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| | number = 6 | | | number = 6 |
| | date = September 30, 2005 | | | date = September 30, 2005 |
− | | title = Irony | + | | title = {{PAGENAME}} |
− | | before = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A42%20pm-,Irony,-Too%20much%20perspective Original title</span>]: '''Irony'''</big></big>
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| | image = irony_color.jpg | | | image = irony_color.jpg |
− | | titletext = It's commonly known that too much perspective can be a downer.<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A42%20pm-,Irony,-Too%20much%20perspective Original caption</span>]: Too much perspective can do that. | + | | imagesize = |
| + | | titletext = It's commonly known that too much perspective can be a downer. |
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− | ==Explanation==
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− | This was the ninth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[8: Red Spiders]], and the next one was [[9: Serenity is coming out tomorrow]]. It was among the [[:Category:First day on LiveJournal|first thirteen comics]] posted to LiveJournal within 12 minutes on September 30, 2005, on the first day of the xkcd LiveJournal account.
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− | [[Cueball]] makes a true statement, that his statement is not very funny. However, because he invoked {{w|irony}} and thus makes it self-referential, the sentence is now funny! The other guy Cueball, producing a fake laugh, is probably not so sure that it is actually funny.
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− | Now going meta: In 20,000 years, there might be no more humans on earth to find the irony funny anymore. How ''ironic''!
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− | Alternatively, the barren landscape would have occurred regardless of whether someone made the joke, so ironically, the cautionary tale is completely meaningless, although still funny. Self-references would be used again in [[33: Self-reference]] and [[:Category:Self-reference|many more comics]].
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− | The title text is a reference to the visit of {{w|Spın̈al Tap}} to the grave of {{w|Elvis Presley}}. In addition, the perspective theme also invokes the Total Perspective Vortex in {{w|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}. This is located on the desolate planet Frogstar B, possibly looking not unlike the final image in the comic.
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| ==Transcript== | | ==Transcript== |
− | :[A panel only with text. The last text is written below a line in all capital letters.]
| + | Narrator: When self-reference, irony, and meta-humor go too far |
− | :When self-reference, irony, and meta-humor go too far | |
− | :A CAUTIONARY TALE
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− | :[Cueball talks to his Cueball-like friend.] | + | Narrator: A CAUTIONARY TALE |
− | :Cueball: This statement wouldn't be funny if not for irony!
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− | :[Cueball laughs at his own joke in front of his friend.] | + | Man 1: This statement wouldn't be funny if not for irony! |
− | :Cueball: ha ha
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− | :Friend: ha ha, I guess.
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− | :[Again a panel only with text.] | + | Man 1: ha ha |
− | :20,000 years later...
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− | :[A desolate brown badlands landscape with an imposing red sun in the dark blue sky.] | + | Man 2: ha ha, I guess. |
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− | {{comic discussion}}
| + | Narrator: 20,000 years later... |
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− | [[Category:Posted on LiveJournal| 09]] | + | [desolate badlands landscape with an imposing sun in the sky] |
− | [[Category:First day on LiveJournal| 09]]
| + | ==Description== |
− | [[Category:First day on xkcd.com]]
| + | ==Trivia== |
− | [[Category:Comics with color]]
| + | *[Quote from [[Randall]]] "Too much perspective can do that." |
− | [[Category:Checkered paper]]
| + | *Originally posted at [[Randall]]'s livejournal site. |
− | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | |
− | [[Category:Multiple Cueballs]] | |
− | [[Category:Self-reference]]
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