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Format-Specific Joke
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The makers of a work decide to add a joke specific to the format it will initially be displayed in, usually a movie theatre or broadcast on TV. All meaning to the joke is lost when the work is released on Blu-ray or DVD. Possibilities include: 3D-dependent elements in a 3-D Movie which are lost in 2D A TV show makes jokes about a commercial break is shown on DVD A TV show makes jokes about the ads which run at the bottom of the screen during a show A TV show interacts with or makes mention of the network's logo bug floating in the corner of the screen A movie that directly mentions the audience in a movie theater is shown on DVD This is not limited to movies. Early music albums which were recorded for distribution on vinyl records generally contained tons of these, generally involving the needle running off the track at the end of the record, or the need to flip the record to its B side. While the mentions of flipping were still relevant on cassette tapes, they didn't make any sense when the albums were distributed on CD. Super trope of Born in the Theatre. |
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Invoked by Pratchett himself in Mort, when he tries to use a Twisted Echo Cut in prose, then has to explain it in a footnote: | |
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The Simpsons: In "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington", a Joe Millionaire screenbug runs across the bottom of the screen. Homer eats it, but spits out the Fox logo. "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" opens with Marge's frustration over screenbugs popping up as she's trying to talk to the audience. She ends up killing all of them. "Funeral for a Fiend" has some Leaning on the Fourth Wall at the first act break, which assumes the presence of ads. "The Sound of Bleeding Gums" has a joke about Homer saying that only losers watch broadcast television, as a scrolling promo for a fake Fox show appears. This makes less sense if you're watching the digital releases. In "Poorhouse Rock", Lisa's rap tells the viewers that they "can't even afford what they sell in this commercial," then pulls down a black screen. The joke makes less sense when watching without ads. |
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Stuart Ashen sometimes puts annotation links to other videos, and he usually points to where they pop up. Examples include the 3D Color Games review, a Poundland Special featuring a dinosaur excavation kit and a racing loop among others, and the Game Child review. | |
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In the original floppy disk versions of The Secret of Monkey Island, examining a stump in Mêlée Island's forest makes Guybrush realize that there is a hole at the base of the stump to "a tunnel that opens onto a system of catacombs!" The player is then prompted to insert the non-existent disks 22, 36, and 114, and Guybrush concludes he'll "just have to skip that part of the game." Not only did this joke lead to plenty of confused players calling the support line (to the point that one of the later games features a character you can ask about "the stump joke"), but it's specific to the era of games being released on multiple floppy disks — so it was removed for the single-disc CD version and the digitally-released Special Edition. | |
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Cipher Academy: In a two-page panel in Chapter 18, Anonymity (who has a tendency for fourth-wall breaking gags) is leaning on the stitch between the pages. The gag only makes sense if you're reading the manga in its paper edition; in the digital version, it just looks like Anonymity is holding her hands in mid-air for no reason. | |
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Looney Tunes uses Is There a Doctor in the House? on more than one occasion, which makes no sense to TV or DVD viewers watching at home. They also use the "hair in the aperture" bit, where the projectionist's hand comes in to remove it. |
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The Dimension 404 episode "Matchmaker" features ads for a fictional matchmaking website that are meant to resemble the ads that accompany Hulu videos. | |
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The LP version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) carried the scene where one cast member, whose identity shall not be disclosed because revealing it here would only hold up the story, bruises their upper arm in a tense stand-off with guided nuclear missiles. The run-out groove at the end of the side tells you the bruised crewmember was Arthur Dent. The original radio and LP versions featured multiple jokes based on the lack of visuals, mostly based around withholding information from the viewers that was obvious to the characters. Zaphod's multiple heads and arms were an example of this. The more famous book version, of course, had to explain everything in narration as it was presented, so this was lost. |
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In Fat Albert, the characters tell the audience to sit back down as the movie isn't over yet. However, they're clearly addressing a film audience, calling out "you in the back", so it doesn't have the same effect if watched on DVD. | |
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The Muppet Viral Video Beaker's Ballad is about Beaker getting harrassed by annotations. Unlike the other examples, the annotations are in the video itself, since it runs on Rule of Funny (Beaker walks in front of them, some of them move around, and some of them have bigger text — all of which are impossible with real annotations). | |
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One Garfield comic has Garfield bemoaning a boring day until he gets the newspaper and realizes it's Sunday. The comic is printed entirely in black and white except for the newspaper and the last panel, which reflects how newspapers tend to run weekday strips in monochrome and Sunday strips in color. However, if you read this in certain paperback Garfield collections that aren't printed with color, the last panel is still uncolored, and the intended joke is lost. The same thing happens vice versa if you read it online or in a collection where all of the strips are in color. | |
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Failing to get around this trope was one of the primary reasons that the 1950s attempt to produce a TV adaptation of The Shadow never came to fruition. Visual effects of the era couldn't make the title character's powers work in a visual medium. | |
