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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.<br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A42%20pm-,Irony,-Too%20much%20perspective Original quote</span>]: Too much perspective can do that. |
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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 Cueball, producing a fake laugh, is probably not so sure that it is actually funny. 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. Self-references would be used again in [[33: Self-reference]] and [[:Category:Self-reference|many more comics]]. | |
| − | + | The title text is a reference to 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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| − | The title text is a reference to the visit of {{w|Spın̈al Tap}} to the grave of {{w|Elvis Presley}}. In addition, the perspective theme also invokes the 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. | ||
==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]]. It was among 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 is the first comic featuring [[Cueball]] in the current order the comics are now presented on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. Originally, there were a few comics released earlier which featured [[:Category:Multiple Cueballs|multiple Cueballs]], the earliest being the sixth, [[24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey]]. See that comic's [[24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey#Trivia|trivia section]]. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:First day on LiveJournal| 09]] | [[Category:First day on LiveJournal| 09]] | ||
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[[Category:Comics with color]] | [[Category:Comics with color]] | ||
[[Category:Checkered paper]] | [[Category:Checkered paper]] | ||
