History Main / LateToThePunchline

-->'''Melvin:''' I always knew you wanted me to be inside you, Bakura.

* Referenced in the Peter Cook/Dudley Moore show {{Not Only..But Also}} when the pair are discussing art and Dudley complains that he can't see the joke in Leonardo's 'cartoon'. Later on after some unscripted corpsing from Dudley, Cook [[ThrowItIn adlibs]] the line "ere, you've just got the joke in that Leonardo cartoon haven't you?"

* On Fox's show ''RaisingHope,'' Jimmy: "You’re gonna have to move these pool chemicals outta here. She can get to this stuff now."
Burt: "Well, I’ve got the weed killer in the back of the truck, so I can move that in here if you want. “Pick your poison.” I ''just'' got that.”

* In an episode of {{KingOfTheHill}} Bill and Dale tell Hank and Peggy a joke about them ordering nachos with cheese and the punchline is they tell the waitress "if it's nacho cheese then who's is it" and everyone enjoys a good laugh except Peggy, later much time has passed and Peggy says "oh I just got that nacho cheese joke it's funny!".

* In an episode of {{KingoftheHill}} Bill and Dale tell Hank and Peggy a joke about them ordering nachos with cheese and the punchline is they tell the waitress "if it's nacho cheese then who's is it" and everyone enjoys a good laugh except Peggy, later much time has passed and Peggy says "oh I just got that nacho cheese joke it's funny!".

* A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is leaning against the headboard, a satisfied smile on its face. The egg, looking a bit irritated, grabs the sheet, rolls over, and says, "Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question!"

** The best example doesnt use an actual joke at all, but a highly noticable recurring event...
--->'''Dougal:'''Those women were in the nip!

** Oh, I interpreted that one as him having a dream of Hobbes saying that. (Especially with the other marbles one.)
** One comic about making funny faces had the line "An orifice is a fun thing to have!" This troper took it at [[IncrediblyLamePun face]] value as a young child and for some time didn't understand why his father told him not to quote it.
*** ''CalvinAndHobbes'' seems to be a font of LateToThePunchline for those who read it as children.

** Funny thing is...I didn't get it until just now. Ha!
*** For those of you who missed it... Try saying it five times fast. Took that for me to get it.
** This troper once almost managed to finish a whole chapter of a fanfiction where "Prower" was misspelled in a way that dragged the joke out into the spotlight and shot it dead.

--->'''Bullwinkle:''' Twenty dollars?!? That's antihistamine money!
'''Rocky:''' Antihistamine money?
'''Bullwinkle:''' Yes. It's not to be sneezed at. Get it? Not to be ''sneezed'' at?
'''Rocky:''' ''(exasperated)'' I get it.

*** Indeed. This troper(and legions of others) are thrilled to discover the re-read value of the comic they were addicted to as kids now that they get all the philosophical stuff.

* In {{FamilyGuy}}, Peter (in an attempt to become more sophisticated) spends days standing by a newspaper stand staring at a New Yorker cartoon (with the punchline "I'd be more apathetic if I weren't so lethargic") before he finally gets it, saying it's "''kind'' of funny".