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  • I think the absurdity is part of the joke, but you sound like me in that you enjoy your fiction in an incredibly literal way. I remember being into cartoons as a kid and needing grounded explanations for everything even though the characters’ lives essentially reset every 30 minutes.


















  • It’s supposed to be a one-two punch. You’re expecting him to kill her with cyanide, but it turns out you were mistaken! Then he kills her anyway

    This kind of joke can totally work in a well-paced comedy, but not a two sentence horror. It’s a stretch to do it in two sentences.