alt Hacker NewsExcept that every single joke in that table is awful and that deconstruction on why the joke is bad doesn’t generically apply to all of them.
Except that every single joke in that table is awful and that deconstruction on why the joke is bad doesn’t generically apply to all of them.
The column heading just says "mix ideas", I don't think they're supposed to be taken as finished, stand-alone jokes. I think some of them have potential if framed correctly or rephrased a bit (foraging for wild cake, in particular).
Take the not entirely dissimilar Windows Vista joke from the IT Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IfnjBHtjHc
It's not especially funny if taken in isolation, but in the context of the scene and the show as a whole, I thought it was hilarious, at the time.