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Anti-Humor is the practice of removing the expected punchline or joke from a familiar humorous situation and replacing it with something non-humorous and serious. The laugh is supposed to come from subverting the audience's expectations and making them uncomfortable; hence the name. Many comics get into anti-comedy — appropriately — after repeatedly bombing on-stage (see Andy Kaufman, Groucho Marx, Andrew Dice Clay). After a while, they simply cease to give a crap about appeasing their audience and will intentionally troll people for their own amusement. As a result, anti-humour more closely resembles performance art than stand-up. Often this is simply done by playing the normally humorous situation straight, being literal and truthful. For example, take the following, which sets up and then subverts a Bait-and-Switch Comparison: A standard Anti Joke without the bait and switch punchline tends to have a blatantly obvious punchline. An example of the most common type of anti-joke is: Sometimes an Anti Joke goes a step further and creates humor out of a Mood Whiplash. An example here from Jimmy Carr: A third broader category of anti-humor is essentially a form of Surreal Humor where the punchline is completely unrelated to the set up. Not all Surreal Humor is anti-humor and not all anti-humor is Surreal Humor. Humor can be surreal while still following a formula or having a humorous internal consistency. A Super-Trope is meta-humor, like the joke found in this Irregular Webcomic!. Obviously, these work best when the audience is thoroughly familiar with the standard version of the joke/humorous situation or the formula the joke/humorous situation normally follows, though this is not always necessary. Any situation where the audience is expecting humor or something light-hearted and gets something straight, dry, and/or darker in tone instead can potentially work. Formats where a humorous twist is always expected, such as in stand-up, cartoons, sitcoms, and sketch comedy, have more latitude for this sort of humor. Anti-humor is about intentionally avoiding a punchline. Certainly not all anti-humor ends up being funny, but it should be clear that the writer is trying to create humor from avoiding a punchline or humorous twist. For example, when Biff Tannen says "that's as funny as a screen door on a battleship" he's not trying for anti-humor, he is simply screwing up the traditional punchline. Compare/Contrast "Shaggy Dog" Story where the humor comes from a tediously long story being used to set up a weak punchline. Both tropes stand traditional wisdom about humor on its head. Could be the source of humor in a Shoot the Shaggy Dog scenario. See Chicken Joke for a classic example of an anti-joke where the "punchline" is the lack of a punchline. Compare Bait-and-Switch. Contrast So Unfunny, It's Funny where the humor is unintentionally bad but so bad it's funny. Compare The Comically Serious when a serious character makes a situation funny. Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion is based on the same principle, but with rhymes. And of course, sometimes people just plain Cannot Tell a Joke. Examples |
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The Eric Andre Show is a deranged late night talk show where stage hands are regularly assaulted, the guests are abused, and occasionally the host will go naked or interview a sofa on fire. | |
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Watchmen: Rorschach's hyperminimal recitation of an old groaner veers into this: | |
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Arin does this a lot, most notably during Meta Knightmare, where he tries to do several in a row. | |
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The writers of Bojack Horseman love this kind of humor, often giving elaborate and obvious setups to jokes, whose punchlines then simply don't arrive. | |
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Mr Logic from Viz was once best man at a wedding. Knowing that he would need some jokes for his speech, and being Mr Logic, he came up with these belters: What is the difference between a gnu and a gnostic? A gnu is a large even-toed ungulate native to the African savannah, also known as a wildebeest; a gnostic is a member of a first-century religious movement that advanced the moral primacy of the spiritual world above the material. Did you hear about the Irish hydrometer? It didn't know how to measure the moistness of the atmosphere. |
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RoboCop (1987) has a Running Gag where people are always watching the same brainless television show. We see nothing of the show except the same Orphaned Punchline where a man turns to the camera to deliver his hackneyed catchphrase, "I'd buy that for a dollar!" This always causes the person watching to laugh uproariously. | |
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Norm delivers one on Cheers: | |
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Mentioned specifically by Drew Gooden in discussing his old Vines, with the example being a video where the entire joke is "When you're having sex, and it feels real good", followed immediately by him thanking the audience for watching. | |
