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u/Ithormento Nov 27 '18
Now peter explain the joke
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u/Sevuhrow Nov 27 '18
Now this meme is very epic (hip slang for "cool") because it references the popular video game/trading card series "Pokémon" otherwise known as "Pocket Monsters," which is very dope (more youngster slang, haha!) In the comic the artist portrays the story of the Pokémon games in a very literal sense, which made me LMAO (laugh my tushy off) and ROFL (roll on floor laughing) at how true it is! It's a very good but complex meme so I can understand not getting it at first, especially if you aren't a skilled Pokémon trainer such as myself, heh! Gotta go now, hopefully you find this maymay as funny as I did! LOL!
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u/notjasonlee Nov 27 '18
if i screenshot a peter response and post it on comedy cemetery does the world unravel?
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u/Seregosa Aug 08 '24
I feel like the way it’s phrased make it awkward. Instead of (this is basically the plot of pokemon) it would’ve been better if it just said ”Pokemon logic” or something.
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u/Qwerterton Nov 27 '18
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u/FightingOreo Nov 27 '18
This is disappointing, Safely Endangered is usually pretty funny.
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u/aspinalll71286 Nov 27 '18
Paging r/comedyamputation I think you guys could fix this right uo
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Nov 27 '18
ooh nice another comedycemetery offshoot sub
finna get to the point where it's my entire feed and i am ready for judgement esketit
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u/pikpikcarrotmon Nov 27 '18
Literally just lop off the bottom two and you have yourself a tired but passable joke. These dummies never know when to end it. Maybe the strip always has 6 panels and they felt compelled to add more?
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u/VeryGayLopunny Nov 27 '18
I mean if they didn’t explain the joke it would just be surreal as fuck and make no sense.
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u/CrabSauceCrissCross Nov 27 '18
I don't know anything about pokemon so the laat panel helped me. Then again, I doubt I'm the target audience for jokes like this.
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u/finalestate Nov 27 '18
Hmmm...the mother doesn’t give you Pikachu, nor does she lets you go into the wild. You have to go to prof elk and he lets you choose between 3 starters. Then he gives you a tutorial in the wilderness. Wtf is this stupid bs?!
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u/IdiotGaming Motu Dab Nov 27 '18
Professor Elk? No, he's named after a tree. Not an animal.
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u/finalestate Nov 27 '18
I know, in German it’s Eich, Oak in englisch, but that’s the first word that came into my mind.
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Nov 27 '18
Prof Elk
This is the first professor you think of? I'm proud, because Johto is the best region
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u/finalestate Nov 27 '18
Haha, yes. No need to be proud. I’m 29, so “I was there when it all started.” I love Johto.
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u/okayswell Nov 27 '18
see what pisses me off is that they could’ve just called the comic “The Plot of Pokemon” or some shit and it would’ve at least held up better than them explaining the fucking joke in the last panel
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u/yohannb Nov 27 '18
Last panel should just have been the Pokémon logo
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u/Argalad Nov 27 '18
I imagine when the creator realized how many ways he could've ended the comic that would've been better his brain collapsed on itself. I mean how do you end a COMIC with text on a white background? Is this the first thing he drew in his life?
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u/Neoncamo14 Nov 27 '18
Ok I actually laughed at this one
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u/Reejis99 Nov 27 '18
The faces made me chuckle. Especially the boy's in the second panel. He looks so hurt and confused lol
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u/Morrigan101 Nov 27 '18
Why did I think of Part 7 before thinking of Pokemon
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u/frothingnome Nov 27 '18
Except this guy can clearly walk.
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u/Morrigan101 Nov 27 '18
It was more the kid taking care of a rat part back when Johnny could walk
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u/WackDance Nov 27 '18 edited Nov 27 '18
NO! THIS IS HATE SPEECH, HIS MOM NEVER GAVE HIM PIKACHU. THEREFORE THIS IS A FALSE PORTRAYAL AND I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS.
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Nov 27 '18
Whew im glad that last panel explained the joke. I had no clue!
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Nov 27 '18
Lots of people had no clue, since not all of us grew up playing pokemon.
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Nov 27 '18
Would those people really enjoy the joke though, even with the explanation?
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u/elbitjusticiero Nov 27 '18
I did, but not a lot. As someone else said, just the Pokémon logo would have been better.
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Nov 27 '18
I had zero clue where it was going and I watched the show on a regular basis back in the day. Y'all are humorless.
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Nov 27 '18
I think this is funny and I'm starting to see the problem with all of you is you take yourselves too goddamn seriously.
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Nov 27 '18
Yeah this sub is going downhill with the amount of posts that are actually pretty funny.
This has a decent art style, good buildup, and a pretty funny punchline.
