# Jokes from movies/TV shows/etc... that you just got recently

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 25, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-from-movies-tv-shows-etc-that-you-just-got-recently/413125 "2007-07-25T18:38:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-from-movies-tv-shows-etc-that-you-just-got-recently/413125/1 "2007-07-25T18:38:18Z")

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So I’m watching my DVD collection of The Critic, and in the episode where Jay’s parents get lost on a tropical island (an episode I’ve seen several times), there’s a scene where Franklin and Ellenor (Jay’s parents) are in the plane and the ride is pretty bad (it’s a crappy airline.) Franklin goes to talk with the pilot, and he finds out it’s just a penguin (who has been drinking, even.) He then says:

“What a minute, penguins can’t fly. PENGUINS CAN’T FLY!”

At which point the plane starts to go down. Until just now, I thought it was funny only in the context of “a penguin is an animal, and therefore not capable of handing an airplane.” Only now do I get the _real_ meaning of the joke. :smack:

So how 'bout you? What joke eluded for many times until you finally “got” it?

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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-from-movies-tv-shows-etc-that-you-just-got-recently/413125/2 "2007-07-25T18:48:37Z")

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Two from _Spaceballs_:  
“What’s the matter, Colonel Sanders? Chicken?”  
“Prepare for metamorphasis. Ready, Kafka?”