I didn’t claim it to be funny, just that it wasn’t good parody

Remedying both of those would be making the character they’re playing the punchline

Like an incely “why do women go for jocks instead of random Japanese verb guys who will treat them right” - Responding to the girl doesn’t make sense because there’s no where for the story to go; though a “are you asking me out?” Comes off pathetic enough to kind of work