This group of people could be, for example:
- a nuclear Family or (parts of) an extended family
- people of the same vocation or profession
- residents of a particular town or region
- Students and/or Alumni of a particular College or University
- viewers of a particular Television series or Cult Movie
- readers of a particular Book or series of books
- users of the same computer or computer Software
- a group of friends or work colleagues
- practitioners of a particular craft, art, or science
In-jokes sometimes appear in film and television. Such jokes may be visual (for example, a movie theatre marquee shown in the background of a scene might display the title of one of the film director's other works), or delivered in dialogue. In-jokes can also take the form of Homage s to other films or television series.
It is often considered impolite or otherwise meaningless to share in-jokes among those who are not "in" on the joke, since any hope of a laughing response will depend on a careful explanation of the joke's circumstances, thereby diluting the joke's effect.
- Scientist Joke s
- Typos introduced by the Typo Fairy : Professional editors and writers
- Story ideas coming from a mail-order business in authors (this in-joke was started by Harlan Ellison )
- The Wilhelm Scream : Movie sound technicians
- Letting out the
- The , it symbolizes what is seen as the absurdity of believing in a higher being; see also Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
- The motion picture '' Thunderbirds '' includes several references to puppets and marionettes, referring to the original television program's use of marionettes for its cast. (Most of these are subtle, though at one point the archvillain "The Hood," mentally controlling "Brains," remarks, "Like a puppet on a string!")
- The UnrealEd Goblin is a popular in-joke known by mappers and modders who use the UnrealEd tool, packaged with every successive version of Unreal -series games.
- Yoda's Theme from Star Wars is featured in the soundtrack of E.T. as a child in a Yoda costume is seen by the titular alien. Both scores were composed by John Williams . Conversely, ET-like creatures were featured in the Senate scene in The Phantom Menace .
- Similarly, an unused version of the cue "The Planet Krypton" from included a statement of the Force Theme from Star Wars . Both scores were composed by John Williams
- /--- You are not expected to understand this ---/ and Knuth's Forth Volume for Computer Scientists
- Sean Bean , who played the title role in the '' Sharpe '' series attempts to work the word 'sharp' into his dialogue whenever possible. For instance, in Peter Jackson 's Lord Of The Rings films, his character, Boromir , cuts himself on a broken sword and notes that it is "still sharp."
- Steven Spielberg served as executive producer for Gremlins and Back To The Future . The same backlot set was used to represent the cities in both films, and features a theater marquee with the titles "Watch the Skies" and "A Boy's Life," which were the respective working titles of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial .
- In Spaceballs , during the transformation of the ship called, "Metamorphosis", Dark Helmet asked, "Ready, Kafka?" This is a reference to Jewish author Franz Kafka , who wrote a book of the same name, which is arguably the most famous of his works.
- In '''', several access panels contained tiny in-jokes (they were never legible on screen, such as on all the "Jeffreys Tubes" is a small sign reading "GNDN", which stands for "Goes Nowhere Does Nothing"). Also, the main schematic of the ''Enterprise'' in engineering contained a mouse and a hamster on a treadmill.
- Uncyclopedia typically makes frequent references to Oscar Wilde , Steve Ballmer 's hitlist [http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/This_Guy This Guy and Kitten Huffing , etc.
- In '''s classic work '' The Metamorphosis .''
- 'Samus is male', especially common on online forums
- The abbreviation HFIL for the word hell among web-sites - originated from the edited Dragon Ball Z and later DBZ Uncensored.
- Clarus the Dogcow - Macintosh developers
- Every online community seems to accumulate its own in-jokes. On Slashdot these include hot grits down the pants, Natalie Portman, and "first post!" On MetaFilter they include pancakes, "we have cameras," and "this X, it vibrates?"
- A113 is an inside joke seen in animated films created by alumni of CalArts, referring to the classroom number used by animation students at the school.
- Australian Drop Bears
- The term " Guru Meditation " for users of the Amiga computer system. (A reference to an unusual message when the system crashed).
- Q: What do the cannibals eat in Brave New World ? A: Alpha-Beta Soup.
- In the film The Flame And The Arrow , the characters played by Burt Lancaster and Nick Cravat sneak past the villians in the story by posing as acrobats, performing a dangerous stunt. In reality, both actors used to work together as the circus acrobatic team of "Lang and Cravat" (Lancaster's character's line, "I always thought we should have been acrobats!", rubs this in even further).
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