{"id":418,"date":"2007-02-03T06:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-03T12:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=418"},"modified":"2007-02-03T06:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-03T12:29:00","slug":"0007-matinee-soup-light-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/0007-matinee-soup-light-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"0007 Matinee Soup &#8216;Light Breakfast&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/378232402\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/179\/378232402_fad2a38aac.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/378232402\/\">0007 Matinee Soup &#8216;Light Breakfast&#8217;<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\tYup. Sometimes, Bambi can&#8217;t resist a pun. It&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>When I first wrote this one, I had the lines reversed. But that breaks a comedy rule&#8230; you need to end with the punchline, not start with it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that the joke DOESN&#8217;T work the other way round. It simply changes the nature of the &#8216;laugh&#8217;. (I put &#8216;laugh&#8217; in inverted commas cos I don&#8217;t expect EVERYone to find EVERY Matinee Soup joke funny, simply cos I find them funny.)<\/p>\n<p>The way I&#8217;ve presented the joke here, we have the setup: &#8216;I had a light breakfast&#8217;. Followed by the speech bubble break into a new panel. With the punchline delivered after a very slight speaking pause: &#8216;I ate the bedside lamp.&#8217; Followed by a change of &#8216;camera angle&#8217;, and the tail-end of Bambi&#8217;s exit.<\/p>\n<p>There were two things I toyed with. One was making the first two panels into one bigger panel. I resisted that, cos it destroys the amount of time occupied by the pause. <\/p>\n<p>The other thing I tried was having Bambi&#8217;s &#8216;owner&#8217; shouting, &#8216;Bambi! Did you chew the bedside lamp??&#8217; with Bambi telling the viewer, &#8216;I had a light breakfast.&#8217; This is probably funnier than the current version. But it&#8217;s not quite in Bambi&#8217;s character.<\/p>\n<p>The way I&#8217;ve opted to go is to keep Bambi completely aware of her actions, and the consequences. She&#8217;s in total control of her life.<\/p>\n<p><i>This painting was made on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ambientdesign.com\/artrage.html\">ArtRage 2.2<\/a>. A bunch of my friends were sitting in my living room watching THE SECRET on my big screen video projector while I worked, with me occasionally looking up.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>PS: Hey&#8230; have you seen my <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/royprickieflick\">buttons<\/a> yet?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0007 Matinee Soup &#8216;Light Breakfast&#8217;, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Yup. Sometimes, Bambi can&#8217;t resist a pun. It&#8217;s true. When I first wrote this one, I had the lines reversed. 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