“Family Guy and Freud: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious” Comprehension Questions and Vocabulary Check (p. 311‚ TSIS) 1. How would you characterize Antonia Peacocke’s argument about the television cartoon Family Guy? What does she like about the show? What doesn’t she like? What would you say is her overall opinion of Family Guy? She likes: the program satirizes problems with American culture‚ not all jokes are offensive‚ some are insightful‚ doesn’t aim to hurt. She doesn’t
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suspense into his best selling novel The Martian a lot but then broke the really suspenseful parts by adding a sarcastic remark or funny joke. Humor Weir often makes big surprises come up during the book making it draw readers in and wanting to read more‚ but he eases readers out of the feeling that they have to do everything at once by adding sarcastic remarks and jokes. “Remember those old math questions you had in algebra class? Where water is entering a container at a certain rate and leaving at
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moisture. This can be interpreted in today’s world as “going with the flow.” People all around the world love hearing jokes and telling them whether it be verbally‚ through greeting cards‚ or over the internet. People often tell jokes to lighten the mood on a dreary situation or to get their point across to another individual. Military members in combat will often use humor to joke about the bad situations that they are faced with; this type of humor is often referred to as black humor. Dating back
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perception. While the individuals of Mystery Inc. enjoy shenanigans and bouts of humor‚ their jokes and eccentric behaviors often impede on their ability to work effectively. In addition‚ many of these jokes can create tensions with other individuals in the group. In one moment during their latest case‚ Scooby Doo and Shaggy took turns wearing Velma’s glasses and making fun of her poor eyesight. While many of these jokes are taken in good spirit‚ they also have the ability to cause other group members to
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Sean Penn Sean Penn is among the mean celebrities who consider himself the only person to exist on earth. He is among those people who can’t take jokes seriously and with that he doesn’t even likes the public jokes as well. It happened somewhere in the year 2005 when someone cracked a joke about a celebrity in public and rather than taking it as a joke he
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Today it’s unusual to go somewhere and there not to be a TV. TVs are everywhere‚ they are a part of life. Watching TV is often seen as not helping‚ just something teens watch and is considered a waste of time. I believe watching TV‚ and the shows on TV are often overlooked for the information they give to the people and that watching TV is better for teens than most think. Watching TV can be good for you. When watched in moderation‚ the shows provide us information we might have overlooked‚ they
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Scientists invited one hundred twenty seven pairs of twins for an experiment of defining jokes to study their reaction. In those one hundred twenty seven pairs of twins‚ seventy one pairs are identical twins who share fifty percent of their genes. Those numerous pairs of twins were given three jokes and the result is really unpredictable. “ Surprisingly‚ identical twins shared no more common responses to the jokes than did the fraternal twins during the study. (Viegas)” The result of the experiment
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(This is a departure; most humor research uses jokes from joke books‚ which‚ let’s face it‚ only people without senses of humor and your weird uncle find funny.) Each subject watched the show alone while the researchers videotaped the reactions. Participants also filled out a survey to reveal whether they
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Drama process This classic play devised by Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop takes a humorous and light-hearted walk through the history of World War One. The production brims with anecdotes‚ jokes‚ songs and dance‚ but we are never allowed to forget that the Great War was no joke‚ and are presented with a thought-provoking insight into the futility of war. It was written in the time of the swinging 60s‚ a time of rebellion from the youth against the conformities of their seniors. Especially
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its in their school‚ workplace‚ community‚ or even in their own homes. People often tell jokes with racist slurs‚ and while we know not to laugh at ones about blacks‚ it seems that ones about other races like Chinese and Hispanic are okay. We tell ourselves that they are just jokes‚ but not to those who they are ridiculing. We are all perpetrators of this and we usually feel that these types of jokes are harmless. They can be harmless and maybe at times we even think they are funny‚ but they
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