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Airplane seatbelts (lemmy.world)
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[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago
[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think so, one of the most common theories of why things are funny is it being unexpected, and the art of comedy is disguising a setup so it doesn't seem like a setup until the punchline.

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

And you think that's... High effort?

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Disguising a setup is the barest effort I think, not necessarily high effort.

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

So would you consider it, potentially... lazy?

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think it would be lazy to abstain from the barest of effort, yes.

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well I think the original comic achieves more than the barest effort then. We have the setup (why seatbelt on plane?), the vaguely dark-humoured explanation, the absurdist 'oh ok that makes sense' as the punchline (where, y' know, a lot of the humour is because so many people identify with that 'i don't care if the truth is dark I just want to know' idea). Anyway. Not lazy.

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, achieves more than the barest effort, I'm glad this comic has come so far.

this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
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