Plot
Two lovers, Knock Knock (Ball) and Who's There (Stiles) confront their difficulties communicating with each other by telling knock knock jokes. Rather than being puns, as knock knock jokes in the usual sense, the jokes are intended to invoke a sense of postmodern thought, for example, "Knock knock", "Who's there?", "Not only not no one, not even not he" (a parody of "Postmodernism is not only what it is not, it's not even not that", apparently heard by one of Ball's friends in a literary theory class).
The third member of the love triangle, Vin Knight (played by himself) enters, and the tension rises. The film ends with Knock Knock asking "Don't you understand that communication is impossible?" and Who's There answering "No".
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