Young-woo likes dad jokes

From the episode “Mr. Salt, Ms. Pepper and Attorney Soy Sauce,” Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022):

The owner of the pub where Woo Young-woo (Park Eun-bin) hangs out with her friend Dong Geu-ra-mi (Joo Hyun-young) disgraced himself on a blind date with an attorney from Young-woo’s firm by making dad jokes. Geu-ra-mi, who works at the pub, is furious: “When’d you turn into a dad?” So the pub owner, Kim Min-shik (Im Seong-jae) aka Mister Hairy Boss, explains: “Obviously, I’m not usually like that. But I guess I was more nervous than usual.”

Young-woo, a young attorney with autism spectrum disorder, asks, “What are dad jokes?” So Min-shik shares what he said:

“Orange you glad to see me?”

“I asked if adding Parmesan was cheesy.”

“Do you find bananas appealing?”

Young-woo: “Oh! Are these the type of jokes with words pronounced similarly? I think they’re quite funny.”

Geu-ra-mi thinks that Min-shik should have told attorney jokes. She gives an example:

“An airline company got sued from a guy recently. It happened after they lost his luggage. Guess what happened.”

Young-woo: “Mmm, what?”

Geu-ra-mi: “The man who sued them lost his case.”

Young-woo: “His case? [Pause.] Ah!”

And Min-shik joins in: “Eight vowels, five consonants, a comma, and an exclamation mark appeared in court because they — they were all due to be sentenced soon.”

Young-woo: “Due to be sentenced? [Pause.] Ah!”

After general laughter, she calls for more.

Geu-ra-mi: “There’s no more. There is no more.”

I highly recommend Extraordinary Attorney Woo, sixteen episodes, available from Netflix. There is no more, at least not yet, though there were plans for a second season to arrive in 2024.

You can see a condensed version of this scene at YouTube. I would love to know what’s going on in the Korean. I even tried scanning the subtitles at Netflix, without luck. But here’s an explanation of one of the Korean jokes. The English jokes are, of course, not translations.

[“Whether it’s read straight or flipped, it’s still Woo Young-Woo. Kayak, deed, rotator, noon, racecar, Woo Young-Woo.” Here’s an explanation of what’s going on in the Korean original of that repeated bit.]