This is the amalgamated “I don’t get this joke” from one of those three cartoons thread. If there’s a joke, sight gag, or whatever you don’t understand, then say so and let those of us who do know fill you in and make you feel like a complete idiot!
And just because I’m nice, I’ll go first:
In one ep. of Family Guy, Peter mentions having some actress over for dinner (I think it was the woman who played Lois in the Superman movies) and the woman goes all apeshit and tears up the room. I assume this actress must have had some kind of similar breakdown, or something, but I’m unsure.
If it was Margot Kidman, who played Lois Lane opposite Christopher Reeve’s Superman, then it was probably a reference to her highly-publicized nervous breakdown. As I recall, she was found wandering through neighborhoods in a disheveled condition, without her dentures.
I’ll play. In the episode of Family Guy where the family is relocated in witness protection to the deep south, there is a part where someone is upset for some reason and describes themselves as “lower than a bow-legger caterpillar.” (or maybe are described that way in a voiceover? I can’t remember.) The shot cuts to a guy in a cornfield laughing at the joke and then says “and now here’s Roy” or something like that. I assume it’s a TV show reference, as a big portion of the jokes on FG are. Anyone clue me in?
See, you say you kid, but I predict that before the end of the day, someone will come in and honestly not get the joke. There’s always one. No matter how many times we explain it, there’s always someone who doesn’t get it.