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The Kevin and Bean Show has a regular guest called "Sam the Armenian Comedian." Sam is an actual Armenian-American hairdresser who styles himself an entertainer and comedian, when in fact he is a delusional weirdo with a questionable grasp of humor and the English language. Kevin and Bean find his utterly unfunny attempts at jokes to be fascinating and amusing, so they've been inviting him onto the show since The '90s. | |
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There's a lot of this in The Simpsons, with David Mirkin, the showrunner for seasons 5-6, referring to these as "screw the audience jokes". In "C.E.D'oh", Homer throws Mr. Burns off a balcony into a crowd of people. Burns is promptly crowd surfed before being shoved into an idling taxi. Homer thinks this looks like fun, jumps off the balcony, and ... is crowd surfed as well, suffering no injury of any kind. In "E Pluribus Wiggum", Homer says "A think tank, eh?", and we see into his imagination... which shows a perfectly accurate portrayal of a think tank. In "Lisa The Vegetarian", Homer squirts way too much lighter fluid onto a barbeque, to the point it becomes an Overly Long Gag. He sets it alight... and it works perfectly. This is a Call-Back to the "Treehouse Of Horror" segment "Hungry Are The Damned", where he does the same, resulting in a huge mushroom cloud over the city. In "The Sweetest Apu", Barney Gumble drinking a beer after a lengthy stint of sobriety in the series is played up as a massive relapse, and then he simply says "Hey, you're right. I thought it'd get me drinking again, but it didn't.", as a Call-Back to a scene in "Deep Space Homer", where Barney had a breakdown after drinking non-alcoholic champagne. Parodied in "A Star Is Burns" with Rainier Wolfcastle doing stand-up comedy for his new movie, "McBain: Let's Get Silly". A Season 16 episode's Couch Gag had the family sit on the couch normally, had Lisa give a short defensive statement about how people can just sit on couches sometimes... and then had Homer get impaled with a spear from nowhere. A case of anti-anti-humor. There's also this gem! |
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MythBusters once used an anti-humor joke to illustrate that the hosts were properly buzzed for an alcohol myth; when Jamie laughs at a joke like that, you know he's not himself. The joke: | |
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Horndog by Isaac Baranoff had a strip where Bob the Dog is telling his friend that "God is 'dog' spelled backwards. I'm a dog, therefore I'm God." | |
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Grand Theft Auto V has a Running Gag where each of the main characters sample a marijuana-legalization activist's weed and trip out appropriately. First Michael tries it and hallucinates getting attacked by a swarm of aliens. Then Trevor has a taste and gets attacked by clowns. Then when it's finally Franklin's turn to smoke the hash... nothing happens. He just makes a remark on how weak it is. | |
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Cyanide and Happiness' Depressing Comic Weeks are either very depressing, or very depressing, yet (because of this trope) strangely funny. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978): | |
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There's a particular NPC in Borderlands 2 who desperately pleads anybody nearby to shoot him in the face. Part of his insane suicidal rambling goes as follows: | |
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Kevin Spencer once told a joke like this: | |
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While Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal loves this trope to death; This strip tells three short "man walks into a bar" jokes about a mushroom, a horse, and a man who hit his head. All three jokes have the obvious punchlines, but are followed up by a panel showing how frustrated they were with the outcome.note The mushroom is denied entry by a racist bartender despite calling himself a "fun guy", the horse drinks in tears after being made fun of for his "long face", and the man who literally walked into a bar doesn't have enough health insurance to cover for repairing his broken neck. A man walks into a bar. When asked about a joke, he instead relates to the other bar patrons in third person, lead by a "man walks into a bar" opener, about his drinking problem and how he hates that he doesn't feel at home anywhere other than there. After seeing the others' worried faces, he then quickly spins it into a Feghoot ("a man walks into a bar and says 'ouch'") — but by then, even as he forces himself to laugh in the votey, they're all too depressed to continue. Three scientists have similar reactions to seeing a cow from a train, after which they go back to filling out surveys, reports, and grant applications... An anti-anti-anti-joke: The strip starts with talking about a reverse anti-joke that actually has a punchline, but the strip ends as an anti-joke. |
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In Cracked's 7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes: | |
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The entire meta-joke behind episode 24 of Excel♡Saga is that, after 23 episodes of balls-out wackiness and parodies, this one is played almost completely serious with only one or two attempts at humor. | |
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Catch Me If You Can has a gem that Tom Hanks delivers perfectly: | |
