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{{quote|''"And one thing I've found, is that every good [[Road Trip]] needs a good inside joke that only the people who'' went ''on the road trip will get. And your friends who'' didn't ''go on the road trip will want to... kill your legs... every time you bring it up."''|'''[[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]]''', [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail156.html "Road Trip"]}}
There are some jokes almost anyone can get, and then there are ones that can only be understood by people with certain knowledge. Jokes about computer programming that can only be understood by technicians, jokes about a [[Film]] that only make sense if you listened to the director's commentary, jokes about a country's political system or culture that only citizens of that place could ever laugh at. If you are in on the joke, these can be hilarious; if you aren't, then they get irritating fast.
From a sociological point of view, in-jokes are used by groups to identify those who are Not
If these are frequently placed in a show or book, then it can become a case of [[Viewers Are Geniuses]], or if they are language related, [[Bilingual Bonus]]. [[Fandom
An [[Outside Joke]] relies on an opposite effect.
Not to be confused with the [[Web Comic]] ''[[The
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]
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