User blog:CartoonFan14/The It's a Joke Argument

Usually I'm siding with people against the isers who overreact to evrything, but today, Im trying to see things in their perspective, defending them from a common argument, the argument that since the "mean spirited" scene they were enraged by is a joke they have no real reason to complain.

This honestly is a solid argument, but I don't consider it a perfect argument.

There a few things to consider. First off, what if they don't find said joke funny?

In most cases, you gat a failed joke. Ex: Basically every joke in Save the Date, most jokes with Clyde's obseesion with Lori, Lincoln's line Nun that I know of. (It technically failed with Leni)

But there is another way to see it. Lets look at a failed joke that people have recently been ranting on, the House scene in No Such Luck.

Now, you could say once again that this gag is once again a failed one, and I'd say you're right. But theres one more thing to consider with jokes like this. How over the top is it?

Jokes like these need to be at the right level of cartoonishness to succeed. You have to ask yourself, is it not cartoony enough (It's a 4x Loud House), an attempt at being over the top that isn't over the top enough (Making the Grade's car scene), hilariously over the top (April fools Rules) or too over the top to where its uncomfortable to sit through (Making the Case).

I'd probably put this in the same category as the car scene, but to some people, it may be at hilarious levels, and to some, I goes too far over the top, and they don't like watching it.

So all in all, the It's a Joke argument has some flaws, pretty much all related to the fact that humor can't be proven funny or unfunny, and you consider a gutbuster may be despised by someone else.