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Outside Joke

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Outside Joke	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Alice makes a humorous observation, and waits for Bob to laugh. Instead, Bob offers a simple explanation. If Alice is present, she immediately realizes that the joke is ruined. She may be crestfallen, or angry, or simply say "Huh, I never thought of that." If not (for example, if Bob is watching Alice on TV) his friends may laugh harder at his response than the initial joke. If Alice (or Bob's friends) don't agree that the joke is ruined, it's not this trope. Bob may be a Straw Vulcan, have been Sidetracked by the Analogy, think the joke is Dude, Not Funny! (possibly because they've heard it way too often), or just not get it. If Alice was already well aware of Bob's explanation but was Comically Missing the Point, she may respond with "Don't Explain the Joke". This is the opposite of an inside joke, where all participants have knowledge that the general public doesn't. In an outside joke (to be funny), none of the participants have knowledge that the general public does. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Overlaps with Rhetorical Question Blunder if the joke was phrased as a question. Alice can do this to herself, in a strange form of Oh, Wait! — this is often an example of Anti-Humor. Compare Measuring the Marigolds, which is the belief that examining some aspect of nature closely takes away its wonder. When a work causes this reaction from the audience, it's a Shallow Parody or Redundant Parody. Compare So Was X. Contrast In-Joke. No Real Life Examples, Please!. This trope is about Bob's reaction to the joke, not the audience's. If you want to complain about jokes you don't like, Take It to the Forums or a review.
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Outside Joke / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Krusty is trying his new stand-up act in "The Last Temptation of Krust": "Dead Putting Society" featured Bart answering the rhetorical philosophical question, "What's the sound of one hand clapping?" (By hitting his fingers on the palm of that hand.)note This is close to an actual answer to the koan - holding up your hand, fingers up.Lisa was not amused. After that they moved onto "If a tree falls in the woods, and no-one's around to hear it, does it make a sound?" Bart tried to answer by imitating a tree crashing, but Lisa asked "But Bart, how can sound exist if there's no one around to hear it?" Bart couldn't answer, and thus was enlightened.
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Outside Joke / int_3b98f08a	comment	Ben Bailey (host of Cash Cab) recounts anecdotes during his standup routine of the audience doing this to him at previous shows: Slow people get in front of him while exiting the subway The dentist tells him "This won't hurt a bit."
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Outside Joke / int_4d8e5ec	comment	There was a bit on The Daily Show where Jon Stewart explained in-depth "the Deal with Airline Food", citing increasingly narrowed profit margins due to increasing competition post-deregulation (and after 9-11 in particular) resulting in more and more cutbacks in service: meals replaced with snacks, etc.
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Outside Joke / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon regularly deconstructs not only jokes, but all manner of conversation in a literal, matter-of-fact way, particularly in relation to Penny.
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Outside Joke / int_7c4e51e1	comment	In an episode of Designing Women, the subject of "plumber's crack" is brought up, and Anthony's girlfriend Vanessa explains that it's because tool belts with heavy tools on them pull down a lot more.
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Outside Joke / int_8d98042f	comment	In one episode of Game Grumps, JonTron jokingly questions why Love was an element in Captain Planet when love isn't an element. Egoraptor explains that "Love" wasn't meant to be an element, but that Heart was simply one of the main components of Captain Planet.
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Outside Joke / int_964a2c53	comment	There's a lengthy piece in The Salmon of Doubt where Douglas Adams analyses the "Black Box" joke (if the black box on an airplane is indestructible, why don't they just make the whole plane out of that material?) to work out why it annoys him so much:
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Outside Joke / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents!: Timmy wishes that he doesn't have any emotions. Afterwards, he realizes that, without his emotions, he only thinks logically and lacks a sense of humor, so jokes like this are just logic puzzles; i.e. planes would be too heavy to fly if they were made like black boxes, they can't Just Eat Gilligan because the series would end, and the chicken obviously came before the egg.
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Outside Joke / int_b3e81703	comment	In one Arthur, King of Time and Space strip, Dagonet (Arthur's jester) does the "why do people wash towels?" bit, and Arthur starts explaining about dampness and mildew, before Guenevere stops him with "Hush. He's just carlinning."
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Outside Joke / int_ccae327f	comment	In one of his Counter Monkey videos, The Spoony One explains in great detail why in The Lord of the Rings the Fellowship can't just ride to Mordor on eagles,note Because Sauron would see them coming a million miles away and throw all his Nazgul and archers and stuff at them and then says that, if he were ever to run another campaign of The Lord Of The Rings tabletop game, he would love to spring this trope on a party who thought they were clever. This stop-motion Lego animation also spells out why eagles can't do everything.
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Outside Joke / int_de89c047	comment	Casey and Andy once did a strip where Mary took the time to 'defang' some popular stand-up comedy questions. She basically explained why there are instructions in Braille on drive-through ATMs, and then gave a short summation of why airplane food is so terrible. Also on the issue of Braille on drive-through ATMs, Simon Whistler of Today I Found Out pointed out that while blind people may not drive, they do take taxis, which means they also use drive-through ATMs.
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Outside Joke / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Peter heckles Paul Reiser's stand-up act:
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Outside Joke / int_f197ea60	comment	Dinosaur Comics did a take on these called "UNAMBIGUOUS ANSWERS TO OLD RHETORICAL QUESTIONS COMICS."
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Outside Joke / int_f451da89	comment	A character in Daisy Owl experiences himself telling one of these ("What is the deal with sporks? Are they both a spoon and a fork? Oh. That's a sensible way to save on plastic") as a Catapult Nightmare.
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Outside Joke / int_f6c05e8e	comment	In an episode of Friends, Rachel buys an apothecary table. While talking about it, she jokingly says "Who even knows what an apothecary is?" She is not amused when Chandler explains that an apothecary is a pharmacist.note the word can also refer to the building where the pharmacist works, by the way
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Checkmate, Lincolnites! (Web Video) / int_956da99f	type	Outside Joke

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