The Simpsons

[LoathedVermin72]

Like, it is very obvious to me that the root of the humor is that Homer is saying "yes, once" to the instance that he just witnessed. It's a worse joke the other way around.

Umm, wrong.

[Norah]

No, Mecca is right.

[LoathedVermin72]

Oh my god, no. Guys. Come on.

If Homer were referencing the incident he just witnessed, that would mean he is making a quip. Homer is an oblivious buffoon and nowhere near clever or aware enough to make a joke like that.

This is an absurdist joke. The joke is that it's a silly, extremely specific question that would obviously warrant a negative response, but Homer does the unexpected and, ridiculously, answers positively.

Jesus, guys.

[Norah]

It's not a quip, it's the literal answer a simpleton would make. He saw someone throw a shoe once, it just happened to be moments before. The laughter was merely a polite, friendly thing to do in front of his new boss.

[LoathedVermin72]

It's not a quip, it's the literal answer a simpleton would make. He saw someone throw a shoe once, it just happened to be moments before. The laughter was merely a polite, friendly thing to do in front of his new boss.

A simpleton would not come up with that response. That's a real stretch for a joke. There isn't even really a joke there.

[LoathedVermin72]

The "once" wording makes no sense if that were true. "Once" deliberately makes it sound like it happened a while ago. He would just say "Yes" if he were referring to what just occurred.

[Jorge]

I will weigh in on this!!!





Are you ready?






Chud and Mecca


are

Spoiler: show

super wrong

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[LoathedVermin72]

You guys are morons.

[Farmer John]

This is an absurdist joke. The joke is that it's a silly, extremely specific question that would obviously warrant a negative response, but Homer does the unexpected and, ridiculously, answers positively.

I always thought of it like this and it didn't even occur to me that there was another interpretation until this whole thing came up.

[Farmer John]

I'm going to go vote in the tournament now.

[Jorge]

This is an absurdist joke. The joke is that it's a silly, extremely specific question that would obviously warrant a negative response, but Homer does the unexpected and, ridiculously, answers positively.

I always thought of it like this and it didn't even occur to me that there was another interpretation until this whole thing came up.

We have advanced brains.

[@SkitchP]

Im with LV and Jorge on this one. The joke works better as an absurd albeit simple unexpected answer

[bart]

Yeah, I'm not sure how this is even a question. It's an ironically literal and specific punchline that begs a ton of questions in the same vein as Newman's "The Pacific Northwest!" line from Seinfeld.

[Mecca]

guys, it is so much funnier as being about the action he just witnessed. I can see LV being that short-sighted but not the rest of you.

[Mecca]

The "once" wording makes no sense if that were true. "Once" deliberately makes it sound like it happened a while ago. He would just say "Yes" if he were referring to what just occurred.

if it happened before, he would say "yes, twice"

[@SkitchP]

The "once" wording makes no sense if that were true. "Once" deliberately makes it sound like it happened a while ago. He would just say "Yes" if he were referring to what just occurred.

if it happened before, he would say "yes, twice"

There is no way Homer Simpson is indicating what he just witnessed counts, or he would have said so.

[Jorge]

guys, it is so much funnier as being about the action he just witnessed. I can see LV being that short-sighted but not the rest of you.

Absolutely not. That would make it a literal, dull joke.

[Mecca]

The "once" wording makes no sense if that were true. "Once" deliberately makes it sound like it happened a while ago. He would just say "Yes" if he were referring to what just occurred.

if it happened before, he would say "yes, twice"

There is no way Homer Simpson is indicating what he just witnessed counts, or he would have said so.

i'm sorry that you don't get abstract comedy

[@SkitchP]

The "once" wording makes no sense if that were true. "Once" deliberately makes it sound like it happened a while ago. He would just say "Yes" if he were referring to what just occurred.

if it happened before, he would say "yes, twice"

There is no way Homer Simpson is indicating what he just witnessed counts, or he would have said so.

i'm sorry that you don't get abstract comedy

Wouldn't that be absolute literal comedy at it's most obvious?