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Explaining a joke just makes it not funny, except in those rare cases where the hopelessness of the attempted explanation becomes its own (unexplained) joke. Like this: Comedian tells a joke. The joke does not get a laugh. The joke is dead. The comic sincerely tries to explain why the joke (should be) funny. This makes the comedian look ridiculous, which does get a laugh. We won't go into why ridiculous comedians are funny. That would be explaining the joke, which you cannot make us do. Here's another way: Comedian tells a joke. The joke does get a laugh. The comedian proceeds to explain it, anyway, with a joke explanation. For example, "It is a Double Entendre, by which I mean 'have sex with me'". Technically, this is a non-explanation. Maybe that's why it's funny. Who can say? Certainly not us. We don't explain jokes. Occasionally in this case, where the joke does work, an audience member will guffaw and burst out with an explanation of why they are laughing. "See, it's funny because it's about sex! Hee-haw-hee-haw." We laugh at this jackass, for reasons we all know and need not discuss, as we are too wise to explain the obvious. However, explaining a joke using a less-than-obvious Alternative Joke Interpretation can mean that explaining a joke can get a second laugh out of the same joke. It's only explaining the joke's primary interpretation that ruins it. Or better yet, imply the second interpretation with a short sentence. A Sub-Trope of Measuring the Marigolds. Compare Lampshaded Double Entendre and Euphemism Buster, "Just Joking" Justification. May be the outcome of Poe's Law, when a satire/parody fails because the audience didn't realise it is a satire/parody and took it seriously. Deliberate use of the trope is a common stable in Anti-Humor. Resolved Noodle Incident can lead to this when the explanation is less entertaining than the original mystery was. |
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In Predator, Hawkins tells two jokes to Billy about his girlfriend, but since he Cannot Tell a Joke, both times he ends up explaining the punchline when it doesn't get a laugh. It's possible that Billy is messing with Hawkins on both occasions, since he parodies his own role as The Stoic from time to time. | |
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Genshin Impact: Cyno apparently never learned this. Every time his jokes fall flat (which is to say, nearly every time he tries to tell a joke), he will explain the intended humor at length, nothing else about him breaking from his usual serious demeanor. | |
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Willikins, Sam Vimes' butler, explains a reference in the Ankh-Morpork Times' political cartoon to his employer in Thud!! Considering it's a reference to stakeouts in a cartoon about vampires, lifelong policeman Vimes is the last person to actually need the pun pointed out to him. Possibly a Brick Joke, as Vimes made the same pun to Carrot a dozen novels earlier in Men at Arms. He didn't get it. | |
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In Sleepless Domain, Heartful Punch's description on the Characters page notes that her "only team members are Righty and Lefty." It goes on to explain that Righty and Lefty are her fists. | |
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The Far Side had its infamous Cow Tools cartoon, which absolutely zero people got. Gary Larson ended up having to explain it. Of course, all the debate over it ended up boosting Larson's circulation. | |
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Super Mario Galaxy 2: "I'm on cloud control! Ha ha! Get it? Instead of "crowd," I said... Aww, never mind." | |
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In an early issue of Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), Robotnik sends a robot that looks a lot like Urkel after Sonic, who notes that he "sounds familiar". A footnote immediately explains that the same guy plays Sonic on the then currently running Sonic cartoons. | |
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An even worse example happens in Reaper Man: during a meeting between Ankh-Morpork's various leaders, the Alchemists' Guildmaster mentions how a piece of lab equipment earlier levitated and shattered, whereupon the representative from the Fool's Guild responds "Verily, it was a sharp retort." No one gets it, he explains the joke, and everyone else makes a forced chuckle. Then the alchemist adds, "What makes it even funnier was that it was an alembic." Argh. | |
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Drew Gooden: In trying to explain the joke behind one of his Vines, he ends up admitting that the more he explains it, the less funny it becomes. In that same video, he also lampshaded this again, adding a caption that called his explanation pointless. One Vine helpfully informs us that his shocked reaction to being "followed" on Twitter is just a joke. |
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This happens on Mother's Basement with Geoff's first two videos of his My Hero Academia OP's. In the first video, he repeatedly states that Tohru Hagakure appears in a shot where she couldn't be seen, which led to some people getting confused. The joke? Tohru Hagakure is invisible. So he explains the joke at the beginning of the second video, but does so by a comedic visual representation of the saying "the joke goes over ones head", using the second My Hero Academia OP. | |
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The Ron Planet webcomic has one: "Ron Planet Astronauting: 'Cause planets are in space!" | |
