I first heard this term in How I Met Your Mother when Ted dressed up as a hanging Chad for Halloween. I tried to look it up & Google basically just said that it was a voting ballot that people used to punch holes out of. But I feel like I’m missing something.. in the show, they would make fun of Ted for wearing an outdated costume
& would tell him that “the hanging Chad reference
Is very old” & that most people wouldn’t understand it. Which signifies some sort of inside joke or understanding, but I don’t get it. please! Thank you!
In: 373
Everyone here has explained the hanging chad, part. But not the why the joke is funny. The joke is funny because of two parts:
– 1 It’s funny to me and the characters because I am (like the characters) old enough to remember the 2000 election and how ridiculous the situation was, so making a costume about that situation is funny. It would be like if you dressed up for Halloween as Kevin McCarthy’s gavel. Funny because of the current political debacle.
– 2 It’s also making fun of Ted for being old. You not understanding why it’s funny because you’re too young to understand why … is exactly the joke. He’s trying to be young and cool, but he’s wearing a costume that tells everyone: He is not young. And he is not cool.
Latest Answers