I got it. I realized after reading your analysis that I had seen the original cartoon long ago, forgotten this fact, and that now I had thought that EVERYBODY had seen the cartoon. Furthermore, I thought this was a knockoff of the original cartoon (which EVERYBODY had seen, remember), with an updated caption which was diagnostic that it was not a New Yorker cartoon. So it must be a knockoff, see.
The net was that I thought it was a VERY funny update. But, after reading the analysis, and thinking through my tortuous reaction, I now think that it's too internet-savvy to be generally funny. Like, on the Onion, but not in the New Yorker.
And I bet I'm wrong. I haven't read (i.e., thumb through the cartoons of) a New Yorker in a few years.
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Date: 2006-08-31 03:07 am (UTC)The net was that I thought it was a VERY funny update. But, after reading the analysis, and thinking through my tortuous reaction, I now think that it's too internet-savvy to be generally funny. Like, on the Onion, but not in the New Yorker.
And I bet I'm wrong. I haven't read (i.e., thumb through the cartoons of) a New Yorker in a few years.