7 Contoh Spoof Text yang Lucu dan Menarik

JAKARTA, iNews.id - Contoh spoof text jadi salah satu materi yang kerap ditemukan oleh siswa pada mata pelajaran Bahasa Inggris. 

Mengutip Hidayati (2017), dalam bukunya Supersmart Book Bahasa Inggris SMA Kelas X, XI, XII, spoof text adalah teks cerita dengan akhir lucu yang tidak dapat diprediksi atau diperkirakan.

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Tujuan utama menulis jenis teks ini adalah untuk menghibur para pembaca.

Seperti jenis teks lainnya, spoof text memiliki struktur tersendiri, yakni orientation (Pengenalan), events (Inti dari pembahasan pada teks), dan twist (Kejadian mengejutkan yang menjadi akhir dari cerita). 

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Untuk mengetahui bentuk teks tersebut secara jelas, berikut contoh spoof text yang telah iNews.id lansir dari berbagai sumber, Kamis (12/9/2024). 

Contoh Spoof Text

1. Title: The Phone is Off

Soon after he left college, Dave found one of his uncles who was very rich and had no children of his own died and left him a lot of money, so he decided to set up his own real estate agency.

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Dave found a nice office. He bought some new furniture and moved in. He had only been there for e few hours when he heard someone coming toward the door of his office.

“It must be my first customer,” Dave thought. 

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He quickly picked up the telephone and pretended to be very busy answering an important call from someone in New York who wanted to buy a big and expensive house in the country.

The man knocked at the door while this was going on. He came in and waited politely for Dave to finish his conversation on the phone. Then the man said to Dave; “I am from the telephone company and I was sent here to connect your telephone.”

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2. Title: What Time Is It?

A tramp lied down and slept in the park. He had been sleeping for about 5 minutes when a couple walked by. The man stopped, woke the tramp up, and asked him, “Excuse me. Do you know what the time is?” The tramp replied, “I’m sorry – I don’t have a watch, so I don’t know the time.”

The man apologized for waking the tramp and the couple walked away.

The tramp lay down again, and after a few minutes went back to sleep. Just then, a woman, who was out walking her dog, shook the tramp’s shoulder until he woke up again.

The woman said, “I’m sorry to trouble you, but I’m afraid I’ve lost my watch – do you happen to know the time?” The tramp was a little annoyed at being woken up again, but he politely told the woman that he didn’t have a watch and didn’t know the time.

After the woman had gone, the tramp had an idea.

He opened the bag that contained all his possessions and got out a pen, a piece of paper, and some string. On the paper, he wrote down, ‘I do not have a watch. I do not know the time’.

He then hung the paper round his neck and eventually dropped it off again.

After about 15 minutes, a policeman who was walking through the park noticed the tramp asleep on the bench, and the sign around his neck.

He woke the tramp up and said, “I read your sign. I thought you’d like to know that it’s 2:30 p.m.”

3. Title: Counting Donkeys

One day Abu Ali went to the fair and bought nine donkeys. He rode home on one of them the rest of the donkeys followed behind.

After a while, Abu Ali said to himself, “I must make sure all my donkeys are here.” And he turned round to count them.

“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Oh! Where’s number nine?” Abu Ali cried

He jumped down from his donkey. He looked behind the rocks and behind the trees. But there was no donkey to be seen.

“I’ll count them again,” Abu Ali said. “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Oh, he must have come back.”

So Abu Ali climbed back onto the donkey and trotted away.

After a while, he counted his donkeys again. He counted only eight! Once more he looked behind the rocks and behind the trees. But there was no donkey to be seen.

“I will count again,” he said, and this time there were nine.

Just then Abu Ali saw his friend Musa walking along the road. “Musa,” he called. “Help me to count my donkeys. I keep losing one. When I stop to count I have only eight, but when I get down looking for the ninth, there he is again!”

“Well, I can see ten donkeys, Abu Ali,” laughed Musa. “And the tenth donkey’s name is Abu Ali.”

4. Title: Old Man and The Bus

One day, an old man stood up on a bus halt. He looked waiting for something. Then he asked a young man near him, “excuse me, what time is the bus to Jakarta?”

The young man answered, “ 5 minutes later”. “What about the bus to Bogor?”, the old man asked again. “It is around 10 minutes later”. The young man answered briefly.

“The young man then asked the old man, “where are you going to go, sir?”. “I just wanna cross this street. I’m afraid the buses hit me”, the old man answers and then walked crossing the street.

5. Title: Bad Dream

Once, there was a couple who were sleeping. The wife had a bad dream. Then she woke up, scared and began to cried.

Her husband tried to comfort her and asked why she cried. The she replied: “I had a dream. In my dream, there was a very rich and handsome man who kidnapped me from you”.

Hearing his wife answer, the husband said: “It’s okay, honey. It was just a dream.” Then, the wife responded loudly: “That is why I’m crying!”.

6. Title: Too Late

The plane was late and detectives were waiting at the airport all morning. They were expecting a valuable parcel of diamonds from South Africa.

A few hours earlier, someone had told the police that thieves would try to steal the diamonds. When the plane arrived, some of the detectives were waiting inside the main building while the others were waiting on the airfield.

Two men took the parcel off the plane and carried it into the Customs House. While two detectives were keeping guard at the door, two others opened the parcel.

To their surprise, the precious parcel was full of stones and sand.

7. Title: Wrong Email Address

A couple going on vacation but his wife was on a business trip so he went to the destination first and his wife would meet him the next day.

When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email. Unfortunately, when typing her address, he mistyped a letter and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher’s wife whose husband had passed away only the day before.

When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint. At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the screen:

“Dearest Wife, Just got checked in. Everything

prepared for your arrival tomorrow.”

Itulah ulasan mengenai contoh spoof text. Semoga bermanfaat!

Editor: Komaruddin Bagja