Reflection on Wizards of Waverly Place

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This piece is on Wizards of Waverly Place where Alex Russo ‘apparently’ forgets to put the open sign up when her dad is away so she doesn’t have to do any work. Her friend, Harper Finkle states that it was awfully quiet in the subway station (the family’s sandwhich business) and Alex tells her that she would put it up around three, probably after everyone has had lunch, she said. I find this piece funny because Alex isn’t saying this sarcastically, she is being her normal self and doesn’t even crack a smile because it’s how she talks which is amazing because her personality is humorous and can easily make me laugh. The comic duo in this scene consists of Alex and Harper, Alex as the funny man and Harper as the straight man. Alex’s role as funny man is because she has a funny personality and she doesn’t try hard to be funny, she is just naturally funny. Harper’s role as straight man is because she doesn’t exactly say anything funny but she gets the humour out of Alex. She has only one bit which starts the conversation and is just a normal statement which makes Alex say something that would make us laugh. Comedy techniques used in this scene are exaggeration and verbal comedy. There isn’t much action or laughing in this scene, it is just the verbal language that makes it funny. She sits on a chair reading a magazine when Harper starts talking and they just have a short but good conversation which is funny. The exaggeration used is her facial expressions and how she turns back to look at the door when she says that that she sometimes forgets to open the restaurant. Her facial expressions are that she has a look on her face that makes her seem like she doesn’t really care and that she just did something that is normal for her to do on a normal day basis. There are many funny scenes in this show but I find this scene particularly funny since she has no intention to
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