Comments on: LOL-June 2

By: Robo

Robo — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:38:10 +0000

Meta-humour means to make a joke about a joke, irony and self-reference are in the first panel, (ironically, it isn’t funny at all), and at the end of the world it doesn’t matter, which is the cartoonist ironically cracking an unfunny irony-based metajoke on himself. When these things go too far, this is what happen.

By: ddsassdd

ddsassdd — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:15:06 +0000

Without the irony, there is no humor. Without the humor, there is no irony. A paradox, such as this, is ironic. Meta means beyond and 20,000 years is too far beyond the other panels.

By: Size

Size — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:30:06 +0000

On further reflection, the irony strip has sort of the same “flavor” as some of the more obscure XKCD strips, so maybe the artist was trying to make fun of that.

By: Powers

Powers — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:23:59 +0000

The last panel *is* the metahumor.

Calvin and Hobbes is actually current — the syndicate is rerunning the strip in order from the beginning, just like Peanuts Classics.

By: Bah Humbug

Bah Humbug — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:39:33 +0000

I guess the combination of things that are only about themselves (metahumor, self-reference) colliding with a thing that means something other than it’s supposed to (irony) is like matter slamming into antimatter, and it causes the end of the world. Is it supposed to be ironic that this strip is a cautionary tale about how to avoid a tragic event that won’t happen for 20,000 years - when that event is what will probably happen anyway? My brain hurts.

By: Molly

Molly — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:27:34 +0000

James, I think the Groucho line you’re looking for is “That’s the most ridiculous thing I ever heard.”

By: Kevin Andresen

Kevin Andresen — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:07:20 +0000

Assuming the guy is actually IN a witness protection program, and not just a possibly deluded prisoner, perhaps his bunkmate is really assigned security, and that’s why the guy can talk to him.

By: John DiFool

John DiFool — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:37:10 +0000

“DiFool, stop overanalyzing comics; it doesn’t have to make sense to be funny.”

But it does have to have a sort of internal logic to be humorous (as in the joke is where the logic is broken in some absurd way). This strip had no logic to begin with.

By: eeyore19

eeyore19 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:03:37 +0000

When my wife was expecting a few years back, we came pretty close to convincing the older two kids that we were getting their new brother or sister from Babies R Us.

By: Steven Hunter

Steven Hunter — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:18:28 +0000

I find the Calvin and Hobbes one particularly funny, in light of the fact that K-Mart actually bought Sears about 3.5 years ago…