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* ''[[Spaceballs]].'' The radar gets jammed, they comb the desert, and of course there's the Druish princess.
== [[Jokes]] ==
* Too many to mention. There are several entire books devoted to joke cycles which are built on puns.
* The entire point of [[Knock-Knock Joke]]s. Think about it.▼
** Orange you glad you thought about it?▼
{{quote|One day, a man "lets one rip", and out comes this strange sound - "HONDA". Confused, he initially shrugs it off. However, over the next few days, every time he farted, it would do the same thing - "HONDA". Becoming concerned, he visited his family doctor. The doctor couldn't explain it, and gave him a referral to another doctor, who also was at a loss. From one doctor to another he went, seeking an explanation for the strange sound being made by his wind. Eventually, he visits a doctor who happened to be Chinese. The man explained to the doctor that whenever he let one off, it made that strange sound. The doctor asked for a demonstration, and sure enough - "HONDA". The Chinese doctor nodded understanding, and asked the man to drop his trousers and bend over. He did so, and then heard the sound of scissors snipping something. The doctor said "try again now". The man once more passed wind, and was elated to find that it was back to its normal sound. He turned to the doctor, saw the abscess that had been cut off, and asked "That's amazing, doc. Why was it happening?" The doctor shrugged and said "Everybody knows {{spoiler|Abscess makes the fart go Honda}}".}}▼
*** Also, The Longest Joke in the World, {{spoiler|Better Nate than Lever}}▼
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== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* The entire point of [[Knock-Knock Joke]]s. Think about it.
▲** Orange you glad you thought about it?
▲** [[Knock-Knock Joke]]s aren't the only jokes that are punishing. For instance, one classic one goes like this:
▲{{quote|One day, a man "lets one rip", and out comes this strange sound - "HONDA". Confused, he initially shrugs it off. However, over the next few days, every time he farted, it would do the same thing - "HONDA". Becoming concerned, he visited his family doctor. The doctor couldn't explain it, and gave him a referral to another doctor, who also was at a loss. From one doctor to another he went, seeking an explanation for the strange sound being made by his wind. Eventually, he visits a doctor who happened to be Chinese. The man explained to the doctor that whenever he let one off, it made that strange sound. The doctor asked for a demonstration, and sure enough - "HONDA". The Chinese doctor nodded understanding, and asked the man to drop his trousers and bend over. He did so, and then heard the sound of scissors snipping something. The doctor said "try again now". The man once more passed wind, and was elated to find that it was back to its normal sound. He turned to the doctor, saw the abscess that had been cut off, and asked "That's amazing, doc. Why was it happening?" The doctor shrugged and said "Everybody knows {{spoiler|Abscess makes the fart go Honda}}".}}
▲*** This is also a {{spoiler|Spoonerism}}
▲** Also, The Longest Joke in the World, {{spoiler|Better Nate than Lever}}
* In post-war Europe, America ran various covert operations to gather intelligence from Soviet soldiers. One particularly successful campaign in Italy hinged on the fact that getting gonorrhea was a serious matter for a Soviet soldier; it guaranteed a recall back to the Soviet Union (where none of them wanted to go back to) and perhaps harsher punishment. So, the Americans got in touch with a doctor who ran a clinic that secretly treated gonorrhea and recruited the doctor, in exchange for money and free medicine. Then, the doctor would pick up anything he could from casual conversation and see if there were any likely defectors in the group. What did the Americans call this endeavor? {{spoiler|Operation Claptrap. [[Don't Explain the Joke|For those that don't get it]], "claptrap" was slang for "nonsense conversation". Meanwhile, "the clap" is slang for gonorrhea.}}
* In a similar vein to the above, American soldiers in [[World War II]] referred to the Good Conduct Medal as the "no clap award" for 2 reasons: 1) all you had to do to get it was not get in trouble for 3 years so it wasn't really worthy of applause and 2) getting an STD disqualified you.
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