10th March 2005, 6:31 PM
Well... namely when movies try to outdo themselves by referencing their own jokes in later movies. I dunno... examples.... nuts I can't think of much except some movies that didn't depend on it like Austion Powers... Or, like in the Daily Show where they, as of late, are just referencing their old jokes (the constant "or... NAMBLA" thing) It's like topical humor only the topic is yourself. And, I hate topical humor.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)