I Guess His Face Rang a Bell

Cidu Bill on Feb 25th 2009

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But what’s the joke?

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20 Responses to “I Guess His Face Rang a Bell”

  1. assdad Feb 25th 2009 at 12:29 am 1

    A name, qualified with the word “the,” suggests the speaker believes but is unsure that he is speaking to a famous man. Quasimodo is so recognizable and freakishly deformed that someone being uncertain of his identity is humorously improbable.

  2. Kit Feb 25th 2009 at 12:47 am 2

    Well, there could be more than one, couldn’t there?
    (And once again, Bill, your caption is much funnier than the actual cartoon!)

  3. intoc Feb 25th 2009 at 12:50 am 3

    I think it’s in the stress of “the.” Since he’s always referred to as The Hunchback of Notre Dame, it’s odd to stress it. Very weak joke.

  4. PeterW Feb 25th 2009 at 12:59 am 4

    Yeah, the punchline is the reader asking, “there’s more than one?”

  5. ShireNomad Feb 25th 2009 at 02:44 am 5

    “No, just *A* Hunchback of Notre Dame; didn’t you hear I come in six packs?”

  6. ctd Feb 25th 2009 at 09:23 am 6

    ShireNomad, I was just going to write exactly the same thing, then got to your post. LOL! H2G2 rocks!

  7. Matthew Feb 25th 2009 at 09:55 am 7

    Yes, the point is that the hunchback has become a celeb, and the regular guy is impressed with seeing the real hunchback.

    (”Wait. You’re THE Miley Cyrus?!”)

  8. The Ploughman Feb 25th 2009 at 11:57 am 8

    I suspect some comics make the rotation because Bill has a good title for the post. This being one of them, for good reason.

  9. devildan Feb 25th 2009 at 12:13 pm 9

    The Ploughman, does that mean that you don’t think that this joke is confusing?

  10. Mark in Boston Feb 25th 2009 at 12:32 pm 10

    Sometimes in the middle of the night I’ll dream up a hilariously funny joke, and sometimes I’ll even write it down, and when I get up in the morning it’s usually like this one.

    For example:

    “What kind of dog is that?”

    “It’s not a dog, it’s a hound!”

    Maybe the cartoonist always keeps a notebook beside his bed?

  11. Jon88 Feb 25th 2009 at 01:53 pm 11

    Having submitted this one as an LOL, I suppose I should speak up. Except it’s already been explained. Yes, it’s the middle of the conversation. It’s absurd, it’s silly, it made me laugh. I’m also a fan of the very recently late Howard Zieff’s “Slither,” and I’m pretty much alone in that as well.

  12. padraig Feb 25th 2009 at 05:18 pm 12

    “Hey Quasimodo, who’s gonna win the big game tonight?”
    “I dunno, but I got a HUNCH!”

  13. p Feb 25th 2009 at 05:49 pm 13

    “What kind of dog is that?”
    “It’s not a dog, it’s a hound!”

    ^^^ this joke is really amusing to me.

  14. Singapore Bill Feb 26th 2009 at 03:16 am 14

    That’s no dog; that’s my wife!

    A classic!

  15. Ian Osmond Feb 26th 2009 at 11:21 am 15

    My guess is just that the guy is really thrilled to be running into a celebrity at the coffee shop.

  16. The Ploughman Feb 26th 2009 at 05:08 pm 16

    @devildan - I didn’t find the comic confusing, though I’m not blaming those that do. I’m just conjecturing that if there’s a comic that Bill may understand if he thought about it a little more but has a good pun for the title, it’s more likely to get posted. Maybe I’m giving too much credit to his comic understanding? Or his trademark puns (of which I am a fan)? Is it weird to keep referring to him in the third person on a site he runs and moderates? Do I need to stop asking questions that probably have no useful answers?

  17. CIDU Bill Feb 26th 2009 at 05:19 pm 17

    This is a fair question, Ploughman; but no, I never post a comic here simply for the sake of a good caption. In fact, there are time when I have a comic all ready to post, and suddenly I get it, and my first thought is “Damn, and I really liked that caption!”

    While I suppose there are some comics I could decipher by doing some online research, remember that CIDU was around long before Google existed — this site strated out on Prodigy and then CompuServe — so that just isn’t my habit.

  18. Todd Feb 26th 2009 at 05:51 pm 18

    Yesterday at work, I noticed the name Kevin Smith on a folder. It was, apparently, not THE Kevin Smith.

    That’s all there really is to the joke. Same with One Big Happy.

  19. Cidu Bill Feb 26th 2009 at 06:14 pm 19

    A while back I received an ad in the mail for “Bill Bickel, Chimney Sweep.” Apparently not THE “Bill Bickel,” but an odd experience nonetheless.

  20. mike jones Feb 27th 2009 at 06:27 pm 20

    THE Strange Brew.

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