[wikipedia:Sugar Babies|Sugar Babies]]'' in 1984-1985. The only character he had from then he still uses is Jose Jalapeno, but many people have had a moment of "Wait, I remember this guy!" when he pulled Jose out.

* [[Periphery Demographic]]: According to Arab-American comic Ahmed Ahmed, goofy acts like Achmed the Dead Terrorist are actually a big hit in the Middle East.

* [[Special Effects Failure]] / [[Throw It In]]:

** The DVD extras reveal {{spoiler|that that one was planned from the get-go}}.

** The Achmed arm thing from the Christmas special was also planned. This troper saw that same gag the January before the Christmas special came out (they filmed the DVD in July or so), almost word for word in the Billings, MT appearance. It may have been a mistake at first, and the audience response was so good that he kept it. Though he also truly did throw in a very well-received Montana joke.

'''Audience''': *HUGE applause* }}

:: Though Jeff is quite good on keeping his lips still with the other puppets, sometimes he slips up. In particular, his skits with Peanut have them bantering back and forth too quickly and he can't always keep up.

* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Some of Jeff's material, and especially aspects of several of the puppets.

* [[The Woobie]]: Achmed, during the Christmas special:

** If Walter's farts are really that bad, you might start to feel sorry for poor Achmed.

*** Of course, Achmed uses the eyes of his deceased father to scare Walter at night, so it may be justified.