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Orphaned Punchline
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When characters are seen telling jokes to one another, we rarely get to hear the entire joke: usually we will just hear the setup or the punchline. Punchlines are often more common, as it allows us to cut to the end and see other people's reaction to the joke, whether it be rip-roaring hilarity, monocle-popping disgust or a deathly quiet. An advantage of this over actually telling the joke is that the writer's sense of humor may not match with the viewers, leading to a different reading of the joke, when it's easier to just suggest it. It can also be a form of Getting Crap Past the Radar, hinting at filth in works that would never allow it. The punchlines or setups are often from actual jokes (usually dirty or obscure ones), so there are several stock punchlines you hear; "The Aristocrats" is a popular one. Alternatively they're intended to be as weird as possible, leaving the audience wondering what the setup/punchline could possibly be — in most of these cases, the setup/punchline never existed in the first place. Inverted trope of Orphaned Setup, where we hear the beginning of the joke but it’s cut off before the end. Also compare and contrast Stealth Pun, where the punchline is shown by implication, letting the reader figure it out for themselves. A subtrope of Nothing Is Funnier, as the setup is left entirely for the listener to imagine. See also Subverted Punchline, Late to the Punchline, Lost in Transmission, Noodle Implements, Faux Final Line, Forgotten Trope, And Then I Said. |
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Used at several points including in the Thursday Next novels, including unidentified jokes being mentioned and characters attempting to understand the jokes in question. Most jokes are identifiable, if obscure. | |
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Confederation of Valor: The Better Part of Valor opens with Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr telling Captain Rose, "And the moral of the story: never call a two star general a bastard to his face." The joke is a Call-Back to the closing scene of Valor's Choice, where Torin got pissed off at Major General Morris for trapping her unit in a battle the author based on Rorke's Drift in order to win the Silsviss over to the Confederation. | |
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Super Troopers: Mac's orphaned final line of an anecdote: "...and that was the second time I got crabs." | |
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In the graphic novel adaptation of Mort, King Olerve the Bastard dies halfway through the punchline "...And the farmer said 'I don't know, but they're green and they taste of peppermint'." The set-up is that a farmer was trying to breed his cattle, but was having trouble getting the bull interested. So he asked the vet about it and the vet provided these pills and told him to give one to the bull. As soon as he did so, the bull jumps up, services all the cows, and runs around the field looking for more. The next day, the farmer is telling his friends about this, and one of them asks what the pills were. And the farmer says... | |
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Near the start of Finding Nemo, Marlin tries to tell a joke about a mollusk and a sea cucumber. We get to hear the punchline at the end: "With fronds like these, who needs anemones?" The DVD has a bunch of bonus alternate orphaned punchlines, including "Hey, this stuff tastes like carp!" |
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The Far Side: "Then the bartender says 'Hey, that's not a duck!'" on Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Another cartoon had a butter knife doing a stand-up act in front of an audience of flatware. The caption read, "...and the waiter said, 'That's not a soup spoon!' But seriously, forks..." |
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In Sherlock Holmes (2009), Holmes is imprisoned, and Lestrade hurries to get him free before he has to fight off the entire penitentiary of criminals. As Lestrade arrives in the prison yard, he sees a crowd of unruly thugs gathered around Holmes... who is delivering a punchline for the joke he was telling: 'To which the barman says, "May I push in your stool?"' Having charmed the prisoners with his jokes, Holmes leaves in peace. | |
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The use of "... and she stepped on the ball!" as an orphaned punchline is a reference to its use in Trading Places, which was in turn a reference to a scene in Auntie Mame. It's usually delivered by a high-class character to match the references. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: One of Xanthippe's preppy female friends delivers the punchline: "...and she stepped on the ball!" causing all the other preppy kids to laugh. Billions: Chuck Rhoades' father tells it as "... and she stepped on the billiard ball!" at his gentleman's club, causing all the men in his company to laugh. It was actually a ping-pong ball in the original Auntie Mame. |
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In Day of the Tentacle, in a Bad Future where walking, animate tentacles rule the world, you can overhear a tentacle judge ending some anecdote with "...And Then I Said to her, 'That's not my suction cup'!" | |
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The Tales from the Goose Lady short "The Tortoise and the Hairpiece" has a scene where the toupee tells a joke to his co-workers, but we only hear the punchline. | |
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Life Is Strange: True Colors: At Gabe's wake, Duckie shares a memory of the deceased which ends in "and then [they] said, I know, that's why the 'k' is silent!" | |
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In the Bone prequel Stupid, Stupid Rat-Tails, Big Johnson Bone, having been run out of town for cheating in a card game, gives his monkey companion a long-winded explanation as to why there was an ace up his sleeves. The story is so long that it goes on to the morning of the next day! | |
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Destiny: You hear a lot of these in the form of ambient dialogue in the Tower, but the best is probably Lord Shaxx saying, apropos of absolutely nothing, "Yeah, well screw him." | |
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This was also used at the end of a Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode. After Ghost Planet blows up. | |
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Pee-wee's Playhouse: Pee-wee and Mailman Mike quote the punchline of famous old joke without telling the actual joke. In conversation, Pee-wee asks, "Would I? Would I?" He and Mike pause and smirk at each other before both saying, "Harelip! Harelip!" note A man who is self-conscious of his artificial wooden eyeball goes to a party. He's too shy to talk to any of the ladies until he sees a woman with a harelip (a cleft lip) standing by herself. He walks up and asks if she would like to dance. Overjoyed, she exclaims, "Would I? Would I?" The man turns beet red and shouts in her face, "Harelip! Harelip!" | |
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In the first scene of a 1990 episode of The Cosby Show, Olivia calls a dial-a-joke phone service twice and hears a different joke each time. She tries to tell the first joke to Cliff but doesn't say the punchline. She gives the set-up for the second ("Two men are playing golf"), doesn't say the middle, and goes straight to the punchline ("It doesn't work unless you know how to putt!"), to Cliff's confusion. | |
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The Scream : Hempstead's joke "...and the next day's headline read ARTIE CHOKES THREE FOR A DOLLAR AT SAFEWAY!" This is a real joke, a rather punny one about an assassin named Artie who gets paid a dollar to kill a man's wife, strangles her in a grocery store, then has to kill others who saw the crime. The number of people killed and the name of the grocery store can vary. |
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Several episodes of CNNNN open on the end of a particularly weird report from Simon Target. | |
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In House, Chase tells Foreman a joke that ends with "... and the bear wipes himself with the rabbit!" This one is actually told (crudely) in its entirety at the end of Eddie Murphy's 'Delirious' comedy show. |
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In episode 3 of season 5 of the series The Expanse, Admiral Delgado tells Avasarala the setup to a joke involving a Martian, Earther and Belter going into a bar. The Martian and the Belter get the drink of their worst enemies. When he was about to tell what the Earther would order, he was cut off by the person they were supposed to meet, who then promptly asks for a bourbon (presumably of Earther origin). It's possible to read this interruption as the subtle completion of the joke, namely that while Mars and the Belt have external enemies, Earth's worst enemy is itself. | |
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Cheers featured more than one occasion in which Diane told a joke with a French punchline: "So I said, 'Si vous parlez lentement, je ne peux pas comprendre!'", which translates to "If you speak slowly, I can't understand!" | |
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In the cold open to one Motorcity episode, Dutch tells an apparently hilarious story that ends with, "...and then she says, 'That's why I can't eat the sandwich!'". | |
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In Some Like It Hot, we hear the end of what was (apparently) a very dirty joke about a girl tuba player who was stranded on a desert island with a one-legged jockey: | |
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Used on Dexter, though the writers don't try to hide how dirty the joke is. Dexter walks into the bar just as Lila is telling Angel and Masuka the punchline, which is "But you fuck one little goat..." Right after that Masuka starts telling a joke but is immediately stopped by Angel, fearing it might be inappropiate. The setup involves a man showing a newcomer around town and pointing out all his accomplishments, none of which earned him a nickname. |
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Hotel Transylvania: The Series: "For Whom the Smell Tolls" has Uncle Gene telling an out-of-context punchline to Aunt Lydia. | |
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Numerous examples in The Simpsons: Chief Wiggum, reading from a book of "Truly Tasteless Jokes" (a real book by the way), concludes "And the third travelling salesman says, 'Don't look at me, I just ate all the hot buttered corn!'" This is referencing a real joke and it is unbelievably filthy. Suffice it to say it involves a bodily orifice. "So I says to Mabel, I says...." Helicopter flying instructor: "... so he's so busy worrying about the front rotor, he walks right into the back one. Only in this business..." "...and that's how I got the vending machine contract for the Kremlin." "...and then Lenny says 'As if! Don't even go there, sister!'" A scene in one episode starts with a Sunday school teacher saying, "...and that's why God causes train wrecks." The Simpsons Hit & Run: "...leaving the famous bearded cartoon creator incarcerated in a Peruvian jail." Almost all Kent Brockman segments begin this way, leaving us to wonder what the start of the newsline was. This exchange: |
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In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, Vita tells Nanoha, "We Belkans have a saying: If you're an ambassador of peace, don't carry a spear!". Zafira points out that it isn't a saying, it's the punchline to a joke. | |
