6: Irony
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Irony |
Title text: It's commonly known that too much perspective can be a downer. |
Explanation
Also see xkcd 33: Self-reference
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]
Trivia
- [Quote from Randall] "Too much perspective can do that."
- Originally posted at Randall's livejournal site.
- Likely the "First" appearance of Cueball
- Also "First" comic featuring recurring stick figure style of character
- This is the ninth comic posted to livejournal. The previous one was xkcd 8. The next one was xkcd 9
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)