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I don't understand the joke


When Grandpa says he's stuffed something for the widow Johnson, Michael then says "What'd ya stuff for her... Mr. Johnson?" Grandpa looks a bit mad about it, then Sam says "That wasn't funny Mike".

Maybe its simple but for the life of me i never understood it, i mean i guess its supposed to be insulting or something but i don't see how.

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He stuffed her. With his penis. ;)

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It refers to Grandpa's job/hobby of taxidermy. Mrs. Johnson is a widow, therefore her husband, Mr. Johnson, is dead. Michael is implying that Grandpa stuffed Mr. Johnson's dead body as if it were a hunting trophy.

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Oh i see, for some reason i always thought Michael was calling him Mr Johnson.

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LOL, my brain didn't catch that. Thank you! :)

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I just never got why Sam looked so angry about it "That wasn't funny Mike!" and made some squishy face as if Michael had just said something so disrespectful to Grandpa, when it didn't really come off that disrespectful to me.

Even Grandpa seems like the type that would have laughed about it and made another joke back at him, but even Grandpa looked insulted and just left.

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It was too dark a ‘joke’ - asking an old geezer on a date with a widow if he’d sfuffed the corpse of her deceased husband as a gift to her. Telling the joke to his gandrad was even more inappropriate.

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Michael is implying Grandpa is stuffing his “Johnson” (a slang term for penis) into the elderly widow.

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That's the way I thought it was meant to be.

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I'm amazed at this thread and how this has been misinterpreted.

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It refers to Grandpa's job/hobby of taxidermy. Mrs. Johnson is a widow, therefore her husband, Mr. Johnson, is dead. Michael is implying that Grandpa stuffed Mr. Johnson's dead body as if it were a hunting trophy.

It was too dark a ‘joke’ - asking an old geezer on a date with a widow if he’d stuffed the corpse of her deceased husband as a gift to her. Telling the joke to his granddad was even more inappropriate.

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I took it to mean Michael was joking by implying Grandpa killed Mr Johnson (then he would have stuffed him) to get him out of the way. Then he could have the widow Johnson.

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Correct

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Stuffing his cock in her pussy

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