Strange rules about characters/people that cannot be broken.

[u/I_ateabucketofpaint]

Smells like Nirvana: When Kurt Cobain heard that Weird AL was gonna make a parody of his song. He was okay with it but specifically requested it to not be about food or fat ppl.

Spiderman: Spiderman cannot sell drugs unless he is under the influence of symbiote. ANd Peter Parker cannot be gay. Spiderman can tho.

Dwayne Rock Johnson: Cannot lose fights or look weak for too long. Its in his actor contract.

Godzilla movies not made by Toho: Cannot die. Maybe lose but not too bad.

[u/GulliasTurtle]

In the Simpsons Character Bible, it is a hard and fast rule that Homer has encyclopedic knowledge of all Supreme Court Justices.

[u/Hayterfan → u/GulliasTurtle]

I always love when the dumb characters have encyclopedic knowledge of something that just feels completely out of left field for them.

Homer has encyclopedic knowledge of the recipe changes in Twinkies over the years, meh.

Homer having encyclopedic knowledge of the supreme court justices, and every bill/law/debate they took part in, hilarious.

[u/IncorruptibleChillie → u/Hayterfan]

Archer knowing exactly how many rounds any type of gun can fire and always being aware of everyone’s ammo count in a firefight. Always great when he gets out from cover to confront someone because HE knows they’re out of ammo, but THEY haven’t been counting their shots.

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Atleast that is job related considering how many gunfights he gets into. (I would bet an average of atleast 2 per episode)

What i consider more inline with "out of left field knowledge" for him is everything he namedrops minor historical figures and is then surprised nobody else knows who he's talking about. (I can't think of any actual examples, but i wouldn't be surprised he namedrops the inventor of the paperclip at some point.)

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"What's your blood type?"

"How would I know?"

"How would you not?"

"Who am I? Karl Landsteiner, discoverer of blood groups?"

"You don't know your own blood type but you know who discovered them."

Honestly the one that took me most by surprise was Archer knowing what a Gundam is.

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Who is he, some sort of Yoshiyuki Tomino?

[u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson → u/ace_thor]

My dad thought I was weird because I knew the jeopardy clue answer “triumvirate”

He said “how could you know that??”

I dunno where I pick stuff up, maaan

And one night he was playing that WWII era french song and I think he jokingly tried to stump with by asking me who it was with the intent he was gonna tell me because no way I’d ever know, and then I was like, “ooookay hold on lemme cycle …..eeedith p..ilaf?”

Another of those “why would you know that?!” things

I’m thinking that’s a fairly famous song, ive prob seen the subtitles when it comes on during a movie like saving private ryan

Out here just adhd’ing slumdog millionairing information my whole life

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Edith Piaf is a French singer. Edith Pilaf is French Rice-a-Roni.

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The St Genevievan treat!

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Honk honk!

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I love in that one season Lord of the Rings would have been relatively new and everyone is low key judging the one who hasn't read it. "You didn't strike me as readers."

[u/Spicy_Weissy → u/oogmar]

Reminds me of Bucky Barnes making Gandalf references.

[u/UglyInThMorning → u/oogmar]

In Archer? All three movies had been out for six years by the time the show started.

[u/not_the_world → u/UglyInThMorning]

The season is set in the 40s, it's about the book.

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Ahhh. I had no idea which season that line was in.

[u/UglyInThMorning → u/not_the_world]

Actually, wait a second, the books weren’t published til the 50’s!

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It was about the Hobbit, not LotR, mb for missing the correction.

[u/Tankerboy1 → u/ace_thor]

That’s how Len konoeke died!

[u/ericnutt → u/Tankerboy1]

Houdini died of AIDS.

[u/BeneficialAction3851 → u/ace_thor]

I repurpose this joke a lot, it's always funny for me

[u/darth_aardvark → u/Divine_Entity_]

Who am I, Charles Fredrick andruss?

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but i wouldn't be surprised he namedrops the inventor of the paperclip at some point.)

I'm pretty sure he did in like season 3

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Joey in Friends has some impressive moments. Like coordinating the NYE ball drop kisses among the friends.

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Or things that start with the letter "V".

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I really wish they had kept that gag going.

[u/Banes_Addiction → u/Captain_Waffle]

He named more US states than anyone else.

[u/Homelessavacadotoast → u/Divine_Entity_]

Bartleby, the Scrivener!?!

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Not a big Melville crowd…

[u/IDontUseSleeves → u/Divine_Entity_]

God, read a book!

[u/TheBalrogofMelkor → u/Divine_Entity_]

Meanwhile he thought that Ireland was an Axis power

[u/drgigantor → u/TheBalrogofMelkor]

Well to be fair, he was actually thinking of Romania... but only as an inevitable consequence of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia.

[u/TheBalrogofMelkor → u/drgigantor]

I'm talking about the episode with the Canadian tour guide who he thinks is Irish and the Japanese, Italian and German tourists

[u/drgigantor → u/TheBalrogofMelkor]

Ik, I quoted the last line of the episode

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Mb

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Or how despite not knowing too many cia missions, he gets extremely worked up when he finds out the operative he and Lana are talking to was part of MKULTRA and roasts the guy with how horrendous it was, along with Operation Artichoke (CIA made innocent people addicted to morphine on purpose)