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"Just Joking" Justification
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When humour is used to excuse behavior that others find offensive and inappropriate, you have just encountered a "Just Joking" Justification. Never mind that this seldom soothes the sting; the original barb hurt, after all, and hurting others for one's amusement won't earn much sympathy, either. There is overlap between this trope and emotional abuse. This is one source of humour which comedians have used as a reservoir of material. Contemporary stereotypes are thus often causes of this trope, be they sexist, racist, homophobic, or otherwise. These can range a very wide gamut, from people getting upset at Michael Richards' (Seinfeld's Kramer) infamous n-word tirade at a heckler, to people getting upset when they don't realize that Jon Stewart's jokes about Jewish conspiracies are actually deconstructive parodies (and he is Jewish). Frequently features as an excuse for invoking Mars and Venus Gender Contrast. An Affably Evil character may actually get away with this on a regular basis, as may someone who's considered Too Funny to Be Evil. It definitely won't work if Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor. Compare and contrast Sarcastic Confession. Conversely, it may result in Crying Wolf if people conclude they shouldn't take any of the speaker's "jokes" seriously. A related tactic is called Just Asking Questions, where the person will make outrageous accusations but phrase them as questions (e.g "Did Bob screw a goat? I wonder") to avoid getting in trouble for slander. In other words, it's very easy for this trope to become a form of Jerk Justifications. You may also consider this as a form of justification for when an attempt to Cross The Line Twice results in Dude, Not Funny!. Contrast Poe's Law, when it really was just a joke, but the satirical intention got lost (or when something that seems too ridiculous to be sincere is not a joke at all). Also see Parody Retcon for when this is applied to entire works. Not to be confused with I Was Just Joking, where the "Just Joking" wasn't made up after the fact; the offender intended to make a joke for real. Compare Just Testing You. See also Humor Mode, which is doing this preemptively for a statement that really never was meant to be taken seriously. |
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In Batman: Arkham Asylum Joker pulls one as one of his looping taunts after beating challenge mode. With the Joker, you never can tell.... |
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Tuca & Bertie: In "Sleepovers", Kara unintentionally insults Tuca when making fun of her table manners, and explains that she was only joking. Her conscience doubles down that she has no need to apologize when it was an "obvious" joke, but her lack of an apology only makes Tuca feel worse. | |
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Get Fuzzy: Bucky occasionally says "I'm just sayin'..." after insulting humans and dogs, eventually prompting this exchange: | |
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Bergelmir (Loki's brother) tries to pull one to cover his ass after attempting to trick Lucifer into being honor-bound to kill himself. | |
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In Heathers, Ram Sweeney does this in a conversation he's having with God during a funeral: "Jesus god in Heaven, why did you have to kill such hot snatch? It's a joke, man. Jeez, people are so serious. Hail Mary, who aren't in heaven, pray for all us sinners so we don't get caught. Another joke, man." | |
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In the PAW Patrol episode "Mission PAW: Royally Spooked", Sweetie claims it was all in good fun when she gets caught using a remote control to create the illusion that the castle was haunted. | |
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Punk'd: This was the whole premise of the show. During the series, Ashton Kutcher did some “pranks” against celebrities that were actually downright terrible and justify it with “I’m just kidding around.” It’s worth noting that in the years since the series, many celebrities have said they did NOT appreciate his humor, and Ashton himself has stated that even as early as during the series run, he would be shunned from parties because of it and some celebrities would actually try and fight him. | |
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The Simpsons: Krusty the Clown in the episode "Mr Spritz Goes to Washington" deconstructs this after an offensive bit by outright saying, "When you give me that look, it's a joke." Following Sideshow Bob's Heel–Face Turn in "Brother From Another Series", he remarks that he still just might have the urge to kill Bart Simpson, only to quickly add "Joking, joking!" when Bart gets frightened. Bart's chalkboard punishment for the episode "Homer the Great" reads "Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the principal". |
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The 1940 Looney Tunes cartoon "You Ought to Be in Pictures" has Daffy cajoling Porky into quitting the cartoon business to be a legitimate actor in live films. When that proves disastrous, Porky returns, fishes his torn-up contract out of the trash and tells producer Leon Schlesinger he was only kidding. "April fool!" | |
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The users at the Snopes message board have agreed on a rule of thumb: any joke that requires you to use this phrase isn't funny. | |
