39 The first parody mimics Fred Flintstone’s famous catchphrase, “
Yabba, dabba, Do
”. Ellie attempts to escape a fierce dinosaur by sliding on the back of a huge Diplodocus while crying out the catchphrase. The second parody uses a song
from the movie
Alvin and the Chipmunks.
It sounds ridiculous since Crash and Eddie’s voice become small while singing, almost sound like the chipmunks.
5. Irony
According to Shade 1996, Irony uses words to express something that totally different from the actual meaning. There are 31 samples categorized into
ironic verbal humor, making this type has the most number of samples. This finding also reflected a fact that this installment of
Ice Age
series is characterized by the use of ironic humor. Below is the list of whole sample:
Table 4.5 Irony Verbal Humor List No.
Minute in the film
Dialog
1. 00:08:43
Diego : Im not really built for
chaperoning playdates.
2. 00:32:45
Buck : If you go in there, youll find your friend...
in the AFTER-LIFE
Note: For the complete list of the samples, see appendix E.
For the first data, Diego intends to leave the herd and get his natural life by complaining about this to Manny. He thinks that he should be out there to be a
vicious predator, not to be a playdate chaperon. For the second data, Buck convinces the herd that it is very unlikely that Sid is still alive. If the herd still
wants to see Sid, Buck tells them to find him in the after-life.
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6. Wit
A wit is denoted by the intellectual sharp words used to create humor- inducing effect Shade, 1996. There is a sample of this type of verbally-expressed
humor found in the movie dialog. In this sample, Manny thinks that Ellie is as round as peaches, making her looks sexy. Here is the only sample:
Table 4.6 Wit Verbal Humor List
No. Minute in
the film Dialog
1. 00:28:02
Manny : I love peaches, theyre sweet and round and fuzzy. Just
like you. Ellie
: You think Im round? Manny
: Uh... Round is good.
Round is foxy
7. Anecdote
Anecdotes are short representations of a particular situation from the real world to create humorous effect Shade, 1996. There are 3 cases of verbal humor
that were classified into anecdote type of VEH. The movie anecdotal verbal humor depict human daily life situations, such as medical, administrative, and
flight terms. Below is the list:
Table 4.7 Anecdote Verbal Humor List
No. Minute in
the film Dialog
1. 00:03:26
Crash : Code blue, code blue.
Eddie :
Or pink, if its a girl
2. 00:25:36
Manny : What do you want
, a Birth Certificate?
Shes a Dinosaur
3. 01:07:29
Buck :
Mayday Mayday Were losing altitude
41 In the first anecdote of the movie, Crash takes a hospital emergency code,
which is code blue. Eddie ridicules the code by changing it into “code pink”, which is a typical color for females, if the baby is a girl. In the second data,
Manny convinces Sid so hard to return the baby T-Rexes to their mother that Sid does not need a Birth Certificate. In the third anecdote, Buck uses a flight term,
“mayday”, to illustrate his situation of falling down from above.
From the list of verbal humor types above, it can be concluded that there were 7 out of 9 VEH types are tapped into
Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
They were Joke, Riddle, Parody, Satire, Irony, Wit, and Anecdote, leaving the Pun and Limerick types unused. There found a fact that most samples found were in
the form of Irony. There were 31 ironical VEH 47.70 out of total number of 64 verbal humor. Joke type has 9 samples 15.38, which the subcategories data
were included. There was just 1 sample found in the form of Riddle 1.54. Parody got 6 VEH samples that are categorized into 9.23. There were 13
satirical verbal humor found in the film dialog 20. For the rest, there was 1 witty 1.54 and 3 anecdotal 4.61 VEH.
B. The Consistency of Verbal Humor Translation into Bahasa Indonesia