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In the Monsters, Inc. world of Kingdom Hearts III, Mike tries getting a laugh out of Boo with a dropped contact lens routine. Sulley, the only one who gets the joke, has to spell the punchline out to a clueless Sora: | |
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Spacetrawler gives us this exchange, as the Eebs are just about to rain fiery death upon the planet below them: | |
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Cyanide and Happiness: And by "have sex with her" I mean use my penis on her... | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall complained about the first issue of Marville having an "insider's guide" explaining who various celebrities and superheroes who eventually appeared in the comic were as this, down to playing the Batman: The Animated Series clip that the page image inspired. | |
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Wondermark blog "The Comic Strip Doctor" once demonstrated what's up with Garfield: | |
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Borderlands 2: Handsome Jack over-explains one of his jabs at his ex, Mad Moxxi: During the side-quest "The Ice Man Cometh", Claptrap has the Vault Hunters sabotage the heaters in a bandit camp in the hopes that the bandits will "chill out". When this fails to get a laugh, Claptrap assumes the Vault Hunters have No Sense of Humor and launches into an excessively detailed explanation of the concept of puns and why his joke was supposed to be funny. In the same game, Scooter makes a pretty obvious, humorous euphemism for sex, and after a brief pause blatantly says, "That's sex." |
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In 8-Bit Theater, Red Mage explains his already Incredibly Lame Puns about Drizz'l and Astos. | |
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In volume 3 of Scott Pilgrim, Todd utterly fails at making a threat, and then makes it worse by trying to explain it: | |
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The Princess and the Frog has one, though Lawrence would have genuinely had trouble hearing Naveen. | |
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In Road Trip, Kyle's joke about dogs and their testicles goes awry because of him repeating the punch line. | |
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In The Fallen Gods, when Josh asks if the draconians in the treasure area are stronger than the other one they encountered, Jake says yes because they scale. | |
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Dilbert creator Scott Adams once released a compilation called It's Not Funny If I have to Explain It. Let us explain the irony in that title: it's a compilation of strips, each one commented by the creator. Get it? | |
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Austin Powers: In the first movie, one of the evil spies is a superstitious Irishman with a charm bracelet that has a unique trinket on it for every man he kills. The bracelet is of vital interest to international law enforcement, and he proclaims "they're always after me lucky charms!" which causes the audience and everyone sitting at the table with him to snicker. He asks why everyone always laughs when he says that, and Frau Farbissina tries to tell him about the commercials. Her ridiculous description of the commercials (in reality an ad-lib that was Thrown In) makes it even funnier. Of course, in this case it's also necessary to explain the joke, for the benefit of viewers who never saw the original commercials. "I like to see girls of that... caliber. By 'caliber,' of course, I refer to both the size of their gun barrels and the high quality of their characters... Two meanings... caliber... it's a homonym..." The third movie starts right away with this. The joke in the opening is that we're watching an Austin Powers movie starring Tom Cruise, one of the most recognizable humans alive, and the movie helpfully labels him. It does the same to Kevin Spacey and Danny Devito, as well as Gwyneth Paltrow, putting her character's name on screen one second after she said it. Cut away to Steven Spielberg, who is not only in a chair labeled "Steven Spielberg", but is referred to by Austin by name, with his job helpfully mentioned. It gets better. When Austin sees Britney Spears, he helpfully yells, "It's Britney Spears!" |
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Cracked: From the article "The 5 Craziest Presidential Campaign Ads of All Time": "Russians were encouraged to vote for Cracked's favorite evil mastermind, Vladimir Putin, with an ad campaign that equated casting a ballot for Putin with playing with his Tetris block, if you know what we mean. (We mean having sex with him.)" From the article 6 Laws That Were Great On Paper (And Insane Everywhere Else), discussion of the fact that enforcing boxers wearing gloves meant they chose more frequently to aim for the head, thus causing more brain injuries: "bare-knuckle fighters, on the other hand, prefer to avoid the head altogether: The skull is the hardest part of the body. The likeliness of breaking a hand against the head meant that fighters often chose to hit the body, thus saving their hands for more important things. If that was too subtle an entendre, we meant masturbating. That was a masturbation joke." |