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The Joker (appropriately enough) tried to pull this once on Batman (1966). After winning parole and faking his own kidnapping by Catwoman, he protests that he and Catwoman are just playing pranks when Batman and Robin catch up with them as they're plotting a heist. | |
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Done in Airplane! when Johnny in the control tower pulls a plug that cuts the runway lights as a prank. | |
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In Chappie, Hugh Jackman's character points a gun at the protagonist's head and threatens him. After realising it probably wasn't a smart move to openly threaten a coworker in the middle of a busy office, he laughs it off, claiming the gun wasn't loaded and that the whole thing was just a hilarious prank. | |
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Played seriously in the Dream SMP roleplay; Schlatt has a tendency to brush off any and all cruel and hurtful comments he makes as jokes, and tells the people he upset that they're taking it too seriously. It only underscores his status as a Hate Sink, and by the time Quackity, his ex and former VP, meets him again as a ghost in the first episode of the Las Nevadas series, he's explicitly fed up with Schlatt treating him like this, both in life and in death. | |
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Aladdin and the King of Thieves. Genie has made what could be seen as an extremely insensitive joke (that Aladdin isn't really required for a wedding to happen). "It's a joke! (deadpan) I do that." | |
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Scrubs: The Janitor brings a cage to a baby shower (for the baby). When he gets weird looks he then plays it off like he was just joking and really brought it just in case the child gets a puppy later on. We later see him on the phone "No, Ma, 'baby cage, playpen' is not like 'tom-ay-to, tom-ah-to'!" | |
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Revenge of the Pink Panther. After being presumed dead in a Mafia assassination, Inspector Clouseau returns home to find Cato has turned his apartment into a brothel (and the password to enter is his own name). After the inevitable comical misunderstandings, Clouseau indignantly shouts that he is a police officer. The bouncer promptly puts a switchblade to his neck, whereupon Cato rushes into the room. | |
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms abuses this trope horrendously. If a lord says something to upset a favoured retainer, they usually claim it was a joke. Even if the statement that upset the person wasn't funny at all. | |
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In Growing Up, if the protagonist confronts Sam for his bullying, he'll say that his victims can't take a joke, but they'll still call him out for it because according to them, it's just what bullies say when they mean to bully others. | |
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Dad Villain AU: As in canon, Chloé convinced Kim to exploit her crush on him to play a horribly traumatic prank on her. The duo unwittingly staged it on the same day that Sabina's mysterious illness caused her to fall into a coma, never to reawaken. When Marinette reminds him of this when he expects her to help out with his swim team's upcoming bake sale, he brushes it off: | |
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In Hunter (UnwelcomeStorm), Sophia ends up in the Nightmare of Yharnam, stuck in a literal river of blood and mud. Desperate to get out, she calls out to anyone around. The only one to hear her is Taylor, who just looks on apathetically and nearly walks away when Sophia tries to excuse her bullying with this argument. In the end, Taylor's little remaining humanity leads to her tossing Sophia a summoning bell to get her out, particularly when she realizes that they both have the Impurity mark on them. | |
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Total Drama: Trent instructs the guys to force-feed him disgusting pizza in "Brunch of Disgustingness" so they can win the round. Part of his instruction is to ignore whatever he says to go back on it. And so the guys ignore it when Trent tries to convince them he was just joking. When Gwen is voted off in "The Chefshank Redemption", Duncan offers himself as an elimination instead. Chef is fine taking him up on that, which makes Duncan back out because he didn't think the exchange would be accepted. He tries saying he was joking, but Gwen spares him from further humiliation by telling him she's the lucky one for leaving the show. After her cruel rant about her fellow contestants is played in full in "Million Dollar Babies", Leshawna argues that everything she said happened outside of the game and that she didn't know anyone would see it. Lindsay is surprised, because she thought Leshawna was just joking. Leshawna immediately changes her story to go along with Lindsay's, but it's too late for anyone to believe her. |
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At the finale of Shrek 4D at Universal Studios, Lord Farquaad makes this justification in regards to his attempt to kill the main characters when faced with Dragon. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "The Encounter", Fenton regularly makes bigoted remarks about Arthur Takamori's Japanese-American heritage and then claims that he was just joking when Arthur takes offense. | |
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Larry David in Curb Your Enthusiasm makes frequent use of this (usually as a last resort if he needs something from whoever he offended). | |
