Wrapper 21: When life gives you lemon jokes

23. Rachelle B., Scottsdale, AZ

What do astronauts eat for dinner?

Freeze-dried meals that can survive the environment on the space shuttle. No?

23. Launch meat.

I must say, kudos to Rachelle B. for not going with "What do astronauts eat for lunch" as the setup, which would have then led to an obnoxious duplication in the punchline. Anyway, this joke is as old as the space program, but it could be worse. It could be the other one on the wrapper.

24. Bradley D., Viroqua, WI

What is yellow and wears a mask?

Wait for it.

24. The Lone Lemon.

God, do I fucking hate jokes like this. There is nothing funny or even sense-making about this joke. The punchline doesn't rhyme with "Ranger" or anything close. There is no connection between "Ranger" and "Lemon." This means that the punchline could just as easily be The Lone Banana or The Lone Dandelion or whatever. It's terrible. It is more or less intentionally unfunny. I mean, right? There is no way this is supposed to be funny. This is supposed to elicit groans, if not grimaces. I see no way around it. Of course, with that said, it's a perfect joke for Laffy Taffy. At least this joke knows it's terrible.

Wrapper 9: Lame 'n' Lime

What is a ghoul's favorite flavor?
Theri K

Uh, okay. Could be anything. Let's have it.

Lemon-Slime

Woof. I mean, aside from being unfunny, there's nothing particularly terrible about this, I guess. But there were probably eight thousand answers you could have had for this joke. Was this really the best one? Outside of Ghostbusters, I guess, is there any real obvious affiliation between ghouls and slime?

Whatever. Some of these are worse than others, as you'd expect, and I've already burned through the best ones from this batch, so the next few won't be as terrible as all that. But they still suck.