Dave delves into what would happen if couples attempted "Trading Spouses" and introduces a new family-oriented form of marijuana which contains no THC. Also featuring musical guest Blackstar.
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“Trading Spouses” ranks #17 of 27 Chappelle's Show episodes on the Humor Index, scoring 95.8 — Elite. The episode packs 62 scored jokes at 3.1 per minute, averaging 7.5 on craft and 7.7 on impact, with Leonard Washington landing the most laughs. Every joke is ranked below with its individual craft and impact scores.
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Top Jokes
Todd: Todd: 'Actually, I'd feel more comfortable if I just pulled my penis through this hole.' — produces what appears to be underwear with a strategically cut hole
Todd Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Leonard Washington: Leonard responds to G-Unit attempt: 'Get-get-get-get yo' ass in the car, go on!' — mimicking the 50 Cent stutter to command the kid
Leonard Washington · Therapist: Therapist: 'It's confidential here, I won't tell anyone.' Leonard: 'Well then, confidentially, I am crazy, and I'll fuckin' kill ya.'
Todd's Wife · Leonard Washington: Todd's wife: 'But Leonard, it's okay, I'm waxed.' Leonard: 'Damn! Now I done heard of trimming the hedges, but you done scorched the earth.'
Dave Chappelle · Cop character: 'Kobe... you're under arrest.' — cop arresting someone shouts 'Kobe' as if doing something impressive
All Jokes — 62 analyzed
Show all ↓ Hide ↑ Dad (O'Dweeds spokesman): O'Dweeds commercial — marijuana brand with no THC, positioned as health-conscious product for responsible parents
Dad (O'Dweeds spokesman) · Baby: Father blows smoke shotgun-style directly into the face of his infant baby, saying 'Shotgun, little buddy!'
Mom (O'Dweeds): Wife watches the baby getting shotgunned smoke and says 'Oh honey, I think he likes it' — she is completely fine with this
Grandma (O'Dweeds): Grandma: 'This reminds me of when I was a girl and I used to smoke grass with all the negro jazz musicians.'
Dad (O'Dweeds): 'Come on, you old bitch' — next line after 'puff puff give', directed at Martha for not passing fast enough
Dad (O'Dweeds): 'Come on, you old bitch.'
Rastafarian: Rastafarian man sees the O'Dweeds packaging and says 'I know what you're thinking, but it's O'Dweeds, man' then immediately offers to share what is clearly real weed
Rastafarian: 'Wrong bag, man.' followed by tires screeching — the Rastafarian endorser accidentally gave someone real weed and immediately flees
Announcer: 'From the makers of the Crack Patch' — final tagline of O'Dweeds commercial
Dave Chappelle: Dave Chappelle stand-up intro: And 1 mix tape bit — describes it as 'the hottest thing you ever seen,' builds anticipation, then cuts to actual And 1 player doing trick moves for the studio audience
Dave Chappelle · And 1 Player: The And 1 'all-sports' tape — player does absurdist trick moves across multiple sports while rap plays, Chappelle reacts with escalating hyperbole ('That's the baddest motherfucker I ever seen in my life!')
Dave Chappelle: Stand-up bit: 'Every time I would do something sweet on the basketball court I would shout out my favorite player' — then he does 'Jordan...' while grunting at the free-throw line
Dave Chappelle · Cop character: 'Kobe... you're under arrest.' — cop arresting someone shouts 'Kobe' as if doing something impressive
Dave Chappelle: 'Rasheed Wallace.' — a man having a total meltdown/tantrum (inferred: throwing something, screaming)
Dave Chappelle: 'Damon Stoudamire.' — invoked in a drug-related context (Stoudamire was caught at an airport with marijuana wrapped in aluminum foil)
Dave Chappelle: 'More effort, huh? Sprewell...' — employee being told to show more effort at work responds by invoking Latrell Sprewell (who choked his coach)
Dave Chappelle: 'Paul Pierce... Oh, ah.' — Paul Pierce stabbed multiple times at a nightclub in 2000; someone gets stabbed and invokes Pierce
Dave Chappelle: 'When are you gonna come and claim these kids? Every pro athlete ever.' — child support joke applied to all NBA players
Dave Chappelle: 'Wilt Chamberlain.' — invoked in a sexual conquest/multiple partners context (Chamberlain famously claimed 20,000 sexual partners)
Dave Chappelle: 'Dennis Rodman. Oh, hell, no.' — Rodman's cross-dressing/wedding dress persona invoked, someone reacting in horror to a visual
Dave Chappelle: 'OJ...' — final entry in the athlete bit; context implies someone finding a murdered body or bloody scene
Dave Chappelle: People magazine called Chappelle's Show 'sub-sophomoric and immature' — Chappelle dedicates the next piece to the writer of that article
Dave Chappelle · Performer: Extended fart symphony — what appears to be a full orchestral/piano performance dedicated to People magazine critic, consisting entirely of fart sounds, lasting approximately 70 seconds
Dave Chappelle: Dave slowly and solemnly intones 'Di-ar-rhe-a'
Trading Spouses Host: Trading Spouses host introduces the show: 'for the first time on our show, we're going interracial' — treating interracial spouse-swapping as a milestone programming achievement
Leonard Washington: 'Anybody try and touch your mother, punch him in his dick.' — Black dad's goodbye advice to his son before leaving with a white family
White Dad (Todd) · T-Mart: White dad offers to be called 'daddy' by Leonard's son T-Mart; T-Mart responds 'Is it okay if I call you Mr. Deez?' leading to 'Deez nuts!'
