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Lightbulb Joke
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Long ago, this Stock Joke involved mocking other groups, but today it is used almost exclusively for playful Self-Deprecation of the idiosyncrasies characteristic of (or associated with) one's own social group or hobby group. The common format is "How many (group of people) does it take to change a light bulb? X+1. 1 to change the bulb, and X to (humorous caricature of group)." Another is a means to accuse them of Pride: "How many (people) does it take to change a lightbulb? One. He holds it up, and the universe revolves about him to screw it in." Take ourselves as tropers: Q How many tropers does it take to change a light bulb? A One, but someone will put the old bulb back with a Justifying Edit. Another example: Q How many tropers does it take to change a light bulb? A One screws in the lightbulb, while nine others mark the ways he was similar to other lightbulb screwers. Or even: Q How many tropers does it take to change a light bulb? A One screws in the light bulb, another one holds the door if it's the light bulb of the Fridge, and a third one comes later to hang a lampshade on it. It also has many variations (including noting the pun of "screw"). Q How many tropers does it take to screw in a light bulb? A Only two, but it would have to be a really big bulb. The original joke is in some danger of being a Forgotten Trope: Q How many Acceptable Targets does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A Two, one to hold the bulb, and one to turn the ladder. Of course this joke shows up in fiction as well, and examples here should be limited to such. It's generally acknowledged as a sign that the character doesn't know any better jokes. It's also a good candidate for an Orphaned Feed Line. In Speculative Fiction, the exact format of the joke may be altered slightly to allow for the lack of light bulbs. Compare "Knock Knock" Joke. |
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Ultimate Spider-Man (2012): Spider-Man makes such a joke in "The Sinister Six". | |
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Big Love: Margie tells one as a comeback to a possible suitor: "How many male chauvinists does it take to change a lightbulb? It's not the bulb that has to change." | |
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From A Bug's Life: "How many roaches does it take to screw in a light bulb? Can't tell. As soon as the light goes on, they scatter." | |
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The Pretender: In "Hazards", psychiatrist Sydney, in an unusually good mood, tells the standard psychiatrist light bulb joke. ("One. But the light bulb has to want to change.") | |
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Dungeons & Dragons (1983): While trying to do a stand-up show, Eric asks how many dwarves are needed to change a light bulb. The answer is none because the dwarves can't reach the light bulb. | |
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From V (1983): | |
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The Wings episode "Gone But Not Faygotten" has Fay retire and the Hackett brothers hiring Casey to replace her as Sandpiper's ticket agent. When Fay wants to come back, neither Joe nor Brian has the heart to tell her no, but they can't bring themselves to fire Casey either, so they let them both run the counter, even though the job can easily be handled by one person. Roy comments on the situation. | |
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Bad Movie Beatdown: When it takes the characters in the film Bear until nightfall to change a flat tire on their car, Film Brain makes a joke about it. | |
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Dominic Deegan has Donovan crack one off to the orc shaman Thuen Gor: "How many Callanians does it take to install a lamp post? One - he sticks it in the ground and waits for the world to revolve around him." | |
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Guild Wars: "How many Asuras does it take to screw in a power core? None, they force a human to do it for them!" | |
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Raising Arizona has Glen, who tells a "Pollack" joke in this variety, but he's so dumb that he bungles it completely. First he asks, "How many Pollacks does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" and answers "Three!" before bursting into laughter. After a moment, he announces he's told it wrong and starts again: "Why does it take three Pollacks to screw in a light bulb?" He answers, "Cuz they're so darn stupid!" HI just stares blankly at him as he guffaws again. | |
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Cyanide and Happiness has its own variation: one guy asks his friend to help him change a lightbulb, only for the other guy to ask if there's enough of them to do it properly. | |
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One episode of NCIS: Los Angeles has Callen undercover as a disgraced sailor under arrest by an MP (played by Sam, also undercover). To keep up his act of pretending to be a jerk, Callen tells the following joke: "How many MP's does it take to change a light bulb? Fifty. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to stand guard." | |
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Yendi, one of the books in Steven Brust's Dragaera series, has "How many X does it take to sharpen a sword?" jokes, where X is one of the Dragaeran Houses. This has a bunch more Dragaeran sword-sharpening jokes written by fans. The Planet of Hats setting really lends to them. Vlad also pulls one about Easterners that probably counts as the Fantastic Racism form of N-Word Privileges: |
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The Uncle Grandpa short "Uncle Grandpa Changes a Lightbulb" is naturally a big setup for one of these. After failing to change a lightbulb by himself, Uncle Grandpa gets a copy of himself to help. After that results in another broken lightbulb, they get another copy to help, and then three more, and then six more, until there's an entire army of Uncle Grandpas with lightbulbs. After one of the Uncle Grandpas successfully uses his nose as the lightbulb, he walks to the head of the RV where Pizza Steve asks "So, how many Uncle Grandpas did it take to change a lightbulb?" After several seconds of counting and calculations, Uncle Grandpa answers "One." | |
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Dilbert: "How many left-handed Elbonians does it take to screw in a light bulb? None! Left-handed Elbonians don't have light bulbs!" However, few Elbonians even know what light bulbs are. | |