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In Guild Wars: Eye of the North, one of Gwen's battle quotes is "...and I'm all out of mossgum!" | |
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In Peewees Big Adventure, Pee-wee mingles into a crowd following Milton Berle just as he finishes a joke with the punchline, "So the other fella said, 'What do you think I got down here, a duck?'" Even though he didn't hear the rest of the joke, Pee-wee laughs heartily to fit in. | |
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During Oliver's funeral on Slings & Arrows, a story gets told about him that ends "Well, if it's not my car, I'm certainly not going to clean the upholstery!" | |
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From The Kids in the Hall: We come in at the punchline of a joke told by a man committing one faux pas after another at a party: “...Well, if that’s your canary, who’s your wife?â€� When, even after repeating the punchline, the other man reacts with a blank stare, the man proceeds to sarcastically ask if the other man is deaf—which it turns out he is. | |
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Ryan Stiles originally used this line in a similar fashion on Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Reportedly, Drew Carey saw the episode in question, and when Stiles was cast in The Drew Carey Show, Carey encouraged Stiles to use the joke again. | |
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Heroes: Nathan Petrelli tells his campaign staff the joke that ends with "... holy cow, a talking dog!" That one's old enough it's been used in greetings cards. There were these two racehorses in a field, discussing the fact that they keep losing. A dog stops by to give them some advice and, well, you know the rest. This is one of those jokes that should be told at great length with as much elaboration as possible. |
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Looney Tunes: In the Daffy Duck cartoon "A Pest in the House", Daffy is a bellhop working in a hotel. He awakens a sleepy guest solely to tell him an apparently hilarious joke about a traveling salesman. We hear some of the beginning, and then the guest walks downstairs to complain to the manager, Elmer Fudd. By the time he gets back to his room, Daffy is almost done the joke, but can't remember the punchline. "And the salesman says... Ha ha!... the salesman says... hey, what do you know, I forgot what the salesman did say. But... Ha ha!... It was a riot!" "Norman Normal" features a drunk at a cocktail party trying to tell Norman a joke about "a travelling salesman and an Eskimo". Norman doesn't approve of jokes about "racial minorities", so he tunes the guy out, and we only hear a bit of the beginning, a few vague snippets, and the very end: "Just before the icicle breaks, he screams out 'That was no walrus, that was your wife!'" |
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Frankie the frog tells a story in Meet the Robinsons that emds with, "So I turn to the bullfrog, and ya know what I says? ...'Hey, not with my umbrella you don't!"" | |
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Meet the Robinsons | hasFeature |
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Beavis and Butt-Head | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head | hasFeature |
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The Sandman, "The Sound of Her Wings": In a flashback to Morpheus' first meeting with Hob, in a tavern in 1389, a man in the background tells a joke that ends with the punchline, "Hunting for rabbits again, friar?" A man in the pub in 1989 tells what sounds like the same joke only with a vicar. In both cases most of the set-up is not heard. | |
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The Sandman (2022) | hasFeature |
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An example from Paul Merton during a round of Just a Minute: | |
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Just a Minute (Radio) | hasFeature |
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Half-Life contains one of these, which was lampshaded by Freeman's Mind. As Freeman is heading to the Resonance Chamber, a security guard says to him "Looks like you're in the barrel today." | |
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Half-Life (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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After a string of terrible mummy jokes on Aqua Teen Hunger Force Meatwad starts to tell a joke about "a prostitute and a person of the Polish persuasion" but is cut off before he can continue. From "Dummy Love" |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force | hasFeature |
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The trope was lampshaded by Community, as the show often does with comedy tropes. The penultimate scene in the episode "Modern Espionage" opens with Abed delivering the punchline "and the giraffe says "Hello? I'm in the room!" and then apologizing for not knowing the rest of the joke. | |
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Community | hasFeature |
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Shakespeare's Hamlet has an idiom for which the origin is lost though the meaning may be discernible from context. This may have been the punchline to some obscure joke the audience would have understood back in his time: Alternate interpretations include the "handsaw" originally being a "heron-shaw", another sort of bird or the "hawk" being the mortarboard used in plastering. In a real-world context, anytime someone unironically quotes, "Brevity is the soul of wit," as useful advice. That quote is uttered by the least brief, least witty character in the play, and is supposed to be a joke in the middle of a rambling, tautology-filled speech. |
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Hamlet (Theatre) | hasFeature |
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In the closing sequence of the Hawaii Five-0 episode "Kuka'awale" ("Stakeout"), an old lady finishes a joke: "She says 'what's she got that I haven't got?' and he says 'Parkinson's'." It gets a laugh from the Five-0 crew and Chin Ho calls her a dirty old lady. He's right, as that's an actual joke, and a dirty one at that. The lady with Parkinson's gives better hand jobs on account of her condition. | |
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Hawaii Five-0 | hasFeature |
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Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero: "Larry Manor" has Larry saying what seems to be the punchline of a joke, only for Rippen to reveal that there was no setup to begin with. | |
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Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero | hasFeature |
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Ray delivers one in The Princess and the Frog. "Den he say, Dat a ugly fish, yeah." | |
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The Princess and the Frog | hasFeature |
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Camp Lazlo would often feature the central trio walking in at the tail-end of one of Edward's stories to the rest of the scouts; e.g. "...so that's why I don't play croquet any more." | |
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Camp Lazlo | hasFeature |
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A small scene towards the end of When Harry Met Sally... opens at the New Year's Eve party before Harry shows up, and Sally has been buttonholed by a stranger who's been trying to tell her a joke. The punchline is "And then the nun says, 'Read the card!'" Sally is not amused. Given that the joke in question is about a nun pursuing a crush on her gynecologist by inserting a bouquet of flowers into an uncomfortable place, one can scarcely blame her. | |
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When Harry Met Sally... | hasFeature |
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A minor character tracks down the protagonist in Trois Couleurs, Bleu to return her necklace taken from the car crash at the start of the movie. In return he asks her to explain her husband's dying words to him "Essayez de tousser, maintenant" (try to cough now). She explains that it was the punchline to a joke he'd been telling about a woman who goes to see a doctor about a chronic cough and is given a powerful laxative. | |
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Three Colors Trilogy | hasFeature |
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Detentionaire has had a few, such as Cam's “And I was all: 'No way, hombre! That piñata is a toilet!'� and Brad's “...And that's why I always stretch before I eat yoghurt.� | |
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Detentionaire | hasFeature |
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Orphaned Punchline / int_3cc61f13 | type |
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We Bare Bears: In "Fashion Bears", we hear the punchline of a joke Grizzly is telling a busload of businessmen: "And then I said 'Desert? I thought you meant dessert!'" In "Coffee Cave", we catch the very end of a joke one of the Bears' customers is telling: "And then I realized, I was wearing his shoes!" |
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In the Corner Gas episode "Safety First", one scene begins with the punchline, and then the next scene includes a flashback that explains the joke. | |
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Corner Gas | hasFeature |
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A variation from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, "Sweet Stench of Success": Bloo is trying to communicate to the audience of his TV show that the producer is evil. In one skit, he and an actor go through a series of "Doctor, doctor!" jokes, but Bloo replaces one of the setup lines with "Doctor, doctor, Kip the producer is keeping me locked in a cage!" The other actor responds with the punchline of the original joke ("I guess you're two tents!"), which has become a complete non sequitur. | |
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In The Love Boat episode "Mind My Wife," Doc tells a joke that ends with "And the planet says, 'If I could do that, I'd be a star!'" | |
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The Love Boat | hasFeature |
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In three of the Leisure Suit Larry games (Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards, Leisure Suit Larry 2: Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places), Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!), a Ken Williams expy says nothing but random punchlines to Larry whenever they try to talk to each other. They are always of dirty jokes, and always impossible to understand if you haven't heard the joke. | |
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An episode of Animaniacs featured a Batman parody using Chicken-Boo. The villain was a guy called Punchline (obviously an amalgamation of Joker and Riddler), and his whole shtick was this trope. The one he used that stands out is "... Forget the subpoena, MY monkey doesn't DRIVE a Lexus!" Slappy Squirrel once tells that famous old chestnut to someone on the phone: "Wrecked 'em? I freaking killed 'em!" Another one when Slappy is hanging out with Vina Walleen, the actress who played "Bumbie's" mom: |
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Animaniacs | hasFeature |
