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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Sometimes it takes a long time for a character to get a joke. Missed in-jokes, Stealth Puns, and Parental Bonus can mean someone gets the joke much later. Or perhaps the character is just slow of mind. At the time the character may not even realize it was a joke. Truth in Television due to the fact that you probably didn't get every single joke you heard as a kid right away. This trope is what happens when, several scenes, in-universe years, or even seasons after the original joke was told, the clueless character finally understands the joke and gives off a great big laugh about it. Irony makes this especially funny if the actual joke had to be repeatedly explained in the process of all this. Compare Fridge Logic, Fridge Brilliance, Fridge Horror (those three for this trope as applied beyond the Fourth Wall), Brick Joke (where the punchline itself is late in arriving), No Sense of Humor, and Lampshaded the Obscure Reference. The non-joke version falls under Delayed Reaction. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Examples: |
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One The Smurfs episode revolves Jokey finding the ultimate joke. Anyone who hears it will laugh uncontrollably and never be able to stop. Jokey alone is immune because he doesn't get it. After a long, arduous journey to cure the laughing Smurfs, the band returns to the village... only for Jokey to burst out laughing, having finally got the joke. | |
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The Lost Vikings have a joke of this stripe in Heroes of the Storm. | |
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In Predator, Hawkins's telling of a post-battle old and dirty joke to Billy about his girlfriend's, ah, capacity leaves Billy looking bewildered for a good long pause. Hawkins desperately re-tells the punchline and then wanders off looking a bit crestfallen. A few more seconds pass...then Billy laughs heartily. | |
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In Adventure Time, Finn is worried that Flame Princess doesn’t like him anymore because she didn’t laugh at one of his jokes. Jake and BMO try to assure him that she just probably didn’t get the joke yet. Towards the end of the episode, after Finn comes back from his (possibly) trippy dream inside the pillow fort, Flame Princess calls Finn, telling him that she finally understood the joke. Their relationship is saved! | |
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In Get Fuzzy for October 18, 2012, Satchel laughs in a somewhat tense situation and says it's at one of Rob's jokes. Rob says he told the joke an hour ago, but Satchel actually meant a joke from about six months ago. | |
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One Achille Talon gag goes like this: his neighbor tells him a hilarious joke at which Talon doesn't (initially) laugh at all because he hasn't understood what's funny. It bothers him for hours in his daily activities. And then, the next day as he's walking down the street, he tilts and starts to laugh like mad — except that he bursts into laughter precisely when he crosses paths with a very ugly man with a pimple on his big nose, who takes it personally, knocks Talon down and leaves while shouting: "SOME PEOPLE JUST LAUGH TOO EASILY." | |
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This is Pee-wee's Playhouse's entire appeal for those who laughed as small children and are rediscovering it as adults. | |
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A running gag in The Vicar of Dibley, where Alice never gets the jokes Geraldine tells her at the end. Usually Geraldine or someone else has to explain it to her first (and even then, she still doesn't always get it). | |
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From The Simpsons: Homer's workmates call him "a little slow" on poker night in one episode. By the time Homer responds "How dare you call me that?!", it's hours later, and Lenny is in his nightshirt and cap when Homer finally asks about it, prompting him to say "Boy, you are slow!" Which then causes Homer to go through the exact same thought process again until Lenny tells him to leave. In "A Star Is Burns", Wolfcastle has this happen to him twice. When he realizes Jay Sherman (from The Critic) insulted him, he chases him down with an assault rifle. Sherman says his shoes are untied, and Wolfcastle replies "From here, they appear to be tied, but I will go in for a closer look". Sherman beats a retreat, day turns to night as Wolfcastle stares at his shoes and finally concludes that they don't even have laces. Sideshow Bob gives Wiggum the nickname "Chief Piggum". The police chief understands this joke during Bob's parole hearing and went from angry to finding it Actually Pretty Funny. After Snake's hair is shot in "Hell Toupee" |
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Questionable Content: It took Faye a decade or so. But it only took Steve a few hours. |