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mezzacotta manages to randomly generate a light bulb joke. | |
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The Nightmare House has Luan Loud make the joke "How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but it has to want to change." | |
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Garfield: Done in the January 17, 1993 strip at a dog hating club. The January 21, 2002 strip has this exchange: |
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The Discworld novel Sourcery has lamp-wick jokes (no relation): | |
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Lincoln's Memories: In "Lincoln's Seventh Birthday", Luan jokes, "How many cats does it take to change a lightbulb? None— cats have night vision." | |
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The Big Bang Theory, "The Comic Book Store Regeneration": | |
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In Ready Jet Go!, Beep the Rover tells Jet one of these jokes in one episode. | |
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Irregular Webcomic! gives us the formulaic lightbulb joke. | |
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One from I, Jedi (Said by Corellian Corran Horn as the capstone to a Cyrano routine): | |
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In the The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim mod, Uncle Sheogorath's Really Helpful Hints and Tips, Uncle Sheogorath shares this bit of wisdom: | |
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Schlock Mercenary had a pair about recalibrating transponders and getting beaten up in a tavern. | |
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In Red Dwarf, Kryten is a little unclear on the concept: | |
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xkcd: In this comic, Cueball asks the question "How many audiophiles does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" over a phone, then says they wouldn't be able to appreciate the punchline over the phone with how bad the audio quality is. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged - Frieza, after wiping out most of the Namekian species except for Nail, Dende and Guru. Later, when Piccolo shows up: |
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Look Who's Talking included this exchange at the park: | |
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005), one of the questions proposed to the ultimate answer of Life, Universe, and Everything (42) is that "How many vogons does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" | |
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Elisha from Color Me Perfect tells one at a party. | |
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Black Lagoon does this when Rock tries to entertain Revy while they're running errand around town. Unfortunately, Revy knows all his jokes, which almost results in a car crash. | |
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Mass Effect 3 has its own variation: | |
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The card game Apples to Apples has these as flavor text on all of its nationality cards: | |
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Paladins has some character use this for their joke emote if you're using the right skin. | |
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In Earth Girl by Janet Edwards, lightbulb jokes are a bit of a rediscovered fad among archaeologists ever since one dug up a book of them in an old city. | |
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In the Gargoyles episode "The Reckoning", Fang uses this joke "How many gargoyles does it take to screw in a light bulb?" The question is never answered, and the creator, Greg Weisman, eventually turned it into a contest on his "Ask Greg" website. "Two, but it has to be a BIG light bulb." He gets another in the Gargoyles: Bad Guys sequel in comic form. "How many mutants does it take to change a lightbulb? Three to sit there and one to hang [around]." Cue him nearly getting his head cut off because Yama considers making a joke about traumatised victims of a mad scientist, one of whom hanged themselves, seriously not cool. |
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He gets another in the Gargoyles: Bad Guys sequel in comic form. "How many mutants does it take to change a lightbulb? Three to sit there and one to hang [around]." Cue him nearly getting his head cut off because Yama considers making a joke about traumatised victims of a mad scientist, one of whom hanged themselves, seriously not cool. | |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_85911848 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_87e00d8e | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_87e00d8e | comment |
Teen Titans (2003): In one episode where Cyborg learns Tamaranian from Starfire, they exchange a joke about "how many does it take". All the rest of the words, as well as the pun, are left untranslated, so we can only wonder. In "Mad Mod" Starfire asks a Brainwashed Beast Boy, "How many Okaraans does it take to Hoegee a morflark?" to which the answer is "Finbar". However, it doesn't wake him up until Starfire mentions "boogers". |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_87e00d8e | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_8838aff8 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_8838aff8 | comment |
Not for Broadcast: Occurs in the third act of the Telethon (Graham Bannon insists it's a "horrible joke"): | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_8838aff8 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_8838aff8 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_8d22345f | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_8d22345f | comment |
Hominids by Robert Sawyer is about a Neanderthal scientist from a parallel universe who falls into our universe as the result of a lab accident. A news dump at the beginning of one of its chapters has: | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_8d22345f | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_8d22345f | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_8d56b15 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_8d56b15 | comment |
Batman: White Knight: Back when he tried to be a comedian, Jack Napier had one where he asked "how many GCPD does it take to change a light bulb?". The answer is "it only takes a Batman!". | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_8d56b15 | featureApplicability |
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| Batman: White Knight (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_8d56b15 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_8f36f969 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_8f36f969 | comment |
