A Claude Code plugin
Capt. Raymond Holt(and now, occasionally, Claude)
Sitcom lines for your Claude Code sessions. Matched to the moment, used sparingly, and never anywhere near your code.
/plugin marketplace add emreerkan/sitcom-flavour> run the suite again
⏺ Bash(pnpm test)
⎿ 214 passed · 0 failed · 3.2s
⏺ All green, including the auth test that flaked twice this morning. The retry fix holds.
Noice. Smort.
How Claude picks a line
Every bank is sorted by the moment, not the character. Tests pass, a fix doesn't fix it, the cloud bill arrives. Claude matches the moment first, so you get the right line instead of the most famous one.
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · WIN, CLEAN RESULT, TESTS GREEN
JAKE
Noice. Smort.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
JAKE
Toit.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
JAKE
Bingpot!
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
HOLT
Hot damn!
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
JAKE
Yippie kayak, other buckets.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
HOLT
(deadpan)
Yas queen.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
ENSEMBLE
Nine-Nine!
Brooklyn Nine-Nine · for a big deploy or migration landing
GINA
I'm the human form of the 💯 emoji.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
MICHAEL
Boom. Roasted.
The Office · for a clean takedown of a bad argument
DWIGHT
Perfectenschlag.
The Office
CHRIS
Literally.
Parks and Recreation
TOM AND DONNA
Treat yo self!
Parks and Recreation · for a well-deserved upgrade
MAGNITUDE
Pop pop!
Community
ABED
Six seasons and a movie!
Community
ENSEMBLE
Steve Holt!
Arrested Development
RUSS
Tres commas!
Silicon Valley · for a big number going the right way
KRAMER
Giddy up!
Seinfeld
ELAINE
(shoving)
Get out!
Seinfeld · for surprisingly good news
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · FIX DIDN'T FIX IT, RECURRING BUG, FLAKY TEST
ENSEMBLE
And yet, crime has continued.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
JAKE
(clearly doubting)
Cool cool cool cool cool. No doubt no doubt no doubt.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
MICHAEL
I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.
The Office · for retrying until green
FRANK
Serenity now!
Seinfeld
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · OVERHYPED TOOL OR STARTUP
TOM Entertainment 720.
Parks and Recreation · for a big pitch with no substance
PIERCE
Streets ahead. If you have to ask, you're streets behind.
Community
ENSEMBLE
Making the world a better place.
Silicon Valley
JACK BARKER
Consider the conjoined triangles of success.
Silicon Valley · for management frameworks
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · WRONG CLAIM, MISDIAGNOSIS
DWIGHT
False.
The Office
ANDY
I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems.
Parks and Recreation
GEORGE
Jerry, just remember: it's not a lie if you believe it.
Seinfeld
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · DISASTER, BROKEN PROD
MICHAEL
No, God! No God, please no! No! Noooooo!
The Office
MICHAEL
I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!
The Office · for declaring something without doing it
JEFF
This is the darkest timeline.
Community
TROY walks in with pizza, room on fire.
Community · for opening a repo mid-meltdown
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · BAD PRACTICE WITH A GOOD EXCUSE
JAKE
Cool motive. Still murder.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
GEORGE
Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?
Seinfeld
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · VAGUE REQUEST OR PLAN
MICHAEL
Sometimes I'll start a sentence and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way.
The Office
LUCILLE
I don't understand the question, and I won't respond to it.
Arrested Development
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · CONFIDENTLY WINGING IT
ANDY
I have no idea what I'm doing, but I know I'm doing it really, really well.
Parks and Recreation
KRAMER
I'm out there, Jerry, and I'm loving every minute of it!
Seinfeld
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · LONG EXPLANATION COMING
JEFF launches into a Winger speech.
Community
GEORGE
The sea was angry that day, my friends.
Seinfeld
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · GOING DEEP, PLANNING, DOCUMENTING
goes full Boyle.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
AMY
I'll make a binder.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
INT. YOUR TERMINAL · THE REST OF THE SEASON
Diagnosis proved right
HOLT
VINDICATION!
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Disagreeing but complying
HOLT
Fine. But in protest, I'm walking over there extremely slowly.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Small nice-to-have
TERRY
Terry loves yogurt.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Concise solution
KEVIN
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
The Office
Weird legacy code
MICHAEL
Why are you the way that you are?
The Office
Code review
DWIGHT
Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'Would an idiot do that?' And if they would, I do not do that thing.
The Office
Security
DWIGHT
Identity theft is not a joke, Jim!
The Office · for leaked credentials
Repeating advice that was ignored
STANLEY
Did I stutter?
The Office
Absurd situation
JIM looks directly into the camera.
The Office
Overengineering, scope creep
BEN The Cones of Dunshire.
Parks and Recreation · for a system only its author understands
Giving up on tooling
RON throws the computer in a dumpster.
