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* ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'': The song "So They Say" has Captain Hammer remark that he might sleep with the same girl twice. It's not clear whether this refers to [[LousyLoversAreLosers Captain Hammer being so horrible in bed that every woman he's had sex with has left him after the fact]] or to him being shallow enough to dump every woman he's been with immediately after getting into their pants.
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** In "The Wire", Bashir complains that a certain novel is boring in that it's simply generations of people living the same plots over and over. Some people took this as BitingTheHandHumour at the fact that ''Franchise/StarTrek'' has several series, while others saw it as a TakeThat to ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''.

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** In "The Wire", Bashir complains that a certain novel is boring in that it's simply generations of people living the same plots over and over. Some people took this as BitingTheHandHumour at the fact that ''Franchise/StarTrek'' has several series, while others saw it as a TakeThat to ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''.''Series/{{Blackadder}}''; a third has taken it as not a joke at all, but an insight into Cardassian culture and Garek (who features heavily in the episode).

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* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': In Issue 13 of WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad, Cheerleader resorts to calling her "B-list" of boys, and ends up calling a plumber's shop. Either Cheerleader got a wrong number, or the fat guy who answers the phone really is the "Randy" she meant to call.

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** In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "other days", Strong Bad goes to check his snail-mail, and after burning up a collection letter from Bubs' Concession Stand, he looks around and wonders "Um, where's my house?" Is the joke that the collection agency [[RidiculousRepossession took his house when he wasn't looking]], or was he wondering [[LampshadeHanging why his mailbox was so far from his house, in the middle of the Field]]?
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In Issue 13 of WebAnimation/TeenGirlSquad, Cheerleader resorts to calling her "B-list" of boys, and ends up calling a plumber's shop. Either Cheerleader got a wrong number, or the fat guy who answers the phone really is the "Randy" she meant to call.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' meme video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJVnhUaNrUY Steamed Hams, but It's the First Rehearsal]]", in which the characters are just actors rehearsing a play of the skit, Agnes's actress does not say her line "Help! Help!". Is this meant to mean that she forgot (since most of the humour comes from the actors not remembering their lines) or that the set designers used real smoke and Agnes's actress passed out?



* A joke that has this by design: A woman marries into a foreign country while having little knowledge of the local language. She continues learning and eventually gets confident enough in her skills to go to the butcher's to buy chicken breasts. Unfortunately, she forgets the word for "breast" as she orders and, in desperation, points at her own breasts, which is enough for the butcher to give her the correct item. The next time she tries, this repeats with chicken thighs. The next time after that, she's coming for sausages and forgets the word yet again. With no idea what to show the butcher this time, she leaves and returns with her husband. [[spoiler:[[BaitAndSwitch Because he can speak the local language]]. If you first thought of another, anatomy-related, reason, it's a feature, not a bug]].

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* A joke that has this by design: A woman marries into a foreign country while [[LanguageBarrier having little knowledge of the local language.language]]. She continues learning and eventually gets confident enough in her skills to go to the butcher's to buy chicken breasts. Unfortunately, she forgets the word for "breast" as she orders and, in desperation, points at her own breasts, which is enough for the butcher to give her the correct item. The next time she tries, this repeats with chicken thighs. The next time after that, she's coming for sausages and forgets the word yet again. With no idea what to show the butcher this time, she leaves and returns with her husband. [[spoiler:[[BaitAndSwitch Because he can speak the local language]]. If you first thought of another, anatomy-related, reason, it's a feature, not a bug]].bug.]]


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** In one episode, [[StarfishAlien Odo]] mentions he once tried to eat, but he doesn't want to specify what happened, other than that it was unsuccessful and "messy". Does this mean that he spilled the food all over himself due to not being able to swallow, that the chewed-up food fell through his body and landed on the floor, that he coughed the food back up, or that he had to walk around with undigested food inside his body, which then fell out when he returned to his liquid state?

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