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81.107Apply it to “The Bare Necessities”
This can be used comically.
Play bright F-major world below.
Suddenly put an absurdly sophisticated chromatic upper triad high above it.
Pause.
Resolve immediately back to cheerful simple harmony.
The humor comes from:
stylistic mismatch
plus:
very short duration.
Again, complexity is funniest when surrounded by simplicity.