Angriest Rice Cooker Director’s Cut 11–On the Internet Part 1
You can tell that this one was made in the early days because its title referenced a future strip. After my initial two-month buffer disappeared (a process that took embarrassingly close to two months) I was writing these things on the fly and titling them as I posted them.
This is probably the closest thing the Angriest Rice Cooker gets to a “story strip.” Although obviously I wasn’t terribly worried about plausability (a rice cooker with a wireless connection?), I wanted to at least have some reason why he would know the things he does about the world. Granted, there’s no real reason why he’d heard of Protagoras, Socrates, and Marx. I guess his owners sprung for the “philosophy” add-in. But I had trouble coming up with a joke for the comic where he actually gets connected to the internet. I thought of this one fairly early in the process, but I didn’t want to use it because A) I think it’s a pretty tired joke and B) I think porn on the internet is vastly overstated. Yes, there’s sexual content on the internet. There’s also sexual content in the world. We’re sexual creatures. I don’t actually think that sexual content is disproportionate on the internet. You may remember the news that hopped around the internet a while back that a study by UC Berkeley statistics professor Philip Stark showed that sexually explicit sites represent only about 1% of sites indexed by Google. My body has more sexual content than that.
But whatever. What the Rice Cooker says is technically true whether there is a ton of porn on the internet or not. And it lead into “On the Internet part 2″ which makes fun of a much more hilarious part of the web.
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