This next one depends on remembering when Lars von Trier and friends declared the Dogme 95 principles for filmmaking. (And probably does not require remembering the Kevin Smith film Dogma.)
With this December 2011 Brevity, we’re getting a bit into OYs.
And we interrupt our parade of Oldies to drop in a Duffy Lug Nuts on the same theme from current GoComics publication:
Comics I Don't Understand 
But, but … the Dogma cartoon is very heavily stylized.
@ Carl – The “Dogma” comic was also the only one in this (very good) collection that seemed familiar. It was first posted at CIDU in October 2020 (producing an extended discussion), coincidentally on exactly the same day that the “Dada” comic was published.
I like the logic of the “0 Days” sign cartoon.
It’s going to be a mediocre pizza after all that if it’s baked at 350˚F…
@ larK – … and he’s flinging so much dough that he would need about 5 or 6 ovens to bake it all at once. (If done sequentially in one oven, the whole process will take much longer than the dough will remain usable.) Yes, I did say that this was a good collection of comics, but there’s always an exception.
I love the Loose Parts 0 days cartoon. I think you could get something like a Barber of Seville paradox out of it. If they leave it, the sign is wrong, but the minute they change it to reflect the new number of days it is wrong. Brilliant!
It says “not a CIDU,” but the Dada, Bizarro, Dogma, and, to a lesser extent, Brevity are about as opaque to me as Lyle’s “opaque thought balloons.”
Yeah, that’s what happens with a list-like post: a descriptive / categorizing tag may apply to some but not all the items. Sometimes there will be a remark like “This one is what the LOL-Ewww tag is for” but in general there is a lot of room for mismatch.
To try for a general answer though: often with the opaque ones the sheer absurdity of the depicted situation seems to be the point.
And speaking of absurdity, that was also part of the strategy of the Dadaism art movement — which the Dada cartoon is referencing. (Along with the title “Make room for Daddy”)
The Dogma cartoon was discussed on CIDU in a past posting discussion thread, as Kilby has noted; and as the editorial note this time also recalls, it starts with a parody reference to “Dogme 95” film “manifesto”. Though the actual joke about the dog falls pretty flat ; and perhaps is meant to or perhaps just happens to.
The cowboy Bizarro uses an allusion to the Internet etiquette idea that use of all-caps writing is equivalent to shouting. So one cowboy is reacting to what he takes as the aggression of the other one.
And the Brevity depends on supposing “Armenia” could be misheard as “arm in ya”. (Though even granting that, there remains something off-kilter about the conversational pragmatics.)
Maybe the pizza guy meant 350 C (600 F), a minimum for a good pizza.
I guess Mitch4 is right about “Armenia/Arm in ya,” but it’s disappointing.
@ MiB – McPherson may never have baked a pizza from scratch: he probably just quoted the typical oven temperature used for a large percentage of baking (cakes) and roasting (poultry) recipes.
P.S. I have never seen a home oven that could get anywhere near 350˚C (662˚F), except for “self cleaning” cycles, but that would lock the door and carbonize the contents. The typical maximum (at least for German models) is 250˚C (482˚F).
The “arm in ya” joke reminded me of the type of joke Fozzy Bear might’ve used. Off-kilter, perhaps, but on-brand. Perhaps.
Isn’t the “eyes down here” one an “Arlo”? Those eyes…
Lastly, the Loose Parts one reminds me of the bit in the opening titles of the Simpsons where Lenny and Carl are changing the number on the Days Without An Accident sign when one of them falls off the ladder.
Late addendum: It turns out that the Super Fun Pack collection of stereotypical comic memes already had a targeted post of its very own, with commentary, including a link from jaijizi to the original source (2006):