• verdigris@lemmy.ml
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    7 days ago

    This post is clearly horny but I don’t know why everyone is saying there’s no punchline. The punchline is that pissing in her mouth in the store is exposure therapy.

    This is honestly funnier and more well-paced than like half the comics that get posted here.

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      “Exposure therapy” is exposing someone to their fear in a safe space, so idea is she’s representing what he fears (public bathrooms) and the safe space is her mouth in a grocery store.

      This literally just reads as a fetish. I don’t get a joke.

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        Exposure therapy joke: Him exposing himself.
        At least that’s how it makes sense to me.

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          Nope, just still not getting it.

          The joke is that he likes peeing in her mouth enough that he should want to do it in public?

          The joke still just reads to me that this is what the author masturbated to before posting. But 🎨 Artsy 🧑‍🎨

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            Sorry I deleted my comment because I misread your first one.

            The joke, which is not funny enough to bear this level of explanation, is that she would do that and call it exposure therapy. That’s funny.

            My defense of the comic was more of an indictment of the average reddit/lemmy comic post, which very often literally have no punchline or stretch one panel of content into four.

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              Its fine, I just literally passed it around my friends asking for help with the joke because I literally don’t get it being… anything other than a;
              “man if I had a goth girl I could just pee in her mouth instead of the bathroom” joke. Like that could even be funny to me I guess but this format just felt… Like they drew her on her knees first and invented a scenario around it after. And I haven’t found anything redeeming in it.

              Don’t get me wrong worse stuff is posted but this one still just hits me in all the wrong ways, from the lackluster punchline to the the frustrated walk off and the art style feeling cloned from other artists like Adam Ellis.

              I don’t like to think something is bad if it is not for me but I think I’m just frustrated by this one since it feels, off. And I’m just searching for what I am missing, cause it feels professionally bad.

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      Alternative read. They’re into watersports and do this at home. He’s holding it because he wants to wait to get home so he can relieve himself that way. She’s teasing him about being unable to make it home to enjoy it. It’s not actually a matter of being uneasy about public restrooms, just the much more understandable discomfort with that sort of activity in public.