[panel 1: a large dodo approaches a clean, well dressed vagrant youth sat beside a well fashioned wood and stone building. The youth warily guards a bag holding their belongings and the stick they use to travel with it. The dodo asks “Pardon me, do you have the time?” and the youth replies “yes, it’s -“]
[panel 2: the dodo exclaims “You have the time!”]
[panel 3: a quartet of dodos appear and excitedly chatter over one another: “He has the time.” “The time! he has it!” “At long last! Our desperate search is at an end! The time has been found!”]
[panel 4: they lean in amongst one another and whisper “PSSHHWSSSSPTT SSHSSHHPSSTT”]
[panel 5: the group approaches the youth and asks “Will you… give us the time?” And the youth replies “It’s nine fifteen.” The dodos exclaim “AAAAAHHH! NOW WE HAVE THE TIME!”]
This feels pythonesque
It reminded me of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
I never noticed the Dodo’s human hands in the picture before. Eww!
Lol, he even has a sleeve on one
It’s really very good.
I don’t get it.
It’s riffing on the common phrase “to have the time”, meaning to know what the time is. Specifically, it is highlighting a potential conflation of the verb “to have” as meaning “to possess or own” rather than “to know” - or perhaps our understanding of time as both an abstract concept and a concrete description of the position of the earth’s surface as it rotates relative to the sun. In this imaginary scenerio, the ambiguity inherent in the language is represented by a small group of dodos who wish to know who has the time, while being in awe of the implications of such ownership. Thus, an irreverent comic sketch. I hope this helps.
There’s also the running concept (or dada-ist joke) that Wondermark’s dodos are completely obsessed with the concept of time, with the implication being that they squandered their time in life, perhaps ultimately aiding in their extinction.
Example:
https://wondermark.com/c/1543/Ok thanks for explaining
This is so dumb. I LOVE IT.
well.
I’m glad that didn’t go the way I thought it might.
“yes. IT"S TIME FOR YOU TO DIE AHAHAHAHA”
(I hear dodo were tasty.)Oh shit, when did Wondermark get color?
Holy shit, Wondermark is still going!!! I used to read this over a decade ago. Glad to see it’s still going strong!
I’m not high enough to understand this. Can someone ELI5 this for me please?
It seems absolutely unfunny to me, and I’m a big Monty Python fan.
Edit: Just to prevent snarky replies, I understand what the humor is supposed to be, a word play, but it just seems so incredibly unfunny, and that’s coming from someone who says dad jokes all the time.
More power to you if you find it funny, truly, but what I’m asking for is somebody to explain where the humor is in the word play.
Perhaps it’s a regional cultural type of humor?
Well the dodos seem to think that “the time” is a relic of some sort that one can possess. But you understood that.
I don’t think there’s anything I can explain that will make it funny for you. I suppose it’s a matter of taste.
I don’t think there’s anything I can explain that will make it funny for you.
Do you know offhand what culture this joke was created for?
I suppose it’s a matter of taste.
Fair enough.
The creator is a big fan of absurdism from North America, and he does lots of various creative projects. Other than that I couldn’t say.
Ty.
https://wondermark.com/c/1543/
This is funny!
Clearly you don’t have the time
Or the drugs.
https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=vRcfgKbF3RY
Are you a fan of who’s on first?
Are you a fan of who’s on first?
I’m more of a fan of what’s on second.
On a more serious note, the context of the environment the wordplay joke is being done at, and how it’s expressed/delivered, is what makes the difference in elevating the level of humor.
That it’s not just the literal words themselves, but how they’re said, and where, that makes a wordplay joke successful or not.
*had