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The Batman Adventures: In Mad Love, where Harley Quinn tries to explain the deathtrap she built for Batman and how it is humorous (thus meeting Joker's standards for Batman having a hilarious death), but it backfires — partly due to this trope and partly because of Joker's conviction that he is the only one allowed to defeat Batman. Faithfully done in the Batman: The Animated Series episode based on the one-shot comic. He harshly tells Harley that she needs to learn to "take shots from folks who just don't get the joke"... before smacking her out of a window. | |
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In the beginning of the 26th episode of Excel♡Saga, Excel has an argument with director Nabeshin about making a musical episode (musicals, after all, take a lot of effort to produce). They conduct this argument while singing the melodies of the series' music. At the end of this segment, Hyatt chimes in, noting that it's already a musical (with Hyatt's enigmatic personality, it may be variant 4 or 5, though). | |
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Believe it or not, the subtitles that explain what is going on is beneficial to the Botchamania series. As a lot of the clips (botches) are taken from some of WCW's older stuff, explaining the context of the match, stipulations, etc., help the viewer understand why it's considered a botch in the first place (it should; this IS old WCW, after all). Plus Maffew explaining the joke sometimes underscores the hilarious inanity of segments ("THEY BRAWL OUTSIDE IN A CAGE MATCH"). | |
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The SCP Foundation has the humorous SCP-005-J-EX, a "cognitohazardous meme" that causes people to think that jokes are still funny after they've been explained. The Foundation is suppressing its spread by telling people that doing so is "really annoying". | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Garfield, On April 26, 2012, a spider about to be swatted says it is okay as long as Garfield doesn't sit on it, and then explains he said it because Garfield is fat. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Death has a similar problem with the concept of humor, as seen in this line from Hogfather: | |
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Often occurs in Screen Rant Pitch Meetings, usually when the Screenwriter tries to pull a reaction out of the Producer for his writings. An example is the Sausage Party episode, where the Screenwriter had to explicitly explain the innuendo behind the character designs and premise, prompting a nonchalant "very clever" from the Producer. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Guilded Age: Inverted. Gravedust, easily the member of the cast most lacking in comedic ability, ends up having to pretend to be a comedian on a stage. He tells a mediocre joke about misfortune which the audience finds increasingly hilarious as he begins to explain how the joke actually depicts a very tragic situation and questions the audience's mirth. | |
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In the title story of Killing and Dying: Ronald's joke ("A baby goat walks into a bar. And the bartender goes...he-he, we don't serve kids.") doesn't land. He feels as if he has to explain that "kid" refers to both babies and baby goats before his teacher tells him not to run the joke into the ground. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_48e699de | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Mike Myers is still at it in The Love Guru: | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Nintendo Power used to do this. Whenever they cracked a Take That! joke, they'd always add "That's a joke; we kid the (target attacked)!" One fan letter pointed this out and said that it kills the joke; he should know, he went to a comedy school. NP responds with, "You tell us you took a comedy class and then write us a letter that's not funny? Some comedy teachers you have! That's a joke; we kid your teachers!" | |
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Hazbin Hotel: After Charlie announces her goal to open a hotel to rehabilitate sinners, she's met with a long silence. She awkwardly explains that she chose a hotel because hotels are for people to temporarily stay at while on their way to their destination. She's met with even more silence and at least one demon laughing at her vision. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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The cast of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue occasionally attempt to explain jokes that haven't got a laugh, including one occasion when Jack Dee told Tim "No, the audience is right", and the following exchange: | |
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In the largely-unreleased English Dub of The Island of Giant Insects, when the compound the characters are in is attacked by a giant wasp, Kai makes a lame pun at the situation. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Said word-for-word in Peter Rabbit: | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Inverted in Star Power when Danica meets a race of beings who think jokes are funnier when you explain them. | |
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The same gag was imported in Homestuck for the sake of Mood Whiplash, this time with "WIZORD OF OZ", right as Jade was killed by Aranea dropping her house on her. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Scandinavia and the World, dealing with cultures that aren't as familiar to worldwide audiences as others may be, frequently has to explain punchlines in the author's notes to every comic. However, this can actually make the comics funnier if you re-read them after reading the explanations. Longtime followers will also feel less inclined to check the notes as the characters & the stereotypes they represent will become more familiar to them; those who keep up with the news and/or have a good background of world history will also not need them as often. And you can imagine how it would be for someone familiar with the characters, current events, and world history. | |
