Why can this apparently simple and mundane punchline be so interesting and surprising? Here are the reasons. Sitcoms become powerful due to their jokes. And their jokes become powerful if their punchline, their main part that delivers their real meaning and their bulk of humor, is revealing enough to make all the jokes funny, sensible, and right. Perhaps, the most notable thing about this punchline that makes it shocking and amusing at the same time is the fact that it is a pun.
During the cold open of episode 20 season 4 of How I Met Your Mother, the scene opens with Barney, Ted, and Marshall laughing at the table when Lily walks up and sits down. Barney wants to tell her this great joke he heard at work today, but Ted and Marshall are frantically waving at him not to tell it. They are claiming that it is only boy funny and not girl funny. He claims that is sexist, and a funny joke is a funny joke. He says that Lily is cool, and she will think that the joke is funny.
Barney proceeds to tell Lily the joke. The answer to the joke was not revealed. Lily does not appear in the rest of the episode. The joke was simply put in because Alyson Hannigan, who plays Lily, was in the final weeks of her pregnancy, and she was going on maternity leave.
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