Who is Holden McGroin? Joey looks for a new stage name. Over the episode he tries many of them on. By the end he appears on a stage and introduces himself with a name that gets lots of laughter from the audience. Joey: Holden McGroin. Who is Holden McGroin? And why is Joey taking that name is funny? At first I thought Holden McGroin is some all America-famous guy. But I googled and googled and nothing. But than I realized Holden McGroin is a play of sounds. If you say really quickly 'Holden McGroin' native speaker would hear not a name but three words 'holding my growing'. It is your first step in understanding the joke. The next step is that you got to know that 'growing' in slang means 'testicles'. The rest is pretty about putting two parts together. A man holding on to one's testicles in public is considered weird and therefore funny. I love this joke, not just because most of the traffic to this blog comes through googling 'Holden McGroin
Did you notice that about 7% of F.R.I.E.N.D.S jokes are hard to get? Especially if you are from a different country, like me. I've started this joke-research when I was learning English at home. I loved getting nerdy with all the cultural references here. The aim of this blog is to help you laugh with confidence at every joke our English speaking friends make. Subscribe to my YouTube channel. Explore the blog posts archive. And share your perspective on the jokes! Kate
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ReplyDeleteIn episode 20 season 2 , Richard Joey and Chandler were playing foosball when Monica entered and said to Richard "not to sound too Florence Henderson but dinner's on the table".
Why did she mean by that ? I did some research and found out Florence Henderson played the role of Carol Brady as a housewife. Did she use to say "dinner's on the table" a lot ?
Thanks in advance!
I can't believe that only you and I in the entire world has search that, where u from btw ? just to know if you're not a native English speaker too
Deletelmao Im searching the same rn but can't find the answer either
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Deleteig its some character as a stereotypical house wife
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