Abby and Norma #202
11 June, 2008 - Posted by: erika
I don't actually think Gordon Brown is a clown. But Bush is definitely a Ferengi in a gorilla suit.
TEXT OF COMIC:
"The clown can stay, but the Ferengi in the gorilla suit has to go."
What?
I still can't figure out what the joke could have been.
When Data gets his emotion chip activated, he suddenly laughs at the punch line of a joke Geordi told him a long time ago. The punch line was, "The clown can stay, but the Ferengi in the gorilla suit has to go." I just can't think of a good joke that would actually have that punch line.
I mean, it has a lot of elements that could be in a joke-- a clown, a Ferengi, a gorilla suit... and yet somehow they don't add up to anything. I've got an excellent imagination, but I've been thinking for days, and I can't make up a good beginning for that joke.
"How come George W. Bush is leaving office and Gordon Brown isn't?"
No good. Without the connection to the Star Trek movie, it's not really a joke, it's just calling people names. If you told it to someone, they wouldn't laugh unless they had already heard the punch line in the movie.
Yeah. Plus, Geordi would never say it. Too anachronistic.
Justaguye - 25 November, 2008 - 01:48:15
-Because he'd never seen a klingon up close before, and Data's face looks like it's covered in clown makeup.
Where's the Geek cred?! :oP