July 27, 2007

Bad Fake New Yorker Cartoons

Gawker has asked its readers to submit their worst fake New Yorker cartoon. So I came up with this one. Unfortunately, I can’t decide if it’s too obscure a reference or too obvious an idea. Is it possible to be both?

Gossamer

Hmm. Maybe I should have drawn a scalpel in there somewhere…

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What’s it a reference to?
I guess that one was lost on me.

Posted by: Qwazer | July 27, 2007 4:19 PM

Well that is Gossamer from Looney Tunes, first seen in Hair-Raising Hare (1946), but I don’t quite get why he is being dissected.

Posted by: Steven Andrew Miller | July 27, 2007 4:27 PM

I swear there’s some saying about “cutting gossamer” or something, but I can’t come up with it. Sorry, David, and/or congrats for hitting the obscurity :)

Posted by: Jon the Geek | July 27, 2007 9:36 PM

http://www.seinfeldscripts.com/TheCartoon.htm

Duh, my bad. But I didn’t remember the quote until I found it by searching for “dissect gossamer,” so I still go with too obscure.

Posted by: Jon the Geek | July 27, 2007 9:39 PM

Okay, wow… that was obscure.

Posted by: Steven Andrew Miller | July 28, 2007 1:56 AM

Wait, I thought it was the Lorax.

Posted by: Joshua | July 28, 2007 12:15 PM

You should submit this… the folks at Gawker are plenty smart enough to ‘get’ it.

Posted by: Joshua | July 28, 2007 12:25 PM

That’s pretty obscure. I’ve seen that episode of Seinfeld probably a dozen times, and I’d never have remembered his line. I remember Elaine’s reactions, but not the guys line.

And I also had no idea what the Looney Toons character was named. So, yeah it had to be explained to me.

Once I got it, though, it did seem like an extremely obvious idea, so you have a point!

Submit it, because even if I didn’t get it, isn’t that the point of New Yorker cartoons?

Posted by: Nick | July 28, 2007 3:38 PM

That’s not obscure at all! EVERYone remembers the orange monster from the Bugs Bunny cartoons, right?!?!?

Posted by: IKM | July 30, 2007 2:15 PM

OH! So that’s what that creepy scientist was doing before bugs showed up!

Posted by: BudhaCronX | July 30, 2007 4:49 PM

Actually, that one should have to be familiar with two distinct television shows to the degree they remember the name of an old character in one, and the precise script from a single episode of another, to understand a comic mocking the comics of a magazine whose readership doesn’t watch much television…well, I was going to say it was awful but now I’m kinda convinced it’s genius. ;)

Posted by: Aiche | July 30, 2007 5:19 PM

Surgical voodoo on a Furby?

Posted by: Antonio | July 30, 2007 7:23 PM

There’s a whole layer of reference you’re missing—the guy who wrote that episode now also cartoons for The New Yorker.

Seriously. He’s BEK.

Posted by: curiouser | August 3, 2007 9:22 AM

It’s obscure, but priceless… a faux New Yorker cartoon that utilizes characters from another cartoon that itself is a play on words from a fictional TV show (a show about nothing) discussing a New Yorker cartoon that was “stolen” from another cartoon.

I also appreciate it as all this makes it self-referential as well.

Just. Wow.

Posted by: kath | August 5, 2007 3:54 PM

I was so happy to recognize this!

Posted by: amberjade | September 15, 2007 11:59 PM

i thinks it’s a nice one, good work dude

Posted by: kopi Tribulus | February 1, 2010 12:28 AM