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A rare example without overtones of racism or outright cruelty: in The Dick Van Dyke Show episode "Punch Thy Neighbor", Jerry Helper (the next door neighbor) keeps going around saying The Alan Brady Show — on which Robert Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) works — wasn't funny. Rob was quite upset. Jerry keeps saying that his insults don't matter because it's all in fun, despite the effect the negative word-of-mouth could have on Rob's livelihood. Rob justly points out that nobody can tell when Jerry is joking and one of these days, he'll meet someone who doesn't care. | |
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Caesar in Fallout: New Vegas gives this gem after he asks why you came to The Fort after being vilified by the Legion: | |
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The Young Pope: Lenny, the eponymous young pope, does this repeatedly. He frequently makes rude or upsetting statements and then claims to be just joking. It's never quite clear when he's being intentionally manipulative and when he's just socially awkward. He's never actually joking. | |
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Bonk from Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker tries this when the Joker pulls a gun on him for an insult. Fortunately, Joker is just joking too. Oops! No he wasn't. | |
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Undertale: During a Neutral/Pacifist run, Sans will reveal to the player that he would have killed them the moment they arrived in Snowdin had he not made a promise to Toriel. After an ominous pause, he breaks the tension by claiming he was just joking. It's not convincing. And, as the Genocide route reveals, he really wasn't joking. During the fight with Royal Guards 01 and 02, you can spare them by convincing 01 to confess his love to 02. When it briefly looks like 02 doesn't reciprocate his feelings, 01 awkwardly tries to brush it off as a joke. |
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Revenge Films: When Karin whipped out divorce papers after being picked on by her in-laws and husband for her unattractive appearance for so long, they all tried to dissuade her by saying it was just a joke, but she doesn't fall for it. | |
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"Just Joking" Justification | |
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Zero Percent Discount sees an up and coming prankster pepper-spray someone. His justification? "It was a joke, dude." | |
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"Just Joking" Justification / int_629c5127 | |
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"Just Joking" Justification | |
| "Just Joking" Justification / int_63230cb | comment |
Dragon Ball Z Abridged: Krillin tries to use this to explain cutting off Freeza's tail, after Freeza undergoes the final stages of his Villainous Breakdown. | |
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Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures: In "Mighty's Wedlock Whimsy", when Deputy Dawg starts the wedding of Mighty Mouse and Pearl Pureheart with "You have the right to remain silent," Sourpuss calls him on it: | |
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A dark, spoilery example from Warbreaker: Denth disguises Tonk Fah's genuinely sadistic and sociopathic behavior by playing it down and treating it like a joke, essentially passing him off as a Heroic Comedic Sociopath. | |
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The Owl House: In "Labyrinth Runners", after Gus overheard his classmate admitting he was only pretending to be his friend so Gus would do his homework, the classmate pretended like he was making a joke. | |
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In Toshiie to Matsu, Oda Nobunaga attempts to pass off a particularly tasteless move (displaying the gold-plated skull of his sister's dead husband, and ordering her and her new fiancee to drink from the skullcap) on his part as a joke. | |
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In Silent Hill 3, Vincent asks Heather, with surprise, if the things she's been killing throughout her ordeal look like monsters to her. When she reacts with horror, he claims he was only joking, though as is par for the course for the series, the entire situation is left ambiguous. | |
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"Just Joking" Justification | |
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe has Yondu constantly threatening to eat Peter in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 reveals that he was joking the whole time, although Peter didn’t think so as a scared little kid. | |
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During one episode of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio dramas, Peri and Erimem are currently posing as two princes who are supposed to be dead, and are as far as they know, stranded due to a temporal mishap. Erimem suggests suicide (to save the timeline) is the only answer, but then pretends she was just joking when hearing Peri's shocked response. | |
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The Windsors: Prince Andrew continually torments those around him in various serious ways but writes it all off as just being a joke. | |
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"Just Joking" Justification | |
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Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act III: In chapter 6, Akua and Kahlua remark that, in order for Kokoa to truly regain her damaged pride, she will have to be a slave to Tsukune in every sense of the word, including sexually. Then they reveal that the sex slave part was just a joke; the gang is not amused. | |
