Can someone explain?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok
It's from an episode of Star Trek TNG. Picard tries to communicate with an alien whose language is almost wholly made up of allegories and allusion to stories in their folklore and history.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Shakka when the walls fell.
They made a play on this by having Rey and Luke communicate the same way.
After explaining all this I'm now as big a nerd as Shorty.
Good episode.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok
It's from an episode of Star Trek TNG. Picard tries to communicate with an alien whose language is almost wholly made up of allegories and allusion to stories in their folklore and history.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Shakka when the walls fell.
They made a play on this by having Rey and Luke communicate the same way.
After explaining all this I'm now as big a nerd as Shorty.
Yes. If you have to explain it, it's not funny. Not even close.Can someone explain?
Yes. If you have to explain it, it's not funny. Not even close.
...which is always the case. I'm not sure what's worse, these so-called nerds that don't even know about Darmok, or someone actually explaining the joke.
...which is always the case. I'm not sure what's worse, these so-called nerds that don't even know about Darmok, or someone actually explaining the joke.
I still don't get it. I'm familiar with Star Wars and Star Trek, I've seen the episode and movie that the joke is based on, and it still seems like a simple reference rather than a joke.
"Hey! Remember that episode where they encounter people with a weird language? Let's caption a Star Wars scene that way!"
"Dude! Totally! Do that! Funniest joke EVAR!" :/
I still don't get it. I'm familiar with Star Wars and Star Trek, I've seen the episode and movie that the joke is based on, and it still seems like a simple reference rather than a joke.
"Hey! Remember that episode where they encounter people with a weird language? Let's caption a Star Wars scene that way!"
"Dude! Totally! Do that! Funniest joke EVAR!" :/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok
It's from an episode of Star Trek TNG. Picard tries to communicate with an alien whose language is almost wholly made up of allegories and allusion to stories in their folklore and history.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Shakka when the walls fell.
They made a play on this by having Rey and Luke communicate the same way.
After explaining all this I'm now as big a nerd as Shorty.
It's in my top 5 of most annoying episode of the series. I lost count of how many times I heard "when the walls fell," but it seemed like 100.
Shawn of Anandtech, when the Trek reference failed.Yes. If you have to explain it, it's not funny. Not even close.Can someone explain?
I had a basic World History course at college, and one book we had to read was Lysistrata. This was a heavily annotated version though. They explained pop culture references, or things like jokes or puns that made sense if you were alive a few thousand years ago, and if you were reading it in the original language. A phrase like "the catatonic cat fell off a mat and made a splat" would very likely not have the same effect if you translated it to something where there the rhyming was completely lost.I just thought it was a stupid idea in the first place. To understand/create the allegories/allusions they have to understand what the individual words mean too, which means that they do have a traditional language where each word has a meaning. Why did these people have names and how do you know what happened there without traditional language that would have to accompany the story?
:'(Meh, I'm one of presumably many "nerds" who don't foam at the mouth for Star Trek. I enjoyed the original movies but never cared enough to follow the many different TV series it spawned. But I do enjoy Picard jokes.
I still don't get it. I'm familiar with Star Wars and Star Trek, I've seen the episode and movie that the joke is based on, and it still seems like a simple reference rather than a joke.
"Hey! Remember that episode where they encounter people with a weird language? Let's caption a Star Wars scene that way!"
"Dude! Totally! Do that! Funniest joke EVAR!" :/
I just thought it was a stupid idea in the first place. To understand/create the allegories/allusions they have to understand what the individual words mean too, which means that they do have a traditional language where each word has a meaning. Why did these people have names and how do you know what happened there without traditional language that would have to accompany the story?
It wasn't funny except maybe in an absurdist way, like this classic
but that's a stretch. IMO it was just an uninspired reference pretending to be a joke. Still Darmok is a well known episode, both because it's loved and because it's hated.
And no joke should ever be explained (unless it's a meta joke where the joke is that you're explaining the joke, but even then you should never explain that you're explaining it for that reason). Either the joke was dumb, you misread the audience, or the audience is dumb, but either way it's best for everyone to just move on. The second a joke is explained, whatever was there disappears in a puff of unfunny.
This one is funny because the sweat stains look like the bat signal. The bat signal was from a comic called "Batman" which is about a crime fighting vigilante who dresses as a bat to scare criminals. When the police want him they shine a bright light into the sky that forms the shape of a bat. This is because batman doesn't want them to know his phone number.
This one is funny because the sweat stains look like the bat signal. The bat signal was from a comic called "Batman" which is about a crime fighting vigilante who dresses as a bat to scare criminals. When the police want him they shine a bright light into the sky that forms the shape of a bat. This is because batman doesn't want them to know his phone number.
:'(
I....I feel like I don't even know who you are anymore!