Welcome back from yet another nor'easter. During the shortened period today the class started off with something light. Mr. Rivers commended us greatly for our work on the podcasts and recognized our intellectual progression. Rivers pointed out that the difference between our October selves and now was so astronomical and that our work was almost on par with some of the work Rivers listens to while outside of class. Everyone joked around and it was a great way to begin the class
We followed with yet another light topic by rediscovering the theories of humor that we began going over earlier this week. Justin Brick made an indirect appearance within our class in the form of a statement he made earlier when entering his own English period. "Your mom is a Day 2". We were given a solid five to seven minutes to discuss the joke and how each theory could be applied to his statement in particular. Superiority wise the joke was making light of someone's mother my calling her a Day 2. Incongruity wise the joke took two otherwise unlike things and mashed them into an object that didn't quite make sense but was funny none the less. Relief wise the joke could be interpreted as being saying the unknown individual's Mom is a day two but not something worse.
At the end of the period the class utilized yet another clip from the hit show, The Office. We analyzed how the scene where Dwight puts Dunder Mifflin through a test for, "Emergency Preparedness", could be applied to the three theories of humor as well. Each group picked a specific theory and we were tasked with applying it to the five-minute scene. Overall, the class today was further reinforcement of our knowledge on the three theories of humor and more practice in identifying said theories in humor and applying them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO8N3L_aERg
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