Please explain a joke to me...

Hi, I think the first bit is like that bit in the simpsons were the whole "they're gonna eat me" thing comes in, but i could be wrong.

Though a raincheck I do understand. Basically it means that if one person/party are unable to attend due to whatever, the event is rescheduled for a suitable time for all involved.

Hope that helps!

1> It was an old Twilight Zone episode where aliens landed and brought peace and prosperity to the Earth. They brought a book, written in their language, and scientists translated the title to mean "To Serve Man".

Then the aliens started offering vacations back to their home planet and everything seemed wonderful. As the man (who later appeared in the Naked Gun) was getting on the spaceship to travel, his secretary screams at him that they finally translated the whole book. "It's a cookbook!" she screamed at him, but it was too late. So the aliens were just acting like they cared and bringing great bounty to the earth to fatten humans up to eat them...

2> A "raincheck" is when you go to an event that gets cancelled because of rain, say a baseball game, they give you a "raincheck" that is good for admission at a later date. In common usage, it means "can we do this later".

In the movie when Frank asks Jane to dinner, she asks if she can get a raincheck, meaning "Can we do it some other time?", and Frank being dense like he is thinks that she is asking for something completely different; but, sorry no sexual innuendo in either of them..

Jane says "rain check" meaning she wants to postpone... But, if you're looking for sexual innuendo:

We could assume Frank is thinking "rain coat" which is a slang term for a condom. It's kind of a stretch, but it fits the innuendo theory.

The way it was explained to me was the book that Dr. Meinheimer is reading, How To Stroke Your Love Muffin, is what the guy is referring to "It's a cookbook!"

And the other reference is from the 1st Naked Gun film where Frank goes to Ludwig's office to question him about attempted murder on his docks, and he meets Ludwig's assistant Jane Spencer. Jane gives him the files for the docks and then in return he asks her to dinner. She declines and says she has to get her rest for Arbor Day and suggests a raincheck and Frank replies with "let's just stick to dinner."

I just finished watching it. ;)

To Serve Man is a famous Twilight Zone episode where aliens come to Earth supposedly to help us but really want to eat us (when doesn't that happen?). What happens is after the aliens help out our planet, which makes us caught with our pants down because we have no defense now, a book is discovered in alien writing called To Serve Man. The hero asks a woman to decipher it and just as he's about to go on the ship for a supposed tour she runs to him and tells him not to go because it was a cookbook, as quoted in the film. The aliens knock him out anyway when he tries to escape. As to the raincheck, which is in the first film, well, a raincheck is when you decide to delay something for a future time, sort of like a raincheck in a baseball game when it gets postponed and you are entitled to see another game for free or get a refund. Supermarkets have rainchecks also when you can't get an item they advertised on sale and they let you come back to buy the product later, even if it is no longer on sale. Frank doesn't get what a raincheck is and probably thinks it has to do with food, so it might not be a sexual innuendo, just a misunderstanding of words. Hope this helped you out.