Comedy's Theory of Relativity (ES) (PL)
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Occurrence: Joey walked in on Monica & Chandler have sex and now they will name baby after him.
Premise: Walk-in on them having sex and you get baby naming rights.
Punch Line: Phoebe has walked in on them three times so logically she can conclude she has naming rights for thee babies.
Summary:
Premise Logic: Walk-in on them having sex and you get baby naming rights.
Pheope has walked in on them three times so she has naming rights for thee babies
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Emotional Reversal (ER)
Original Emotion: Passive. Everyone just sitting at the bar. “Not a damn thing we can do about it.”
Stimulus: Sam mention girls with french-cut panties and mini-skirts at the roller rink
New Emotion: Urgency. We see all the patrons dash for the door to the roller rink.
Emotion Reversal Summary: from passivity to urgency.
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Character Response False Premise (CRFP)
False Premise: Girl thinks Mr. Furley is her boyfriend
Joke: wants to kiss Mr. Furley
Emotional Reversal (ER)
She finds out it’s Furley
Goes from affection to violence.
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Premise Logic (PL)
Premise: Tell a amusing anecdote about the bar.
Associate amusing anecdote to disgusting anecdotes .
Conclusion/Punchline: They tell a bunch of disgusting anecdotes.
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Character Response (CR) because these characters think that the stories about people throwing up, glow-in-the-dark fungus, and dead possums are funny,
not disgusting. They’re not responding as a normal person would to these anecdotes .
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Monica says baby is asleep.
Then we see a grown man asleep with a Pacifier in his mouth.
Joke is the unexpected emotional similarity. Chandler a grown man acting like a baby.
Chandler emotionally similar to baby