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Phelous, in his review of A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), inserts lines of "Teddy" (his name for the remake version of Freddy) explaining all of his "brilliant" jokes in the movie, presumably to demonstrate how unintelligent the jokes are. | |
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Penny Arcade's "Randy Pinkwood" enjoys this. "If you know what I'm talking about. And I think you know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about my penis." | |
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The Wii version of Sonic Colors plays this outright for laughs: After that line, there's about another minute's worth of banter between Sonic and Eggman, the level boss enters, and Sonic dashes over to fight him, and only then does Cubot exclaim "I get it!" |
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In the documentary The Aristocrats, this trope is completely inverted. The entire point of the movie is to explain the joke "The Aristocrats" but because of the nature of the joke, which is ad-libbed and unspeakably profane in all its variants, the joke does not die. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Belkar makes one during the battle for Azure City. Later, Lord Shojo in Belkar's hallucination. Although you could just say he's rubbing it in. It's still a pretty good line. |
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The puns in the later Xanth novels are often explained rather than actually showing their pun nature. Take the "Hippo-Crite". Does it actually do things that are hypocritical? No. It just says, "I never mean what I say." Well, since it's a series of books built exclusively on puns, anymore, it's not hard to imagine that Piers Anthony would run out of steam eventually. And he did — a lot of the puns are fan-submitted, although some of the setup is still Anthony's. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: The Rose of Sharon Cassidy, when explaining the NCR building a massive statue as part of a Mojave-sized dick-waving contest. | |
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An incident at the inn in Neverwinter Nights 2 offers a discussed Type 1. Qara calls Neeshka "tail-for-brains". When Neeshka complains that her brains aren't in her tail, Qara says said brains must be next to it, and that she should loosen the back of her pants because they're obviously not getting enough air. | |
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Black☆Star of Soul Eater sometimes overexplains the meaning of his jokes...which is necessary, because they're pretty incomprehensible. | |
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In Pitch Perfect, during one of the competitions, the announcers John and Gail end up doing this when talking about a high-pitched male singer: | |
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An example of Variant 1 happens in Adorable Desolation. Shopclerk doesn't get it, she doesn't explain it. She laughs even harder when he realizes he's missing something. He's not even sure what he's not getting. | |
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Inverted in the Scott The Woz episode "The Trial"; everyone's reaction becomes a lot more positive after the joke is explained. | |
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| Don't Explain the Joke / int_6276800c | comment |
The Nostalgia Critic falls into this all of the time when targeting comedies, oftentimes substituting explaining a joke rather than pointing out why it isn't funny. This is most blatant in his review of Super Mario Bros. (1993) when he calls out the movie's use of a Who's on First? joke by asking whether or not it's supposed to be a Who's on First? joke. | |
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In First Lord's Fury of Codex Alera, a joke is flayed to a bloody mess on the carpet: | |
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Team Four Star's Dragon Ball Z Abridged. This exchange: Also this pretty blatant (but hilarious) example: On Fake Namek the impostors get confused by their own plan, leading to the comment "It's funny because 'wang' means 'penis'." In the Bardock special, Zarbon has one. One time, explaining the joke turned out to be the setup to another joke: |
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Although it was a threat instead of a joke, after the sheriff in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves threatens to Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon, Sir Guy of Gisborn doesn't get the comment, so the sheriff says, "Because it's dull, you twit. It'll hurt more!" | |
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Hondo Ohnaka's Not-So-Big-Score: Downplayed. Hondo makes a joke about showing the Upper-Class Twit tourists the inside of a pirate base. While he does have to explain that by this, he means they'll kidnap the tourists, this is only because some of his men are too stupid to get the simplest of jokes. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Chugworth Academy has a gag where an extremely apathetic Straight Man and Wise Guy act has the Dope Slap replaced by the narrator Explaining The Joke. | |
