Impractical Jokers Fast Food Moments That Had Us Cracking Up

The Impractical Jokers have tormented the good people of New York City and beyond for our pleasure for more than a decade. Somehow, likely because they always position themselves as the ultimate butt of every joke, it's charming and hilarious rather than obnoxious — at least for those of us watching it.  

Given that their popularity has even earned the Jokers a movie deal,  it's amazing there's anyone out there who wouldn't recognize them immediately and ruin the bit. But it sure seems like the world's full of suckers, although it sometimes seems that there are none bigger than these four themselves. They've annoyed folks at parks, malls, focus groups, dentist's offices, gyms, movie theaters, out on the street, in houses and grocery stores, and pretty much everywhere you can think of. 

However, one spot they always find their way back to is fast food joints, where they pose as staff to set up all sorts of insane shenanigans. From firing burgers at people's cars to stealing beers and breaking down crying, these are the dumbest, most immature, all-around funniest fast food moments on "Impractical Jokers."

You need a certain level of shamelessness to be a Joker, but most of the guys have weaknesses their pals can exploit when they want to turn up the heat. Sal's an uptight germaphobe who's afraid of everything, giving the other guys plenty of handle holds for when they want to turn the screws and mess with him. Murr and Q are more solid but will still shy away from saying particularly appalling things to people. Joe, however, has no weaknesses. Sure he's turned down challenges before, but in general, he is willing to disgrace himself in public to degrees that make the other guys blush.

In one episode, Joe's operating the cash register at a fast-food joint when Q informs him there's a box of fried twinkies beneath the counter. "Go back to the sink and just start eating them shamefully," he says. Joe does, making a spectacle of himself and making sure to get powdered sugar all over his face like a six-year-old. Oh, and he's making full eye contact with the woman who's already placed her order with him.

The poor lady's having none of it. "You should see your face," she says. "You look like you got a white, confectionary sugar mustache, all over everywhere!" Joe then asks her if she's ready to order. "I ordered the cheese fries!" she says. Joe responds, "Oh, cheese fries, you wanted that for real?"

White Castle is apparently a glutton for punishment, as the Jokers come back repeatedly to humiliate each other by behaving like morons dressed as fast-food workers. In one episode, competition loser Sal is dragged to the burger chain to learn his fate: he'll man the drive-thru window while Murr, Joe, and Q will speak through the box for him. Whatever they say, Sal is prohibited from apologizing to the customer or trying to weasel his way out of whatever they just heard when they arrive, either furious, confused, or both, at the window. In other words, he has to act like he just said what he said and stands by it.

A lot happens here. Murr makes a woman inch her car forward, then back just a bit, then forward again, over and over, before finally taking her order and saying, "I better not see a ring on that finger!" An exasperated Joe makes a woman restart her order because she didn't say "please" the first time, prompting her to storm into the restaurant. Q just screams excitedly at the customer. Joe then makes Sal whisper when they get to the window, confusing the customer more.

The last guy pulls up to the window ready to fight after Joe rudely sighs and shouts his way through the ordering process, only to say, "Oh, my God. Sal, it's you! I watch your show all the time!"

We get two for one here, but it all happened in a single turn, so we'll let it slide. While posing as a busboy, Sal is instructed to casually grab the beer off someone's table and take a sip right in front of her. He does so, prompting the poor woman to tell her boyfriend what just happened as Sal strolls away. The guy confronts him about the drink. Naturally, Sal's ordered to casually take sips while talking to the guy before he agrees to fetch the manager. Who, of course, is him, just without the hat and apron. The guy's having none of this nonsense, somehow making it even funnier. He just insists on getting a new beer.

Moments later, Sal offers to clear some dishes from a table. When the folks there argue about whether or not they're done, Joe tells Sal to shout, "Guys, what do you want me to do?!" before walking off to the side and sobbing in front of them. One of the guys walks up and asks him to come back. "Don't even worry about it," he says. "Bring your cart and your emotions. Come on back." The guy makes sure to handle Sal delicately from that point forward, even shaking his hand and hugging him for merely asking if he wants more pickles.

Cue laughter from the other guys. How Sal kept a straight face through all this is beyond us.

In one episode, Joe poses as a new hire at Organic Avenue, a health food store. The poor shift manager is trying to show him the ropes when he grabs a bottle of coconut water from the cooler and gulps it down. "No, no, no, no! You're not supposed to do that," she says, clearly shocked she even has to mention it. Unfortunately, her very reasonable reaction convinces the guys to just zero in on this one stupid bit, telling Joe to keep grabbing and drinking the bottles whenever she turns her back for even a second.

"You're addicted, you're addicted!" Sal says as the guys double over. Murr chimes in: "Do it again!" When the woman asks him why he keeps doing it, he responds, "'Cause it's delicious!" He does it a few more times before switching to another bit: struggling to put a cup sleeve on a cup. The guys make sure it's the most confounding thing Joe's ever seen.

Then they have him drink more milk before he leaves to wash his hands. The zoomed-in shot of the poor manager when he's out of the room – pure exasperation and disbelief – is icing on the cake. Shockingly, the woman gives him a 5 out of 10 when her boss, in on the gag, asks her how he did.

This one is weird because the inciting incident wasn't planned at all. Plus, it was triggered by Murr, who is handling the cash register of a casual dining joint, actually refusing to say, "Hey, cool guy, why don't you take those shades off?" to a customer in sunglasses. However, he made a spectacle of the refusal, prompting the customer to discretely text the owner of the restaurant -– a friend of his -– that he should fire Murray. The owner then informed the crew. "Dude at the counter is a loose f***king cannon," reads the text, which Joe holds up to the camera. "He'd last about a day."

This gives the guys an idea: have Murr sit down across from "Sunglasses guy" and confront him about the text. The guy plays it cool, so Murr turns the screws. "You want to help me call my wife and tell her I lost another job?" The guy then says Murr wouldn't have lasted long working for him, but maybe the boss will give him a second chance. "Could you send him a text to give me a second chance? I'll leave it up to you."

When the guy refuses, the boys backstage tell Murr to tie a plastic bag on a stick like he's about to hop a freight train and give teary doe-eyes to the man. Even "Sunglasses" cracks up as Murr heads out the door. The incident, and all the improv, is almost definitely funnier than whatever the guys originally had planned.

After losing an episode, Sal gets to play waiter at Dallas BBQ in Times Square, but the guys have some bad news for him. He'll be wearing what Joe describes as "alcohol impairment glasses," which manipulate your vision and make it nearly impossible to tell where things are. Something directly in front of you will look like it's off to the side, and things close by will look like a few feet away. Unable to orient themselves, the wearer will stumble around like a drunk, which Sal gets to do — while pouring water in a crowded restaurant. While customers gawk, dumbfounded, Sal misses nearly every cup, pouring ice water onto table surfaces. Then, he gets to hand out glasses from a tray while wearing the goggles and drops cups on the ground while apologizing profusely.

They eventually let him out of the goggles, but only because it's time to have crew members spin him in a chair before shoving a tray in his hands and throwing him out the door. He crashes into a nearby table as customers gasp. Then he sits in a sit-and-spin and does the same thing with water. It's one of the stupidest, most repetitive, and all-around funniest things the Impractical Jokers have ever done.