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Joke going over my head
Smasher
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I recently came across a clip on youtube from Animaniacs [vidurl="
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xmAC9Qu908"]here[/vidurl] (potentially NSFW due to the main joke at the end, but that's not the one confusing me). Six seconds into the clip Wakko picks up a telephone and says "I'd like forty-two pizzas, six with no crusts" and smiles right at the camera for a second before the scene moves on.
It's clearly intended to be a joke, but I can't figure out what it's supposed to be. Various explanations I've come up with:
... that he ordered so many pizzas for so few people
... that he randomly wanted six without crusts (if by crust he means only the outer edge)
... that you can't have a pizza without a crust (if he's talking about the entire crust, so no bread)
... a "42" reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (seems pretty unlikely, plus it doesn't explain the pizzas with no crust)
... it doesn't make sense and they're trying to confuse people (in which case they've wildly succeeded)
It's entirely possible it was just a dumb joke and I'm totally overthinking it, but I found a few other people on google asking the same question with no answer so maybe this topic can help them too once it gets indexed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xmAC9Qu908"]here[/vidurl] (potentially NSFW due to the main joke at the end, but that's not the one confusing me). Six seconds into the clip Wakko picks up a telephone and says "I'd like forty-two pizzas, six with no crusts" and smiles right at the camera for a second before the scene moves on.It's clearly intended to be a joke, but I can't figure out what it's supposed to be. Various explanations I've come up with:
... that he ordered so many pizzas for so few people
... that he randomly wanted six without crusts (if by crust he means only the outer edge)
... that you can't have a pizza without a crust (if he's talking about the entire crust, so no bread)
... a "42" reference to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (seems pretty unlikely, plus it doesn't explain the pizzas with no crust)
... it doesn't make sense and they're trying to confuse people (in which case they've wildly succeeded)
It's entirely possible it was just a dumb joke and I'm totally overthinking it, but I found a few other people on google asking the same question with no answer so maybe this topic can help them too once it gets indexed.
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the cheesey grin kind of puts too much focus on the passing joke though and makes it seem like it should have more of a punchline. i blame the director.
Imagine they had a scene at the pizza place. They do a whole skit where they try to work out how to do it on a whiteboard.
The pizza place calls back: "We're not going to be able to get this there in under 30 minutes."
He is ordering a pizza for Yakko and Dot, and ordering 41 for himself, six with no crusts. He eats a lot, and wants things that can't really be made, ha-HA!
It's been called out several times as a classic thing that has gotten by censors.
It's not remotely NSFW to have a play on words involving sticking your finger up Prince's asshole?
Dust for prints
I found Prince!
No, no, FINGER prints (hears Finger Prince)
I don't think so.
From what I remember of the theme tune (quite a lot of it surprisingly):
.....dot is cute and yakko yaks,
wakko packs away the snacks,
while Bill Clinton plays the sax.
They're Animaniacs!
I get that he's ordering a lot of pizzas because he eats a lot, then the 6 with no crust are just to mess with the Pizza place. Not really funny but I can see how a kid would laugh at it.
And yes, the number of pizzas is definitely just because he eats a lot.
From the Animaniacs Wiki:
Pretty much that.
bingo
it's what he does throughout the entire run of the show