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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Beating something into the ground can be funny, and beating something into the ground WAAAAAY past its "sell by date" can be even funnier. For example, see 'The Family Guy', where jokes extend so far past the point where they should have ended that they become funny again.
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Like on Taxi when Christopher Lloyd was taking his driving test and the gang showed up to help him cheat. He asked them, "What does the yellow light mean?" They whispered back, "Slow down." So CL said, "What . . . does . . . the . . . yellow . . . light . . . mean?" They replied, "Slow down."
The director had instructed the cast to keep repeating this until the audience stopped laughing. On the part that aired, they must have repeated the bit 5 or 6 times. The first time got a decent laugh, second time, not so much because it was expected. After the third time, the laughter began increasing, because the the repetition itself was unexpected. I know I was laughing my ass off by the end of the espisode.
Notice they only did this technique once during the run of Taxi. Why wasn't it repeated?
