• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    291·
    11 months ago

    This feels like a Cow Tools category of comics, where Gary Larson is tickled by the idea but nobody else really understands why.

    • Kernal64@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      19·
      11 months ago

      I laughed really hard at this, but I can’t really tell you why. Maybe just the absurdity of the situation?

      • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
        25·
        11 months ago

        There are layers of absurdity. It’s some kind of a porcupine appreciation club, and everyone has one. And then his deflated. Do porcupines deflate? Is that a thing that happens? They have little sharp pokey bits, maybe that’s something that happens. Is he embarrassed? Angry that someone might have deflated his porcupine?

        Or was his a fake, inflatable porcupine? Was he pretending to have one, and why? Peer pressure? Are people with procupines so popular in this scenario that it would be worth pretending?

        Or maybe he’s infiltrated the group. Perhaps his cover is now blown, like his fake porcupine. Maybe he’s giving everyone the side eye to see if they will attack?

        Ultimately, I think the joke is us, sitting here, wondering about a deflated porcupine, trying to figure it out.