While Kero and Sayoran are the true Butt Monkeys of Cardcaptor Sakura, Sakura herself is frequently victim to cutesy slapstick.As punishment, Yukari spends the next several minutes slapping Tomo around with a lunch tray in each hand. Yukari-sensei is also placed on the receiving end of some physical comedy courtesy of Tomo. Of course, this is all girl-on-girl (or animal-on-girl) slapstick. Azumanga Daioh has several slapstick scenes, Yomi and Tomo hit each other, Chiyo and Osaka get bonked a lot, and even Sakaki is always bitten on the hand by cats.Angel Beats! has Hinata's assaults on Yui be played just as much for laughs as hers on him.A little sneeze sends her face-first into a cup of coffee, and she trips while trying to clean it up, getting a bucket stuck on her head. Hotori from And Yet the Town Moves falls victim to a large number of unfortunate mishaps.Chacha herself gets the most because she's the protagonist Riiya and Shiine suffer alongside her because they're her closest friends/costars. Akazukin Chacha: Every main cast member, male or female, is a frequent target for comedic violence and pratfalls.Akkun even suplexed Yoshiko at one point. In one case male lead Akkun hits her with an Offhand Backhand when she calls him the idiot. In Aho Girl, Yoshiko's stupidity causes her to frequently be the victim of retaliatory Dope Slaps and the like.So while some people still complain that a show like America's Funniest Home Videos where people repeatedly fall and get hit in the crotch is not amusing, it's not really surprising that the show still continues to be popular across all demographics for well over 20 years even in the face of the infinite spring of funny home videos that are modern social networks.įor the Marvel Comics superhero character, click here. It was found that while many had lost the capacity to "get" puns and higher humor, almost all still found slapstick funny. A study was done of patients who had previously sustained head trauma who were shown comedy clips of varying types.
While slapstick is present to some degree in many comedic works, examples should be works that depend entirely or predominantly on this form of exaggerated physical comedy for their humour.Īn interesting bit of neurological trivia: finding slapstick funny is very deeply seated in the brain. Exemplified in the modern era by artists like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Laurel and Hardy and continued by recent performers such as the British comedy team of Rik Mayall and Ade Edmonson, and Canadian actor Jim Carrey. It has been a staple of Vaudeville and Burlesque and a consistent thread in many types of comedy, most notably the Farce. The name comes from a prop in the Commedia dell'Arte: the battacchio, or "Slap Stick", is two pieces of wood that sound more like punching than punching does, without causing any physical damage making this Older Than Steam. The Pratfall is a staple of slapstick humor. The defining feature of slapstick is its highly exaggerated nature, combined with a lack of serious physical consequences.
slipping and landing face first in dog crap). Slapstick is the essence of physical comedy - people getting hurt or embarrassed in hilarious ways (e.g.
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