I don’t mean that the joke just isn’t funny, I want to know a joke that almost makes you want to fast-forward through the scene.

    • Geek_King@lemmy.world
      33·
      6 months ago

      I couldn’t agree more. The idea seemed to have been “Hey, lets take a joke that was just luke warm at best to begin with, and then over use it in an attempt to wring every single spec of amusement out of it until our audience gets physically sick when they hear it”

      Still a fun show though!

      • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
        23·
        6 months ago

        It is kinda brilliant though, the way they set it up.

        If you don’t like the joke, you can always fall back to the meta level: this is a 40-something dad recalling how dumb and cringe-worthy he and his friends were in their 20s.

        • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
          16·
          6 months ago

          Yeah it’s not really supposed to be “funny”. It’s just Barney being corny because that’s who the character is. (When he’s not being a sociopath with women.)

        • milkisklim@lemm.ee
          13·
          6 months ago

          Plus Old Ted is an unreliable narrator.

          Tap for spoiler

          Old Ted is trying to justify to his kids why he wants to bone one of his best friends’ ex wife,

          The show really should be renamed Why I Want To Sleep With My Old Crush.

      • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        Sometimes that can happen with a joke - like it’s kind of mid when you first tell it, then you keep pushing it and everyone hates it, then at a certain point something breaks and it becomes the funniest thing ever for some inexplicable reason. Not saying that’s what happened with with this joke necessarily, but it is possible! Old Family Guy used to do it quite well sometimes I think.

        • Zahille7@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 months ago

          “Did you do a little turn on the catwalk? Yeah, on the catwalk? Did you do a little turn on the catwalk, Lois?”