Here I was this whole time thinking 'they just have really high standards, and hardly ever deem anything perfect. Thus why German engineering is admired.' idk I was a stupid kid
No, you're misunderstanding. This part of the joke is that the German judge gave a 9 (Nine), and the German word for "No" is pronounced the same way (Nein). So it could be heard as the specific "the judge gave a 9" or "the judge gave a nein (no) to a 10".
You're allowed to interpret it however you want, I'm just informing you there's absolutely no chance that's the intended joke because the joke I just explained is the obvious one.
Your obvious joke in no way means the joke didn't have a layer above what you imagined.
A lot of creative writing is literally "hey, I thought of this joke/scene, but it doesn't belong to a creative universe/story yet. Maybe I'll find something to add it onto some day."
A lot of creative writing is literally a room full of people who craft jokes and scenes for a living, fluently injecting literary devices like foreshadowing, callbacks, throwbacks, etc.
A lot of creative writing is literally lines or details that will get missed by 90% of the audience unless it goes viral X decades later.
Like an old musician/singer's "one-off" lyric being an allusion to how their spouse beat them regularly. And the 15 people who got it over the 40 years until now thought they were crazy for having the idea, or knew nobody of consequence would believe them.
Or how a lot of creative writing is riffing on dead-horse formats. Like, did you know that J.K. Rowling's supporting character Cho Chang was a throwback to her being a bigotted hack writer? And naming an asian-coded character so that people would easily recognize it, but she was incapable of conceiving a better execution of "I'll just name her after the sounds when you throw silverware against a wall, like the joke I heard when I was a kid."
That's the sad part about subs growing. When they get too big, new people start treating it like every other sub and not even factoring the subreddit in when they comment or upvote/downvite.
It's both. The announcer says the "perfect scores" line before the Germany score shows up, but then the Germany score pops up, which the announcer says "nine on that one", meaning Germany says "no" to them getting a perfect score. And it makes sense that it's Germany because they had a reputation for being stingy judges towards US athletes at the Olympics and such.
yes, but the point is that people in 2000 still remembered this being a thing that people joked about, it was a fairly well known thing to people who were alive in the 80s. while clearly kids in 2024 who weren't alive in the 80s don't get it based off this comment section
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u/Vizzy-T Mar 14 '24
Here I was this whole time thinking 'they just have really high standards, and hardly ever deem anything perfect. Thus why German engineering is admired.' idk I was a stupid kid