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Ferid of Seraph of the End gets his kicks (he's an immortal vampire so he gets bored) out of manipulating and hurting others. When he makes comments that suggest he means to make Krul submit to him or that he wants to suck Yuu's blood he usually follows it up with "It was just a joke." | |
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Chowder: Mung Daal in when he realized the health inspector he describes as a moron is right behind him. | |
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"Just Joking" Justification | |
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In Mass Effect 2, your shipboard AI, EDI, will attempt to crack a few jokes, but ends up appending these comments with the phrase "That was a joke" when the people listening don't find it funny, or are afraid she's gone rogue. | |
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Steven Universe: Peridot, in an attempt to befriend Amethyst after the latter gets entertained with her Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, ends up pushing her Berserk Button when she tries to explain Amethyst's defects in a joking manner. Unlike most examples of this trope, Peridot really did think she was being funny due to having No Social Skills-once Steven explains what actually went wrong, she apologizes (through a tape recorder). | |
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Seinfeld: In "The Revenge", George tells off his boss and coworkers before announcing he's quitting. But upon realizing he's made a big mistake since he has no other prospects or skills, he shows up to work on Monday and acts like nothing happened, insisting that the things he'd told them were all jokes. However, they're not fooled by it and he's told to leave. | |
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In one version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, after the piper has gotten rid of the rats, the mayor claims he was only joking about the payment. If you've heard the story, you know how that turned out. | |
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The Office (US): Michael Scott often finds himself caught in these after an egregious faux-pas or a joke in really bad taste. | |
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"Just Joking" Justification / int_82439e64 | |
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"Just Joking" Justification | |
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Angela Nicely: In “The Ugly Sisters!”, the Payne twins try to pacify an angry Suzy by saying that their bullying of Angela was “just a joke”. | |
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In The Purple Cloud, Adam's Femme Fatale fiancée Clodagh is always 'joking' about her admiration of Lucrezia Borgia and her desire to poison someone. Adam realises she's not joking when she poisons her nephew, Peter Peters, so Adam can have a place on the expedition to the North Pole. | |
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The One to Make It Stay: At one point, Lila steals Adrien's phone and uses it to send Kagami several nasty messages while pretending to be him. When she's caught, Adrien makes this claim on her behalf, insisting she didn't really mean to hurt Kagami or anyone else with the deception. This situation is also used to pick apart Adrien's insistence on sticking to 'the high road' and not doing anything about Lila. While he thinks he's resolving the situation peacefully, he's the only one present who considers this to be 'neutral'; everybody else sees it as him taking Lila's side over Kagami and letting her hurt the other girl. Notably, Lila herself is shocked by this, though this swiftly turns to glee as she silently gloats about how this gives her more power over him. |
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"Just Joking" Justification | |
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The Onion: Come On, Lighten Up, I'm Just Being A Total Asshole. | |
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At the end of the Disney adaptation of Bridge to Terabithia, class bully Scott Hoager tries using this excuse after making a tasteless comment about Leslie Burke's death in front of a very upset Jess Aarons. | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In "Party With a Pony", Flying Princess Pony Head brushes off her mockery of Marco with this. | |
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All Assorted Animorphs AUs: In "What if the series was set in modern times?", David claims that he doxxed the last girl who beat him in an online video game. Jake is outraged, so David says he wouldn't actually do that. Then he says he's okay with swatting, and Jake's reaction causes David to say that was a joke as well. | |
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Noob has the following situation. Sparadrap is a complete idiot, but has a brother among the elite players who sometimes "borrows" his avatar to have an impromptu chat with his guildmates. Sparadrap's guildmate Omega Zell frequently insults his intelligence out loud, but is also trying to get on the good side of the game's elite. And one day, the insulting and the surprise avatar "borrowing" happened at the same time... | |
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Rome. Julius Caesar sends Vorenus to bribe a former army colleague. Honest to a fault but loyal to his superior, Vorenus does so and reports back. Caesar comments that he didn't think the man would sell out so cheaply. "I must send you to handle all of my corruptions." Manipulative Bastard that he is, Caesar quickly sees how uncomfortable this makes Vorenus and says that he was only joking. | |
