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First things first: I'm going to have this refrigerator start doing laps around the room. These are jokes that require so much setup and work behind the scenes that you would wonder why the effort was made, but you don't because it's just that funny. Compare Friendly Scheming. Also compare "Shaggy Dog" Story, which is a long story or joke that seems like it will lead somewhere but doesn't; Brick Joke, which is a gag or plot element that simply comes back much later; and Henway, which is a joke specifically set up to "trap" the listener. The end result may get a Lame Pun Reaction. If the joke is specifically a short story with a pun at the end, it's a feghoot. If the punchline never comes or isn't necessarily humorous, see Anti-Humor. See also Disaster Dominoes, which when Played for Laughs is a slapstick gag which needs a lot of events occurring in succession, and Feghoots, which are long and typically over-complicated stories for the sole purpose of setting up a Pun at the end. Is that refrigerator still running? Good; let’s move on. |
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It's not outright confirmed, but there's a distinct possibility that Brian only grew out his mustache for Unraveled Season 2 entirely so he could dramatically shave it off at the end of "Waluigi, Unraveled". | |
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Fforde names a minor villain Yorick in his first Thursday Next book for no real reason other than that he can bring him back four books later to make a Hamlet pun. | |
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One episode of Lab Rats is spent getting the entire cast contrived juuuust right so that they look like a circus at the end of the episode (as the administrator insisted that their attempts would end up as one throughout the episode). | |
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In Count Duckula, they spend 1/10th of an episode getting ready for a single pun. | |
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In an issue of X-Men, Mystique goes out to scatter the ashes of her companion Destiny, a precognitive. Destiny, before her death, left detailed instructions on exactly when and where to scatter the ashes — the fantail of a specific cruise liner at a particular point at an exact time. Mystique, at the right time and place, releases the ashes, and a gust of wind blows them back into her face. She doubles over laughing realizing that the instructions were intended to set up an Overly Pre-Prepared Gag. | |
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In Bleach, Orihime Inoue does one of these on her friend Tatsuki. When Tatsuki asks about the condition of her apartment, Orihime replies that she's been evicted as of a few days before. Tatsuki is, understandably, flabbergasted and asks where Orihime's been sleeping, upon which she pulls out a squashy sleeping bag and says that it's soooo comfortable. Then she reveals that she was just kidding. Tatsuki asks her how long she'd been carrying around the sleeping bag in order to do so, and Orihime answers, "about three days, I was actually wondering if anybody was going to give me the opportunity." Of course, Orihime is a bit of a Cloudcuckoolander anyway. | |
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The Rock Band Network is a system for small bands to get their own songs into the official Rock Band DLC store. The program that compiles the song for testing is called Magma "'cuz that's where rock comes from." The developers have stated that yes, that joke is the sole reason for the name. | |
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In Dumb and Dumber To, Lloyd has spent the entire twenty years since the previous film pretending to be catatonic, just as a prank on Harry. | |
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Puffin Forest: In "The Legend of the Legendary Aligaros Ashuin!", Ben wasted a character level just to get an ability he had to wait months to use just for a joke, which he never used again. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Colin Mochrie is a master of this. While the show is largely improvised, Colin plays the anchorman role in Weird Newscasters often enough that he's got many an Overly Pre-Prepared Gag as his opening number. In addition to the one listed as the page quote: One even halted the show for several seconds because everybody was laughing so hard (watch it here): Another brilliant one here: And again... You get the pattern by now... In a game of "Greatest Hits", Ryan makes a joke about having a bug and being jittery as a lead into introducing a Jitterbug song. Colin pokes fun at him by doing the next two segues completely over the top: Subverted in the infamous "Arctic Tern" and "Tapioca" moments, when Colin ruins Ryan's setup. For which we are all grateful — not because Ryan's setup was ruined, but because the scene of Ryan absolutely losing it (along with Wayne having to bend over from laughter in the former) was funnier than anything else they could have done. |
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Into the Woods has a lyric that you get a feeling that Stephen Sondheim had been dying to make. | |
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An oft-reblogged Tumblr post: Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him ... A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis. | |
