The traditional lightbulb joke has a popular optometrist version that has been printed on many images. The answer—1 or 2?—is a joke on an optometrist changing lenses and asking this question of a patient.
“Q. How many optometrists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A. You tell me, is it one or two? Two or one?... http://bit.ly/an1MJO” was posted on Twitter by Shannon Franklin on April 19, 2010. “How many optometrists does it take to change a lightbulb? 1 or 2. Now 1… or 2” was posted on Reddit—Jokes on February 20, 2016.
Twitter
Shannon Franklin
@shannoneyedoc
Q. How many optometrists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A. You tell me, is it one or two? Two or one?... http://bit.ly/an1MJO
12:36 PM - 19 Apr 2010
Twitter
Steve Knight
@KnighterByter
How many optometrists does it take to change a light bulb? One, but can you see better now? or before? now? or before?
10:35 AM - 29 Jul 2010
Twitter
Andy Lester
@petdance
How many optometrists does it take to change a light bulb? One, or two? One, or two? One, or two?
10:19 PM - 17 Sep 2010
Twitter
Burnaby Vision Care
@burnabyvision
Eye joke of the day:
Q - How many optometrists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A - You tell me.. is it one or two?
4:41 PM - 24 Feb 2011
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/donquixote1991 February 20, 2016
How many optometrists does it take to change a lightbulb?
1 or 2. Now 1… or 2.
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/Ganjisseur April 23, 2016
How many optometrists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
“Put a lightbulb on”
One? Or two?
One?
....
Or two?
Google Books
3000 Jokes, 2997 Laughs
By Mike Haskins
London, UK: Portico
2017
Pg. ?:
Q: How many optometrists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One . . . or two. One . . . or two.
Google Books
Uncle John’s Actual and Factual Bathroom Reader
By Bathroom Readers’ Institute
San Diego, CA: Portable Press
2018
Pg. ?:
Q: How many optometrists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Is it one, or two? One… or two?
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/VitaMachina May 31, 2018
How many optometrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
One… Or two?
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/R4nd0m-man December 25, 2019
How many optometrist does it take to screw in a light bulb?
1… or 2?? Or 1? Or 2?
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/Sir_Fuzzums January 27, 2019
How many optometrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
1 or 2? 2 or 3?
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/keratoconusgroup July 17, 2019
How many optometrists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
1 or 2?
1? or 2?
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.
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