I'm Here All Week

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    Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week. Try the veal, and don't forget to tip your waiter.

    A Stock Phrase and Stock Shtick for lightly acknowledging the appreciation/awe/surprise of onlookers -- or lack of same -- when a character does something unusual, unexpected or just plain cool.

    I'm Here All Week and its variants originated as a standard acknowledgment of audience appreciation (or, just as often, absence thereof) by stand-up comedians, lounge singers and other performers in Borscht Belt hotels during the middle of the 20th Century. These resorts provided both entertainment and food for their guests around the clock. The performers at these establishments were booked by the week or even the month, hence the implicit "If you liked my performance, you can come back for more". The encouragement to "try the veal" derives from the frequent request by a venue's management that the performer push that week's in-house specials (or just the dishes which made the most profit).

    See also Ladies and Germs.

    Examples of I'm Here All Week include:

    Advertising

    • In 1999 Beck's Beer ran several versions of a commercial called "Comedy" in which a painfully unfunny comedian with a strong German accent tells stereotypically bad jokes in a nearly empty club. He ends his act with "Zank you. I'll be here all ze veek." (And the actual punchline to the commercial is "Germans don't do comedy, they do beer.")

    Fan Works

    • When Doug Sangnoir gymnastically travels down the main staircase of Hogwarts in Drunkard's Walk VIII: Harry Potter and the Man from Otherearth, he responds to the applauding paintings with, "Thank you, thank you, I'm here until June. Try the veal, and don't forget to tip your artist."
    • In Harry Potter and the Four Heirs by "Sinyk", Hermione attempts to prank Harry by setting his arrival in the Great Hall for breakfast one morning to "Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood and the Destroyers. After he turns the prank around on her by playing into it, he turns to the rest of the students and declares, "Thank you, thank you, I'm here all year!"
    • In part 104 of the Worm AU fic A Darker Path by "Ack", Taylor "Atropos" Hebert infuses the answer to a question with the voice of her power, Ending, after which there is this exchange:

    Vicky shuddered theatrically. "For fuck's sake, don't say it like that. You just gave me chills all the way down to my toes."
    I grinned and gave her a slight bow. "Ending says thank you, he'll be here all week."

    • In the Harry Potter fic Harry Potter and the Marriage Contracts by Clell65619, a bemused Harry tells the student body "I'm here all week folks. Tip your elves" after the Weasley family causes a scene in the Great Hall.

    Film

    Literature

    • In the course of Ten on Sunday: The Secret Life of Men, a memoir by Alan Eisenstock which revolves around friendly driveway basketball games between neighbors in Santa Monica, California, there's this exchange:

    "Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Phil. He's here all week," I say.
    "Try the veal," Phil says.

    • Then there's this moment in the 2006 novel Killer Instinct by Joseph Finder:

    I pantomimed a Borscht Belt rimshot in the air. "Thank you, you're a wonderful audience, I'm here all week," I said. "Try the veal chop, it's great."

    Music

    • Acknowledging the trope, the jazz/funk group TRi/O (not to be confused with the Colombian pop trio "Tri-O") named their 2020 album Try the Veal.

    New Media

    • Posters on the Straight Dope message boards frequently use variations to punctuate bad one-liners and other jokes
    • Tenor.com has a page full of memes based around the phrase.

    Recorded and Stand Up Comedy

    • Tim Allen is credited with reviving the line after it had all but vanished from common memory when he used it after one of his comedy bits bombed while co-hosting the 1992 Emmy Awards: "Try the veal, I'll be here all week."

    Theatre

    • In the 1996 play Pieces of the Sky by David L. Paterson, the character Joshua says at one point

    JOSHUA: I’m not good at delivery - and yet they make me a mailman! Ba-doom-bump. Thank you -- I’ll be here all week -- try the brisket.

    Web Original

    Western Animation

    • In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Robot Rodeo", Ferb -- acting as the announcer for the rodeo -- says

    All right, cowboys and cowgirls, it's time to get along little dogie. Or even a short little dogie.
    I'm here all week, try the veal.


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