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On the anti-gravity episode of MythBusters, the Build Team test a number of devices that claim to create anti-gravity fields, the last of which was called a "Hamel Generator", which was supposedly created by a man who was abducted by aliens and was introduced to their technology. However, every one of these devices failed to deliver, including the Hamel Generator, prompting Grant to quip that "You're better off using something designed by Mark Hamill!" A few seconds after he and Kari have finished laughing, Tori finally busts out laughing himself, having apparently just then gotten the reference. | |
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The Looney Tunes character Foghorn Leghorn was based on a radio character Sen Claghorne (who was so Southern he only drank from Dixie cups and would not drive through the Lincoln Tunnel). He also copied his signature response to people who didn't get his jokes "Ah say, ah say son, these are the jokes. I keep pitching them and you keep missing them!" | |
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In Raising Arizona, this is Glen's excuse for H.I. not laughing at his terrible joke. Glen claims that it's a "way-homer" that you only get on the way home. H.I. counters that he's already at his home. | |
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Cyanide & Happiness: I love being mentally challenged. A tool belt sounds like your kind of belt. |
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Community - in "Comparative Religion", Shirley is peeved at the Dean's promoting a non-denominational 'Winter Holiday'. | |
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In This Bites!, while hearing the Who's on First? routine, Mr. 4 starts laughing at the beginning of the joke when the skit is almost finished. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes featured a couple of these: Another strip that's very similar to the above as well. Calvin fell for these tricks repeatedly. Another example: Happens a lot when Calvin claims to be a genius. In one strip, he loudly declares his ridiculously high intelligence, and Hobbes immediately asks him how he walked to the bus stop with both legs in one pant leg. Calvin replies that he fell down a lot, then a panel later, asks what Hobbes is implying. |
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In one issue of Zannablù, the boars — usually so stupid that it's a miracle they're still around — find and drink an intelligence-boosting serum. The first thing everybody does upon drinking is burst into laughter. A flashback later reveals they'd been told a joke that morning which nobody understood. | |
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In Red vs. Blue, it is mentioned at one point that this is how Caboose reacts to everything because he's just so dumb that he lags a few moments behind everybody else. He mistakes this for telepathy. | |
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On Fox's show Raising Hope, Jimmy (who has just taught Hope how to crawl): "You're gonna have to move these pool chemicals outta here. She can get to this stuff now." Burt: "Well, I've got the weed killer in the back of the truck, so I can move that in here if you want. "Pick your poison." I just got that." | |
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In an episode of King of the Hill Bill and Dale tell Hank and Peggy a joke about them ordering nachos with cheese and the punchline is they tell the waitress "if it's nacho cheese then who's is it" and everyone enjoys a good laugh except Peggy, later much time has passed and Peggy says "oh I just got that nacho cheese joke it's funny!". | |
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In the Discworld novel Carpe Jugulum, Magrat mentions to Nanny that now that she's a mother, she gets most of Nanny's favorite jokes, "except for the one about the old woman, the priest, and the rhinoceros," to which Nanny replies, "I certainly hope not! I didn't understand that one until I was forty." Especially frightening given that this is Nanny Ogg we're talking about. How many children, by how many men, do you think she'd had at forty? |
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Moose of Archie Comics lived this trope. | |
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In an episode of The Big Bang Theory, Penny memorized a "physicist joke" and recited it in front of the guys, then wondered why nobody laughed. Well beyond a commercial break later, she figured out the punchline, and realized it was really insulting to physicists. | |
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The Xena: Warrior Princess episode "The Quill Is Mightier" revolves around a magic parchment Gabrielle "finds" that makes everything written on it come true, though often in Literal Genie ways. One of the first consequences is that when she is first ambushed, Joxer is with her, despite not remembering how he got there. Analysis of the parchment reveals nothing written about him, despite one oddly-phrased line: "Gabrielle awoke with a jerk." Despite several other characters noticing it quickly, he doesn't figure it out until the final battle of the episode. | |
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Kenan & Kel has an example in the episode "Get the Kel Outta Here", revolving around a joke about a sculpture of Kel's head that Kyra has made for school. | |
