The other night in anatomy lab (shocking that this story is about school I know) I was joking around with one of my classmates (Alan). He asked if I'd seen the Lego Movie, to which I obviously replied yes. If you haven't seen the lego movie then let me preface this story: there's an astronaut character, and the only thing he knows how to build out of Legos is a spaceship. He constantly tries to build the spaceship throughout the movie, but the characters are never in need of a spaceship until the very end. When they inform him that they do, in fact, need a spaceship this is his reaction:
He FREAKS OUT, hahah and it's hilarious! So in lab, Alan just keeps looking at me and saying "SPACESHIP" and I, for the life of me, cannot stop laughing. It was one of those moments where it's really not THAT funny for that long, but you keep imaging the moment over and over and it's still funny 30 minutes later.
Needless to say, our other group members were not pleased that we were basically useless for that lab because all we could do was laugh every time we looked at each other. Then we quoted other scenes from the movie and it was just good clean laughter! I think the scene in the movie is so funny because it's a sense of relief for the audience and the astronaut, he FINALLY gets to build a spaceship! And his reaction is so exaggerated that you're caught off guard and causes side-splitting laughter.
Okay, now I am having one of those "it's not really THAT funny" moments from reading this post, but this is actually relevant to something that happened to me today! I work as a research assistant in an ABA lab, and we do a lot of research with children who have autism. One current study we re running involves encouraging kids with autism to talk about novel topics through reinforcement. Today the grad student running the experiment was talking about one participant who is OBSESSED with the Lego Movie, to the point where it is his normal conversation topic. She was sating how she is having trouble determining what is a new topic and what is related to the movie, because he will start to talk about things like space and then relates it back to the film. She mentioned she is also having trouble finguring out if this one phrase he keeps saying is him actually talking or just a stereotypy, or repetitive behavior. Apparently he walks around yelling "SPACESHIP!" randomly and she doesn't know what to make of it. After reading this post and watching this clip I am laughing so hard because I realize he's getting it from the movie!!!! I suppose it is so funny because here we were as researchers trying to come at his using the phrase from a scientific and diagnostic approach, where in reality he is just quoting a movie. SO FUNNY!
ReplyDeleteI love those random inside jokes you have with your friends that NO ONE seems to find funny (at all) except for you two. During high school, one of my friends and I had so many of these random inside jokes that we were completely unable to work with each other during classes. If we were paired together, nothing ever got done, because we spent too much time laughing at all our incredible NOT-funny jokes. Everyone around use, including the teacher, would just shake their heads in shame...
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