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On the first season of The Joe Schmo Show, Hutch "the asshole" used this as his go-to excuse for his regular harassment and bullying of Kip "the gay guy," particularly his threats to toss him in the pool over his fear of water and stealing his photo album and filling it with pictures of his buttocks. | |
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Darker than Black played with this. November 11 used to drop a comment somewhat disturbing for everyone present and add "Just joking" immediately. It's sufficiently annoying to other characters that it gets several Ironic Echoes throughout the series. | |
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The Lion King's Greek dub has Scar try to justify saying the hyenas were the enemy with this. | |
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"Just Joking" Justification | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: "Crisis Point" looks at how much the holodeck can be a harmless fantasy with no lasting consequences when the fantasy is based on people that you know. Mariner justifies it as just being fake; she and Boimler consistently treat it as a fiction with no concern for the holo-carnage that they are inflicting or witnessing. However, Tendi is clearly distressed by inflicting violence on simulations of her shipmates and especially by how much enjoyment Mariner is getting out of it. | |
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In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, during Case 2, if Apollo refuses to present evidence, Klavier slams the wall to give him a glare, after which Apollo admits that he was just kidding. | |
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Can You See Me?: In All the Pieces of Me, Tally's 'friend' Lucy films her humming, stimming, and covering her ears and uploads it to Instagram, where their classmates post increasingly nasty comments about her. Tally is so upset that she misses three days of school. When she gets back, Lucy tells her, 'It was just for laughs! Tell me that isn't why you've been off school for days? God - that's tragic!' Tally doesn't buy the excuse, and finally ditches Lucy and her friends for good. | |
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"Just Joking" Justification | |
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Stardust Crusaders: Rubber Soul try to weasel away from Jotaro using this as an excuse for trying to murder him. Jotaro lets his guard down for a moment because he's trying to squeeze Rubber Soul for information, but the second time he tries it Jotaro lets Star Platinum beat Rubber Soul to a pulp. | |
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In chapter 44 of Tales of Wedding Rings, Morion reminds Satou that he's focusing all his attention on Krystal and should consider showing his other brides some affection. She then suggests that he show her some love too. When Satou reacts to this suggestion with incredulity, since she isn't a ring princess and he isn't obligated to marry her, Morion prances away while claiming that she was just kidding to hide the fact that his rejection stung. | |
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Case Closed: Whenever Kogoro makes one of his off-the-wall, no-basis-in-fact accusations and it gets shot down, he will frequently backpedal by saying he was just joking. Ai Haibara also always tag this to the end of anything that is actually real. |
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Malcolm in the Middle: A new neighbor boy spreading malicious lies about Malcolm, turning the entire neighborhood against him. When Malcolm confronts him, the kid says, "Hey, it's just a joke. Lighten up," and continues doing it. There's also an episode of Cynthia's early appearance, where she kept saying things that hinted at her having done horrible things or of horrible things having been done to her. She always adds "Just kidding!" after gaining a horrified look from the others. Malcolm eventually calls her out on many things about her, including how her 'jokes' are not funny and adding 'just kidding' does not alter the fact or make them okay. Cynthia changed her ways. |
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Yellowjackets: In "Two Truths and a Lie" Crystal and Misty are trading silly secrets, like Misty hating deodorant or Crystal taking shortcuts at chores. Misty eventually confesses that after their plane crashed, she destroyed the plane's black box, ensuring nobody would come to their rescue. When she sees Crystal's look of shock and horror, Misty realizes she's gone too far, so she tries to play it off as a joke and fails. | |
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In let's go out with a bang!, Kokichi dismisses his constant cruelties this way. At one point, he derails a 'Speak my truth' trust exercise by casually declaring that he thinks Miu should jump off the roof they're on, then blows off the others' protests by claiming he was just joking... but that his 'real' truth is that he just thinks she's a horrible person. Kaede attempts to smooth things over by having Miu continue the exercise, leading to Volleying Insults. | |
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The Flintstone Kids: When a bus accident leaves Freddy and his friends with no choice but to either watch that day's Captain Caveman episode at Rocky's or not watch it at all, Rocky won't let any of them (other than Wilma) to watch it until Captain Caveman says he won't show the episode unless Rocky lets all of them watch it, prompting Rocky to say he's only kidding. | |