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In Bakuman。this sometimes happens with the more obscure manga references, such as one in which Nobuhiro makes a reference to the little brother of Sally the Witch. Justified because these are, in-universe, seen as exceptionally obscure and only funny to manga enthusiasts. | |
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy: Ron Burgundy plays this well. First he uses subtle innuendo to get across the joke without explaining it. Then he dives right in and explains what everyone was thinking. Despite this, everyone in the film still considers him a smooth individual, making for a third level of funny. From the soundtrack of the film: He goes further, in that explaining what he's doing often becomes the joke. |
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In one episode of Analog Control, MJTR makes a joke about the rather squicky fetish of saline inflation. This was obviously an attempt to get Thayne to have a disgusted reaction, but goes one step further when MJTR asks Thayne to explain why he is disgusted. In order to keep from digging himself deeper, Thayne quickly ends the conversation. | |
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Words of Radiance (second book of The Stormlight Archive): Pattern, Shallan's Bond Creature, is a Literal-Minded creature alien to the physical world who finds anything not literally true a "lie," and wants to learn more about them. He is especially interested in jokes, and spends a lot of time picking them apart, trying to find what makes them funny. Shallan has to explain that the first rule of humor is that there's nothing less funny than doing exactly that. | |
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In Going Postal, after Moist Von Lipwig cons the city into thinking the gods gave him a ton of cash, his business competitor comments that they will handle this in the newspaper by stating that they are interested in "profits, not prophets." Since he's saying this out loud, no one in the room gets it. He tries to explain the joke by repeating it, but it goes over their heads again, so he sighs and remarks that it will look better in print. | |
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A random conversation between Joker and EDI in Mass Effect 3 has Joker telling her a joke about a krogan and a salarian. When he's finished, EDI breaks this rule and then proceeds to dissect the stereotypes behind the joke, which in turn forces Joker to explain that the stereotypes are exactly why the joke is told by members of both races, adding that "Comedy isn't about being nice. Sometimes it's about airing out the nasty things people think." Even when EDI does make jokes, she tends to be bad at conveying sarcasm, and often has to clarify "That is a joke." when people take her seriously. |
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Witches Abroad. Granny Weatherwax tells a joke, or tries to anyway: "So he said, 'Get me an alligator sandwich — and be quick about it!'" After much speculation on alt.fan.pratchett (it says here), Terry Pratchett explained it thus: | |
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Mega Man Star Force has a "Don't Explain the Insult" variant at the beginning of the satellite admins segment of the first game, when Geo gets pissed off at Luna for following him everywhere and trying to get him to go to school, and calls her a "satellite". Luna doesn't get it, so Geo tells her what he meant, also adding that it's a play on her name. | |
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I Was a Teenage Exocolonist: If Tammy asks you what your favorite dessert is, you can reply, "Desert? I prefer the Sahara myself." However, she won't get the joke, and you have to explain it to her, which makes it less funny and causes her to lose confidence. | |
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Toots in Key Largo is called out on his habit to explain his jokes. | |
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The African guides in George of the Jungle get one of those rare times when explaining the joke actually manages to enhance the humor: | |
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Mr. Boynton on Our Miss Brooks occasionally does this. | |
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In one Bloom County strip, released before 1988, Steve Dallas, who is representing Bill the Cat, who has been arrested for selling secrets to the Soviets, asks a guy at the FBI building just what these secrets were: | |
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The Fool in Wyrd Sisters does this in the middle of a joke: "Marry, nuncle, if'n I had a Knighthood (Night Hood), why 'twould keep my ears Warm in Bedde." | |
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From Piglet's Big Movie: | |
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Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff: Comic #38 is a Charlie Brown ball-pulling gag parody, accompanied by the actual Charlie Brown strip, SBAHJified as usual, and the words "CHORLIE BROWN "this is what the refrance"". The same gag was imported in Homestuck for the sake of Mood Whiplash, this time with "WIZORD OF OZ", right as Jade was killed by Aranea dropping her house on her. |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_814a658e | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Deliberately exploited in Book of the Dead (2021), when Dove wants everyone to be fed up with him and walk away, so he can have a private chat with Tyron. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_84733dc5 | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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This occurs in Sickness the middle of an innuendo-laden dialogue about fighting: | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_88518e79 | |