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The Ultra Fast Pony episode "Shameless Self Reference" features numerous Continuity Nods and references to the creator's other work, all of which prompt Fluttershy to respond, "I don't get it." The episode ends with Rainbow Dash working the words "ultra fast pony" into her dialogue, to which everyone responds with over-the-top awe—while Fluttershy shouts "I got the joke! I got the joke!" | |
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During a battle in Grrl Power, Halo drops one of her super-powered teammates on an opponent, and proceeds to make Road Runner sound effects, much to Harem's confusion. Two days later, Harem realizes Halo dropped an Anvil on him. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: While confronting the Kyoshi warriors, who all fight with gold-plated warfans, Azula mockingly calls them the Avatar's "fangirls". Several beats pass before Ty Lee exclaims, "I get it now, that was funny, Azula." But then Ty Lee is the group's designated cloudcuckoolander. | |
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In the Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts story "AUX", Wonder Woman is bemused when Flash and Green Lantern make a double entendre about balls. Four pages and several changes of topic later, she suddenly announces, "Testicles! They were making a joke about testicles. I always forget about those." | |
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Quico in El Chavo del ocho is prone to this, mostly when someone insults him. | |
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In Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Russ tells Nick he learned artificial respiration, which he just used to save Nick's big sister Amy, from French class. At the end of the movie, the closing scene irises out — only to iris right back in on Nick, the pre-teen genius, laughing his head off as he finally makes the connection between artificial respiration and French class. | |
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Referenced in the Peter Cook/Dudley Moore show Not Only... But Also when the pair are discussing art and Dudley complains that he can't see the joke in Leonardo's 'cartoon'. Later on, after some unscripted Corpsing from Dudley, Cook adlibs the line "ere, you've just got the joke in that Leonardo cartoon haven't you?" | |
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An episode of the animated Fraggle Rock revolved around "The Funniest Joke In The Universe". Grumpy Bear Boober didn't get it, and asked everyone else, who immediately convulsed in unstoppable hilarity. It turns out he has to get water from the Well of Forgetfulness to make them stop laughing and since he's the only one not in stitches, he's the only one who can. At the end, all's well... until Boober gets the joke, and the other Fraggles have to take him to the well. | |
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Top Cat is a show about a gang of colorful hoods living in a Damon Runyon-esque world. A lot of kids must only have grasped what was going on here years later. | |
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In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank", Mike made an incredibly lame joke about the '20s-style gangsters being kicked out of Men Without Hats. The actual joke was that Servo completely misses the point, and asks Mike to clarify the punchline ("Because the brims on their hats would keep them from reading the music?"). A few minutes after finally dropping it, Servo blurts out, "Oh, because they're wearing hats!" | |
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The Good Place: In "Jason Mendoza", it is not until Michael is declaring the restaurant open that he realizes that "The Good Plates" is a pun on "The Good Place". | |
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In Shrek: The Musical, Shrek gets the usual blank stare from Donkey after joking that Lord Faarquad is Compensating for Something with his castle. Later, during the "Travel Song", Donkey bursts out laughing when he suddenly gets Shrek's joke. | |
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Futurama: In "Rebirth", a few seconds after a series of increasingly obvious references to leaving Fox and joining Comedy Central (culminating with "It's a sort of "Comedy" central shipping channel, and now we're on it"), Amy exclaims "I get it!" When they all go camping they are given a lecture on Bigfoot by "Ranger Park, the Park Ranger". Fry yells "I get it!" |
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The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show had a cartoon called "Aesop And Son". In one episode, Aesop laughs at a joke he heard days ago and tells his son a fable with the moral "He who laughs last laughs best". Come to think of it, a lot of things in that show were jokes young viewers wouldn't get until later. | |
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In Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf, Dracula makes a pun on Scooby and Shaggy's car being miniaturized, "Shrunk from the battle." His ditsy assistant Vanna Pira doesn't get it. A few scenes later, she suddenly bursts out laughing. | |
