I saw The Jerk when it was new, and was the only one in the theater laughing uproariously to the "cosmetologist" non sequitur. Amazed to find the clip on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev_-jivYR8A
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 14:08 (ten months ago) link
That’s awesome, thanks! Had no recollection of it. Sorry if I’m literal-minded, but is it really a non sequitur?
― Looking For Mr. Goodreads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 14:17 (ten months ago) link
I thought that as soon as I posted it. It's "a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous statement," except that it does in Steve's mind, it's just a conflation of meanings. So I dunno...
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 14:27 (ten months ago) link
Non sequiturs can be responses that have nothing to do with the conversation or flawed conclusions “based” on what preceded them.
So yes, I think so.
― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 14:31 (ten months ago) link
Oh, okay, didn’t know the second part. TIL…
― Looking For Mr. Goodreads (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 14:33 (ten months ago) link
"How ya doing, Buford"
"There's chicken shit in the oats"
from Daddy's Dyin, Who's got the Will?
― sad Mings of dynasty (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 22:19 (ten months ago) link
I totally posted a non-non sequitur, it just becomes a non sequitur when it appears in my head unbidden
― brimstead, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 22:58 (ten months ago) link
There's an SCTV sketch about an expensive French restaurant where celebrity gourmands, such as Orson Welles, go to have their most elaborate culinary fantasies realized; wherein the maitre-d' makes the bilingual non-pun "Mr. Welles likes his coq-au-vin prepared with real cocoa".
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:20 (ten months ago) link
That joke was also in a Three's Company episode, where Chrissy made dinner and Jack (who was a cook) says "That's the first time I've had coq-au-vin made with cocoa."
― nickn, Thursday, 29 June 2023 00:33 (ten months ago) link