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One song of Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese was entirely based on this kind of humour. First of all, the jokes were more than deadpan, since they were told by a vocal synthesizer. Then, among the "normal" jokes, it featured gems such as: "An Englishman, a Frenchman and a German are on a plane. The plane crashes and they die". | |
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King of the Hill: In "The Bluegrass Is Always Greener", Bill began singing "Puff the Magic Dragon". Hank, embarrassed and annoyed says "Bill, do you know what that song is about? It's about a dragon. We're grown men." The anti-humor is a subversion of the expected punchline, where you expect Hank to repeat the urban legend that the song is about marijuana. Instead, Hank correctly identifies the subject of the song (it is about a little boy and a dragon)note Hank does, however, miss the point that the song is also about how children grow up and stop believing in things like dragons.. | |
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From Kung Pow! Enter the Fist: | |
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One of the later Hayate the Combat Butler chapters sets up a confrontation between Mikado and Hayate, promising one of the rare occasions when the plot actually moves forward. Cut to the next week's chapter titled "This is the kind of manga you're reading" with Saki constantly interrupting the conversation with phone calls to Hayate about completely trivial worries, refusing to go away. Notably, there were as many readers highly annoyed at the trolling as there were those amused. | |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue One episode featured a round of Closed Quotes (the panelists get the start of a quote and have to finish it) where the quotes came from Christmas crackers. Similarly, the same round in another episode: And in the same episode, Jeremy's answer to "Why do elephants have big ears?" was a long dissertation on volume to surface area and losing heat in a warm climate. Sometimes if the topic for the final round is particularly obscure, Graeme or Barry will do a series of deliberately lame non-puns, where they just replace a random word. Graeme again, in "Name that Joke". |
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The Daily Show does this once in a while. In one example, Jon repeated the common joke "what's the deal with airline peanuts?", then explains the real-world reasons in detail. | |
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In Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, Walter pulls this on Alucard in Episode 9 while they're fighting and bantering. | |
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The Order of the Stick, strip #600. | |
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When they play Castlevania, Arin delivers this memorable quote: | |
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In a The Unbelievable Truth lecture on "Jokes", Joe Lycett claims that some early German jokes included "How many reindeer does it take to change a lightbulb? One, if by 'reindeer' you mean 'electrician'."; "'Doctor, doctor, I think I'm a pair of curtains!' 'Then I'm sectioning you under the Mental Health Act.'"; and "Yo mama's so ugly, I'm concerned about her self-esteem." | |
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xkcd has done this many times. One example is a "World Map according to a group of Americans who turned out to be unexpectedly good at geography". | |
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This is the point of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!. It's awkward, uncomfortable, and often downright scary, but you laugh anyway. If you're into that. | |
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The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists | |
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The Lazer Collection: The first skit of Part 2 is simply a guy eating a red pepper. One of the skits of Part 5 is a guy popping a kid's balloon. In both cases, no lazers are fired. |
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Unwinder's Tall Comics. On this page, Unwinder's box of rejected ideas includes "Normal Al", who parodies "Weird Al" Yankovic by sucking all the humor out. Normal Al plays straight covers of the songs that Weird Al parodies, and rewrites Weird Al's original songs with completely serious lyrics. | |
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What happens when a Super Mutant tries to tell a joke in Fallout 3 | |
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In The Ren & Stimpy Show episode "A Visit To Anthony", when Anthony's dad furiously interrogates Ren and Stimpy, he tells a joke like this: | |
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At the end of the Steven Universe episode, "Historical Friction", Pearl, who helped Steven rewrite a historic play for accuracy, wonders why Steven had the play end with a joke. Steven explains that art should forsake reason to keep the audience happy, hence the play's joke ending. The episode thus ends with... Steven and Pearl staring at each other. That's it. | |
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One performance by Frank Conniff before a Cinematic Titanic show contained about half a dozen fat jokes about Chris Christie ("I don't want to say Chris Christie eats large portions of food, but all of his silverware was designed by Claes Oldenburg"), followed by this gem: | |