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In the Ireland episode of Yogi's Treasure Hunt, Huckleberry Hound makes a reference to a commercial break, which made no sense when it was shown on The BBC. | |
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The DVD for Monty Python and the Holy Grail starts with the opening credits to Dentist on the Job, which run for a couple minutes before the projectionist realizes his mistake and switches out the reels. Obviously, this falls a bit flat outside a theater. | |
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The Simpsons Movie: The opening mocks viewers for going to the cinema to watch cartoons when they could watch them for free on television at home. Also, as in the TV show, for the opening title a choir sings "The Simpsons...", but this time Professor Frink adds "movie...on the big screen!". For the DVD release, Frink introduces the DVD menu in the same way, except that he says "small screen", but he still says "big screen" in the movie itself. As Homer and Bart are playing in the yard, a news banner rolls across the bottom of the screen displaying the message, "That's right, we even advertise shows during movies now". The implication is that the advertisement is being done live, but the joke is lost with anything other than a live viewing. |
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Chuggaaconroy's original outros asked viewers to rate the video five stars and asked them to click the subscribe button "up above." Later revisions to the site would remove the star ratings and move the subscribe button below videos. | |
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The Ultra Fast Pony episode "Shameless Self Reference" has a running gag of dialogue awkwardly referencing the series creator Wacarb's other works. Each time, an annotation pops up with a link to the object of the reference. Without these annotations, the joke makes a lot less sense. | |
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The song "Let's Talk About Sex" by Salt-N-Pepa tells people who don't want to hear the song (due to the topic) to "pick up the needle, press pause, or turn the radio off." While one can still press pause on a streaming song or turn the radio off, hardly anyone is going to pick up a record needle. | |
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An episode of The X-Files about a plague of cockroaches threw in a gag where a roach appears to run across the TV screen on which the program is being viewed. Watching this episode on a large television detracts from this effect, because the roach looks so big that it'd be too heavy to scamper across a vertical surface. | |
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Spy Kids: All the Time in the World has scenes in which the audience is supposed to use their Aroma-scope card to smell what's happening. Each card had eight smells, and on-screen annotations told the audience when to scratch each one. | |
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In Banjo-Tooie, Jamjars teaches Banjo and Kazooie their new moves to the tune of the army jingle "I Don't Know, But I've Been Told". He does this by rhyming. However, the rhymes only sync up to the buttons on the original N64 release. When the game was rereleased on the XBox Live Arcade, the buttons were updated, but the songs remained exactly the same, so the rhymes sounded off. | |
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On an episode of Chowder they made a joke about the Cartoon Network channel bug in the corner of the screen (which was actually part of the animation in the shot it came up in). On DVD and VOD, the channel bug appears and disappears when the joke comes up. In later rebroadcast, after Cartoon Network changed their logo, the two logos end up overlapping just in that shot. | |
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The original ending to Little Shop of Horrors has a laughing Audrey II breaking through the movie screen. | |
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In Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, there are a lot of scenes specifically made in such a way to showcase the 3D effect as forcefully as possible. While this works if you're in a 3D theater, watching this movie in 2D shows very clearly just how forced such moments are. | |
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Tropic Thunder begins with fake movie trailers. These might possibly make sense on DVD, but it also begins with a fake movie theater candy commercial. | |
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When The Jack Benny Program moved to TV they realized that some of their most beloved running gags couldn't be replicated in a visual medium so they had to be abandoned: namely, Jack's underground bunker/safe and the polar bear guarding it, and Jack's very old car. | |
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According to the DVD Commentary of The Powerpuff Girls Movie, when the Professor first creates the girls and stares right up at the screen, the framing on a theater screen is meant to make the audience see his face the way the tiny girls did — huge and staring at them. | |
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One joke in Invincible has Mark meeting an artist for his favor comic book. Mark asks how he can draw a whole issue every month, but the artist admits he makes deadlines by reusing art in multiple panels. There are a series of identical Beat Panels before Mark responds with disappointment.The animated series takes considerably pains to adapt the joke appropriately and makes it more elaborate: Mark brings up the comic's TV adaptations and questions why (like Invincible itself) it had such a long break between seasons. The artist replies that animation is a very slow process, which necessitates cost-saving techniques (specifically Filming for Easy Dub, slowly panning static background to appear more dynamic, and making freeze-frames so detailed they end up looking out of place) as they occur to the viewer. | |
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In The Cleveland Show, Cleveland Jr. gets into a rap battle with Kenny West. At one point, Jr. flips Kenny off, singing "On the DVD, this won't be pixelated." | |
