I have been following Leigh Rubin’s “Rubes” comics for at least a decade, or possibly two. I have to admit that it only rarely provokes an audible laugh, but it is virtually always worth a good smile. It is precisely this dependability that makes it all the more noticeable when a “Rubes” comic just doesn’t work, such as this one:
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Simply telescoping two concepts into one term doesn’t always produce a meaningful (nor humorous) result. The whole point of the “Schrödinger’s Cat” thought experiment is “observability”. In this drawing we can see both the cat and the damage, so there cannot be any quantum (or “cat-tum”) superposition.
I had even more trouble with this second comic, which I would like to call “Stooge Trek“:
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Nobody would ever claim that anything that The Three Stooges ever did was “logical”, but Spock’s reaction (and dialog) seems completely out of place (even more illogical than the picture he is watching). For me, this comic just doesn’t work; YMMV.
P.S. Given the similarity of the hair styles of Moe and Spock, perhaps it would have been funnier to have a second frame, in which Spock pokes Kirk in the eyes.
P.P.S. I initially thought that the “dual nose poke” tableau seemed gratuitously excessive, but I was clearly wrong, as proved by this picture:
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Star Trek itself has noted the similarity between Vulcan hairstyles and Moe’s. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Moe_Howard
The incongruity of stodgy aliens enjoying 20th-century Earth entertainment media has been so thoroughly explored by The Orville that I’m not sure it holds much satirical value anymore.
While not exactly a knee-slapper, I thought the Schrodinger’s cat cartoon was amusing. It plays on the phrase rather than the concept itself – if you weren’t aware of the thought experiment you’d assume it referred to a pet cat belonging to someone named Schrodinger.
The problem with this premise IMO is that it just isn’t well-suited to a comic strip. If you draw the cat in a box, you’re signaling that the experiment is important to the joke. If you don’t, you might baffle the sort of people who think Shrodinger is a character in Peanuts.
The “Schrodinger’s couch” panel actually made me laugh out loud, so I guess mileage really does vary!
I can’t say either made me laugh, but I think they both work well. Schrodinger’s Cat is a well known, if often misunderstood, concept. It is a cat in a box. And a cat, even one in a box, will not be denied clawing at the couch.
The epitome of logic cannot explain the logic behind it being funny and he finds it funny to the point of tears. It would be perfectly in line with Spock to say this if he did in fact find it that amusing. The humor of the Three Stooges makes no sense, and yet it does elicit this reaction.
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Kilby, I totally agree with you here.
Kilby, I totally agree with you here.
I also wonder why WordPress often doubles my comment, as it did here.
And yet your comment wondering about double comments wasn’t doubled. Were they done the same way? (Email, web, carrier pigeon…)
phsiii: yes, I did everything the same way. (1) Click on the “Email me new comments” toggle, then the “Comment” button. (2) Let Autofill supply the password, then click on “Remember Me” and “Log In.”
It thinks you are the Dick Tracy villain, Double Up. Double Up.