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Episodes can be (legally) downloaded [http://www.otr.net/?p=freb here].
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: so many of these, including the "Lawrence Welk" sketch ("Stop with-a the bubbles!"); the "St. George and the Dragonet" parody of ''[[Dragnet]]''; a
* [[Amusing Alien]]: Miss Jupiter. She's only two feet tall.
* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: the "real-life" spokesperson for the Puffed Grass [[Parody Commercial]], a monotone, robotic-sounding test pilot named Jet Crash:
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* [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti]]: The abominable snowman interviews
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Miss Jupiter has "shapely wheels"
* [[Doom It Yourself]]:
* [[History Marches On]]: History is [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] humorously in the "Great Moments in History" sketches with "the real stories" behind those moments, including Washington crossing the Delaware
* [[Mickey Mousing]]: As a tourist attraction, a "lover's spat" between [[Elizabeth Taylor]] and Mike Todd is portrayed with trumpets in one short segment.
* [[No Reprise, Please]]: In the Lawrence Welk sketch, the song "Thank You For All Those Cards and Letters..."
* [[Parody Commercial]]: "Puffed Grass" ("Bang Gunleigh, U.S. Marshal Field"); "Food" ("Gray Flannel Hat Full of Teenage Werewolves"); "Stan Freberg" (the second-to-last episode).
* [[Running Gag]]: In several "Great Moments in History" segments, some historical figure like Barbara
** Also the
** "He's Swiss- that way we don't offend anyone."
* [[Say My Name]]: A [[Soap Within a Show]] parody:
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* [[Shameless Self Promoter]]: Freberg did an entire episode near the end (when the show itself failed to attract a sponsor) about advertising himself.
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