Talk:Sophomoric humor

Does this page really need to exist?

Like, are we going to have a page for every single phrase? The idea of sophomoric humor is just that- an idea. It's like if you made a page on "bad video games" or something- which actually exists, but because it's defined by reception. That's not the case here. The topic isn't defined except vaguely- "juvenile, puerile, and base." Should there be an article for "insensitive comedy" as well? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.33.14.105 (talk) 21:06, 4 October 2019 (UTC)

Please please tell me now

Please give examples of sophomoric writing. {done}}

''Yep he definetly just turned around, he just did a u-turn, he's trying to catch us riding dirty!''

''We felt like we were on America's Most Wanted!''

''The cop had a look in his eye like he was going to bust me and Zach for 20 kilos of cocaine.''

These are just a few sophomoric instance based on a short story written by Mike Zender. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.110.88.225 (talk) 17:30, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Definition

Sophomoric - # conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature. I know students aren't the smartest part of society (well, some are better then others), but do we really need to redirect to the Student article? It'd make much more sense for this to re-direct elsewhere, like Wiktionary. Ghostalker 01:13, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Third through fifth paragraphs

None of these quotes shed much light on "sophomoric humor" as a general topic, so I can't see their purpose. It makes sense to have a few examples, but not so many.Prezbo (talk) 07:55, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Lack of References in "See also" Section

While the material listed in the "Examples" section adequately references quotes from (tenuously) reputable characters, the See also section needs serious revision for lacking such references. Who has denoted these titles as examples of sophomoric humor, and why these titles specifically? This section really feels like it was made without a sense of objective neutrality, as if it were based on a single unaccredited individual's personal tastes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:1402:A04E:28E3:A0DC:9C11:7402 (talk) 02:28, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Americentric title?

The term sophomore seems to be specific to the US, whereas this sort of humor can be found all over the world; perhaps "Juvenile humor" might be a more inclusive title? Alansplodge (talk) 18:11, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

I've updated the lead to include "juvenile humor" and "schoolboy humor" as alternative names. I'm not sure it's worth renaming the article, though. In all of English (according to Google Ngram), "juvenile" and "sophomoric" share relatively equal use, with schoolboy being semi-common. Looking at worldwide usage (according to Google trends), the US and the UK are the only countries which appreciably search for the term - in the US all three are common, while in the UK "sophomoric" is the only one that turns up.

Based on that, I think the article is now presented in a globally reasonable way. PhotogenicScientist (talk) 16:54, 22 March 2023 (UTC)