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Rain: At first, Rob's "just a joke" justification for his bigoted remarks seems to be nothing more than a made-up, thinly-veiled excuse. Until he clarifies that he legitimately didn't know he was offending anyone. | |
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In the Hannah Montana episode "Judge Me Tender", a Simon Cowell parody character issues one of these, then immediately retracts it, after saying both Hannah and the judge for whom she was filling in were boring. | |
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War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches. In "Foreign Devils" the Guangxu Emperor is a Puppet King while Prince Tuan has all the power. The Emperor orders Tuan to kill himself on several occasions, but Tuan always pretends that the Emperor is making a joke. | |
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Fate/Grand Order: When Scáthatch starts interrogating Cú Chullain Caster on how he's using rune techniques she never taught him, in order to keep his cover, he tries to deflect her questions by asking her is she's gone senile. Which quickly turns into an Oh, Crap! once he realizes he pushed her Berserk Button. | |
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Even The Bible addresses this subject in Proverbs 26:18-19: New Revised Standard Version: Or, in the KJV: |
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One of the lines in Postal 2 is The Postal Dude saying "Just kidding", right after smashing some asshole's head in with a sledgehammer. The amount of sarcasm present in his deadpan delivery is palpable. | |
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Rebuild of Evangelion: Kaji flirts with Shinji and leans in to kiss him before pulling back and saying "Just joking." | |
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In The Screwtape Letters, Screwtape discusses this as a method of tempting a person to be a jerkass. After all, they might not realize their jerkassery is hurtful if they—and better yet, all their friends—see it as just a joke. | |
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BoBoiBoy: The Movie: To prevent his friends from thinking he forgot about their camping trip again, BoBoiBoy claims that he was just messing with them when he wrongly answers on what day it is. Needless to say, they're skeptical, and that's even before BoBoiBoy shows up too late anyway (although it was because he was stopping criminals from escaping the police). | |
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In the prologue of Until Dawn, Emily sets up a trap for Hannah that would have her caught on film in a very embarrassing situation, which she would use to slut shame Hannah in front of her entire school for having a crush on Mike (at the time, Emily's boyfriend). When Hannah runs out of the cabin in tears, Emily claims that she was just joking and Hannah shouldn't have taken her so seriously. This is invoked with The Reveal that Josh was the masked psychopath - he'd done it all as "a joke" to get his vengeance in an ultimately-harmless way. |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders: Rubber Soul try to weasel away from Jotaro using this as an excuse for trying to murder him. Jotaro lets his guard down for a moment because he's trying to squeeze Rubber Soul for information, but the second time he tries it Jotaro lets Star Platinum beat Rubber Soul to a pulp. Diamond is Unbreakable: When defeated by Koichi, Tamami tries to claim that he was just joking about stealing the deed to Koichi's house. Of course, when Koichi does the same to him, asking him to bring him 500,000 yen, he points out that it sure doesn't sound like a joke. |
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Game of Thrones: In "Second Sons", Tyrion Lannister makes a Freudian Threat to King Joffrey after one too many Kick the Dog moments. After a Stunned Silence, his father Lord Tywin points out that Tyrion is drunk. Tyrion regains control of himself and tries to pass his threat off as a bad joke, engaging in some Self-Deprecation and staggering off drunkenly. (He only has to exaggerate his inebriation a tiny bit because he is in fact quite drunk already.) It's unclear if anyone is fooled by this (Joffrey certainly isn't) but was a necessary face-saving gesture anyway. Comes up again in "Mhysa", when Joffrey says he wants to have Robb Stark's severed head served to Robb's sister Sansa at Joffrey's wedding feast. Everyone else in the room is appalled, but his mother Cersei tries to brush it off as just a joke. Joffrey, however, insists that he was being serious. When Littlefinger makes a snide comment about Queen Cersei's twincest, she puts him in his place by ordering her bodyguards to cut his throat on the spot, then cancelling the order at the last second with this trope. |
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Throughout Statistic, Toshinori's fellow teachers at Aldera Middle School dismiss his input because he told them he was Quirkless. When the whole break room laughs at his concern when Izuku doesn't show up one day, Maita tells him to "Relax, we're just joking," acknowledging that their attitude is in bad taste, but not caring about how casually cruel they're being. One of the men responsible for sending Izuku death threats also tries to defend himself by claiming he was just 'playing pranks', and that he never intended to go any further than that. |
