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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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This comic criticizes our culture's tendency to romanticize young love (such as that portrayed in {{w|Romeo and Juliet}} and {{w|Titanic_(1997_film)|Titanic}}). Although young lovers do often have intense feelings for their beloved, for many of them, like [[Megan]] here, it is an infatuation based on little substance (such as a similar taste in music) and the mercurial gales of teenagers’ minds rather than the real compatibility necessary for a long-term relationship.  
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A "song," as mentioned by [[Megan]], is a common form of music. Songs typically contain vocalizations (in some cases, singing) and are distinct from symphonies and larger works of music. It can be inferred from the punchline that, these two characters being young humans, might be referencing a song in the popular music canon. Popular music typically has pleasant orchestration, a simple time signature (being the measuring of how many beats there are per measure in the song) such as 4/4 and topics about romance or everyday life.
  
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The title text broadens this criticism to all forms of romance. Randall appears to be stating that it is possible to love someone even if your relationship with that person doesn't conform to the impossibly high standards of "true love" that {{tvtropes|OneTrueLove|our culture so highly exalts}}. In fact, healthy relationships are typically not perfect and [http://cmhc.utexas.edu/healthyrelationships.html require work, change, and compromise] rather than continual, effortless bliss.
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Because popular music is widely enjoyed by a young (and, in the case of this particular scene and its characters, possibly naive or immature) audience, it is a logical fallacy to assume connection because of mutual enjoyment of a song. This is the humor of the situation: Megan is making a tremendous leap in judgement by assigning unscientific importance to what is, quite possibly, a 3-minute piece of sound about something both characters enjoy.
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[[Randall]] further highlights the humouressness of the comic by reiterating the paradox of the woman's logic and broadening his observation to human culture at large with the caption (the text beneath the artwork).
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The title text of the comment continues his argument against the illogical nature of love and vies for a post-love existence.
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[Megan sits on a rock and Cueball sits on the grass.]
 
 
:Megan: Seriously? ''I like that song too!''
 
:Megan: Seriously? ''I like that song too!''
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:Megan: I bet no two people in the history of the world have ever been so ''connected''!
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:Megan: I bet no two people in the history of the world have ever been so connected!
  
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:[Caption below the frame:]
 
 
:I'm not sure why we romanticize "young love."
 
:I'm not sure why we romanticize "young love."
  

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