The joke here is "dodge bullet", as in "dodged a bullet". You can stop complaining now.
ITT: everyone missing the joke and whining about ad placement.
Good call. Big expensive weddings are silly.
Big expensive trucks are also silly.
But they're at least potentially useful.
Interesting take to say this could even be conceived of as an ad, as that's clearly based on like a 2009 Dodge. Interesting they used Bullet though, a company called Sterling used to make a heavy frame truck called the Sterling Bullet which would have been based on that body style of Ram.
They used "bullet" because the entire comic is setting up the joke about having "dodged a bullet".
Yeah, okay. But now there's two bullets flying about.
Sigma mindset 🍷🗿
Came to Lemmy so I don't get advertising. Pretty sure infantile cartoon can be made without obvious product placement?
What product do you think is being placed?
Wife bad
That's not the joke. I'm amazed no one can get the joke here.
Yeah this comic might be the worst I've seen. Like ad placement as well, wut?
It's not an ad. The entire comic is setting up a pun around the male character feeling like he's dodged a bullet.
Its mocking overly-expensive weddings. It's mocking overly-expensive cars/trucks. It's mocking self-centred people in relationships who are oblivious to their partners' perspectives. It's mocking people who have no financial sense and see their wants as needs but are happy to dismiss their partners' wants as unimportant. It's mocking car adverts. But mostly, it's just a silly pun.
An ad for what? Dodge hasn't sold trucks for 14 years.
What is this garbage?
Garbage
I'm not sure when it happened, but the author of these comics definitely pulled a Scott Addams at some point.
Probably when he got enough money to start thinking Republicans make some good points about tax rates
Nah, Scott Adams is a hateful bigot. He thinks black people are a "hate group" - he truly went off the rails.
I don't really think this comic reflects its author's personal views at all. C&H has always been filled with shock comedy, black comedy, deliberate insensitivity, and silly puns, and everything is a target. This one doesn't really stand out as any different to how the comic's always been.
I don't really feel like there's ever really been a right-wing slant to these comics either. And I say that as someone who's ardently left-wing.
Classic case of the media not changing but the humor of the viewer did.
I mean, I remember it from like a decade ago when it first came out.
But before Lemmy it had been maybe 5 years since I saw one?
So maybe that's why it seems like a big change. Back then it was just dark humor, now it seems like it tries to piss people off and say "just a joke". Like, the quality isn't what I remember, even if it's trying to be the same thing.
Like comparing The Onion to Babylon Bee, they're both trying to do the same thing, the result isn't the same tho. There's a conservative slant that just makes it annoying. Like, both of those things are giant wastes of money, why are they the two options?
The only webcomic I kept up with was SMBC and xkcd
Wow, this is an absolutely wild take. What the fuck are you talking about?
It's a ripoff of a 30 year old bumper sticker joke...
I legitimately remember seeing them all over in the 90s.
And it's always been conservative assholes with the bumper sticker.
A Scott Adams? As far as I'm aware there's three authors.
Not ok, Boomer.
Ad placements in Cyanide and Happiness? Things really are going to shit aren't they
There hasn't been a truck sold under the Dodge brand in over a decade at this point.
It's a pun, not an ad. Dodged a bullet.
You forgot your /s
