Episode 64 - Monday, August 21, 1978

Episode 64 · October 31st, 2016 · 20 mins 12 secs

About this Episode

The humor in today's strip results from a cognitive impasse, a momentary epistemological difficulty, in which the subject perceives that Social Being itself suddenly appears no longer to be real in any factual or normative sense. When this occurs material reality, which is always factually true, is the only percept remaining in the mind at such a moment of comic perception.

Look, did I just paste all that directly from Wikipedia's "Theories of humor" page? Yes. Yes, I did. But what of it?

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