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So, having seen exactly 0 episodes of Star Trek... Can someone please explain?
Bald guy (captain Picard) always orders his tea in a way that kind of sounds odd given how voice interfaces actually turned out. (Tea, Earl grey, hot)
Another character orders tea how we would do so now, and we learn that he orders it that way because otherwise the ship explodes.
But why would ordering it the other way make the ship explode?
Your confusion is justified because using the explanations given, it's not a good joke.
There was an earlier similar joke posted that made much more sense. In a different episode of Star Trek, Beverly tells the computer to define hot as 1.9million Kelvin. This was shown in a panel of the earlier joke. So the Picard Earl Gray Hot joke becomes when Beverly asks for Hot Tea, the computer generates 1.9M Kelvin temperature tea causing the Enterprise to explode.
Unless the joke is you already have to know that whenever Beverly says "hot", the Enterprise explodes. In which case it is a very good subtle joke.
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A better joke would be if there was some sort of double meaning that the other order of words had
Charles Grey, boiled in water, appears in the replicator.
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Yeah but the subverted expectation actually has to make sense with some double meaning or unintended logical resul. If it doesn't then nothing was subverted and no such joke occurred.
That's what they're asking about.
No it doesn't. 😊
The outcome can be total nonsense and it still subverts the expectation that 1) you get tea, 2) the outcome makes sense.
If they had available footage of a stream of puppies being forcefully ejected from the replicator, that would also work.
But nothing else. Only the explosion and the puppy hose work.
OK. So, let's just assume, just theoretically, someone in your future let's you know you don't have a great sense of humor, feel free to come back and read those comments again.
So, you don't understand how a non-sequiter can be amusing, and so ... I'm not funny because I understood a joke?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(literary_device
There's something deeply weird about people insisting that humor has to be logical.
I never said I don't get it, just implied it isn't funny. And it obviously isn't to many people here judging by the votes.
By using fancy terms and feeling the need to link an explanation (the link is broken, by the way) you now give it a self-opinionated flair. Maybe you're the weird one.
You think non-sequiter is a fancy term?
I'm sorry that I explained a joke to someone who said they didn't get it.
I suppose the logical thing to do if you don't think a joke is funny is to complain about it in the comments though, particularly at people who didn't make the joke who just explained it to someone else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_(literary_device)
There's the fixed link. Not sure why the encoding went funky.
You think non-sequiter is a fancy term?
Yes. I'm not a native speaker but regularly consume English media and never heard or saw it mentioned. I can see your condescending grin in that seemingly rethorical question.
I'm sorry that I explained a joke to someone who said they didn't get it.
You repeat yourself. Still, nobody you replied to said they didn't understand.
I suppose the logical thing to do if you don't think a joke is funny is to complain about it in the comments though, particularly at people who didn't make the joke who just explained it to someone else.
Well, you insisted the joke is funny even though the comment saying it's not, got plenty of upvotes. I disagree with that notion, so the logical thing was to reply to your comment and not OP.
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I've seen every episode countless times. My reaction to this was "huh?"
Jokes need to make sense in context, or else they're just nonsensical. That is how humor works. This does not work.
I'm sure OP has plenty of other good ones, but this one didn't land. Just like the Enterprise!
It's okay to not find a joke funny, but jokes also don't have to make sense. Sometimes the nonsense or silliness of it is what makes it funny.
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Hahaha I get jokes.
Having seen the the first 639 episodes of Star Trek, I also don't get it.
I'm imagining that the other way is the ship's secret self destruct command.
It's explained in a technical manual.
Be very precise with the replicator.
Captain Picard always orders tea from the computer this way (Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.) The meme makes fun of why he might do that by imagining that saying it a more "natural" way is some kind of self-destruct cue.
I've seen all of them, and I'd also like an explanation.