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In This Modern World, Donald Trump tries this several times in one strip about the "Donald Trump Comedy Hour." | |
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Mr. Brown, the first hotel guest on Fawlty Towers, does this after joking about needing a double bed and suggestively saying "hello" to Polly. His boorishness is justified when we learn that Mr. Brown is an undercover police officer, posing as a guest to investigate the phony Lord Melbury. | |
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Earth's Children: In The Valley of Horses, Radonio and her friends hatch a plan to separate Jondalar and Cherunio so they can have him to themselves. She and her companions think it's a laugh, but Jondalar isn't impressed, especially when they start groping him, restrain and gag Cherunio, and won't tell him where she is. Although he later acknowledges that it was intended to be a joke and he may have overreacted a bit, it wasn't particularly funny (especially if you flip the genders). note A group of men restraining another man out of sexual jealousy, surrounding a woman and groping her against her will doesn't come off as remotely amusing or acceptable; the only difference is that Jondalar is a large man being harassed by women | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Fools in April," Squidward gets annoyed with SpongeBob pulling harmless April Fool's pranks on people, and decides to show him what a "real prank" is all about by setting up a Rube Goldberg Device that injures him in sadistic and creative ways. Squidward is in stitches... until the results drive SpongeBob out of the Krusty Krab in tears, leading to the on-lookers storming out of the restaurant in disgust at Squidward's cruelty. Squidward insists he was just kidding and it was just a joke, but no one is convinced, and Squidward himself soon realizes the difference between his pranks and SpongeBob's: SpongeBob's pranks were harmless, funny, and meant to make other people laugh, while Squidward's was cruel and meant to hurt and humiliate SpongeBob so that he could laugh at him. In "Dying For Pie", the pirate captain pulls this on Squidward about his pies actually being bombs the moment he hears Squidward say he wanted to buy one of them. |
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One variant on social media is to discuss (seriously or not) committing some crime, then follow it up with "in Minecraft" to evade censorship. | |
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Helen from The Zombie Knight says this about commenting that Hector and Lynnette would make a cute couple. However, she probably was mostly joking. | |
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Doctor Who. In "Demons of the Punjab", the Doctor warns Yaz not to say anything that might disrupt the timeline, but this doesn't stop the Doctor from blurting out Too Much Information. | |
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Sealab 2021: "Casinko" contains a heavily referenced song entitled "We're Only Joking." | |
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In Bloom Into You, during the "Lies and True" chapter of the second anthology, Sayaka, who's still coming to grips with the fact that Touko chose Yuu over her, makes a remark to Yuu that indicates that she's rather dissatisfied with how things turned, out, but then backpedals by saying, "Not really." In her Internal Monologue at the end of the chapter, she then remarks "I wasn't joking, but I wasn't serious, either," before adding that she wants to come to terms with Touko's choice so she can once again smile at Touko from the bottom of her heart. | |
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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Plankton attempts this, claiming that his mind-controlling everyone and turning Bikini Bottom into the dystopic Planktopolis was all a joke. Not one person buys it, and he's shipped off to prison, screaming that he'll destroy everyone. | |
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In his YouTube video "IT'S JUST A PRANK BRO", Filthy Frank wonders how pranksters can do "these terrible things" and get away with it. After thinking it over he arrives at the simple conclusion that the video is named for, and goes out into the city with varying levels of offensive "pranks". His comments about art school to a random student exaggerate this trope. | |
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In Petticoat Planet, Steve pulls a blaster and threatens to shoot the sheriff when she tries to prevent him from leaving town. However, he quickly discovers that Puckerbush is a town where Everyone Is Armed and drops the blaster with the weak excuse that he was just joking. | |
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On Criminal Minds a psychopathic teenager who had already committed several murders held a knife to his sister's throat, about to kill her in front of their horrified mother because of his jealousy over her perceived favoritism. When the FBI agents arrived in the nick of time and ordered him to drop the knife, he tried to sound casual with, "Fine. I was only kidding anyway." It didn't fool anyone. | |
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Nelly's "Hot in Herre" has this bit: Which Weird Al parodied thusly in "Trash Day": |
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In Heavy is Dead (a Team Fortress 2 machinima), Demoman invokes this twice. First, he claims to have been the one to kill the Heavy, demonstrating how he did it by shooting and killing the Sniper. Upon explaining that this was a joke, everyone else present just laughed it off. Following this, he casts blame on the Engineer, who was in fact the real killer. When asked how he knew, the Demoman reveals this accusation to have been another joke. | |
