There’s a scene in the movie Training Day when Ethan Hawke’s character is being told a nonsensical joke by someone, who claims if he understands the joke, he un

There’s a scene in the movie Training Day when Ethan Hawke’s character is being told a nonsensical joke by someone, who claims if he understands the joke, he understands the streets. Hawke doesn’t get the punchline but laughs anyway. There are all kinds of internet theories about the joke, but this makes me realize it wasn’t ever about the joke itself, it was about Hawke voluntarily going along with the nonsense coming out of the other character’s mouth. Which is the exact behavior the criminal character wanted to elicit and evaluate.