FYW- Response to Lead Blog Post #10 (The Hangover)

I have never seen any of The Hangover movies, but I have definitely heard people talk about them. I watched the scene where Alan is holding the baby in the elevator and I thought it was funny how serious he was when he named it Carlos. To me, the benign violation theory plays a big role in the scene where he is making the baby make obscene gestures. That is not something that someone would normally find humorous, but I think since it is supposed to be a funny movie it is benign enough that it is okay. However, we still see it as a violation because we don’t expect someone to make a baby do that. I also watched the scene where Alan was driving around with a giraffe and then ran into a bridge and killed it. I personally didn’t find this funny, but it represented incongruity theory because I was not expecting that to happen. There was also incongruity in the scene where he was at the funeral and said: “I can think of so many other people that I would have liked to die first.... like my mother.” It is incongruous because of course, we don’t expect anyone to say that about their mother. I can agree with you that this movie is so popular because it incorporates so many types of humor and I could see pieces of each theory incorporated into different scenes. I would like to watch the entire movie!