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My favourite joke from Community: I thought you got your degree online from Colombia? Yes, but they want a real degree from America
by rahimnathwani 4y ago
My favourite joke from Community:
I thought you got your degree online from Colombia?
Yes, but they want a real degree from America
- tomjakubowski 4y agoColumbia, not Colombia. That's the joke
- rospaya 4y agoThis one might be the most appropriate since it's a joke about jokes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMT7MAnJna8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMT7MAnJna8
- marginalia_nu 4y agoMy favorite bit is where they keep having the same food every day. It's sort of mentioned in passing here and there throughout the episode but not really foreground material. Then at the end of the episode, it's revealed the dean is learning Excel and accidentally pasted over the entire column with the same value.
- stavros 4y agoWait, now I'm really curious as to what you think the joke was.
- rahimnathwani 4y agoSorry, wrote my comment in a hurry. I understood the joke the same way everyone else did... - he told people he got his degree from Col*mbia (both place names are pronounced the same) - people (naturally) assumed he meant Columbia - the punchline reveals that it was actually Colombia - the punchline also hints that he got his degree by buying a certificate online, rather than doing bona fide online learning
- stavros 4y agoAh OK, I thought you thought they said Colombia initially, and I was wondering if you found something else in it funny. Interestingly, to me, Colombia and Columbia don't sound the same, but I'm not a native speaker and I tend to think of words in terms of their spelling rather than their pronunciation.
- rahimnathwani 4y agoRight. The two being pronounced the same is essential to the joke.
- titanomachy 4y agoIn Spanish they sound different. In English, most people pronounce them both like “Columbia”.