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The first High School Musical sees Troy telling Chad about something involving pink jelly, apparently an ad libbed line about a dream Zac Efron had had. In the second film, Sharpay's father twice uses "...and then she stepped on the ball!" referencing Trading Places. | |
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High School Musical | hasFeature |
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Ghosts (UK): Pat, of all people, knows one that Fanny and the Captain inform him is offensive to five different religions, despite only mentioning three. All we hear of it is, "And the priest says, 'I know. That's why I painted it gold.'" | |
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Ghosts (UK) | hasFeature |
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Homicide: Life on the Street had Meldrick Lewis frequently tell the same filthy joke, of which the audience only ever got to hear the punch line: "You're not here to hunt, are you?" In one episode, his partner Kellerman only says that line, to which Lewis replies that the build-up to the punchline is the whole point. It involves a large male grizzly bear and is, shall we say, not work safe. The Wire and State of Play also use a variation on this punch line. |
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In Garfield it's used several times with Garfield's fence act: | |
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One episode of The Fairly Oddparents had Mark Chang telling a joke where all you heard was '... And Then I Said, The Aristocrats!' If you know anything about the setup for that joke, you can appreciate just how much was implied there. Given that Mark Chang enjoys eating diapers, the above could also count as an incredibly lame pun and would wind up being an enjoyable joke on Mark's home planet. When Timmy throws a party, he is shown telling a joke to a group of Vikings: "...and he said is that a Chevie? And I said no, it's a fjord!" |
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The Fairly OddParents! | hasFeature |
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In the Discworld novels Feet of Clay and Jingo, Nobby Nobbs tells a series of inappropriate jokes in mixed company. In neither does the reader hear anything other than the punchline "That's funny, it's never done that when I've tried it!" and a reference to "the one about the very small man with the piano". The latter is mentioned in Feet of Clay as well, and is told in its entirety on this page. That joke also comes up in this xkcd. Nanny Ogg's "Just twist the first thing you can grab, as the priest said to the vestal virgin." This seems to be used as the Discworld version of That's What She Said's ancestor, "... as the bishop said to the actress." A footnote tells us that, like it's real-world equivalent, a lot of people have heard that line but nobody actually knows the rest of the joke. Nobody knows the origin of the phrase "pull the other one, it's got bells on," (in real life, it's just a play on "pulling my leg") but it's been theorized in-story to come from a long-lost joke about a particularly torture-happy ruler who tried to outlaw Morris dancing. Also, the Feegle battlecry "Bang went sixpence!", taken from an old joke about how Scottish people are cheapskates: "I wasna there more'n two hours, and bang went sixpence!" Daft Wullie actually gets a line like this in Wintersmith. |
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In the Judge Dee book The Chinese Lake Murders, while the Judge has been occupied, his Lovable Sex Maniac assistant Ma Joong has been talking with other servants. When the Judge finds him again, he is at the end of a joke (or autobiographical anecdote) which concludes "... and that was when the bed broke." | |
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In Rumors, Lenny spontaneously comes up with one of these ("So, Mrs. Thatcher replies, 'I don't know, perhaps it's in my umbrella stand.'") to try to get 'into character' as he prepares to cover up the events happening at the party when more guests arrive. Chris then puts him on the spot to finish the joke, leading him to awkwardly finish, "Mr. Gorbachev? ...He said, 'I don't know, I never ate cat food before.'" | |
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World of Warcraft: Caretaker Alen in the Eastern Plaguelands occasionally blurts out "...And then the tauren said, "13 INCHES!"". The set-up may be known, but we can probably assume the punchline is referring to a 13-inch-long penis, possibly the Tauren's considering it's the largest playable race in the game.* | |
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In the Daffy Duck cartoon "A Pest in the House", Daffy is a bellhop working in a hotel. He awakens a sleepy guest solely to tell him an apparently hilarious joke about a traveling salesman. We hear some of the beginning, and then the guest walks downstairs to complain to the manager, Elmer Fudd. By the time he gets back to his room, Daffy is almost done the joke, but can't remember the punchline. "And the salesman says... Ha ha!... the salesman says... hey, what do you know, I forgot what the salesman did say. But... Ha ha!... It was a riot!" | |
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Variation in an episode of The Muppet Show: the Swedish Chef tells a joke which elicits uproarious laughter from a group of other Funny Foreigner muppets. While most of it is in Scandinavian gibberish, the last word can be recognized as "linoleum". On another episode, Fozzie tells a supposedly hilarious joke about an electrician and a polar bear that is drowned out by a passing train and all the audience hears is "... but the wallpaper is delicious!" Also, "The Banana Sketch". |
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Contained entirely in the album title - This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing Cannot Be Harmed By Conventional Weapons never returns to the reason why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing cannot be harmed by conventional weapons. | |
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The Usual Suspects: To distract Saul and his bodyguards before attacking them, Hockney is telling a story - the line we hear is "so I open the car door, and this chick is totally naked..." Apparently, later in the movie one of the guards on the boat gives the setup to this line in Hungarian. | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "...And that, my liege, is how we know the earth to be banana-shaped." What's funnier, he might be serious - it's certainly in character for him to think the world is shaped like a banana. Stranger still is the fact that it's not that different to Stephen Hawking's theory that the universe is saddle shaped and was written 9 years before Hawking published his own theory. | |
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In The Big Bang Theory, we hear the end of a joke Howard tells Bernadette: "So, two years later there's another knock on the door, the guy opens it, and there on his porch is the snail, who says: What the heck was all that about?" That's not a dirty joke, though. This joke appears in its entirety in the movie Training Day. "Hey Leonard, your momma's research methodology is so flawed..." |
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One episode of Lil' Bush opens with the kids eating lunch and Lil' Rummy saying "So then I said, how about I show you the places he didn't touch me?" | |
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Lil' Bush | hasFeature |
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In one Neurotically Yours cartoon, Germaine goes into a brief flashback which begins with her saying: "... so I said to the Pope, 'I'll see you in Hell first!'" | |
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Neurotically Yours (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
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Orphaned Punchline / int_5562da6a | comment |
Played with on 3rd Rock from the Sun: | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun | hasFeature |
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The line "Rectum? Damn near kill 'im!" is the end to a quite well-known joke. It's also the story of how Hinjo in The Order of the Stick became a paladin. (Apparently it involves a class feature.) Also from The Order of the Stick, we miss Therkla's explanation leading to the conclusion "... which is why pants should be forsaken whenever possible." After Redcloak rounded a corner and ran right into O-Chul, who was wielding a steel rod from his prison, it was probably inevitable that the comic's discussion board would toss out this line: And we have Haley's explanation of how Thor ended up on the Minnesota Vikings logo. Spoofed in a bonus strip from the collection Snips, Snails, and Dragon Tales, which opens with Haley telling Belkar "—so I said, 'No, the best part of scouting ahead is when you get to open the strip with a bit of out-of-context conversation.'" |
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The pre-Monty Python John Cleese special, How to Irritate People, Mr. Cleese sets up a sketch about asshole airline pilots with the joke about the two beautiful blondes who were on their first trip to a nudist camp. As he starts to tell the joke, the audio cuts out, and it returns in time for the punchline: "Well, I didn't know he played the violin." | |
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How To Irritate People | hasFeature |
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raocow sometimes does this with his video editing, as he tries to cut out boring parts for the sake of his audience. However, since he rambles near constantly, when the video resumes it often does so on a Non Sequitur. Granted, raocow's rambling often results in non-sequiturs regardless. | |
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raocow (Lets Play) | hasFeature |
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Persona 4: One of the lessons at schools begins with, "..And it turned out that she was actually a robot! That's important! I recommend that you memorize the context." | |
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Persona 4 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Orphaned Punchline / int_5ae0bec6 | type |
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From the 2003 WWE Divas: Desert Heat DVD: In of the montage sequences featuring out-of-context clips of the various Divas, there's a scene of Ivory saying, "I keep messing with my panties!" The line did not appear in any of her sequences previously on the DVD, nor did whatever would have led up to it. | |
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WWE (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
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The Simpsons Hit & Run: "...leaving the famous bearded cartoon creator incarcerated in a Peruvian jail." | |
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Some of the comics in the Exalted books have an Orphaned Punchline (Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals and one of the Compass books). The punchline was: "So the first man says 'A lantern? If I had a lantern I'd have found my horse and ridden out of here already!'" A medieval version of an old joke involving a guy falling into a too-loose vagoo and running into someone else and commenting that it was too dark to see, but if he could find his flashlight... "A flashlight? If I had a flashlight, I could find my car keys and drive back out." | |
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Exalted (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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In Crackerjack, Jack walks back into his flat to hear Stan finishing an anecdote to Nance and Dave: | |
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Crackerjack | hasFeature |
