An oiled-up interview with a childhood crush, stowing away in a stranger’s trunk and wrestling
a judo champion at a fancy party.
Over the years the shameless Impractical Jokers have come up with some truly unforgettable gags.
For Murr's punishment for losing "In Poor Taste Buds", he got what initially seems like
a pretty enjoyable task: being a culinary expert and critic tasting and rating food
in front of a class.
However, the guys soon let him in on the twist: his mouth is going to be injected with as
much Novocaine as is clinically allowed just before going on stage, meaning he won't be
able to taste anything or speak properly.
As soon as the dentist injects the Novocaine, its effect is noticeable on Murr.
“I know most people get spaghetti and meatballs in a bolognese sauce.
Most people get spaghetti and meatballs in a bolognese sauce.”
He struggles to pronounce most words, especially those with the letters ‘b’, ‘p’, ‘s’,
and ‘f’.
Taking advantage of this, the guys make him repeat alliterated sentences using those letters
constantly.
“Braised beef."
"Is brilliant."
"Is…
Braised pffft.
Braised beef is pfftt.”
Soon, Murr has to start eating and drinking the food, which becomes quite the ordeal,
since he can't feel anything that his mouth is doing.
The combination of Murr's hilarious struggles with completing sentences, along with the
great audience reaction, make "In Poor Taste Buds" one of Murr's top pranks of all time.
The guys in "Impractical Jokers" kick off Season 2 with a bang with the episode "Elephant
in the Room."
The first challenge is the "Holy Molar" challenge, which sees the guys pretending to be dentists
and interacting with patients, of course having to do whatever they are told.
For example, Q informs his patient he has an embarrassing story about sexually transmitted
infections and Atlantic City before using the suction wand on his face.
“Tell him that's not your worst story about crabs."
"That's not my worst story involving crab in Atlantic City if you know what I mean.”
Sal's up next, and he has to practically invert his patient on the dental chair before running
out of the room and leaving him hanging upside down for several minutes.
“Keep the chair moving the whole time buddy.
Don't stop.”
Joe starts telling his patient about the various dental tools at his disposal, including shoe
horns and dubiously named pliers.
“In the industry, we call this the bi-lateral hammer ray rammer.”
The best performance is from Murr, who simply spins and twirls around the room on the wheeled chair.
For the "Strip High Five" prank, Murr and Joe have to deal with an ultra-rare double
punishment when both of them tie for last after three challenges.
The two have to stand in the middle of Union Square and play a game of strip high five.
The idea is that each of them has to try and get strangers to high-five them.
For every stranger who refuses to high-five them, they have to remove an article of clothing.
Both of the guys have some success at first, as most people are pretty friendly.
As soon as they start losing more clothes, people are more reluctant to have anything
to do with them.
“Sir high-five."
"Nope?
F–k!”
Pretty soon, the guys attract a crowd of onlookers, and they both get down to their underwear.
Joe is successful in getting a high five in his underwear, but Murr is not so lucky.
“Please give me a high five.
Oh no!
Please.
Yeah!
Yeah!”
And he ends up getting his underwear pulled down by Joe in the middle of the street.
Joe then grabs the rest of Murr's clothes and dashes off, leaving him standing there
barely able to cover himself, looking deeply, deeply ashamed.
It was, as Q called it,
“The most public of humiliations”
Season 1 of "Impractical Jokers" has some of the series' best moments, and the "That
Looks Delicious!"
prank from the episode titled "Out of TP" is no exception.
For this challenge, the guys find themselves at a buffet restaurant.
Unfortunately for them, they aren't allowed to purchase any of the food.
Instead, they have to grab food from the plates of unsuspecting diners, and whoever ends with
the least amount of food on their plate loses.
Q goes first, but he almost immediately forfeits after no one gives him the time of day.
“Hi.
How are you?
You seem very nice.
I’m not.
Okay.”
Murr gets caught instantly trying to grab some corn, and another guy notices him grabbing
a wing, though he doesn't say anything.
He steals another woman's okra, and his plate ends up weighing a respectable 1 lb, 4 oz
at the end.
Sal immediately starts grabbing food from patrons left and right, but he only comes
up with 1 lb total.
“The amount of dirty looks that are getting thrown your way.
There’s mayhem going on out here.
This is complete mayhem.”
Joe is the final contestant, and he starts scatting while grabbing food from a few female patrons.
