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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | This comic is a play on the well known {{w|Good cop/bad cop|Good Cop/Bad Cop}} | + | This comic is a play on the well known {{w|Good cop/bad cop|Good Cop/Bad Cop}} police interrogation strategy and the artistic movement {{w|Dadaism}}. |
− | + | Dadaism is an artistic movement which by its definition is irrational. The movement embraces the free flow of unreasoned thought and prizes nonsense and rejection of established norms. | |
− | "Good Cop/Bad Cop" is a psychological tactic that may be employed during joint questioning or interrogation | + | "Good Cop/Bad Cop" is a psychological tactic that may be employed during joint questioning or interrogation, whereby one interrogator acts in an aggressive, abusive and threatening manner (Bad Cop), and the other is compassionate, kind and reasonable in comparison (Good Cop). If successful, the suspect feels he can trust and co-operate with the good cop, or merely complies out of fear of the bad cop. |
− | The comic starts with the "Good Cop", | + | The comic starts with the "Good Cop", [[Cueball]], and the "Dadaist Cop", [[Ponytail]], working out their plan to interrogate the suspect, [[Hairy]]. After Cueball makes a few statements, intended to build trust with Hairy, and leaves to get coffee, [[Ponytail]] enters the interrogation and starts asking Hairy absurd questions. Hairy quickly becomes agitated, and questions what is wrong with Ponytail. |
− | Good Cop/Bad Cop hinges on the suspect's fear and distrust of the intentions of the bad cop; | + | Good Cop/Bad Cop hinges on the suspect's fear and distrust of the intentions of the bad cop; Ponytail's "Dadist Cop" seems to preserve this, if only because of her harsh, aggressive demeanor toward the suspect. |
The title text builds on the joke as by asking a suspect to give the whereabouts of the money in a dadaist manner, which would be completely useless in finding it. Such a statement could be used as a confession though. | The title text builds on the joke as by asking a suspect to give the whereabouts of the money in a dadaist manner, which would be completely useless in finding it. Such a statement could be used as a confession though. | ||
===Irrationality=== | ===Irrationality=== | ||
− | * | + | *See this? It's Mark Zuckerberg's Mortgage. So why is it written in CHURCH LATIN? |
− | **{{w|Mark Zuckerberg}} (the co-founder of {{w|Facebook}}) was [//allfacebook.com/mark-zuckerberg-moves-into-another-rental-house_b29174 | + | **{{w|Mark Zuckerberg}} (the co-founder of {{w|Facebook}}) was renting in 2011[//allfacebook.com/mark-zuckerberg-moves-into-another-rental-house_b29174] and therefore did not have a {{w|mortgage}}. |
− | ***Even if Mark Zuckerberg had bought a property, it is unlikely (given his financial status) that he would have | + | ***Even if Mark Zuckerberg had bought a property, it is unlikely (given his financial status) that he would have take out a mortgage. |
− | **Modern | + | **Modern mortgage are typically written in the local vernacular; it would be very strange for one to be written in a dead language like {{w|Church Latin}}. |
− | * | + | *“WHY ARE MY BONES SO SMALL?”, “What's wrong with ART?” |
**These are {{w|Non_sequitur_(logic)|non sequiturs}} and therefore have no place in an investigation. | **These are {{w|Non_sequitur_(logic)|non sequiturs}} and therefore have no place in an investigation. | ||
− | * | + | *The title text: NOW INVENT AN IMPOSSIBLE-TO-TRANSLATE LANGUAGE AND USE IT TO TELL US WHERE THE MONEY IS. |
− | **The location of the money cannot be conveyed to Ponytail if the information were expressed in a newly invented language that cannot be translated, and | + | **The location of the money cannot be conveyed to Ponytail if the information were expressed in a newly-invented language that cannot be translated, and there would be useless to an investigation. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[Two | + | :[Two cops look through a window into an interrogation chamber holding a handcuffed suspect.] |
− | : | + | :Good Cop: All right, let's try good cop, dadaist cop |
− | :[ | + | :[Good Cop is seated in front of the suspect.] |
− | : | + | :Good Cop: Look, you're a good guy. We can work this out. Hey, lemme get us some coffee. |
− | :[ | + | :[CHANGE PLACES.] |
− | :[ | + | :[Dadaist Cop holds up a document of indeterminate contents and threatens the suspect with it.] |
− | : | + | :Dadaist Cop: See this? It's Mark Zuckerberg's Mortgage. So why is it written in '''''CHURCH LATIN'''''? |
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+ | :[Dadaist cop physically rattles the suspect.] | ||
+ | :Dadaist Cop: '''''WHY ARE MY BONES SO SMALL'''''? | ||
+ | :Suspect: What's ''WRONG'' with you!? | ||
+ | :Dadaist Cop: What's wrong with '''''ART'''''? | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]] | ||
+ | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]] |