It Wasn't Meant to Be Funny, But You Laugh Anyway

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It Wasn't Meant to Be Funny, But You Laugh Anyway

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So, as the long title suggests, what moments, lines, scenes, etc., in AIO make you laugh, even though they were not intended to be jokes? Or, what is something that was meant to be mildly funny, but you end up rolling on the floor?

Here are some of mine:

In Unto Us a Child is Born, I laugh out loud at the parts where Jimmy (and a few others) put in the wrong sound effects for scenes. I don't know why I find that so funny.

In The Tied That Bind, Part 3, Hadley meets Wooton for the first time in years. Vance and Jay overhear Hadley's loud greeting of: "It's me, Hadley! Cousin Hadley Bassett!" Vance's prompt remark, "Another Bassett?" makes me laugh because his tone sort of says, "Oh, great, not another one." Not sure if the line was meant in that way, but that's how I imagine it.

Also, in The Ties That Bind Part 11, Wooton, Penny, and Hadley finish their discussion with Detective Polehaus and simultaneously yell, "GOODBYE, DETECTIVE!!" I mostly laugh at this because immediately after their line, Eugene comes out of the kitchen (or somewhere) and says, "Is he gone?" I entertain the idea that Eugene set up a system with Wooton and the others so that he'd know when Polehaus left - hence the reason for my unreasonable laughter.

In Wonderworld, after Jimmy and Lawrence ambush the pizza delivery guy, George says, "Here's a little something extra for your trouble." The delivery guy replies, "Oh, thanks man. Nutsoid place!" Again, no clear reason why I find this so funny, but I probably laughed for a minute straight the first time I heard this episode.

So, does anyone else have this experience? Any stories about why certain lines cause you unreasonable laughter? Or no reasons at all?
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Yep, I find it hilarious when Whit is talking about the endless-loop technology of 8 track tapes and he calls them "Just plain neato!" in Grandma's Christmas Visit.

8 tracks have horrible sound quality, yet I love them. You see, the car I drive is a 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme that my grandpa gave me and with it I got a couple boxes of old 8 tracks to play in it. My car's a horrible gas guzzler, but it's fun to drive on occasion (usually I just borrow my parent's minivan if I actually have to drive much, because the minivan actually gets more than 10mpg) and when I do I always listen to one of my 8-tracks. Driving that car, I get every reaction from smiles and waves to people flipping me off because I'm destroying the environment or something. It's weird car to be driving in 2022, but whenever I pass old people of my grandpa's generation, they always get a huge smile on their face. On some tapes where the song lyrics are a little suggestive (music I wouldn't listen to if there aren't any good songs on the tape) it's actually better with the terrible sound quality of 8 tracks because you can't always understand exactly what they're saying. It's super weird when one tape is half country songs and half disco too. I also find it hilarious when the player malfunctions and it makes everything sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks(actually an improvement when I heard "Goodnight Irene" the other day), although that normally means I'll have to fix the tape later. Cassettes are a pain to fix, but 8 tracks are much moreso due to the "endless-loop technology". Here the inside of one: Image

There was this one time was driving on the freeway next to a really rude driver in a huge pickup who was blasting loud rap music and glaring at me, so I blasted the 8 track tape I was playing in the cutlass. The song I was listening to at the time was "Jesus is Just Alright With Me" by the Dooby Brothers! :D Probably wasn't the best witness for Christ, but my brother thought it was hilarious.

I'm sure there's other odyssey lines that make me laugh out loud unintentionally but this was the one that came to mind. Don't mind my long winded rant about old cars and 8 track tapes.
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