Did you think this was funny?

[Notanumber]

 

[RESOLUTION]

What purpose was it suppose to serve? As far as humour or comedy it had nothing to offer.
As far as religion it made no sense as Christ died for humans!

May be the confusion was the issue?

 

[Polymath257]

Hilarious!

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Clever and real with a great premise to start.

It serves all the functions that humor is supposed to serve.

I suspect that some Christians without a developed sense of self-directed humor might find it offensive. But, taking offense is generally a sign of an overdeveloped and fragile ego.

 

[BSM1]

What purpose was it suppose to serve? As far as humour or comedy it had nothing to offer.
As far as religion it made no sense as Christ died for humans!

May be the confusion was the issue?

Yeah, that's it...

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Hilarious! A satirical spin to such identify-mission-fulfillment ponderings, a spoof on meaning and purpose, and a comical way to get us asking some serious questions about ourselves.

As far as religion it made no sense as Christ died for humans!

One of the goals of comedy is to take that what is familiar (in this case Wyle Coyote and Christianity), and putting them in unfamiliar situations (a proselytizing coyote). A part of the comedy comes from the lack of expectation for a coyote to be talking about Jesus.

 

[Polymath257]

Although I have to admit I find this one more funny:

saved

 

[RESOLUTION]

Hilarious! A satirical spin to such identify-mission-fulfillment ponderings, a spoof on meaning and purpose, and a comical way to get us asking some serious questions about ourselves.

One of the goals of comedy is to take that what is familiar (in this case Wyle Coyote and Christianity), and putting them in unfamiliar situations (a proselytizing coyote). A part of the comedy comes from the lack of expectation for a coyote to be talking about Jesus.

I guess people will talk themselves into anything even when in reality it does none of the things above.
However it rather questions the mindset of those who have no regard to human life being of value. Christianity cannot in any way apply to Wyle Coyote or Road runner and the cartoon cannot in anyway relate to the giving of a life for the sake of mankind.

One who sets traps for others often fall into them, themselves.

No one can seriously think a cartoon about two animals can cause any person to ask serious questions about themselves.
Christian or otherwise this cartoon has no bearings/connection to Christianity

The other problem is the religious verses non-religious element. This will affect the outcome of the poll. Because one will vote in accordance of the 'personality contest' of voting regarding those they like or don't like what they say. You won't get a true reflection whilst the readers are a mixed bag in the same place when posting on other subjects together.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

However it rather questions the mindset of those who have no regard to human life being of value. Christianity cannot in any way apply to Wyle Coyote or Road runner and the cartoon cannot in anyway relate to the giving of a life for the sake of mankind.

That right there lets me know you're taking it too seriously. Comedy isn't serious. It is the absurd. It is bad timing. It is situations you know aren't going to turn out well. The Three Stoogies? Three grown men slapping each other around? The entire slapstick genre is based on dullards or very lucky SOBs and way over exaggerating things.

No one can seriously think a cartoon about two animals can cause any person to ask serious questions about themselves.

Why not? The Willy Coyote has been chasing Road Runner for generations now. Why can't someone see this and think "wow, just what would I do if my life's obsession was finished?"

The other problem is the religious verses non-religious element. This will affect the outcome of the poll. Because one will vote in accordance of the 'personality contest' of voting regarding those they like or don't like what they say. You won't get a true reflection whilst the readers are a mixed bag in the same place when posting on other subjects together.

This isn't even a public poll. People can vote and not say anything. Or are you disappointment that more people are finding it funny than not?

 

[Revoltingest]

Clever and real with a great premise to start.

It serves all the functions that humor is supposed to serve.

I suspect that some Christians without a developed sense of self-directed humor might find it offensive. But, taking offense is generally a sign of an overdeveloped and fragile ego.

Ditto.

 

[BSM1]

Why not? The Willy Coyote has been chasing Road Runner for generations now. Why can't someone see this and think "wow, just what would I do if my life's obsession was finished?"

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Plus ask themselves the question, "Should I have purchased that 'Acme' stock years ago?"

 

[RESOLUTION]

That right there lets me know you're taking it too seriously. Comedy isn't serious. It is the absurd. It is bad timing. It is situations you know aren't going to turn out well. The Three Stoogies? Three grown men slapping each other around? The entire slapstick genre is based on dullards or very lucky SOBs and way over exaggerating things.

Comedy is about HUMOUR/HUMOR. It is about the funny side of things in life. Grown men slapping each other around bears no humour to a child or woman who is continually beaten up.
Violence is not comedy and under no circumstances can any slapstick comedy which includes violence be funny.

Why not? The Willy Coyote has been chasing Road Runner for generations now. Why can't someone see this and think "wow, just what would I do if my life's obsession was finished?"

Has he really? Where in real life do you see such things happen amongst these animals? You don't because the whole thing is not a possibility.
What life obsession's do cartoons really have? Reflecting capabilities and thought patterns onto cartoon characters is not natural or good.

This isn't even a public poll. People can vote and not say anything. Or are you disappointment (disappointed) that more people are finding it funny than not?