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MAD ran these fairly consistently, as "Punchlines in search of a joke". They also did the opposite: "Jokes That Don't Need Punchlines". |
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American Dad!: In "I Am The Walrus", we hear Roger (as his persona-of-the-week Bing Cooper) tell the punchline of a joke to some drunk teens at a house party. | |
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American Dad! | hasFeature |
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Ultra Fast Pony, the episode "The David Bowie Drinking Game": | |
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Ultra Fast Pony (Web Video) | hasFeature |
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Herman's Head: As Herman discusses the Zany Scheme of an episode with Louise, she suddenly responds to his question if it's crazy by dramatically saying that it was Crazy Enough to Work, explaining to his puzzlement that there are two lines she had been dying to try, and that was one of them. The other? - "Captain - it is I, Ensign Pulver, and I just threw your stinkin' palm tree overboard! That one's gonna be a little harder to work into conversation." Later in the episode Louise's voice is heard triumphantly piping up with that phrase over the din of conversation and the audience is left wondering what gave her the necessary opening. | |
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In one Dragon magazine cartoon, one D&D character is telling another a joke about a paladin. He gets as far as that before the second character interupts to ask if the punchline is "something about his 'special mount'". He's told it isn't, it's the one where the paladin says "Oh, you meant lay on hands". | |
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From an episode of The X-Files: "...so the parrot says, 'I only got one question: what did that chicken in there do?'" | |
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The X-Files | hasFeature |
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A Thing of Vikings: In Chapter 22: | |
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A Thing of Vikings (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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Billions: Chuck Rhoades' father tells it as "... and she stepped on the billiard ball!" at his gentleman's club, causing all the men in his company to laugh. It was actually a ping-pong ball in the original Auntie Mame. | |
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Billions | hasFeature |
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Dwarf Fortress: If you have your adventurer tell a joke to an NPC, the game randomly provides either an incomplete setup or an incomplete punchline. | |
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From Quantum Leap: "...and she said, 'Of course you can: that's where lawyers come from!'" This is a real joke, setup NSFW: A girl asks her mother, "Mom, can you get pregnant from anal intercourse?" | |
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Quantum Leap | hasFeature |
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Farscape: In "Through the Looking Glass" Rygel has been telling John a joke in YellowMoya, which ends with "...And then the Trawlian priest turns to the Calanese cleric and says, "Doesn't bother me. You should have seen her mother!" And in "We're So Screwed Part 2", two hooka-smoking Charrid officers in a Bad Guy Bar are heard saying "Cause the Kalish had no idea, 'cause he's a frelling harpooda!" |
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Farscape | hasFeature |
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Vampire: The Masquerade had a segment in the Malkavian clanbook discussing the mysterious true purpose of the being known as the Word Eater—except that the text was being dissolved by an illustration of said being, continuing on the next page with "and other butcher's aprons." | |
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Stargate SG-1: Not really a joke, but in "Window of Opportunity", the "Groundhog Day" Loop episode, every time O'Neill is sent back in time, O'Neill is back at his bowl of cereal with Daniel Jackson saying to him "Anyways, I'm sorry, but that's the way I feel about it. What do you think?" It's also the first hint to O'Neill that something was very unusual about the situation. Exactly what Dr. Jackson was talking about was never elaborated on. Notable in that this was also an in-universe example: not only does the audience have no idea what Jackson is talking about, neither does O'Neill. O'Neill wasn't paying attention the first time, he isn't given the option in any of the subsequent loops, and he mentions that one of the irritating things about being sent back in time is constantly hearing the orphaned line. | |
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Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures Azlan saying "... And that was the last time I took Neni to <Place>" is a running joke. Also, in the filler on how to make a webcomic, "...And that is why there will never be another wombat in Lost Lake." |
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Think Before You Think, on this page. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender has Zuko once trying to say a joke about tea Iroh told him, but he can only remember the punchline ("Leaf me alone, I'm bushed."). Which he says in an Iroh accent so terrible it immediately makes any real-life fan who has attempted that feel better about themselves. |
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In an episode of Chicago Hope, an elevator door opens and two characters have the following conversation: | |
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Chicago Hope | hasFeature |
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In Lucky Star, some scenes cut in just as a character finishes a joke regarding 'something stinky'. Variations on this are played as a Running Gag. There's also a number of examples that don't follow that pattern. | |
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Two from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, both told by Quark to Morn: "And the Andorian says, 'Your brother?! I thought that was your wife!'" And the other one is, "And then the Andorian says, 'That's not my antenna.'" The first one took Morn a little while to get, but then he busted out laughing; the other one was met with stony silence. It's quite likely that the first joke was the writers being extra clever; Andorians have 4 sexes, two of which look roughly male and two of which look roughly female, so if an Andorian sees two males acting like they're family it's perfectly natural, from their perspective, to assume they're married. The pilot of Deep Space Nine establishes Morn himself as quite a storyteller; we first see him just after he's told the funniest joke in the universe and everyone is laughing. Morn is quite a talker, we just never see it. | |
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In Quest for Glory I when you have to say the rhyme to enter Baba Yaga's hut, one of the choices given is a poem about an alien from Venus, "whose body was shaped like a..." | |
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In an episode of Still Standing, Bill is shown laughing at a joke told by his mother-in-law, marveling that "that joke has everything: a gorilla, a whorehouse, and beans!" Later, after sister-in-law Linda tags along, Bill is shown laughing again, while Linda complains, "What would a gorilla even be doing in a whorehouse?" | |
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Still Standing | hasFeature |
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One sketch on That Mitchell and Webb Look opens with a newscaster announcing Jimmy Savile has received three life sentences. "You think you know a guy, and then he goes and does something like that." This was years before the cover-up scandal exploded. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look | hasFeature |
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That one's old enough it's been used in greetings cards. There were these two racehorses in a field, discussing the fact that they keep losing. A dog stops by to give them some advice and, well, you know the rest. This is one of those jokes that should be told at great length with as much elaboration as possible. | |
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"Shaggy Dog" Story | hasFeature |
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Steven Universe has one in the episode "Future Boy Zoltron": Steven, disguised as a fortune-telling machine, has been delivering advice and fortunes to people all day. We eventually cut back to him speaking to Suitcase Sam, saying that whatever he just asked "is a question for your doctor." | |
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Seinfeld's "The Yada Yada" features a joke about rabbi and the farmer's daughter, where the punchline is "Those aren't mahtzah balls." and an another one about the Pope and Raquel Welch in a lifeboat, where the punchline is either "I said, pass the buoys" or "Those aren't buoys." Interestingly, Jerry tells only the beginning and end of the joke to a priest (passing over the middle with the titular conversation fudger) and the priest gets a kick out of it anyway. (Elaine's reaction to the joke earlier suggests that "buoys" is enough of an Inherently Funny Word to carry the joke by itself.) Invoked by Jerry in "The Little Kicks". Jerry asks Kramer to pretend they're talking about something interesting, so Kramer says "So I killed the guy, and they're still looking for me." |
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Never Mind the Buzzcocks "And now, some punchlines we didn't have time to use this week." Some Series 9 episodes have a punchline announced before the cast intros and told in full later during the show. |
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Lloyd's fantasy sequence in Dumb and Dumber features him ending a joke with "So he said, 'Do you love me?' and she said, 'No, but that's a real nice ski mask!'" to uproarious laughter. | |
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Done oftehn in Phineas and Ferb: In "The Lake Nose Monster", Lawrence Fletcher attempts to tell the boys about his capture of a giant fish named Big Mouth Ramon, but the boys leave. Through the episode, we hear snippets of this tale. "Leave the Busting to Us": In "Agent Doof", Doofenshmirtz becomes an agent of O.W.C.A. (he gets away with it despite being human because he was raised by ocelots), and in one scene is telling a joke that ends with "And the duck says 'got any grapes?'" This is a Shout-Out to The Duck Song. Lampshaded in "What'd I Miss?" |
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One Bloom County strip started with Opus asking Portnoy if he'd heard the latest news. The strip is then interrupted by an explanation on why Opus' nose has been subjected to Scenery Censor recently; when we get back to the strip, the joke is already in process. | |
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One episode of The Mighty Boosh has Bob Fossil finish an anecdote with "...and that's why you should never bring a Cricket Bat to Greece!" | |
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In Miller's Crossing, we hear Caspar deliver the punchline of a fairly well-known joke: "He said 'Fuck him, give him a fiver.' The coffee was my idea." For those who don't know it, a housewife invites the postman in for coffee and sex, before giving him the money, because when she asked her husband what they should give the postman for Christmas..." | |
