{"id":6905,"date":"2015-11-12T01:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=6905"},"modified":"2015-11-12T01:25:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T05:25:57","slug":"the-new-thats-what-she-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2015\/11\/12\/the-new-thats-what-she-said\/","title":{"rendered":"The New That&#8217;s What She Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the sexual innuendo. Comedy at it&#8217;s best. Simultaneously low-hanging fruit and a playground for elaboration and weird twists and turns. Just this past Friday ComCo ended their improv show with some downright dirty &#8220;I like my men like I like my&#8230;&#8221; jokes &#8211; not only a refreshing departure from jokes about women (been there, done that), but a great way to compare men to clocks. Those dongs though.<\/p>\n<p>The best token innuendo to carry around in your pocket in recent years has been the\u00a0well-renowned and oft-overused\u00a0&#8220;that&#8217;s what she said,&#8221; the catchphrase of one Michael Scott, manager of Dunder Mifflin&#8217;s Scranton office. I would give you some examples of this timing-reliant joke, but it might be better to show you one of the best scenes in which it is used:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ly84CagzobU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though the fad of the &#8220;that&#8217;s what she said&#8221; has passed, it is still one of the classic meme&#8217;s of our generation, and a safety net to fall back on when in a war of wit and out of retorts. \u00a0As generally happens, though, there is a new kid in town, thanks to a very special detective from Brooklyn Nine-Nine.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Jake Peralta will never pass up the opportunity to turn a relatively innocent comment into a slight about one&#8217;s sex life, and as a result has developed a pair of spectacular comebacks. &#8220;That&#8217;s the name of your sex tape&#8221; and &#8220;That was your nickname in high school&#8221; might seem innocuous enough on first glance, but timed right and land hard. Here are a few examples of titles\/nicknames, because there isn&#8217;t a good montage online:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kind, sober, and fully dressed.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s not your fault, I was terrible.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m terrible at this, when can we stop.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;But seriously, what is taking so long?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry about tonight!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It was slightly less unbearable with you.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Not even going to touch that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These jokes haven&#8217;t quite caught on yet, but I imagine that their day is right around the corner. In a country where we turn everything into sex, we might as well enjoy ourselves while we do it, which is why I carry these two quips around with me, waiting for just the right moment to pull them out. Until they set their roots in pop culture, I know I will get more than a few confused looks, but it&#8217;s worth the last laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Now, about the Aristocrats&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the sexual innuendo. Comedy at it&#8217;s best. Simultaneously low-hanging fruit and a playground for elaboration and weird twists and turns. Just this past Friday ComCo ended their improv show with some downright dirty &#8220;I like my men like I like my&#8230;&#8221; jokes &#8211; not only a refreshing departure from jokes about women (been there, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[823,141,824],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6905"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6909,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions\/6909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}