Suggestion: Appeal To Obscurity

In my opinion, the current image misses part of the trope/joke, which is implying why the object in question is unheard of. With this in mind, I think the comic below covers the trope better overall with a more traditional setup.

Vertical version

Edited by Wasabi2 on Sep 18th 2023 at 11:02:05 AM

That might work, but it might be too tall for the page

Edited by StalkerGamer on Sep 18th 2023 at 11:57:32 AM

The image could probably be made smaller on the page - forums make images look big regardless of set size.

How much of the original strip is that? We can't use more than half of it without permission.

It’s 3/4. I didn’t know comic strips required permission, but I’ll try to get it if necessary

I think the last two panels could work as a left-to-right image.

Also, the caption: "Don't you mean Perry the Platypus?"

Pull the current, but I'm not sold on the suggestion.

Uh, yeah, not sold on the image specifically because it's too many panels to use without permission, and because it uses "Perry the Platypus" which many people would instead assume is a Phineas and Ferb reference joke.

Edited by WarJay77 on Sep 19th 2023 at 1:31:09 PM

I think the last two panels might work. The 3-panel version would be too wordy anyway.

Like this:

Edited by Bullman on Sep 19th 2023 at 12:59:10 PM

So I realize I misread it as "Perry" and not "Perky"; with this realization I feel more comfortable upvoting it.

The current is an example of the trope but it is, ironically, probably pretty obscure if you aren't someone who lived the UK during the 1980s and early 1990s it's a reference to this advert by the UK Dairy board, basically was the UK version of "Got Milk?" for a long time. But the quote on a milk bottle alone is not illustrative unless you know the context (I might add it as a video example though) so pull. Not fully convinced by the example though either.

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You know what on second thought 12 works fine

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All I can think of is:

♪ He's not Perry, Perry the Platypus! ♫

But that might just confuse matters so I'm not sure.