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Alternative Joke Interpretation

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Alternative Joke Interpretation	comment	Most jokes have a single, clear meaning. We all know that a woman is "for" Flushing, New York because of Ambiguous Syntax. We all know that a pony coughing because he's a little horse is a pun on the words "horse" and "hoarse". We all know that two of three castaways on a deserted island wishing for a genie to take them home and the third castaway wishing for his friends to come back is because the third castaway was Too Dumb to Live. Then there are these. Like most jokes, these jokes were probably intended to have one meaning, but some people interpret it as having another meaning. Even if the double meaning was intended by the writers, this may not always be clear to the audience. May cause a Broken Base about the meaning of the joke. Ambiguous Syntax and Multiple Reference Pun are when this is intentional. Compare/contrast Stealth Pun, where a joke that may or may not be intentional goes over most people's heads. Compare Poe's Law, when the joke can be interpreted to mean something serious. Also compare Comically Missing the Point. See also Harsher in Hindsight and Hilarious in Hindsight for jokes whose punchlines change over time.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_10b03dcf	comment	Batman: Arkham Asylum: When Batman is escorting a restrained Joker during the opening sequence, they encounter Killer Croc, who says he's got Batman's scent. Joker responds by quipping, "that reminds me, I need to get a new pair of shoes". Did Croc's comment to Batman make the Joker think his current shoes were too smelly? Or was he reminded of alligator boots after seeing him?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_13652756	comment	Finding Nemo: When Marlin and Dory are playing I Spy, Dory keeps using Marlin as the thing she sees. Is the joke that, besides the ocean itself, there's nothing and no one else to "spy", or is it that, due to her memory problems, she just can't remember choosing Marlin? Deb thinks her reflection is her sister, and she thinks the "sister's" name is Flo. Was that name chosen as a pun on "Aunt Flo", which is slang for periods (since she introduces herself as "Auntie Deb"), or is it because "Deb" rhymes with "ebb"? In the DVD menu, Dory says, "I've always wanted to be in a film!", to which Marlin replies, "You were in a film; this one!". Is this just Dory's short term memory loss acting up again, or is it that she doesn't know it's a film but he does? When Nemo and his friends first see the boat, Tad states that Sandy Plankton told him that it's called a "butt". Is the joke that Sandy Plankton is a Know-Nothing Know-It-All who misinformed Tad about what it's actually called, or did Tad simply misquote what Sandy Plankton told him? Sheldon sneezes a lot, and claims that it's because he's "H2O intolerant", which basically means "allergic to water". Is this true, or is he exaggerating by saying that his allergies are so bad that it might as well be water that he's allergic to?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_1484a16e	comment	In the first book, Ron says that he has one relative who's an accountant, but he finds him too embarrassing to talk about. Is the implication that the accountant is a squib (someone born to at least one magical parent but with no powers) and that's why Ron is embarrassed, or does he find the relative's job embarrassing because he's a wizard working in a job associated with muggles (normal people)? Or the guy's personality is so unpleasant it's embarrassing, and him being an accountant is incidental?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_14f9297e	comment	The Far Side: One strip has some cows sneak into a farmer's house while he's away, and one of them is described as making "an unpleasant discovery" in the freezer. Did she find beef or frozen bull semen? In one strip, a man opens up his blinds to see a tied-up cat dangling in front of the window and tells his unseen wife "the dog ain't going for the new cat". Larson's intended meaning was that the dog tied up the cat out of jealousy at it, but some readers thought the cat was tied up by the humans so it could be used to train a guard dog. The "Cow Tools" cartoon is perhaps one of the most well-known examples of this in the history of newspaper comics. Larson intended the joke to be about how strange the tools were and never put much thought into what they were supposed to be or how they were used. That didn't stop readers from coming up with their own explanations, even decades after the comic was first printed (a Redditor came up with a theory that the tools were for a mothering class). Some other readers had a different explanation: it was cows trying to imitate human tool usage.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_18d56fb8	comment	Nobody Here: The ashes of the dead dog in "Hermit". Is it a joke about people's ability to get lost in mourning or about him getting "bitches"?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_1b49ce18	comment	The Aristocats: When Roquefort the mouse is leading a bunch of stray cats to the kidnapped cat family, a man sees them, thinks he's drunk, and pours his wine out. Some people have interpreted him as thinking he's drunk at the sight of cats being chased by a mouse, while others have interpreted it as him thinking he's drunk because the mouse and some of the cats are wearing clothes. When Thomas sings his Overly Long Name, Duchess says that his name seems to "cover all of Europe". Is she saying that his name is so long that, if written down, it would seemingly cover the whole continent, or is she commenting on the fact that he has names from several European countries? (for instance, Giuseppe is Italian and O'Malley is Irish). Marie expresses disdain at being referred to as the "caboose" when she and her brothers are playing train. Is this because she feels the caboose is the least significant part of a train, or because "caboose" is slang for "butt"?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_2118f380	comment	Awkward Zombie: "The Pokemon Effect" is how PokÃ©mon was extremely popular when the Katie was in grade school, unpopular in high school, and became popular again in college. This was meant as a commentary about the ups and downs of the franchise's popularity, but some readers interpreted it as a commentary on maturity and the perceptions thereof, with high schoolers seeing PokÃ©mon as "kid's stuff" (or at least acting like they do) and college students outgrowing the desire to be grown up and the fear of being seen as childish.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_21e1640f	comment	JonTron In his episode on Barbie games, one segment on the Commodore 64 game has Jon jokingly theorize that the reason Ken keeps calling Barbie with the exact same phone call for a seemingly nonexistent date is because Ken had died and Barbie's going insane unable to accept it, followed by a mini-skit of Ken from the beyond calling again, saying "I miss you. It's so quiet after you die. There's nothing. But the voices, they never stop. (beat) See you in an hour!" The last bit reads as just a simple Mood Whiplash gag, but some viewers think that based on the circumstances, this was actually some kind of thinly-veiled threat or warning that Barbie's about to perish herself. In his look at bootleg Disney games, there's a gag with Hitler singing a Nazi-themed parody of "Hakuna Matata"; the song includes the line "No Jews, crips or gays". Does "crips" refer to disabled people, since the Nazis infamously euthanized those they considered too disabled to be worth keeping alive? Or is it a reference to the Crips street gang, since some white supremacists believe that black people are inherently inclined to criminality (a theme that came up in real-life Nazi propaganda)? Either way, it's definitely a Crosses the Line Twice gag.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_222a8847	comment	RoboCop (1987): The titular Cyborg attacks a robber at a convenience store and then thanks the storeowners for their cooperation, since he did a lot of damage in the process. This is sometimes interpreted as him thanking the robber for his cooperation.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_2250e67e	comment	In the Star Trek: Enterprise fanfic Hoshi's Box: Security Hazard, Malcolm Reed and Hoshi Sato have been left in charge of the ship while everyone else goes on shore leave. Bored, they try to make themselves feel better by saying that the trip will probably turn out wrong for everyone else. Malcolm says that he bets Travis Mayweather will get a sunburn. Is the joke that Travis, being black, sunburns the hardest so if he gets a sunburn it's a very bad trip, or is it a joke about how he has rotten luck?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons' meme video "Steamed Hams, but Skinner Serves Poop and Chalmers Thinks it's Just a Joke", when Chalmers finally realizes that Skinner really did serve poop and asks him why, Skinner makes a noise reminiscent of a wolf howling. Is he farting, is he saying, "Pooooop!", or is he just making the wolf noise randomly because he's crazy?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_29e77392	comment	In Terrible Treasures (a licensed game for Horrible Histories), a miner asks the player if they can smell gas, then comments, "No, it's all right; it's just me". Does this mean he farted, or that the smell was just his imagination?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_2a77a546	comment	Inside Out: Riley's imaginary boyfriend's only line besides his catchphrase ("I'd die for Riley!") is explaining that he's from Canada. Did Riley make him Canadian because she plays hockey, which is associated with Canada, or is it because of the stereotype that Americans' imaginary love interests tend to be Canadian? Thereâ€™s also the fact that Riley was originally from Minnesota, which borders Canada, so having a Canadian boyfriend would be a more plausible story than other instances of the trope. Sadness likes "the funny movie where the dog dies". Is the joke that she's so morbid she finds a sad movie funny, or was it that she thought that the movie was funny in general, but remembered the dog dying the most because that was the part that was sad and therefore relevant to her? Proponents of the former sometimes see it as a reference to Old Yeller, while proponents of the latter may see it as a reference to Marley & Me. The end of the movie features a button marked "PUBERTY". Some see this as a Stealth Pun on "hitting" puberty, while others just think it was added because puberty can be a source of Cringe Comedy. People have also debated whether it was supposed to mean "Push in case of puberty" or "Push to initiate puberty".
