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Bottom of the Barrel Joke
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Writing periodically updated media is challenging. If you're writing a novel or a movie script, you have time to gather and lay out all of your ideas, parse out all of the bad ones, and distribute them equally over your work to keep it interesting. If you're writing a new comic strip or TV series, you have to be fresh and funny every week, or even every day. No writer, no matter how amazing, can bat a thousand. Sooner or later writer's block sets in, or you just get too busy to totally devote yourself to the work. What to do? Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Sometimes, you may find yourself forced to get out your long-handled ladle and scrape out a Bottom of the Barrel Joke. Pulling out a Bottom of the Barrel Joke is resorting to Vulgar Humor when you normally wouldn't. If you can't think of anything clever or insightful for your characters to say, sometimes you need to have them say something shocking or raunchy instead. Hey, at least it's better than just not submitting something this week, right? Most writers feel at least a twinge of shame when they do this; it's the artistic equivalent of taking the easy way out. Having one of your characters fart loudly in an elevator might get you some cheap laughs, but it takes no effort, it isn't clever, and it gets very old after awhile. Even still, the best works are occasionally forced to go there, and used sparingly, the results can still be entertaining from time to time. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Compare Stock Shticks for more low-effort humor. Examples: |
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The Far Side: A few comics basically amount to an apology from Gary Larson for being unable to come up with anything better. For example, one comic shows some wasp police investigating a hole in a nest: "It looks like these rocks were thrown from inside the hive." On the other end of the nest, there's a boy hiding. The caption reads: "Artist: Gary Larson. Medium: Ink on bristol. Title: It Was Late and I Was Tired." Another one shows ducks standing around, when one yells "Chicken!" and they all duck as a chicken whizzes by. The caption says: "'And so,' the interviewer asked, 'do you ever have trouble coming up with ideas?' 'Well, sometimes,' the cartoonist replied." |
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Dominic Deegan has used this a few times in interesting ways, often twisting it to dramatic effect instead of comedic. | |
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Tankmen is infamous for casually putting cock jokes into its dialogue whenever a good opportunity is found. | |
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Jerry Holkins, the writer of Penny Arcade, refers to this as "Going back to the penis well," largely because, when he can't think of something insightful to say about video game culture, his colleague will talk him into making a dick joke. | |
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Get This: Towards the end of the show's tenure, Fridays were taglined "all jokes must go!", insisting that all the really bad jokes should be saved for Friday, after the week was over and they had run out of all other material. | |
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On one episode of Chilly Beach, characters watch a terrible reality show, prompting April to comment that the network is really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Then Jacques changes the channel to a show that is actually called Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is a delightfully odd potpourri of high-level insight on mathematics, science, economic and political theory, and philosophy... mixed with the occasional observation that genitals look funny. | |
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Arthur, King of Time and Space sometimes does jokes about modern-arc Arthur, updating his own webcomic, saying how much he hates having to do "can't think of a joke" jokes. | |
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I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again once had a sketch where a very serious critic for one of the intellectual heavy Sunday papers delivered a review of the show that was couched in highbrow intellectual language, in a style akin to an Oxbridge don discussing literature, comparing the humour to that of great mediaeval comedies such as Rabelais, Chaucer and Boccaccio, freely quoting from these great literary works and using technical and academic literary terms for the modes of humour employed by the show. "Rabelaisian persiflage" note read: "a barrage of double entendres" wasn't the half of it. The highbrow critic paused for a beat at the end and added "And I especially liked the knickers jokes". | |
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QI often puts the punchlines to these as forfeits, such as "Piers Morgan" for the question "Name a poisonous snake", "Janet Street-Porter" for "What has large teeth and only one facial expression?", and "Have you been talking with my husband?" to Stephen Fry's request "Tell me about the Great Disappointment." Subverted on one occasion where the question is "Can you tell me the biggest joke ever to come out of Alaska?" and one of the panelists responds with "Sarah Palin." This was not a forfeit, since it was "so obvious". Subverted again when the question is "What has 20 legs, 5 heads, and can't reach its own nuts?" One of the panelists calls out "Westlife", but is not forfeited. Double subverted when another panelist takes a guess at what the forfeit is and gets it: "One Direction". |
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Have You Been Paying Attention?: When Tom introduced the desperate sounding 'Nobel or Netflix' round, Anne Edmonds asked: | |
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Invoked in the Honest Trailers episode on The Emoji Movie. The narrator worried a couple of times that his harsh criticism of the movie was getting "too honest"note one of the writers for the episode hated the movie, so he decided to throw in a couple of "Poop joke(s)" (i.e. jokes made by the Poop emoji) to try to lighten the episode up. | |
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