Understanding the Allure of 'Shark Week' [COMIC]
Most people have found themselves in the thrall of Shark Week at some point, having nothing better to do. Here's how to navigate a conversation with the sort of person who believes this is a subject worthy of deconstruction ...
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What is it about these comics... they just get to me
ReplyGet to you in the sense that the idea that anybody would find this s**t funny is infuriating?
Me too!
What the f**k is up with Shark week? I'm a huge fan of Discovery channel, but don't understand anything at all about shark week.
ReplyPretty funny ending.
ReplyThe ending totally caught me off guard "Because I HATE sea lions" :)
ReplyThis comic isn't that funny. Fortunately there was the Snorg Tees girl beneath it, so viewing the page wasn't a total loss.
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This comic was funny. But that is not the point.
ReplyWhen I come to Cracked, I come to read Cracked articles, or see Cracked videos, or read Cracked charts. I don't come to see comics gathered from around the web. After all, if I wanted to read 'Simple Instructions', I'd go to THEIR website, and read the comic there.
I can understand that trying to come up with three articles every day is likely demanding. Hells, I'd be lucky if I was productive enough to come up with ONE article a day! But if you can't come up with three, just post two. Don't just post someone else's work.
That's bad, Cracked. Using someone else's work, even when you cite the source, doesn't change the fact that you posted someone else's content instead of coming up with your own.
someone misses the point of freelance writing entirely.
i'm sure the people behind this comic get money for this exposure.
even if not in the form of a paycheck, they get a HUGE spike in traffic, increasing their sites profits.
so maybe you should thank cracked for presenting something and someone they thought was worth publishing and just go to that site you said you were so capable of navigating to, then read it there.
f*g.
Another lame and unfunny "comic" with walls of text. Keep it up Cracked!
Replypoor thing, text confuses you???
No, I love comics that are filled with walls of text in which the illustrations only serve to convey "there are two people talking".
That's why I love Cathy.
I genuinely chuckled at the end of that.
ReplyWell done.
Me too.
And I still hate this. Is Cody secretly writing these?
I love these comics. They're brilliantly layered. A nice change from repetitive jokes about testicles.
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Alright, I didn't really like the previous comics, but I loved this one.
ReplyI don't really get into Shark Week. I mean, I guess I get it... Sharks are kinda cool... uh, I guess. They're just not my thing. Now, I'd be all over Zombie Week. That totally needs to be a thing.
Reply Hide All See All 5 RepliesNo, no it doesn't.
Yes it does.
Yes, yes it does. Absolutely it does. You have my support for Zombie Week on the Discovery Channel, or any channel for that matter, as long as I can pick it up on basic cable.
...and if zombies were real there would no doubt be a semi-annual Zombie Week on the Discover Channel...
If zombies were real there definitely wouldn't be a zombie week annually or ever since everyone would end up as zombies... and as we all know zombies aren't good with coming up with television programming.
I have liked all these comic's so far I find them amusing yet understated. I don't understand why people need to be punched in the face with hilarity of epic proportions to find something funny.
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesStill haters gotta hate.
I'm only posting so there is some positive feedback and so that these don't get canned.
Thats the whole thing stubby.These comics aren't even mildly amusing.And I thought that was the whole purpose of comedy.To do something that will make people laugh till they piss themselves.Stuff like this is forgotten because its lame and as dry as chapped ass.People need to go over the top more often and not settle for just alright. Next...
I'm with you. I enjoy subtle humor and irony.
Some of us want more than testicle jokes sometimes.
THIS JUST IN OPINIONS ARE WILDLY DIVERSE AND WHAT AMUSES ONE PERSON MAY BORE ANOTHER! More at 8.
First time this comic made me laugh, congratulations your persistence payed off in the end. Derp derp!
ReplyThat last panel was actually kind of funny. OH MY GOD. In fact, this would have worked as a one-panel or two-panel comic, because the rest of this was pretty dumb. Scott Meyer needs to learn how to pace his comics. He insists on doing 4-panels, but his pacing is awful. Don't use filler! It's too short to NEED to use filler!
ReplyLooking at this again, this would have been funny if you'd left out panel #2 and #3. Seriously, take those out and take out the line where he says "let me tell you about shark week" and #1 and #4 work together to make a funny two-panel comic.
Disagree. you'd need the second panel too to make sure people get that sharks are all about killing sea lions. panel 3 can still go.
Yes, damn those sealions....
ReplyIt's not that they're idiots. They just see things at a different level or perspective and therefore, come to different conclusions. That's why it's pointless trying to describe what orange looks like.
Replypanel 4, other than the let-me-explain-the-joke caption part, would have made a pretty good joke if you didn't have to wade through everything else.
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesYes! YES! This artist has no sense of proper pacing.
The pacing is fine. The punchline may not come until the last panel, but each panel contains its own joke which builds to it.
The pacing is fine. The punchline may not come until the last panel, but each panel contains its own joke which builds to it.
If sharks had hair like Justin Bieber, were ambiguously gay, and put out albums that would end up in Dollar General in 3 years, the females of our species would be all over them, that would also lessen the shelf life of shark week, and then wed have Tiger Week for some time, which would give "tiger beat" a hard on, if "tiger beat" did in fact have a penis,which it does not.
Reply Hide All See All 4 Replieshow insecure are you that you think the entire world population of women would find Justin Bieber sharks sexier than any of the human population?!
To be honest, I'd be infinitely more terrified of ambiguously gay Justin Bieber hair cut sharks than anything else the oceans could throw at me. I'll take my chances with the box jellyfish and great whites around Australia thank you very much.
As a female I am gonna have to b***h slap you.
I"m female and have been fascinated by sharks since I was a child.
Irukandji jellyfish and great whites are much more interesting than weasel-faced prepubescent singers.