• AliasVortex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      123·
      1 month ago

      Same reason most things are funny, or at least mildly amusing: inversion of expectations.

      • Orbituary@lemmy.worldEnglish
        315·
        1 month ago

        Maybe your expectations. There was no suspension of plot or conclusion or anything “absurd” about this. It started absurd with the zombie cats and basically didn’t establish anything weirder. The zombie cat under the bed wasn’t even a living cat, which would have added a juxtaposition.

        Not humorous.

        • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
          61·
          1 month ago

          “Suspension of plot or conclusion” are not really “things” at all, much less defining characteristics of humor. You just don’t get it, and that’s ok! It doesn’t make you less than or anything.

          • kofe@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            Certainly shouldn’t mean people are less than for being amused by it either… O.o

    • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
      102·
      1 month ago

      It’s funny because you don’t expect kids to want there to be monsters under their beds. Typically, or rather trope-ically, children ask their parents to make sure there are no monsters under their beds and at first it would appear the same is true here. However, the child and parent themselves appear ghoulish, and when it’s revealed that there is in fact a monster under the bed, ostensibly the father as it is similarly ghoulish and tells a pretty decent double-layer dad joke, the child is relieved. It’s irony! And puns. And just good Halloween vibes, which I admit aren’t inherently humorous. But I’d argue they are almost always inherently light-hearted. I give it 9/10, especially compared to a lot of the shit I see posted around here.

      • Orbituary@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 month ago

        I’m getting down voted to hell for saying that in a reply below. People are weird.