Recently I was watching an episode of The Golden Girls and was shocked at how everybody in the room (about six people) understood this somewhat raunchy joke. I’d have thought you’d have to have had the experience yourself at some point in your life in order to understand the punchline.
Here’s the joke:
Dorothy and a male neighbor have been arguing over something and eventually come to an agreement. The neighbor makes the following conciliatory gesture:
For the record, this exact thing happened to me when I was younger (I was at a friend’s house and some male bathrobe-wearing resident did a reverse-bend-over in my line of site), so I immediately got the joke.
I’m wondering if I would have gotten it if I had never had that experience.
The video is on you tube. If you want to watch the exchange, fast-forward to 18:35.
Or you could just watch this link embedded to the time.
The joke is that his robe sometimes comes open and they get a peek at him, right? I guess the joke works, but it isn’t even subtle to me and this has NEVER occurred in my life.
This is what happens (risqué pic but should be SFW in most places). Just imagine a guy instead of a girl. A bathrobe would be lower, but you would still get a good shot of the boys.
It took me a second, but I finally got it. At first, I though she (being a horny old woman) was asking him to wear shorts instead of trousers so she could get a good peek at his business. Now I realize she meant just the opposite.
Maybe he’s an exhibitionist, or maybe he just has this problem:
This got me thinking. Maybe the joke doesn’t work any more because it’s too dated. Bathrobes in the 80’s were a lot shorter (circa mid-thigh) in the 80’s than they are these days. The ones I see on Amazon now appear to come down to mid-calf.
People must be afraid to show their knees in their own houses.
And how is that different than ‘the robe comes up and they get a peek at him’? Aside from the fact it’s a woman who’s actually wearing underwear in that picture.
I haven’t had the exact situation happen (e.g. with a bathrobe, etc.), but I had an overweight roommate who wore the most raggedy-ass gitch while wandering through the house, and we all agreed that it would be a wonderful favour if he started wearing something else.
I assume it has nothing to do with the length of the robe, but rather whether or not it’s tied shut properly or not - which can often be an issue. If he’s not wearing shorts (boxers) and the front of his robe pops open, they’re getting an eyeful.
Or the longer ones are more cozy/warmer. I only wear a bathrobe in the winter, and then it’s almost down to my ankles because I’m cold! I never saw robes that short…
but yes, obviously I figured out what the joke is supposed to mean.
Are you referring to post #2? It’s different in that the post said "the robe comes open, not up. Picture this: Old man walks out on his front lawn, bends over to pick up the newspaper, causing the boys to drop down below the hem of the robe.
Think of Miss Mann in Scary Movie 2, if you’ve seen that movie.