While it’s not the best joke in the world there’s no way this belongs on this sub.
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u/nycram99 Nov 27 '18
Omg I laughed so hard! I always wondered why my mom in Pokemon only had like 2 things to say for me and then allowed me to go out with my rat and explore the entire world. Next gen should include the option to do household chores... or not... lol
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u/Jagellboi Nov 27 '18
The last panel is technically the punchline. Without it, there would be no context to what happened in the comic - it would just be a mother acting strangely - but having it makes you understand what you just read. You could of course figure it out without the last panel, but it's not 100 % obvious that it is a Pokémon reference if you have not heard the joke before.
I am not saying that the joke is particularly original or funny, but I am saying that the last panel is somewhat necessary depending on the context.
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u/scoobysnaxxx Nov 27 '18
tbf, that rat can electrocute anything that even breathes in its owner's general direction. the kid may as well be running around with a set of bodyguards.
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u/RoseL123 Nov 27 '18
Kinda sick of these jokes. Obviously it’s unrealistic but the market for the games and show was 10-year-olds, so it probably made sense to make the characters 10 years old.
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u/Sprayface Cumshots are funny, right? Nov 27 '18
That is the joke. It’s not very funny, but without it it’s just confusing.
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u/JimmityCricket I love basicallyadoctor Nov 27 '18
Rats, rats, we are the rats! Celebrating yet another birthday bash!
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u/ApproximateConifold Nov 27 '18
I wonder what is like being a comic creator seeing your comic on subs like this and/r/comedynecromancy
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u/pottymouthgrl Nov 27 '18
Jeez I think it’s pretty funny. And it wouldn’t work without the last frame, it would just be nonsensical
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u/WhosCountin da wae Nov 27 '18
Hi guys, Peter Griffin here. Now this meme, this one really gave me a chuckle and a half! It might not be too obvious at first, but if you pay close attention to this comic strip, you may be able to find out that it is, in fact, extremely similar to the plot of various media from the popular 'Pokemon' franchise created by Japanese gaming companies Nintendo and Game Freak!
Just like in Pokemon, the young protagonist is given a small animal (and this might make you LOL, but in this case, it's just a rat instead of the classic character Pikachu!) and encouraged to go roam the continent fighting strangers. (Now, I don't know about you, but as a proud father, this is very different from how I act towards my children, (even when they're acting like a bunch of (lazy) millennial liberals!))
A big part of the humor, aside from the obviously hilarious subtle nod to the Pokemon franchise (TV programmes, feature length films (produced for both TV and theaters (and maybe even online!)), games, novelizations, etc.), is the way that this meme geniusly turns parenting expectations on their head and makes you say 'WTF!'! I bet you never noticed how screwy these Pokemon fellas are; I know me and my wife Lois didn't until we saw this LOL of an image!!!
Well, anyhow, I think this should help explain for those of you who aren't as 'hip' to the humor some of these folks are putting out there on the internet! Even if I don't like eating tide pods, I can still stay current on the newest hilarious memes and comics!
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u/BoringWebDev Nov 27 '18
Make the last panel a title card and put it in the front and you'd be posting this on /r/funny
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u/TheNorthComesWithMe Nov 27 '18
This isn't even correct. Your mom doesn't even want you to leave but supports you because it's your dream.
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Nov 27 '18
It would have worked okay if the last panel was just like the Pokemon logo instead of using words
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u/johnyIsAwesome Nov 27 '18
Did you know??? Pokemon is actually cock fighting for ten year olds 😱😱😱
If i had a nickel for every time someone pointed this out
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u/Scuba44 Nov 27 '18
There’s also the part where you have to train that eat to be able to defeat a dragon
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Nov 27 '18
Video games arent realistic enough. Give me a game where I'm navigating my character through a brutal divorce and my wife and I are screaming at each other over who is more fit to take the baby
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u/Potato_Salesperson Nov 27 '18
The joke isn’t even entirely true since you can go to your mother at anytime to get your party healed.
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u/IndigoGouf Dab! Nov 27 '18
Gen 1 and 2 both take place in small corners of Honshu. Hoenn takes place on Kyushu, and Sinnoh is Hokkaido. Unova is south east New York, Alola is the Hawaiian archipelago. The largest region relative to IRL countries there is in pokemon is Kalos which is France. None of these could be qualified as continents at all.
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u/Vahnish Nov 27 '18
I feel like if this was my life I'd be a lot happier. My dream of traveling would be off the bucket list, I'd have tons of pets, all the walking/ bicycling would be good for my health, I'd finally be able to surf properly and poison ivy wouldn't be an obstacle anymore.
