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{{quote|"''The Soup'' on E!: They watch TV, so you don't have to."}}
First, there was ''Talk Soup'' with [[Little Miss Sunshine|Greg
Then, in 2004, E! aired ''The What The? Awards'' which was quickly changed to '''The Soup''' with host Joel McHale. They even acknowledged the original ''Talk Soup'' with the segment "Chat Stew".
Regular characters on '''The Soup''' included Mankini ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a man wearing a
Several spinoffs have been launched on the majority of Comcast's other cable channels since 2008:
* E! sister channel Style had ''The Dish'', hosted by [[Boy Meets World|Danielle Fishel]], that gave special attention to the feminine side of pop culture: fashion, weddings, interior design, etc. Segments included "Clip Closet", "Daylight Cravings", "Here Come the Brides", and a closing "Freak of the Week". Canceled in March 2011, though—likely due to ratings issues and the NBC/Comcast merger making it verboten for Style to [[Biting the Hand Humor|make fun of Bravo and Oxygen's
* Sports channel Versus had ''Sports Soup'', hosted by Matt Iseman from ''[[Clean
* In 2009 G4 got into the act with ''[[Web Soup]]'' hosted by Chris Hardwick, which takes on online videos—segments include "[[Operators Are Standing
* Since 2011, the Latinamerican feeds of E! have released local version of the show, all of them called ''La Sopa'' and usually limited to the local regional feed. The first one was the Mexican one, hosted by Mexican comedian and former reality show star Eduardo Videgaray, then the Colombian version, hosted first by Alejandro Riaño and then by Diego Camargo, and in 2013 the Venezuelan version hosted by Led Varela. Of the three versions, the Mexican version aired the longest, with new episodes being produced as of 2019.
Viewers in the UK who can't view the show (which should be very few of you, considering this show goes out on E! UK as well), should consider it to be a cattier version of ''[[Harry Hill's TV Burp|Harry Hills TV Burp]]''. Or Americans who can't view the show might think of it as [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]] meets Hollywood gossip.
After 11 years, ''The Soup'' was cancelled, the [[Grand
Inn 2018, Joel Mc Hale hosted a shoert-lived [[Spiritual
In 2020, the show was surprisingly [[Uncanceled]], now being hosted by Brazilian-born model and comedian Jade Catta-Preta.
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* [[Ax
* [[Biting the Hand
** Lots of Ryan Seacrest jokes.
*** LOTS of Ryan Seacrest jokes.
** And now with [[
** The Latinamerican versions take a step further: they don't only have the section for mocking E! shows, they all have a section to specifically mock the shows about the Kardashian family, appropriately called "''Es tan Kardashian!''" ("It's so Kardashian")
* [[Butt
* [[Catch
** "Give me some!" ("Let's Take Some E!")
** "Chicks, man."
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** "It's Reality Show Clip Time!"
*** Joel will occasionally play with this one a bit. Variations on this include Joel whispering it, silently mouthing it, just letting out one long yell or random excited gibberish, and "[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe|By the power of Greyskull, I have the power!]]"
** "On the newest episode of (insert phrase that insults Hugh Hefner) with Hugh Hefner.." for ''The Girls Next Door''. Often mined as a source of [[Black
*** "I'm a boat captain." Usually said at the end of the bit involving Hefner while showing a picture of him bearing a boat captain's hat he's often seen wearing.
** From ''The Dish'': "I read!" ("Cover Stories")
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*** "Sanjaya..." ([[American Idol]] news for season six, whispered sensually.)
*** "Stacey..." (A short-lived replacement when Sanjaya was voted off.)
* [[Chroma
** Also, these "location shoots" are obviously [[Lampshaded]] on air as the chroma key will never show a glimmer of local flavor and always will show the regular L.A. background.
** This setup also allows Joel to do the show most every week (besides a few off weeks where a [[Clip Show]] is put in the can in advance), and as such the show has only had a few weeks where it didn't premiere a new episode, fresh or clip, in the last six years, with one of the most prominent examples being the lack of a show on the day of the Kate/William royal wedding.
*** Counting the eleven years of Talk Soup, this was pretty much the same,<ref>including when they went from a four day, half-hour daily and a one hour weekly to a half hour weekly format, to which it remains.</ref> the longest stretch of time without new episodes was between the mid-2002 sudden cancellation and the mid-2004 premiere of Joel's first episode.
* [[Couch
* [[Deadpan
* [[Distaff
* [[Dueling
** The spinoff ''Web Soup'' has its own dueling show in [[Comedy Central]]'s ''[[Tosh.0]]''.
*** Which in turn isn't a fair fight; ''[[Web Soup]]'' airs on G4 which is usually on a higher digital-only tier than basic-cable Comedy Central.
*** Web Soup's done well, however, as Hardwick's brand of foolish yet energetic snarkery provides a great alternative to Tosh's Deadpan.
