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* In ''VideoGame/{{Starfield}}'', a geologist is asking passers-by in space for samples. After concluding your conversation with her, she signs off and DeadAir ensues over the comm as her ship's balky [[FasterThanLightTravel grav-drive]] takes an awkwardly long time to spin up. She passes time with various idle conversations, and then starts telling a geology joke. Right as she's about to tell the punch line, the grav-drive finally engages, and the punch line is cut off by the flash and poof of an outgoing grav-jump.
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* ''Series/GhostsUK'': Pat's joke about "a nun, a gorilla, and a paedo..."

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* ''Series/GhostsUK'': Pat's joke about "a nun, a gorilla, and a paedo..." We're probably better off not hearing the rest, to be honest.
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*''Series/GhostsUK'': Pat's joke about "a nun, a gorilla, and a paedo..."
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Most commonly a limerick ("There once was a man from Nantucket"), a KnockKnockJoke[[note]]which may not even get past "knock, knock"[[/note]], something involving NoodleImplements, or a combination of the above.

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Most commonly a limerick ("There once was a man from Nantucket"), a KnockKnockJoke[[note]]which may not even get past "knock, knock"[[/note]], something involving NoodleImplements, or a combination of the above.
above. It also might be a {{Riddle}} to which no solution is ever given, as in the [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland famous]] "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
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** In the "Treehouse Of Horror XVI" segment "Survival Of The Fattest", [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Mr. Burns is hunting some of Springfield's men]]. As Burns shoots Krusty, Krusty tries to tell a joke, saying "Dying is like golf, except in golf--", [[KilledMidSentence when he's shot some more]].

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** In the "Treehouse Of Horror XVI" segment "Survival Of The Fattest", [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Mr. Burns is hunting some of Springfield's men]]. As Burns shoots Krusty, Krusty tries to tell a joke, saying "Dying is just like golf, golfing, except in golf--", [[KilledMidSentence when he's shot some more]].
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* In ''Literature/TheLastHero'' when the bard compares Truckle the Uncivil's disguise as the God of Swearing to the Ephebian muse of erotic poetry, Truckle says "Oh, I can do that. There was a young lady from Quirm, whose grip was..." before being stopped.

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* ** In ''Literature/TheLastHero'' when the bard compares Truckle the Uncivil's disguise as the God of Swearing to the Ephebian muse of erotic poetry, Truckle says "Oh, I can do that. There was a young lady from Quirm, whose grip was..." before being stopped.
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* In ''Literature/TheLastHero'' when the bard compares Truckle the Uncivil's disguise as the God of Swearing to the Ephebian muse of erotic poetry, Truckle says "Oh, I can do that. There was a young lady from Quirm, whose grip was..." before being stopped.
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* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive''; Aubrey reminisces about her childhood favourite TV show host, the Marquis [=DeRod=]. On his last show, he started to tell a joke involving a werewolf, a mummy, and an IRS agent walking into a bar, and then [[KilledMidSentence suffered a heart attack and died on live TV]]. Aubrey's only thoughts on the matter are that she's spent twenty-five years wondering where that joke was going.
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* In the young adult book ''Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst'', one of Anastasia's friends complains that her older brother frequently begins to tell jokes at the dinner table, but is always hushed by her father. So she has heard many setups, but no punchlines. Some of the brother's jokes include: "A man goes to the psychiatrist, and says: 'Doctor, you have to help me, because everything I see reminds me of breasts.' " and "How do you make a hormone?" The punchline to the second one? [[spoiler:"Refuse to pay her."]]
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-->'''Paratrooper:''' Hey, guys! I got a good one! What do you get when you cross a Nazi and a cockroach? You get-''(bullet promptly punches through the plane and [[BoomHeadshot kills him instantly]])''

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-->'''Paratrooper:''' Hey, guys! I got a good one! What do you get when you cross a Nazi and a cockroach? You get-''(bullet promptly punches through the plane and [[BoomHeadshot kills him instantly]])''instantly]])''[[note]]The punchline is "a Krauton bug," a pun on the obsolete 20th century slang "croton bug" for German cockroaches and "Kraut," a derogatory term for Germans[[/note]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', Yakko is putting Dot to bed and she asks him to tell her a story. Yakko begins with the classic "There once was a man from Nantucket..." line before Dot says that's not the one she wants to hear.
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** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Nobby, DisguisedInDrag, is telling jokes to the other women. Colon interrupts him just when he got to "Have you heard the one about the ki... the sultan who was afraid his wife... one of his wives... would be unfaithful to him while he was away?" The women say that Beti has already told them about the "the man who went into the tavern with the very small musician" and "the man with his arms and legs in plaster" although we get a bit more detail when Nobby adds that these were difficult to translate because Klatch doesn't have pianos, or the same kind of doorbell.

