I was rewatching Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero today and it had me dead laughing that Bulma canonically uses the Dragon Balls to wish for BBL and other vain nonsense like that.
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Most of those aren't unfunny because they're unfunny, they're unfunny because they're overused. Also, plenty aren't even supposed to be funny; you're basically just hating on tropes in general for being overused, not comedy.
That said, I agree with you to some extent; I personally don't find a lot of anime comedy that funny. The stuff I do has me rolling, though...but it's few and far between...
Haha, exactly. The anime I tend to find most hilarious is the anime that pokes fun at those very same overused tropes. There's things like KonoSuba and Overly Cautious Hero that are mainly funny if you've already seen a fair bit of others in the genre.
This one is often alright, in my opinion. Kind of funny/silly exactly because it's so overplayed. Kind of self referential in my opinion. Also takes basically a second or two, so no real loss either way.
Man, and I know this goes against what I said earlier a bit, but this one pisses me off because it's so overused and almost always out of place. I agree that the subversion can be funny, though. I've seen a few where, "for equality" for seeing the women undressed, the stumbling dude starts stripping. Obviously does not go well. There's also a version where he says 'I know I'll get beat for this so might as well keep looking.' Couldn't find that, but found this clip from the same anime.
Again, not even necessarily funny, just often used.
I would argue that all of those overused scenes he mentioned are intentional and meant to be "funny" in the self-referential way you explained...
The Planners/Animators know what they are doing and are anime superfans themselves.
Oh, also, check out Combatants Will Be Dispatched! if you haven't already. Same author as KonoSuba; not as good in my opinion, but similar comedy style as I recall.