Quotes / Late to the Punchline

Geordi: Data... I made that joke seven years ago.
Data: I know! I just got it!

— Star Trek: Generations

Callie: Turn 'em into calamari!
Marie: Ohhhhh! I just realized that mine and Callie's names... Actually, now's not the time.

— Splatoon 2

saraadianee: remember when baby spice sang about wearing a condom
itsnotthatfunnyisit: remember when it took me over a decade to realize what she was singing about

— Tumblr

"The only thing I can figure is that maybe they just wanted a little bit more of an identity for the film. Like a visual identity. Like... you can look at the poster and be like, 'A pig flying? WHUH? I'll believe that when pigs fly!' ...Oh, wait. Yeah. I guess that's the joke..."

— The Nostalgia Critic on Porco Rosso

Over a decade ago, I archive-binged a shitty webcomic whose title I cannot remember, about a bunch of anthropomorphised dietary supplements and medications having adventures in some anonymous human's bloodstream. It may or may not have been an Osmosis Jones AU - I don’t clearly recall. One of the supporting characters was inexplicably a parody of former US Vice President Spiro Agnew, and I literally just now got the joke.

— David J. Prokopetz ^note The joke is that the character represents Spironolactone.

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