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God these comics are absolute trash, I don't think I've ever seen an EFC that didn't have an offensive art style and horribly mediocre punchline.
It’s part of the appeal
What's the appeal?
I think the general absurdity of it, plus you’re never quite sure where they’re gonna go.
For example:
It's absurd in such a predictable way though, when every joke is le wacky literalism or I-want-to-die, it becomes rote.
Like, okay, there's the cum betweener, he cums between people. That sure is the opposite of what they said would happen in the first panel. Please clap.
How... How do you think most jokes work?
Not every joke has a lazy setup.
Most do though
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.
And you think that's... High effort?
Disguising a setup is the barest effort I think, not necessarily high effort.
So would you consider it, potentially... lazy?
I think it would be lazy to abstain from the barest of effort, yes.
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.
Wow, achieves more than the barest effort, I'm glad this comic has come so far.