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Cyanide and Happiness: Cloning oneself to make a "beside myself" pun and turning oneself and one's car into a mermaid to make a mer-cedes pun are two fine examples. And eating cyanide so you could have a "suicide pact lunch". And chopping down your left arm and leg to say "it's all right". |
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Every Tall Tales Night and Punday Night at Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is filled with these. | |
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In an episode of Just a Minute (the panel game where players have to talk about a subject without hesitation, repetition or deviation), Paul Merton took the given subject Off the Rails — not unusual for him — and started talking about the Welsh and Scottish parliaments. Clement Freud brought the house down by challenging him for "devolution." In a program remembering Freud after his death, Merton revealed that Freud had asked him before the show to work in the necessary reference, without telling him the joke. | |
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Wondermark at one point devoted two months of comics, starting here, to torturous puns on the phrase "check out my sick elephant", culminating in a ten-strip story about an attempt to film an all-elephant version of Friends in Russian with the aid of Anton Chekhov. | |
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8-Bit Theater has this in conjunction with a Brick Joke: One of the first comics had Black Mage make an off-hand comment that a party of four White Mages would "never work" (He was reading a Nintendo Power magazine, which actually suggested a WMx4 party set-up in a sidebar article). Fast forward almost ten years in real time, and guess who defeats the Big Bad? Black Mage's reaction was extraordinarily subdued, but by that point, it's safe to assume he was far too used to being the Universe's Butt-Monkey. Brian Clevinger has admitted this as being the entire reason for making the comic in the first place! | |
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Community featured the German foosball jocks who bought a soccer ball and walked in a row of three constantly carrying the ball with them, just waiting for the opportunity to kick a ball at Jeff foosball-style. Immediately lampshaded by Jeff, who points out that the build-up really wasn't worth the pay-off. A meta-case. The word "Beetlejuice" is used as a quick gag in both Season 1 and 2. In the Season 3 Halloween episode "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps", someone uses it for the third time (and remember, in the movie he was summoned after someone said his name three times). Immediately after this, in the background someone wearing a Beetlejuice costume walks across the screen. It takes a few seconds, you have to notice it, and remember that this is the third time his name has been used. |
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J.D. and Turk do a lot of shift-switching to put two doctors named Turner and Hooch together on a medical case, just so they could shout, "Turner and Hooch!" | |
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Frank and Ernest can, particularly on Sunday, go to great lengths to set up a pun. Or other gag, such as having Frank and Ernest make a series of lame puns about locations, look through the Fourth Wall, and muse that it's hard to believe this has a live audience. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: 10+ years of prep for a one-time one-word joke. An earlier comic pulls the same thing, though the long-term revenge numbs a bit of the humor. |
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Arrested Development has G.O.B. and Buster talking in a closed nightclub for a while, waiting for G.O.B.'s magician rival Tony Wonder. After a bit of conversation, Buster says "I wonder where he is." To which Wonder appears in a puff of smoke, asking "Did anyone say 'Wonder'?". The narrator later explains Tony Wonder had been hiding for hours in a small service elevator, waiting for someone to say the word "wonder". | |
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Discussed in Kriken's World's review of The Simpsons episode "The Blue and the Gray", in which Kriken suspects that the whole episode is merely written aroud the visual gag of Marge looking like a witch◊. What makes this an especially bad one, is that a previous episode included a much more elegantly done series of events, to set up the joke that Homer is the Hulk. Complete with Stan Lee. | |
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On Scrubs: J.D. and Turk do a lot of shift-switching to put two doctors named Turner and Hooch together on a medical case, just so they could shout, "Turner and Hooch!" This can fizzle very easily: J.D. once told Doug that a patient had "updoc" in a class, hoping that he would would ask, "What's updoc?" J.D. set it up so a patient thought his name was Daman, so that, when the patient asked who was doing his procedure, J.D. could answer "Doctor Daman", prompting the patient to ask "Who's Daman". Needless to say, it failed, miserably. The patient was rather too polite, and added the honorific. The Todd has been known to wait in hiding for hours until someone unwittingly sets up a double entendre. J.D. also spent over a week setting up a joke about Oprah-themed cereal in My Happy Place, recording a member of staff's Oprah impression and rigging a cereal box (the design and manufacture of which he was presumably also responsible for) so that the recording played when it was opened. |