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In Han Solo's Revenge, we see one of these ("Well, how do you think my pack-beast got knock-kneed?") when Han tells Chewbacca a joke, right when Chewie is drinking some foamy beer, so the laughing Wookiee sends suds flying everywhere. When Chewie gets irritated at this, Han points out that's how the joke was told to him, too. | |
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An Akatsuki's Life Itachi lost his ears under uncertain circumstances, and can't hear his colleagues talking. He panics, prompting the others to look at him, then after a short beat Kisame actually Greed says "Well the Zerg still suck". | |
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One of the vox pops from A Bit of Fry and Laurie: "...so I said to him, if God loves me he's got a funny way of showing it, hasn't he? And that shut him up, pope or no pope." | |
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In The Time Of The Transference, Mudge saves the group from a hungry dragon by sending it into uncontrollable laughing fits with a hilarious story. Details aren't given, but after their escape, the others recount which parts — the Baker's College, the traveling ladies' choir, the elephant, the six chimps — they found funniest. | |
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In The Onion, Orphaned Punchlines appear as banner quotes within fake articles which endlessly repeat the sentence, "Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood." | |
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Teen Titans (2003) did this a few times through Starfire. In "Final Exam", Starfire enters the show by ending a discussion with Robin about how to achieve faster-than-light travel. Technically, this was the series' first episode (not the first episode produced, but the first episode broadcast), making it her first line on the show overall. Then in the beginning of the New Teen Titans short "Burp", she has the opening line, "...and that is what happened right before the Big Bang." It seems Starfire knows quite a lot about the secrets of the universe, but the show just won't let us hear them! | |
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Whenever the C.A.W. agents in A Hat in Time gather, you can only hear little bits and pieces of their conversations, which mostly sound like the punchlines of jokes or Noodle Incidents, after which all the agents will laugh loudly. | |
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New Girl: This trope is referenced and poked fun at in the season 4 episode "Par 5" (episode 20). At the beginning of a scene Nick, laughing, says "So I say to her, 'Water? I barely even know you." and Coach replies "Stop talking to me like we're in the middle of a conversation. We just sat down. I hate when you do that." | |
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Played with on 30 Rock, where Jack has the idea to write the punchlines first, then come up with sketches to match them. ("Nuts to you, McGillicuddy!" "Who ordered the wieners?" "Beep beep ribby ribby!") And apparently Frank actually wrote a sketch based on "beep beep ribby ribby!" |
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Batman '66 #31 has one joke from the Joker with an orphaned punchline, though longtime comic book fans will know the setup very well: | |
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M*A*S*H: An episode opens with Col. Potter and Father Mulcahy together in the mess tent: The episode "Where There's a Will" featured Hawkeye having a flashback to the surgeons getting wasted at the officers' club, with Winchester completely passed out in his chair while Potter stammers "So the third cowboy — looks at the orangutan — and says to the bartender, "'I'll have what he's having.'" At the end of "Captains Outrageous" the crew celebrate Mulcahy's long overdue promotion to captain: Another episode has an orphaned punchline compounded by the fact that it's also altered. Potter is about to drop the punchline of a dirty joke (which the audience hasn't heard) when he sees Mulcahy standing there and quickly swaps it out for something more sanitized (seemingly ruining the joke in the process). So not only is the setup of the joke missing, but the audience also doesn't even hear the proper punchline. |
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2010: The Year We Make Contact: Dr. Floyd tries to keep a panicking Dr. Curnow calm during his spacewalk with a joke about a marathon runner and a chicken. When Curnow presses him for the punchline, Floyd admits he made it up. | |
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In one Darker than Black episode, April calls the phone of her partner, November 11 and gets a recorded message in which he tells a joke. In the English dub, the audience hears the beginning in which he starts talking about a Shepherd, and then the ending which is the traditional "That's my wife". | |
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Orange Is the New Black has the repeated abandoned punchline, "So the penguin says, 'He's not an eggplant; he's retarded!'" | |
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Red vs. Blue has three examples: From episode 58 From episode 70 Season 10, episode 8 |
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ReBoot has one that you need to do a little work to notice. In an audition for Enzo's birthday party, a comedian binome tells a joke. The joke is said in binary, so the viewer has no idea what he's saying but the characters all laugh at the end. Apparently if you translate the numbers into decimals, and then into letters, you get "Take my wife, please!" | |
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The punchline "... that's no kindergartner, that's my wife!" was a running gag on Recess; we even got some interesting characterization out of it in one episode. The episode had two separate shorts. The first ended with Principal Prickly delivering the punchline to great reception among his peers. The second short opens with his opposite number, TJ, delivering the same punchline to his own peers and getting a similar reception. | |
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In Shrek Forever After, Shrek is heard telling the end of a joke to Rumpelstiltskin. "So, the centaur says, 'That's not the half I'm taking about.'" | |
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Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception: After a hectic shootout, Sully says, when back in their headquarters, "... so then guy says: Well, you better tickle mine too, 'cause now I gotta catch the goddamn thing." | |
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The original graphic novel of The Crow contains a scene in which one of T-Bird's henchmen is telling T-Bird a joke. He's gotten as far as "so then the hooker says" before he's interrupted, first by his own laughter and then by a shotgun blast to the head through the roof of the car. When T-Bird later attempts to escape in the same car, with the corpse still in the passenger's seat, he facetiously asks him to finish the joke. | |
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The very first line of the very first episode of The Drew Carey Show: Ryan Stiles originally used this line in a similar fashion on Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Reportedly, Drew Carey saw the episode in question, and when Stiles was cast in The Drew Carey Show, Carey encouraged Stiles to use the joke again. |
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In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Beatniks", Crow simply creates his own orphaned punchline. | |
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From Powers of Invisibility, courtesy of Rose: "And that's how I finally got Alix to admit that bunnies are the cutest." It's mentioned elsewhere than the argument was about the cuteness of puppies vs bunnies, and lasted over an hour. | |
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A semi-example of this type of thing is when we hear the middle of Vernon Dursley's "Japanese golfer" joke in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which apparently some people have recognized as not the kind of joke you tell in civilized company. (Well, the punchline is "What do you mean, 'wrong hole'?", if that tells you anything...) Let's just say it's not the kind of joke you'd tell in front of your wife, your twelve-year-old son, a prospective customer, and his wife, and leave it at that. It involves a Japanese prostitute and implied anal sex... |
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Several of Maytag's jokes in Book 0 of Flipside. The author mentions he just made up the punchlines, and the setups never existed. | |
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The Hitman (1993) installment of DC One Million has Tommy teleported to the 853rd century while saying "...an' the cowboy says read my lips: posse!" | |
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"...then they made me their chief." | |
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Kathy Rain, the titular character befriends a local woman she needs to interview by offering her one of her cigarettes. The woman accepts her offer, and it then cuts to the two of them in the middle of sharing a funny story as they smoke. | |
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The Sting: "But honey, this one's eating my popcorn!" The vaudeville comedian starts his routine but the main character is in the foreground talking over him so we don't here the first part. Once the main character leaves, the scene remains long enough, that we hear that punchline to the joke he just told. | |
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A surprisingly smutty one appears in the English dub of Pokémon 2000: One character is heard finishing a joke with "...and then she says 'No, but I have Krabbys!'" | |
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Emergency Exit: "And that's how I found out I'm bulletproof!" | |
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Murder, She Wrote featured a cut to a party scene in which a Jerkass guest character was giving the line, "No, it says 'Welcome to Jamaica, mon, have a nice day!'" "It" in this case is the tattoo on the speaker's Gag Penis. |
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8-Bit Theater: The "8-Bit Chronicles" gave us three of these in the form of a sentence continued from a page not shown: "...until the handle breaks off and you have to find a doctor to pull it out again." "...my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college." that one was actually originally from a Lewis Black comedy bit. "...then they made me their chief." |
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An episode of Rugrats had a TV commercial director give one as he walked into the studio: "So whatever you do, don't sell that poodle!" resulting in uproarious laughter from the crew coming in with him. | |
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The Pinkie Pie issue of My Little Pony Micro Series gives us this one from Equestria's funniest clown: The writer confirmed that this is a direct reference to The Stan Freberg Show, as described below under Radio. |
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Used a lot in Futurama: "And that's why they call me Honest Bender." In the commentary, the writer explains this joke to be from a 1934 W. C. Fields gag, where the second half of the story is given as the main character having found a glass eye on a pool table, returning it to the owner, and being given the nickname "Honest John". "The moral is, if you want it to stay sunk, tie a weight to it!" Super Collider? I just met her! And then we built a super collider. |
