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Caption Humor
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The use of captions in visual media in order to invoke a humorous effect. Specifically, the caption uses the scene as a joke setup and delivers a punchline to it. This includes commenting the scene, pointing out the obvious or even absolute non sequiturs. Sister Trope to Fun with Subtitles. Examples |
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In the online version of Sleepless Domain, the Alt Text often provides a paratextual caption for the current scene. | |
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TFWiki.net is welcome on these on images on their articles, as a way to avoid Department of Redundancy Department. However, it does have a set of rules as to what is or isn't appropriate. | |
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Used in recent X-Men comics, providing a brief, usually humorous bio of any character who shows up, including these two, which popped up during a Fastball Special. | |
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JonTron, whose most distinct feature is his unique blend of captions and editing. In Game Grumps, the editor Barry adopts Jon's style of captions, sometimes to communicate with the audience. | |
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There was a very similar thing in the opening of The Day Today: Chris Morris would read out an ostensible headline and then a piece of genuine news footage would play to humorous effect. | |
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Looney Tunes had funny scientific names for the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. In "Wackiki Wabbit," Bugs Bunny poses as an island native for the benefit of two castaways. He utters a lengthy sentence in native gibberish and the caption simply reads "What's up, doc?". He utters four syllables in the same tongue and the caption reads "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party." At the start of "Drip-along Daffy," captions display with Daffy as "Typical Western-type hero" and Porky as "comedy relief." |
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The Revolution Will Be Televised has a recurring segment called "Honest Subtitles", in which various politicians have their speeches replayed, only stripped of their flowery speech to reflect their (possible) true meaning. | |
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Black Panther: After an arc featuring Mephisto as an antagonist concluded, the following issue had multiple Clues From Ed passive-aggressively explaining that Mephisto is, in fact, The Devil, due apparently to several readers wanting clarification as to who Mephisto was (despite how Everett K. Ross's narration over the previous issues stated as much several times). | |
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From Cracked, we got Craptions! | |
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The Animaniacs segment "Space Probed" has an alien abducting the Warners and telling his brethren, through captions, "There are typical Earth creatures." The Warners then rearrange the words to read "Are these typical Earth creatures?" before making funny faces. | |
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It's Alive! with Brad uses/abuses captions a lot. Sometimes it's to show recipes or warn about potentially hazardous processes. But most of the time, Hunzi emphasizes Brad's accent, transcribes his unintelligible but accidental gibberish (when Brad talks too fast), and snarks back when Brad descends into something rather off-topic. | |
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The opening credits of Monty Python and the Holy Grail has this, with inane comments about mooses and llamas. | |
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Chuggaaconroy usually uses captions when he catches a contradiction to his commentary in post-processing (sometimes to humorous effect). This extends to videos on The Runaway Guys, since Chugga also edits those videos (which is Played for Laughs by ProtonJon a couple of times). | |
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Chopping Block pages consist entirely of an usually silent picture and a caption. | |
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When the Guardians of the Galaxy are introduced in Avengers: Infinity War the location box actually tells us we are in space. | |
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KurtJMac would often use the affectionately-dubbed 'snarky yellow text' to make fun of himself in early Far Lands or Bust episodes. It would also supply additional information, such as when a word was on the tip of his tongue and he couldn't quite remember it. | |
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In Ultra Fast Pony, the captions are basically another Lemony Narrator. Most of the time they mock the show and the characters, and in one episode they get in an argument with an unintelligible character by covering up her translated subtitles. | |
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Running rampant on the Internet, particularly 4chan and DeviantArt, are De/Motivators, which are designed in the vein of typical office motivational posters. The "Advice Animal" meme and later offshoots like Good Guy Greg, Scumbag Steve and Overly Attached Girlfriend. |
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SPY×FAMILY often uses captions to remind the readers/viewers about never trying to do the crazy things the protagonists often get into, like kicking people for therapy, or using blowfish venom for medicinal purposes. | |
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Much of the humor of "The Word" segments on The Colbert Report arises from the captions at the side of the screen, clarifying or elaborating upon what Stephen says aloud. Sometimes the captions take a life of their own. When Colbert started bashing on Islam in one episode, the captions tried to leave, but Colbert forced them to stay. | |
