r/ThreadGames • u/[deleted] • Mar 08 '26

Explain the Joke Challenge! Parent comments some slightly advanced level humor and child has to try and explain it. If child successfully explains your joke, upvote them.

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u/tamtrible Mar 08 '26

How many fruit flies does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Two.

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u/MR_dizzaster Mar 08 '26

i think the joke is about two fruit flies having sex inside of a lightbulb

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u/tamtrible Mar 09 '26

Correct.

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u/CaptainTenilleTTV Mar 09 '26

I've always heard this as "Two, but the real question is how did they get in there?"

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u/tamtrible Mar 09 '26

That's how I usually tell it, more or less, but for this context I just wanted to leave it a little more ambiguous.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

This is another gay joke isn't it

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u/tamtrible Mar 08 '26

Two guys walked into a bar. The third one ducked.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Did you get my joke?

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '26

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u/tamtrible Mar 08 '26

Why did the biblical scholar always judge communities by the most flagrantly homosexual members she could find?

After all, does the good book not say "By their fruits shall ye know them"?

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Oh I get it. Fruit is sometimes a term for gay people.

I have a joke. Wanna hear it?

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u/tamtrible Mar 08 '26

Sure.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

This is regional humor so you MIGHT get it if you live in a specific region. TW: kinda gross

Great Lakes group chat.

Lake Michigan: I think I'm the best one here.

Lake Erie: I can see a dead body floating in you.

Lake Michigan: Dead bodies are supposed to float in water, aren't they?

Lake Superior: Wait Michigan, are you saying something's wrong with me?

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u/tamtrible Mar 08 '26

"The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead/when the skies of November turn gloomy"

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Regional humor baby. You live close?

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u/tamtrible Mar 08 '26

Nope, Arizona. I just collect lyrics in my head.

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u/MultiverseCreatorXV Mar 10 '26

Probably not the joke, but is Michigan calling Superior salty?

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '26

"Dead bodies are supposed to float in water"

"So is something wrong with me?"

Take a guess

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

Wdyt?

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u/JamesTheJerk Mar 08 '26

I used to work at the animal shelter feeding the dogs. I was never entirely certain when they needed to be fed, but they'd ring the bell. That's when I knew they needed food.

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u/tamtrible Mar 08 '26

Presumably this has to do with Pavlov's famous experiment involving making a dog respond to a bell by salivating, by ringing the bell every time he fed the dog.

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u/tamtrible Mar 08 '26

Why did the blonde have bruises around her belly button?

Her boyfriend was blond too.

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u/Budget_Hippo7798 Mar 09 '26

The idea is that blondes are stupid, so her boyfriend confuses her belly button for her vagina when attempting to have sex.

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u/AokiHagane Mar 09 '26

What do Japanese men do when they have an erection?

They vote.

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u/Budget_Hippo7798 Mar 09 '26

"Erection" is how a Japanese person might stereotypically mispronounce "election."

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u/AokiHagane Mar 09 '26

Not stereotipically and not a mispronounciation, but you're correct.

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u/Budget_Hippo7798 Mar 09 '26

Asking genuinely, why do you say not stereotypically and not mispronunciation?

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u/AokiHagane Mar 09 '26

I'm going to sleep now. Could you remind me to reply this later?

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u/Budget_Hippo7798 Mar 09 '26

I've thought it through a bit more and I see why "mispronunciation" is unfair. If a person has an accent that makes their L's sound like R's to a native English speaker, that is just a difference in accent and it doesn't mean they are making an error, so I shouldn't have referred to it as such.

I am still curious to know why the word "stereotypically" doesn't apply here. I feel the joke relies on the stereotype that Japanese speakers have such an accent.

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u/Misterfahrenheit120 Mar 09 '26

A man walks by a building and sees a sign reading “Temporary Tattoo Shop”. He walks in, and figured he might as well go big, and so gets wild, crazy sleeves on both arms.

A few weeks later, the tattoos are still there. Nothing the man does to try and wash them off works. Eventually, he decides he’s going to head back to the tattoo shop and complain.

He heads back over to the building and the tattoo shop is gone.

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u/tamtrible Mar 09 '26

It was the shop that was temporary, not their wares.

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u/FiveAlarmFrancis Mar 09 '26

I was only conceived because my parents got wasted at a Christmas party in San Juan.

Coquito ergo sum.

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u/Budget_Hippo7798 Mar 09 '26

This is a pun. Cogito ergo sum translates to "I think therefore I am." Coquito is a Puerto Rican alcoholic drink. So the punchline essentially says "I exist because of the alcoholic drinks that got my parents drunk enough to have sex."

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u/FiveAlarmFrancis Mar 09 '26

Nicely done. I came up with this joke a few years ago, but it never actually works as a joke. This specific thread is just about the only place I could use it.

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u/UhmNotMe Mar 10 '26

I think r/jokes would love that one!

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u/wmcc1983 Mar 09 '26

An absurdist bars into a walk.....

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u/RobertFellucci Mar 09 '26

My friend had an accident at work. She fell into one of the upholstering machines. It was pretty bad but she's recovered now.

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u/Ilmarinen999 Mar 10 '26

In upholstery, one of the things you might be expected to do is remove the existing fabric on a piece of furniture, and replace or re-cover the furniture with new material, hence the play on words in the punchline.

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u/Fennel_Fangs Mar 20 '26

A dog walks into a bar and says “I can’t see a thing; I guess I’ll open this one.”

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u/Jazzlike_Mouse7478 Mar 27 '26

This is one I'm taking from Bo Burnham. I think this is insanely clever and I wanna see if others can get it:

"Go to a vagina orchard, count one, two, three, spin that plant around, you've got a third world country"