[Retr0id]

I think it's at least three things:

1. win95 has waning cultural relevance, and nobody has any fresh memories of dealing with its slowness

2. most of us have seen "windows bad" jokes a million times over by now - it's stale

3. "run" is a pretty weak/generic connection.

Edit: 4 - "I'm bad at running" has a sort of boomer-humor vibe to it, it's less relatable to an audience that's generally in-shape.

[latexr]

Except that every single joke in that table is awful and that deconstruction on why the joke is bad doesn’t generically apply to all of them.

[Retr0id]

The column heading just says "mix ideas", I don't think they're supposed to be taken as finished, stand-alone jokes. I think some of them have potential if framed correctly or rephrased a bit (foraging for wild cake, in particular).

Take the not entirely dissimilar Windows Vista joke from the IT Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IfnjBHtjHc

It's not especially funny if taken in isolation, but in the context of the scene and the show as a whole, I thought it was hilarious, at the time.

[latexr]

> The column heading just says "mix ideas", I don't think they're supposed to be taken as finished, stand-alone jokes.

Right above the table there’s a title that says “Joke Ideas”, and the text introducing the table is “And here are a few jokes that were created using this method”.

Everything indicates they are intended as jokes.

> Take the not entirely dissimilar Windows Vista joke from the IT Crowd

That joke doesn’t use the “mix ideas” concept at all. It’s straightforward in not deviating from the theme.

> It's not especially funny if taken in isolation, but in the context of the scene and the show as a whole

The idea of that joke could’ve worked in any context. It’s just:

A: “I’m having a computer problem.”

B: “What OS is that computer on?”

A: “Windows Vista.”

B: “That explains the problem.”