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Movie Jokes That Went Over Viewers’ Heads for Years

Realizing a joke from Dumb and Dumber went over my head made me feel like the title of the movie.

But sometimes, a comedy is so dense with jokes that it’s nearly impossible to pick up on every callback, background gag and Easter egg on a first viewing — and, other times, we, the audience, are just dense. While there are films like The Big Lebowski that are layered with secrets and between-the-lines brilliance, everyone has a blind spot where obvious jokes in a movie script simply slip past us. Whether we’re too young to pick up on an innuendo or too European to get the American reference, at some point, a joke is going to fly over everyone’s head. Sometimes, one specific joke flies over everyone’s head until decades later when we find out that Guns N’ Roses wrote a song for Terminator 2: Judgement Day and the disguise that the T-800 used for his signature shotgun was actually a wink to those in the know.

Matt Rife Is Such A Great Comic That He Needs Jordan Peterson to Explain Why He’s Funny

Matt Rife is in the dog house with his mostly female fanbase, so, to save his career, he’s asking for help from a figure who earned massive online success without a single woman fan – Jordan Peterson.

Just weeks ago, Rife commanded one of the largest and most fervent following of women in the online comedy community. With his (possibly literally) sculpted jawline, his impressive physique and his enthusiasm for suggestive interactions with fans, Rife was equally beloved by Gen Z girls as he was by their mothers and grandmothers. However, in his debut Netflix special, Natural Selection, which skyrocketed to the top of the charts upon its November 10th release, Rife made a deliberate effort to distance himself from the pretty boy persona that turned off many male comedy fans from taking the Ohio-born social media star seriously. Rife infamously opened the special with a “Nothing, you already told her twice”-esque joke about domestic violence, which sparked media controversy and blowback from women in his fandom who felt betrayed by his sudden and intentional heel-turn towards insipid, unoriginal dude-bro comedy.

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