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== Live Action TV == |
== Live Action TV == |
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* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' had a classic Brown Note in the form of the "Funniest Joke Ever Written", so funny that anyone who heard it would die laughing, used to parody documentaries on World War 2 (more specifically, those about the atomic bomb). We could tell you more about it, but instead, why don't you [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gpjk_MaCGM see for yourself?] (At your own peril, of course.) |
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' had a classic Brown Note in the form of the "Funniest Joke Ever Written", so funny that anyone who heard it would die laughing, used to parody documentaries on World War 2 (more specifically, those about the atomic bomb). We could tell you more about it, but instead, why don't you [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gpjk_MaCGM see for yourself?] (At your own peril, of course.) |
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** The premise is that a British humorist writes a joke so unimaginably funny that anyone who reads or hears it quickly dies from fatal hilarity. The British army then [[Blind Idiot Translation|translate the joke word-by-word]] to German using |
** The premise is that a British humorist writes a joke so unimaginably funny that anyone who reads or hears it quickly dies from fatal hilarity. The British army then [[Blind Idiot Translation|translate the joke word-by-word]] to German using different translators (some of them fall into a coma after translating more than two words) and use it as a weapon against the Germans in WWII. |
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** [[Schmuck Bait|And that joke is]]: {{spoiler|"Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"}} This cannot really be coherently translated given that it involves many seemingly nonexistent words, but if searches through online German-English dictionaries are any indication then whatever they're talking about apparently involves both dogs and pinball, [[Noodle Implements|and one can only imagine the possibilities of what humor could be made of that]]. |
** [[Schmuck Bait|And that joke is]]: {{spoiler|"Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"}} This cannot really be coherently translated given that it involves many seemingly nonexistent words, but if searches through online German-English dictionaries are any indication then whatever they're talking about apparently involves both dogs and pinball, [[Noodle Implements|and one can only imagine the possibilities of what humor could be made of that]]. |
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* [[Urban Legend|The myth of the "brown note"]] was tested in an episode of ''[[Myth Busters]]''. For what it's worth, they declared it "busted". |
* [[Urban Legend|The myth of the "brown note"]] was tested in an episode of ''[[Myth Busters]]''. For what it's worth, they declared it "busted". |
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* On ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', due to the massive size of his balls, Stephen has a very, very low speaking voice. So low, in fact, that he is constantly in danger of hitting the brown note, so his doctor gave him a prescription for helium in order to maintain the pitch we normally hear him speaking in. |
* On ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', due to the massive size of his balls, Stephen has a very, very low speaking voice. So low, in fact, that he is constantly in danger of hitting the brown note, so his doctor gave him a prescription for helium in order to maintain the pitch we normally hear him speaking in. |
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** "My apologies to Doris Kearns Goodwin." |
** "My apologies to Doris Kearns Goodwin." |
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== Music == |
== Music == |
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