Jokes you didnt get at first

A man is in line at a funeral. He gets to the grieving widow and asks, "May I say a word?"

"Sure," she says.

"Plethora."

"Thanks," says the widow. "That means a lot."

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For many more years than I should've, I thought this joke was just random humor. That his word made no sense, and that was the joke. Then it hit me that the definition of plethora is "a lot." And now I find the joke much funnier.

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this one Vine

"hey, spell 'me'."
- "okay, M-E?"
"you forgot the D."
- "there's no D in 'me'!"
"not yet ;)"

i knew something was inappropriate at the time, but i didn't know what was it. then it hit me... word

Edited by coemedypink on Aug 30th 2023 at 12:30:28 AM

i can't believe nor even fathom that he visited his friend! the audacity!

The "I found the coin slot!" joke from the Spongebob episode "My Pretty Seahorse". As a kid I just assumed it was an Ass Shove joke, but then I grew up and remembered Mystery is a FEMALE seahorse. That coin was probably shoved somewhere else that it wouldn't be on a male.

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the smug villagers will sometimes greet you with "How goes it (Player's name goes here)? If I may be so bold, you're looking as cool as a fair number of cucumbers."

It took me way longer than it should have for me to realize it was a nod to the phrase "cool as a cucumber." Like, almost a decade longer.

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In general, a lot of the Demographically Inappropriate Humor and Parental Bonuses in kids' media were jokes I didn't get.

I watched Animaniacs when I was younger, so as you can imagine, many of the jokes went over my head. ("Goodnight, everybody!")

One I distinctly remember was the Running Gag in "Roll Over Beethoven", in which every time Beethoven would say that he was a pianist, the Warner Siblings would start getting offended, including washing his mouth out with soap.

I had to have that one explained to me.

Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.

Well, it's not really made clear where he shoved the coin. It could be taken either way.

When I first watched the The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Something's a Ms." as a kid, I didn't notice the oddly suggestive nature of Sedusa (disguised as Ms. Bellum) helping the Mayor sharpen a pencil. I thought that the Mayor's pleased jabbering was just him being a Cloudcuckoolander.

Oh, I believe in yesterday

A joke I heard in a video once:

"Did you hear about the movie 'Constipation'? You probably didn't, because it never came out."

I didn't know what "constipation" ment, but given that it sounded like a mix of "constant" and "patience", I just assumed the joke was that the movie went through Development Hell for a long time before getting cancelled, which to be fair isn't really that much of a joke.

   ...I-it's been a while, hasn't it?   

When I first saw the Adventure Time Pilot, the Rhetorical Question Blunder joke (and the accompanying joke that Jake is a Manchild) went over my head, as I took the question and answers at face value.

Years later, I realized the joke and wrote the example for the page:

• Rhetorical Question Blunder: After Pen throws snowballs at a fire elemental for no apparent reason, the elemental sarcastically asks how old he is. The implied dig at his maturity goes over his head.
  Elemental: Oh, real nice. How old are you?
  Pen: I'm 12 years old!
  Jake: I'm 28!

Pretty much everything listed on ParentalBonus.Calvin And Hobbes were jokes I didn't get until I was in my teens. Some specific examples I remember include:

• The comic where Calvin says he wants a younger sibling so he can have "someone small [he] can beat up", which then cuts to Calvin's dad on the phone asking "Honey, can't we talk about that operation some other time?" - I really only realized within the past few years that the "operation" in question is presumably referring to a hysterectomy and/or vasectomy.
• The last panel of the "snow-woman" comic, where Calvin's mom comes outside and tells him "I don't care. We're not having an anatomically correct snowman in the front yard." - keep in mind that the snowman is only shown from the back, and is posing rather confidently...

Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.

"My wife misses me but her aim is getting better."

~ Stanley Pines, Gravity Falls

I was an adult when it first aired and I didn't get it. It wasn't until my third viewing of that scene that it clicked with me.

Edited by ChicoTheParakeet on Sep 29th 2023 at 1:48:36 PM

This line from "Word Crimes" by "Weird Al" Yankovic: "You should never write words using numbers - unless you're 7, or your name is Prince."

I didn't get that it was a reference to Prince's frequent use of Letters 2 Numbers for quite a while.

Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.

In Disney's Snow White during "The Silly Song" I didn't get what Bashful was saying when he chased a polecat up a tree and "when he got the best of me, I got the worst of him." I didn't know what a polecat was. It's another term for a skunk, he got sprayed by a skunk.

This joke:

I didn't realise initially that the joke was that Bob cheated on Alice; I just thought that he had such a vivid imagination that he was imagining a very specific imaginary wife. In fact, I had an Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! moment when telling the joke to my mother.

For every low there is a high.

I used to read the Junie B. Jones books as a kid and I never got what Junie B. was saying when she said "(adult) looked up at the ceilling. I looked up too. But I didn't see anything." It took me until adulthood to realize that meant the adults were rolling their eyes in response to her behavior.