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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== | ||
− | + | 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}} | ||
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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− | + | Also see [[33: Self-reference]], and [[6: Irony]]. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | : | + | :Narrator: When self-reference, irony, and meta-humor go too far |
− | :When self-reference, irony, and meta-humor go too far | + | :Narrator: A CAUTIONARY TALE |
− | :A CAUTIONARY TALE | + | :Man 1: This statement wouldn't be funny if not for irony! |
− | + | :Man 1: ha ha | |
− | : | + | :Man 2: ha ha, I guess. |
− | + | :Narrator: 20,000 years later... | |
− | + | :[Desolate badlands landscape with an imposing sun in the sky.] | |
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− | + | ==Trivia== | |
− | : | + | *"Too much perspective can do that." – [[Randall]] |
− | + | *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]]. | |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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