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_353b7af3	comment	Star Trek: Discovery: In one episode, the engineers Reno and Stamets are affected by some hallucinogenic spores that make them compliment each other, then this makes them feel awkward. Is the joke that they're feeling awkward because they hate each other and so don't want to be nice to each other, or is it that they don't want to seem as though they're hitting on each other (which they clearly aren't, since they're both gay)?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_3953baf0	comment	The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney): One early scene has Quasimodo, who wants to attend the Festival of Fools, blurt out the word "festival" when his alphabet lesson with Frollo reaches the letter "F", then abruptly say "forgiveness" when Frollo reacts poorly. Was this because forgiveness was the word he was supposed to associate with "F", or was he saying it to ask Frollo for forgiveness? When Clopin gives Quasimodo and Phoebus a trial in the Court of Miracles, under the impression that they're still working for Frollo, he tells them "we find you totally innocent... which is the worst crime of all". Is this a mockery of Frollo's self-righteousness? A reference to Frollo persecuting Gypsies for imagined crimes? Or is it based on the premise that a "totally innocent" person likely wouldn't be a friend of those in the Court of Miracles?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_3ac755dd	comment	Beauty and the Beast: When Belle calls Gaston "primeval", he earnestly thanks her. Is this because he doesn't know what "primeval" means, or because he takes it as a compliment because he hates thinking? When Gaston says that he's been thinking during the reprise of his Villain Song, Le Fou responds, "A dangerous pastime". Is the implication that he believes all thinking is dangerous (meaning he hates thinking just as much as Gaston), or that it's dangerous for others when Gaston specifically starts thinking?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: In the first book, Ron says that he has one relative who's an accountant, but he finds him too embarrassing to talk about. Is the implication that the accountant is a squib (someone born to at least one magical parent but with no powers) and that's why Ron is embarrassed, or does he find the relative's job embarrassing because he's a wizard working in a job associated with muggles (normal people)? Or the guy's personality is so unpleasant it's embarrassing, and him being an accountant is incidental? In the third book, the manager of the bookstore Floruish and Blotts mentions that his store spent a lot of money on 200 copies of The Invisible Book of Invisibility, but nobody was ever able to find them. Is this a gag about how impractical such a thing would be, or was the store scammed into buying a nonexistent book?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_3cd90f30	comment	In the Arrested Development/Community Crossover Community Psychology: A Study of Arrested Development, Britta tries to impersonate a lawyer but fails. She later tells Jeff "First the good news: I was not arrested for impersonating a lawyer." He replies "Good. Wait, there was a possibility of that?" Does Jeff's comment mean he's just now learning that Britta was doing something potentially illegal or is he referring to his own time as a lawyer which came to an end because he didn't meet the educational requirements?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_3e5afb68	comment	In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Wallace is naked due to having just changed back from being a were-rabbit. Gromit puts him in a cardboard box to cover his shame, which is labelled "may contain nuts". Is this because Wallace is a "nut", i.e. a Cloudcuckoolander, or because his "nuts" (as in, his gonads) are being covered by the box?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: Quite often when there's a Noodle Incident or a literal incident involving noodles (such as when Calvin did a presentation in which he used noodles to look like a brain), there'll be readers wondering if that incident was the Noodle Incident. In one strip, Calvin's mother remarks that his gory-looking snowmen have "slowed down traffic" on their street. Does that mean that there is less traffic because people are scared away, or that the traffic is moving more slowly because the drivers want a closer look at the snowmen? One of the family's many Horrible Camping Trips was horrible because of the rain. On the way home, Calvin's father exclaims, "I've had enough! What a rotten week!", and then the rain stops, annoying the father even more. The final panel shows Calvin asking Hobbes what any of "Dad's words" meant. The intended meaning of the strip was that Calvin's father swore off-page, but some readers pointed out that, knowing Calvin's dad, he could have been yelling in Angrish, and some young children who read the strip interpreted it as Calvin mistaking the "I've had enough" line for a magic spell to stop rain and wondering which of the words did it, or joking that his father's words must have meant something different since he usually never gives up. Susie is Calvin's Implied Love Interest, yet they also fight a lot. Is this a parody of tropes like Loving Bully, or is the joke that the reason for their fighting is that they don't want to admit that they're in love? In one strip, Calvin climbs out of bed, phones his parents, and says, "It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?". This was intended as a reference to a PSA that had the line "Do you know where your children are?", but people who didn't get the reference thought it was just Calvin being a Cloud Cuckoolander. One strip has Calvin at the dinner table wondering, "What if we die and God is a big chicken? Eternal consequences, that's what!". They are eating chicken, so the intended meaning is that Calvin is worried about being sent to Hell for eating God's kind, but due to the art style, some readers didn't realise it was chicken, so they thought that Calvin was either (A) wondering if God was a coward, (B) paranoid over the idea of going to Heaven and having to worship a chicken for all eternity, (C) making a funny interpretation over God's true reality since he doesn't know if he actually exists or (D) just spouting a weird Non Sequitur. In one strip, Calvin wants to play with "the old pigskin", and then we see him with a toy that looks like a pig's skin. It was meant to be a Bait-and-Switch gag, since "pigskin" is slang for an American football, but people who didn't realise this thought Calvin had bad taste in games. One strip has Calvin commenting on world hunger and expressing sympathy towards people who don't have enough to eat. Hobbes says he knows what that feels like, to which Calvin responds by angrily shouting, "No, you don't!" Is he angry at Hobbes for implying he doesn't get enough to eat, or because he thinks Hobbes is belittling a very serious issue and the people who suffer because of it? It could also be both.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_423ca36c	comment	Young Frankenstein: There's a Running Gag that a horse whinny sound effect plays every time Frau BlÃ¼cher's name is said, even in scenes where no horses are present. This was probably intended as a parody of the Scare Chord trope, but some people saw it as an obscure reference to the Prussian general Gebhard Leberecht von BlÃ¼cher (whose horse was famously shot dead at the Battle of Ligny), or an indicator that the horses are scared of her because she abused them in the past. And then there's the famous urban legend that it's because "blÃ¼cher" is supposedly the German (or Yiddish) word for glue...