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In Rain, the first time we see Maria, she's finishing a joke with the line, "...and I said that's NOT a duck!" In another comic by the same author, another character is shown saying the same line. This comic featured Rain herself before she got her own series. | |
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Garrett, P.I.: In Sweet Silver Blues, Morley pretends to be telling Garrett a joke, so he can warn him that their campsite is being watched. Garrett plays along, and fakes a big laugh "like it was the one about the bride who didn't know the bird need to be cleaned before it went in the oven". The actual joke, though evidently hilarious, is never mentioned again. Garrett tries to tell Gilbey a joke about a troll, ogre, and barbarian walking into a bar in Faded Steel Heat, but Gilbey's heard it before and jumps straight to the punch line ("Mice are never amusing"), leaving the middle of the joke unsaid. |
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The Most Popular Girls in School: In Episode 33; we should note that both of the following women are high on Vicodin: | |
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Psychonauts: During a cutscene, Raz walks onscreen yelling about how "The crib wasn't even that clean!" (It was less of a joke and more of him ranting about things, but the point remains.) A straighter example would be this line, said to Clem after Clem gets rebrained. |
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In Goats, a plotline deals with people defeating humourless cyborg chickens with old parlour jokes. We only ever hear the punchlines of the jokes, but the punchlines are from real jokes which you may be able to identify if you know the joke. | |
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In one of the early missions in Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, the opening cutscene has Jaden and Kyle piloting their ship, with Kyle relaying a a story of his previous adventures to his student before they're interrupted by a distress signal: | |
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Venus Envy has this happen with the end of an anecdote: | |
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"Norman Normal" features a drunk at a cocktail party trying to tell Norman a joke about "a travelling salesman and an Eskimo". Norman doesn't approve of jokes about "racial minorities", so he tunes the guy out, and we only hear a bit of the beginning, a few vague snippets, and the very end: "Just before the icicle breaks, he screams out 'That was no walrus, that was your wife!'" | |
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"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", Vernon Dursleys' joke with the punchline "What do you "mean" it's the wrong hole!?" makes it into the film. It's a joke that anyone who worked in a sales office in the 1990s has probably heard, and it's in "a kids' movie". Bonus points for giving the film a sense of time and place though. | |
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In ASDF Movie, there's "the funniest thing you've ever seen... from really far away". You can never hear what the first guy says before he explodes and the other guy yells out "Apples!" | |
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Generator Rex: Rex wakes up from being drugged to hear Dos saying "And then I said to the General, 'your surrender I can accept, but there is no excuse for that haircut'." As he laughs, Five complains that Dos had told the joke before. | |
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Chicken Run: "...So the pig turns to the horse and says, 'Hey, buddy. Why the long face?'" | |
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Saturday Night Live: In the early years, when they did the Saturday Night Report, Chevy Chase would always start by being caught on the telephone when the News started. You heard the end of the phone conversation. "No, it's just CALLED blow, you really suck ....... Oh, gotta go." A famous Steve Martin monologue: "Oh, did I assassinate your penguin?" |
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During the first couple of CBS years, Match Game would break for a commercial, then when they returned, the audience would be in the midst of gales of laughter. Gene Rayburn would turn to us and say puckishly "We were just listening to a passage from Beethoven's Ninth symphony..." (He would eventually entreat viewers to write for tickets and see a taping to get the full brunt of what goes on during commercial breaks.) | |
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Often done on Opie & Anthony, where only the punchlines of offensive racial jokes were told. For example: "Put Velcro on the ceiling!" | |
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Happens in Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Abridged. As Jotaro is about to explain how D'Arby managed to cheat against Joseph (it involved letting the sun melt a piece of chocolate), the screen cuts to a still of Rule 63 Jotaro and Dio. When we get back to Jotaro, he finishes with "...Intercourse". | |
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TV Tropes: The Edit Reasons page can occasionally read like this, especially when the page they're from seemingly has nothing to do with it: | |
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Robot Chicken references the Yoda vs. Palpatine battle from the end of Revenge of the Sith in this way in one sketch, which starts off with the Emperor telling two laughing guests, "So I threw the Senate at him. The whole Senate!" | |
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In The Muppets Take Manhattan, Fozzie tries to bring Kermit out of his amnesia by giving examples of his "humor": | |
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Leverage: In "The Broken Wing Job", all we hear of the joke Hardison is telling the monkey is the punchline. | |
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The Patrick Star Show: In "The Wrath of Shmandor", one scene tunes into the show right as Patrick is saying "...and that's why eels cannot be trusted." | |
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Zits has a number of strips that open with the tail end of one of Walt's stories, with the rest of the strip dealing with Jeremy's reaction. One such example was "...and half an hour later, I say "If that's a pigeon, I'd hate to see an ostrich!" | |
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In the French Canadian show Le cœur a ses raisons, Brittany explains how she survived during what seems like several hours, and we only hear: "And then I gave birth in a submarine! And my four fingers grew back." | |
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In Hamilton, Word of God confirms that Laurens's "All right, all right, that's what I'm talking about" at the beginning of "Satisfied" was "the punchline to a dirty joke you never got to hear" | |
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The The Lost Years of Merlin book series has something like this. Bumblewy, the mournful jester, always asks if he can tell his Bell Riddle, but because of his reputation as a failed jester, everyone interrupts him before he can tell it. At the end of the story, when Merlin tells him to just tell it already, he realizes that he's forgotten the riddle, and that he just kept trying to tell it expecting people to interrupt him before he could. | |
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The infamous "toad hit by lightning" line from X-Men is actually one, as the only remnant of Joss Whedon's Running Gag of him spending the film bragging about things toads can do. | |
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In Mad About You, Paul overhears the end of an anecdote at a party. "You can't do that! This is Pennsylvania!" Those who were in on the joke found it hilarious. | |
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In El Goonish Shive Tedd recounting how he saved Christmas is presented this way. | |
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In a cutscene from the Terran campaign of the game StarCraft, a formation of Wraiths is attacking space platforms over Tarsonis. It starts out with an orphaned punchline. | |
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An episode of Freaks and Geeks revolves around Sam not understanding a risqué joke that others keep telling. For most of the episode we only hear the punchline ("How do you think I rang the doorbell?") until the very end of the episode when Sam begins to tell it to his gym teacher and everything finally makes sense. "So there's this man with no arms and no legs..." | |
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Jane and the Dragon has Jester reading a joke that Dragon wrote for him that finishes "That isn't a cow. That's just my cave chicken". Crosses over into Cannot Tell a Joke territory to judge from Jane and Jester's reaction. | |
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The "Meet the Medic" video released as a supplement to Team Fortress 2 has this crossed with Noodle Incident: | |
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The Two and a Half Men episode Hey, Does This Smell Funny To You? subverts it slightly, since we do actually hear the whole joke (kind of, the first part was told by Charlie, and the punchline was given by Jake while giving his report), but the two parts did not mesh well. Miley Cyrus' Missi character gives one at the beach to Jake in "And You Know What The Lollipop Is For": |
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In the Judge Dredd story "The Torture Garden", a prisoner of the Dark Judges has managed to survive by telling a morbid joke that amused one of them. The reader is only shown the set-up and punchline, which involves an actress walking into a bar with a dead monkey, and at the end someone commenting that the monkey is still breathing. | |
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In Ernest Goes to Africa, Ernest tells the tribesmen a joke with the punchline "It's a knick-knack, Patty Black, give the frog a loan!" The actual joke is about a frog trying to get a bank loan using a miniature model of the Eiffel Tower as collateral. | |
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Blackadder: "...and so the bishop said, 'I'm sorry Officer, I didn't realize you meant organist!'" | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "The Ticket Master" sees Pinkie Pie blurting out "And Then I Said, 'Oatmeal? Are you crazy?'" after Twilight Sparkle interrupts an argument between her friends. The original subject was who should get to go as Twilight's guest to the Grand Galloping Gala, so it's safe to say Pinkie got a little off-topic... One scene in "Sweet and Elite" has Rarity amusing some upper-class ponies with an anecdote that ends with "That's not a hat; that's a natural disaster that somehow landed atop your head!" In "Read It And Weep", Rainbow Dash is trying to find ways to pass the time during a stay in the hospital, and at one point is seen telling jokes to her room-mate (an unfortunate pony in a full-body cast). We only hear the punchline of one: "To get to the other side!" |
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Doctor Who: In "The Green Death", the Doctor tells a joke that ends with the line "Never trust a Venusian shanghorn with your perigosto stick." | |
