''One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes'' () is a series of Chinese

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that are being serialized on the Chinese online comic website ''YouYaoQi''. ''One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes'' is mainly constituted by several stories of parodies of classic Chinese animations and comics such as ''

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'' and '' Calabash Brothers'', famous Japanese animations and comics like ''

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'' and '' Ultraman'', western fairytales such as

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and

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, as well as some original mini-series. The chapters have little to no specific relationship between each other, but still subtle clues exist between each story. The lines in the comics are funny and popular among the Chinese

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, partly due to heavy uses of internet slang, Japanese animations and comics (e.g. in the story of ''The Calabash Brothers'', the characters use various Japanese words). This comic has now been remade by the original author and ''YouYaoQi'' into an animated version, which is regarded as a milestone for the Chinese animation industry. After being released one episode per month, animation has temporarily ended. In 2014, the original team who created ''One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes'' released a film version."http://www.demohour.com/projects/317125"(in Chinese) 十万个冷笑话. March 26, 2013. Viewed April 1, 2013.

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YouYaoQi - Official web siteOne hundred thousand bad jokes online stream
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