The Loud House: The Nightmare House has Luan Loud make the joke "How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but it has to want to change." Lincoln's Memories: In "Lincoln's Seventh Birthday", Luan jokes, "How many cats does it take to change a lightbulb? None— cats have night vision." |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_8f36f969 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_9149b184 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_9149b184 | comment |
How Much for Just the Planet?: How many Vulcans does it take to change a transtator? Answer: One to change the transtator and one to ask what's so funny. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_9149b184 | featureApplicability |
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| How Much for Just the Planet? | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_9149b184 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_976efc02 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_976efc02 | comment |
From the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "The Final Sacrifice". | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_976efc02 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_976efc02 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_9910cc85 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_9910cc85 | comment |
A rather dark example of playing with this trope occurs in Disney's Mulan. Shan Yu dispatches two captured enemy scouts to deliver his warning to the emperor. After the two have already started to run away, Shan Yu casually asks an archer, "How many men does it take to deliver a message?" The answer the archer gives us is "one" and a drawn bowstring, implying that one of the scouts was murdered because he was unnecessary. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_9910cc85 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_9910cc85 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_9d189394 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_9d189394 | comment |
Mock the Week: From "Unlikely Things To Hear In A Sci-Fi Movie" segment: From an 'If This Is the Answer, What Is the Question' segment: |
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| Lightbulb Joke / int_9d189394 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_9d189394 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_9d47a2a2 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_9d47a2a2 | comment |
A Song of Ice and Fire even gets in on the act, with "shoe a horse" instead of "change a lightbulb." For example, Q: "How many Dornishmen does it take to shoe a horse?" A: "Five, one to do the shoeing, and four to lift the horse". This becomes an Ironic Echo when The Red Viper, the most notorious Dornishman of them all, comes on the scene. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_9d47a2a2 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_9d47a2a2 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a10bbd45 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a10bbd45 | comment |
Teen Titans Go!: Mumbo Jumbo asks "How many magicians does it take to change a lightbulb?" and answers "Depends what you want it changed to!" | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a10bbd45 | featureApplicability |
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| Teen Titans Go! (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_a10bbd45 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a18e938e | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a18e938e | comment |
The Flintstone Kids: Captain Caveman asked how many of him were needed to change a light bulb. He said none of him because the light bulb hasn't been invented yet. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a18e938e | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_a18e938e | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a495544e | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a495544e | comment |
The Buzz Lightyear of Star Command episode "The Torque Armada" had Torque annoy Buzz with this kind of joke. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a495544e | featureApplicability |
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| Lightbulb Joke / int_a495544e | featureConfidence |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_a495544e | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a50ae25d | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a50ae25d | comment |
The Final Reflection: How many Romulans does it take to change a transtator coil? Answer: 1 to change the coil, 150 to blow the ship up out of shame. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a50ae25d | featureApplicability |
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| Lightbulb Joke / int_a50ae25d | featureConfidence |
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| The Final Reflection | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_a50ae25d | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a54eef52 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_a54eef52 | comment |
Hetalia: Axis Powers: In one strip, Poland asks Lithuania for help changing a lightbulb. When Lithuania asks why Poland isn't able to do so on his own, he tells Lithuania that he needs to turn the table while he holds the lightbulb in place. Most likely a Shout-Out to the original joke. The series also does this with Greece. |
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| Lightbulb Joke / int_a54eef52 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_a54eef52 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_b18dcec0 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_b18dcec0 | comment |
1997's Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? (a.k.a. Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time) had Good Guide Renée Santz try to tell Mona Lisa a joke ("How many ACME agents does it take to screw in a light bulb?"), to which Mona Lisa replies "What's a light bulb?" Dee Cryption derisively asks the same question in Thomas Edison's lab when the player has to change one in order to complete a circuit. The question is never answered in canon, though it looks like the VILE perspective is "ALL OF THEM. Because that's what it would take for them to get the bulb back from Carmen after she's stolen it." |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_b18dcec0 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_b40c60f6 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_b40c60f6 | comment |
