Companies/restaurant
Olive Garden
2016-11-22, 1 mention2017-03-14, 1 mention2019-05-05, 1 mention2019-08-25, 1 mention2019-11-10, 1 mention2020-02-16, 1 mention2020-08-02, 1 mention2022-05-22, 2 mentions2023-03-18, 1 mention2023-05-07, 1 mention2026-02-07, 3 mentions
Tim’s take
He calls Olive Garden repulsive and says nothing on the menu beats a pizzeria, using it as the clearest example of the bad chain food rich people slum through for a bit 10:06 55:08. At the same time he flips it into an aspirational bar during his rice-ragu-and-cheese survival meal riff, telling people they'd be lucky as hell to even be eating at an Olive Garden given how things are going 53:47. Either way it's shorthand for the low end of American dining, whether that's a server he meets in an Uber or a joke tweet about a family screaming at one 35:31 1:11:17.
Mostly though it's just a setting he returns to for stories rather than an argument: the cook who put his head in the fryer gets three separate segments of riffing, including a long Hillary Clinton bit built entirely on that image 38:37 39:05 42:03. He also uses it for celebrity-slumming mukbang jokes and chemical-food riffs about East Palestine 9:02 1:15:13 37:39 1:03:50.
Every Reference (14)
"then you guys go to the freaking Olive Garden. He picks the Olive Garden. What's this asshole picking the out of garden for ish muck,"
"Olive Garden inexplicably still doing fine, which is weird. Olive Garden's still doing great. Well I mean that- What is it about fucking"
The Death of Casual Chain Restaurants: Fridays, Ruby Tuesday, and Olive Garden's Survival — Second Life (with Alex Steinberg)+292s into the segment"server in Florida I worked to the Olive Garden like you like the Olive Garden like yeah I was like I was always a Friday's guy she goes Fridays"
The Uber Ride Begins: Meeting the Driver From Perry, Florida — 146 - Small Town Girl+148s into the segment"answer that question and say I want to see Nicki Minaj go to the Olive Garden who are these people that's why I don't want to live on the"
Celebrities at the Olive Garden and the New Genre of Celebrity Reality Shows — 162 - Assland+31s into the segment"or two for an hour two hours you need tired me out menu of Olive Garden yeah I didn't even know that was on rrah it's called it's a"
Should Tim Become a YouTuber and Do Mukbangs — #173 - Shane Gillis | The Tim Dillon Show+106s into the segment"anything they serve there better in a pizzeria. And they go to the Olive Garden, and I guess the joke is like, "We're taking Cardi B to Red"
Imagining a Tonight Show Taping Is Worse Than a Terminal Diagnosis — #187 - Waffle Sundaes and Puppet Shows | The Tim Dillon Show+180s into the segment"screaming you entitled white [ __ ] don't you embarrass me at this olive garden keep going our grandparents spent their 20s cowering in europe"
Praising Louis Gomez and Ray Kump's Twitter — #211 - Snubbed | The Tim Dillon Show+51s into the segment"Olive Garden. Olive Garden. You'd be lucky as hell to be at Olive Garden. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. It looks It actually doesn't"
The Rice, Ragu, and American Cheese Survival Meal — #299 - Family Recipe | The Tim Dillon Show+585s into the segment"wars. If you don't have anything to eat, send your children to Olive Garden crying at 9:55 and ask and just say, "We don't have any food."
Powdered Mashed Potatoes and Divorced Dad Meals — #299 - Family Recipe | The Tim Dillon Show+54s into the segment"the same chemicals that are in those spills are used at the Olive Garden the good it's yellow garden it's the same chemicals there's"
Chemical Food and Living Off the Land — Please Behave | The Tim Dillon Show #338+62s into the segment"repulsive. Yeah, it's like almost all of them. They're all bad. It's Olive Garden. Olive Garden's rough. Longhorn Steakhouse. Cheddar Scratch"
Yard House: A Study of American Decline — The Negotiator | The Tim Dillon Show #345+8s into the segment"head in that fryer. Was that at Wendy's? Where did he do this? Olive Garden. Olive Garden. Let's just take a quick break here because it's"
Teasing the Olive Garden Fryer Story — Epstein Files & A Head In The Fryer | The Tim Dillon Show #482+8s into the segment"In a brief phone conversation, a manager at the Olive Garden, which closed for a couple of days after the incident, by the way, for what reason?"
The Olive Garden Fryer Suicide News Story — Epstein Files & A Head In The Fryer | The Tim Dillon Show #482+44s into the segment"man's resignation. And it's not going to bode well at other Olive Gardens that he presided over the head and frier incident. [laughter]"
Hillary Clinton Sticks Her Head in the Fryer — Epstein Files & A Head In The Fryer | The Tim Dillon Show #482+107s into the segment