I don’t think you need to go that far, shame and embarrassment do the job. Tycho’s preference for farm animals has been consistently communicated to the reader, but in a way that other characters in-world are, generally, not aware of it. So, he knows it’s shameful, but this was supposed to be a “coming out” of sorts with his wife. Not only is she not into it, she’s into a guy who’s way better looking than Tycho. If she was into the horse thing, Tycho was probably planning on coming out to the world at large as well. Instead he’s both shamed and emasculated.
And, that’s way too many words spend analyzing that joke :)
TurinTur
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We could do a Twitter campaign about it!
P.D: my innocent mind only took it as a simple misunderstanding/differences joke: one is into kinky/creepy sex with horse masks, the other has a more normal idea of sex at the next level: a threesome. Which happens to be with another guy. A taller, more handsome and muscular guy. Poor Tycho.
Which is still a problem. “My wife has made it clear she’d prefer to have sex with a much better looking guy” is definitely in the right-or-wrong category, not just differing expectations. Maybe my perspective on such jokes is a bit different, since my ex-wife cheated on me, and hence I don’t give things like that a pass.
I refuse to acknowledge a limit on how many words we can spend on analyzing a joke! At least, as long as it’s anywhere near as ambiguous what the intent was, as this is.
I honestly don’t know. Given that it’s Penny Arcade, home of the Dick Wolves, it could be either one.
Strictly speaking, it’s not exactly the same as cheating since it isn’t just sex with another guy - it’s sex with another guy AND Tycho. Some people are into that kind of thing.
Also, given that his wife and the new guy are both clothed, I assume they were prepping for an introductions/are-you-okay-with-this? kind of thing. I assume that there was a vague “are you ready for a surprise” romantic comedy discussion and then Tycho burst out of the bathroom / closet fully horsed and ready to go.
Alternatively, my other read was that “something new” was one of those hilariously / epically cruel-break-up-on-Valetines-Day “we should see other people” kind of thing. We’d have to see if he gets divorced in the upcoming weeks for that interpretation to play out though.
I totally saw it like Wheeljack (his first option).
They don’t do continuity. Well, not usually, anyway, but the usual thing is that they stab each other to death over watch one day and it’s forgotten the next, like the many deaths of Kenny.
Arguably, they have broad-strokes sitcom continuity. Like the fact that Tycho has a wife at all. I was mostly joking though.
True. The Fruit Fucker continues to exist as well, and has some sort of history. It’s sort of a many-worlds strip, where the most probable timeline is the broad continuity, but we see the many possible cases where Gabe shoots Tycho on a hunting trip, or the wives throw the Fruit Fucker into a river and he ends up on a tropical island filled with fruit.
Funkula
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I didn’t realize having a flaccid, uncircumcised penis dangling where your nose should be was the prevailing standard of male attractiveness.
I didn’t notice the shape of the nose because it wasn’t bright orange.
I am so confused.
Is this a meta thread where people act like they’re being all pretentious and shit about the quality of a web comic, but they’re really just trying to one up each other on feigned pretentiousness, and I’m just missing the joke?
Or are you people really not joking?
Funkula
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I believe it’s some combination of serious, feigned, and kidding on the square.
Can I not be pretentious, serious, AND joking all at the same time? Or at least two of the three? It’s called multi-tasking people!
This thread is SERIOUS BUSINESS!
Teiman
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Not a single image in the whole page. This forum is committed.
phero.1
3239
Probably already posted but this one gave me a good chuckle.
Zylon
3240
This is the first time in your life you’ve encountered a “WTF myrrh” joke? Seriously?
