# Jokes that, nowadays, need explaining **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comedian-jokes\ **Created:** [September 25, 2020, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466 "2020-09-25T02:53:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 43
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/842 "2020-12-09T01:07:47Z")
They’re called Animal Control nowadays. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/843 "2020-12-09T01:31:54Z")
No problem finding their trucks, but I never can find the election for dogcatcher on the ballot. Are they now political appointees? Regarding Jeffrey Dahmer, I once saw, on television, some home movie footage where he’s talking with his aunt. He says that he likes going to McDonalds, but that it gets expensive, so he then just eats at home for a while. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/844 "2020-12-09T01:35:03Z")
He was fond of Asian food. 😖 ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/845 "2020-12-09T01:49:40Z")
To get this joke, you have to remember **this commercial** and **this “controversial” comedian** : [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Bzapn4PAPaQ/hqdefault.jpg "Nut & Honey cereal commercial") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzapn4PAPaQ) > **[Andrew Dice Clay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Dice_Clay)** > > Andrew Dice Clay (born Andrew Clay Silverstein; September 29, 1957) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He rose to prominence in the late 1980s with a brash, deliberately offensive persona known as "The Diceman". In 1990, he became the first stand-up comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden for two consecutive nights. That same year, he played the lead role in the comedy-mystery film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. > Clay has appeared in several films and television shows, including c... WARNING: This joke is NSFW. Have you heard ADC is doing a commercial for a new cereal? It’s called “Nuthin’, bitch!” 😖 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/846 "2020-12-09T01:54:49Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > No problem finding their trucks, but I never can find the election for dogcatcher on the ballot. Are they now political appointees? It never was an elected position (at least, there is no documented evidence it ever was). > **[Is Dogcatcher Actually an Elective Office?](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/11/is-dogcatcher-actually-an-elective-office.html)** > > Delaware Republican senatorial candidate Christine O’Donnell lost her election bid Tuesday against Chris Coons. During the primary, the state’s GOP... ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/847 "2020-12-09T02:10:46Z")
I only heard of that as a not-really-serious line: "Mayor? I wouldn’t vote for him for _dogcatcher!"_ ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/848 "2020-12-09T02:27:10Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > To get this joke, you have to remember **this commercial** and **this “controversial” comedian** : They had another one…link may be paywalled, so I’ll block quote below. > **[NOW, GAY-BASHING OVER BREAKFAST?](https://www.chicagotribune.com/1988/05/01/now-gay-bashing-over-breakfast/)** > > At first, I thought it was just about the world\`s silliest reason for a protest. I am talking about the protests some gay groups have lodged against a particular television commercial for Kellogg\`s… > It shows a little old Western chuckwagon cook who answers a cowboy`s inquiry of ''What`s for breakfast, Cooky?‘’ with ‘‘Nut & Honey’’ and is immediately threatened with death by gunfire because the macho cowboys think he has said, ‘‘Nutin`, honey.’’ > > It is interesting to note, as did a reporter for Windy City Times, a gay- oriented weekly here, that such word play is known as a homophone, two or more words that sound alike but have different meanings. > > This particular homophone offends homosexuals. The Coalition Against Media/Marketing Prejudice, a Chicago-based gay media watchdog group, is outraged that the commercial ‘‘tacitly condones and even encourages anti-gay/ lesbian violence.’’ Hopefully that overt attitude needs explaining today (OK, it’s still all too prevalent 30+ years later). We (Americans—not sure about others) really play the violent imagery card far too easily. Cartoon anvils falling on characters, Three Stooges slapping each other, Popeye clocking Bluto, unfortunate hits to the crotch, cartoon heads that retain the shape of the frying pan that smashed them, etc. Violence or physical mishaps = humor, from a very early age, in the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/849 "2020-12-09T05:01:02Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Anybody here ever see one (or another staple, The City Dogcatcher) in real life? I see Animal Control all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Tabco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tabco/32/7644_2.png) [@Tabco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabco)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/850 "2020-12-09T05:13:17Z")
I’m reminded of a “yo mamma” joke I heard when I was in elementary school: “Yo mamma’s so fat, when she went to Taco Bell _everybody_ ran for the border.” To hear it today you’d think it was some vague allusion to migrants and border crossings, but in the 90s Taco Bell’s slogan was _Run for the border._ My 10-year-old self thought it was funny at the time. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/851 "2020-12-09T11:50:13Z")
> [@AppallingGael](#): > > No problem finding their trucks, but I never can find the election for dogcatcher on the ballot. Are they now political appointees? In Pittsburgh, Animal Control is a sought after job. In order to be hired though you have to start out at entry level Environmental Services, which is garbage collection and rodent control. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/852 "2020-12-09T15:50:26Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > In Pittsburgh, Animal Control is a sought after job. In order to be hired though you have to start out at entry level Environmental Services, which is garbage collection and rodent control. Huh. Here it’s a section of the police department and you get hired to it directly. I get to talk to them every once in awhile because my work number is one digit different from their main call-in number and people leave animal related voice mail that I then pass on. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/853 "2020-12-09T17:40:21Z")
Last night a TV show was on and it frequently mentioned a high school called Aaron Burr High School. Every time they said Aaron Burr, I said “Aaron Burr” in a muffled, unintelligible voice. I had to show the old Got Milk? commercial to explain what I was doing. I didn’t realize that one needed to be explained. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/854 "2020-12-09T17:42:03Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > Last night a TV show was on and it frequently mentioned a high school called Aaron Burr High School. Once I read this, I knew where you were going with it. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/855 "2020-12-09T18:16:29Z")
I don’t think I can even say “Aaron Burr” without doing that. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/856 "2020-12-09T18:43:06Z")
Join the club. For me, he will forever be Eh-uh Buh, even when discussing historical events such as the Buh Conspiracy or the Hamilton-Buh Duel. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/857 "2020-12-09T18:44:30Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > I didn’t realize that one needed to be explained. Could you explain it? Because I am not familiar with the reference. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/858 "2020-12-09T18:47:18Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/OLSsswr6z9Y/hqdefault.jpg "Original "got milk?" commercial - Who shot Alexander Hamilton?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLSsswr6z9Y) ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/859 "2020-12-09T19:52:22Z")
> [@Author\_Balk](#): > > Every time they said Aaron Burr, I said “Aaron Burr” in a muffled, unintelligible voice ^^^My wife and I, watching _Hamilton_ with the family. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/860 "2020-12-09T20:01:44Z")
> [@Asuka](#): > > I remember so many times in the 80s and 90s the idea of anchovies on pizzas was the worst thing ever and the constant threat of your pizza boy giving you the wrong order and handing you a pie with anchovies. > > Apparently pizza with anchovies was a major thing in the 80s? “No anchovies? You’ve got the wrong man. I spell my name - _Danger_.” _The Further Adventures of Nick Danger_, Firesign Theatre, 1969 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466/861 "2020-12-09T20:36:57Z")
I don’t know about anchovies being a “thing”, but my dad was part-Italian and we’d have pizza with pepperoni and anchovies every Friday night. I grew up looking forward to pizza with anchovies. We considered them an essential part of the pizza. I realize they are an acquired taste, though, and not a favorite of everyone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466.md?page=42) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-that-nowadays-need-explaining/921466.md?page=44)