Captain Picard usually tells the replicator “Tea. Earl grey. Hot.” At which point the replicator produces a cup of hot earl grey tea.
However, in this meme, Captain Picard says “bees” instead of “tea”. Bees are a swarming, flying insect. As a result, instead of tea appearing in the replicator, a swarm of bees appears.
The humour lies in the fact that a minor substitution in the language of the request drastically changed the resulting situation.
Humor is usually, but not always, derived from a surprise from contrasting an expected follow-up with an unexpected situation. Once the joke has been exposed, there is no explanation that would restitute the surprise, hence it’s impossible both explain a joke and maintain its humor at the same time, unless the explanation itself is unexpected and therefore part of the joke.
I hope this helps in your journey to understand humans, Data.
Captain Picard usually tells the replicator “Tea. Earl grey. Hot.” At which point the replicator produces a cup of hot earl grey tea.
However, in this meme, Captain Picard says “bees” instead of “tea”. Bees are a swarming, flying insect. As a result, instead of tea appearing in the replicator, a swarm of bees appears.
The humour lies in the fact that a minor substitution in the language of the request drastically changed the resulting situation.
This is also playing off of a typo in this other post: https://lemmy.world/post/41913405
Oh. Yeah. Explaining it like that DEFINITELY made it funny.
Humor is usually, but not always, derived from a surprise from contrasting an expected follow-up with an unexpected situation. Once the joke has been exposed, there is no explanation that would restitute the surprise, hence it’s impossible both explain a joke and maintain its humor at the same time, unless the explanation itself is unexpected and therefore part of the joke.
I hope this helps in your journey to understand humans, Data.