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¡Three Amigos!. When Ned Nederlander sees a biplane flying overhead he makes a joke about it being a mail (male) plane "because of the balls." When his fellow Amigos don't immediately get the joke, he explains it to them at length. | |
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In the Super Therapy! session "Joker & Harley Quinn Therapy!", the Joker himself falls into it, starting to explain the joke about "having Poison Ivy on his junk". Then he gets depressed that he, of all people, would resort to that. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_8bee4e45 | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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CollegeHumor: "Turn that everyman into a BEVERYMAN! Bevery stands for BEVERAGE!" "It plays movies instead of books." |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_923dd091 | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Muh Phoenix: Hank Pym has a habit of doing this. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_94902f46 | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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In Cars, talking about the Cozy Cone Motel: | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_987ae286 | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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BBC Radio 4's The Now Show has a Running Gag that, before the audience has time to react to particularly lame puns (and there's a lot of them), they'll be lampshaded with "Do you see? Do you see what we did there?" Most notably: | |
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In the third chapter of "LPS: Galebreak REDONE" on DeviantArt, Pepper calls LQ84-i a Tin Mutt. The bot then proceeds to dissect what makes the joke work (even calling it amusing on 2 levels), much to Pepper's infuriation. | |
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Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple has a Running Gag that if anyone comes up behind Miu, she'll throw them. Every single time this occurs, there's a little caption box that says something like "Miu has a habit of throwing anyone standing behind her". It gets to the point that the caption itself is its own Running Gag. | |
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On one episode of Muppets Tonight, there was Seymour and Pepe's attempt at telling the "Elefino" joke, which is made even funnier by the diagrams and placards they use to explain it. The audience still doesn't get it. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_9fd048c8 | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Expertly inverted during a particularly slow scene in the RiffTrax cover of Mesa of Lost Women. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_a0c28448 | |
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The Emperor's New Groove: | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_a535581a | |
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In The Guild, season 1 episode 3 "The Macro Problem": | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_a6b9b759 | |
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Portal 2 has both antagonists pull this one on separate occasions. GLaDOS because she's a Deadpan Snarker and Wheatley because he's genuinely stupid. The latter is adorned with heavy Lampshade Hanging. | |
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At the end of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the comic-relief sidekick Jonathan declares that he's going someplace where there aren't any mummies to deal with, and adds, "On to Peru!" A caption then informs us that "Soon thereafter, mummies were discovered in Peru." | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_aaaee755 | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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This is Ben Roethlisberger's schtick on ProFootballMock.com's NFL Quarterbacks On Facebook, to the other quarterbacks' constant annoyance. He is known to explain every joke in all caps. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_aae95514 | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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VG Cats: Leo does a lengthy menstruation joke, and then tops it off. It's not the first time Leo has done that. Also the final panel could be considered the creator explaining the comic's joke. |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_ab3076a5 | |
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From The LEGO Movie: | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_aedfc20a | |
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My Immortal: "Geddit cuz im goffik?" Except sometimes, it's actually necessary to distinguish between an attempted joke and another misspelling. Sadly, those are the ones that aren't explained, merely marked with a "geddit?" | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_b5134390 | |
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog features a rare example where the joke itself isn't very funny, but explaining it is one of the funniest moments of the whole video: | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_b80c3b | |
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The Hangover: Mr. Chow insults Zack Galafinakis and then explains... "It's funny because he's fat!" | |
