Nikoleta FYW 1213

I am really glad Abby's Lead Blog is about The Good Place. Having always seen commercials for it, I believed that it was a feel-good drama about different people. Having now read that it is actually a comedy about people in hell, I was taken aback. I was intrigued to read the rest of Abby's blog and see what The Good Place is about and why it is so funny. While the concept of an Immortal being trying to torture people by having them drive each other insane seems very dark, the way Abby explains the reality of the situation is actually quite lighthearted and shows instances of relief humor. The one scene Abby writes about with Jason was very funny. The fact that Jason goes from freaking out about being in hell to freaking out about not being able to order off the kids' menu is absurd to me. I had to do a double take while looking at the picture on Abby's blog. That scene is not only a great example of incongruity theory but also relief theory. It is a good example of inc...

Time really does fly by. It feels like last week I was just starting college and frantically trying to figure out how to use Blogger, next week is Halloween I think, and then Christmas season will begin (poor Thanksgiving, all that food and absolutely no hype). With the Christmas season, of course, comes ugly Christmas sweaters, gingerbread houses, presents, and of course, Christmas movies! One of my favorite Christmas movies is Elf, with Will Ferrell starring as Buddy the Elf. The movie revolves around a human believing he's was an elf his whole time leave the North Pole to find his father while inadvertently bringing the spirit of Christmas along with him. While this is a warm, heartening movie that never fails to bring the family together and produce Christmas spirit, this movie is also brimming with incongruity theory and superiority theory. For incongruity theory, the fact that a practically 6 ft man grew up believing he is an elf is absurd. In the first few scenes of the movi...