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Can you match these IRS agents to the right show?
They were never the most popular guest stars, but they made for some great scenes in sitcoms, Westerns and anthology shows.
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The best shows reflect life in dramatic, unusual or hilarious ways. They show the world we know, the good and the bad, just with a few entertaining tweaks. Sometimes the bad parts of life, like paying taxes, make for the best scenes!
Plenty of classic shows represented the Internal Revenue Service onscreen. Sometimes they leaned into the stereotype of an exacting tax collector while many sitcoms subverted that trope to hilarious affect. Winning a large amount of money then immediately getting hit with a tax bill was another gag seen in numerous programs.
Here are IRS agents, assessors and tax professionals of all sorts from some of our favorite classic shows. Can you guess which show each image is from?
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This tax man didn't receive a very warm welcome in...
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This visit from the IRS seemed like a joke at first on...
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Before M*A*S*H, William Christopher played an IRS agent in...
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This tax professional broke the fourth wall in...
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This agent came to collect taxes on money that was literally falling from the sky in...
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All this IRS man needed was a signature in...
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This agent had surprisingly good news in...
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This man had the unenviable task of collecting taxes in...
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This tax assessor gets mixed up in a crime on which show?
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He worked at the "Bureau of Internal Revenue" protected by agents from which show?
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This mountain of money was more like a molehill after a visit from this tax man in...
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Can you match these IRS agents to the right show?
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10/11 Guess I know how to recognize people coming for my money
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I gaht 11/11. I vatch lahts uff tv . It has been slow, since zee prisoners left.
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I got 8/11
Why, on so many of the questions, do they include a picture of one the popular characters on the show?!? It’s a dead giveaway! I did get Perry Mason right, though, because, as I have previously stated, I have a sixth sense when it comes to anything the irresistibly handsome Raymond Burr is in!!!
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11/11 mostly guesses
I was 9/11 but some of them were easy.
8/11 Knew most, missed all my guesses.
8 /11 just watched half of these in last few days on MeTV
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8/11. Guessed most of them.
8/11! That was fun!