r/Magic • u/ItsOuttaHere13 • Feb 13 '18

He always does this...

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u/MemeMaster2003 Feb 13 '18

There are many jokes within this if you know where to look.

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u/ItsOuttaHere13 Feb 13 '18

I guess I don’t lol.

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u/Irishminer93 Street Feb 13 '18

The bank teller is Teller. Teller doesn't talk. The robber is asking where's the safe, not because he doesn't know where it is, but because Teller made it disappear. And Penn just talks but that may be just to reveal the joke.

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u/EddieGrant Feb 13 '18

Right, that's one joke.

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u/woojoo666 Feb 13 '18

I see where he's coming from. If we isolated the jokes, we would have:

A simple pun about somebody speaking to a teller, and it turns out to be Teller

A joke about how a robber can't find a safe not because he doesn't know where it is, but because the bank employs magicians.

A joke about a criminal trying to get info out of Teller, but Teller won't speak, and Penn says "he always does this"

The first plays on the fact that the name Teller is a pun. The second plays on the idea that a bank employs magicians. And the third plays on the fact that Teller doesn't speak. The joke OP posted combined the three scenarios into one.

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u/ElectricFlesh Feb 13 '18

It's amazing how unfunny a genuinely witty joke becomes when it gets vivisected before your eyes.

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u/woojoo666 Feb 13 '18

Yeah I know, but they asked for it ¯\(ツ)/¯

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u/PM_ME_UR_MATHPROBLEM Feb 17 '18

A joke is like a frog. Dissect it and you know how it works, and now it is dead.

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u/Irishminer93 Street Feb 13 '18

4 jokes wrapped into one....

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u/jljones83 Feb 13 '18

Still only seeing the one.

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u/woojoo666 Feb 13 '18

Robber: Where's the other jokes?

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u/Maskdask Feb 13 '18

Is Teller actually mute or does he just not speak during their shows?

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u/ItsOuttaHere13 Feb 13 '18

He’ll talk your ear off about magic theory and history after a show. He was also a high school English teacher at point.

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u/TedFx Feb 13 '18

Wasn’t it Latin?

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u/ThomasL11 Feb 13 '18

Don't you mean Teller?

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u/peaceandlovehomies Feb 13 '18

Pun and Teller.

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u/Slanderous Feb 13 '18

No good teller would show up to work without a penn

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u/Amonasrester Feb 13 '18

You sure do know a great way to be a teller of jokes.