Jokes you don't/didn't get in other things that aren't Red Dwarf

[Taiwan Tony]

A chat up the poly
Speak to him on the campus of the polytechnic college.
I thought.

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“A *chat* up the poly[technic] / chat *up* the Polly [parrot].”

[Taiwan Tony]

Chat up the poly, you see, could also mean … Oh forget it.

[Plastic Percy]

Thanks.

It’s still a shit joke, though.

[Toxteth O-Grady]

>It’s still a shit joke, though.

That’s kinda the whole point, isn’t it.

An old out-of-touch professor telling a cringeworthy joke in an attempt to appear cool and hip on a show for “young adults”. A show which itself fails in its attempts to appear cool and hip to its target audience of “young adults”.

It’s supposed to be a shit joke to exemplify how shit Nozin’ Aroun’ is on several levels.

[Plastic Percy]

I just meant it was shit writing on the part of Mayall/Elton/Meyer.

[Toxteth O-Grady]

I think it’s good writing considering it’s a deliberately shit joke.

In fact it was perhaps the greatest deliberately-shit-joke ever broadcast for 35 years, until “spit on her wrist” took the crown.

[Taiwan Tony]

I think it’s good writing considering it’s a deliberately shit joke.

I second that. It’s The Office in the 80’s. It’s the spirit of Kevin Turvey. And it’s closely followed by that Chekhov parody when Vyvyan smashes through the walls to their neighbour’s house. Great, invigorating writing.

[Plastic Percy]

I know it’s meant to be a shit joke, but it’s a shit shit joke.

[Taiwan Tony]

So you must mean, it’s a good joke? Ahhhhh

(No, fair enough. Subjective innit. Glad you understand it now, though.)

[Toxteth O-Grady]

>I know it’s meant to be a shit joke, but it’s a shit shit joke.

You’ve only just had it explained to you. Allow a little time for rumination.

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