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I think it's at least three things: 1. win95 has waning cultural relevance, and nobody has any fresh memories of dealing with its slowness 2. most of us have

I think it's at least three things: 1. win95 has waning cultural relevance, and nobody has any fresh memories of dealing with its slowness 2. most of us have seen "windows bad" jokes a million times over by now - it's stale 3. "run" is a pretty weak/generic connection. Edit: 4 - "I'm bad at running" has a sort of boomer-humor vibe to it, it's less relatable to an audience that's generally in-shape.

latexr 2y ago
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.
- Retr0id 2y ago
  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 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.
  - latexr 2y ago
    > The column heading just says "mix ideas", I don't think they're supposed to be taken as finished, stand-alone jokes. Right above the table there’s a title that says “Joke Ideas”, and the text introducing the table is “And here are a few jokes that were created using this method”. Everything indicates they are intended as jokes. > Take the not entirely dissimilar Windows Vista joke from the IT Crowd That joke doesn’t use the “mix ideas” concept at all. It’s straightforward in not deviating from the theme. > It's not especially funny if taken in isolation, but in the context of the scene and the show as a whole The idea of that joke could’ve worked in any context. It’s just: A: “I’m having a computer problem.” B: “What OS is that computer on?” A: “Windows Vista.” B: “That explains the problem.”

latexr 2y ago

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.

Retr0id 2y ago
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 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.
- latexr 2y ago
  > The column heading just says "mix ideas", I don't think they're supposed to be taken as finished, stand-alone jokes. Right above the table there’s a title that says “Joke Ideas”, and the text introducing the table is “And here are a few jokes that were created using this method”. Everything indicates they are intended as jokes. > Take the not entirely dissimilar Windows Vista joke from the IT Crowd That joke doesn’t use the “mix ideas” concept at all. It’s straightforward in not deviating from the theme. > It's not especially funny if taken in isolation, but in the context of the scene and the show as a whole The idea of that joke could’ve worked in any context. It’s just: A: “I’m having a computer problem.” B: “What OS is that computer on?” A: “Windows Vista.” B: “That explains the problem.”