Bob the Builder

Sometimes he rides on Travis or Scrambler. Methods:. Spud has a habit of trying to do work and with his limited intelligence getting it wrong and spoiling materials. Required components:. It is Spud who must learn to be patient, to not eat all of the food etc. Isaac Asimov, on the other hand, proposes (in his first jokebook, Treasury of Humor) that the essence of humour is anticlimax: an abrupt change in point of view, in which trivial matters are suddenly elevated in importance above those that would normally be far more important. Spud serves as the stand-in for a naive child. Heinlein proposes that humour comes from pain, and that laughter is a mechanism to keep us from crying.

All the characters are machines or adult humans or animals except for Spud the scarecrow. In Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Animals:. A number of science fiction writers have explored the theory of humour. Machines:. Americans visiting Australia have gained themselves a reputation for gullibility and a lack of a sense of humour by not recognising that tales of kangaroos hopping across the Sydney Harbour Bridge exemplify the propensity for this style of leg-pulling. Humans:. One notable trait of Australians (perhaps inherited from the British) lies in their use of deadpan humour, in which the joker will make an outrageous or ridiculous statement without giving any explicit signs of joking.

from the Nicktoons USA Version of. Users of some psychoactive drugs tend to find humour in many more situations and events than one normally would. . Although many writers have emphasised the positive or cathartic effects of humour some, notably Billig, have emphasises the potential of humour for cruelty and its involvement with social control and regulation.
. Prominent theoreticians in this field include Raymond Gibbs, Herbert Clark, Michael Billig, Willibald Ruch, Victor Raskin, Eliot Oring, and Salvatore Attardo. and Canada). There also exist linguistic and psycholinguistic studies of humour, irony, parody and pretence.

The "North American" version uses the actual BBC episodes, but dubs the voices in local accents and slang (for example, the word "soccer" is used to avoid confusion with the very different "football" popular in the U.S. Puns classify words not by what lives (their meaning) but by mechanics (their mere sound). It is shown on CBeebies on BBC television in the UK, and was shown on Nickelodeon TV channel in the US and Canada (in the US, starting with the 2005-06 season, episodes will be shown on PBS Kids instead). A Bergsonian might explain puns in the same spirit. It is shown in more than thirty countries, and versions are available in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Dutch, among other languages. He used as an instance a book by an English humorist, in which an elderly woman who desired a reputation as a philanthropist provided "homes within easy hail of her mansion for the conversion of atheists who have been specially manufactured for her, so to speak, and for a number of honest folk who have been made into drunkards so that she may cure them of their failing, etc." This idea seems funny because a genuine impulse of charity as a living, vital impulse has become encrusted by a mechanical conception of how it should manifest itself. The show is produced in the UK by Hot Animation for Hit Entertainment, and draws heavily on stop motion techniques such as those pioneered by Art Clokey and more recently on the successful works of Aardman Animations, (although the show is not claymation but instead the characters are made from silicone for the skin with a metal armatured skeleton inside).The Characters and sets are designed by Curtis Jobling. The French philosopher Henri Bergson wrote an essay on "the meaning of the comic", in which he viewed the essence of humour as the encrustation of the mechanical upon the living.

(The single also reached number one in Australia in 2001) A second single by Bob, "Mambo No.5", with lyrics adapted from Lou Bega's 1999 hit version, also reached number one a year later. Notable studies of humour have come from the pens of Aristotle in The Poetics (Part V), of Sigmund Freud in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious and of Schopenhauer. This phrase is also the title of the show's theme song; the song became a Christmas number one single in 2000 and appeared 72nd in the all-time UK best-sellers list issued in 2002. Typically, the priest will make a remark, the rabbi will continue in the same vein, and then the lawyer will make a third point that forms a sharp break from the established pattern, but nonetheless forms a logical (or at least stereotypical) response. Bob's catchphrase is "Can we fix it?" - The reponse to this (from the rest of his team) is "Yes we can!". For instance, a class of jokes exists beginning with the formulaic line "A priest, a rabbi, and a lawyer are sitting in a bar..." (or close variations on this). The show emphasizes conflict resolution, co-operation, socialization, and various learning skills. For this reason also, many jokes work in threes.

