To add to your point. It also, in this case, subverted my expectations of what the joke was going to be. As the standard one just implies the therapist is taking notes because you’ve done something weird.
The expectation is subverted, as the therapist is just stealing the joke instead.
Subverted expectations are often a key part of humour.
The added parentheses are a common meme themselves. The overkill explanation is part of it.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bracket-explanations
To add to your point. It also, in this case, subverted my expectations of what the joke was going to be. As the standard one just implies the therapist is taking notes because you’ve done something weird. The expectation is subverted, as the therapist is just stealing the joke instead. Subverted expectations are often a key part of humour.
Yeah, it’s not really explaining the joke here, but rather the actual punchline.
I like it (it’s funny)
This but unironically (I know you weren’t ironically either)