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In The Onion AV Club, they used to do a humorous caption for a pic from one of the movies being reviewed that week, but they haven't done it in years. | |
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In "Wackiki Wabbit," Bugs Bunny poses as an island native for the benefit of two castaways. He utters a lengthy sentence in native gibberish and the caption simply reads "What's up, doc?". He utters four syllables in the same tongue and the caption reads "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party." | |
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is designed to look like a photocopied version of Harry Potter's original. He, Ron, and Hermione have scrawled numerous notes in the margins, from commenting that Hagrid will be getting a certain dangerous creature any day now to the arachnophobic Ron increasing the danger level for acromantulas significantly to continuity nods (for example, in Prisoner of Azkaban, Snape claims the kappa is found in Mongolia; one of Harry's notes has the sentence stating that the kappa is Japanese underlined and a scrawled "Snape hasn't read this"). | |
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RWBY Recaps uses captions as the crux of its humor. (Unlike most Abridged Series, it isn't animated.) | |
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My Hero Academia: Used occasionally, as in the scene where Deku meets Ururaka. | |
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Used often in Ouran High School Host Club as a lot of its humor revolves around wordplay. | |
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Disasterpiece Theatre was a 1980 show on San Diego TV station XETV (then independent, now Spanish) that predated Mystery Science Theater 3000 in that it made fun of cheesy movies. In this case, snarky captions are superimposed on key scenes. There is at least one surviving episode on YouTube. | |
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Wayne's World has a scene where Wayne delivers a weepy monologue with the caption "Oscar Clip". | |
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And in Gals!. | |
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Private Eye has a regular feature where readers write in to point out that two famous people look vaguely alike. The relevance to this trope comes in because the editors invariably switch the names captioning the two photographs being compared, as though they were so alike that nobody could tell which was which. | |
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Help! uses them. The funniest moment is probably when a tiger enters the scene and the caption "A Tiger" pops up on the screen. | |
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Spider-Man: 101 Ways to End the Clone Saga had one instance where the inevitable Clue from Ed. regarding the acronym for S.H.I.E.L.D. failed to remember what it stood for, resulting in the explanation arriving much later in the story as a Brick Joke. | |
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Rocked indulges in this. Much of the comic relief of the show comes from speech bubbles that add jokes or witty insight into a band or event he's talking about, or just add humor to whatever picture's being shown. | |
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Todd in the Shadows uses captions as a Running Gag. He often interacts with them too. | |
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Many YouTube gameplay videos utilize this technique to remain interesting. | |
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The "Spanish Inqusition" sketch in Monty Python's Flying Circus has the caption "DIABOLICAL LAUGHTER" followed with "DIABOLICAL ACTING". And the "Architects" sketch, in which the caption "SATIRE" starts flashing over a very obvious piece of satire. Professor Rosewall points out the penguins scored better on I.Q. tests than BBC programme planners and notes the planners' high total was within a margin of error, saying "One particularly dim programme planner can cock the whole thing up." Following is a caption that says "You can say that again!" Philip Jenkinson's (Eric Idle) constant sniffing while reviewing Sam Peckinpah's films irks the captioner ("Get on with it," "Will you stop sniffing") to the point where he guns Philip down on the set. |
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The Spoony Experiment uses these a lot. | |
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Whenever a new character is introduced in Every Button Hurts the Other Guy, their name is given in a caption box, accompanied by a humorous title or description. | |
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The Blurb versions of Happy Tree Friends episodes. | |
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PS238 does it here, as Zodon berates someone for trying to put a tracking device on his Super Wheelchair: | |
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A scene in Thank You for Smoking has a terribly funny derogatory caption when the boss says the word "environmentalist". | |
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Hey Hey It's Saturday would have amusing sarcastic captions show up every now and again. Caricatures of the guests would serve the same purpose. Note: these were all done live. | |
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Burn Notice initially used captions to identify people that Michael was dealing with, but they have started to become more comical, such as repeating an earlier assessment of a character, identifying them as "Arrogant Jerk" or something similar. | |
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SomecallmeJohnny also utilizes it a lot in his reviews. | |
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