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Dougal in Father Ted is usually very, very slow to get a joke, naturally enough. In "Speed 3", when he temporarily takes over the milkman's job because the milkman was sacked for having affairs with his female customers, some of said customers greet him at the door, and he is oblivious to their horrified reaction. Until he wakes up in the middle of the night, after the end credits, and realizes: | |
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Matt Groening's Life in Hell has a very cute one. Milhouse Mouse is telling all his friends (including Bongo the Rabbit) a dirty joke about a lady who owned a little dog named "Freeshow." The punchline is that one day the lady was in the bathtub and realized that Freeshow had gotten out, so she jumped out of the tub and ran out the front door, tearing down the neighborhood street completely naked while screaming: "Freeshow! Freeshow!" All the kids laugh except for Bongo, whose face remains expressionless. Then he goes home, does his homework, eats dinner, etc.....before finally climbing into bed for the night, and then he gets the joke and starts laughing. | |
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Taken to the limit in Mystery Team. One character states that their sign reads "Lost kitten finding purrrrrfessionals", in which Charlie exclaims he finally gets the joke... Eleven years later. | |
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In Home Improvement, during the Flashback to the pilot episode of Tool Time, Tim tells the audience he is going to teach them how to "drive a stake" and holds up a picture of a man sitting on top of a steak with a steering wheel. Al doesn't get the joke until several moments later. | |
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Arthur, King of Time and Space: Arthur doesn't get this gag until the next strip. | |
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Saving Private Ryan: FUBAR. Fucked up beyond all recognition. FUBAR. Got it! - quite a lead-up to the final fight scene where they all are most likely going to die... | |
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In Dogma, Azrael asks the barkeep for a "holy bartender" and then pumps him full of bullets when he asks how it's made. It takes Jay a while to get the joke that he really asked for a "hole-y bartender". | |
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Little Lunch: In "The Joke Competition", Rory doesn't get Melanie's joke until he is doing his direct-to-camera piece several days later. When he says the joke out loud, it finally sinks in. | |
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A Beetle Bailey strip starts with unexplained laughter in the middle of the night, which turns out to be Zero reacting to a joke told during the day. | |
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The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic story T.D. Trolls the Canterlot Intellectual Elite'' ends with Celestia finally figuring out - after 1543 years - why Luna named said intellectual elite the Delegation to the Office of the Royal Knowledge Society. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: From the next episode: |
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In a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch a police inspector introduces himself as "Lookout of the Yard" (as in Scotland Yard), to which another character replies by asking what they would see. Lookout is completely baffled by the comment and the sketch continues. A few lines later, he begins laughing inexplicably and it soon becomes apparent that he has got the joke. A similar gag with a man with the last name "Smoketoomuch" who had apparently made it to his thirties without anyone making a joke about it. In "The Funniest Joke in the World," the Nazi interrogator, upon hearing the joke says "That's not funny" before cracking up and dying. Then there's actually no punch line at the end of the Novelty Items sketch with Eric and Graham because the punch line, while written, was never furnished as the sketch progressed. |
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In the Star Trek: Generations movie, Data had recently gotten upgraded to feel more realistic human emotions and starts laughing almost hysterically out of nowhere as he finally understands a joke Geordi made seven years earlier. | |
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In the Eddsworld flash movie WTFuture, the following exchange occurs: | |
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In One Tree Hill, Lucas was upset over his breakup with Brooke and went to his mom, Karen, for advice. Karen, who owns a cafe, tries to console him with advice from a former customer. | |
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In Sabrina Online, we see the dramatic variation, when Sabrina and RC are almost mugged◊. | |
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In Tales of MU, a harpy character says that in the badlands, "thunder means someone told a giant a joke three days ago." The giantess who's appeared in the story bears this out, not realizing she was at the center of a hurricane of Double Entendres until much later. | |
