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| date = September 30, 2005 | | date = September 30, 2005 | ||
| title = Irony | | title = Irony | ||
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| image = irony_color.jpg | | image = irony_color.jpg | ||
| − | | titletext = It's commonly known that too much perspective can be a downer | + | | titletext = It's commonly known that too much perspective can be a downer. |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
| − | + | [[Cueball]] makes a true statement, that his statement is not very funny. However, because he invoked {{w|irony}} and thus makes it self-referential, the sentence is now funny! The other guy (also a Cueball-like character), producing a fake laugh, is probably not so sure that it is actually funny. | |
| − | + | Now going meta: In 20,000 years, there might be no more humans on earth to find the irony funny anymore. How ''ironic''! Alternatively, the barren landscape would have occurred regardless of whether someone made the joke, so ironically, the cautionary tale is completely meaningless, although still funny. | |
| − | + | This is the first [[xkcd]] comic showing stick figure people, which eventually becomes a defining characteristic of the future comic series. It is thus also the first comic with Cueball (and the first with [[:Category:Multiple Cueballs|Multiple Cueballs]]). Note however, that it was actually not the first comic [[Randall]] released using either of the above mentioned features, see the [[#Trivia|trivia]] below. | |
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| − | The | + | The "too much perspective" line comes from the visit of {{w|Spın̈al Tap}} to the grave of {{w|Elvis Presley}}. In addition, the perspective theme also invokes the {{w|Technology in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Total Perspective Vortex|Total Perspective Vortex}} in {{w|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}. This is located on the desolate planet Frogstar B, possibly looking not unlike the final image in the comic. |
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| + | Self-references would be used again in [[33: Self-reference]] and [[:Category:Self-reference|many more comics]]. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:[A desolate brown badlands landscape with an imposing red sun in the dark blue sky.] | :[A desolate brown badlands landscape with an imposing red sun in the dark blue sky.] | ||
| + | ==Trivia== | ||
| + | * This was the ninth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[8: Red Spiders]], and the next one was [[9: Serenity is coming out tomorrow]]. | ||
| + | * This comic kept its original title: "Irony" | ||
| + | * Original [[Randall]] quote: "Too much perspective can do that." | ||
| + | * This was one of the [[:Category:First day on LiveJournal|first 13 comics]] posted to [[LiveJournal]] within 12 minutes on September 30th, 2005, on the first day of the xkcd LiveJournal account. | ||
| + | * This comic was posted on [[xkcd]] when the web site opened on Sunday the 1st of January 2006. | ||
| + | ** It was posted along [[:Category:First day on xkcd|with all 41 comics]] posted before that on LiveJournal as well as a few others. | ||
| + | ** The latter explaining why the numbers of these 41 LiveJournal comics ranges from 1-44. | ||
| + | * One of the original drawings drawn on [[:Category:Checkered paper|checkered paper]]. | ||
| + | * First comic featuring [[Cueball]] in the current order the comics are now presented on xkcd. | ||
| + | ** But originally there where a few comics released earlier which featured Cueball, both the original LiveJournal number 7, [[13: Canyon]] and number 6, [[24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey]], used Cueball and thus stick figures as well as Multiple Cueballs before this came out, see this [[24:_Godel,_Escher,_Kurt_Halsey#Trivia|Trivia]]. | ||
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