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Originally Posted by Gohan78
That said, I shake my head at those who are trying to sugarcoat the scene as being a big joke. 
Everything in its presentation screamed eroticism, from Karen's moans to her faces, to the focus on her lips/tongue, to the camera panning all over her body, clad in a tightly fitting shirt that highlighted her breasts. Some parts of this episode were certainly meant for humour (e.g. Tsukihi's intervention) but for the most part it was a poorly disguised softcore porn. |
Here's that difference in perspective again. To me, it
was all a big joke. The joke is in the increasing absurdity of the situation, and the way they exaggerated the eroticism
so much over something seemingly-innocuous like toothbrushing. Combined with the carnivalesque music, it was the very picture of absurdity. They deliberately play the "incest" and "erotic" angles to increase the tension and "this feels so wrong" sense, and the whole thing becomes "how far are they going to take this?" It kept getting worse and worse (and thus funnier and funnier), and when Tsukihi walked in (and given the way that played out, complete with Looney Toons breaking of the wall) that was just the apex of an increasingly hilarious joke, only to begin the climb again with the "puppets on strings" carnival-music-playing ending.
I don't think that's an attempt to "sugarcoat" the scene, but it's a way of trying to explain how it felt to me when I watched it. If it weren't for the extremely over-the-top eroticism and the incestuous undertones, I'm not sure if the "joke" (the way I saw it, at least) would even have been funny and then maybe it
would just be "poorly-disguised softcore porn". But I suppose you could say this is a sort of "black" sense of humour.
