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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Archibald" data-source="post: 48546" data-attributes="member: 210">I thought it had to do with subverting expectations or some norm in a clever way. Like Larry from VeggieTales said “it’s funny because it’s unexpected”[ATTACH=full]8358[/ATTACH]In your example of “saying how you really feel” with a playful tone, it subverts the viewers expectations of what they think would happen.A release of (your) emotions is usually associated with anger and sadness leaving people to expect a delivery that invokes those feelings. However, the playful tone violates that, making it unexpected and therefore funny (at least to you. I feel as if that kind of thing has been used too many times before to get a giggle out of me).</blockquote>