Leonard Washington · Todd's Son (Mop Top): Leonard arrives at white family's house, immediately asks to be called 'daddy', then tells the white kid to take his bag and threatens to 'beat you in your ass' if he goes through it
Leonard Washington · Todd's Wife (Sharon): Leonard tells Todd's wife 'I don't smell no dinner cooking. Run on, make some grits.' — treating the white housewife as his domestic servant
Todd · Leonard Washington: Todd cheerfully shows Leonard 'cauliflower, corned beef hash, and parsnips' for dinner; Leonard responds 'What the fuck is a parsnip?'
Sharon · Leonard Washington: Sharon tells Leonard that Todd usually does the dishes after dinner; Leonard responds 'Well, just so you know, his ass will be back April 13th'
Leonard Washington · Todd's Daughter (Mop Top Jr.): Leonard tells Todd's daughter to wash her ass and then watch Martin Lawrence — as a homework/bedtime routine
Leonard Washington · Todd's Daughter: Todd's daughter offers to light Leonard's cigarette and checks his tone; Leonard responds 'get your inside voice on before I put your ass outside'
Leonard Washington: Reaction shot/talking head: Leonard says 'Racial profiling?' — apparently having been pulled over or stopped
Sharron: Cut to Sharron in Todd's house complaining about 'racial profiling'
Todd: Todd in the Black neighborhood reacts with complete bewilderment: 'Who the fuck is Renee Zellwedger?'
Todd Character Comedy Setup/Punchline Todd · T-Mart: Todd disciplines T-Mart with a 15-minute time-out. T-Mart grins: 'Time-out is sweet! Halle Berry, here I come.'
Todd T-Mart Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Todd's Son (Mop Top) · Leonard Washington: White kid (Mop Top) is blasting 50 Cent, tells Leonard 'I'm from the streets, man. G-g-g-g-g-g-G-Unit.' — white suburban kid trying to be hard
Leonard Washington: Leonard responds to G-Unit attempt: 'Get-get-get-get yo' ass in the car, go on!' — mimicking the 50 Cent stutter to command the kid
Leonard Washington · Todd's Son (Mop Top): Leonard drops Mop Top off in what he calls 'the hood' and tells him to 'say hello to your people' and that 'Leonard Washington is glad he made it out' — treating a random neighborhood like a prison he escaped from
Leonard Washington: Leonard drops Mop Top off in 'the hood' and tells him: 'Tell 'em when you see 'em that Leonard Washington is glad he made it out.'
Leonard Washington: 'And if you need money, sell rocks, I heard that's what they do around here.'
Leonard Washington: Leonard reacts to Sharon's white-people sex toy/vibrator: 'Damn, bitch, what's this, a light saber or something?'
Todd · Sharron: Todd and Sharron's bedroom scene: Todd immediately says 'Yes, I would like that very much' to sex.
Todd · Sharron: Sex scene: Todd asks to 'have sex' with Sharron very formally; she consents; he asks if he can turn off the R&B music; 'I kinda wanna hear you breathing.'
Todd: Todd: 'Actually, I'd feel more comfortable if I just pulled my penis through this hole.' — produces what appears to be underwear with a strategically cut hole
Todd Character Comedy Visual Gag ★ Rewatch Leonard Washington · Sharron: Sharron tells Leonard she 'doesn't go south of the border'; Leonard: 'That's just one thing that Leonard Washington don't do.' — refuses oral sex on a white woman
Todd's Wife · Leonard Washington: Todd's wife: 'But Leonard, it's okay, I'm waxed.' Leonard: 'Damn! Now I done heard of trimming the hedges, but you done scorched the earth.'
Leonard Washington: Sharron reveals she is 'waxed' completely; Leonard: 'I done heard of trimming the hedges, but you done scorched the earth.'
Leonard Washington: Leonard: 'I smell your light saber.' — callbacks the earlier vibrator joke in a new sexual context
Todd's Wife: Todd's wife confirms it and turns it on — buzzing sound
Sharon · Leonard Washington · Therapist: Therapy scene: Sharon complains Leonard uses profanity around Jeffrey, doesn't share, no reciprocity. Therapist asks Leonard how he feels. Leonard: 'Bitch, I'll never forgive you for this.'
Leonard Washington: Leonard to wife: 'Go on, get in the car, warm it up.' — mid-therapy session
Leonard Washington: Leonard: 'I ain't crazy, I don't need no psychiatrist. And if you ever tell anybody I've been in here, I'll fuckin' kill ya.'
Leonard Washington · Therapist: Therapist: 'It's confidential here, I won't tell anyone.' Leonard: 'Well then, confidentially, I am crazy, and I'll fuckin' kill ya.'
Todd: Todd's closing testimonial: 'For the first time in my life... I tasted brown sugar, and not in my oatmeal.'
Todd Setup/Punchline Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Leonard Washington: Leonard's closing testimonial: 'We all pretty much do the same things in life. Raise our kids, make love from time to time, and wash.'
Leonard Washington: Leonard's extended washcloth speech: 'White people don't use washcloths. They have one bar of soap in the house. Every time I used it, somebody else's pubic hair was in it.'
Leonard Washington: Leonard continues: 'Why your ass got to put the raw bar of soap in your butt and all this? Maybe I need to wash my face or my feet.'
Sharron: Sharron's testimonial: 'In a different world, I could see myself with Todd. Although the penis-through-the-hole thing was kind of weird. And I am missing some of my draw's.'
Sharron Callback Character Comedy ★ Rewatch Callback Leonard Washington: Post-testimonial visual gag: What appears to be Leonard finding or handling bras/underwear ('Titty residue... Hello... hello?')
Man · Woman: Post-credits bit: Woman tells man 'I don't think this is gonna work. You're so much older than I am.' Ages: 35 and 27. Man: 'Damn!'
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