r/SipsTea • u/Acceptable-Owl-2070 • 7h ago
Dank AF Just normal innocent men...
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Cut us some slack ladies!
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u/SmoothJade 7h ago
Fuckin love this British dog puppet
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u/Omatzus 4h ago
Someone get him on stage with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
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u/palmerry 4h ago
For me to poop on!
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u/Own-Code-7626 5m ago
Sounds like someone’s got a unique perspective on things! Innocent facades can definitely raise some eyebrows.
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u/44035 7h ago
There's a whole story behind this. The puppet is ad libbing, repeating a bit from a news story where criminals were talking to the cops: "we're just innocent men." Basically it's an inside joke between the people on the show.
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u/Second-Order 5h ago
Oh, that makes it ten times better. When i first saw this clip, I just thought it was a funny one-off. But now, knowing that he was going for a call-back to a previous bit...that bait with the 'we're just normal men', you can tell by the first break that she knows where this is going...and she MUST follow through. They both pay the price and we reap the rewards.
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u/TheBestPieIsAllPie 7h ago
I’m not bri’ish enough to understand
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u/typhoidtimmy 7h ago edited 4h ago
It’s based off an inside joke the staff had with the crew. Someone had told some stupid thing earlier about being interviewed by police and was trying to talk his way out of trouble by stating those lines.
Phil Fletcher (voice of Hacker T Dog, the puppet) thought this was hilarious and somehow ad-libbed it into follow-up to a video about ice dancers saying “We’re not ice dancers, we’re just normal men…we’re just innocent men” in an apparent deadpan impression from the story. Lauren Layfield (his co-host) immediately snorted and completely broke down causing Phil to ,of course, start having to stifle his own laughter under the camera, and becoming this meme.
Fletcher was notorious for being one of the best adlibbers on the show and constantly breaking up his co-hosts with this sort of goofiness.
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u/jcastillo602 5h ago
You see i knew there was a real answer to this. I had an argument with someone about this clip and I just questioned what was supposed to be funny and the other commenter was insisting that it was because it was ridiculous for a puppet to call himself a man and that made them break. Which is funny sure but not break character snorting funny. Thanks for the back story
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u/brewhead55 4h ago
Thank you so much for the thorough explanation. I am laughing my ass off. I didn't know the context and I still laughed, but this makes it even funnier.
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u/cosmic-squids 7h ago
Ok but you GOTTA link the whole vid. Pretty please
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u/tigershrike 7h ago
https://youtu.be/nNoFzMljP0U?si=JWlxnb75aXKSnzct
QUICK TONY!
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u/Glimtunga 3h ago
Thank you for giving me a very good start of this otherwise rather dreadful morning, dear Internet stranger.
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u/Kitchen_Guest577 7h ago
Why is saying "innocent men" so funny? I'm over here dying 😅😂🤣
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u/Galactussy 6h ago
I forget, was this left as a blooper or did it air as is?
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u/Advanced-Base-5690 5h ago
Theres an Instagram account that posts this every Monday. And every Monday I send it to my kids.
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u/PageAggravating4460 3h ago
Love how the puppeteer has the dog looking like he’s got the coke yaw going
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u/Evening-Debate-5411 7h ago
I love that they made this an Easter egg in the new Lego Batman game.