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In one Full Frontal Nerdity strip, Lewis complains that Comic Con has been cancelled, because he was going to volunteer. He planned to cosplay as The Mandalorian and work the information booth. Frank comments that this is a lot of trouble to go to just for the sake of telling people asking for directions "This is the way". | |
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Moving into their flat in Spaced, Tim is wearing a oversized green T-shirt and brown trousers, and Daisy a chunky orange sweater and red skirt, with thick-rimmed glasses on top of her head. No apparent reason, until they talk about which Scooby-Doo character they are. Tim picks Fred and Daisy says Daphne. He slouches, and the glasses fall down on her face... making them look like Shaggy and Velma. | |
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In one Dilbert strip, Dilbert and Dogbert are playing Scrabble, and Dogbert tries to pass off "neans" as a word in order to get rid of some excess "N"s, just to goad Dilbert into saying "The N's don't justify the neans". | |
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Cracked — "7 Bizarre Noises from Outer Space": the editor listed six videos for noises. The seventh? Uranus. He even admitted to making the article just to have the line "This is the noise Uranus makes." | |
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A Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends short has Coco — who, as usual, is only capable of saying her name. Throughout the episode, she is slowly joined by a group of imaginary friends who themselves only say one thing: a disgruntled "Nuts", a pirate who yells "Arr!", a pink thing who sings "Faa~", and another who mutters "Lingfrom". At the end, they are joined by a two-headed friend who points to his companion and states, "This guy". Bloo is almost immediately hit by coconuts falling from the sky. | |
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Animaniacs: "The Three Muska-Warners" has the Warners playing as musketeers who must protect their king from a mysterious being called "The Viper". After a shorts worth of the Warners' usual shenanigans, the Viper appears...a Vindow Viper. The segment "Wakko's Gizmo" involved Wakko Warner showing off a long, complex Rube-Goldberg contraption that ultimately ended with a whoopee cushion. Another Animaniacs segment, "The Party", has the Warners inviting some people over to the Water Tower for a party. Thaddeus Plotz, at first, refuses, until the Warners promise that "Steven" will be there. From that point forward, they off-handedly remind Plotz that if he leaves, "Steven" will be disappointed. At the very end, "Steven" finally, arrives... But he is a schlubby nerd named Steven Pudner. Of course, Plotz was expecting it to be Steven Spielberg. Yakko lampshades this trope by saying, "Was that a long way to go for a joke or what?" before everyone says, "Goodnight, everybody!" |
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Rat Race has a gag where half the humor of it is how contrived the setup was: A series of increasingly implausible incidents result in a Jewish family crashing into a WWII veteran assembly in a car decorated with swastikas, and the father gets out sporting a black lipstick Hitler mustache and a tongue injury that makes him speak in German-sounding gibberish, and in trying to explain what happened starts sticking out his burnt middle finger and waving his hand in the air in a Zieg Heil-esque gesture. | |
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A Bluntman and Chronic comic featured marijuana-themed hero Bluntman getting distracted only to notice that Chronic has been tied up under a boulder held up by a crane. Derris, the villain, then delivers what amounts to "Give up or your sidekick gets stoned," and a couple police officers watching lampshade this by saying "So that's why he went through the trouble of dragging that huge crane over there!" "Yeah! For that incredibly lame pun!" | |
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Discworld: In Soul Music, Nobby and Colon are watching Imp y Celyn busking in Ankh-Morpork and Colon comments that he's "playing the harp". Nobby says "Lyre" and Colon says, "No it's true... Oh I bet you've been waiting all your life for someone to say 'that's a harp', just so you could make that joke. I bet you were born hoping that someone would say that." Most of Soul Music is a build up to one of the final lines said in the book, "There's a new boy working at the fried fish stall, and I could swear he was Elvish!" |
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Kung Pow! Enter the Fist: The villain tells people to start calling him Betty at one point in the movie. It's funny on its own... then at the end of the movie when he's wearing black and preparing to fight, Ram Jam's "Black Betty" starts playing. | |
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The elaborate puns on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. The host's scripted ones are the best examples, but some of the ones the panellists come out with are really more notable for this, since they're being thought up on the spot (usually) and are more likely to be incredibly lame. In "Sound Charades," the audience often groans very early on as soon as it becomes clear what pun the players are relying on to convey their assigned title, and the rest of the round becomes an exercise in drawing out the setup for as long as possible. | |
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Irregular Webcomic! does this a lot. #590. #486. The author admits that yes, he named the character James Stud just to get that one joke. Also, #1858. In-universe and real world. Occasionally David Morgan-Marr uses these in his annotations, for example: |
