brick joke

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A joke in a film, television show, book etc, in which there is a substantial gap between set-up and punchline; typically bringing back an unresolved plot point after the audience is expected to have forgotten about it.
    — The invisible car is a variant on something called a brick joke: actually a pair of jokes in which the first sets up an unresolved element that returns as the punch line of the second, ideally after the listener has forgotten about it.

词形变化

brick jokes plural

词源

First coined on media analysis wiki TV Tropes, inspired by an older pair of jokes. In the first joke, a man throws a brick in the air in the punchline. The second joke appears to be unrelated, but then ends with a dog catching the brick.
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