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Paranatural: Ed sets up a Bond One-Liner but fails to deliver. | |
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One clip in asdfmovie has a guy pressing a button that reads "POINTLESS BUTTON: Warning, pointless". It does absolutely nothing. Another anti-joke from asdfmovie of the Mood Whiplash type: "Knock knock. Who's there? A mirror. I am lonely." One example formed out of Brutal Honesty to a baby artist is, "Oh... my... GOD. (drawing is just scribbles) You're an idiot!" |
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Overcompensating had a series of "Yo Mama" jokes, culminating in "Yo mama so fat, she's going to have irreversible health problems." | |
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Tyrion Cuthbert: Attorney of the Arcane: There's an examinable stepladder in Case 4 in reference to the recurring "ladder vs stepladder" debate in Ace Attorney. Unlike its inspiration, Tyrion and Celeste both agree that it's a stepladder with little fanfare. | |
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Game Grumps: When they play Castlevania, Arin delivers this memorable quote: Arin does this a lot, most notably during Meta Knightmare, where he tries to do several in a row. Dan tells a slew of these types of jokes in Part 17 of Shovel Knight. This was preceded by their playthrough of Kirby's Epic Yarn — both have been compiled into one video. |
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Ask That Guy with the Glasses has an example in Episode 6. | |
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RedLetterMedia: the guys often indulge in anti-humor as part of their signature style, delivering painful or cliche jokes badly, often while mugging at the camera during the punchline, which usually prompts an awkward pause. | |
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Toward the end of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "The Hellcats", as the biker gang confronts the even-badder-guys on a pier, Joel subverts an old joke into a Stealth Pun in this way. | |
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Happens on Mock the Week a lot. One particular example comes from Miles in episode 12-8, when he answered "Picture of the Week, where the panellists are given a topical picture and provide comical headlines for what's happening or being said, with "Maybe they're not talking". Later in the episode during the "If this is the answer, what is the question?" round, he answers with "What is a random length of time?" to the answer of "56 Years". In another episode, Russell Howard responds with "What comes between 25 days and 27 days?" in response to the answer "26 Days". Milton Jones (of all people) once answered the prompt, "Chickens, Nurses, and Rain" with "Is it 'Name three things'." |
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A knock-knock joke from The Good Place blends this perfectly with Comically Missing the Point: | |
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Joker (2019): The one time Arthur/Joker gets to actually tell a joke in full, it goes like this. Unsurprising, given who tells it and when. | |
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The Scooby-Doo parody in the "Saturday Morning Funpit" episode of Futurama includes the expected chase sequence between the heroes and the Monster of the Week. Shaggy-Fry and Scooby-Bender enter the stock Scooby-Dooby Doors hallway, run into a door and then... nothing. There's a shot of the empty hall for a Beat, and then we cut to the next scene of the chase. | |
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In his book The Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman lists a couple cursed jokes. These are jokes with a setup, but a mundane punch line. | |
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Trailer Park Boys: Ricky has used this pattern a few times, sometimes replacing the punchline with a full-on rant: | |
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Occurs early on in the Father Ted Christmas special when Ted finds a baby left on the parish doorstep. Before Ted can bring the baby in the mother appears, takes the baby from his hands, and heads off to leave the infant with someone else. Ted muses on the hilarious hi-jinks the priests and the baby would have gotten up to, but stops when Dougal reminds him it wouldn't be funny. | |
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Fozzie on Muppet Babies (1984) once pulled one, which, naturally, lead to him getting pelted with tomatoes. | |
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Cartoon Planet thrived on this kind of humor. Especially the Brak's Comedy Gold skits, in which Brak, attempting to do stand-up, would often play every joke he told straight. Sample Set: |
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In a Modern Family episode where the family goes to Australia, Claire repeatedly refers to a project she's working on as her "baby", obsessing over it to the exclusion of her actual family. When the computer gets stolen out of her tent by a dingo, she panics: | |
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Learning with Manga! FGO: In the middle of an arc about Original Generation Servants gearing up for a grail war, a strip appears where two of the characters cheerily teach useful information to the audience about the game. You know, like the series was supposed to. | |
