Humor Dissonance: Difference between revisions

* The Joker played with this in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'' with an episode where he took a studio audience hostage and hooked Batman up to an electric chair. The chair was directly connected to a "laugh meter" and since he knew he would never get the audience to laugh legitimately, he pumped in laughing gas and had Harley read from the phone book.

* This is mostly averted in ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' where Timmy wishes he was the funniest person on Earth: His dialogue doesn't change at all and everyone is simply magically forced to laugh at it. This trope shows up briefly with the jokes the supposedly funny kids tell at the start of the episode, though.

* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'' has an entire episode of this trope, beginning with Peppermint Larry telling some jokes consisting of truly awful puns and continuing into a joke-telling contest between Larry and another character. Eventually said other character speaks ''[[Rapid-Fire Comedy|entire sentences]]'' in [[Hurricane of Puns|nothing but puns]], soon after which it curves in on itself, implodes, then becomes genuinely funny.

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' has [[The Quiet One|Ferb]] going up on stage and saying "So, how about that airline food?" This prompts everyone in the audience to burst out laughing, pound their fists, and even overturn a table because they find it so funny.

 

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[[Category:Laughter Tropes]]

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[[Category:Audience Reactions]]

[[Category:Unexpected Reactions to This Index]]

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