Parks and Recreation
Harsh code review feedback
LESLIE
What I hear when I'm being yelled at is people caring loudly at me.
Parks and Recreation
Priorities
APRIL
Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge.
Parks and Recreation
Botched a simple thing
ENSEMBLE
You Britta'd it.
Community
Staging and prod diverged, evil twin config
EVIL ABED puts on a felt goatee.
Community
Doubting
ABED
Cool. Cool cool cool.
Community
Regret, rollback needed
GOB
I've made a huge mistake.
Arrested Development
Hidden resource, check the obvious place
GEORGE SR.
There's always money in the banana stand.
Arrested Development
Cost misestimate, cloud bill
LUCILLE
It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, ten dollars?
Arrested Development
Missing docs or commit message
J. WALTER WEATHERMAN
And that's why you always leave a note!
Arrested Development
Magic or clever-looking code
GOB
Illusions, Michael!
Arrested Development
A claim that is about to be proven wrong
ENSEMBLE
(Narrator: it was not.)
Arrested Development · after someone says something is fine
Oversimplified classifier or heuristic
JIAN-YANG
Hot dog. Not hot dog.
Silicon Valley
Clever algorithm
ENSEMBLE
Middle-out.
Silicon Valley
Vanity metric or made-up benchmark
quotes a Weissman score.
Silicon Valley
Formatting nitpick
RICHARD ends a relationship over tabs vs spaces.
Silicon Valley
Lucky fix nobody understands
BIG HEAD fails upward.
Silicon Valley
AI agent being destructive
SON OF ANTON deletes the whole codebase to remove the bugs.
Silicon Valley
Copying a competitor
GAVIN
I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do.
Silicon Valley
Swallowed errors, suppressed warnings
LLOYD BRAUN
Serenity now, insanity later.
Seinfeld
Request denied, permission error
SOUP NAZI
No soup for you!
Seinfeld
Duplicate side effects, missing idempotency
GEORGE double-dips the chip.
Seinfeld
Summary that skips the important part
yada yadas over the best part.
Seinfeld
Every instinct was wrong, invert the approach
JERRY
If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.
Seinfeld
Nemesis dependency or legacy system
JERRY
(with contempt)
Hello, Newman.
Seinfeld
The right fix, too late
GEORGE
The jerk store called, and they're running out of you!
Seinfeld · for a comeback that arrives after the meeting
46 situations across 7 shows, read straight from the plugin's banks at build time. Italic lines are scene references Claude paraphrases rather than quotes.
Three volume settings
The answer always comes first. The line goes at the start or the end, it's one line, and the joke is never explained. Pick how often it happens.
/flavour frequency rare
Deployed to staging. Health checks pass.
Toit. (Jake)
The migration adds an index on orders.created_at. About 40 seconds at prod size.
Nothing fits. Nothing forced.
Same error after the patch. The cache key still ignores the locale.
And yet, crime has continued.
You were right: the vendor SDK is the bottleneck, not the database.
VINDICATION! (Holt)
Replaced 400 queries in the loop with one JOIN.
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick? (Kevin)
All 214 tests green on main.
Noice. Smort. (Jake)
Plan: three phases, each one shippable on its own. Details below.
I'll make a binder. (Amy)
Prod is back. Root cause: an expired TLS cert on the internal API.
Incident. Off limits at any frequency.
Studio rules
The rules ship with the plugin and load with every session. Your repo stays exactly as serious as you left it.
- // Cool motive. Still murder.
+ // Retries are capped at 3. See ADR-012.
const MAX_RETRIES = 3;The cast
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is on by default. Mix and match with /flavour b99,community, or bring your own.
b99Default“Noice. Smort.”
Jake
16 lines · 7 situations
the-office“Boom. Roasted.”
Michael
13 lines · 11 situations
parks-and-rec“Treat yo self!”
Tom and Donna
9 lines · 8 situations
community“Six seasons and a movie!”
Abed
9 lines · 7 situations
arrested-development“I've made a huge mistake.”
GOB
8 lines · 8 situations
silicon-valley“Making the world a better place.”
10 lines · 9 situations
seinfeld“Serenity now!”
Frank
14 lines · 13 situations
personalAdd lines in ~/.claude/sitcom-flavour/banks/. They never ship, so the spicy ones stay yours.
## The Wire
- "All the pieces matter."Places, everyone
Run these inside Claude Code. The show starts with your next session.
/plugin marketplace add emreerkan/sitcom-flavour/plugin install sitcom-flavour@sitcom-flavourclaude/flavour/flavour list/flavour b99,community/flavour frequency sometimes/flavour offSettings live in ~/.claude/sitcom-flavour.conf. Set SITCOM_FLAVOUR_SHOWS and SITCOM_FLAVOUR_FREQUENCY in a project's .claude/settings.json to override them per project.