Setting up a stupid question just to deliver a pun as a punchline is 100% a dad joke in my book.

I’m interested to hear what you think is required for a joke to be a dad joke.

Dad jokes are classically built around puns, as is the case here.

Setting up context doesn’t make this a knock knock joke.

Enshitified product exists - > good alternative arises to meet demand - > good alternative becomes popular - > good alternative either becomes enshitified to maximize profits or is purchased by owner of original enshitified product.

The capitalist way.

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Frame it however you want but this was how 12-20 year old American males spoke to each other in the 90s and early 2000s.

It’s only satire here because their doctors are talking like that.

Haha. Well done. At the time that this movie came out, this dialogue wasn’t even considered that offensive.

It was kind of like an Australian calling someone a cunt.

OK, but really wouldn’t amazon and the publisher take a fat cut? Shouldn’t this be like, how I made $50,000

Being rich is a little different than being a beach bum.

Living radical takes a toll, bro.