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In the PvP arc when Robbie starts his own brewery, one of the first buildings they look at is an incredibly bad choice - so much so, that Max quotes Harold Ramis' line from Ghostbusters (1984) about the firehouse more or less verbatim. Then, hearing him, Robbie barges in talking about how great the building is, and namedrops the movie, just to be sure that the dozen readers outside the actual target market get the joke. | |
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In the flash game Crystal Story II (available at Armorgames.com), the Orcacle insist in explaining the pun of her name combining oracle, her job, with orc, her species. She finds it hilarious; the player character doesn't, but then again, he's aghast whenever he's talking with almost anyone. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke / int_b9bb82f2 | |
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The Epic Rap Battles of History focusing on the Joker vs. Pennywise sees the Joker get annoyed at explaining his jab about Stephen King's cocaine habit after it went over Pennywise's giant head. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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Basic Instructions describes How to Retroactively Ruin a Joke. | |
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Brawl in the Family tended to do this frequently in early strips, by telling a joke in the strip, then explaining the (incredibly simple) joke in the newsfeed. | |
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Done in Why Lying is OK! by Matt Santoro. Matt talks about a hacktivist group that had been wreaking havoc on the net for the last 50 days. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Joey: Bakura in Episode 18. "Run while you can mortal, soon I will rule the world, and then we'll see who smells. (pause) It'll be you!" Also Kaiba in Episode 21, while inside a computer simulation: "Time for a trip to the recycle bin, Phantom. And then once you're in the recycle bin, I'm going to right click on it and select "empty recycle bin". Because otherwise, you'll just be taking up unnecessary space. In other words, I'm going to kill you." A failed example that wasn't intentional is when Tristan's voice changes, and Joey later punches him when he insults his fighting ability. According to Joey, "Ever since your voice changed you've been like a completely different person." He then continues with "Actually, you've been like the same person, just with a completely different voice". "It is funny because "wang" means "penis"." Marik combines this with Late to the Punchline after Melvin telling Bakura 'I always knew you wanted me inside you Bakura'. |
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In All-New X-Men, O5 Beast awkwardly tries to converse with Magneto, eventually explaining: | |
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Daphne's father in Nation does this, as the narration mentions that this is something no-one should ever do, not even the king. Then the Gentlemen of Last Resort tactfully explain why the joke still doesn't work, and advise him what change he needs to make for it to make sense. | |
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Up: "It's funny because the squirrel gets dead!" | |
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Punch an' Pie: Karen demonstrates. | |
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Carson Baye was a particularly unpopular character in Survival of the Fittest V3 due to his habit of referencing anime, then immediately explaining the references. Although, there were a number of other (mostly out of character) reasons for this too. | |
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The Spoony Experiment: "Space Mountain is my penis." | |
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In Dragon Ball, when the Ginyu Force meets the unlikely alliance of Gohan, Krillin, and Vegeta, Ginyu decides that he and his men will "play" with the heroes (and Vegeta). The gag is repeated in the Ginyu Force theme song from Dragon Ball Z Kai, where Jeice again feels the need to explain that when he says he's going to "pat" you with his Crusher Ball, he doesn't mean a pat on the head. |
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In The Bird Feeder, the humour is often intentionally ruined in The Rant. | |
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Completely subverted/parodied/inverted as a running gag at The Comics Curmudgeon, where the underlying horror of the strip is explained instead of the joke itself. | |
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The gag is repeated in the Ginyu Force theme song from Dragon Ball Z Kai, where Jeice again feels the need to explain that when he says he's going to "pat" you with his Crusher Ball, he doesn't mean a pat on the head. | |
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: A good example during Scott and Ramona's first date: Additionally: The second one there is an example of one you HAVE to explain since it makes no sense on its own. Also, it wasn't exactly a joke, more than an overly wordy threat. Still loses its punch by having to be explained, but then again, Todd's just like that. |
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Mark Does Stuff - in his video for Star Trek: Voyager's episode "Life Line", when the character turns around and says something dramatic, Mark comments "You know, we hadn't had a dramatic turn like that in a while.... get it? It's both a dramatic turn...literal and meta— stop." | |