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3rd Rock from the Sun has an episode, several seasons in, wherein main character Dick is target of a Luke, I Am Your Father plot from his boss, the Big Giant Head, first mentioned in the pilot, and introduced as a character much later. The whole episode is a setup for Dick saying, in the final scene, that he doesn't know who he is anymore. Harry answers "Well, your first name is Dick, and your last name is Head, so..." | |
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Also used in Everworld, with a character making an awful pun on "gymnosperm", then announcing he'd been stockpiling it since junior high. | |
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The Order of the Stick: "Generally Relative". As per usual, given a lampshade the size of Canada. And in "Under the Helmet". Two pages later, Malack comments that Tarquin has always been willing to go the extra mile for a punchline. |
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Chuggaaconroy specifically waited until episode 101 of his Xenoblade Chronicles 1 LP to make a "Xenoblade 101" joke, as if he knew the LP would be that long or that he started the aftergame then. | |
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In Pappy's Flatshare Slamdown, Tom tells one in series 4 episode 3. | |
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Red Dwarf: The episode "Queeg" has Lister tell Rimmer a long rambling story about why it's cruel to give machines personalities. He tells about how his friend Peterson had a pair of "Smart Shoes" that could always get you home no matter how drunk you were. But Peterson woke up hundreds of miles away because the shoes wanted to see the world. He tried to get rid of them but they'd show back up. In the end the shoes stole a car and wound up driving it into a canal because they couldn't steer properly. Peterson was upset, but a priest consoled him that the shoes were happy and in heaven now. You see, it turns out Shoes have soles. Another episode has Lister spend days crossing the ship in order to fetch some tomatoes. His reason for doing so is that tomatoes make him sneeze, so now he can squick Rimmer out by using the sneezes to iron his clothes. All that walking just to get a reaction. |
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xkcd: Comic #123, in a way. xkcd seems to like doing this a lot. Even in his crypto algorithms. And again, except this time it's the actual joke, not an in-universe setup. Seriously, it's nine pages long. Or at least nine page-downs. And another one. You could call this an overly prepared prank. |
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American Dad! has an in-universe example. CIA Director bullock sends himself and Stan on a 16 hour flight to Japan and meets him in full Kabuki dress in a Japanese tea house. | |
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One for All and Eight for the Ninth: While discussing how Izuku and the rest of the Ennead can wall off their thoughts so they won't be overhead by the vestiges or the others, Yoichi reveals the technique was developed when Ryouji and Isamu joined the mindscape... and then promptly realizes why they were so keen on developing the technique. | |
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Ultra Fast Pony: the episode "Shameless Self Reference" is filled with, well, shameless references to previous videos in the series and to the creator's other work. The episode ends with Rainbow Dash declaring, "I guess I'm just an Ultra. Fast. Pony!" The end credits have a subtitle claiming that the entire video series was created for the sole purpose of that title drop. | |
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Poker Night 2 has this bit of dialogue: | |
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Sky Doll had a character named God for two reasons: call God a jerk right at the start of the comic, and then this trope when he dies and they can claim that God Is Dead. | |
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A Stargate SG-1 AU fic titled "Hero of the Soviet Union" spends several pages detailing the operation of a Soviet-run SGC, all to set up the punchline when a KGB major mocks a captured Goa'uld: "In Soviet Russia, Gods bow to you!" | |
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The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "In the Cards" consists of Jake and Nog trying to acquire a vintage baseball card from a man named Dr. Geiger through a convoluted Chain of Deals. One of their tasks is to recover Dr. Bashir's stolen teddy bear, and Jake uses the idiom 'to beard the lion in his den', leading to the following exchange: | |
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A meta-case. The word "Beetlejuice" is used as a quick gag in both Season 1 and 2. In the Season 3 Halloween episode "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps", someone uses it for the third time (and remember, in the movie he was summoned after someone said his name three times). Immediately after this, in the background someone wearing a Beetlejuice costume walks across the screen. It takes a few seconds, you have to notice it, and remember that this is the third time his name has been used. | |
