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== [[Fanfic]] ==
* Sometimes seen in bad [[Fan Fiction]] as well; In Stephen Ratliff's '[[
** Plus, some would qualify as [[Too Dumb to Live]] if people were in character-- I mean, pulling a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Klingon warrior's]] pants down?
* The writer of ''[[Eiga Sentai Scanranger]]'' ''really'' seems to want his audience to like the comic relief teammember and other characters constantly praise his sense of humor. Even though he tells jokes like this:
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* In the final episode of ''[[Police Squad!]]!'', Frank Drebin goes undercover as a stand-up comedian for a nightclub. His jokes are pretty basic (and nowhere near as good as the material Zucker, Abrams and Zucker wrote for the rest of the show) yet the audience is falling out of their seats with laughter, and the management of the nightclub tells him that it was the best performance he'd ever seen.
** Most (all?) of what you see is Frank delivering punchlines, and most of those punchlines come from infamously filthy jokes -- the implication being that Frank works dirty, and he's really good at it. One can assume that it's really just a case of ZAZ [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]; ''[[The Goon Show]]'' used the same trick.
* In a ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' episode, the aliens struggle to understand the concept of humor after seeing a stand-up comedian. The episode is funny throughout... except for the comedian's routine. It's apparently supposed to be funny since it garners laughs within the episode (but not on the [[Laugh Track]]) and Dick has a [[Late to
* Played with in ''[[MASH|M*A*S*H]]'': Hawkeye tells BJ his favourite joke, "the funniest joke I've ever heard," but BJ is unimpressed by it. Later, Hawkeye learns BJ has been telling the joke to the rest of the unit, who all think it's the funniest joke they've ever heard.
* ''[[The West Wing]]'' [[Tough Room|is normally one of those shows where everyone is super witty and spends all day firing hilarious remarks back and forth, and hardly anyone ever cracks a smile]]. The teaser of the episode "He Shall, from Time to Time..." calls for the senior staff to be standing around laughing so that the mood can be shattered by the sound of the president collapsing with a crash in the other room. The joke that causes them to lose their poker faces for one of the only times in the series? Sam lamenting, "I'll never live it down!" in reference to a typo the president caught while rehearsing his State of the Union address. Ho, ho, ho.
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