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield: What is the meaning of this 2006 strip? Garfield comes across a sign reading "beware of bunny", and comes across a dog-like creature. Either (1) there was a bunny but the dog ate it, (2) the dog is named Bunny and Garfield is surprised at how unfitting such a name is, (3) the bunny wasn't as worthy of that "Beware" sign due to Point #1, or (4) the "dog" is just a really odd-looking bunny. In one strip, Jon drinks a cup of what he thinks is coffee while taking Garfield for a vet appointment, and Liz tells him "Congratulations— you're going to have a litter of puppies", much to Jon's understandable disgust. The intended meaning of the joke is that he drank fertility medicine for dogs, but some people have taken it to mean he drank dog semen. One early strip has Garfield mention that his Uncle Bernard went to the vet and came back as his Aunt Bernice. Is this an oblique reference to neutering, or did Garfield's relative get sex reassignment surgery? On the August 4th, 2000 comic, Garfield talks to a worm. He asks if it likes being a worm, it asks "do cats eat worms?", and Garfield says no. The worm says, "I love being a worm." Is this a joke that the worm is happy when it realizes that Garfield won't eat it, or was it phrased as a rhetorical question?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_4500f5a	comment	Muppets from Space: When Gonzo says that his alphabet cereal is "sending [him] a message", Rizzo responds, "I know how you feel — I had some guacamole last night and it's still speaking to me!". Is this an And I'm the Queen of Sheba type quip, or did the guacamole give him gas or food poisoning?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_4a059a74	comment	The Mandalorian: "The Child" has some Jawas messily eating the flesh of a raw, hairy egg. The Mandalorian watches, and shakes his head. Is he disgusted by their lack of table manners, or does he not understand why they'd like to eat that egg?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_4ad89ce0	comment	Hazbin Hotel: After Katie Killjoy tells Charlie she's a homophobe because she has "standards", Charlie asks "how's that working out for you?" while gesturing towards a banner that reads "Hell's #1 News Program!" Is Charlie implying that Katie's homophobia was what landed her in Hell or that she would only be a popular news personality in Hell?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_4e7bc558	comment	Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail Parker wants his mom to draw an image of Goh getting his life sucked out by the characters of Chloe's story — who are based on characters from Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS — without thinking of the implications. Is he aware of how dark of an idea that is or does he just find the idea as a way to involve Goh in the illustrations?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_513e22f6	comment	Scandinavia and the World: In the strip titled "Imposter", Sweden tells his fellow Nordics that there's a Nordic imposter among them, and Iceland thinks it could be Finland because he "talks weird". This could be interpreted as a joke on how Finnish is a Finnic language and not a Germanic one, or a joke on the fact that he's usually mute and doesn't talk at all.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_524499fe	comment	Spitting Image: One segment has a Russian cosmonaut hear a knock at the door of the space station he's on. He opens it, only to immediately close it again when the person knocking explains they're one of Jehovah's witnesses. Is this a joke about how stereotypically annoying door-to-door evangelists are, or about Soviet state atheism?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_5286ec36	comment	In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, when Eddie asks Roger, who's currently on the run from the law, if anyone knows the rabbit's come to his office, Roger responds that no one does. However, he does explain he asked a number of people for directions, including the news boy, the fireman, the green grocer, the butcher, and the baker, but none of them knew. Only one person could tell him: the liquor store guy. Eddie gets very angry upon hearing this. The joke could be that either Roger asking willy-nilly around town means everyone knows where he's going, or everyone knows because Eddie is a frequent customer of the liquor store, and the guy in charge is a notorious gossip.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_5567b157	comment	In the song "Fat", Yankovic claims that when he goes to the beach, he's "the only one who gets a tan." Some have taken it as meaning that he blocks the sun for everyone else, while others assumed that he was the only one on the beach because he took up all the space. Either way, it works well for a song that is an extra-long fat joke.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_5b686581	comment	Sonic Heroes: Team Chaotix's Team Blast, Chaotix Recital, is them performing music that is somehow able to destroy all enemies near them. Is this because their music is loud enough to be weaponized? Or is it because it's so downright terrible that experiencing it is harmful?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_5f5772dd	comment	Spiked Math: "Sex Proofs" ends with a censored "proof by brute force". If you use the cryptanalytic interpretation of "brute force", it means that the characters are trying every way to have sex to find out what works. However, if you take "brute force" more literally, it becomes a Black Comedy Rape joke (or at least a joke about violent sex).
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_61831293	comment	Charlotte's Web: When Templeton reveals that the Zuckermans want to have Wilbur (a pig) for Christmas dinner, one of the cows remarks that she's glad nobody eats cows, even though they obviously do. Is this because she's dumb (or cows in general are dumb)? Is it because a dairy cow (who are kept for milk and not meat) would have no way of knowing that humans eat cows? Or is she glad that no one eats dairy cows?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_6bd0cf78	comment	Monsters, Inc.: In one scene, a monster tries to scare a sleeping girl at night, only to find her already awake, listening to rock music, and walking very close to him unfazed, despite allegedly being only six years old. Does this mean that 7-11 years have passed without the monsters noticing and the girl is now a teenager? Or does it mean that the girl is an unusually tough six-year-old, listening to music she's clearly too young for and Admiring the Abomination?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_6fe3e8a7	comment	Neopets: In this article, the section regarding not getting paper petpets wet mentions not to let them near the little Neopet across the street "if you know what I mean". Does this mean that the Neopet across the street is a baby and may drool on the petpet, is not toilet trained and may pee on them, is too young to look after a petpet and may dunk them in water, or was painted with a Water paintbrush? The mention that the in-universe function of the inventory is a bag that's bigger on the inside was intended as a reference to the TARDIS from Doctor Who, but some players took it as a reference to either the carpet-bag from Mary Poppins or Hermione Granger's purse. An infamous example comes from the 2024 April Fools prank — one of the dark posters depicted a Warf (doglike petpet) hanging from a tree with the caption "Just let go". It was intended as simply a Dark Parody of the "Hang in there, baby" poster, but some people thought that the Warf wanted to kill, or at the very least hurt, itself, while others thought it was saying that the tree was sentient and was being encouraged to let go of its problem, i.e. the Warf.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Trials and Tribble-ations", O'Brien suggests Dax tease Worf (her husband) by implying he smells of lilac. She says that she has her own ways of "torturing" him — is this a reference to the Running Gag of them having rough sex, or is it saying that he sometimes finds her annoying due to their personality clash? Also in "Trials and Tribble-ations", when Sisko explains to two agents who deal with red tape involving Time Travel that it might take him some "time" to explain something. The agents ask if he was joking, and when he replies in the negative, they say, "Good. We hate those". Does this mean the agents hate jokes or that they specifically hate time jokes due to hearing them too often? In "The Wire", Bashir complains that a certain novel is boring in that it's simply generations of people living the same plots over and over. Some people took this as Biting-the-Hand Humour at the fact that Star Trek has several series, while others saw it as a Take That! to Blackadder.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_78702df2	comment	When Star Wars: A New Hope was first released, Obi-Wan's "Only a master of evil, Darth" comment was just thought of that 'Darth' was Vader's first name. From context, we now know it's a title, and Obi-Wan would definitely know that, so it comes across as him being sarcastic.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_791e7b7f	comment	In the DMV scene in Zootopia, Nick tells the joke, "What do you call a three-humped camel? Pregnant!" Some have taken the joke as meaning that the third hump was the baby camel, while others saw it as a play on the word "hump". There was even a minor Edit War on this very wiki about the meaning of the joke.