Jokes you don't/didn't get

[bloodteller]

i know there’s the thing of “the joke isn’t funny if you explain it” but were there ever gags in Red Dwarf you didn’t get? and if so, what?

i never quite got what Cat’s “stan and ollie” line in White Hole was about, for example. nor did i get what “see you in ten minutes?” (repeat x10) from Pete was all about, and also Rimmer’s “steers and queers, which are you boy?” joke from Meltdown

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[Unrumble]

OK, my actual question is, is Holly’s hypothetical objection to the sandwich that egg yolk and chutney will drip onto the floor, or that whoever eats it will throw it up?

At the risk of creating another Cinzano Bianco situation, I always assumed throwing up.

I always assumed the dripping.

[Warbodog]

Second the dripping, but only because I didn’t follow through to the vomiting that now seems more likely.

Maybe Holly was worrying about the consequences of Lister making them IRL in the future now he knows it’s a thing.

[Moonlight]

I always assumed he meant the sandwich itself would drop bits on the floor. It sounds like a very messy sandwich.

By the way, I’ve just corrected that subtitle. You’ll see all my corrections on the Smegadrive at some point in the next decade.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

And yet it is actually the sandwich that makes a mess

[Flap Jack]

Another sandwich related uncertainty – is it a triple fried egg chilli chutney sandwich because it has 3 eggs, or 3 slices of bread?

(By the way, it was the recent food focused episode of Better Than Life The Podcast which drew my attention to these things.)

I’d always assumed it was 3 eggs, even though you can see he has 3 slices there, and you wouldn’t be able to evenly distribute 3 eggs between 3 slices.

My logic is that a standard sandwich is 2 slices, therefore mathematically if the whole sandwich were tripled it would be 6 slices, not 3.

Or alternatively 4 slices if you were arguing it was the spaces for filling that were tripled. But still not 3.

[Dave]

I’ve always thought of it as a triple (fried egg butty with chilli sauce and chutney) rather than a (triple fried egg) butty with chilli sauce and chutney. So three slices, two eggs.

[Warbodog]

The way Lister says it makes me think it’s three eggs, but I haven’t really inspected it.

[Jimboid]

Triple bread and egg. 

Vomit not sandwich droppings.

[Dave]

Triple bread and egg. 
Vomit not sandwich droppings.

[Warbodog]

The chili sauce and chutney sounds good, it’s having fried eggs on soft bread that puts me off. At least toast it.

[Dave]

But fried eggs on soft bread is great!

[RunawayTrain]

A triple sandwich in the supermarket is 3 triangles, = 1½ sandwiches = 3 slices of bread.  That probably informed my interpretation of this.

[clem]

Nah I’ve never thought Holly was on about puking. It’s a cumbersome, sloppy sandwich. Look at Quinn’s gif – the contents are literally dripping out. 

I’d always assumed it was 3 eggs, even though you can see he has 3 slices there, and you wouldn’t be able to evenly distribute 3 eggs between 3 slices.

Couldn’t you just cut one of the eggs in half and have 1.5 eggs per layer? Admittedly that might be tricky if the yolk was runny.

[Unrumble]

 Couldn’t you just cut one of the eggs in half and have 1.5 eggs per layer? Admittedly that might be tricky if the yolk was runny.

Yolks you didn’t get. 

[Moonlight]

Eventually we’re gonna have to start making these sandwiches to test this.

[Technopeasant]

Hurling, yeah.

Triple bread, probally.

[Moonlight]

Why are we ignoring the possibility that this egg has been triple fried into charcoal?

[International Debris]

The reason I’d still side with vomiting is it’s a much better comedy choice. Sandwich sounds weird so someone throws up is much better comedy territory than some yolk got on the floor.

[Warbodog]

As a kid, I thought Rimmer was suggesting buying rubber wallpaper for Lanstrom’s Christmas present because it was shit wallpaper that she wouldn’t enjoy.

[Dave]

[Moonlight]

The reason I’d still side with vomiting is it’s a much better comedy choice. Sandwich sounds weird so someone throws up is much better comedy territory than some yolk got on the floor.

If I were writing this joke and the implication was meant to be vomiting there would one extra step somewhere in it to make that less ambiguous.

But I’m no Rob Naylor.

[Flap Jack]

[Dave]

If I were writing this joke and the implication was meant to be vomiting there would one extra step somewhere in it to make that less ambiguous.

This is exactly how Series VIII Holly happened.

[Moonlight]

No, that’s adding extra steps after delivering a non-ambiguous punchline. Give me some credit here.

[Jenuall]

It’s 100% supposed to be about vomit, this is a hill I am very prepared to die on

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

Why would a fried egg sandwich with chilli sauce and chutney make you throw up?
Aside from the fact I’ve had one and it’s delicious, there’s nothing in the ingredients list that sounds particularly vomity even in a jokey sense 
It is definitely the mess it makes, because it’s impossible to hold it all together and is filled with wet, sloppy, drippy ingredients. Citation – the gif I posted above on 4th Dec

[Jenuall]

Also, clearly it’s a “triple fried egg”, as in an egg that has been fried three times ala triple cooked chips 

[Podey]

100% about vomit. 

[Ben Saunders]

It’s about spillage, and it has three eggs on it. No I will not reference the show to check.