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Near the end of Mary Poppins, Mr. Banks has been fired from his job at the bank. However, while stunned at first, he has a hysterical epiphany that ends with him telling his ex-bosses the old 'man with a wooden leg named Smith' joke from earlier in the film before leaving. While the rest of board is shocked by his behavior, Mr. Dawes Sr. is mulling over the joke's punchline. After a few moments, he starts to laugh. And laugh. And keeps laughing till the end. | |
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In Dragon Age II, Hawke is able to reconnect his/her Uncle Gamlen with his long-lost daughter, one that he didn't even know he had. After they finally meet, Hawke can talk to Gamlen and a snarky one can drop a little insult that takes Gamlen a second to catch. | |
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In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Lie To Me", Buffy recalls listening to "I Touch Myself" in fifth grade to help her get over Ford's rejection, and then mentions that she had no idea at the time what the song was about. Thirty seconds later Willow says, "Oh! That's what that song is about?!" Six seasons later: And the incredibly adorable moment after seeing that someone had spray painted "KISS Rocks" on a locker... Also: Willow has the opposite kind of moment in "Consequences": |
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5 Second Films gives us "Brian Finally Gets Mike's Joke". From the description, though, it appears it wasn't such an obvious gag: | |
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In Family Guy, Peter (in an attempt to become more sophisticated) spends days standing by a newspaper stand staring at a New Yorker cartoon (with the punchline "I'd be more apathetic if I weren't so lethargic") before he finally gets it, saying in a charitable tone that it's "kind of funny," before returning the magazine and getting a copy of Juggs. In another episode, Peter, hosting a children's variety show, is mauled by a mountain lion during a failed comedy sketch based on the classic "Who's On First?" comedy routine by Abbott and Costello. Peter is later visited in the hospital by the same mountain lion, bearing flowers and stating "I get it now: 'Who' is the guy's NAME!" |
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In the closing credits sequence of the Zero Punctuation review of Bionic Commando: Rearmed. | |
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George of the Jungle: More than once, George would suddenly laugh at a joke he'd heard minutes, maybe hours, before. In the "Dr. Chicago" episode, George announces to the Commissioner that ants on a railroad, "Steal track!" The Commissioner, misunderstanding, answers: "Yes, George — steel track. That's what makes the train run so smoothly." Shortly before the end of the episode, George bursts out laughing, and the Commissioner asks, irritably: "What's so funny?" George answers: "Steal track! Steel track!" In another episode he's been caught in a snare by poachers who mean to leave him there. He comments "It pretty chicken thing to do to King of Jungle!" A poacher replies "If there be one thing I like, it be 'Chicken a la King'!" A few scenes later, back home, George starts laughing "Ho ho! Chicken a la King!" |
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Also a common trope in Friends, often played out by Joey, frequently accompanied by Chandler making a witty one-liner at Joey's expense. Another time Phoebe talks about walking from Central Park to the Central Perk coffee shop, then stops and adds, "Hey, that's the first time I got that joke." The biggest is probably Joey taking a few more seconds than everyone else to get the significance of Ross discovering the sweater he lost a month ago (Rachel had said that her baby's father left it behind). |
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The narration of The Second Try mentions that it took Hikari a while to realize what Asuka meant by "You're watching our pet, we'll watch yours!" (PenPen and Toji respectively). To be fair, she was in something of a daze after having given her boyfriend a goodbye kiss in full view of all her friends. | |
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A plot point in Short Circuit. To test Number 5's sentience, Newton Crosby tells a rather tasteless joke. The robot is stumped, and Netwon takes it as evidence that he is not as "alive" as he thinks. Just when he's about to remark on it, Number 5 blurts out "I GET IT!" and starts snickering. Crosby is astounded, and instantly sides with him and Stephanie against his bosses. | |
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The Muppets did a TV special called "The Muppets Go To The Movies" where they spoofed several movie genres. Fozzie tells a joke during the Monster Movie sketch that goes "What do you get when you pour boiling water down a rabbit hole?" the answer is "Hot cross bunnies". The Frankenstein Monster from that sketch pops up later and says "Hot cross bunnies! I just got that!" | |
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On Night Court Christine gets engaged to the dullest man any of them have met. Then when she dumps him he suddenly "gets" every punchline of every joke and begins laughing hysterically while saying things like "Twenty bucks, same as in town." | |
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