In each episode they help with renovations, construction, and repairs, and with other projects as needed. For example:. It features Bob (voiced by actor Neil Morrissey in the English original), his colleague Wendy, various neighbours and friends, and their gang of anthropomorphised work-vehicles and equipment. Perhaps the essence of humour lies in the presentation of something familiar to a person, so they think they know the natural follow-on thought or conclusion, then providing a twist through presentation something different from what the audience expected (see surprise), or else the natural result of interpreting the original situation in a different, less common, way. Bob the Builder is a stop-motion animated children's TV programme about the adventures of a construction contractor and his friends. White once said that "Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind." However, attempts to do just that have been made, such as this one:. James Taylor - Propmaker. Author E.B.

Jonathan Kershaw - Lead Propmaker. Some claim that humour cannot or should not be explained. Paul Couvela - Supervising Animator. This is why jokes are often funny only when told the first time. Hamish - Molly's Parrot. Once the problem in meaning has been described through a joke, people immediately begin correcting their impressions of the symbols that have been mocked. Scruffty - Farmer Pickles' dog. In other words, comedy is a sign of a 'bug' in the symbolic make-up of language, as well as a self-correcting mechanism for such bugs.

Humpty - Farmer Pickles' prize pig. Irony is explicitly this form of comedy, whereas slapstick takes more passive social norms relating to physicality and plays with them. Tommy - Mrs.Potts turtle. Language is an approximation of thoughts through symbolic manipulation, and the gap between the expectations inherent in those symbols and the breaking of those expectations leads to laughter. Bird - A bird, Roley's best friend. One explanation of humour is based on the fact that a great deal of humour is a consequence of language. Pilchard - Bob's cat. Arthur Schopenhauer lamented the misuse of the term (the German loanword from English) to mean any type of comedy.

Scoot - Black & Yellow, Tom's Snow Ski (male voice). By comparison, the use of irony creates the perception of a passage from the serious to the comic, while in humour the opposite is true. Benny - Darkish Pink Excavator (female voice). For this reason humour is often a subjective experience as it depends on a special mood or perspective from its audience to be effective. Scrambler - Darkish blue quadbike (male voice). The term "humour" as formerly applied in comedy referred to the interpenetration of the sublime and the ridiculous. Trix - Purple forklift (female voice). Examples of various different styles of humour, or techniques for evoking humour or creating a humourous situation are listed below.

Skip - Yellow like Scoop, skip-carrier (male voice). . Travis - Cyan tractor (belongs to Farmer Pickles, male voice). For example, young children (of any background) particularly favour slapstick, while satire tends to appeal to more mature audiences. Lofty - Blue crane (male voice). A sense of humour is the ability to experience humour, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including, but not limited to geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education and context. Roley - Green steamroller (male voice). The origin of the term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids known as humours controlled human health and emotion.

Dizzy - Orange concrete mixer (female voice). The term encompasses a form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh or feel happy. Muck - Red bulldozer (male voice in original UK). Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the ability or quality of people, objects or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. Scoop - Yellow backhoe (male voice). timing. Mr Williams - an Airport Manager. reframing.

Dora - Bob's Aunt. hyperbole. Jenny - Wendy's Sister. metaphor. Molly - JJ's daughter. similar to reality, but not real. JJ - Parts Supplier. appealing to feelings or to emotions.

Mr Costello - Drive-in Movie manager. some surprise, contradiction, ambiguity or paradox. Tom - Bob's Twin Brother. Exemplified by The Larry Sanders Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Dorothy - Bob's Mum. Character Driven, deriving humour from the way characters act in specific situations, without punchlines. Robert - Bob's Dad. Unintentional humour, that is, making people laugh without intending to (as with Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space).

Mr.Dixon - Postman. Deliberate ambiguity and confusion with reality, often performed by Andy Kaufman. Mavis - Postwoman. Anti-humour