Talking to a Comedian:

Comic: So, I was doing my set last night, and like no one was laughing. The material was over their heads.
Me: What was the material?
Comic: Oh, I made some pretty good jokes about like, The O.C., and Gilmore Girls.

I didn't say this, but it prompted me to say
In My Head: Can you use the phrase "over one's head" when it's something as dumb as information regarding Gilmore Girls? Or something else equally inane? Is it truly "over your head?" Or is the phrasing more accurate if you said, "It was to the side of everyone's head. The jokes were like, coming at their head, then hit a barrier and just... scooted past the side."

Now I'm contemplating how to get everyone to start saying this... but now I'm deciding it will always sound like a joke on a joke, instead of a real concept we desperately need in our language. Desperately.

PS. I didn't know what picture to use for this "post" so I googled myself and I found this picture. I'm the one on the bottom in the extremely large men's leather jacket. I feel like my expression represents how vehemently into this argument I am.