Quiz 2

One of my favorite videos that we watched in class was the video Hell’s Kitchen.  I found it to be hilarious.  We recently stated in this class that comedy is unexpected.  I find that this film does this really well.  The film does a great job at leading you to believe that something is going to happen but then delivers something else.  When the lady steps on the robot brain and wanders into the street, I expected her to get hit by a car.  I don’t think anyone was expecting the woman in black to scream and then apparently choke to death.  The unexpectedness of the scream made it all the more funny.  Then the lady in the street is hit by a car, which sets off a chain reaction of other cars to hit the lamppost.  The following events are more predictable but still unexpected after the frail old lady is thrown out of the way and into the streets you hear sirens.  I expected an ambulance or a fire truck to come speeding into the scene and kill the old woman instead a school bus skids to a halt and tips over.  The bus catches fire and cheerleaders come scrambling but they are not scared, as one would expect, but they go into a cheer and then the funniest part of the whole clip in my opinion is what happens next.  It is the most predictable and the funniest moment in the whole clip.  I realize this contradicts the point I’m trying to make but… I don’t care, it was funny.  After the bus blows up a catchy song starts playing, the song is called That Great Gettin’ Up Mornin’ and it has nothing to do with the comedy of the clip or my article I just like the song, in fact I’m listening to it as I write this blog. (I may or may not have turned on the song just before writing that last sentence so as not to be a liar)