What is the Tess Tickle joke?
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How do you make a girl named Tess laugh?
With a Tess Tickle.
Mr. Tickle proposed to the girl of his dreams… But Tess was reluctant to take his surname.
…but Tess was reluctant to take his surname.
The humor in this joke comes from the play on words involving the character “Mr. Tickle” from the “Mr. Men” series and the common practice of taking a spouse’s surname after marriage. The joke sets up the expectation that Tess, the girl of Mr. Tickle’s dreams, is hesitant to marry him. The punchline reveals that her reluctance is specifically about taking his surname, “Tickle,” which humorously implies that she does not want to become “Tess Tickle” (a play on the word “testicle”).