All this chat today about predictable comics has me down.

I hate Mondays.


--- In [email protected], "maxshenk"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Or have Lucy PULL THE BALL AWAY when Charlie Brown goes to kick
it...
> or have Charlie Brown's kite get eaten up by the tree... or have
> Dagwood run over the mailman on his way out the door to rush to
work...
>
> There is as much to be said for PREDICTABILITY in humor as there
is in
> surprise. One of my all-time favorite movies (Laurel and Hardy
BUSY
> BODIES) has a sequence in a sawmill... as soon as you see the
circular
> saw blades hanging on the wall, you KNOW that they're going to
fall on
> someone's head. But once they fall, it's no less funny (and maybe
it's
> even moreso) because you could see it coming a million miles away.
>
> I have no idea why this is so.







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