[Technopeasant]

[Warbodog]

Any ideas what this could mean if it doesn’t mean wanking? Since that’s one of the few things Rimmer doesn’t need help with and that Lister can’t help with anyway, so one of the worst examples he could have gone with, but maybe he didn’t realise or care?

[Unrumble]

Any ideas what this could mean if it doesn’t mean wanking? Since that’s one of the few things Rimmer doesn’t need help with and that Lister can’t help with anyway, so one of the worst examples he could have gone with, but maybe he didn’t realise or care?

Maybe Lister is just really phobic about laughing children and flowers brushing against his face, and Rimmer having just expressed his desire towards doing those things has made him wary.

[Jimboid]

Why would a fried egg sandwich with chilli sauce and chutney make you throw up?
Aside from the fact I’ve had one and it’s delicious, there’s nothing in the ingredients list that sounds particularly vomity even in a jokey sense 
It is definitely the mess it makes, because it’s impossible to hold it all together and is filled with wet, sloppy, drippy ingredients. Citation – the gif I posted above on 4th Dec

Because they’re very drunk and eating something so adventurous at that point means a high likelihood of barfing.

It’s 100% vomiting.  It’s also a funny gag if it’s throwing up and not funny if it’s about dripping sandwich contents.

I will also die on this hill and kill if I must.

[Jimboid]

Any ideas what this could mean if it doesn’t mean wanking? Since that’s one of the few things Rimmer doesn’t need help with and that Lister can’t help with anyway, so one of the worst examples he could have gone with, but maybe he didn’t realise or care?

I think it includes wanking but is more a non-specific implication that “Rimmer is a creep and likes doing creepy things”.

[Warbodog]

I think it includes wanking but is more a non-specific implication that “Rimmer is a creep and likes doing creepy things”.

I considered it might mean being creepy to people, or animals or something, but

Unless that is the creepy and Lister has thought it through after all.

[Warbodog]

It’s also a funny gag if it’s throwing up and not funny if it’s about dripping sandwich contents.

I’d say the humour’s in Holly’s quickfire pun, whichever it’s actually about.

[Rudolph]

It’s about spillage, and it has three eggs on it. No I will not reference the show to check.

And Holly was right to worry, given some egg yolk or sauce spills out and runs down Chris Barrie’s hand onto the floor.

[International Debris]

Why would a fried egg sandwich with chilli sauce and chutney make you throw up?
Aside from the fact I’ve had one and it’s delicious, there’s nothing in the ingredients list that sounds particularly vomity even in a jokey sense 
It is definitely the mess it makes, because it’s impossible to hold it all together and is filled with wet, sloppy, drippy ingredients. Citation – the gif I posted above on 4th Dec

I mean, Lister claims he got the sandwich from a book about bacteriological warfare. It’s clearly written to be a really bonkers, adventurous meal, even if it’s actually really not that odd in the end. 

[Jimboid]

The Great G&T Sandwich Gag Civil War of 2025.

It’s the state of the forum I’m worried about.

[Technopeasant]

The Great G&T Sandwich Gag Civil War of 2025.

It’s the state of the forum I’m worried about.

Don’t worry then, we’ve only got two more days to go.

[Warbodog]

[Warbodog]

[Moonlight]

This is the new Cinzano Bianco isn’t it?

[Nick R]

[Technopeasant]

[International Debris]

[Rushy]

Season 5 of LOST is easily the show’s weakest point and I’m always a little surprised by how much it’s celebrated. 

[Warbodog]

Season 5 of LOST is easily the show’s weakest point and I’m always a little surprised by how much it’s celebrated. 

Not worst, but it was a downturn after how much I loved season 4. Seeing that they were physically time travelling now immediately killed the mystery for me, because now any curious artefact could be explained by it going to have happened to be anyone. I loved them digging up the past, not interacting with it.

[Unrumble]

Season 5 of LOST is easily the show’s weakest point and I’m always a little surprised by how much it’s celebrated. 

I’m a sucker for time-travel shenanigans, so that potentially clouds my judgement of season 5, which I loved at the time. I’d say the final season was by far the shakiest, and most unsure of what it was trying to do/be.

[Rushy]

It’s not even the time travel or the direction of the series that bothered me, but the various continuity issues and conveniences.

People are attacking the Oceanic Six… because. Everything with Charles Widmore gets forgotten… because. There’s some sort of end of the world scenario if they don’t get back to the Island… because. Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid randomly teleport to the 1970s… because. Sun, Ben and Frank do not… because. The explanation behind why Eloise Hawking could predict the future was completely ludicrous (they say she has Faraday’s diary, but Faraday could not possibly have known half the things Desmond did). 

Aside from Jack, there is absolutely no way any of them would agree to detonate a nuke and kill themselves and everyone else on the Island in some half-cocked attempt to change history. It’s a completely insane leap and I can’t take the finale seriously because of it. 

Season 6 has its fair share of issues, but I am more forgiving of them because the show slows down and aims for more character-driven and emotionally logical storytelling again. Plus, it’s more overtly supernatural in a spiritual sense, which I am more forgiving towards than its attempts at sci-fi fantasy. 

But yes, overall I think 5-6 were a drop in quality from 1-4. It’s still one of the greatest shows of all time, though, and the ending is solid no matter what anyone says. 

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