807: Connected
| Connected |
 Title text: Or love in general, for that matter. It just leads to the idea that either your love is pure, perfect, and eternal, and you are storybook-compatible in every way with no problems, or you're LYING when you say 'I love you'. |
Explanation
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A "song," as reference by the woman in the comic, 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.
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: the woman is making a tremendous leap in judgment by assigning unscientific importance to what is, quite possibly, a 3-minute piece of sound about something both characters enjoy.
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). The title text of the comment continues his argument against the illogical nature of love and vies for a post-love existence.
Transcript
- Megan: Seriously? I like that song too!
- Megan: I bet no two people in the history of the world have ever been so connected!
- I'm not sure why we romanticize "young love."
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Either the incomplete tag is because the explanation is too long or the other way around. 108.162.212.206 21:46, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
- What's the other way around? That the explanation is too long because of the incomplete tag? --Ricketybridge (talk) 00:30, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
As the Nurse points out in Act 2 of Romeo and Juliet, though Juliet may only be 13, according to 16th-century standards she's nearing the end of her prime marriageable age. 108.162.250.223 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- No wonder she was suicidal.
I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 00:50, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
What the heck is "mercurial gale" supposed to mean to anyone? 172.70.147.91 15:23, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
- Mercurial: Having a lively or volatile character; Gale:
A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuityA very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm. - ...seems pretty obvious to me. 162.158.159.125 18:20, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
