6: Irony

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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Irony
It's commonly known that too much perspective can be a downer.
Title text: It's commonly known that too much perspective can be a downer.

Transcript

Narrator: When self-reference, irony, and meta-humor go too far

Narrator: 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]

Explanation

Trivia

  • [Quote from Randall] "Too much perspective can do that."
  • Originally posted at Randall's livejournal site.

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Discussion

You can definitely see an improvement in these comics as Randall learns to clean drawings and form a proper punchline. Davidy22[talk] 14:07, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

I think this explanation is incomplete. Benjaminikuta (talk) 03:41, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

There is a community portal discussion of what to call Cueball and what to do in case with more than one Cueball. I have added this comic to the new Category:Multiple Cueballs. Since there is really only one Cueball that "talks" I think it is fine to keep him as Cueball. Just made a note that the other guy also looks like Cueball. Also noted that this is the first comic both with Cueball and with Multiple Cueballs --Kynde (talk) 17:06, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
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