- Occurrence of a joke
- Joke in the background
- Foreshadowing
- Combined joke
9 episodes feature this joke:
Season 1
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17: Altar Egos
G.O.B.'s wife — played by Will Arnett's then real-life wife Amy Poehler — is a seal dealer.
Related Joke: meta
Season 2
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1: The One Where Michael Leaves
A seal attack is mentioned on the TV news and the camera pans to Buster.
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6: Afternoon Delight
Buster wins a stuffed toy seal.
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8: Queen for a Day
Buster shouldn't "be in a Lucille," which sounds like "loose seal."
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11: Out on a Limb
G.O.B. sends his wife's seal back from "whence it came."
Season 3
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3: Forget-Me-Now
Rita's back has a seal on it.
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13: Development Arrested
A live seal appears in the water.
Season 4
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1: Flight of the Phoenix
Michael's power of flight during "The Trial of Captain Hook" inadvertently loosens a bronze seal from a wall.
The mural behind Michael in the Phoenix airport shows a seal in a yellow bow tie in the water.
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14: Off The Hook
Buster has to face down the seal which ate his hand when falls off of the Queen Mary.