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Men in Black. In the first film, K ends a joke with the line "But honey, this one's eating my popcorn!" The setup is probably some variation of the following: A farmer decides to go into town to see a movie along with his pet rooster. Noticing that no animals are allowed inside the cinema, he smuggles the rooster into the theater in his front overall pocket and unzips it once the lights have dimmed and the movie started so the rooster can see. The woman sitting next to him eventually notices, and nudges her husband. "I think this man is a pervert. He's got his thing out." Her husband replies, "So? It's nothing you haven't seen before." to which she says "But honey, this one's eating my popcorn!" | |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, Tristan says, "The talent agent said, 'What do you call that routine?' and the father said, 'The Aristocrats'." | |
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In Jurassic Park, we get to hear the punchline of a joke Malcolm tells Dr. Harding. Gennaro walks in just in time to catch the punchline: "So the other man says, 'I'll tell you frankly, I didn't like it, Bill. I went back to toilet paper!'" That one's about an acceptable target acquiring a toilet brush. A version of it can be heard in The Prairie Home Companion movie. |
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Jellyfish's Villain Song for Bowser, "Ignorance is Bliss," starts with Bowser saying "... and then I'll join OPEC!" Notably, this is not part of the actual song, but taken directly from a comic strip included with the original album. | |
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Person of Interest: Mafia don Carl Elias is driven out to the middle of nowhere by two Dirty Cops, and pulled from the car with a bag over his head. The minute the bag is removed, he dryly remarks, "Oh, that kind of 'prisoner transfer'." | |
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This is used often on Jimmy Two-Shoes, to the point of a Running Gag. They tend to be of the visual variety. It's not uncommon for the show to open a scene or introduce something to the plot via Heloise conducting some kind of sadistic experiment on some unfortunate demon (usually Beezy). | |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 has one in the Allied mission in Cannes. | |
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In Uniju Holiday Theater, we get this line in The Argentinean Beef Ribs Day Disaster◊: | |
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Black Sheep (1996): A stoned Chris Farley delivers this gem. "Rectum? Damn near killed 'em!" The setup involves two bulls reminiscing about their days in the arena, and one correcting the other's grammar regarding an amusing horn placement. | |
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The Wire and State of Play also use a variation on this punch line. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus. "Putting your head on the camel, paste down the edge of the sailor's uniform, until the word 'Maudling' is almost totally obscured." Another sketch inverts it by having the participants of the sketch realize that neither knows the punchline. They go to ask the BBC executive what it was, who reads the script in his hand, laughs to himself while remarking "we could make a whole series out of that" and then tells everyone that the sketch has run too long and they need to cut to the next one. The pre-Monty Python John Cleese special, How to Irritate People, Mr. Cleese sets up a sketch about asshole airline pilots with the joke about the two beautiful blondes who were on their first trip to a nudist camp. As he starts to tell the joke, the audio cuts out, and it returns in time for the punchline: "Well, I didn't know he played the violin." Used in Another Monty Python Record, though not as the punchline to a joke per se. |
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Turns up in an early episode of Exo Squad. We only hear the punchline: "Gulp... that's my wife!" and the entire squad laughing heartily, except for Marsala. | |
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The Johnny Bravo episode "Johnny on Ice" has the research granter visiting Dr. Richard Leaking tell the end part of a joke while Leaking's daughter is examining Johnny (who was mistaken for a frozen caveman). | |
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In Star Trek: Generations, Data starts laughing, saying he's finally gotten a joke Geordi LaForge told offscreen seven years earlier during the Farpoint mission. He repeats the punchline: "...The clown can stay, but the Ferengi in the gorilla suit has to go!" | |
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In G.I. Joe: The Movie, Quick Kick is telling Gung Ho a joke that ends with "I says to the guy 'I don't care if it takes all night, we're gonna get there by morning." According to writer Buzz Dixon, this is the punch line to the dirtiest joke he ever heard. |
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The Golden Girls episode "Comedy of Errors" had Dorothy doing stand-up at a comedy club. While she's debating whether she really wants to go through with it, you can faintly hear the comedian talking on stage, but not his actual words. Then it cuts to his punchline: | |
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The "Jingle Bells" episode of QI had the guests try to find setups for the orphaned punchlines in their Christmas crackers, including this one: A puppy isn't just for Christmas. "It's very good cold on Boxing Day, too." | |
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On the final episode of Police Squad!, Frank Drebin (undercover as "Tony Da Wonderful") is performing on stage at a nightclub. We hear only the punchline of a very filthy joke: "So anyway, the guy looked up at her and he said, 'Lady, I don't think I can take sixty-seven more of those!'" The audience roars. That one is about an inexperienced man attempting the 69 position with a partner who is suffering from flatulence. |
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In Deadpool (2016), a scene begins as Deadpool finishes explaining to Dopinder about "why the movie Cocoon is pure pornography." | |
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Lloyd's "tasty joke" from the Breakout Kings episode "There Are Rules": | |
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The Sandman (1989): The story "Men of Good Fortune" begins and ends with snippets of conversation in pubs, 600 years apart, with similarities including the punchline "... up her dress, and she says, 'Hunting for rabbits again, Vicar?'" ("friar" in the medieval version). In the one-shot Sandman Midnight Theater a party scene includes what seems to be the middle of the same joke: "...so — no, this is funny — the farmer says, 'Vicar, I'll not say another word about the poaching, if only you'll tell me how you caught all those rabbits'..." The "Season of Mists" arc has Thor's joke resulting in the punchline, "You're Thor? I'm tho thore I can hardly pith!" It gets a cold reception. |
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: One of Xanthippe's preppy female friends delivers the punchline: "...and she stepped on the ball!" causing all the other preppy kids to laugh. | |
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In As Time Goes By, several times Lionel tells a joke about a parrot with no legs that ends with the punchline "I got so excited I fell off my perch." The repeated failure of the joke is actually a gag for the audience. | |
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Occasionally used by The Burkiss Way. | |
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Kamp Koral: In "Scaredy Squirrel", when the Dinghies and Trawlers have a sleepover, we hear Roxy telling a joke that ends with "...so we say to the guy, 'if that's your severed head, then why do we have the receipt?'" | |
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Several times on South Park: The coroner in the episode "Pinkeye": "And then the necrophiliac said, 'If this ain't a cadaver...'" They are interrupted by the zombie Kenny. One episode featured a Democratic presidential debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton being interrupted by a news report showing Britney Spears peeing on a ladybug. It cuts back just in time for Clinton to finish her remark with the words "...and spearchuckers." "What did the breast cancer say to the Polish monkey?" In "The Last of the Meheecans", Stan gave us: "... so then the Pope says, maybe you should go check the toilet!" Later on, Butters follows this up with: "...and then the fireman says, that won't even fit in my scrotum!" |
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In The Prince of Thieves, Friar Tuck starts telling a joke about to two knights and two maidens who want to get married to distract the castle guards while Robin and Allan sneak in. The scene cuts to Robin and Allan breaking in before cutting back to Friar Tuck and the punchline "...so they got married and the mothers-in-law lived happily ever after". | |
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Astro City: It gives us Crackerjack's "...so the woman says 'You idiot — This is a duck, not a pig!' And the bartender says "I was talking to the duck!'" "A woman walks into a bar holding a duck and orders a drink. The bartender says "What are you doing in here with that pig?" |
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In RWBY Chibi, it's not uncommon for the "Now that's a katana" line to be used as this. In issue 6, Yang gets hit with this when she says "Bumblebee? More like—" before Team JNPR walks in. |
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The "To Serb with Love" episode of Happy Endings has Jane creating a joke tailored to her otherwise humorless father's specific interests of World War II, Chicago Bears, bass fishing, Chevy Chase and old-timey slide projectors. The joke is told twice, but the audience only gets the punchline each time: "... so, Mike Ditka, former Bears coach, is in a Sherman tank, and he is holding a fish, a bass, and then he says 'next slide, please.'" Her father finds it hilarious. | |
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In Dragon Age II, Aveline's last Act 3 quest starts when Hawke walks in on her sharing a bottle with either Varric or Isabela, who has just finished telling her about some Noodle Incident. | |
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The 2 Stupid Dogs episode "Inside Out" begins with Little Dog telling Big Dog the punchline of a joke out of context. | |
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Homestar Runner likes this one a lot. They even decided to play with this, by having several episodes of Strong Bad Email feature references to "DNA Evidence" until eventually releasing a cartoon explaining the whole story behind it. It's gotten to the point where they Subverted it in "Where U Goin' 2?": In "Road Trip", Strong Bad mentions that all road trips need to end up developing an in-joke for everyone involved, so he decides to try and make that joke BEFORE the trip even starts (the attempt he shows is "jumbo/LARGE"), effectively turning it into this. |
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In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Restless", Anya is on stage telling a joke. We hear the very beginning, where she fumbles, and the end, when she says, "And then the duck says, 'There's a man attached to my ass,'" to much hearty applause and laughter. | |
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In Least I Could Do, Rayne has made something of a catchphrase of "...and that's when I bought the horse a prostitute," as part of an account of his first date with Cyndi. Depending on the audience - and he'll say it to anybody - it can have very mixed results. Almost always, though, it is immediately followed by the phrase "I love this guy!" Recently inverted with the horse telling his side of the story. Lately, it's been showing up as an Orphaned Punchline in everything from webcomics to fanfiction. |
