Chris Logsdon FYW blog posts

I never thought that I would see another movie character that’s as obnoxious as Regina George in Mean Girls … Yet here we are. Before watching watching the movie, I thought I would hate the Jennifer’s Body. I never liked the popular- unpopular high school duo plot because they are always unoriginal. However, the demonic elements that are in Jennifer’s Body makes a very entertaining and funny film. After reading Lola’s blog post, I realize how benign violation and incongruity theory work together to make some hilarious jokes. The “eat my ass” remark from Jennifer literally made me laugh out loud. If I didn’t know about it prior to watching the movie I would have been very surprised. Also, it was never necessary for Jennifer to say that line, yet no harm was caused and in the end turned into a really funny moment. Another example of benign violation and incongruity theory being immersed in Jennifer’s Body lies in the final scenes. Jennifer and Needy at this point of the film ...

Superbad is a classic. To this day my friends and I still do not have the maturity to not make a Superbad reference every so often. The scene where Fogell attempts to buy alcohol is one of the best examples of incongruity theory in the film. First, there was the part where the lady accepts Fogell’s obvious “McLovin” fake ID where many would think he would get rejected. Yet, the store clerk saw passed the fact that Fogell’s ID did not have a last name and that he did not looked a day over his teen years. Then as soon as Fogell was just about to get away with everything, he receives a punch in the face by a burglar. This scene has many ups and downs which keeps the audience on the edge of their seats, hoping that Fogell would bask in glory as he got away with buying alcohol while underaged. Oh how we should have know that Fogell’s luck does not extend to that magnitude. What I also found very coincidental was how Seth’s love for drawing penis’s related so well to Zupancic’s es...

The creators of Tom and Jerry were geniuses to say the least. Producing their show in the 1940’s, the creators did not have the opportunity to work with advanced technology that most cartoons utilize today. Therefore, they had to be very clever to make a show that was simple to construct but at the same time very entertaining to an audience. Tom and Jerry had great success in achieving these two goals. The show features very little dialogue and had the rivalry between two animals in which people became very attached to. I believe the producer’s choice of choosing a cat and mouse to be the main characters was also very clever. With Tom being the cat and Jerry being the mouse, many people began watching each episode thinking that Tom could one day triumph over Jerry. I mean that’s how nature in the real world works right? No one has ever seen a mouse carrying dead cats around. It’s always the other way around. The expectation that cats are more dominant than mice is where Tom...