Julia's Comedic Blog

I've heard of Jennifer's Body through it's soundtrack and it's generally bad reviews, but I've never seen the movie itself and I don't like judging movies I've not seen for myself. Your description of it makes it sound like an interesting satire on tropes in horror and teen movies today, and this reminded me of a movie that I've come to love in the past few years: Heathers. It seems that both movies make commentary on teen movies in their respective time periods through comedy. Both Jennifer's Body and Heathers use both violence and comedy to subvert their respective genres, and I think it is interesting that both movies with similar intentions use the same means to get their points across even decades apart. In Heather's, however, the violence starts when JD purposefully makes Veronica unwillingly give Heather 1(Chandler ?? Idk their last names) a deadly drink, whereas in Jennifer's Body, violence seems to always be a part of the lead's...

I've never seen Superbad, but there seems to be a quite obvious connection between it and what Zupancic was saying. It is a coming of age story with many references to sex and phalluses, which directly connects to our most recent reading by Zupancic. In that article, Zupotnic talked about how the phallus is a universal symbol of sex and what people are able to lose. Knowing this, Superbad's use of it as a part of a coming of age story is interesting and is possibly able to show the characters maturing through something as immature as a phallus. As well, it seems to draw into the incongruity theory of humor which is constant throughout the film. In the scene mentioned in the main blog post, one of the characters, who is very obviously underage, attempts to buy alcohol with a fake id and everything that could go wrong goes wrong. the whole scene is built upon the incongruity of this 15-year-old character who looks even younger thinking that he'll be able to get alcohol ...

"Tom and Jerry" was one of my favorite shows when I was growing up and it holds a special nostalgic place in my heart. For some reason, Tom, the cat, evil plans getting foiled by the smaller but more tactful mouse Jerry was always and remains entertaining. I think the concept of the mouse out-witting the cat, who is a natural predator of the mouse, is an incongruity the show rest upon because it is funny to think of a cat being defeated by a mouse. Having had multiple cats, I know that cats are natural hunters and are usually very good at catching what they want to. In the wild, that is normally how it works: the cat is able to catch the mouse. But Tom and Jerry takes that expectation and turns it on its head. In Tom and Jerry, the mouse ends up scoff free while the cat trying to get it is made to look silly and foolish. This incongruity between expectation, the cat getting the mouse, and the reality set up in the show, the mouse constantly getting away from the cat through...