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Odd Taxi has a sub-plot involving Homo Sapiens, a struggling comedy duo with a Boke and Tsukkomi Routine. While tangentially connected to the main plot, the reason for their inclusion is to make a pun in the last episode about "tsukkomi" (straight man) and "tsukkome" (car crash). | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In "Suddenly Suzy", Perry escapes Doofenshmirtz lands at a banana delivery service, learns to drive a banana truck so that he can chase after Doofenshmirtz, and then there's an entire musical number about it. This all seems completely random and nonsensical until Doofenshmirtz's Carbon-Footprint-Inator slips on the giant banana and falls. | |
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Gintama enjoys using these at times. One episode has Katsura suddenly switch from Counting Sheep to reciting a lengthy high school sports drama. The punchline is that the number on the jersey of the character featured at the end of the story was the same number as the sheep he was about to count. Episode 153 of the anime has Gintoki listen to a radio story "guaranteed to make you cry in four minutes or less", hoping it'll help him sleep. The story, titled "I'm Sorry, Jerry", is about a girl and her loyal dog whom she's forced to leave behind when she moves to another town. The story lasts well over four minutes, and does genuinely tug at the heartstrings, but right when it seems like it's going to end on a touching note, it decides to go for a Cruel Twist Ending with some Surprisingly Creepy Moments. Cue hilariously girly scream from Gintoki. |
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Hitoribocchi no OO Seikatsu: Bocchi wants to make her friend Nako laugh, so she thinks of a joke where she gives her an empty bucket of Yogurt and greets her with "Oha-Yogurt" (Ohayo is japanese for "Good Morning"), but she forgets to say "Oha". She repeats the joke with Aru after she asks why Bocchi wanted to make Nako laugh and not her, but she still forgets to tell the joke properly. Aru bluntly tells Bocchi the joke isn't that funny, but then ponders that the fact Bocchi went through the effort of washing a cup of Yogurt and bringing it along might make it funny after all. | |
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The Techno Queen: THE TECHNO QUEENnote *krakathoom!* builds robotic Evil Twins of all the Wards and gives them a Beard of Evil just so she can call them the Back-Wards. | |
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Throughout Jasper Fforde's The Fourth Bear, the characters share office gossip about others in the police station. In the end, this comes together as a long "Peter Piper picked a peck of peppers" kind of tongue-twister, and they even break the fourth wall to complain about the gag: "I don't know how he gets away with it." | |
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This can fizzle very easily: J.D. once told Doug that a patient had "updoc" in a class, hoping that he would would ask, "What's updoc?" | |
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In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, there's a few paragraphs' worth of build-up to the punchline of a joke about "Square Sweets That Look Round": When the tour group enters the room, they find the candies have little faces on them that look (a)round to see who's there. | |
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Game Grumps: While talking about experiences playing video games at cons, Egoraptor mentioned that he likes to parody new-age gamers by playing retro games, running through them terribly, and rage-quitting the second he dies. However, once while playing the original Super Mario Bros., he just ran through the game, unintentionally doing a perfect speedrun... And he didn't get hit until he reached the final level. Whenever he did die fighting Bowser, he had already garnered a huge audience expecting this to be his original intention, but he just went with the original joke, throwing down the controlling and yelling "THIS GAME SUCKS!" and left. | |
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The creators of Red vs. Blue once joked that the series would eventually end with one final punchline that the entire show had been leading up to all these years and every Plot Hole would suddenly make sense. Granted, if they manage, it will probably be the most glorious Overly Pre-Prepared Gag ever. Of all time. Even if it really is lame, managing to pull off such a feat after 11+ years (especially considering the show was only supposed to be about five episodes long at first) would be nothing short of godhood. | |
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ReBoot introduced the Armored Binome Carriers, a type of airship carrying binome soldiers (binomes being the common citizens of Mainframe). Megabyte has the ability to turn binomes, and some other lifeforms, to his side. Throughout the second season, ABC, the channel that showed Reboot, had become increasingly unforgiving to the makers of this show as they wanted it removed from their lineup. One battle, in that season, has Bob and his team of fellow Guardians armed with a fleet of Armored Binome Carriers. When some of them switch sides in the battle under Megabyte's orders and start firing at Bob's ship, he utters, "The ABCs have turned against us!" | |
