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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mobius: Knock Knock

Brad: Who's there?

Mobius: Brad

Brad: Brad who?

Mobius: That's show business

This is a bit of an old joke but the humour comes from two layers.

The first layer comes from the last two lines. Brad is a famous actor, so probably a household name. So the expectation is that nobody would ask who he was in the same way nobody would ask "Beyonce who?" But Hollywood is fickle and stars today can easily become forgotten tomorrow. Pretending not to know a celebrity is an insult that is associated with this nature of Hollywood. Hence the "That's show business line" where the jokester acts like they're reluctantly agreeing that the celebrity isn't famous anymore. This is extra hurtful since the famous person is the one tricked into saying "...(their own name) who?"

The second layer comes from the expectation of the structure of a regular knock knock joke. Since this joke doesn't follow that structure, it breaks expectations and creates humour.

Mainly it's the first part though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It worked for me. I'm using Boost for Lemmy as my client.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

+1 for Pocket Casts. I've only ever had problems with Pocket Cast in the last few weeks. Luckily they released an update a few days ago that fixed the issues.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Episode 6 Return of the Jedi

It's a deleted scene that had Jabba the Hutt preparing himself for Leia by slathering butter all over himself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Welcome! If you need to charge your phones, note that this house has Yokohama wiring, but we have Nagoya and Shikoku adapters available.

You can leave at any time through the door over there. It's a shoji door, so you'll need to find a compatible knob. No, don't be silly, that one is a fusuma knob! Of course it won't fit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Knowing what the different States are and different cities (for the title text) is pretty important. As someone who is from outside the United States, I wouldn't've been surprised if "Pennsylvania Wiring" was really a standard of wiring.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well you should get your memory checked out because I don't remember it either and I have a terrible memory.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I believe they turned off the API restrictions for moderators. So Boost (and I assume other third party apps) still works for me because I created a private subreddit and made myself a moderator.

I'll continue to lurk until Spez realizes and blocks my access but I deleted all my comments and posts and don't plan on adding any new free content to their site.

I'm sure it's just a caching issue but, infuriatingly, some of my old comments appear randomly and I have to go in and delete them all over again.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's funny how the astronaut is leaning around it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trailer for a trailer is a pattern that started a few years ago. It's annoying and I hate it. The worst is when they put those 5 second clips at the beginning of YouTube trailers announcing a trailer is coming up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've noticed it happening to one of my instances but not my other. I agree with your assessment though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for sharing what you have. I didn't even know there were current Star Trek comic runs until I saw your posts.

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