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17.4: The Gun on the Mantel is Actually a Fish

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How to Make a Joke in a Show

The idea is to give your red herrings a story significance, while making the actual foreshadowing something that's just, you know, happening to the side. A show that i think does this very well is the news room, written by aaron sorken. Ah, it has some of my favorite examples of long set up and pay offs for a joke in an episode. And if you kno, the pay off won't be as good, because i'm telling, you know,. right after overhead, wha deed. You imagine jus forty one and between.

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