It appears you are the one who is disappointed your reply shows how serious you take something others do not find funny as being plausible funny or to contain real humour.
Road runner is like Marmite you either dislike or love it.
The road runner was boring the same old thing and he never succeeded once watched never watched again it is boring. Marrmite once tried you will never eat it again or want more.
Seems you cannot allow for people to have a different view from yourself without it being about right and wrong.
Seriously! how could anyone find road runner to be educational or even dramatically funny. It is the most boring set of cartoons ever made.

My children never grew up watching such rubbish. Personally, my life's obsession had never been the catching of road runner or thinking it to be funny.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Comedy is about HUMOUR/HUMOR.

Yes. And there are many ways to achieve this end. One key element of this is situation and context, because saying something mean could be to hurt, or it could be a good natured and mirthful roast.

Grown men slapping each other around bears no humour to a child

Have you never watched Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, or even the OP featured Wylie Coyote & The Road Runner (though the OP was a Family Guy spoof/parody).

Violence is not comedy and under no circumstances can any slapstick comedy which includes violence be funny.

Though considered dated, there is much comic gold to be found in the slapstick genre.

Has he really? Where in real life do you see such things happen amongst these animals? You don't because the whole thing is not a possibility.

So? Comedy isn't concerned about what is real. It gives us the unlikely, the improbable, and the unexpected. If it's ordinary, it's not funny. If it's extraordinary, it's still not funny unless there is something "off" enough about it to make you laugh. Such as, in Dear White People, when the one guy says "Maybe we should do what they did in Germany." That line was hilarious because of course people expect "do what they did in Germany" to mean Nazis, especially when racial issues are involved, but, no, total surprise of a line that shocks only to lead to something completely innocent and unexpected with the way we are trained to think about "Germans and race" in such a context.

What life obsession's do cartoons really have? Reflecting capabilities and thought patterns onto cartoon characters is not natural or good.

They are characters, so they have as much as they are given. Obviously, the coyote really desperately wants to catch this road runner. It's the entire premises of the show. Of course it's not real, but nor is the crew of the USS Enterprise and we can give some detailed bibliographical information about many of the crew members. Data isn't real, but yet we know his goals are to better understand and emulate human behavior, and be more accepted into human society. We even know he knows this goal is not possible to fully achieve, but "the effort yields its own reward."

It appears you are the one who is disappointed your reply shows how serious you take something others do not find funny as being plausible funny or to contain real humour.

You're the one who is insisting this cannot be funny. I'm not taking it seriously at all, but rather trying to help explain how things that are absurd and impossible are both funny and a part of comedy.

Personally, my life's obsession had never been the catching of road runner or thinking it to be funny.

I can say I used to chase after things I can't have, but I've hit a point in life where I am just fine paddling a leaky canoe to make fun of a yacht. And, BTW, it wasn't catching the road runner that made it funny - it was the coyotes sense of loss of direction and new found reason for living.

 

[RESOLUTION]

Yes. And there are many ways to achieve this end. One key element of this is situation and context, because saying something mean could be to hurt, or it could be a good natured and mirthful roast.

Have you never watched Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry, or even the OP featured Wylie Coyote & The Road Runner (though the OP was a Family Guy spoof/parody).

Though considered dated, there is much comic gold to be found in the slapstick genre.

So? Comedy isn't concerned about what is real. It gives us the unlikely, the improbable, and the unexpected. If it's ordinary, it's not funny. If it's extraordinary, it's still not funny unless there is something "off" enough about it to make you laugh. Such as, in Dear White People, when the one guy says "Maybe we should do what they did in Germany." That line was hilarious because of course people expect "do what they did in Germany" to mean Nazis, especially when racial issues are involved, but, no, total surprise of a line that shocks only to lead to something completely innocent and unexpected with the way we are trained to think about "Germans and race" in such a context.

They are characters, so they have as much as they are given. Obviously, the coyote really desperately wants to catch this road runner. It's the entire premises of the show. Of course it's not real, but nor is the crew of the USS Enterprise and we can give some detailed bibliographical information about many of the crew members. Data isn't real, but yet we know his goals are to better understand and emulate human behavior, and be more accepted into human society. We even know he knows this goal is not possible to fully achieve, but "the effort yields its own reward."

You're the one who is insisting this cannot be funny. I'm not taking it seriously at all, but rather trying to help explain how things that are absurd and impossible are both funny and a part of comedy.

I can say I used to chase after things I can't have, but I've hit a point in life where I am just fine paddling a leaky canoe to make fun of a yacht. And, BTW, it wasn't catching the road runner that made it funny - it was the coyotes sense of loss of direction and new found reason for living.

Thanks for the reply shadow wolf, but no one needs to be educated on the scholarly approach to humour because humour is not taught and neither is it set in rigid stone of the scholarly view.
It is personal, just as our own colour of eyes and hair differ. So does our humour and choice of what we find funny as individuals.

It wasn't funny to me and nothing you say can in any way change that fact. Being educated in religious matters and human matters, especially of those of mental health and sociology I can tell you
that I don't need an explanation as to why others might find it funny. I know that it is just a cartoon at the end of the day and when the bigger picture of life is apparent it really isn't funny at all.
But then, having seen a lot of sad and painful things in life, I see things of reality more important than a made up scenario.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Thanks for the reply shadow wolf, but no one needs to be educated on the scholarly approach to humour because humour is not taught and neither is it set in rigid stone of the scholarly view.

