The Lamest Jokes In Animation

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Also, fat people were always depicted as dumb people, old ladies, teachers and business women like South Park's Sheila Broflovski. How'd she get fat? From eating so much? Also, in some all gender groups that feature one character of the opposite gender, say all female, one male and all male and one female, just so that people won't think the group is gay. Also notice (no offense) that most female African Americans in toons always act so self righteous.
 
I created this thread yesterday in hopes of having a serious discussion, but it was ruined by people joking around and now it?s locked. I hope that this one can actually be used to discuss the subject at hand.

What do you believe was the lamest joke ever used in an animated program?
 
There are so many lame jokes in cartoons that it's hard to settle on just one.

I'd say puns are probably the most groan-worthy jokes there can be.
 
Well, my reply was serious before, so I'll post the same thing again: any comedic sidekick whose sole purpose is for laughs. Rarely funny, always annoying, ever one dimensional.
 
Constant use of toilet humor. Sure it funny if you use it like a few times. But if it wasn't funny the first ten times, WHY THE HELL DID YOU THINK IT BE FUNNY FOR THE ELEVENTH?

Seriously, when they resort to that kind of stuff it makes me mad.

EDIT: Also I apologize for being one of those people who had a hand in putting the thread off-topic, but you were aware that a serious discussion wasn't going to happen, or the fact that most thread created that day are lock at midnight on EDT.
 
I think we've gotten seriously off track here, people. This thread was supposed to be about lame jokes in animation and has regressed into everyone just complaining about the things in cartoons they don't like.
 
I tend to sometimes cringe at referential humor. How many times can you mock The Matrix's bullet-time and freeze-frame scenes? The worst part is that people are STILL parodying it NINE YEARS LATER! It's way past its prime; move on already.

The Matrix isn't the only beaten horse; other movies and TV shows that are popular at the time tend to be referenced, whether they're popular (300) or a terrible film that's forgotten about in a few months, but has a notable quote (Dude, Where's My Car?).

Now, references to other media can be funny if they're done properly (look at the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker team...when they were still a team, anyway), but most of the time, it's a cop-out for [strike]hacks[/strike] "writers" who use them as a substitute for jokes of their own.

My suggestion for improvement: Keep them down to a minimum. Don't abuse them every 5 seconds like Meet the Spartans. It also wouldn't hurt to go for older media, like Looney Tunes or whatever. These "writers" like to pretend that there's an imaginary rule that ALL references have to be with the times. The problem with that is that as the movie it's referencing ages over time, the joke goes stale quickly. Why go for a cheap laugh that'll only last a week when you can go for a laugh that'll last a lifetime, like Looney Tunes?
 
The most annoying sort of humour, for me, is where the whole joke is that something is random. This happens alot on Adult Swim shows, but there are some others.

Random humour, when done in moderation, can be hysterical, but when EVERY joke is supposed to be funny because it's a non-sequitur, it gets really old and annoying. It's not really random if you're expecting something completely unrelated. Clone High did it pretty well, and Family Guy in its pre-cancellation seasons was also generally fairly good. The Simpsons was also good about it in its heyday.
 
I totally blame crap like Meet the Spartans and other lazy projects like that for ruining pop culture jokes so no one else can ever use them again. I remember Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, etc... people that made fun of pop culture and referenced it for a purpose. Now because someone shoved a random Matrix joke in something, someone can't do an honest to goodness substancial parody of it. Now I can't use any of that stuff for myself. They've tainted it. God, I hate movies like Meet the Spartans.
 
Anytime one character spouts off some techno-babble and a second character asks them to say it "In English, please!" I want to slap them. ESPECIALLY when said techno-babble isn't that hard to understand to begin with (I recall an example where the most "sciency" words used were "prehistoric" and "unusual").

Fortunately this seems to have pretty much died with the 90s.
 
Didn't that whole African American stereotype happen with big mama from What's Happenin'?

Okay, Clinton is an exception...for now.

Whatever you say.

Whoops! I did miss Animaniacs. However, I think in this instance, Animaniacs was the exception, not the rule. Still, if you've seen The Anvil Chorus, there would really be no more point to watching any cartoon character get an anvil dropped on his/her head after that. Plucky drove the whole thing home for us.

Freakazoid parodied that cliche well in my opinion.
 
It sure did. So did Family Guy. It's just that many times this gag is used without any kind of twist. Hey Arnold abused this so much it got annoying, heck, even in the movie, it's used at least twice.
 
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