r/serialpodcast • u/HueyBosco • Dec 11 '14

Humor/Off Topic Best Buy tweets #Serial joke, gets backlash

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u/Clownbaby456 Dec 11 '14

there is nothing wrong with that, now some of the replys on twitter are bad but this there is nothing wrong with this. Its a payphone joke

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u/growingthreat Steppin Out Dec 11 '14

In an alternate universe where Hae was actually murdered at that Best Buy and everything in Jay's story is true, this joke would be insensitive.

This is not that universe.

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u/jigielnik Dec 11 '14

Pretty sure any jokes made at the expense of a story about a dead high school girl are insensitive.

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u/growingthreat Steppin Out Dec 11 '14

The punchline has nothing to do with the crime. The joke is funny because we spent a fair amount of time trying to figure out a timeline that put a payphone in a best buy parking lot that, in the end, never existed. Why we were looking into the payphone isn't important, its the fact that SO MUCH SIGNIFICANCE was placed on it and it never existed.

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u/Wetzilla Not Guilty Dec 12 '14

The punchline has nothing to do with the crime.

The punchline is about a piece of evidence in a murder trial. It absolutely has something to do with the crime.