A blue necktie hanging from a white collar beside an unplugged orange plug and gray cord.

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Yakko

Wait a sec...stiff...boring...humorless...not plugged in...named Al. It's the Vice President!

— Animaniacs · 1993

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A list of insults that builds like a riddle. Each trait, stiff, boring, humorless, unplugged, narrows the field until the punchline names a political office. It's comedy by elimination, ending in a jab at a dull public image.

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