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_79620aaa	comment	Sandra and Woo: One strip has Larisa comment that Yuna's discussion of naked singularities and black holes sounds perverted. It's possible that she was talking about the use of the term "naked singularity". On the other hand, Larisa's Russian, and it's a popular misconception that the literal Russian translation of "black hole" refers to something extremely vulgar and perverse (Russians supposedly call them "frozen stars" instead), so it's also possible that her comment was a nod at the myth.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_7e7124af	comment	Persona 5 Strikers: In a conversation during the 2nd dungeon, which is an in-universe Cliché Storm of RPGs, the party debate what Character Class they'd each be. When it comes to Ryuji, Futaba says he'd be the Jester, which he protests. However, anyone familiar with Dragon Quest 3 (which the geeky Futaba certainly would be) knows the Jester class is famous for Magikarp Power, so was Futaba trolling Ryuji by giving him a stealth compliment she knew he wouldn't get?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	In Frozen, the trolls' song has the lyric, "So he's a bit of a fixer-upper; so he's got a few flaws, like his peculiar brain, dear, his thing with the reindeer. That's a little outside of nature's laws!". Some people think that they were referring to the fact that he uses a reindeer named Sven as a horse, when he can just use an actual horse, but others think the writers sneaked a bestiality joke in, and still others think they're just referring to how Kristoff speaks for his pet reindeer Sven.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_7fc78282	comment	In one fan comic based on The Lord of the Rings, Arathorn disapproves of Aragorn and Arwen dating, then Thranduil tells him to consider himself lucky, since Legolas and Gimli are also dating. Is Thranduil homophobic, or is he bigoted against dwarves?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_8124a34e	comment	In his episode on Barbie games, one segment on the Commodore 64 game has Jon jokingly theorize that the reason Ken keeps calling Barbie with the exact same phone call for a seemingly nonexistent date is because Ken had died and Barbie's going insane unable to accept it, followed by a mini-skit of Ken from the beyond calling again, saying "I miss you. It's so quiet after you die. There's nothing. But the voices, they never stop. (beat) See you in an hour!" The last bit reads as just a simple Mood Whiplash gag, but some viewers think that based on the circumstances, this was actually some kind of thinly-veiled threat or warning that Barbie's about to perish herself.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_85d1a843	comment	How to Train Your Dragon 2: Gobber's comment "This is why I never married. This and one other reason", can be taken as Gobber admitting he's gay, or that he's impotent. Voice actor Craig Ferguson, isn't gay but said it in a way that implies the former, but the way it's presented makes it open to interpretation.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_877bc78	comment	The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck: In one of the more famous Parental Bonus moments, a gang of lawmen (pursuing Scrooge based on false information) approach Scrooge's cabin where Goldie has just entered, their comments implying that there's a lot of Belligerent Sexual Tension being worked out in there. Roy Bean then says whatever's going on in that cabin is not a hanging offense in Texas or anywhere else (Thank Gosh!)◊, which can either be taken as his being grateful that sex isn't illegal, or that he's not legally required to play Moment Killer and face the combined wrath of Scrooge and Goldie.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_8adfa9e6	comment	Peeking Through the Fourth Wall: In Episode 31, Luna says she once dressed as a lamp for Halloween, but her classmates teased her by saying she always looked like that. This was intended as a reference to a meme about replacing Luna with a lamp, but it could also be interpreted as her classmates implying she got drunk all the time (albeit falsely, since After Dark: 4 reveals that she doesn't drink). In Episode 17, when Lincoln is picked up by three Original Characters named Sophia, Maria, and Zoe who note that he's heavy, one of the MST guys notes that most of the weight would be in his head. Is this a joke about how Lincoln is a cartoon character drawn with a very large head, or is it saying that, since he's uncharacteristically angsty in the fanfic, his angst is so excessive it's literally weighing down his brain? In Episode 33, Lana mentions that she knows a frog named Jeremiah. One commenter mistook this for a nationalist joke, comparing French people to frogs, but it was actually a reference to a song that had the lyric "Jeremiah was a bullfrog". Two from Episode 38: The episode involves five of the gender-swapped Loud siblings reading a story in which Linka goes insane due to her love of chocolate, calling herself the "chocolate monster". She has an empty box labelled, "In case the chocolate monster is about to come out", and the siblings reading the story wonder what it was meant to contain. Lane jokingly suggests Pepto-Bismol — is he joking that the term "chocolate monster" sounds like an Unusual Euphemism for poop, or is he saying that if Linka ate too much chocolate in a fit of insanity, she'd get indigestion? Later on in the story, Linka asks Lane if he added love to his pies, to which he blushes. The real siblings look awkward at this — is it because the "love" comment reminded them of American Pie (in which a boy masturbates with a pie), or do they think blushing at a compliment seems too romantic for siblings?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_8e8086c3	comment	Goldfinger: James Bond describes serving Dom Perignon '53 at more than 35 degrees Fahrenheit as being "as bad as listening to The Beatles without earmuffs". Word of God claims that this was a joke about the incredibly loud screaming of fangirls at Beatles concerts, but it's been interpreted for decades as a knock at the band itself.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_8f8df73b	comment	In his look at bootleg Disney games, there's a gag with Hitler singing a Nazi-themed parody of "Hakuna Matata"; the song includes the line "No Jews, crips or gays". Does "crips" refer to disabled people, since the Nazis infamously euthanized those they considered too disabled to be worth keeping alive? Or is it a reference to the Crips street gang, since some white supremacists believe that black people are inherently inclined to criminality (a theme that came up in real-life Nazi propaganda)? Either way, it's definitely a Crosses the Line Twice gag.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_8f8e48de	comment	The Lion King (2019): Unlike in the original movie, Timon notably does not stop Pumbaa from saying "farted", which both characters take the time to acknowledge. Was Pumbaa allowed to say it because the word "fart" isn't as taboo as it used to be? Or was it because the kids in the original audience have grown up over the 25 years between the movies?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_905cf99c	comment	The Fifth Element: As Korben leaves his apartment, he's confronted by a mugger. He looks over the mugger's gun and says it's not loaded, telling him to push the yellow button. Once the mugger does so, the gun fizzles out, allowing Korben to draw his own pistol and disarm him. Did Korben trick the mugger into actually turning on the safety, or did Korben genuinely tell him how to load it, knowing the gun was a piece of crap that was likely to jam when you loaded it?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_914ddbfd	comment	After Phil catches a boy falling from a tree in Groundhog Day, the Trope Namer and Trope Codifier for "Groundhog Day" Loop, the boy doesn't thank him. Phil responds, "See you tomorrow... maybe." Some took it as meaning that Phil might not be there to save the ungrateful kid in the next time loop, while others thought he was referring to the fact that the time loop could break the next day.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_92844ddb	comment	Dinosaurs: In one episode, Sexu-Al Harris flirts with a female dinosaur by saying she has "two items" he wants to check out. Is this referring to Non-Mammal Mammaries (despite the fact that she wasn't portrayed with any), is it referring to one mundane item plus her sexual organs, or is it referring to her legs?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_92916f5a	comment	Shrek: When Shrek and Donkey arrive at Lord Farquaad's castle, Shrek looks up at the impressive height of the tower and asks Donkey "Do you think he's Compensating for Something?"; Shrek's joke could mean he thinks Farquaad's compensating for either his short height, or a Teeny Weenie. It could be both as at the time, Shrek doesn't know yet that Lord Farquaad is short while the viewer does. It's also possible that the joke is that Shrek is Entertainingly Wrong, in that he has correctly guessed that Farquaad is compensating for something, but thinks it's a Teeny Weenie (as one's first guess usually would be in such a situation), when we the viewers already know that it's in fact his height. After Lord Farquaad calls Shrek hideous on seeing him for the first time, Shrek says "well, that's not very nice. He's just a donkey." to which Farquaad responds with "indeed". Was the joke that Farquaad was dismissing Shrek's attempted deflection because he couldn't be bothered to come up with a wittier response, or was he subtly negating it by agreeing with Shrek?note If one goes with the latter interpretation, Farquaad's line could easily be expanded to "Indeed, he's just a donkey, you are hideous".
