Humor Dissonance: Difference between revisions

* In an issue of DC's Countdown Donna Troy calls Jason Todd "Re-Todd", [[Don't Explain the Joke|a pun on "retard"]]. Kyle tells her "good one", with a goofy expression as if it was an expert burn. Not only is a lame joke, it's entirely out of character for Donna and Kyle.

* Apparently a common deal with the [[Harvey Comics]]' character Jackie Jokers. [http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics38.html Some examples are further down this page.]

 

== [[Fanfic]] ==

** 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:

'''B.C.''':"No..[[I Take Offense to That Last One|Nacho Cheese tortillas]], actually.." }}

 

* Used rather well in ''[[News Radio]]'': Everyone keeps telling Dave that Lisa's ex-boyfriend Stewart is one of the funniest people they've ever met. When Dave and Lisa go out to lunch with Stewart, he gets her rolling with a number of inside jokes and references to things Dave (and the audience) has never heard of.

* There was an episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' where Data was trying to learn what humour was. Some of the jokes in that episode were meant to be funny, some of them were not. Any correlation between whether or not a joke was supposed to be funny and whether or not it actually was funny is entirely coincidental. ([[Fridge Brilliance|No wonder Data has so much trouble understanding what humour is.]]) Of particular note, this joke which Guinan absolutely '''''insisted''''' was absolutely hilarious, and the only reason Data wasn't in stitches was because he's a robot;

** It's even worse, As [[SF Debris]] pointed out in his review of the episode (The Outrageous Okona) the joke that appears is actually a rewrite, the original joke (which he actually reads out) is even worse: ''My job here places me under some obligations, like a vow of secrecy. I can't repeat anything I hear or see. Now the obligation of the patron is to tell the truth otherwise I'm being placed under a commitment to keep a secret about nothing. That's not fair, it's called wasted honour. Do you understand?'' Yeah really, that's the joke, check it [http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/tng-the-outrageous-okona-review-5167604\]. Its around the 10:40 minutes mark.

*** What makes this really bad is that Guinan is played by [[Whoopi Goldberg]]. Couldn't they have just asked her to adlib? Chances are it'd at least elicit a chuckle or two!

** Parodied in another episode. At the dentist, Lisa ends the episode by making a ridiculously cringeworthy "tooth/truth" pun. The rest of the family, and the dentist, burst out laughing as though it's the greatest joke ever told...at which point the dentist realises he's accidentally left the laughing gas on.

* Invoked intentionally in one [[Family Guy]]. Peter tried to impress [[Dan Ackroyd]] and [[Chevy Chase]] with a flat joke. The two comedians and Lois recognized it as unfunny, but absolutely everybody else in the show's universe thought it was the most hilarious joke ever.

* ''[[South Park]]'' plays the dissonance for comedy.

** Jimmy is supposed to be a very funny stand-up comedian that all the other characters find hilarious. He has yet to tell a single joke that is funny. In the episode "Fishsticks," Jimmy coming up with (and Cartman taking all the credit for) what is supposed to be the funniest joke ever. It goes thus: "Do you like fishsticks ([[Don't Explain the Joke|fish dicks]]) ?" "Yes." "Do you like putting them in your mouth?" "Yes." "What are you, a gay fish?" The joke makes the rounds in all the talk shows and becomes a nationwide phenomenon. The only person not to get it is rapper [[Kanye West]], who is so self-centered that he takes it as being called gay and starts looking for the originator of the "rumors".