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The English dub of Pokémon: The Series is absolutely rife with bad puns, and sometimes lampshades this: "Looks like I'm all in one...PEACE! Haha, see, it's funny, because I'm making a 'peace' sign!" | |
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The Ultimates: The Wasp takes Banner to the new base, the Triskelion, and pointed that she would have got crazy working in that rat hole in Pittsburgh. He asks if turning green and going into a destructive rampage doesn't qualify as crazy... and then points that he is making a joke. She was not amused. | |
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Portal: In the end credits song. Portal 2 has both antagonists pull this one on separate occasions. GLaDOS because she's a Deadpan Snarker and Wheatley because he's genuinely stupid. The latter is adorned with heavy Lampshade Hanging. |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Abridged: | |
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In one installment of DAR!, the artist is holding a very hairy pussy cat. She talks about shaving it. (She also misspelled "euphemism".) | |
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In one chapter of The Darkside Detective, McQueen is called out to a campground to investigate the disappearance of a scout leader. After examining the scene of the crime (campfire, a couple of portable canvas shelters, etc.) he attempts to cheer up the scouts with a joke about the situation being "two tents". When it doesn't get a laugh, he attempts to explain it, which doesn't go over any better. | |
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Kubo and the Two Strings has this exchange during the fight with the Gashadokuro: | |
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Homestar Runner goes through several layers of this, along with an implied Type 1 and unnecessary Lampshade Hanging, when Strong Bad reads through a computer catalog. | |
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DSBT InsaniT: Andy does this quite a few times, so much with Martha that it is essentially his catch phrase. | |
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In Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Crazy Crazy Cabbie constantly explains his innuendos. | |
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Looking for Group has this pearl: | |
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Avatars II: When Qwaritch Takes Revenge: "It was a long flight so he put on You Could Be Mine by Guns N' Roses (get it because that song was in The Terminator II which was also by James Cameron so its an injoke!)" | |
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Concession: "See, it's funny because you're a pedophile." | |
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In Get Him to the Greek, there is a song in there by Aldous' ex-wife Jackie Q called "Ring Around My Posy", full of innuendos about anal sex. At the very end she says, "I'm talking about my asshole." | |
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In Ears for Elves, Zalanna is eager to expound on how she made a joke through exaggeration and her apparent humorous qualities, since Tanna missed the joke when it was made. | |
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Done all the time in Third Rate Gamer, and even lampshaded at one point: | |
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In Bolt, during an Ironic Echo moment: | |
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Dinosaur Comics does this quite a bit. For example, Programming Advice: Jokes Explained. That's not what she said. Last night. When I had SEX with her! |
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The Muppets (2011): In the final spoof trailer for the film, Pepe says "It's Twilight. Almost time for Breaking Prawn." Not only does he address the audience "Get it?" but then a narrator explains that Pepe is a shrimp, also called a prawn. Done in-universe in the blooper reel, with a bunch of muppet hobos explaining a joke they'd just made to Hobo Joe, repeatedly pointing out that when you have to explain a joke, it's dead. After they give, Joe bursts out laughing. |
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Fark: One common stock gag on this news aggregator is for a submission to woodenly summarize what happens in a news article using increasingly stretched Unusual Euphemisms for a prominent "impolite" concept, then stiffly drop the anvil in the last word. Penis. Also common is for someone to actually explain an overused headline joke in the comments: "See, it's funny because Sarah Jessica Parker's face is hideously elongated, not unlike a horse's face." |
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Long before The Now Show, The Goon Show was deliberately introducing lame puns and then undercutting them. | |
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In Non Non Biyori, Natsumi attempts to make a pun, but is met with silence. She then explains the basis of the pun, and Komari replies that Natsumi shouldn't have done it if an explanation was necessary. | |
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The punchline of the "Short Circuits" of the first issue of Mega Man (Archie Comics) is a Mythology Gag which is promptly explained in a footnote. | |
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Weebl & Bob: Episode 17 of "On the Moon" inverts this when Insanity Prawn Boy mistakenly thinks the Toast King is making a knock-knock joke. | |
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