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_92916f5b	comment	Shrek 2: At the beginning, Donkey says that his wife Dragon has been "moody", but at the end of the film, she's back to normal and they have babies. Is the joke that Dragon was pregnant and hormonal? Or is it referencing the idea that mythical monsters such as dragons are often violently protective of their eggs?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_935a39be	comment	In Super Smash Bros. Brawl (later carried into Super Smash Bros. Ultimate), Solid Snake reveals in a codec conversation that he's weirdly annoyed by Sonic the Hedgehog, and when pressed, he's unable to explain why beyond "there's something about him I just don't like." Fans have theorized many possible explanations: some believe this to be an Actor Allusion as Chikao Ohtsuka (father of Snake's Japanese VA, Akio Ōtsuka) voiced Sonic's arch-enemy Dr. Eggman, others interpret this as an Animal Jingoism joke (hedgehogs eat snakes in the wild), or perhaps an acknowledgement of the fact both Snake and Sonic were the first third-party characters added to Super Smash Bros., with Snake's annoyance being jealousy towards his competitor.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_96e8e887	comment	"Jurassic Park" has the lines "A huge tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer / Well, I suppose that proves /They're really not all bad". It's clearly an Evil Lawyer Joke of some sort, but deliberate Ambiguous Syntax gives it at least three possible punchlines: Either the dinosaurs are "not all bad" since they disposed of a lawyer, lawyers are "not all bad" since they provide sustenance to dinosaurs (or because if the lawyer wasn't there the t-rex might have eaten the narrator instead), or lawyers don't taste bad. Al himself said on a Q&A on his website that the joke was deliberately left ambiguous for the listener to decide.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_987ae286	comment	In Cars, Lightning spots a tattoo on Sally's behind and points it out. Sally acts embarrassed, and drives backwards so that he won't see her tattoo. Is the joke that she's embarrassed because the tattoo is on her "butt" (which would raise the question of why cars don't cover their rears if they find them shameful like humans do), or is she embarrassed because she got it when she was younger and sees it as an Old Shame?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_98c961e2	comment	Helluva Boss: Blitzo has Stolas listed in his contacts under "bird dick". Is this an insulting nickname, or an indication that Stolas has avian genitals? In "Loo Loo Land", Loona screams "shut the fuck up!" from offscreen after Blitzo announces that the group is going to Loo Loo Land through a megaphone, seemingly more affected by the noise than Moxxie or Millie despite being further away from its source than them. Is this because she has a dog's sensitive hearing? Or did she come to work hung over, like in the pilot? In "Spring Broken", Blitzo threatens to call HR on Verosika, which the two of them and Verosika's bodyguard Vortex laugh at, implying Blitzo was joking. Were they laughing because it's Hell and people being mean and nasty to each other is encouraged? Because HR stands for Human Resources and everyone involved was a demon? Because they don't work for the same company, so no HR department would have jurisdiction in the matter? Or was it just a gag about the stereotypical uselessness of HR? In "Exes and Oohs", Moxxie says that Crimson once referred to Chaz as a "friendless horsefucker", which Blitzo misquotes as "horseless friendfucker". Was this just a Freudian Slip from Blitzo turning over the fact that Chaz slept with two of Blitzo's friends in his head? Or, since he's a horse lover, did he intentionally switch the words around to avoid speaking of his favorite animal in such a vulgar way?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_995d37c6	comment	In SCOOB!, there's a brief moment when Dick Dastardly introduces himself to Scooby, who repeatedly calls him "Rick", forcing Dastardly to repeatedly correct the dog. Some think it's just Scooby being a Speech-Impaired Animal as per usual, but others think he's deliberately calling Dastardly "Rick" to troll him since this version isn't as speech-impaired as others. It helps that Scooby ends up using the moment to flee.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_9992c8b0	comment	Dennis the Menace (US): In one installment, Dennis and his father walk by an out-of-business vegetarian restaurant, with the former saying it's no wonder they went bankrupt. The Comics Curmudgeon admitted he wasn't sure if the intended joke was Dennis mistakenly thinking the economy reflects his whims, or that the restaurant was such a bad idea that even a child could tell it would fail.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: At the end of one episode, Spock, who'd gone blind, gets his sight back and Kirk notes that being The Stoic, he probably didn't have any emotional response. Spock replies, that on the contrary, he did react emotionally — because the first thing he saw was McCoy's face looking over him. Is he calling McCoy ugly (which is how McCoy interpreted it), is he saying that McCoy was being too nurturing looking over him all the time, or is he saying that (given their dynamic) he finds McCoy annoying in general?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_a25325a5	comment	Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze: Funky Kong has a heart for sale as a healing item. If you go to buy it, he advises you not to think too hard about the fact that it's a heart. Is this because of the Fridge Logic of him having a disembodied heart, or is it because hearts are a symbol associated with love? The Spanish translation seems to go for the latter, as he tells you not to think too much about what it isn't.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_a485ad0f	comment	The Angry Video Game Nerd: In the episode covering Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mecha Death Christ responds to the Nerd saying "holy shit" with a shout of "watch your fucking language!" On the surface, this seems like a bit of Hypocritical Humor, but some fans interpret it as the "holy" part being what angered SMDC; under this reading of the joke, he was objecting to the Nerd's blasphemy, not his use of profanity.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_a4977687	comment	Dark Simpsons: In "Skinner Loves His Willie" the basic plot of the story revolves around Bart discovering Principal Skinner in an affair with Groundskeeper Willie, which angers Superintendent Chalmers. Is he upset because two staff members were making or having sex out in view of children, or he is just homophobic? In "I'm Mr. Burns, Blah, Blah, Blah", when Homer gives Mr. Burns his report on the accounting department, irt cuts to the "It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times" scene from "Last Exit to Springfield". Was Homer so stupid that he actually thought a single, misspelled sentence would make for a good report, or did he just forget to write it and gave Mr. Burns a random paper instead? A running joke is Michael Jackson molesting Bart. However, "Jackson" himself is represented by Leon Kompowsky. This raises the question of whether or not he really is Jackson, or just some delusional man like Kompsoki was in canon.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_a535581a	comment	In The Emperor's New Groove, while Pacha is introducing Kuzco to the diner waitress as his spouse and explaining how it's their honeymoon, she dryly replies, "Bless you for coming out in public." It's probably scripted as a reference to Kuzco's llama appearance, but with how Disney has become more open with LGBTQ+ representation over time, it could also be suggested that she's aware Kuzco is male.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_a851d974	comment	The Nostalgia Chick: The song "Everyone's a Whore on Halloween" from her review of The Worst Witch has the lyric "Vampires are bitches/And trust me, they're not doing any witches". Is the implication that vampires are gay and wouldn't be interested in the company of women (since witches are generally assumed to be female), or that they're cowards too afraid to bite witches?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_a895e9d3	comment	In Portal 2, GlaDOS begins the game discovering that Chell is adopted, and repeatedly taunts her with petty jokes about how her birth parents don't love her. Later in the game, as the two end up having to work together against a common enemy in the form of Wheatley, said enemy tries to relay a childish "fatty fatty no parents" taunt, and GlaDOS jumps to Chell's defense and calls him out on it ("WHAT'S WRONG WITH BEING ADOPTED?"), only for her to whisper under her breath to Chell "FOR THE RECORD, YOU ARE ADOPTED, AND THAT'S TERRIBLE, BUT JUST WORK WITH ME HERE." She's clearly just trying to find a reason to mess with Wheatley, but there's some contention as to whether her aside to Chell is a Hypocritical Heartwarming joke (implying she still thinks being adopted is shameful), or a sudden Pet the Dog moment (sympathetically acknowledging that it's terrible that her birth parents gave her up).
