• PapaStevesy
      101·
      8 hours ago5 hours ago

      It’s funny because you don’t expect kids to want there to be monsters under their beds. Typically, or rather trope-ically, children ask their parents to make sure there are no monsters under their beds and at first it would appear the same is true here. However, the child and parent themselves appear ghoulish, and when it’s revealed that there is in fact a monster under the bed, ostensibly the father as it is similarly ghoulish and tells a pretty decent double-layer dad joke, the child is relieved. It’s irony! And puns. And just good Halloween vibes, which I admit aren’t inherently humorous. But I’d argue they are almost always inherently light-hearted. I give it 9/10, especially compared to a lot of the shit I see posted around here.

      • illiEnglish
        10·
        5 hours ago

        What’s the pun?

        • PapaStevesy
          40·
          5 hours ago4 hours ago

          Dead/dad

          Edit: “good-bite” is a pun too

          • illiEnglish
            10·
            41 mins ago

            I got the good bite one. I guess the second one also explains what “hung-ee” was supposed to mean :D

    • AliasVortexEnglish
      132·
      9 hours ago

      Same reason most things are funny, or at least mildly amusing: inversion of expectations.

      • OrbituaryEnglish
        113·
        8 hours ago8 hours ago

        Maybe your expectations. There was no suspension of plot or conclusion or anything “absurd” about this. It started absurd with the zombie cats and basically didn’t establish anything weirder. The zombie cat under the bed wasn’t even a living cat, which would have added a juxtaposition.

        Not humorous.

        • blind3rdeye
          50·
          4 hours ago

          You should know, it is possible that other people find this comic funny even though you don’t. And no matter how much you ‘explain’ why it isn’t humorous, you can’t undo the fact that other some people have found it funny. So then, what do you think people learn from your explanation?; Probably something about you rather than something about the comic.

        • PapaStevesy
          30·
          4 hours ago

          “Suspension of plot or conclusion” are not really “things” at all, much less defining characteristics of humor. You just don’t get it, and that’s ok! It doesn’t make you less than or anything.

  • lowleveldata
    82·
    11 hours ago

    I like how they setup a little lamp for the underbed fellow

    • PapaStevesy
      30·
      8 hours ago

      It’s called a flashlight, or a “torch” in more primitive parts of the world…jk UK, love you crazy kooks.

      • DominusOfMegadeus
        20·
        8 hours ago

        Flashlight is pretty dumb too, when you break it down. I’m going with Lamp-O-Tron.

        • PapaStevesy
          10·
          8 hours ago

          Oh for sure, they don’t even flash unless you have one with the emergency mode.