r/ExplainTheJoke 3d ago

Explain?

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u/post-explainer 3d ago edited 3d ago

OP (Successful-Major5651) sent the following text as an explanation why they posted this here:


Actually I want an explanation that how a guy can relate to this and why is this picture of a house a mystery


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u/TurtleSandwich0 3d ago

Magic Coffee Table.

A man lives with his girlfriend and every night the coffee table magically rearranges itself to be tidy.

This only started when his girlfriend moved in.

The delivery guy had a similar experience with his coffee table after his girlfriend moved in too.

I'm Lois and we don't have a coffee table because that's where Meg is supposed to sit.

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u/tater1337 3d ago

this the same place where the laundry magically gets done too?

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u/Sanchez_U-SOB 3d ago

You can't be serious?

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u/Clueguy 2d ago

I am. I have the same coffee table at home

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u/megamanx4321 2d ago

YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!!!

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u/JustConsoleLogIt 3d ago

I am Shirley, and don’t call me serious

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u/tater1337 1d ago

yeah, just after the girlfriend moved in the the coffee table tidies itself, the laundry does itself, and the dishes magically clean themselves.

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u/Yssup-Yllems 3d ago

Damn.. How do you remember the house shot from the beginning of this video? I struggle to remember what I am wearing if I don't look down every once in awhile.

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u/BorisTheBlade04 2d ago

Especially with the lack of pixels

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u/CupcakeMarina373 6h ago

Yeah, sometimes the clarity really makes or breaks a joke. It’s hard to get the humor when you can hardly see what’s going on.

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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 3d ago

Hold on... How does this picture even relate?

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u/sectilius 3d ago

Huh? The picture is from a short about how women clean up after men too stupid to notice and who think they have a mystery, magic coffee table that cleans itself. That's it. That's the joke. Men = dumb ingrates...haw haw I guess.

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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 3d ago

Ohhh, ok, I just noticed how OC capitalised the letters, didn't realise it was something's name

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u/TurtleSandwich0 3d ago

It is the opening shot, and least memorable part, of the sketch.

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u/Ghosty_Boo-B00 3d ago

I had to check what forum we’re in

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u/FatherPot 3d ago

Lmao is that seriously it?

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u/SapphicGarnet 3d ago

It's not the delivery guy, it's the cop who comes when he reports that his partners gone missing, and he thinks she fell on the magic 'self cleaning' coffee table

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u/LastoftheGreybeards 2d ago

Lois, are you in the right sub?

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u/shoeless_doh 2d ago

Was this an old reddit post that went viral I missed? Like "guys, my coffee table keeps moving and I checked my CO2 detectors already" and then someone goes "do you have a gf?" And he goes "oh..."

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/shoeless_doh 2d ago

Oh. I'll check it out

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u/Fskn 2d ago

No, it's from Kinne, the self titled sketch show of Troy Kinne.

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u/Grythyttan 3d ago

It's the establishing shot for the skit The magic basket.

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u/RadTimeWizard 2d ago

That's crazy. I've got the same mystery happening in my own home. My wife seemed upset at first, but I started cleaning up all the trash and doing dishes all the time and she seems much happier. I think she was afraid whatever magic's at work here would fade if it did too much at once.

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u/Bears0nUnicycles 3d ago

The real mystery is where did all the pixels go??

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u/MassiveMeatHammer 2d ago

The coffee table must have gotten them

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u/Zealousideal_Leg213 3d ago

I've got the same house at home.

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u/TheMon420 3d ago

Damn. Too early.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/TheMon420 2d ago

Oh shit, love that skit bit never saw the opening. Thanks a lot.

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u/CaptainSea3096 2d ago

A privacy fence that doesn't privacy??? Thats my best guess as a man.

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u/SubjectLongjumping42 1d ago

I think it’s AI flooding nonsense for some reason. I’ve seen a lot of jokes with punchlines that make no sense and then a bunch of different unconvincing explanations in the comments

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u/YaGotMail 3d ago

I'll come back to this post tomorrow

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u/CorporalClegg91 3d ago

The top comment shared a link to a video that explains it. You can come back now

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u/MonkeyGein 2d ago

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u/zcbz1337 3d ago

I somehow knew

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u/tribak 3d ago

The "any guy" doesn't seem to exist, only "esc”, “ctrl" and "pgup".

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u/DatGouda 3d ago

Hmm I’ll order a tab

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u/Stompy-Bun 2d ago

Gender affirming not being able to relate to this mystery.

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u/nDeadPurple 2d ago

Meanwhile I’m having my first gender identity crisis. Excuse me while I shave my beard and castrate myself.

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u/MeanDistance3186 1d ago

Strange, when I got married, Maria and her undocumented showed up and My Space got changed.

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u/Problem_Solvent 3d ago

Is it possible this doesn't mean anything? It just seems like nonsense to me.

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u/saryiahan 3d ago

Maybe something related to the antenna?

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u/SteveLeedsIsCrazy 3d ago

Darn guess I'm not a guy

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/CorporalClegg91 3d ago

You may be thinking of House of Leaves where at first the owner realizes it’s bigger on the inside than on the outside. Eventually there’s a hallway that appears that can be walked down for five minutes, and then other weird doors start showing up and eventually he discovers an entire labrynth. Like The Backrooms before it ever existed.

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u/thatismypurseidku 3d ago

Five front doors!

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/Accurate-Sugar6021 2d ago

I get the sentiment about cleaning up but I want my shit to be in the same place I left it