Average Dad Joke Part 3: Homemade Holy Water Pun
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A dad joke pun about making holy water by literally boiling 'hell' out of regular water
Overview
This is a 4-panel dad joke meme using the iconic elevator fight scene from the 2014 Marvel film Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The first panel shows the character Steve Rogers/Captain America saying 'Yesterday I made Holy Water at home.' The second panel cuts to a bald S.H.I.E.L.D. agent asking 'how did you do it?' The third panel shows Captain America replying with the pun punchline 'I boiled the hell out of it.' The fourth panel shows all the agents in the elevator reacting with exasperated amusement, with one agent holding back laughter and others restraining Captain America. The humor comes from the double meaning of the common phrase 'boil the hell out of it': the phrase normally means to boil something very thoroughly, but the joke takes it literally, implying that boiling water removes 'hell' from it, turning it into holy water.
Origin notes
This meme is the third entry in the 'Average Dad Joke' series, shared on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, as confirmed by the provided RSS source metadata. It uses a widely popular pre-existing meme template derived from the elevator fight sequence in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which is commonly used for joke setups where the speaker delivers a line that provokes a strong, often amused or annoyed, reaction from a surrounding group.