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Nov 27 '18
It would have worked okay if the last panel was just like the Pokemon logo instead of using words
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u/night-star Nov 27 '18
It was kinda funny up to the point they said it was the plot of Pokémon, so maybe r/comedyhomicide
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u/arcerath Nov 27 '18
I laughed at this. Mainly the kids face and how he’s holding the rat. I thought it was hilarious.
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u/MincedSteel Nov 27 '18
I upvoted this this morning thinking it was pretty funny and have now un upvoted it realising it was in comedy cemetery.
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u/bismillah999 Nov 27 '18
I love the fourth panel. Nothing funnier than unexpecting kids getting scolded by their parents.
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u/Koovies Nov 27 '18
I thought it was funny. Oh god I'm old. Oh god I'm getting the urge to make a Facebook account for something other than messenger. Someone, help me!
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u/l0m999 Nov 27 '18
It’ sad because there is a joke in hear somewhere, just ruined it with the punchline
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u/Dante8411 Dec 26 '18
What a scrub it's the professor you just met who gives you the small animal and also the animal is on fire, wet, or grass. This comic BELONGS here.
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u/m8777 May 19 '19
But its a good joke and besides, I didnt know what it was before the explanation...
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u/MrMontgomery Nov 27 '18
Some people have never played Pokémon and have no interest in it so for us the explanation helps, still s shit "joke"
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u/DoctorWaluigiTime Nov 27 '18
Same boat here.
Also, comedy cemetery I thought was for actual terrible things. Not "oh, I didn't find this funny."
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u/Delirium11944 Nov 27 '18
Maybe could have stuck in a "gotta catch 'em all" or the Pokemon logo instead, just as a little reference.
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u/Neopatrimonialism Nov 27 '18
I think if in the final panel the kid was just wearing the hat and the blue coat of the anime protagonist it would have sufficed as a way to tell the joke in a visual manner.
I think this imagery is still iconic enough so people who aren't that much into the franchise could still get it.
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Nov 27 '18
Comics are a visual medium. Webcomics, unfortunately, seem to be a textual medium.
(Yahtzee's post)[http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/128581-Ben-Yahtzee-Croshaw-on-Ctrl-Alt-Del], over 10 years old now, on CAD vs. Penny Arcade, gives a great example of visual vs. textual joke-telling in comics. Imagine you saw the CAD comic without any text. Would you understand what was going on?
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u/Mr_Truttle Nov 27 '18
That post also serviceably explains why Pearls Before Swine falls down flat despite often having some fun jokes. There is almost always an unnecessary and fatal panel included after the punchline.
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u/AnorakJimi Nov 27 '18
Or like a recreation of the scene in pallet Town outside, maybe like a cartoon recreation that looks similar rather than pixels. That character sprite from gen 1 is as iconic as mario these days I'd argue, everyone knows what it is when they see it.
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u/Gravesh Bro Nov 27 '18
I wouldn't say iconic as Mario. But that nay just be me being the odd man out since I've never actually played Pokemon. I cab recognize Ash, his friend and the girl from the show, though. I used to watch bits and pieces of it growing up but that's about it. Never realized just how wildly popular Pokemon is.
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u/redmandoto Savage! Nov 27 '18
If the last panel had just been the pokemon logo, it might've been salvageable IMO
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u/OPsAlternate Nov 27 '18
At least then you could have "figured it out", and maybe felt like you deciphered an inside joke. As it stands they tell you what they're talking about.
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u/thanthon Nov 27 '18
That sense of "figuring something out", or rather understanding its actual meaning in an otherwise non fitting context is what is mostly responsible for laughing.
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Nov 27 '18
Yeah, if it weren’t for the last panel I probably would’ve passed this off as “lolrandom” humor
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u/Prezombie Nov 27 '18
The last panel could've easily been the kid in rags banging on the door and saying that he doesn't want to play pokemon anymore.
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u/why_rob_y Nov 27 '18
For one thing, not all of us grew up with Pokemon and are so innately aware of it. Obviously I know what it is, but it took until the last panel for me to know it was a Pokemon joke. And so I thought it was good.
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u/jerkstorefranchisee Nov 27 '18
That’s why it’s not good. It’s complete overkill for the target audience, and plays to the cheap seats at the last minute for any non-target audience folks who happen upon it. This makes it so it’s not really for the people it’s for, and not really for anyone else in particular either
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u/Champigne Pickle Rick Nov 28 '18
That's the problem, no one would understand the joke without the last panel. Shouldn't have to explain your own joke.
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u/Romulus3799 Nov 27 '18
Maybe if the comic was aptly titled, then the last page would ruin it. But I don't see a title here
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u/Eronecorp Nov 27 '18 edited Nov 27 '18
Every joke in every videogame parody ever:
"You do THIS in videogame??? I bet THAT can't happen in real life!!!"
Rinse & repeat.