You know you’re an obsessed Just Shoot Me fan when...
You know you’re an obsessed fan when...
-You set your personal schedule around Thursdays at 9:30 PM/8:30 PM Central
-You learn to play the banjo in the hopes that you would impress George Segal if you ever met
-You own every banjo music CD George Segal ever recorded
-you marry a supermodel after only 3 days of dating.
-you start to collect matchbooks or old comics and/or dolls.
-you go out of your way to stay home on Tuesday nights.
-You go to a Schlotzsky’s and try to order a "Jack Gallo sandwich" only to find out there’s no such thing
-When you hear about three gay men getting arrested for "doing it" in the bushes at a local park, you call it a "Jack Gallo Sandwich"
-Your immediate instinct when you see a pneumatic tube at a motor-bank is to stick pens, pencils and tennis balls into it and wonder where they go
-You try to figure out which canary at the pet store is the alpha male.
-You check every newsstand in town and can’t find a copy of Blush anywhere
-You try to call Mr. Chang to fix your old jacket, but you find out he's just a floating head in a jar.
-You think any guy that orders a Sea Breeze is gay
-You have the same fantasy over and over about your ex-husband sneaking into your room wearing a pirate costume, and then making mad, passionate love
-You were dumped by an ornithologist because your name is related to some bird
-You decide that short swishy guys with longish, fruity hair that remind you of Dennis Finch, especially if their name IS Dennis Finch, are the sexiest guys on the planet
-You get thrilled every time someone brings you a ceramic kitten as a souvenir from a trip
-You have a friend pose as an advice columnist named "Miss Pretty"
-You ask your friends how often they blush and what causes it.
-When you are tempted to play a practical joke on your coworkers, a little devil appears on your left shoulder to encourage you, but no angel appears on your right shoulder to discourage you
-You ask your boss if you can have two short "jolts" so that you can have one long, prolonged "jolt".
-When you need comfort or spiritual gudiance, you seek out his holiness the Reverend Singh Chop Chow
-You remember every aspect of Nina's life from her special "Biography" episode
-You use Jack's instructions on how to act superior and then start trying to boss your coworkers around
-Some Japanese guy pays $30,000 for one of your old bikinis
-You try scaring a coworker as a practical joke by inviting all your fellow employees from your work, and you dressing up as a jack in the box, and then popping up singing circus music.
-You see a tall, heavily made-up woman in a giraffe-patterned dress and call out "Nina?"
-you unplug your phone on Thursday nights.
-You tell your boyfriend/girlfriend they would look so much better with feathered hair
-you put all your old photos of yourself in your office.
-insulting your friends at work comes naturally to you.
-You invest money in an underground nightclub, only to have it "go up in flames"
-You have stolen someone else's personality
-Your favorite insults are in song form
-You are fired from a job for having sat down naked in your boss' birthday cake
-After you get fired for having sex with your boss' spouse, you get a job working for a hip-hop artist
-You prepare muffins for a co-worker then send him/her for a walk in Central Park
with his/her "jacket" and his/her "briefcase."
-You make an anchor woman cry on air
-Your neighbor dies, but no one will believe you because they're too busy with the murder mystery party you're hosting
-You sign up for a photography class and don’t even bat an eye when the instructor asks for a nude self portrait
-You actually meet an informant on a toxic waste dumping scandal in the sewers
-An African-American man pretends to be related to you, even though you are a Caucasian person
-You & your girlfriend invite another couple to go swing-dancing, but they assume you mean a different kind of "swinging!"
-You want to name your children after one of the characters
-You watch Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and wonder if the conflicts of the puppets are veiled references to annoying things you do
-You have to borrow money from your Dad for oral surgery since you took some bad advice and "split 10s" while playing blackjack in a casino
-You sing a jingle every time you find out you’re having chicken pot-pie for dinner
-You call paper money "green quarters"
-You flip through an issue of Cosmopolitan but it just isn’t the same
- Your best friend, a lumberjack, finds any woman remotely attractive that you do
-Tyra Banks sprays mace in your face because she thinks you’re crazy, when actually your boss just poured hot tea on you or hit you in the crotch with a golf ball, etc.
-You have every single episode on videotape.
-If you ever hear a song by Snoop Dogg on the radio you start to cry while mumbling "He loved that little blonde fool, and now he'll never see him again!"
-In order to confuse a woman into sleeping with you, you say "I love you" when she's angry
-You look on WhoWhere for real-life people named Maya Gallo, Jack Gallo, Nina Van Horn, Elliott DiMauro, and Dennis Finch.
-You know every movie reference made in every episode shown on TV
-You pretend to be married to your coworker so they can get a nice, low-rent apartment managed by a crazy old lady
-You create and post a list like this on the internet
-Said list starts to get out of hand because of all the nit-picky submissions...
Special thanks to Cardi Chung, Julie Zhou-Lewis, Bill Fong, Gina (a.k.a. Spadegal), Jamie Ghione, David Goldstein, Rapa, Dave S. Augspurger, Annette Willman, Presto9685, Chloe from Australia, P Clark and Carrie for help with this list.
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