#so even though [silence] is a valid tsukkomi response to her boke she has to butt in with her OWN tsukkomi in order to keep the flow | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

epicdogymoment · 8 months ago

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nichijou episode 8 part 31. good illustration of how in boke-tsukkomi exchanges the tsukkomi part completes the joke, not necessarily in the sense that it completes the humour and therefore makes you laugh, but in the sense that its required in order to maintain the pace and flow from joke to joke

#leologisms #nichijou #<- uhhhhh sure whatever.#i wanted to say that in that bit yuko is being a self-sufficient manzai duo (in that shes playing both boke and tsukkomi)#but mai and mio are both playing the tsukkomi role. just that theyre exclusively doing the [silence] type #which IS used frequently in nichijou. but because yuko is trying to keep the conversation going its even more of a dispreferred response #so even though [silence] is a valid tsukkomi response to her boke she has to butt in with her OWN tsukkomi in order to keep the flow #and what she tsukkomis isnt her own boke but rather mai and mios nonreactions (which are incongruous to the expected presence of a #response). so the ACTUAL structure is setup (yuko bad pun) boke (mai+mio nonreaction) tsukkomi (yuko reaction)#different from the EXPECTED structure of boke (yuko bad pun) tsukkomi (mai+mio reaction)#.......MAN!

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