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_ab42c63a	comment	One episode of Get Smart shows Max become horrified when he discovers 99 just saw him unbutton his collar. In another, he refuses to let her watch him lower his sock below the ankle. Is the joke about the absurdity of a Casanova Wannabe being so shy, or a satirical jab at the Moral Guardians of the time?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_acb92fd0	comment	In the episode "Cigarettes, Alcohol, and Rollerblading" of Father Ted, Father Jack gives up drinking for Lent. When he sees Father Ted and Father Dougal for the first time while sober, he asks "Where are the other two?" This joke could have meant that he either saw a blurry and distorted version of Ted and Dougal while drunk (which gave him an inaccurate idea of what they looked like), or he always saw 4 other priests thanks to Single Malt Vision.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_b3d82d83	comment	Super Ghostbusters: The song about the lasagna has Joel making a noise throughout the song that could be interpreted as either crying or laughter. As such, is it Joel's character crying over having his lasagna being stolen (with the joke being that he's dramatic), or Joel himself laughing at how ridiculous the song is? In one song, the singer phones the Ghostbusters, says that his toilet is not working, and when they say that that's no reason to call them, lies that the reason it's not working is that it's blocked with Ectoplasm. Was the toilet actually broken, but for a more mundane reason, and the singer was such a fanboy of the Ghostbusters that he was in denial of the fact that he needed to call a plumber instead of them, or was the toilet not even broken and he was just Prank Calling the Ghostbusters?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_b4709254	comment	TV Tropes itself has a few of these for trope titles: Is Anvilicious a portmanteau of "anvil" and "delicious", or "anvil" and "vicious"? Crying a River was intended to reference the idiom "crying oneself a river", but some tropers took it as a reference to the song "The Story of a Girl", since the girl in that song is said to have "cried a river". Doorstop Baby puns on the expression "doorstep baby", but what exactly is the pun? Is it that someone would stop cold if they saw a baby on their doorstep, or is it a joke about using babies as doorstops? "Blind Idiot" Translation is supposed to be a reference to a Recursive Translation of "out of sight, out of mind", but the trope page itself notes that it works very well as an insult towards the translator.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_b5134390	comment	My Immortal: Voldemort gives Ebony a "dude-ur-so-retarded look". Is this a Disapproving Look, a Death Glare, or a mocking "stupid person" face? Sirius/Serious is called a "dogfather". Assuming this wasn't one of the story's many typos, was this a pun on how he's able to turn himself into a dog? Or was it part of the Running Gag of Ebony refusing to say religious words (e.g. saying, "pentagram" instead of "cross" regardless of context)?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_b618b457	comment	In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, after using the Babel Fish to prove the non-existence of God, Man "goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing." As many American readers didn't know a zebra crossing refers to a crosswalk, they thought it meant Man was trampled to death by zebras on an African plain. Given how much of the franchise operates under Surreal Humor anyway, this misconception likely made the joke funnier.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_b6b6098	comment	In Moshi Monsters, the description for Hoodoo Stew was "No Hoodoos were harmed in the making of this stew... we hope." It's been debated whether the people who labelled it were hoping that Hoodoos weren't cannibalistic or that they didn't fall into the stew and die by accident. On the one hand, Moshi Monsters was no stranger to edgy jokes (they had a whole species which ate their own ears for instance) and the Hoodoos do live in the jungle, and there's a stereotype of jungle-dwellers being cannibals. On the other hand, Hoodoos are generally portrayed as being on the side of good, and we actually get to see the ingredients for Hoodoo Stew which does not include Hoodoo meat.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_b9b06d7e	comment	Borat: The movie's version of the Kazakhstani national anthem includes a verse praising a fairly ordinary swimming pool. Is this meant to imply that Kazakhstan is severely backwards and underdeveloped (a theme explored throughout the movie), or is it a joke about how the country is landlocked and has a dry climate?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_bbc1f9dc	comment	In Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Buck the crazy weasel tells the heroes not to breathe in the green gas or they'll die. When they stop being able to hold their breaths and end up breathing it in anyway, they survive but they start laughing uncontrollably and speaking in helium voices. They also start making goofy confessions and blames— is the joke that they think they're going to die and are getting things off their chests, or that the gas has made them high? One of the possum brothers denies that he wets the other's bed like he said, claiming it was "gas talk", but was he really high or was he just saying he was to avoid embarrassment?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_bbd69b51	comment	Twisted Translations: The main joke is always that the translations are bad, but there are some lines that could be taken in more than one way, but it's humorous either way: One of the Taylor Swift songs has Malinda in Taylor garb saying, "Gays, now we have a problem". Some people have interpreted that line as "Taylor" being a homophobe, while others have interpreted it as her wanting to tell some gay people about a problem. The title of "All I Want for Christmas is You" turned into "All I Want for Christmas is Your Baby". Does the singer (who's a duck, we might add) want to kidnap someone's baby, or have kids with them? In the "Mother Knows Best" video, Gothel often talks as though she's going to die. Is the joke that she's an emo now, or is she actually going to die? The line "Dinner and back to the bathroom" in "Google Translate Makes Dinner". Are they going to the bathroom because they have food poisoning or because they want to flush the dinner down the toilet? Either way, it works well with the theme of a Lethal Chef and it's a rare example of continuity since a toilet was mentioned earlier in the video, and now they're going back to the bathroom. In "Baby, it's Cold Outside", "Karid" mentions that he "can't kill Grandpa". Is the joke that he tried to kill his grandfather but can't, or that he was told to kill his grandfather but refused? In "Look What You Made Me Do", one lyric is that "Bobby is not a believer". Is Bobby an atheist, or (since the singer claims she's dead at one point) does he not believe in ghosts? "This Is Halloween" has the lyrics "I am a prostitute and I'm sorry/Flash mode does not work here" sung by a female character. Is she apologizing for being a prostitute, or for flash mode not working? In "Total Eclipse of the Heart", the lyric "I don't know what to do when I was in school" recurs. Is the singer bad at academics or socially inept? The fact that the video shows her looking through a textbook in confusion while singing that line indicates the former, but the video was made well after the lyrics were generated. In "Do You Wanna Build a Snowman?", Anna says to Elsa, who is in her locked bedroom, "Please, I know you're in yourself". Does Anna think Elsa is masturbating through self-penetration, or does she think Elsa is very deep in thought (i.e. "in her own world")?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_bc8b07	comment	Epic Rap Battles of History "Abraham Lincoln vs. Chuck Norris" has Lincoln threaten to rip out Norris' chest hairs and put them in his mouth. This was probably meant to be a Shout-Out to The Way Of The Dragon, since Bruce Lee's character did something very similar to Chuck's during their fight, but the perceived homoeroticism meant that some viewers saw it as a reference to allegations from some historians that Lincoln was bisexual. "The Mythbusters vs. The Ghostbusters": When addressing the Mythbusters, Venkman derisively refers to somebody as "The Lorax". Is he talking about Jaime Hyneman, due to Hyneman having a mustache similar to the Lorax's? Or is he talking about Walter Peck, an EPA agent the Ghostbusters were at odds with (since the Lorax is also an environmentalist)? At the end of the video "Romeo and Juliet vs Bonnie and Clyde", Bonnie shoots Juliet, causing her to collapse. Romeo thinks Bonnie killed her and poisons himself. When Juliet regains consciousness, she is horrified when she sees Romeo lying dead, and stabs herself. Bonnie and Clyde are confused at what just happened. However, when they realize they have each other at least, they are immediately shot. Then the battle ends, and the announcer says, "Who won? Who's next? You decide! Epic Rap Battles of History!" as usual. The problem is, he says the