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Spy Kids: In Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, there are a lot of scenes specifically made in such a way to showcase the 3D effect as forcefully as possible. While this works if you're in a 3D theater, watching this movie in 2D shows very clearly just how forced such moments are. Spy Kids: All the Time in the World has scenes in which the audience is supposed to use their Aroma-scope card to smell what's happening. Each card had eight smells, and on-screen annotations told the audience when to scratch each one. |
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In one of The Drew Carey Show's April Fools' Day "spot the mistakes" episodes, one of the mistakes is the ABC logo bug floating away from where it's supposed to be (in the corner of the screen) and Lewis catches it & puts it back in its proper location. In syndication (and presumably on DVD release if there is one) the ABC bug is replaced by a balloon, but it makes no sense for a balloon to be there. | |
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Toy Story 2 features a Barbie doll saying goodbye to people as they leave the theater. Doesn't really work on DVD or TV. | |
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Futurama: Forced to come up with a plan on the spot in "Fear of a Bot Planet", Leela says, "If only I had two or three minutes to think about it!", cuing the first ad break. The next act opens with her putting a plan in motion. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters: The movie begins with a parody of theater promos about the refreshment stall and theater etiquette. | |
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Bean: ends with an after-the-credits gag of Mr. Bean sitting in a cinema, saying that he stays after the credits as well. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy features the famous line "The spaceships hung in the sky in exactly the way that bricks don't". The film adaptation, using visuals rather than narrative description, simply depicts brick-shaped starships... and the Lemony Narrator element of the humour is absent. | |
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The last gag in Aladdin has the moon suddenly start laughing with the Genie's face, then for Genie to push back the film reel and announce "Made you look!" The gag was meant to psych out audience members who started leaving early because they thought the movie was over, only to look back when something else starts going on. Nowadays in home viewings the reason for the gag is much less clear. | |
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The Mickey Mouse short Get a Horse! had the characters coming through the movie screen and into the theater. When watching it elsewhere, the effect is somewhat less engaging. | |
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Code Monkeys, being styled after a video game, displays a pause screen whenever the show cuts to commercial. In a commercial-free format, this results in random pauses appearing for no reason. Although considering all the other random nonsense in the show, it's not entirely out of place. | |
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Family Guy: On at least one occasion, the show has built a gag around a promo running at the bottom of the screen. The joke stumbles a bit on DVD, or when viewed on TV in a country which doesn't have on-screen promos. In "Switch the Flip", Stewie encourages Brian to offend God by telling him, "Say something you couldn't say on TV." Brian looks up, says, "Hey, God..." and the rest of his speech gets censored. In "Big Man on Hippocampus", a gag resembling an [adult swim] card appears, chiding the viewer for watching the show on FOX. This joke only works in the episode's original airing on FOX, but given that encores would air a week after on Adult Swim, the joke is lost, much moreso when the show left Adult Swim completely for FXX and Freeform. That said, the Adult Swim airings attempt to salvage the joke with a fake FOX Station Ident insisting the viewer is watching the show on FOX... as in, "FOX for people who watch FOX on Adult Swim." |
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Hey, Hey It's Darryl and Ozzie - one of the comedy LPs made by the cast of Hey Hey It's Saturday - has joke about someone getting upset and storming off to the other side of the album through the hole in the middle. Needless to say, this joke will not work in any other format. | |
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A plot point in Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is the fact that the bottom screen of the original DS release was actually Akane's perspective from the past, which meant that Junpei's perspective was strictly the upper screen. This culminated in a Sudoku puzzle which required the player to turn their DS upside-down to see properly since Junpei on the top screen is now sending information to Akane on the bottom screen. The Nonary Games rerelease had to majorly alter this by having two different screen modes available (Adventure and Novel) which can only be visible one at a time and replace the final puzzle with a non-format-specific one. | |
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The first section of the Babylon 5 episode "The Illusion of Truth" features an ISN crew filming a story on board the station. As Sheridan turns on the screen to watch the show when it airs, he comments, "It'll probably be a commercial". The episode's original airing cut to an actual commercial break at this point. The gag extended to including an in-universe commercial for the Psi Corps at the start of the next segment (so it would follow the actual adverts), so when viewing the episode in a format where you don't get ad-breaks, you do still get the joke... | |
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch had the foresight to change a theatre-specific gag for the VHS release — instead of the Gremlins invading the theatre's projection room and being stopped by Hulk Hogan, they break the VHS tape and mess around with the viewer's TV, being stopped by John Wayne. For the DVD and Blu-ray releases, the original Hulk Hogan scene is used, but the alternate VHS scene is available as a bonus feature. The novelization adapts the scene in a different way, by having the Brain Gremlin lock the author in a closet and write a monologue about himself. | |
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In the middle of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Tony Randall comes on screen out of character and compares film's big screen to the tiny TV screen. | |
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