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
Well, was not hard to find an answer though).
ReplyDeleteAs wiki suggests http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S'more:
"S'more" comes from shortening "some more" - a name for is a traditional nighttime campfire treat popular in the United States and Canada, consisting of a roasted marshmallow and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two pieces of graham cracker.
Also 'bunking up' is a very folksy way of referring to sleeping in the same room, reminiscent of the days of institutional outdoors camps that most children back in the 70s and 80s went to, for the summer. The camp counselors stereotypically spoke, (and still did speak, when I was younger) in that folksy, artificially friendly way.
ReplyDeleteI like that. It is like a professor of Japanese said "it is always clear when the guy learns his Japanese from his Japanese girlfriend. Women and men speak with a different manner, different words in our country." And here is the same. I would totally use this expression, and would not even sense that there are such a feel to it.
DeleteS'mores are a snack made by toasting a marshmallow until it is melty, then sandwiching it with some chocolate between two squares of graham crackers. it's a traditional campfire snack associated with camping. Chandler makes the joke because of Joey saying "bunking up", which is a phrase associated with younger children or with camping in cabins with bunks. These are the two situations where there are usually bunks (bunk beds) involved; usually adults don't use bunkbeds unless camping.
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