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In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, two of Muzan Kibutsuji's subordinates track Tanjiro and Nezuko to the house where Yushiro and Tamayo are hiding. During the battle, Yushiro proposes that he and Tamayo sneak out while the other demons are distracted fighting Tanjiro and Nezuko. Tamayo is horrified by this suggestion, prompting Yushiro to insist that he was joking. | |
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Portal, as GLaDOS puts it: "Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said 'Goodbye' and you were like [no way] and then I was all 'we pretended we were going to murder you'? That was great!" | |
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French Baguette Intelligence: Discussed in Dark Humor vs "Dark Humor." Fuck Cares argues that people hide behind the defence of 'it's only a joke' to deflect accusations of bigotry. | |
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Mother Gothel from Tangled uses this quite frequently when talking to Rapunzel. Unlike most samples, it's not really done as a joke. Instead it's a continual chain of abuse Gothel slaps on as an attempt to crush Rapunzel's free will, using the "It's just a joke" to normalize it and make Rapunzel feel like she's overreacting. | |
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Troubled Blood of the Cormoran Strike Novels introduces Saul Morris, a new subcontractor at the private detective agency of the two main characters, Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott. He sexually harasses Robin and uses this as his standard fallback whenever she calls him out on his behavior, or ignores his advances. He is eventually fired after a serious incident at the office. | |
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Diamond is Unbreakable: When defeated by Koichi, Tamami tries to claim that he was just joking about stealing the deed to Koichi's house. Of course, when Koichi does the same to him, asking him to bring him 500,000 yen, he points out that it sure doesn't sound like a joke. | |
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From Flame Warriors: Not a particularly powerful Warrior, Evil Clown will attempt to avoid defeat by accusing his attacker of having no sense of humor. | |
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In the Captain Underpants book The Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space (and the Subsequent Assault of the Equally Evil Lunchroom Zombie Nerds) George, Harold and Captain Underpants jump out of a UFO and land SPLAT on the ground... or not; the narrator was kidding. | |
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The Sopranos: Usually, when a character says something that pisses off another character, they justify it as them just "breaking balls", but even then it's not enough to save them from being assaulted by the target of their barbs. Probably the most extreme example on the show is when Vito Spatafore is spotted by two New York associates at a gay nightclub while he's flirting with another man and dressed in a motorbiker outfit, which he tries to pass off as a joke in order to prevent them from outing him. It doesn't work. |
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In the Code Lyoko episode "Ghost Channel", Odd's boneheaded antics du jour had nearly gotten him devirtualized but he pulls off a spectacular return, earning him praise from his teammates. He then proceeds to tell Jeremie to sit back and let the real heroes take care of things. He starts laughing but then realizes that not only is no one else laughing but the other three people on Lyoko are glaring at him. He protests that he was just joking but it quickly becomes apparent the claim is falling flat. | |
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In Ice Age: The Meltdown, Sid is insulted after Manny and Diego tell him (rather insensitive) that he's not qualified enough to run a camp for kids: | |
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In Downton Abbey, when Larry Grey is called out for using a spiked drink to embarrass Tom at a dinner party, he responds with this excuse. Mary immediately rejects this as "A bully's defence!" | |
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The yandere family to Donnie in Demo Reel. They held him captive, planned to keep him through feeding him muscle relaxants, think he's kidding around about his mother dying, and keep on gleefully reminding him about his tragic past. When he's free and pissed, they try to get out of it by mewling, "We were just having a little fun!" As one might expect, he doesn't let them off the hook. | |
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The trope is viciously deconstructed in the Pepper Ann episode "Impractical Jokes", where a harmless prank war between P.A. and her friends escalates to the point where Pepper Ann's pranks end up leaving her peers not only no longer finding them funny, but being genuinely humiliated and upset by them, but Pepper Ann continuously defends herself by telling her victim(s) to "lighten up, it's just a joke!". It takes Milo, Nicky, and the rest of P.A.'s friends and family arranging a cruel prank themselves at her expense, in order to get her to see how much she was hurting her friends' feelings instead of amusing them, that Pepper Ann finally gets the point and apologizes to everyone. | |
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