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
The first part might be from "Star Wars". Something like "Luke I am your father"?
ReplyDeletethe role of the father is sometimes known to be "the head of the family"
ReplyDeleteHe is....
THE HEEEEAD.
(of the family)
That makes sense. We also say a similar thing about a father of a family.
DeleteI think zombie dig is correct, and Phoebe must have said that because when he is with Susan and Carol, Ross always tries to maintain his superiority (like by playing sperm card) meaning he tries to be a head
DeleteI like it)) This is so cute, when Ross gets insecure about his role in the tricky family of three parents and one kid. Maybe, indeed sensitive Phoebe is just innocently channeling Ross's underlying message?
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