Explain this comic to me.

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this one I don't know if I didn't "get" so much as there was barely even a twist or joke to understand about it:

http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF231-Baby.jpg#214

Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:15 (sixteen years ago) link

lolol at "Psychoanalyst"

HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link

I want an explanation for the bunny/cloud one!!

Leee, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link

that one's good but i kinda feel like it's too similiar to "No Survivors" (xpost)

Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link

THE BUNNY WANTS TO PERFORM CUNNILINGUS AND CUNNINGLY ENCRYPTS HIS DESIRE INTO MUSINGS ABOUT CLOUDS

WHAT IS THERE TO UNDERSTAND

elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't understand not understanding that one!

HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link

Oh, Will, I think the gag is that the dad doesn't appreciate the idea of a "Things I Hate" box, and ironically gives the kid a bare-bottomed what-for.

xxpost why would a bunny want to, and why would the girl turn the offer down??

Leee, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link

I guess that's the best explanation. I still feel like it's missing something.

Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:26 (sixteen years ago) link

why would a bunny want to, and why would the girl turn the offer down??

1) because he cares about her pleasure
2) because it's an inopportune time of the month

kenan, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link

ok srsly you've never heard couple banter before?

HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link

or she already got mad laid and is incapable of multiple O's, so she can't handle people touching her for at least the next 35 mins

Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link

hi dere otm, it is basically gross couple banter, only with a bunny which makes it funny (if it were just a dude it wouldn't be a PBF comic)

Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:29 (sixteen years ago) link

or she already got mad laid and is incapable of multiple O's, so she can't handle people touching her for at least the next 35 mins

O I get it now lololol

hi dere otm, it is basically gross couple banter, only with a bunny which makes it funny (if it were just a dude it wouldn't be a PBF comic)

Wait what.

Leee, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link

i think the point is to take an easily legible cartoon kidsy relationship, a girl and her talking bunny, and imply this whole adult-realness backstory where the bunny really just wanted to get in her pants all along, and used that afternoon watching clouds to make his move. and she shoots him down, but gives him a hug. sad!

xp oh i hadn't considered that they were already doin it

gff, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link

that is so gross

gff, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link

OH GUYS! BECAUSE BUNNIES LOVE DOING IT RIGHT? SO CLEARLY HE IS MORE HORNY THAN THE HUMAN-LIBIDO'D HUMAN

Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link

gff is right, everyone eles is thinking too hard.
xpost

mizzell, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:35 (sixteen years ago) link

let us now all enjoy what has become a thoroughly over-explained joke:

ha.

elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

clearly that comic works on too many levels, whereas the one i posted works on too few (read: none)

Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

seriously leee I wish you'd never asked because now I basically think that comic is fucking terrible and stupid since you made like a milliong difft ppl explain it to you

it was totally a pretty good comic not three minutes ago, for me

El Tomboto, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

it still is good. come back to it in 15 mins.

Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

Will, your comic is total straight-ahead irony/schadenfreude.

HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link

there isn't a pbf i don't like

gff, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:40 (sixteen years ago) link

WAIT I THINK WE SHOULD ALL DRAW DIAGRAMS UNTIL WE FIND THE FUNNY

John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link

seriously leee I wish you'd never asked because now I basically think that comic is fucking terrible and stupid since you made like a milliong difft ppl explain it to you

I don't get this can someone pls explain?

Leee, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link

ban leee

John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link

let us now all enjoy what has become a thoroughly over-explained joke:

ha.

It's like the tenth one this week, and it's only Tuesday.

Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link

ILX - Reach for the stars!

John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:47 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.jkp.com/media/2006/9781843104810/62-400.jpg

elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link

The thing with the spanking comic is the inverted punchline schtick; it's not the content but the structure, kind of like this softer world piece:

http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/kitchen.jpg

The humor of the PBF strip, if you think there is any, lies in the gap between the third and fourth panels. You have to imagine the slow burn of the adult as he gradually gets the audacity and impudence of the child's gesture, and then he loses it altogether. The irony of the kid getting spanked for not liking spankings is secondary and tacked-on.

slugbuggy, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:29 (sixteen years ago) link

The humor of the PBF strip, if you think there is any, lies in the gap between the third and fourth panels. You have to imagine the slow burn of the adult as he gradually gets the audacity and impudence of the child's gesture, and then he loses it altogether. The irony of the kid getting spanked for not liking spankings is secondary and tacked-on.

okay crazypants

HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link

Did anyone ever bring up Softer World in the worst comic thread? That comic consistently makes me sneer. To the point where if people in real life are like "Do you read A Softer World?" I have to keep myself from repeating it back to them in a high-pitched retard voice.

Will M., Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ do this more

HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link

The humor of the PBF strip, if you think there is any, lies in the gap between the third and fourth panels. You have to imagine the slow burn of the adult as he gradually gets the audacity and impudence of the child's gesture, and then he loses it altogether. The irony of the kid getting spanked for not liking spankings is secondary and tacked-on. it being fucking funny.

xpost i do not know from this softer world

John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link

I don't know from A Softer World either, I just endorse parroting things back at people in nasty singsong voices.

HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link

I just looked at some of them. mad suck.

John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link

hey, here's a question, when exactly did the rest of finland show up on this thread?

^@^, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link

PERHAPS I SHOULD ASK TEH INTERNET TO EXPLAIN TO ME THE FUNNY IN THEM.

xpost: hahahaha

John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link

^@^ = ^_^

HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link

here's an example of the softer world or whatever:

http://www.asofterworld.com/clean/the_graduate.jpg

THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR "EXPLANATION". I GET IT, IT SUCKS.

John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link

the crapness of that strip, if you believe it to be crap, lies between the first and third panels

^@^, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link

emo comix

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link

I think the crapness is encapsulated by the grammatical nightmare that is "I heard my wife pretending to cry on the phone," so ^@^ otm.

HI DERE, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link

pbf is great

latebloomer, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link

this is true

John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link

Hey now, I'm just sayin' the retroactive or deferred zing setup in which the zinger kinda distances himself a little from the actual delivery of the zing is a not uncommon comedic device, with the payoff usually being the delayed reaction of the zingee as he puts it all together. I thought that was the other layer that Will said was missing, so I said so, and supplied what I thought was a corraborating example.

The fact that I maybe write like a douche when I attempt exposition or that softer world sucks has nothing to do with this.

slugbuggy, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 22:51 (sixteen years ago) link

<high pitched retard voice>I don't understand not understanding that one!</high pitched retard voice>

slugbuggy, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:41 (sixteen years ago) link

bbcode doesn't actually work anymore ;_;

John Justen, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:42 (sixteen years ago) link

sorry, that was uncalled for and not funny either.

slugbuggy, Tuesday, 23 October 2007 23:43 (sixteen years ago) link

five months pass...

What's up with TPBF, there hasn't been a new strip on the official site for like a month or more?

Tuomas, Saturday, 19 April 2008 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link


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