Do you get this joke?

dr.girlfriend · November 2009

From "House," apparently it's funny but DH and I can't figure out why. House has a black eye. Someone asks him what happened, and he says, "I was mowing the lawn when the phone rang."

jtx · November 2009

Haha. I think it's funny because it's just so outrageous that those two things would even occur together, let alone cause a black eye.

*wicket* · November 2009

jtx:
Haha. I think it's funny because it's just so outrageous that those two things would even occur together, let alone cause a black eye.

Yeah, I agree. It's ridiculous - that's the point.

SunRocks · November 2009

I don't get it.

rkto · November 2009

SunRocks:
I don't get it.

I dont get it

hawaii123 · November 2009

I don't know...is it just a way to change the subject because the person is suppose to ask who called?

miss1180 · November 2009

i think its just house's sarcastic way of saying " i'm not telling you".... just giving them a crazy answer so they shake their head and change the subject

ready2go · November 2009

miss1180:
i think its just house's sarcastic way of saying " i'm not telling you".... just giving them a crazy answer so they shake their head and change the subject

this

kingapastora · June 2010

he was having sex with a girl the <lawn> the phone rang his other girl and he got hit

GreysMom · June 2010

I thought is suppose to be a spin off of the stereotype of a battered woman who has obviously been hit, but says something like "I ran into a doorknob." Dark humor, but humor.... How does one run into a doorknob & get a black eye; how does the phone ringing whilst mowing the lawn give one a black eye?

Willisaurus · June 2010

How do you even hear the phone ring while you're mowing the lawn?

amamba · June 2010

Am I the only one that thought "mowing the lawn" = eating out a woman?

mrs chicken · July 2010

I'd be distracted trying to follow that. If that was the point, mission accomplished.

Knitty · July 2010

It's funny because you're meant to spend five minutes trying to figure out how that results in a black eye. And because Hugh Laurie could read the phone book and make it funny.

GreysMom:
I thought is suppose to be a spin off of the stereotype of a battered woman who has obviously been hit, but says something like "I ran into a doorknob." Dark humor, but humor.... How does one run into a doorknob & get a black eye; how does the phone ringing whilst mowing the lawn give one a black eye?

Half open door in the dark. I've done it, but didn't get a black eye.

Jeri'smama · July 2010

GreysMom:
I thought is suppose to be a spin off of the stereotype of a battered woman who has obviously been hit, but says something like "I ran into a doorknob." Dark humor, but humor.... How does one run into a doorknob & get a black eye; how does the phone ringing whilst mowing the lawn give one a black eye?

This is what I thought as well. Of course, my brain is just mostly geared toward dark humor in the first place, so maybe that's why my mind goes there.

JakeLogan · October 2015

5 years later and I'm obliged to post this, since not one of you on here figured it out. Necromancy be damned.

It's based on a joke / urban legend / true story:

"What happened to your face?"

"I was doing the ironing when the phone rang."

House is simply putting a surreal twist on an old joke.

"Battered women" indeed. Sheesh.

CuriousKiddosMama · October 2015

@JakeLogan welcome to the board, but don't post on something 5 years old. Those people aren't around any more, there have been a couple mas exodus since then.
Post on the new posts, or create your own.

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