Who said anything about giving you this stuff from and academic and scholarly view? I love comedy. I'd even give stand up a try if there were any places around here for it.

It wasn't funny to me and nothing you say can in any way change that fact. Being educated in religious matters and human matters, especially of those of mental health and sociology I can tell you
that I don't need an explanation as to why others might find it funny.

I don't expect you to change your mind on it, but yes you do need help explaining it because they very things that make it comedy you are trying to say make it too unrealistic to make it funny. But that's the thing about comedy - absurdity tends to reign supreme, you may need a momentary suspense of belief, and the unexpected and/or grossly over exaggerated are bound to happen. Mel Brooks movies are about the furthest thing from reality and plausible scenarios as you're going to get with live action movies, but that's part of what makes them so hilarious. Chappelle pumping his Nikes up during Medieval Europe times, a western flick that literally takes place at a movie studio, or the first choir being composed of cavemen bashing each other's feet with rocks to produce notes, it is these unrealistic over-exaggerated and absurd things that are part of the reasons his movies are so funny. And then of course, twice, "A black sheriff?!?" LOL! It's also a great formula for making fun of the bad aspects of society, such as racism.

But then, having seen a lot of sad and painful things in life, I see things of reality more important than a made up scenario.

We seem to have taken two different paths. My life of pain and agony, comedy is a great relief. And of course even I see reality as more important than fiction, but yet it is psychologically healthy to occasionally have an escape.

 

[Notanumber]

As Homer J would say, it’s funny because it’s true!

Perhaps they could have cleaned up the language to avoid offending the sensitive viewers.

Maybe some Christians found it offensive, but this would not carry the same risk to the producers as it would if they had chosen another well-known religion.

 

[RESOLUTION]

Who said anything about giving you this stuff from and academic and scholarly view? I love comedy. I'd even give stand up a try if there were any places around here for it.

You are not listening to anyone but yourself. Not taking on board that your view is not the be and end all of everything.

I don't expect you to change your mind on it, but yes you do need help explaining it because they very things that make it comedy you are trying to say make it too unrealistic to make it funny.

Evidence of what I stated about you not listening to anyone but yourself.
It was the most boring cartoon ever made.

But that's the thing about comedy - absurdity tends to reign supreme, you may need a momentary suspense of belief, and the unexpected and/or grossly over exaggerated are bound to happen.

The thing about comedy is it is about the individuals own taste and sense of humour. You cannot tell or order someone to find something funny. Suspending beliefs or anything
else won't suddenly make something funny. That particular cartoon never was funny and no matter what you belief, if you think it boring and senseless it will remain so.

Mel Brooks movies are about the furthest thing from reality and plausible scenarios as you're going to get with live action movies, but that's part of what makes them so hilarious. Chappelle pumping his Nikes up during Medieval Europe times, a western flick that literally takes place at a movie studio, or the first choir being composed of cavemen bashing each other's feet with rocks to produce notes, it is these unrealistic over-exaggerated and absurd things that are part of the reasons his movies are so funny. And then of course, twice, "A black sheriff?!?" LOL! It's also a great formula for making fun of the bad aspects of society, such as racism.

Noooooo! Don't even go there. You cannot in anyway compare Mel Brooks to a boring Cartoon which has been the same old, same old throughout it's entire run.
Mel Brooks is rather like the Monty Python great at their own thing but sometimes they get a little ahead of themselves. Even they had some hilarious moments but not everything was
brilliantly funny. Road runner cartoons were never funny.

We seem to have taken two different paths. My life of pain and agony, comedy is a great relief. And of course even I see reality as more important than fiction, but yet it is psychologically healthy to occasionally have an escape.

How do you believe we have two different paths? How does your life of pain and agony decide what is funny? I have found from personal experience when suffering not even comedy can help
at the point you have just watched a 13 year old girl die who you spent the last 13 years of your life caring for,
It may be as it was for me that about 2 years later I watched a show where a comedian made me really laugh for the first time because their show was really funny. We all start to laugh again eventually and appreciate good comedy. But when you have watched someone close die no amount of comedy no matter how funny will ease that pain and agony at the time.
When your faith carries you through and life once again becomes from the dark to light, you do not appreciate the stupidity of someone mocking the power and love of the God who carried you
through. Comedy is about something which is funny not insulting or making fun of something which isn't funny.
I will always believe that the Road Runner cartoons were the most senseless and unfunny things I have ever had the misfortune to watch.
Life, is a gift, it isn't for mocking and watching a Cayote constantly trying to kill a bird and falling into it's own trap is by far the most boring and useless thing to watch.


We did not take two different paths. We just have different senses of humour about what we find funny or in this case just plain boring and senseless.
Road Runner was both boring and senseless and lacked any real sense of good humour. My opinion and I do not expect anyone to share it.
But life is like that. The school of hard knocks and heartaches makes us appreciate the truly funny things which harm no one..mocks no one and is true comedy.