When a joke either requires too much background information or requires too little, therefore making the joke boring.
Person 1: “What do you call a washing machine?”
Person 2: “I don’t know”
Person 1: “A nuke”
Person 2: “Why?”
Person 1: “Because in 1947 a group of scientists discovered if you put a nuke in your washing machine, it turns into a nuke as the inside is constantly rotating.”
Person 2: “Carter Joke”
Person 2: “I don’t know”
Person 1: “A nuke”
Person 2: “Why?”
Person 1: “Because in 1947 a group of scientists discovered if you put a nuke in your washing machine, it turns into a nuke as the inside is constantly rotating.”
Person 2: “Carter Joke”
by moosh May 7, 2021