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Concession combines this with a Fourth Wall breakage: This was also used at the end of a Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode. After Ghost Planet blows up. |
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One episode of The Stan Freberg Show featured a "real-life" couple who would occasionally turn off the radio during the episode to discuss what they'd just heard. At one point, the husband tunes back in just in time to hear this apparently hilarious punchline: | |
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In an episode of Firefly, Wash (and the audience) come in just as Shepherd Book finishes telling an anecdote that has the rest of the crew in hysterics: "No! There wasn't one among the brethren had the heart to say anything. He was so proud of it!" Another had Mal finishing a joke with, "So the Companion says to the Shepherd, 'Well, a good goat'll do that.'" The real (dirty) version of Mal's joke is about, strangely enough, jury selection. |
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Hey Arnold!: It was a running gag to hear Stinky telling the end of a story about his favorite flavor of pudding at the beginning of a scene. All the audience would ever hear is "...and that's why lemon pudding is my favorite pudding." We never got to hear why. This was a running gag of scenes cutting into Lila telling a farm related joke and one instance where Helga was imitating Lila. |
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The Fast Show had a recurring character named Rowley Birkin, who would sit in his chair telling a long rambling story, and his speech was so garbled that the audience could only make out bits and pieces of it. The finisher was always "...I was very, very drunk." | |
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From the epilogue to Super Paper Mario X, courtesy of Kirby: "So then I said, "It would taste better with barbeque!" Am I right?" | |
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The Demolished Man: Early in the book, Reich tells an old dirty joke which we don't hear in detail, but the punchline is "I'm just one of the tourists." We later see people getting a laugh by using the same punchline on its own. | |
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From Family Guy: In "Hot-Pocket Dial", they deconstruct this joke, with Lois sitting at a table with friends and saying "... And so I said something that suggests an entire hilarious backstory." Everybody laughs in response. In one episode we enter a scene wherein people at a dinner party are telling jokes. The orphaned punchline is "... and then the French guy says 'Deodorant? What's that?'" In the episode "E. Peterbus Unum", the US army launches a missile intended to hit the Griffin house, but it misfires and hits Quagmire's house next door. Fortunately, it doesn't explode and instead merely juts through the roof without hitting Quagmire or the random fling he's having a drink with. The only words we see exchanged: The joke that makes Peter keep crapping his pants ends with the punchline, "...P.S.: Your vagina's in the sink!" This is a classic dirty joke about a girl who crams liver into her vagina before sex so she'll feel like a virgin. Quagmire uses a variation in the episode where Stewie warms up to Peter. While at the bar, Quagmire is about to start a story of one of his sexy exploits but Peter covers Stewie's ears before he begins. We see Quagmire telling his anecdote and acting out the scenario and at the end, Stewie gets to hear "...and this is the hand that started all the trouble!" He then grabs Stewie's nose with the same hand and gets a very terrified reaction from Stewie. Parodied in the episode "La Famiglia Guy" when you see Peter saying to the Dons: "And the guy says, 'Oh, I thought you were complaining about your angina.'", only for one of the dons to say "You never told us a beginning to that joke!" |
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Erky Perky: "... so I said 'If you're doing that with my teeth, we should get married.'" | |
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An anecdote book has this trope crossing over with some auto-Bowdlerise. The guy in question was famous for telling steamy stories. Once he was asked again, but he refused due to ladies being in the room. The ladies wanted to hear things too, and suggested he might leave out the too raunchy details. "In this case one story might be told, but not much remains than: HA! A boot!" | |
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Zero Punctuation, right after admonishing the creators S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky for having the audacity to release a game that was clearly invoked still unfinished and riddled with bugs: | |
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They even decided to play with this, by having several episodes of Strong Bad Email feature references to "DNA Evidence" until eventually releasing a cartoon explaining the whole story behind it. | |
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One entry in Marble Hornets opens with one. | |
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On How I Met Your Mother, a montage of how Ted is like a dad starts with the ending to a lame joke ("Shredded tweet") and ends with the set-up ("What do you get when a bird meets a lawnmower?"). To explain away Alyson Hannigan's maternity leave, the show has Barney tell Lily a "hilarious boy joke", i.e. a dirty joke, that causes her to shun Barney for several weeks. The setup is "What's the difference between peanut butter and jam." While it's a real joke, and dirty, it's not as funny as they make it out to be. So, in this case Orphaned Setup. In the final season, Barney has gotten so drunk that the alcohol acts as a Truth Serum. Ted and Robin use the opportunity to ask him a number of questions that they (and the audience) have been wondering about for most of the series. For a number of them we only hear Barney's answers and without knowing the context they end up as Noodle Incidents. The natural assumption is that they relate to some sexual depravity Barney committed but one incident that is actually explained in more detail was actually referring to Barney sharing a cab. It is left to the viewer's imagination what kind of question could have prompted an answer of "not while she was the Secretary of State" and whether "now while she was the Secretary of State'' referred to the same thing or something completely different. In a flashback of Barney's sexual conquests, there's a brief shot of Madeline Albright, Bill Clinton's Secretary of State, and in another episode Barney begins an anecdote with the phrase, "So I say to her, Madeline". As far as the other "she"... well Condoleeza Rice and Hillary Clinton were also Secretary of State. Take your pick. |
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Wander over Yonder: Dominator delivers one in "The Night Out," and Sylvia repeats it in "The Sick Day" (worth noting: writer ND Stevenson apparently wasn't allowed to use the slightly racier punchline "Blaster? I hardly know her!"): "The Date": "And the butcher says, 'Not on my dime!'" |
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Played with in a grand fashion in the Waterman internet cartoon series. One episode has a running gag that involves the titular character mistelling the same joke repeatedly, but all we hear is the mangled punchline: "Rectum? Damn near herpes!... Wait, that can't be right." | |
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Friends: In the episode "The One with the Apothecary Table", a scene starts with Chandler finishing a joke: "And then the farmer says, 'That's not a cow, and you're not milking!'" In "The One with the Joke", we don't even get told the punchline; we just get Chandler and Ross trying to explain it to Joey: "You see, the doctor's a monkey. And monkeys can't write prescriptions!" We also discover, courtesy of Monica, that it is offensive to women, doctors, and monkeys. In "The One with the Male Nanny", Monica mentions a joke Chandler told to her about "Jerry Lewis and the girl with the lazy eye." In "The One with Chandler's Work Laugh", Monica walks over to a group of people listening to a joke being told by Chandler's boss. The joke ends with "thirty dollars father, same as in town." Which is the ending of a joke involving a priest being propositioned by several prostitutes in town. One episode features a song example: we cut to Phoebe finishing with "and a crusty old man said 'I'll do what I can' and the rest of the rats played maracas!" |
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The beauty/comedy contest in episode 18 of Sgt. Frog features a few of these. This is made more obvious in Funimation's Gag Dub version, highlights of which include the punchline of the funniest joke in Keroro's repertoire ("And she gets mad when I suck my thumb!") and a reference to the infamous "Japanese golfer" joke ("What do you mean, it's the wrong hole?"). | |
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Code Lyoko's prequel "XANA Awakens" has the tail end of this joke from Odd: "And then the waiter says, 'I don't have frog's legs, that's just the way I walk!'" Most of Odd's jokes are shown this way, like at the beginning of Season 4 episode "Double Take". His friends agree that said jokes usually aren't funny anyway. |
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The following punchline appears in both Babylon 5 and Crusade: "... that's not my leg, that's my airhose!" The joke, whatever it was, was always met with howls of laughter. | |
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The Goons would often use the punchlines of filthy jokes learned during their Army service. This allowed fairly nasty gags to get past the stoic BBC censors. When listeners phoned in to complain, the Goons took the view that anyone who knew had no business complaining about it. | |
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The sixth episode of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared has Red Guy tuning into a conversation three other Red Guys are having at a nearby table. | |
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This joke appears in its entirety in the movie Training Day. | |
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WKRP in Cincinnati had one in the opening credit sequence. We see a driver searching for a decent radio station. At one point, he comes upon this: | |
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Night Court had, as a Running Gag, this punchline: "Twenty dollars, same as in town!" There were occasional variations like "So Anna Karenina says, 'Twenty rubles, same as in St. Petersburg.'" This one's originally about a nun. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation In the episode "The Naked Now", Data reports a limerick he had heard from somebody who had been "intoxicated" by a polywater compound: "There was a young lady from Venus / Whose body was shaped like a—" He is then interrupted by Picard. In the teaser for "Conspiracy", cue Geordi ending a joke he's telling Data...who then more-or-less recaps the content. In "The Outrageous Okona" episode Data starts a joke "A monk, a clone, and a Ferengi decide to go bowling together..."; it's possible that "The clown can stay..." was the punchline, which would make this an unusual case where we hear the beginning and the end of a joke, but still have no idea why it would be funny. "Descent: Part I" opens with Data playing poker with the holographic recreations of Stephen Hawking (played by Hawking himself), Albert Einstein, and Sir Isaac Newton, and Hawking delivers this punchline: |
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