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Post by Admin on Jan 28, 2013 22:43:24 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Jan 28, 2013 22:57:18 GMT -5
The sloth itself is funny in terms of benign violation...it is simultaneously animal and human in that it has such a human expression. It should be acting like animal...moving and possibly a reacting to us in a state of fear but instead it sits there casually. So a possibly threatening (interaction with animal or anthropomorphic entity staring ) yet ultimately benign situation is set up...we also have the benign violation in the term "deal with it" which is I suppose charged emotionally as being an affront of some sort but is rendered harmless in so many ways..perhaps most of all that it does not signify anything to deal with..and basically the sloth is about as harmful as a kid dressed up like a gangster.
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Post by Keep on Jan 31, 2013 18:00:18 GMT -5
For me it's the turn of the head that really makes it. I don't think you even need to be acquainted with the "deal with it" meme to get the humour. It all lies in that too-human turn of the sloth's attention. Maybe there's a sort of opposite Uncanny Valley effect going on. That diagram ought to have a spike on its left-hand side. "Funny Hill". |
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