The 130th issue of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel) had a pair of Eel guards tell a light bulb joke, only to be interrupted by an attack from Dojo and Storm Shadow. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_b40c60f6 | featureApplicability |
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| G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_b40c60f6 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_b919e22c | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_b919e22c | comment |
Return to Zork features one in an ancient jokebook, as translated by the Mayor of Shanbar. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_b919e22c | featureApplicability |
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| Return to Zork (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_b919e22c | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_bc274933 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_bc274933 | comment |
At the beginning of the 3-2-1 Penguins! music video for "Fair and Square", Rusty asks the Ventrilomatic, "How many mutants of Jadon-9 does it take to screw in a light bulb?" Shortly after, Rusty says that the answer is "two thirds". | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_bc274933 | featureApplicability |
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| Lightbulb Joke / int_bc274933 | featureConfidence |
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| 3-2-1 Penguins! | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_bc274933 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_bc8b07 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_bc8b07 | comment |
Epic Rap Battles of History: Rasputin raps this to Stalin in the form of a rhetorical question, as we already know the answer. A more serious example than most on this page. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_bc8b07 | featureApplicability |
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| Epic Rap Battles of History (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_bc8b07 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_c38f0b33 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_c38f0b33 | comment |
Lloyd in Space: Douglas' father (of a race of walking talking brains) tells one about the Blobbulons, and says it takes 78 and a Half of them to change a lightbulb. Cut to Kurt and his parents (three Blobbulons) that just got done changing a lightbulb, the father remarking it would have been much easier if there were 75 and a half more of them. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_c38f0b33 | featureApplicability |
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| Lloyd in Space | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_c38f0b33 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_ccf875f7 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_ccf875f7 | comment |
The Criminal Minds episode "Masterpiece" had Reid telling a joke to a college psychology class when he mentions he was studying philosophy. "How many existentialists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Two; one to change the lightbulb, and one to observe how it symbolizes an incandescent beacon of subjectivity in a netherworld of cosmic nothingness." Of course, nobody gets it. (The episode's unsub comes up to him a few minutes later and points out that an existentialist would allow the darkness to exist rather than change the light bulb.) | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_ccf875f7 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_ccf875f7 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_d1a51262 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_d1a51262 | comment |
In The Legendary Starfy, saving the Squirts - a group of squids who are comedians - in Hotcha Springs causes one of them to say the following joke: | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_d1a51262 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_d1a51262 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_d4e7f5f6 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_d4e7f5f6 | comment |
In The Air Up There, the Winabi are the subject of many jokes by the rest of Kenya, including a cow joke. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_d4e7f5f6 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_d4e7f5f6 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_d5fcae4e | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_d5fcae4e | comment |
Ted Lasso: Jade invites Nate to join her in Poland to "help my family screw in lightbulbs". He's not sure if she's joking or not. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_d5fcae4e | featureApplicability |
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| Ted Lasso | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_d5fcae4e | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_d9c602eb | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_d9c602eb | comment |
South Park In the episode "Rainforest Schmainforest", the president of Costa Rica attempts to amuse a restless audience with such jokes as: "How many Polaks does it take to change a light bulb? Two." In the episode "Here Comes the Neighborhood" Jimbo tries to mock the wealthy people moving in with one. |
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| Lightbulb Joke / int_d9c602eb | featureApplicability |
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| South Park | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_d9c602eb | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_dde8e930 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_dde8e930 | comment |
Infighting, Insanity, and Social Ineptitude: Courtesy of Russel- How many [members] of [team] Yarrow does it take to screw in a lightbulb? All four. They can't touch anything without surrounding it first (for context- this is in the Vytal tournament, and the team in question had ganged up on Blake). | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_dde8e930 | featureApplicability |
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| Infighting, Insanity, and Social Ineptitude (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_dde8e930 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_e05ef82a | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_e05ef82a | comment |
In The Darkside Detective, McQueen attempts to tell Dooley a joke about how many police officers it takes to change a lightbulb, but is defeated by Dooley's literal-mindedness and gives up before delivering the punchline. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_e05ef82a | featureApplicability |
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| The Darkside Detective (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_e05ef82a | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_ea4f62db | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_ea4f62db | comment |
