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And, they have years of other comedy news skits, including Defence where they discuss aircraftless aircraft carriers. Hoo-rah.

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[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago
[–] remon@ani.social 26 points 1 day ago (7 children)

How the hell can you know the phrase without having seen the clip???

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

plan 9, lol

[–] halloween_spookster@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

The meme fell off

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Memetic osmosis.

Lots of people know 42 is the answer of everything, but don't know it comes from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you get when you multiply six by nine?

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How many roads must a man walk down?

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Possibly the mice could tell you.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 points 1 day ago

If you know the answer, do you know the question?

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

TIL it was from Clark and Dawe, and that they had many more skits. However, TIDNL about the meme that has been a round for years.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

Rigorous meme engineering standards.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People in comments section will take any opportunity to repeat lines or make references.

Though at least they don't do this bit as much as the sand quote.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The star wars one or is there another?

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I always thought Too Many Cooks was just the simple phrase. Not the whole masterpiece of a video.

It is possible to hear part of the joke, without knowing the whole joke.

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

I sometimes wonder if they have any thoughts regarding the internet notoriety of that one particular skit out of so many.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and I'd just like to say that Clarke is a New Zealander that had to move across the ditch because NZ is just too small to contain such talent

Look up Fred Dagg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYvMeT2GC14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeUzrsjwF4I

[–] lime@feddit.nu 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i'd like to note that's not typical.

We’ll tow it outside the environment.

[–] IWW4@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

TIL I learned about The Front Fell Off. Holy shit that was hilarious!

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Video doesn't seem to work in the States, even with a VPN, but this one did:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Forgot to strip out the arguments at the end of the URL, should work now. Thanks!