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Escalating Punchline
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Traditionally, a joke consists of a succinct remark made in response to a setup, after which either the conversation goes on in its original direction, or the scene ends. An Escalating Punchline, on the other hand, keeps extending the remark by tagging on further and further additions, often with each being more extreme than the last. These are always short and delivered in an uninterrupted sequence, separated by very brief but distinct pauses. With sufficient increments, it can turn into an Overly Long Gag. Jokes like this usually rely on Crosses the Line Twice, where it gets progressively funnier as the punchline is exaggerated. Compare to Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking and Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick, where all the escalation occurs in one section of the punchline, usually with the last part; also see One-Two Punchline. Compare Inflationary Dialogue, Serial Escalation, Worse with Context. |
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: When the students are boarding the Hogwarts Express, Percy Weasley just happens to mention that, as a Prefect, he gets to ride up front. Which gets this reaction from his brothers, Fred and George: | |
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From the Turbo F.A.S.T. episode "Taco Tank", when the titular tank is careening out of control and headed for the Brentwood Home for Unwanted Puppies and Lonely Grandmas: | |
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Season 4 of BoJack Horseman has Princess Carolyn meet her boyfriend's wealthy family while the couple keep her pregnancy secret from them. They offer her: some smokes, an assortment of drinks, a swift punch to the gut ("It's a rich-people thing"), a ride on their private rollercoaster, and standing around Mrs. Stilton while she smokes. | |
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Also, the Too Human review: | |
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The Simpsons: "Midnight Rx" has Mr. Burns and his anecdote about the "Plywood Pelican". In "Marge in Chains" Lionel Hutz tries to save his case by handing the judge a fake verdict. |
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And in his review of Sacred 3: | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal loves this trope. | |
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A lot of Cracked's original videos end up as this, for example When Giving Away a Lifetime Supply Turns Deadly. | |
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In the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends episode "My So-called Wife", Mr. Herriman greets the eccentric benefactor who's looking to donate to the home, and the benefactor says "Please, call me Benjamin! ...Edward... Factor... the Third... Esquire... DDS!" | |
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Discworld: Near the start of Hogfather, Archchancellor Ridcully demands that a sealed-off bathroom (designed by "Bloody Stupid" Johnson) be opened, citing the reason "to see why they wanted it shut, of course." A footnote adds: | |
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Nedroid sets it up, and the Alt Text knocks it down, like so. | |
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From Clerks: The Animated Series: | |
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In Ratchet & Clank (2002), Chairman Drek starts out as simply the chairman of his company. As the game progresses, he begins tacking on more additions to his title until he's referred to as Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek. | |
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And his Resident Evil 5 one. | |
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American Dad!: In "Stanny Tendergrass", when the mistreated employees of Roger's country club turn on him and he talks to an angry old woman with a crossbow, who is the daughter of a woman whom Roger married and then killed and wants her mother's fortune: In "Stan Smith Is Keanu Reeves as Stanny Utah in Point Break": |
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Outnumbered, "The Dinner Party": | |
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In one episode of The Venture Brothers, Rusty discovers that his given name is also that of an incredibly lewd sex act. Cue one character after another describing, in increasingly vulgar detail which ranges from toy-based to scatological, exactly what said act involves. | |
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In his "Best and Worst of 2015" video, his explanation for why he named Halo 5: Guardians #1 Blandest Game of 2015 is capped off with: | |
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In the Steven Universe episode "Coach Steven", Steven's dad Greg (who is not in the best shape himself) builds Steven, Sadie, and Lars a makeshift gym, and offers to join them in their workout. | |
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Will & Grace, "Leo Unwrapped": | |
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Noob has a scene during which the main guild is looking for a new healer and recruiting in an area that has many low-level players. Near the end of the episode, someone passes by and the group jerkass makes fun of him, assuming he's a low-level player. The guild master's answer can be paraphrased as "That 'kid' you just made fun of is part of [the game's top guild you're hoping to join someday]. Actually, he's in the same team as [top player of said guild of whom you're a Fanboy]. He's also the game's best healer." | |
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Used in episode 39 of Red vs. Blue, combined with Metaphorgotten: Commentary on the DVD reveals a lot of Sarge's ad-libs went on like this. |
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Also, about how much the concept of Monsters seems to be almost tailor-made to his taste: | |
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Andy Parsons on Mock the Week: Greg Davies about his grandmother, who (allegedly) applied night cream each night for decades to keep complexion young: |
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Futurama: In "Space Pilot 3000", Leela informs Fry that those who refuse the jobs assigned by their job chips will be fired. Out of a cannon, into the sun. In "War Is the H-Word", Zapp commends "Lee Lemon" (Leela in disguise) for performance on an obstacle course. |
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In the second AMV Hell, there is a recurring image of an EVA. The first two appearances both use the same somber orchestral music, but the third has only cricket noises. The fourth appearance has a song with the lyrics "WON'T SOMEBODY KILL ME PLEASE? KILL ME! I WANT TO DIE!" If you wait after the cut to black, the EVA is shown for a final time, finally crushing and dropping its victim. Only to see that it's the EVA's head that's falling... |
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When GLaDOS tells Chell an engineer has officially noted in her file that her orange jumpsuit looks stupid on her in Portal 2. | |
