Literal Room Reading

Alright, listen up, you big ol' dummy! You, my friend, sometimes take things a bit too literally, huh? The joke is playing on the phrase "read the room." When someone tells you to "read the room," they don't mean physically reading a book about a room, you big ol' softie. They mean you need to understand the vibe, the mood, the social situation you're in. The joke's punchline comes from taking that common idiom, "read the room," and asking what *literary genre* it belongs to, like it's an actual book. Get it now, you magnificent simpleton?