One of them alerts her husband, who decides to test Joe out and see if he tries it with him.
When Joe does, the guy smacks his macaroni spoon away from him.
Joe ends up following him to the table and grabs some fried chicken after a brief tong
fight, but his plate still weighs under a pound and he loses along with Q.
The best "Impractical Jokers" punishments are brutally public, and the one from "Below
the Belt" is an all-time classic.
Murr is the loser of the episode, so he has to endure the punishment.
His task is to deliver a PowerPoint lecture on the science behind climate change, which
Murr claims he can do in his sleep.
However, while Murr is giving the speech, the guys will have access to his lower body
via a hollow table he is standing in front of.
The audience can't see the guys under the table, and they immediately start making Murr's
presentation as difficult as possible.
Sal begins by waxing one of Murr's legs while he's speaking, making Murr grimace and squirm.
“Still allows.
AHA!"
Next up is Q, who sprays Murr's pants with a water bottle to make it look like he wet
himself.
He then has to step on a mouse trap and walk around wearing high-heeled shoes, confusing
the audience immensely.
But that wasn’t even the most embarrassing part of the prank.
“What?
"Hi."
The coup de grace is when Joe turns Murr's slacks into short shorts, again making him
parade around in front of a bewildered and amused audience.
As punishment for losing the "Junk in the Trunk" challenges, Sal had one of his most
high-energy moments on the show.
The gag is that the guys are at a local car rental agency and Sal has to hide in the trunk
of one of the vehicles.
He's supposed to ride along in the trunk until the person needs to open it, at which point
they'll see him and be shocked.
The prank gets off to a seemingly rocky start when the renters take the car on a much longer
trip than expected.
Sal rattles around in the trunk while the woman drives around, smacking his head several times.
“I just went flying.
Ohh.
Speed bumps coming up.
Oh god no no no.”
Eventually, the car stops, and a woman gets out and opens the trunk.
“Hi, I’m sorry.”
Finally, when it seems like the woman is truly upset, Joe reveals the truth: It's actually
his friend Melissa, who knew about Sal in the trunk the whole time.
Her getting upset was all an act and Sal bought it, hook, line, and sinker.
“Where are we?
Around the corner.
Yeah, we like went around the corner.
Just went around the block.
Oh god.”
One of the funniest recurring pranks on "Impractical Jokers" is the "Did I Deserve That?"
challenge.
For these challenges, the guys are working as cashiers behind a store counter when an
irate customer barges in and throws water at their faces while they are in the middle
of a transaction.
The guys then have to sell whatever excuse they are told to get the customer to say they
did not deserve it.
“What did we do wrong?
We’re gonna find out!
And no matter how bad it is, we’ve gotta defend it.”
The first time the guys did the challenge was during the episode "The Blunder Years",
and it was one of the funniest of the series.
Joe and Sal successfully get a "no" from their customers.
“I put like thousands of mosquitos in his house and I thought he’d like get the hint.
I mean do you think I deserved that?
"No.”
But Murr doesn't have the same luck, though he does win $100 in a side bet from Joe after
caressing the chest hair of a customer.
The final participant is Q, but that's when the entire prank goes awry and ends up creating
one of the best "Impractical Jokers" moments of all time.
“Oh my god!
He threw it at the wrong guy!"
The actor quickly realizes his mistake but maintains there's nothing he can do now.
Luckily, the aggrieved party is a good sport about the whole thing and is able to laugh
it off.
You know the punishment is going to be good in "Impractical Jokers" when it covers almost
half the episode.
And Murr's Judo bout during a poolside cocktail party in the episode "The Party Crasher" is
one of these rare few.
For this punishment, Murr has to crash a cocktail party and start a wrestling match with two-time
U.S. Olympic Gold Medalist Judo champion Kayla Harrison.
Murr already looks incredibly conspicuous wearing a wig made from Q's hair and his constant
flailing at Kayla quickly gets the attention of all of the party guests.
And he’s only allowed to say one thing about the situation.
“I know her from college.”
After she rips off his toupee during an ill-fated takedown attempt, he has to put it back on
and continue wearing it, looking completely disheveled.
At one point, Kayla throws Murr through a table, and he just tries to play it off as
best he can.
For the finale, Kayla launches Murr over her head into the pool after his final failed attack.
The guests clap and cheer for Kayla, who walks back and enjoys the rest of the party.
