Honesty hour Have you ever found yourself smiling at something only because others were laughing around you? Or did you pretend to understand a joke at a comedy club even though it didn’t make sense to you? No?
I know I’m not the only one who hasn’t understood the joke, perhaps more than once, even if you won’t acknowledge it. In a topic on the “Movies” subreddit, a number of people admitted to doing so. Many netizens shared their experiences when the user “ferrous_second_vowel” questioned them what movie jokes they hadn’t heard till years later. To locate them on the list below, scroll down!
1.
Louis Tully, the Keymaster in Ghostbusters, repeatedly locked himself out of his flat.
Geoffrey Spaulding:
I just received that after 39 f**king years.
Truve Carteeg:
Realising that the Gatekeeper and Keymaster titles were actually referring to privates took me a lifetime to mature.
2.
Kenickie calls a condom a “25 cent insurance policy” in the Grease scene.
3.
values of the Addams family. “I’ve got ’em all,” Wednesday’s sort-of-boyfriend says as he shows her his collection of serial killer baseball cards. The only things I’m missing are that Zodiac guy and Jack the Ripper.
Serial killers Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac were never apprehended.
4.
I didn’t understand why Noah’s Arcade advertises that they had two of every game until I watched Wayne’s World for thirty years. You know. similar to Noah’s Arc.
5.
The man listening to “My Back Door” by Creedence following a physical.
I’m Not That Drunk:
I made the link when I was today’s age.
6.
Lightning informs Mater that Doc has won the Piston Cup three times in “Cars.”
“He did what in his cup?!” is Mater’s reply.
7.
“You’re not a postal worker, are you?” the salesman asks the hunter after he purchases the pistol in Jumanji. I didn’t know what “going postal” meant, so I suppose I assumed he was just making fun of his attire.
8.
When Daniel (playing Doubtfire) is discussing Miranda with Stuart, Mrs. Doubtfire says, “She has a power tool in the bedroom.” She can break sidewalks with her personal jackhammer! That she hasn’t chipped her teeth astounds me.
I was eight years old when this movie came out, so I didn’t enquire about vibrators because I didn’t know about them. At the time, my best assumption was that he was attempting to frighten Stuart by claiming that she had a weapon, such as a baseball bat or gun next to the bed.
9.
“I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith.”
“What’s the other one named?”
I didn’t understand the joke until I was thirty years old, yet I first saw Mary Poppins when I was four.
10.
Toy Story.
Buzz: “I believe space ranger is the word you’re looking for.”
Woody: “There are preschool toys here, so I can’t say the word I’m looking for.”
11.
Have you been on a shrimp boat before?
“No, I was on a very large boat.”
I think I spent 20 years and 60 watches on this one, lol.
Jack Ragz:
Forrest believes Bubba is asking if he has ever been on a very small boat when he asks if he has ever been on ‘a true shrimp boat’.
12.
The Zero to Hero song is heard in a brief excerpt in Disney’s Hercules:
More than royalties and appearance fees
Our Herc needed to burn money.
Once again wealthy and well-known
“What’s a Grecian urn?” he may ask.
In the 1990s, this alludes to a very old Vaudeville joke that was in the public consciousness. The joke proceeds as follows:
“My wife brought home a Grecian urn last night.”
“What’s a Grecian urn?”
“About $25 a week, unless he owns the restaurant.”
13.
When Nature Calls, Ace Ventura. Not that he was meditating.
Jack Ragz:
“I get a little agitated if I don’t complete my meditation. Cranky.
14.
When Shrek and Donkey arrive at the enormous castle in the first Shrek film, Shrek asks, “You think he’s compensating for something?”
15.
South Park’s title is “Bigger, Longer, Uncut.”
About ten years after the film’s release, it came as a shock.
