# The Breakfast Club: John Bender's Joke

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 1, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-breakfast-club-john-benders-joke/198932 "2003-09-01T06:27:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Standup\_Karmic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Standup\_Karmic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Standup_Karmic)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-breakfast-club-john-benders-joke/198932/1 "2003-09-01T06:27:40Z")

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In _The Breakfast Club_, John Bender is crawling through the ceiling space back to the library after being locked in the closet. He is reciting a joke to himself.

It goes:

Naked blonde walks into a bar with a poodle under one arm and a two-foot salami under the other. She lays the poodle on the table. The bartender says, “I suppose you won’t be needing a drink.” Naked lady says…

Then he falls through the ceiling. Any ideas of what the punchline ought to be?

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**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-breakfast-club-john-benders-joke/198932/2 "2003-09-01T06:32:22Z")

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Well, the official line (Courtesy of the imdb ) is :

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> The joke that Bender tells but never finishes (while crawling through the ceiling) actually has no punchline. According to Judd Nelson, he ad-libbed the line. Originally, he was supposed to tell a joke that would end when he came back into the library and said, “Forgot my pencil”, but no one could come up with a joke for that punchline.

But I suppose if an appropriate punch line can’t be thought of here, it can’t be thought of anywhere!