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Dragon Quest IX: In a game already bursting with horrible puns, Max takes the cake. As the axe teacher, he tells you to go find an axe that got stuck in a tree that ran off on him. The tree is a monster called a treevil, and when you take it back to him, he protests that surely a master woodcutter such as himself could tell the difference between a tree and a treevil. Then he recognizes that if he had to choose between not having his favorite axe and looking foolish, he'd go with the latter, what with it being, wait for it... the lesser of two treevils. After you fail to laugh he insists he certainly didn't go to all that trouble just to set that line up and suggests that comedy isn't your thing. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: In "Laserblast", Tom and Crow try to brainstorm ways to work the phrase "Can't we get BEYOND Thunderdome?" into a conversation. ...Which, 21 years later, finally paid off in "The Christmas that Almost Wasn't". In the episode "Girl in Gold Boots", there's a shot of a pool table set up just right so that Mike can pull out a cue from under his seat and pretend to shoot some pool. In "The Screaming Skull", Pearl, Brain Guy, and Bobo trick Mike and the bots into believing they've all previously agreed to meet dressed as penguins. They had to reserve the penguin costumes eight months in advance for $900 each. Pearl thinks it was worth it. Brain Guy thinks it's the dumbest thing he was ever part of. In "Track of the Moon Beast", some characters play a weird, confusing prank on an anthropologist, then spend the next several minutes explaining it. For a host segment, Crow tried to do the same to Mike, and it's even more awkward. "Wild Rebels" has another sight gag, where Jeeter appears to point his gun directly at Tom, who dodges to the side... right to where Jeeter is next pointing his gun when the camera cuts back to him. |
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The entirety of Silent Movie may or may not have been one long set-up for a gag about a mime speaking the film's only word of audible dialogue. | |
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In an episode of Hannah Montana, Miley needs a favor from Jackson, who agrees, but in very theatrical fashion. She calls him out afterwards for wasting 20 minutes just to dress up as Vito Corleoni and recite his "please accept this justice..." speech from The Godfather. | |
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In Chrono Cross, Solt and Peppor serve as tutorial fights several times. Each time results in Peppor giving instructions on how to best hurt your party, and Solt failing at this in every way possible. This happens five times or so throughout the game. Upon finding the two in Home World, they perform a stage act..Both stand still, and Peppor hits Solt every couple seconds. They do this until you leave the room, and will keep doing it at random as part of the show. Much later in the game, a person in the audience delivers the punchline: "I thought they were a joke at first, but you start liking them after a while!" | |
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In the VeggieTales video Lord of the Beans, Larry's silly song is about his elf girlfriend, and he spends the entire song dressed like Elvis with pointy, elven ears and singing in an Elvis style. Just when you think that the only joke is an "Elvis/Elves" pun, Jimmy Gourd (who was playing the elf in the main story) shows up and rips Larry's false Elf ears off. "I knew it! You're no Elf! You're an Elvish Impersonator!" | |
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One Questionable Content strip has Emily eating a big bowl of peas and giggling to herself. Unfortunately, the first person who finds her is Pungeon Master Claire, who says "Are you giving peas a chance?" before Emily can. In the next strip, when Hannerlore approaches her, she says "I'm giving peas a chance!" before Hanners can say anything. Hanners misses the joke entirely, and a distraught Emily gives up. | |
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In one Peanuts strip, Linus gives Lucy an award for being crabby for an entire year. He actually tracked her mood on a calendar every day for a year to ensure the award would be accurate. | |
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FoxTrot had a Shout-Out to Pearls Before Swine — Peter immediately surmised that Jason had been reading too much Pearls. | |
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The 3,000 word Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic Cuckles exists solely to build up to the punchline of "Hi, Gonna shatter your jewels, I'm Sonic" | |
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In Michael Reeves' "I Gave My Goldfish $50,000 to Trade Stocks", he designed an automatic stock-trading device that would buy and sell stocks based on the random movements of his goldfish... which amazingly made Michael over $1000 in profit. Deciding that this technology has incredible potential, he presented it to potential investors for real, giving a legitimate presentation as a startup called "reef.ly" to Launch House, a LA-based meeting place for tech entrepreneurs. The footage taken from the seminar makes it clear that Michael played the presentation of his "fish algorithm-based technology" completely straight, and it wasn't until partway through that his live audience of actual potential investors realized the "fish" for Michael's stock-trading program wasn't some tech buzzword, but in fact a real goldfish in a tank. | |
