cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/27101483
Quitting as loud as possible is also an option. 😎
good thing I'm sober...
this could melt already cooked brains
this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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So... Am I too high or not high enough to understand this comic?
It's that thing where you drop a sheet and duck behind a doorway/couch/whatever and whoever is watching (often a child or dog) is left to wonder where you went.
And this is considered "funny"?
Humor is subjective
That a very good answer. You won. 😎
I don’t think it’s funny but for some reason I still appreciate custardfist’s goofy style and the effort they put in
Eh, i don't know, it subverts expectations though which is kind of funny
I think the joke is okay and would have worked if I didn't have to make sense of a number of confusions I had to work through first.
- number being represented by "nr". Nothing wrong here, just something that I'm not familiar with.
- the use of "floop" to represent the sound of the list hitting the floor
- the lines in the doorway representing, what I'm guessing are, stairs and not connected to the employee as I first considered
- the disappearance of the desk from one panel to another
- the path one manager in red took to get to the door from sitting at the desk
I don't know if anyone else has these problems to work through, but having had to work through them muted any enjoyment I would have gotten from the joke had that been absent.
I think the lines in the doorway represent the list falling. It wouldn't make a lot of sense for the manager's office to be in the basement of a fast food place.
...yes? I don't understand the confusion here?
Oh. I didn't get that at all.
That's what it was. For a brief minute, I was a child or dog again.
Then you got something even better than a laugh!
You got to experience wonder!
TBH, I think Siegfried and Joy have elevated the trick to an art form. (Link is to a very short video example)
Aw that's cute lol
Yes
How high are you?
Hi, how're you?
6"6
I feel like them acting like dogs is a punchline without a setup. There's nothing that links the comic to the dogs-freaking-out-when-someone-vanishes meme, so it just comes out of left field without landing comedically.
Imagine that this is a sketch people are performing. Do you laugh when the guys start barking, or are you confused because they start barking for no reason when a guy was just quitting?
See, this is exactly why I thought it was funny; came out of nowhere. But that's what is great about humor - lots of different flavors for different types of people. You do need to know about the Internet "dog trick" to get it though.
*FLOFF*
I don't understand the last 2 panels. They have me stumped.
He lifted the list up like a blanket and disappeared like people do when they're playing a trick on their pets
I'm also assuming he sprayed "essence of dog potion" in there for them to react like that but that's another thing
I expected barrier aggression in doges but no barrier. I am confuzzled. Also no doges.
I thought dude fell off a ladder. I was like, "no wonder he quit! It's dangerous!"
This doesn't cross the "joke" bar, and it's quite low already.