Family Guy: Brian mentions that Peter doesn't have a great history when it comes to telling jokes. Cutaway Gag to Peter on the Planet of the Apes, surrounded and held at gunpoint. A variation happens when Stewie, Brian, and Mort get transported back in time to Poland on the eve of World War II, and their time machine breaks down: |
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| Lightbulb Joke / int_ea4f62db | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_ea4f62db | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_eb5d7301 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_eb5d7301 | comment |
Amphibia's "The Dinner" has Hop Pop try to lighten the mood at an awkward dinner by telling the joke "How many toads does it take to screw in a light mushroom?" (None, they prefer darkness and the smell of blood). The humans are mortified and Grime looks like he's about to slap Hop Pop, until he forces himself to laugh and everyone joins in. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_eb5d7301 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_eb5d7301 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_eb9f8f23 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_eb9f8f23 | comment |
Wunschpunsch: Jacob asked Meathead (Bubonic's carnivorous plant) how many carnivorous plants were needed to change a light bulb. Jacob said there were needed two: one to hold the light bulb and the other to turn around. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_eb9f8f23 | featureApplicability |
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| Wunschpunsch | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_eb9f8f23 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_ec28245c | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_ec28245c | comment |
Played with in Dragon Ball Z | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_ec28245c | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_ec28245c | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_efceef73 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_efceef73 | comment |
The Sims Medieval, unlike previous Sims games, has text pop up on screen when your Sims Gossip. Two of the messages are jokes along the lines of Lightbulb Jokes poking fun at the game's two religions. There's another one, and it does say lightbulb rather than 'light a lamp' or something: |
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| Lightbulb Joke / int_efceef73 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_efceef73 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f0a86c12 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f0a86c12 | comment |
How I Met Your Mother: In one episode, Ted has been given the job of choosing the brand of lightbulbs to be used for the GNB headquarters, and worries about what will happen if the one he chooses poorly. Also from the episode "Little Minnesota"...."How many Canadians does it take to change a lightbulb?" "Oh, no a light went out!" |
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| Lightbulb Joke / int_f0a86c12 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_f0a86c12 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f197ea60 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f197ea60 | comment |
Dinosaur Comics: T-Rex inverted the trope with "reverse lightbulb jokes" — he supplies the punchline, and his friends provide the setup, thereby revealing their prejudices and preconceptions. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f197ea60 | featureApplicability |
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| Dinosaur Comics (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_f197ea60 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f55e3254 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f55e3254 | comment |
LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures: Wick Cooper asks how many people from Alderaan are needed to change a light bulb. The answer is "none" because they've been wiped out. It earns him a very brutal Dude, Not Funny! from Princess Leia. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f55e3254 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_f55e3254 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f5fbc435 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f5fbc435 | comment |
Smashtasm: "How many blondes does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, because gender stereotypes based on hair color are totally unfair and sexist." It's actually funnier in context. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f5fbc435 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_f5fbc435 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f655ed11 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f655ed11 | comment |
Frasier starts dating a lawyer and over dinner Martin, a retired police officer, attempts this joke on her claiming they used to tell it all the time at his precinct. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f655ed11 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_f655ed11 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f74b5f80 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_f74b5f80 | comment |
Babylon 5: One told by Sheridan, with a somewhat black undercurrent to it given Earth's initial interactions with the Minbari: Another one, in which Londo Mollari pokes semi-bitter fun at his own people's nostalgia for their past: |
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| Lightbulb Joke / int_f74b5f80 | featureApplicability |
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| Babylon 5 | hasFeature |
Lightbulb Joke / int_f74b5f80 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_fa00b130 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_fa00b130 | comment |
Spongebob Squarepants: One of SpongeBob's racist jokes in "Squirrel Jokes": "How come it takes more than one squirrel to screw in a lightbulb? Because they're SO. DARN. STUPID!" Presumably a Shout-Out to Raising Arizona. | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_fa00b130 | featureApplicability |
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Lightbulb Joke / int_fa00b130 | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_fc0e7530 | type |
Lightbulb Joke | |
| Lightbulb Joke / int_fc0e7530 | comment |
Rather than asking the question or giving a straight answer, the intro to Justice Friends demonstrates us that at the very least, three Avengers expies are either not enough or too many to change a lightbulb. | |
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