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In the Fairy Tail/Sailor Moon crossover ''Fairy Moon'' by Emma Iveli has Sue (An anime only member of Phantom Lord who calls Happy a "Red Dog"), is one the Rainbow Crystal carriers who turns into a cat monster. Due the the Sailor Guardians saving her (who are members of Fairy Tail in this story) she under goes a heel face turn during the Phantom War arc. She gives a speech to other Phantom Lord members which ends with "Because one time I turned into a dog and they helped me!" Or as Emma put it | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Holidays Unwrapped: "Saving Pinkie's Pie" ends with Rainbow Dash suddenly appearing out of a snowman and throwing snowballs at Rarity, who casually blocks with her barrier (as a throwaway gag after the main plot is resolved). An annoyed Rainbow Dash says she spent two days as a snowman for that. Aside from the fact that this would mean she would be exposed to the cold for this long with no food, sleep, or bathroom, all for a sneak attack in a snowball fight, you'd expect her to get bored standing still doing nothing before any of that would take effect, which, incidentally, at least cold and fatigue never seemed to. But it's there for an amusing joke. | |
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In the Young Justice episode "Insecurity" there's a scene where Cheshire pins Red Arrow down, holds a Japanese forked dagger to his neck, and steals a kiss, saying "A kiss is just a kiss". This appears to be entirely a setup for Wally to take the weapon and fire back with "And a sai is just a sai". | |
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J.D. also spent over a week setting up a joke about Oprah-themed cereal in My Happy Place, recording a member of staff's Oprah impression and rigging a cereal box (the design and manufacture of which he was presumably also responsible for) so that the recording played when it was opened. | |
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LoadingReadyRun: One video took place over several cuts spread out over five minutes, featuring a morose clown waking up to face the day. All completely irrelevant, until the payoff in the final cut. Munroe's Meats is an in-universe example, a five minute long, terrifying build-up to a punny tagline. In Failure similarly spends several minutes of a teacher excoriating his students complete with statistical breakdowns and a slideshow to demonstrate their many failures objectively, all for the reveal: It's Opposite Day. |
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Team Fortress 2 gives us the classic setup from "Meet the Spy": The BLU team Spy had been setting up the RED team Spy as an unstoppable badass the entire video. Eventually, it led to his team's Scout to say "What are you, president of his fan club?" The BLU Spy followed up with "No... that would be your mother," pulled out a manila envelope and dropped it onto the table, revealing it is full of pictures of the RED Spy in flagrante delicto with the BLU Scout's mom. And then we later find out in the video that the BLU Scout was actually the RED Spy, so maybe he predicted exactly what would happen if he said that. | |
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Geoff and Gavin spent twenty hours preparing an elaborate Minecraft city for the crew to live in (complete with a massive recreation of the AH logo and a gigantic monolith serving as Geoff's house)... the entire point was that there was a single misaligned block that would pour lava into Jack's house when he'd try to fix it. Twenty hours of work just to set one guy's house on fire when he tried to clean it up; and it failed as Jack was able to save his house. So Gavin just poured a bucket of Lava on it. It was later revealed they also had a "failsafe", having spent an additional hour burying hundreds of cubes of TNT under the city and then luring Michael into pressing the trigger button. | |
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An in-universe example in Blackadder the Third. In Ink and Incapability, Blackadder and Prince George are trying to re-write Dr Johnson's dictionary. | |
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Pinkie Pie, in this fanmade comic,◊ has gotten pregnant just to say, "You've got to be kid-in-me." | |
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Doctor Who: In "Spyfall", it transpires that the Master has contrived to get the civilian identity he's been living undercover as for a number of years known only as "O" just so the Doctor's Oh, Crap! reaction when she found out who he is would be funny. | |
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One of many examples in Asterix: Asterix in Switzerland opens with Chief Vitalstatistix firing his shield-bearers, then getting Asterix and Obelix as replacements, then when that doesn't work, Obelix alone, carrying him like a waiter with a tray. In the English translation, the dialogue has Vitalstatistix first saying that one shield-bearer would make him feel "like a half-pint chief", then when Obelix says he has to go back to his menhirs anyway, Vitalstatistix snaps "So you refuse to serve your chief? By Toutatis, I'm a mild man, but this makes me very bitter!" So when Getafix asks what Obelix is doing with his waiter impression, Asterix replies "He's serving a half-pint of mild and bitter." | |
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Pearls Before Swine often does this with Sunday strips; everything up to the last panel is building up a bad pun or overly long string of rhyming/similar sounding words ("Please don't help my mama bomb a Osama Obama llama diorama"). The last panel is, invariably, Rat expressing his disgust and/or threatening violence against the writer. A particularly elaborate/contrived one in this one.◊ | |
