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| date      = September 30, 2005
 
| date      = September 30, 2005
 
| title    = Irony
 
| title    = Irony
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| before    = <big><big><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 title</span>]: '''Irony'''</big></big>
 
 
| image    = irony_color.jpg
 
| image    = irony_color.jpg
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| titletext = It's commonly known that too much perspective can be a downer.<br><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 caption</span>]: Too much perspective can do that.
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| titletext = It's commonly known that too much perspective can be a downer.
 
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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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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 thirteen comics]] posted to LiveJournal within 12 minutes on September 30, 2005, on the first day of the xkcd LiveJournal account.
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It must be part of the {{w|human condition}} that causes us to think that odd statements are sometimes more humorous than those supposed to be funny. [[Cueball]] makes a true statement, that his statement is not very funny. However, because he invoked {{w|irony}}, the sentence is now funny!
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[[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.
 
  
 
Now going meta: In 20,000 years, there might be no more humans on earth to find the irony funny anymore. How ''ironic''!
 
Now going meta: In 20,000 years, there might be no more humans on earth to find the irony funny anymore. How ''ironic''!
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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]].
 
  
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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.
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Also see [[33: Self-reference]], and [[6: Irony]].
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[A panel only with text. The last text is written below a line in all capital letters.]
 
 
:When self-reference, irony, and meta-humor go too far
 
:When self-reference, irony, and meta-humor go too far
 
:A CAUTIONARY TALE
 
:A CAUTIONARY TALE
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:[Cueball talks to his Cueball-like friend.]
 
 
:Cueball: This statement wouldn't be funny if not for irony!
 
:Cueball: This statement wouldn't be funny if not for irony!
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:[Cueball laughs at his own joke in front of his friend.]
 
 
:Cueball: ha ha
 
:Cueball: ha ha
 
:Friend: ha ha, I guess.
 
:Friend: ha ha, I guess.
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:[Again a panel only with text.]
 
 
:20,000 years later...
 
:20,000 years later...
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:[Desolate badlands landscape with an imposing sun in the sky.]
  
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:[A desolate brown badlands landscape with an imposing red sun in the dark blue sky.]
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==Trivia==
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*"Too much perspective can do that." – [[Randall]]
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*This is the ninth comic originally posted at livejournal. The previous one was [[8: Red Spiders]]. The next one was [[9: Serenity is coming out tomorrow]].
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Comics posted on livejournal]]
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[[Category:Posted on LiveJournal| 09]]
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
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[[Category:First day on LiveJournal| 09]]
 
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[[Category:First day on xkcd.com]]
 
 
[[Category:Comics with color]]
 
[[Category:Comics with color]]
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[[Category:Checkered paper]]
 
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
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[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]
 
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[[Category:Self-reference]]
 
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[[Category:Comics with lowercase text]]
 

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