In 1984, the year before he graduated, 50% percentile score was about 900. So 960 was a little above average.
That makes this funnier. He's trying to say he's average, but the delivery makes it sound like he's claiming he and the audience are retarded, but he's actually delivering a compliment by suggesting the audience would have scored as high as the median.
It's remarkable, a line so bad that no matter what your sense of "960" means, it sounds like a stupid thing to say, but for different reasons. I'm not sure a room of writers could have deliberately come up with such a terrible line.
In 1984, the year before he graduated, 50% percentile score was about 900. So 960 was a little above average.
That makes this funnier. He's trying to say he's average, but the delivery makes it sound like he's claiming he and the audience are retarded, but he's actually delivering a compliment by suggesting the audience would have scored as high as the median.
It's remarkable, a line so bad that no matter what your sense of "960" means, it sounds like a stupid thing to say, but for different reasons. I'm not sure a room of writers could have deliberately come up with such a terrible line.