Comedy/sitcom jokes that people won't "get" anymore

[nomadcowatbk]

and how about jokes about about the Atlanta Braves, New Orleans Saints, and other teams that was the doormats of their sports and today are often in the top 2-3 teams in their sports. there was a line on Star Trek:TNG where some guy asked to see if the Braves are still losing. And a Early Episode of the Simpsons had a reference to the New York Yankees as being so bad, the Devil stated to Bart that he would return when the Yankees win another Pennant (in those years, the Yankees was finishing between 4-7th place).

jokes about teams that have moved like the Los Angeles Raiders, St. Louis (football Cardinals), Houston Oilers, Baltimore Colts, Montreal Expos, Washington Senators, Seattle Supersonics

 

[onairb]

The '80s NBC sitcom 227 hasn't been repeated much, outside of BET. That show, based in Washington DC, frequently mentioned the Redskins, as well as the 'Bullets', now the Wizards. I wonder if any channel has dubbed in the new name over the old one?

 

[cd637299]

The '80s NBC sitcom 227 hasn't been repeated much, outside of BET. That show, based in Washington DC, frequently mentioned the Redskins, as well as the 'Bullets', now the Wizards. I wonder if any channel has dubbed in the new name over the old one?

I doubt it....not worth the effort. Anyway, Jim Rome still calls the Wizards "the Bullets" as a gag.

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[anotherguyTN]

and how about jokes about about the Atlanta Braves, New Orleans Saints, and other teams that was the doormats of their sports and today are often in the top 2-3 teams in their sports. there was a line on Star Trek:TNG where some guy asked to see if the Braves are still losing. And a Early Episode of the Simpsons had a reference to the New York Yankees as being so bad, the Devil stated to Bart that he would return when the Yankees win another Pennant (in those years, the Yankees was finishing between 4-7th place).

Some teams will be good and then they'll be bad - or vice-versa. But then there are the Chicago Cubs. ;D

In Back to the Future Part II from 1989 there is a joke where while Marty McFly is in 2015 he sees a news bulletin where the Cubs finally win the World Series. So we have two years to go to see if it happens. But it won't totally happen like it says in the movie, where they win over Miami. For that to happen Miami (who got their MLB franchise in 1993 originally as the Florida Marlins) would have to switch to the American League.The furthest they could currently play each other would be the NLCS.

 

[cd637299]

^ Well, the Cubs could move to the AL!

The way the Marlins are run right now, they'll need a telescope to see 4th place the next few years....

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[Braves2005]

Any joke made about O.J. Simpson and probably you know the reason why.

 

[Ultimajock]

Some teams will be good and then they'll be bad - or vice-versa. But then there are the Chicago Cubs. ;D

Just like a joke about the Green Bay Packers on an episode of the "Beverly Hillbillies" when the Clampetts, Mr. Drysdale and Miss Jane are in Hooterville visiting for Thanksgiving. One of the residents 0f Hooterville was named Howard Hewes in this episode and Mr. Drysdale thinks it is the Billionnaire Howard Hughes. When his wife shows up and starts chasing Howard Hewes, Mr. Drysdale ask Steve Elliott to stop her, he makes the remark "The Green Bay Packers couldn't stop her." This episode was made right at the end of the Packers Dynasty of the 1960s, so people watching this episode from the early to mid 70s until the mid 90s, during which the Packers were one of the worst teams in the NFL, didn't get the joke about how tough this woman was because the Packers couldn't stop anyone on defense from 1970 til 1984 or so.

You may be over-thinking that joke. I would think any pro-fottball team would be able to tackle a woman in her 50s regardless of that team's standing in the NFL.

...I was a teenager in Wisconsin, living 50 miles from Green Bay, throughout the '70s. The Green Bay Packers of the 1970s made a huge Canadian Football League fan out of me ;D ...

 

[Ultimajock]

The '80s NBC sitcom 227 hasn't been repeated much, outside of BET. That show, based in Washington DC, frequently mentioned the Redskins, as well as the 'Bullets', now the Wizards. I wonder if any channel has dubbed in the new name over the old one?

I doubt it....not worth the effort. Anyway, Jim Rome still calls the Wizards "the Bullets" as a gag.

...does Rome refer to them as the Baltimore Bullets, by any chance? Or even the Bullets-in-exile? ;D ...

 

[cd637299]

^ I don't think so. I think it was in his online glossary. I'm not a "clone."

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[firepoint525]

That reminds me that Baby Boomers would complain in the 1980s that kids of that decade would only know Paul McCartney as "that singer from Wings," not the Beatles. Now that those 80s "kids" are in their 40s, I think it's safe to say that most young people who know McCartney from his recent appearances (SNL, etc.), would be more familiar with the Beatles, than with the dozen or so fluffy hits that Wings released.