Seeing Murr get manhandled by an Olympic Gold Medalist was a highlight of the season and
one of the best celebrity cameos of the entire series.
The episode "Blind Justice" features one of Sal's best all-time punishments.
His task is to act as a hardened convict and give a scared-straight speech to a room full
of teenagers.
He thinks the only catch is that he has to wear a pair of sunglasses that 100% obscure
his view and use a few props.
However, the guys reveal to the audience the true deviousness of the punishment: he is
in fact, not speaking to a crowd of teenagers.
"Shut up!
I don’t wanna hear anybody."
He lectures them about not disappointing their parents and warns them about spending the
next 50 years of their life in prison.
The audience starts laughing at the ridiculous speech.
Sal hears this but doesn't fully understand, which just makes him yell more.
“You look nice and tight boy!
That’s what people are gonna tell you in there."
Eventually, he puts two and two together.
“This is so not teens.
Take the glasses off.
Oh.”
And for the grand finale, Sal shows them his Jaden Smith tattoo, which makes them all break
out in hysterics.
It's no secret to fans of the show that Murr had a massive childhood crush on Danica McKellar,
an actress from one of his favorite childhood shows "The Wonder Years."
For his punishment in the "The Blunder Years" episode, Murr has to interview McKellar in
a hotel conference room.
While that sounds pretty desirable, Murr has to do so while completely oiled up and wearing
a speedo.
The guys tell him he's going to enter a bodybuilding contest, which gives them cover to douse him
with oil and put him in a speedo, but it was all just a ruse.
“Behind the door is gonna be a celebrity that is Murray’s childhood crush.”
During the interview, Murr is told what to say.
“Truth or dare?
I’ll go first.
Truth.
I used to kiss a poster of you when I was younger.”
And she is told to act as harshly as possible with Murr and she delivers in spades.
“Finish this equation.
Me plus you equals.
"Really awkward.”
After thoroughly embarrassing himself by trying to do squats and flex for her, Murr is mercifully
allowed to leave the room and McKellar alone.
As soon as he walks out, she bursts out laughing, but Murr is probably scarred for life.
The pranks where the guys participate in panels are definite staples on "Impractical Jokers."
One of Q's most hilarious was from "Brother of the Sisterhood".
Q has to sit in on a panel of experts talking about feminism, posing as the author of a
blog titled "Brother of the Sisterhood."
And of course, he must disagree with everything the panelists say.
“I think Michelle Obama’s a fantastic example.
Right.
But she wouldn’t be in the White House if her husband hadn’t gotten there.”
The host is in on the joke, but no one else is, least of all the audience members.
First, Q has to explain the difference between "men's jobs" and "women's jobs.”
“Hey man.
You know I’m all for women’s rights.
I mean who isn’t, but I also want my car to run well.”
Then he is forced to defend a quote from his fictional blog where he claimed that women
becoming mothers turn "emotionally unstable and irrational."
“These ladies, they’re going through a lot.
You know."
"Great answer.”
After several minutes of excruciatingly uncomfortable and cringeworthy banter, Q has to give his
closing remarks.
And they consist solely of him telling the almost exclusively female audience that he
finds it amazing they can go all day without playing with their breasts.
It is without a doubt one of Q's most embarrassing and awkward punishments in the series.
"The Q-Pay" might be the best-known and longest-lasting prank in "Impractical Jokers" history.
Murr's the loser in this episode and his punishment is that he has to wear a wig.
It doesn't sound too bad until you realize whose hair he's wearing: Q's.
The guys have Q cut off his shoulder-length hair and make it into a wig for Murray.
“Oh my god."
"No!
No!"
"That hair is going on that head.”
The wig doesn't look half bad at first but doesn't suit Murr at all.
To make matters worse, Murr has to get his passport picture taken with the wig.
This is to contrast with Murr's driver's license, which features him with a shaved head and
shaved eyebrows from an earlier punishment.
Murr claims the hair smells like:
“Whiskey and pot.”
Unfortunately for Murr, he can't just take off the wig after a day; he has to keep it
on for the remainder of the season.
There are several more episodes in Season 6 after "The Q-Pay," and Murr's hair just
gets worse and worse as time goes on.
The fact that it keeps going throughout the season makes it by far the best "Impractical
Jokers" prank in the series.
It's almost like multiple punishments in one, as every episode with him wearing it is like
an extra prank.