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
This is a tricky one since most of this isn't even an obvious reference to anything, it's just intuition.
ReplyDeleteIn 1972 and 73, 'Chad' was one of the top names for boys. In 95, anyone born in 93 would've been 22.
'Shiny' implies a reflective sheen, either from water, oil, or something else. So it could be sweat, oily skin, a lot of hair product, or some combination of the two.
Oily young men with carefully styled hair, loitering around 'those women', who are older and probably somewhat wealthy.
Basically she is saying she feels like a lonely, old woman who has hired a young male prostitute.
I love it! There would be no way I could have guessed it without your help.
Deletethank you for your explanation
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