Kids of the '80s: "Paul McCartney was in another group before Wings?"
Kids of the '90s: "Paul McCartney used to be in a group? And he was in another group before that?"
Kids of the 2000s: "Paul McCartney, yeah he was the one who married that crazy Heather Mills!" ;D

And Wings had "fluffy" songs, but they also had a few rockers too, like, "Hi Hi Hi" and "Jet."

 

[anotherguyTN]

^ Well, the Cubs could move to the AL!

Probably not as likely because of the White Sox already being there.

 

[KyDXIn]

Another example that (kinda) came full circle: "Hey, Nineteen" by Steely Dan. He feels "old" because his 19-year-old girlfriend doesn't know who Aretha Franklin is. "She don't remember the queen of soul." Wasn't but just a few short years later that Aretha made her comeback with "Freeway of Love" and "Who's Zoomin' Who." By then, that girlfriend (who by then would have been about 24 or 25) would have been telling HIM about Aretha!

Even an acapella version sounds great! Someone could use this in a phone prank I bet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3i36MqoRI8

 

[onairb]

Are we at the point where references to drive-in movies belong on this list? I saw one on a 'Brady Bunch' rerun last night.

 

[cd637299]

Are we at the point where references to drive-in movies belong on this list? I saw one on a 'Brady Bunch' rerun last night.

Eh, why not? After all, there was a thread about why a song called "Payphone" is a hit now! BTW I do recall the Bunch episode where Dad installed a pay phone.

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[firepoint525]

Are we at the point where references to drive-in movies belong on this list? I saw one on a 'Brady Bunch' rerun last night.

Interesting that you should mention that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8leDNwRumCQ

 

[BobSacamano]

When it comes to dated references, M*A*S*H may have been the heavyweight champ...Yes the show was about the Korean war, but even the "period references" are hard to understand for anyone under 50..

Some examples; (a nurse talking to Radar) "I love the underdog, I even root for the St. Louis Browns...

(Hawkeye to BJ) "Eisenhower's been playing a lot of golf" (BJ) "what's his handicap?" (Hawkeye) " A lot of people say Nixon"

 

[bpatrick]

Here's one from a 1957 Red Skelton show. Red and guest
Mickey Rooney try to get on a game show called "Do You
Beat Your Wife?" The reference is to Edgar Bergen's game
show "Do You Trust Your Wife?" (later "Who Do You Trust?"
with Johnny Carson, then Woody Woodbury).

It reminds me of Bugs Bunny as Groucho and Elmer Fudd as
the hapless contestant on "You Beat Your Wife." That title
was cut from the cartoon "Wideo Wabbit" in later years, by ABC, I believe,
since it implied that somebody at Warner Brothers condoned
wife-beating.

Another that comes to mind is a Jack Benny show from 1958 wherein
Dennis Day receives a million dollars from Michael Anthony (Marvin Miller
appeared in the episode) and spends a great deal of it (including hiring
Rochester away from Jack) before John Beresford Tipton sends Anthony
back to retrieve what's left of the check; Dennis Day is not the singer's
real name.

 

[LKellerIII]

When it comes to dated references, M*A*S*H may have been the heavyweight champ...Yes the show was about the Korean war, but even the "period references" are hard to understand for anyone under 50..

(Hawkeye to BJ) "Eisenhower's been playing a lot of golf" (BJ) "what's his handicap?" (Hawkeye) " A lot of people say Nixon"

Anybody with a basic knowledge of later 20th Century history would get the Nixon reference, though they would probably link it to Watergate and Nixon's resignation, than to the Checkers speech, Nixon's red-baiting, or anything Tricky Dick did in the 1950s. Hell, I'm 60, and was in diapers when Nixon became Vice-President, but I remember his Presidency and the Watergate Hearings quite clearly.

My kids (in their 20s) know Nixon from popular recent history and films like Nixon/Frost.

 

[bpatrick]

Correction on the Bugs Bunny "You Beat Your Wife" bit:
ABC left it in but stopped showing the cartoon after 1989,
due to complaints about the title. Cartoon Network and
The WB did use a special effect to cover over the sign with
"You Beat Your Wife" printed on it.

 

[anotherguyTN]

In some cases the dated references in MASH are too early because of their actually happening later in the 50's. There was a joke about Godzilla movies although the first one didn't come out until 1955 in Japan and 1956 in the US.

Considering that MASH ran until 1983 I'm surprised that there weren't jokes about Reagan since he was an actor in the 50's and eventually became president before the series ended.