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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

So... Am I too high or not high enough to understand this comic?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

And this is considered "funny"?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

That a very good answer. You won. 😎

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t think it’s funny but for some reason I still appreciate custardfist’s goofy style and the effort they put in

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Eh, i don't know, it subverts expectations though which is kind of funny

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

...yes? I don't understand the confusion here?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Oh. I didn't get that at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's what it was. For a brief minute, I was a child or dog again.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Then you got something even better than a laugh!

You got to experience wonder!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

TBH, I think Siegfried and Joy have elevated the trick to an art form. (Link is to a very short video example)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Aw that's cute lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Hi, how're you?