Table 3, No. 4 Universal Humor
was running in all directions away from the bomb. Marge was standing in front of her three children, extending her arms to shield them. She
suddenly remembered Homer and say that she missed him. Bart, with a sad face, said that he missed his father too.
Common expectation would be that Bart was in deep remorse for neglecting his father and he felt really sorry about it. However,
suddenly the sad expression in his face was changed and he revealed out his true reason why he needed his father at the very time. Bart said
that his father‟s big fat ass could shield them all from the explosion. The reason is incongruent with the earlier expectation.
This incongruity also appears in the Indonesian version of subtitle. It contains exactly the same meaning with the source language.
It give the same information to the target audience about what Bart really meant.
Table 15 Humor Features of Table 3, No. 5
Feature Source Language
Target Language
Ambiguity -
- Superiority
- -
Incongruity +
+ Wordplay
- -
Relief -
- Surprise or Shock
- -
Again, the translator has successfully transferred the humorous effect from source language into target language. It can be seen that in the
table, row four, both SL column and TL column have + sign which means both version contain incongruity as their humor feature.