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** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Nobby, DisguisedInDrag, is telling jokes to the other women. Colon interrupts him just when he got to "Have you heard the one about the ki... the sultan who was afraid his wife... one of his wives... would be unfaithful to him while he was away?" away? [...] Well, anyway, he went and saw the wise old blacksmith, right, and he said--" The women say that Beti "Betti" has already told them about the "the man who went into the tavern with the very small musician" and "the man with his arms and legs in plaster" although we get a bit more detail when Nobby adds that these were difficult to translate because Klatch doesn't have pianos, or the same kind of doorbell.

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** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Nobby, DisguisedInDrag, is telling jokes to the other women. Colon interrupts him just when he got to "Have you heard the one about the ki... the sultan who was afraid his wife... one of his wives... would be unfaithful to him while he was away?" The women say that Beti has already told them about the "the
man who went into the tavern with the very small musician" and "the man with his arms and legs in plaster" although we get a bit more detail when Nobby adds that these were difficult to translate because Klatch doesn't have pianos, or the same kind of doorbell.

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** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Nobby, DisguisedInDrag, is telling jokes to the other women. Colon interrupts him just when he got to "Have you heard the one about the ki... the sultan who was afraid his wife... one of his wives... would be unfaithful to him while he was away?" The women say that Beti has already told them about the "the
"the man who went into the tavern with the very small musician" and "the man with his arms and legs in plaster" although we get a bit more detail when Nobby adds that these were difficult to translate because Klatch doesn't have pianos, or the same kind of doorbell.
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* In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Nobby, DisguisedInDrag, is telling jokes to the other women. Colon interrupts him just when he got to "Have you heard the one about the ki... the sultan who was afraid his wife... one of his wives... would be unfaithful to him while he was away?" The women say that Beti has already told them about the "the

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* ** In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Nobby, DisguisedInDrag, is telling jokes to the other women. Colon interrupts him just when he got to "Have you heard the one about the ki... the sultan who was afraid his wife... one of his wives... would be unfaithful to him while he was away?" The women say that Beti has already told them about the "the
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** In ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'', there are two references to Nanny Ogg's joke about the priest, the old woman and the rhinoceros. We never hear anything more (and since ''[[DirtyOldWoman Nanny]]'' didn't understand it until she was forty, it's probably just as well).
* In ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'', Nobby, DisguisedInDrag, is telling jokes to the other women. Colon interrupts him just when he got to "Have you heard the one about the ki... the sultan who was afraid his wife... one of his wives... would be unfaithful to him while he was away?" The women say that Beti has already told them about the "the
man who went into the tavern with the very small musician" and "the man with his arms and legs in plaster" although we get a bit more detail when Nobby adds that these were difficult to translate because Klatch doesn't have pianos, or the same kind of doorbell.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' movie, Irwin is forced to live out his worst nightmare: having to perform stand-up in a room full of bears. He starts with, "So a bear and a rabbit are pooping in the woods..."[[note]]A well-known joke begins with this setup: "A bear and a rabbit are pooping in the woods. The bear asks the rabbit, 'Does your fur ever get poop stuck to it?' The rabbit says no. The bear then wipes his butt with the rabbit." It's just ''barely'' too gross for ''Billy and Mandy''.[[/note]] before the bears jump on stage and maul him.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' movie, Irwin is forced to live out his worst nightmare: having to perform stand-up in a room full of bears. He starts with, "So a bear and a rabbit are pooping in the woods..."[[note]]A well-known joke begins with this setup: "A bear and a rabbit are pooping in the woods. The bear asks the rabbit, 'Does your fur ever get poop stuck to it?' The rabbit says no. The bear then wipes his butt with the rabbit." It's just ''barely'' too gross for ''Billy and & Mandy''.[[/note]] before the bears jump on stage and maul him.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' movie, Irwin is forced to live out his worst nightmare: having to perform stand-up in a room full of bears. He starts with, "So a bear and a rabbit are pooping in the woods..." before the bears jump on stage and maul him.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' movie, Irwin is forced to live out his worst nightmare: having to perform stand-up in a room full of bears. He starts with, "So a bear and a rabbit are pooping in the woods..."[[note]]A well-known joke begins with this setup: "A bear and a rabbit are pooping in the woods. The bear asks the rabbit, 'Does your fur ever get poop stuck to it?' The rabbit says no. The bear then wipes his butt with the rabbit." It's just ''barely'' too gross for ''Billy and Mandy''.[[/note]] before the bears jump on stage and maul him.

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