Dude, Not Funny: Difference between revisions

* In [[Platypus Comix]]'s ''[[Family Guy]]'' parody, Herman calls his mistaking the fire station's lunch bell for a fire alarm "funnier than beating a homeless man to death." After the [[Cutaway Gag]] that features Herman finding enjoyment in physically abusing a homeless man, Herman's companion tells him in-universe that he didn't find the scene funny.

* In the ''[[Friends]]'' episode "The One with the Girl who Hits Joey", Chandler has a fight with Monica, and proposes to her out of guilt. Monica says no, and the rest of the gang teases Chandler:

''(they all get up and leave Ross)'' }}

* The web-comic ''[[Fans]]'' featured [http://www.faans.com/crossover/ a murder investigation involving a crossword puzzle convention.] When crossword fan Hilda makes a comment about the case while putting on her glasses, Marc shouts "[[Memetic Mutation|YEEAAAAAHH!]]", a la the Roger Daltrey shriek from "Won't Get Fooled Again" in ''[[CSI: Miami]]''. He gets roundly chewed out for it.

* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' had an arc where a dude Angus started making jokes about suicide to Faye, whose father killed himself in front of her when she was a kid. When she tells him off, he initially doesn't believe her, and Faye realizes that her constant sarcasm has "set an unfortunate precedent". Angus also calls out Faye for making jokes at his friend Marigold's expense.

* At the beginning of ''[[Star Trek Generations]],'' the officers are having a promotion party for Worf on the holodeck, where they're on an 18th-century naval ship. They make Worf walk to the end of the plank and jump for his new rank insignia, then Riker orders the computer to "remove the plank." The plank disappears, dropping Worf into the sea, and Riker jokes that he meant to say, "retract". After Crusher attempts to explain the humor to Data, he pushes her overboard.

'''LaForge:''' ...not funny! }}

** This serves as the catalyst for Data to have Geordi install his emotion chip, as if he cannot grasp a concept like humor, he will never be human. Though it was [[Actually Pretty Funny]].

* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', after McBane in a TV movie snaps a Commie-Nazi pilot's neck despite the latter surrendering, Marge jokes that that's "breakneck speed." Bart responds by coldly telling her that a man just died.

* In one episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', Fozzie makes the joke 'What do you get when you cross the Atlantic with the Titanic? Half way!" Waldorf thinks it's funny, but not Statler - he was ''on'' the Titanic when it sank! (And, according to Waldorf, still has the dress he wore to get on a lifeboat.)

* ''[[Family Guy]]'':

** Peter invokes it in the episode "Back to the Woods". After James Woods steals his identity, Peter takes revenge by stealing Woods's identity and ruining his career by stating on [[David Letterman]]'s show that he's working on a comedy based on 9/11 called ''September 11, 2000-FUN!''. The film, he claims, focuses on a window washer who sees the plane coming toward him while he wipes the window of the Twin Towers and exclaims, "Aw, c'mon!"

'''James Woods''': What?! [[I Take Offense to That Last One|I would never work with]] [[Take That|David Spade!]] }}

* In one scene from [[Stephen King]]'s novel ''[[Christine]]'', a bunch of high school hoods are cruising and drinking beers after a school basketball game, and complaining that their team lost. At one point, one of the hoods complements the athleticism of the school's basketball star (in one of those "The rest of the team sucks, but this one guy is a good player" sorts of ways), who just happens to be black. The leader of the gang sneers, retorting, "I hate that fucking spade." This prompts one of the newer gang members to make a racial joke, to which the rest of the gang reacts with this. Specifically, the gang leader says, "I said I hated ''that'' spade. I got no problem with the rest of them..." and threatens to toss the "fucking bigot" out of his car at high speed. The new guy shuts up quickly.

* During the astronaut tryouts in ''[[The Right Stuff]]'', Alan Shepard frequently mimics 50s comedian Bill Dana's Mexican astronaut character "Jose Jimenez", but it eventually gets on the nerves of Gonzalez, the Mexican orderly, who tells him "me and my friends think your Jose Jimenez imitation is A-OK. But what you're doing with it is B-A-D.".

* In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' during the mission on Sur'Kesh, the party crosses paths with a rampaging yahg. Shepard and Garrus can't resist the opportunity to crack jokes about the last yahg they encountered, which teammate Liara T'soni {{spoiler|replaced as Shadow Broker}} after she and Shepard killed him. Liara does not find their wisecracking funny:

'''Liara:''' Not funny! }}

** Done seriously later when Joker cracks a joke about the asari after their homeworld, Thessia, falls. Shepard usually lets those kinds of jokes slide but in this case [[Darkest Hour|s/he's at her lowest point]] and blames him/herself for the fall of Thessia and not getting crucial information and proceeds to snap at Joker.

* In the [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Aang, having been told that he must kill Fire Lord Ozai, says he can't go around wiping out people he doesn't like. Sokka responds that [[Omniscient Morality License|he can because he's the Avatar]] and Aang angrily tells him that this isn't a joke.

* ''[[Skippy's List|Skippys List]]'' has examples:

* In ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', Guy is surprisingly afraid of women for the first half or so of the game, though to be specific, every tiem a woman comes into close contact with him, he recoils in fear or starts screaming. Everyone, even in-game laughed at this and thought it funny, but also wanted to help him get over his gynephobia. Then the truth comes out to ''why'' he's so afraid of women. {{spoiler|His sister and the maids from his childhood home threw themselves onto Guy to protect him as they were all killed by invading soldiers, and when Guy came to, he was smothered in a pile of dead bodies.}} Nobody was laughing after ''that''.