Hey, "Brave Sir Robin ran away" will always be funny. And so will "look at the bones!" There's lots of stuff amongst the utterly unexpected absurdity that's still funny.
Most humor is like that. It's the unexpected twist that makes it funny. How many comedies really stand up to repeated viewings?
But agreed, making the most absurd bits mundane by repeating them endlessly does miss the point. It just becomes a case of, "say the thing!"
Hey, "Brave Sir Robin ran away" will always be funny. And so will "look at the bones!" There's lots of stuff amongst the utterly unexpected absurdity that's still funny.
Most humor is like that. It's the unexpected twist that makes it funny. How many comedies really stand up to repeated viewings?
But agreed, making the most absurd bits mundane by repeating them endlessly does miss the point. It just becomes a case of, "say the thing!"