** Current TV aired a similar show called infoMania, which covers the week in pop culture with segments that are very similar to The Soup's.
* [[Foreign
* [[Getting Crap Past the
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[The Other Rainforest|Pacific
* [[Hurricane of
** Also happens in the clips from ''Hillbilly Handfishin'' and the clips from ''Man Woman Wild'' (it doesn't help that the star of the latter is named ''Myke Hawke'').
* [[I Read That
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Joel will often snicker and then say "...sorry" when he's made a particularly snarky joke, sometimes even 'kissing' the image of the person he was mocking (especially if they've made a guest-appearance on the show before).
* [[Limited
* [[
* [[Mythology
* [[N-Word
** One example involved a clip of a woman from the reality show ''Pregnant in Heels'' who was hesitant about having sex while pregnant. Joel's response: "Well, you're not pregnant in your mouth." He then brought out the woman that wrote the joke who proceeded to deliver the original version, {{spoiler|"in the butt"}}.
* [[Overly Long
* [[Product
** When his fellow castmembers of ''[[
* [[Put on a
* [[
* [[Ridiculously Cute
* [[The Rival]]: Currently, Wendy Williams (with a little bit of UST).
** At one point, [[Keith
*** Most of the time, Joel doesn't even have to say anything about the Tyra clips, proving how stupid she makes ''herself'' look.
**** Case in the point, the episode where they showed the clip of her announcement that she was going to write a novel. Joel just stood there and cracked up. Heh.
* [[Running
** They also will have several Running Gags that last for a month or two, usually involving a person from a clip photoshopped to pop up on screen and say a line. These have included ''[[American Idol]]'' contestant Danny Noriega cattily saying "Some people weren't ''liking it''!" and Spencer Pratt from ''[[The
** There's also Matt the Intern being shot and "screaming like a girl."
** Ryan Seacrest's height and having too many jobs is also a subject of repeated gags.
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** Joel's continuing dislike of the "My Stories" intro music, which initially was more reminiscent of radio dramas than soap operas. ("...That I used to watch in the 1920s!") Now the music they play is whatever weird song they can get their hands on.
*** They have recently settled into just using the original music or Bomani Armah's "Read A Book".
** Killing the blond girl at the end of every season finale of ''[[The
** During ''Paris Hilton's My New BFF'''s run, Joel came up with a different thing the acronym could stand for each time it was featured, including "Beefy Frosting Flinger", "Bulimia Fan Fiction", and "Bffff...."
** Playing Jeffrey Osborne's "On The Wings Of Love" whenever introing clips from said season of ''[[The
** Joel's Hugh Hefner: "I'm a boat captain!"
** From Fantasia's show: "Girl, please!"
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** Clips including Lou in some way (like the 'dogs playing poker' intro) are usually followed by Joel claiming it took 9 hours to film.
** "Glory hole", when referring ot ''Alaska Gold Rush''.
** "[[The Cameo|Random
** "GREG KELLY , unlikely voice of reason, GREG KELLY, your logic is a-pleasin', GREG KELLYYYY!"
** In ''La Sopa Mexico'', Eduardo Videgaray can't avoid to point out the machismo, the tons of innuendo, and all the [[Unfortunate
* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]: Matt, whenever Joel shoots him.
* [[Self-
* [[Sitcom Arch
** Ryan Seacrest lacks Joel's snarky sense of humor and ends up saying vaguely insulting, rather stupid things. Sometimes they end up sounding vaguely [[Foe Yay|sexual, too.]] That's Seacrest for ya.
*** Supposedly, the two are friends in real life and it's more play fighting. Though you'd never know that from the way it's represented on the show.
* [[Spin-Off]]: ''The Dish'', ''Sports Soup'', and ''Web Soup''.
* [[Special
** In the weeks following the news that ''[[
{{quote|'''Donald Glover:''' [[Shout-Out|It's
* [[Spiritual
* [[Studio
** As does the actual studio audience, which is usually comprised of friends and family of people who work or intern at E!, Style, or G4. It's a small studio though, so it's a small audience.
* [[Take
* [[Testosterone
** [[Camp
* [[Through His Stomach]]: A woman on ''Maury'' accuses another of luring away her man by cooking him "CHICKEN TETRAZZINI!" '''''The Soup''''' turned this into one of their running gags, and the segment was the Clip of the Year for 2009.
* [[Trans-Atlantic
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?]]: The segment "What the Kids Are Watching" deserves special mention for focusing on children's show clips that range in content from this to [[Have a Gay Old
** Best example? Joel discovering anime—he showed a clip from ''[[Dai Mahou
* [[Viewers Are Goldfish]]: For a time the exact same episode ran twice in an hour on Friday nights, likely due to E! unable to find a companion show for it to follow (yet, many people happily sat and watch it twice), but then the equally snarky ''Joan Rivers' Fashion Police'' established itself as "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|The Sandwich]]" to ''The Soup''.
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