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A Prairie Home Companion did one of these in a series of light bulb jokes. | |
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Welcome to Night Vale: In "The April Monologues", Michelle Nguyen tells the listeners a joke: "I listen to Bach often, but never The Beatles."note Supposed to be "but not Offenbach. | |
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During the SMPLive Talent Show, Schlatt reads out jokes without the punchlines. | |
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Frequent in Hamish and Dougal. One episode in which they're camping has Hamish talk about how he's looking at the stars, and what this means, until Dougal points out he can't see the stars, they're in a tent. Immediately lampshaded: | |
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Brawl in the Family was all about this when Waluigi hijacked the comic. | |
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The Blackadder Goes Forth episode "Major Star" has George refer to the music-hall song "She Was Only The Ironmonger's Daughter, But She Knew A Surprising Amount About Fish As Well"; a "Wanton Daughter" joke entirely free of Double Entendre, or even a Pun. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: This seems to be Maud Pie's entire schtick. | |
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One episode of Sealab 2021 is just an episode of the original Sealab 2020 with the 2021 cast giving the voices (and some footage removed to fit 2021's shorter episode length.) The only joke in the entire episode is at the very end, when the nuclear submarine they spend the whole episode fixing crashes into Sealab, causing it to explode. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: "Season 0 Abridged 2" does this with the series' memetic Screw the Rules, I Have Money! line. | |
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King Richard from Galavant doesn't mean to, but when he tries his hand at comedy he ends up here anyway. | |
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In "The Sweetest Apu", Barney Gumble drinking a beer after a lengthy stint of sobriety in the series is played up as a massive relapse, and then he simply says "Hey, you're right. I thought it'd get me drinking again, but it didn't.", as a Call-Back to a scene in "Deep Space Homer", where Barney had a breakdown after drinking non-alcoholic champagne. | |
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In Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Greg Heffley's Creighton the Cretin comic becomes this when it gets edited into Creighton the Curious Student by the school newspaper's editor Mr. Ira. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: In "Sir Ed-A-Lot" when Court Jester Eddy is trying to entertain Queen Sarah, this happens: | |
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In League of Legends, each champion tells a joke when prompted. Diana, perhaps the most tragic figure in the LoL canon, does her best, but... | |
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In "C.E.D'oh", Homer throws Mr. Burns off a balcony into a crowd of people. Burns is promptly crowd surfed before being shoved into an idling taxi. Homer thinks this looks like fun, jumps off the balcony, and ... is crowd surfed as well, suffering no injury of any kind. | |
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From Freddy Got Fingered: | |
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South Park: The Wham Episode "Kenny Dies" takes an event that is usually Played for Laughs and plays it for drama. The creators have gone on record to say that they "wanted to see how long they could go without telling a single joke." In the Bad Future of South Park: Post Covid, Jimmy's become a comedic Talk Show host but isn't allowed to tell any actual jokes due to Political Overcorrectness. It becomes a Running Gag where he seemingly sets up to tell an offensive joke but replaces the punchline with a compliment. |
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The Gotcha episode of Countdown contained this gem: | |
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Family Guy In "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story", a cutback shows Peter launching himself into the air with a catapult. A guy with an open window is gushing about his stacked dominoes, his priceless ming vase and his hemophiliac baby. And just then Peter... lands harmlessly outside the man's window, stands up and congratulates him on all the nice things he has. Another episode had a cutaway to a man in Hiroshima having a very bad day on August 6th, 1945. He stops in his tracks when he sees something falling from the sky and heading straight toward him....a monkey that lands on top of him and mauls him. |
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Kingdom of Loathing features this, on the description of the plush hamsterpus: "Why did the hamster cross with the octopus? Why, to serve as a sobering reminder of the consequences of hubris in the face of an uncaring universe, that's why!" | |
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An episode of Smashtasm had the two villains speaking with each other. When one remarks that it's time to get serious, the other one says something along the lines of: | |
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From The Goon Show: | |
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