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[DISCUSSION] [SPOILERS] LOKI S02E02 - Breaking Brad (www.imdb.com)
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EPISODE RELEASE DATE RUNNING TIME CREDITS SCENE?
S02E02 - Breaking Brad Oct 12th, 2023 on Disney+ 51m NONE

Premise:

With the TVA on the verge of a temporal meltdown, Loki and Mobius will stop at nothing to find Sylvie.

Director(s):

Dan DeLeeuw

Writer(s):

Eric Martin, Michael Waldron
CAST
Tom Hiddleston ... Loki
Liz Carr ... Judge Gamble
Sophia Di Martino ... Sylvie
Gugu Mbatha-Raw ... Ravonna Renslayer
Tara Strong ... Miss Minutes (voice)
Owen Wilson ... Mobius
Ke Huy Quan ... O.B.
Rafael Casal ... Brad Wolfe
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[-] hansl@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I didn’t fully get the knock knock joke…

[-] r2vq@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mobius: Knock Knock

Brad: Who's there?

Mobius: Brad

Brad: Brad who?

Mobius: That's show business

This is a bit of an old joke but the humour comes from two layers.

The first layer comes from the last two lines. Brad is a famous actor, so probably a household name. So the expectation is that nobody would ask who he was in the same way nobody would ask "Beyonce who?" But Hollywood is fickle and stars today can easily become forgotten tomorrow. Pretending not to know a celebrity is an insult that is associated with this nature of Hollywood. Hence the "That's show business line" where the jokester acts like they're reluctantly agreeing that the celebrity isn't famous anymore. This is extra hurtful since the famous person is the one tricked into saying "...(their own name) who?"

The second layer comes from the expectation of the structure of a regular knock knock joke. Since this joke doesn't follow that structure, it breaks expectations and creates humour.

Mainly it's the first part though.

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