first part in a quiet voice and the second part in a loud voice. Some see the first part as mirroring Bonnie and Clyde's confused reaction to Romeo and Juliet's deaths, and the second part as the announcer getting back into character. Others see the first part as mirroring Juliet having woken up and regained consciousness, and the second part as mirroring Juliet's horrified reaction to Romeo's death. "James Bond vs. Austin Powers" has Connery's Bond brag that if he had a Mini-Me, Peter Dinklage would be cast to play him, with Craig's Bond responding "Or maybe they should cast someone who's actually English". Is he saying this in reference to the fact that Dinklage is American? Or is he mocking the fact that Sean Connery was Scottish, not English? Or is he commenting on how Lloyd, who's playing Connery's Bond, isn't English? Part of Peter's Copycat Mockery of Lloyd involves him standing on a box. Is this a dig at Lloyd's height via Scully Box? Or, since Peter is accusing Lloyd of complaining too much about his problems, is he illustrating Lloyd's tendency to get up on a soapbox? "Ronald McDonald vs The Burger King": The Burger King derisively says McDonald's meat 'turns [his] asshole into a drive-thru'. Is this a reference to diarrhea or (given how congested drive-thrus can get) constipation? "Jeff Bezos vs. Mansa Musa": Musa tells Jeff that if he wants workers that don't piss, he should get some camels. Is this a reference to Amazon's infamously draconian bathroom break policies (since camels don't need much water and therefore won't urinate as much), or does Musa mean "piss" as in complain (since camels can't talk and therefore won't be able to complain)?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_bd54ba07	comment	Blazing Saddles: Among the listed crimes committed by the outlaws are "people stampeded and cattle raped". Is this actually what happened, or did whoever wrote the list mix up some words?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_bd9edbdd	comment	In Ghostbusters II: Venkman sings, "Do", Ray sings, "Re", but Egon sings his own name. Is he punning on the fact that "re" and "Ray" are homophones, or is it because "mi" (the actual next note in the scale) sounds like "me"? When Venkman asks Egon and Ray if they've been "sleeping" with the ectoplasm, Egon looks guilty. Did he actually sleep with the slime, or was he making the guilty expression on purpose as a joke?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_beac6ffb	comment	Why do the dogs in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask lunge at Link whenever he's in Deku form? Are they acting out of fear, or do they think he's a big stick?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_c01688c8	comment	Batman (1989): While in a meeting with some gangsters, the Joker quips that the recently killed mob boss Carl Grissom, for all his misdeeds, had a "tremendous" singing voice. Is this a reference to how Grissom sold Joker out to the authorities, since "singing" is criminal slang for ratting out another crook? Or is it a dark joke about how Grissom screamed when Joker killed him in revenge? Or was the Joker just being a cloudcuckoolander?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_c34f83b2	comment	In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, Gundham Tanaka requires virgin blood for a satanic ritual, and Sonia Nevermind replies that her blood wouldn't meet the requirements. Virgin's blood can both refer to the blood of someone who has never had sex or the blood of someone whose blood has never been used in a satanic ritual before, and given Sonia is both a Covert Pervert and Nightmare Fetishist, both are plausible.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "The End of Time", after regenerating, the Eleventh Doctor catches a glimpse of his hair and notes that he's "still not ginger." This was intended to be a Call-Back to the Tenth Doctor being disappointed that he wasn't a ginger in The Christmas Invasion, but several viewers interpreted it as him being glad he wasn't. The End-of-Episode Silliness of "Tooth and Claw" has the Doctor comment on how Queen Victoria was scratched by a werewolf, and then notes that she and her descendants were all hemophiliacs and implies that had something to do with the werewolf scratch. Is he claiming that they weren't actually hemophiliacs and it was just a cover story for them being werewolves (albeit jokingly, since he'd be more concerned if he actually thought that, not to mention that it's a bite that transmits the lycanthropy rather than a scratch) or is he suggesting that werewolf scratches cause hemophilia?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_c4778e4b	comment	"The Mythbusters vs. The Ghostbusters": When addressing the Mythbusters, Venkman derisively refers to somebody as "The Lorax". Is he talking about Jaime Hyneman, due to Hyneman having a mustache similar to the Lorax's? Or is he talking about Walter Peck, an EPA agent the Ghostbusters were at odds with (since the Lorax is also an environmentalist)?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_c511c682	comment	Asterix: In Asterix in Britain, there's a joke where the idea of a tunnel under the Channel is mentioned, but it'll take a while. Today, it seems like typical understatement from the British, but when the comic was written in the 60s, it did indeed seem like an unattainable dream. In "Asterix and Son", a Roman legionary sings at night, leading to a lot of voices complaining about it. One voice yells, "Call that singing?!". Was this someone saying the legionary was a bad singer, or was it a response to the voice before them (presumably Cacofonix) saying, "Only bards have the right to sing!"?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_c95e9d87	comment	Up: At the end, Carl Fredricksen is pointing out the red cars while Russell is pointing out the blue ones. Then, Dug (a dog) says, "Gray one!". Is this because Animals See in Monochrome, is he mistaking the Spirit of Adventure (a zeppelin) for a gray car, or is it a joke about how gray is the most common colour for cars?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_cdcf337d	comment	On an episode of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Jimmy Carr makes a joke about Jon Richardson getting married, since it was either that or he'd have to send her back in the mail. Richardson inquired whether it refers to a Mail-Order Bride or a blow-up doll, to which Jimmy seems to acknowledge one being an unintended interpretation, but that either way, it isn't a real love.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_cf39ca4f	comment	Pearls Before Swine: One strip has Pig write a letter to his landlord in response to a rent hike, threatening to give him time out. Pig comments that it always worked for his mom. Stephan Pastis said in a treasury that the intended meaning of the joke was that Pig's mom often got her son to behave by threatening to put in him in time out, but some readers thought it meant she frequently got what she wanted by writing her landlord.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_d14c3aa1	comment	Ghostbusters (1984): When Walter Peck says that the Ghostbusters caused the explosion that was actually his fault, Egon yells, "Your mother!" without finishing the sentence. Is the joke that he's too angry to come up with a proper insult, or was he about to say that Peck's mother violated EPA law by giving birth to him, but didn't finish because he was interrupted? Peter Venkman cites "dogs and cats living together" as a sign of the apocalypse. Is this a reference to the stereotype that dogs and cats hate each other and thus normally wouldn't want to live together, is it a reference to the Bible passage that mentions "the wolf will lie down with the lamb", does "living together" refer to marriage, or is it absurdism, since many households actually do own both a cat and a dog? When the Ghostbusters are buying the firehouse, Egon points out the building's flaws, to the point of claiming it should be condemned, but then Ray shouts, "This place is great! You guys should buy this pole!". Is Ray the only one who likes the firehouse despite its obvious flaws, or was Egon trying to bring down the price and Ray spoiled his plan? During the climactic battle, Egon states that he's "terrified beyond rational thought", even though the phrasing means he's obviously not. Is the joke that Egon sees even just being scared as inherently irrational even if one can handle said fear, since he's such a stickler for rationality? Or was he deliberately making a joke, with the joke being that he's so composed he can even crack jokes during the literal Apocalypse? Either way, it's a joke about how he's The Stoic.