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** Barton is TheDitz.
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** Barton is TheDitz. His being slow to understand jokes is only an extension of his being slow to understand things in general.
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** Barton is TheDitz.
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* '''Parodied''': Barton only figures out the joke after going to the afterlife and having spend an eternity there.
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* '''Parodied''': Barton only figures out the joke after going to the afterlife and having spend spent an eternity there.
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** Barton understands the joke immediatly.
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** Barton understands the joke immediatly.immediately.
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* '''Invoked''': ???
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* '''Invoked''': ???[[TheGadfly Carol]] tells a specific joke knowing Barton will take a while to get it.
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** [[BilingualBonus The joke requires knowledge of a French soundalike word to make sense.]]
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* '''Played For Drama''': The joke is incredibly dark, and Bob understanding it is a sign of his growing [[SanitySlippage]]
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* '''Played For Drama''': The joke is incredibly dark, and Bob understanding it is a sign of his growing [[SanitySlippage]][[SanitySlippage Sanity Slippage]]
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* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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* '''Played For Drama''': ???The joke is incredibly dark, and Bob understanding it is a sign of his growing [[SanitySlippage]]
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* '''Justified''': NoSenseOfHumor
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* '''Justified''': '''Justified''':
** NoSenseOfHumor
** NoSenseOfHumor
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** The joke requires plenty of lateral thinking to properly understand.
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* '''Parodied''': Barton only learns about the joke when he is in the afterlife.
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* '''Parodied''': Barton only learns about figures out the joke when he is in after going to the afterlife.afterlife and having spend an eternity there.
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'''Basic Trope''': A character hears a joke, but only properly understands it much later.
* '''Straight''': [[ButtMonkey Barton]] hears a joke in which he's the butt of it, but does not understand it for a couple of days.
* '''Exaggerated''': While he was four, Barton overheard a joke using him as the punchline. He only understood it nearly a century later, when he was on his death bed.
* '''Downplayed''': Barton does not understand the joke for a few minutes.
* '''Justified''': NoSenseOfHumor
* '''Inverted''': Barton understands the joke [[CrazyPrepared before it's told]].
* '''Subverted''': Barton appears to not understand it, but in reality [[ObfuscatingStupidity he was faking it]].
* '''Double Subverted''': ...Except he actually understood the joke wrongly.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Barton at first appears to be taking a long time to understand a joke, but he reveals he actually understood it, and was faking it. But it turns out he understood it wrongly. Then he once again says he lied, and understood it perfectly. But that also turned out to be a lie...
* '''Parodied''': Barton only learns about the joke when he is in the afterlife.
* '''Averted''':
** Barton understands the joke immediatly.
** No joke is told.
* '''Enforced''': "We need to show Barton's humouristic skills are subpar compared to the other characters'."
* '''Lampshaded''': "You're really bad at jokes, aren't you?"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': [[AlphaBitch Elise]] uses Barton's bad humour to spread a lot of jokes about him to ruin his reputation, a plan in which he won't even notice.
* '''Defied''':
** Barton outright strives to understand jokes better.
** Alternatively, he decides to hang around people who don't tend to joke.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Barton gets sick of taking too long to understand jokes, especially those which insult him, leading him to grow into TheCynic or a DeadpanSnarker.
* '''Reconstructed''': His friends instruct him not to let his bad sense of humour to mess with him.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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* '''Straight''': [[ButtMonkey Barton]] hears a joke in which he's the butt of it, but does not understand it for a couple of days.
* '''Exaggerated''': While he was four, Barton overheard a joke using him as the punchline. He only understood it nearly a century later, when he was on his death bed.
* '''Downplayed''': Barton does not understand the joke for a few minutes.
* '''Justified''': NoSenseOfHumor
* '''Inverted''': Barton understands the joke [[CrazyPrepared before it's told]].
* '''Subverted''': Barton appears to not understand it, but in reality [[ObfuscatingStupidity he was faking it]].
* '''Double Subverted''': ...Except he actually understood the joke wrongly.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Barton at first appears to be taking a long time to understand a joke, but he reveals he actually understood it, and was faking it. But it turns out he understood it wrongly. Then he once again says he lied, and understood it perfectly. But that also turned out to be a lie...
* '''Parodied''': Barton only learns about the joke when he is in the afterlife.
* '''Averted''':
** Barton understands the joke immediatly.
** No joke is told.
* '''Enforced''': "We need to show Barton's humouristic skills are subpar compared to the other characters'."
* '''Lampshaded''': "You're really bad at jokes, aren't you?"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': [[AlphaBitch Elise]] uses Barton's bad humour to spread a lot of jokes about him to ruin his reputation, a plan in which he won't even notice.
* '''Defied''':
** Barton outright strives to understand jokes better.
** Alternatively, he decides to hang around people who don't tend to joke.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''': Barton gets sick of taking too long to understand jokes, especially those which insult him, leading him to grow into TheCynic or a DeadpanSnarker.
* '''Reconstructed''': His friends instruct him not to let his bad sense of humour to mess with him.
* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
* '''Played For Drama''': ???
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