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QI. Most particularly, during a round wherein Stephen was discussing declining surnames and mentioned "Glascock" as one of them, Alan chimed in with the anecdote: "We had a Jimmy Glascock at school. You could always see when he was coming." After the laughter died down, he remarked, "I never thought I'd have a chance to do that joke." Rich Hall's "centi-claws" joke, also lampshaded. In one episode, someone accused Jimmy Carr of being "the chairman of the Pedantic Society." Jimmy replied, "I'm actually vice chairman, thank you very much." |
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Captain SNES: The Game Masta has "Backside Opening". | |
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Folly and Innovation has one with 65 days of patience for the sake of a pun. | |
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Most of Soul Music is a build up to one of the final lines said in the book, "There's a new boy working at the fried fish stall, and I could swear he was Elvish!" | |
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5 Second Films provide us with a beautiful example with The Ballad of Truck Thunders. | |
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The first chapter of Negima! Magister Negi Magi has a Negi falling into a rather large and complex Bucket Booby-Trap that must have taken quite a while to set up. Although, given that the Negiverse has a lot of Ridiculously Fast Construction, it isn't too farfetched. | |
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How I Met Your Mother has Barney go through weeks of planning, months of experimenting, waiting 10 years, and spending $30,000 on fake medical bills, all to get Marshall to try to eat an exploding sub-sandwich. | |
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The Longest Joke in the World (over 10,000 words, almost a novella) is essentially one giant, shaggy-dog style buildup to... a pun: "Better Nate than lever!" | |
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Dinosaur Comics: "T-Rex! You just spent hours learning about accounting for a pun!" | |
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SHENZHEN I/O one of the levels is about using a sliding window function to control an actual sliding window. Your boss will point this out after you've completed the level. | |
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The Tick episode "The Tick Loves Santa" involves a department-store Santa who turns evil and gets superpowers... one of which is that electricity causes him to produce clones. This is such a ridiculously specific series of events that it could only have been done deliberately to set up a joke during the final fight... which takes place in a power plant. | |
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An entire episode of Frasier builds up to one of these. The A-plot involves Frasier and Niles, stuck for ten minutes at a parking garage because Frasier doesn't want to pay the parking fee. The B-plot involves Roz, who has to fill in for Frasier at the radio station. Roz lets slip that she and Frasier had a night of intimacy. Naturally, everyone wants details. Frasier is blissfully unaware of this, and upon bursting in late, turns on the mike and announces: | |
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Phoebe did this on Friends. Chandler was forced to leave a restaurant wearing only women's panties (long story...), so she says she'd like to write a song, but can't because her guitar is missing a string. In a later episode, we see the setup for one of Chandler's, but never get to hear the punchline. He tells Joey to mention firetrucks the next time they see each other, resulting in Joey trying to salvage an awkward conversation by yelling "FIRETRUCKS!" out of nowhere, making it even more awkward. |
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The Goon Show, on multiple occasions, spent twenty minutes setting up to a pun that managed to be So Bad, It's Good. | |
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While filming Torchwood: Miracle Day, John Barrowman decided to "scare the crap out of Eve" by sneaking into her trailer and jumping out from the shower. He was in there a long time. | |
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Harry Potter in Harry and the Shipgirls, while everyone was resting at Hogwarts after the Yule Ball, had his Fleet put lawn gnomes in every dorm (passwords provided by Kensh�), as well as the Beauxbatons carriage and the Durmstrang ship, with one gnome for everyone in each location, all transfigured into attire reflecting one of said people. When confronted about this, Harry said it looked like everyone, teachers and staff, would get to be gnome for the holidays. | |
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The vampiric comedy duo Jack and the Cabbie from Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines go to incredible lengths (namely, orchestrating the entire plot and playing you and everyone else like a fiddle) to set up what turns out to be a glorified "knock-knock" joke. Mind you, "Me, half a ton of C4" and "Half a ton of wha-BOOOM!" is one heck of a punchline. At least the recipient thought it was funny. | |
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Anything Goes almost entirely ends with one. Ms. Evangeline Harcourt loses her dog during the first half of the first act, and spends the next act-and-a-half looking for it all across the boat. At the end of the show, the Purser brings the dog to her, saying it was found in the swimming pool. | |
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