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_d26874b6	comment	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: In "The Third Wheel", Greg hates an illustration on the plates at a restaurant, which is a cowboy saying, "Come back soon, y'all!". Is this because the restaurant is a Suck E. Cheese's so he doesn't want to come back to it? Is it because he finds being spoken to by a cowboy and/or referred to as "y'all" belittling? Does he not want to be bossed around by an illustration? Or does he just find the cowboy ugly? In one book, Greg notes that it was a bad combination when, at the talent show, a girl read a poem about global warming at the same time as a boy rode a unicycle while playing the harmonica. Is he saying that the harmonica was so loud nobody could hear the poem, that playing an instrument on a unicycle was too silly to pair with a poem about something serious like global warming, or a bit of both? In "Cabin Fever", Greg gets defensive when revealing that he still wet the bed at age eight and says that he only did it because he drank a lot before bed, which gave him "crazy dreams". He's illustrated at age eight dreaming that a firehose is broken and the firefighters are wondering what to do. Is the implication that dreaming of the water gushing out of the hole in the hose is what made him wet the bed, or that the dream continued with him peeing out the fire, which caused him to actually pee? In one book, a tradesman goes to use the bathroom, and Greg notes that since he is reading a magazine, he's probably not going to pee. Does this mean that the tradesman is going to poop, or that he's not even using the toilet but rather using a bathroom break as an excuse to read?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_d5199075	comment	Ghostbusters (IDW Comics): In one comic, Peter Venkman says to Walter Peck, "Sorry Egon couldn't make it. Something about some bad couscous." Is the joke that Egon has food poisoning, or that (because he's a scientist who collects mould), he's studying some expired couscous?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: In "Beauty and the Beach", James tells Misty that she should try entering the beauty contest again in a few years. Is this a typical Years Too Early taunt, or was he insinuating that the ten-year-old Misty was too young and underdeveloped to have a realistic chance of winning against older competitors?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_d8040caa	comment	In Space Jam, when Bill Murray shows up for the climax as a borderline Deus ex Machina, Daffy asks him how he got there and Murray replies, "The producer's a friend of mine." Either Daffy is questioning how Murray got into the Looney Tunes world, and the answer is that Murray knows the producer of Looney Tunes, or they're raising the very valid question of what Bill Murray is doing in a Looney Tunes/NBA crossover movie in the first place, in which case the producer in question would be the film's producer, Ivan Reitman, who was indeed a friend of Murray's. Judging from the disgusted reactions from Daffy (and the leader of the Monstars), they took the latter interpretation.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_db5c4c9c	comment	bill wurtz: In "out to lunch", the protagonist walks into an empty room, turns to a table, and says "Hey, Gina!" He then tells the viewers that he was just kidding and "there's nobody named Gina." Does he mean that nobody named Gina is in the room, or that (apparently) nobody on the planet is named Gina?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_dccfc4b8	comment	In the third book, the manager of the bookstore Floruish and Blotts mentions that his store spent a lot of money on 200 copies of The Invisible Book of Invisibility, but nobody was ever able to find them. Is this a gag about how impractical such a thing would be, or was the store scammed into buying a nonexistent book?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_de0f8ee1	comment	RWBY Chibi: While reading Blake's copy of Ninjas of Love, Ruby admiringly comments "now that's a katana". Is she using "katana" as a euphemism, or, since Ruby is a weapons junkie, is she talking about a literal katana?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_df073316	comment	During the Bizarro World arc of All-Star Superman, Bizarro asks why Bizarro Batman is absent at the assembling of the Unjustice League and is told by Bizarro Green Lantern that it's because Bizarro Batman was shot by his parents. This either means that the Bizarro World's counterpart to Bruce Wayne was killed by his parents before he could become Bizarro Batman or that Bizarro Batman became a bat-costumed vigilante while his parents were still alive only to be shot to death by his mother and father sometime before Bizarro called for the Unjustice League to show up.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_df7a30e1	comment	In one of The Addams Family movies, Gomez tells Debbie that "of course" they have cable. Why would this be obvious? Some viewers see it as a Continuity Nod to the first movie, in which Gomez starts watching Gilligan's Island to cope with being evicted, others think it refers to them watching horror movies and dark documentaries on TV, still others think it refers to their enjoyment of whipping one another note the exchange does come right after Gomez mentions having a dungeon in the house, so the joke could be that he thought Debbie was asking about the dungeon's torture implements, some think it refers to tightrope walking (which seems like something they'd do) and a fifth interpretation is that it refers to Fester experimenting with electrical wires.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: In Issue 13 of Teen Girl Squad, Cheerleader resorts to calling her "B-list" of boys, and ends up calling a plumber's shop. Either Cheerleader got a wrong number, or the fat guy who answers the phone really is the "Randy" she meant to call.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_e61808cb	comment	Super Mario Bros. Wonder: One promo has Bowser trying to woo Princess Peach with a flower, only for her to transform into Elephant Peach after an Elephant Fruit passes by...to which he replaces said flower with a bouquet. Is this because Bowser loves Peach no matter her appearance or is he a Chubby Chaser?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_e8595ff9	comment	In the "Mother Knows Best" video, Gothel often talks as though she's going to die. Is the joke that she's an emo now, or is she actually going to die?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_ec27cf6d	comment	Igor: At one point, Scamper says that if Eva is having a "woman problem" he wants no part in it. Some viewers took that as a period joke, while others thought he was suggesting she was falling in love with Igor, and he feels romance is girly.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: In one episode, Seven of Nine says that everyone can hear it when B'Elanna (a Half-Human Hybrid with a Klingon mother) and Tom have sex. Is this an orgasm joke, or is it a joke about how Klingon women roar when courting/having sex? In another episode, Neelix mentions that most of the toilets aren't working, which is bad news, especially since there are Bolians on board. Does this mean that the Bolians' waste is toxic, that it smells bad because of what they eat, or that they just don't like sharing toilets with other species?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: Phoebe writes a song about a cat who smells bad because of its food. Is the joke that the cat pooped on itself due to a runny stomach, that it's a Gasshole, or that it has bad breath?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_fb2679d9	comment	9-1-1 aired its first season finale shortly after the second season renewal was announced. The finale ends with a 911 call from a man asking if the show will be returning the following season followed by clips of the characters making sarcastic comments. Are their comments suggesting they were definitely going to get renewed or because checking the status of a television series is not the purpose of 911?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_fc7d85d3	comment	In Ice Age: The Meltdown, there's a scene of Scrat in Heaven, only to get sucked away and wake up, whereupon Sid says, "I saved you!" but Scrat attacks him. The intended joke was that Scrat really did go to Heaven, but some viewers misinterpreted the scene as him having dreamt he went there.
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_fc83a067	comment	In Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed, Velma awkwardly tries to swagger around in a leather jumpsuit to impress her boyfriend. He asks her, "Do you have to go to the bathroom?". Does he think she needs to go to the bathroom because her failed swaggering resembles a Potty Dance, or because he mistook the squeaking sounds made by her suit as Velma farting?
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Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: In one episode, Worf claims to dislike swimming as it's "too much like bathing". Is the joke that Worf Hates Baths, or is it that he finds swimming boring because it's similar to the mundane act of bathing? In "Rascals", after the Fountain of Youth effect is reversed, Picard feels his head to find that he's bald again. Is he hoping that he still has hair after aging up, or is he making sure he doesn't have hair and he's fully back to normal? In "True Q", when Dr. Crusher yells at Q, he turns her into a dog. Is this a play on the word "bitch", is it a play on the other meaning of "bark" (which can mean to say something aggressively), or is he implying that humans are no more than dumb animals to him?
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