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Get Smart had a Running Gag of Max making outrageous claims and then scaling them back in response to the other party's disbelief. | |
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A "Mr. Know-It-All" segment on Rocky and Bullwinkle has Bullwinkle showing us "How to be a lion tamer and pick up a little scratch. On the side. Of your face." (shows a scratch mark on his face) | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: In "The Void," Gumball and Darwin watch the school cheerleaders disastrously rehearse. Gumball cheers supportively, but Darwin expresses his criticisms. Another has the workers and management of the grocery store get younger and younger until eventually the shareholders are all but stated to be talking sperm. |
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An episode of Danger Mouse has the narrator telling us of how DM climbed Mt. Everest. On his head. Blindfolded. | |
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From episode 31 of Sailor Moon Abridged there's Raye expressing her "support" for Serena: | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this: | |
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In the Duckman episode "Forbidden Fruit", when Duckman stays over at Fluffy and Uranus' house: | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In a memetic scene from "Rock-a-Bye Bivalve", Patrick's retort to SpongeBob telling him that he's only bothered to change Junior's diaper once is that Junior is so small that he can't be going through diapers that fast. SpongeBob shows him a garbage can full of diapers, which Patrick dismisses, so he then shows him another garbage can and two bags of diapers in a corner, then more diapers in the fridge, underneath the upholstery of the sofa, and in the walls, before capping off the gag with a huge mountain of diapers being shoveled and loaded into a waste disposal truck. In "BlackJack": |
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The Aristocrats is an inversion of this style of joke. A group of performers (often described as a family) approach an agent to sign up with them and get asked if they can demonstrate their act. The set up then goes on and on, getting more and more elaborate as it describes acts of disgusting and weird behaviour, basically whatever it takes to make the joke's actual audience very uncomfortable, including incest (which is why them being a family matters), coprophilia, animals, and so on. After making your actual audience as disgusted as you can, you get to the fairly simple punchline (which they probably already know, since this is a famous old joke, and the actual entertainment comes from seeing how far you can push the set up). Of course, the agent is in shock at what he just witnessed and asked what they call this act. The entertainers say "The Aristocrats!" (Theoretically the joke is simply that all aristocrats do all this sort of thing all the time.) | |
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Shaun of the Dead opens on one. The first shot is Shaun staring vacantly into the camera. Then it pulls out, revealing that he's actually listening to his girlfriend, Liz, talking about Shaun's friend, Ed. Then it pulls out a bit more, revealing that Ed is playing at an arcade machine right next to them, just ignoring her constant insults. Then it pulls out just a bit more to show that Liz' friends are also there, being completely ignored in favour of insulting Ed. | |
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: When King Neptune comes to the Krusty Krab looking for his crown and sets Mr. Krabs' rear end on fire: In a later scene when Karen points out to Plankton what might happen if SpongeBob and Patrick succeed in retrieving Neptune's crown from Shell City, and how Plankton can be easily implicated for its theft: |
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Very common in Monty Python's Flying Circus, particular examples include the "Tuesday Documentary" sketch and the "American Defense" sketch. | |
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The Ruby Gloom episode "Lucky Me" has the gang helping Skull Boy looking for his lucky charm. When asked what it is: | |
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Blanche in The Golden Girls: | |
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And in his Rise of the Triad one, describing the difference between casual and hardcore gaming: | |
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Done a few times on Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "the show", Strong Bad decides to compare Homestar's antics to "me... kicking the Cheat... into Strong Sad... with the chicken pox." In "montage", Strong Bad's reaction to an emailer asking him to "creat" a montage is to say, in a mocking, high-pitched voice, "Oooohhh! Why don't you 'creat' an alternate reality where you don't have to spell correctly? (beat) And I talk like this. (beat) And your name is Watered Down!" In "strong badathlon", one of the events in the eponymous -Athlon is "the Clean and Jerk... Strong Mad's Underwears... Over His Head. Fortunately, you don't really have to clean them." In "slumber party", Strong Bad claims that at childhood slumber parties, Strong Sad was the much-ridiculed "kid who got picked up early 'cause he misses his mom", even when they were holding slumber parties in their own basement. In "Fan Costumes '09", Strong Bad makes fun of a bunch of Homestar costumes and unexpectedly sees a bad costume of himself. |
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Family Guy: In the episode "To Love and Die in Dixie", Chris bears witness to a crime. After Chris is assured anonymity, Peter walks into the Police Lineup and gives his son's identity away in an increasingly absurd fashion. In "Airport '07", after Peter causes Quagmire's plane to crash by siphoning fuel from it in the hopes of using it to make his new pickup truck fly, Channel 5 shows a visualization of the plane crashing into a school and flaming kids pouring out of the building. They then show the plane crashing into a school for bunnies and flaming bunnies pouring out, and then the same thing as the second, but one passenger survives, goes home, and takes his anger out on his wife. |
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The Zero Punctuation review of The Darkness: Also, the Too Human review: And his Resident Evil 5 one. And in his review of Sacred 3: And in his Rise of the Triad one, describing the difference between casual and hardcore gaming: In his "Best and Worst of 2015" video, his explanation for why he named Halo 5: Guardians #1 Blandest Game of 2015 is capped off with: |
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In the Strong Bad Email "the show", Strong Bad decides to compare Homestar's antics to "me... kicking the Cheat... into Strong Sad... with the chicken pox." | |
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Too Many Cooks starts out as an Overly Long Gag parody of Dom Coms with ridiculous premises, but quickly grows from there into a psycho stalker, a parody of crime shows and sci-fi, and gains multiple levels of metaness in the process. | |
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Phoebe in Friends: Another Phoebe line: |
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