Arrow to the Knee? : V

» Wed May 30, 2012 12:28 pm

Can someone explain what is so funny about "Arrow to the Knee"?

and please dont tell me to go check wikis because I already checked all of them, only one I found that has it was this one:
http://orcz.com/Arrow_to_the_Knee

and it says it's a "inside joke" but it does not really explain why?

» Tue May 29, 2012 10:47 pm

I used to use a wiki just like you, then I took an update in the knee.

» Wed May 30, 2012 12:26 pm

Can someone explain what is so funny about "Arrow to the Knee"?

and please dont tell me to go check wikis because I already checked all of them, only one I found that has it was this one:
http://orcz.com/Arrow_to_the_Knee

and it says it's a "inside joke" but it does not really explain why?

Walk around town and listen to the dialogue from some guards

» Wed May 30, 2012 12:07 pm

Wow are you [censored]?! I just followed your link and it tells you directly what it's referring too...

» Wed May 30, 2012 7:24 am

Walk around town and listen to the dialogue from some guards

yeah I understand its a dialog the guards say, but the guards say other stuff too and there are many other dialogs in the game why is this one in particular funny? Am I missing something?

» Wed May 30, 2012 5:07 am

Because its over used, like every guard

» Tue May 29, 2012 11:02 pm

Wow are you [censored]?! I just followed your link and it tells you directly what it's referring too...

I understand where it comes from, but I don't understand why its supposed to be so funny that on every forum and on yahoo answers and everywhere people keep making jokes about it

» Wed May 30, 2012 5:58 am

People had made it into a sort of meme, but then they all took arrows to the knee.

» Tue May 29, 2012 10:26 pm

There's nothing funny about it. It's just a one liner that Skyrim folks on the interwebs like to throw around

Edit: Indeed it's a meme... like the 'I am disappoint' phrase

» Wed May 30, 2012 12:39 pm

I used to think it was not funny, but then I took an arrow in the knee.

» Wed May 30, 2012 3:19 am

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!

It's like that.

» Wed May 30, 2012 6:27 am

its just like saying "Stop right there criminal scum!" Damn beat me to it ^^

» Wed May 30, 2012 2:14 am

its just like saying "Stop right there criminal scum!" Damn beat me to it ^^

ha you both posted at like the same second

» Tue May 29, 2012 11:25 pm

Shockingly, different people = different senses of humor. Just because it's not funny to you, that doesn't mean it isn't funny to quite a few others.

» Wed May 30, 2012 12:31 am

ha you both posted at like the same second

Double Dip of Oblivion Guard Aggro. For your viewing pleasure.

» Wed May 30, 2012 12:55 pm

I, as a long-time fan of Daggerfall, still prefer "Halt!" :nod:

(What is it with Elder Scrolls guards, anyway? <_<

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» Wed May 30, 2012 7:37 am

We're watching you, scum.

» Wed May 30, 2012 12:10 am

kinda afraid to ask, but I also don't get why "Stop Right there you criminal scum" is funny?

» Wed May 30, 2012 12:25 am

It is an insider joke to let everyone know you have played skyrim.

Why this and not others? Well it is easier to twist into customized versions to suit the topic at hand. The other common ones involving sweet rolls and not knowing if he is a dragonborn are not so flexible.

» Wed May 30, 2012 8:32 am

if you go to the drunken hunter inn in Whiterum,
you will learn the full version of 'took an arrow in the knee' story by talking to the inn keeper

you will ask the inn keeper why is the inn given such an odd name,
then he will tell you the story about how his brother got drunk in a hunt and took him for a deer and shot him in the knee

ps: some say the innkeeper will hire darkbrotherhood (you'll be assign the task) to kill his brother later in the DB quest chain ....

» Wed May 30, 2012 8:32 am

Some might call it junk...

» Wed May 30, 2012 11:56 am

because every guard will say it and therefore being a guard in skyrim is for people who used to be adventurers...but then they took an arrow in the knee.

» Wed May 30, 2012 12:50 pm

kinda afraid to ask, but I also don't get why "Stop Right there you criminal scum" is funny?

The Guards of The Elder Scrolls really like repetitive dialogue. After a while, you either tune it out completely or get irrationally amused by it.

The Guards of Skyrim are the least worst offenders, but at the same time...there's a very high Wounded Adventurer turned Guard capita in the Holds. Makes you wonder who is the monster going around shooting these poor Nords in the Knees?

» Wed May 30, 2012 8:21 am

The Guards of The Elder Scrolls really like repetitive dialogue. After a while, you either tune it out completely or get irrationally amused by it.

The Guards of Skyrim are the least worst offenders, but at the same time...there's a very high Wounded Adventurer turned Guard capita in the Holds. Makes you wonder who is the monster going around shooting these poor Nords in the Knees?

I keep getting annoyed by the guy in Whiterun who's name I'll remember.

» Wed May 30, 2012 2:49 am

this is why it is funny"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_joke

it is NOT inherently funny. it is something that is mildy humorous after you hear a million times, and then BECOMES funny when you say it someone who knows what you are talking about.