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Adorkable Twilight & Friends - “Bombed″
 
You can’t get them right all the time. Good going Starlight! You ruin everything.
 
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She pulled a prank; that’s not a joke, in and of itself, and it wasn’t a “dad joke”, which simply refers to particularly cheesy puns.
 
Humor is derived from the absurd. In the case of perfect puns, it is at the absurd implications of syntactically sound misinterpretations of words (or sentences), for example, or at the notion of someone being sufficiently daft to make such a misinterpretation. Absurdity is in the subversion of expectations.  
In that case, no expectations were set up for the reader - we have no reason to believe that such a fifth floor exists, nor that Starlight Glimmer would be particularly familiar with the number of floors in a given non-specified building in non-specified context.
 
Of course, expectations are subjective, and from an in-character perspective, one would find it absurd to be an elevator operator who is not familiar with how many floors are on the elevator they’re operating, and Starlight Glimmer would be proximate enough to that expectation to appreciate the humor of pranking an operator in such a manner. We, as readers of a fictional story where the expected behaviour of characters is already rather absurd by realistic standards, are too many layers of narrative and perspective removed from the elevator operator to realistically have a strong expectation as to their having internalized how many floors are on the elevator they’re operating.