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[mrsdelahunty]

Does anybody know the joke which Lionel tries to tell at Rocky´s wedding?!?

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[t_a_n_g_o]

It's about a parrot with no feet...the parrot hears a joke and thinks it's so funny that he nearly falls off his perch...Or something like that!

I think Rocky also tells it in the ep. where Judy and Alistair get married.

[joincidence]

And that's strange, because when Rocky & Madge get married, Rocky doesn't find it funny.

I think Lionel also tries to tell it to Stephen at some point, possibly when Penny is "dying"?

[woty_ms_darcy]

Lionel wants to tell it at Rocky and Madge's wedding, then he tells it again to Stephen when he's staying over because Penny is "dying" and then Rocky tells it at Judi and Alistair's wedding. I think it's mentioned on one or two other occasions but I can't think of it right now.

[anonymous]

I believe that the joke is never told on the air in ATGB.

For one candidate, search for "no feet" on the following page of parrot jokes, but please be warned that the joke is lewd and vulgar. There had to be some reason why Lionel was always discouraged from telling it. On the other hand, it is entirely possible that this joke was made up just to answer the question "What was Lionel's joke?"

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~collberg/Birds/index.html

I am glad that I saw this query, I like to fill in the unfamiliar cultural references in ATGB.