Can we have a joke-explaining thread please? In Family Guy, there are two jokes I don't get. The first is when there's a college student sitting under a tree and is singing a song about being a stereotypical college student.
I understand the bit about the beer because I've seen that so many times, but what's the deal with the sneakers? Also, there's one scene where it's a cutaway after Peter has said something about The Osmonds wasting water. The Osmonds are standing around and you can hear a shower running and they're talking about how none of them are in the shower.
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Post a new comment. Please login or register. News: Suggest stuff for this bit here if you want. Home Help Tags Login Register. Pages: [ 1 ] 2 Go Down. Utter Shit Snotty Bumstead. We've had the alternative, with many shows The Simpsons and Arrested Development being two notable cases including jokes that require an understanding of a reference. But what about when an ignorance of the reference actually makes it funnier? I was just rewatching this clip from Zoolander, and read in the comments that it is a take-off of A Space Odyssey never seen it.
Somehow, for me it's less funny as a take-off of an earlier movie than simply the silly idea of two models being so confused and frustrated at their confusion that they momentarily devolve into monkeys and start slapping at it and screeching.
Is this just me? Are there other examples? Should ignorance be embraced as a positive boon for comedy? Tiny Poster Dr. Cod will see you now. I was disappointed to find out that My Giant wasn't a great Seinfeldy parody of Hollywood genericness by the Friends writers see Elaine's fascination with the Sack Lunch poster , but rather a real Billy Crystal-and-an-NBA-player-starring thing. It seemed quite inspired for the Friends lot.
On the subject of Friends, there was a reference in there that was a lot less funny to me than it was to others who had never actually read Little Women. Joeyjojo takes one to know one. The Zoolander one is a good example The scientist says "only one in a million people would get that joke. We call it the 'Dennis Miller ratio'.
Never heard of the guy. Then pissed myself laughing when I realised wrongly that that WAS the joke: just some obscure dude only one in a million people have heard of. Turns out no I've checked out some of his quotes online and, frankly, if those jokes are 'hard to get' then I despair even harder of America than normal. Mark Steels Stockbroker Lost in the former West. When I saw it I did not know the film, and thought the sketch was a mildly amusing play on megalomania.
Once I understood the reference, I thought the whole thing was lazy homage-by-numbers. A similar effect would be the Ted Christmas Special. The whole business about the bad priest stealing an outfit and turning up to rob Ted of his award is clearly based on some film or other, but I couldn't care less finding out which one. After that came the final season in which we got a deluge of lazy homage episodes. Stewart Lee has form for this himself: the first season of Time Gentlemen Please remember that?
Nuclear Optimism The real Dim Shady. What's with all you mad people not seeing ? I mean isn't that just copying the last act of another film? It's practically a remake. Tons of things have referenced that though, I'm not quite sure why it inspired so many people to steal from it all the time. Dead kate moss Hips. This Dennis Miller? He was on Saturday Night Live and famously? I can't think of any examples where I completely didn't realise there was a reference being made, but I'm sure I may well have preferred the joke when I thought it was random or surreal rather than a piss-take.
Cos I'm so edgy and arty. We didn't have imdb in my day. So swings and roundabouts to an extent.
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