The system is named after a euphemism for urine, and the best they can do is make a painfully lame "LOL NINTENDO IS GIRLY" joke. I'm not mad--I'm just taking them off my RSS feed from now on.
You know, I didn't even get that until you explained it.
I thought Wii sounded like "We."
And, I just thought it was supposed to be funny because they had the guy with the gay shirt mentioning female genitalia. Because, half of Penny Arcade humor is talking about that. I just thought they were trying to switch it up since they normally talk about male genitalia. Didn't realize it was a deep commentary on the system.
All I see is a joke on the new (inappropriately hilarious) name for a game system, only instead of using a word that could mean penis, they used "vagina." And somehow, from that, humor was born.
Vagina + Video Games + Idiotic Marketing + Switching of Conceivably Profane Yet Assumedly Innocent Word With Word Which Undeniably Indicates Genetalia + Distracting Amounts of Arm Hair = Mildly Funny
Seriously, are no longer allowed to make jokes about the vagina? Do I yet again have to turn in my feminist card? What?
The strip really wasn't that funny, but it made me chuckle a little, and then I thought I'd forget about it and move on with my life. But here I am, debating things on the internet.
The humor of the strip really wasn't about the vagina. They could have replaced it with "uterus" or "vas deferens" or simply "penis" and the joke would have remained basically the same.
No one was saying, "Hey, aren't vaginas silly?" They were saying, "Hey, isn't naming something after a euphemism for part of the reproductive organs silly?" So I don't really understand this whole "screw you" thing.
*shrugs* It's not that I didn't 'get' the strip, nor was I offended by it...and chances are in about thirty minutes I will have forgotten about it entirely. It's simply that I didn't find it particularly funny. I understand it's not like Penny Arcade should be expected to tailor itself to suit everybody’s sense of humour, it knows who its audience is and writes strips for them. Then again, it would be interesting to see someone attempt to try to fit in as many styles of humour into one strip as possible...
Not at all. Vaginas are hilarious. (Even if unintentionally so.) In this case, it seems more like they just really wanted to write the word "VAGiNA"--most of the people making fun of the Revolution (I can't call it Wii in good conscious) seem to be giggling at its resemblance to British slang for urine, rather than thinking if you doubled it up it'd be what a five-year-old calls his penis.
I think a better joke would be the Nintendo UTI--it's pronounced "ooti", and stands for "Us Together In" Nintendo. It's not a great joke, but it doesn't have to be; the damn thing is called Wii, for God's sakes. It's like shooting fish in a vagina.
Okay, I see. It was a quality thing rather than a content thing. Oh well, I thought it was kind of funny. ymmv and all that.
Most of the people I've seen have been doing the penis jokes. "Would you like to play with my Wii" and all that.
The UTI thing would just fly over my head. Never had one, took forever for me to figure the acronym out. Then again, you're talking to a girl whose initials are VD.
Well, the Nintendo Revolution (which had been looking extremely interesting earlier this week thanks to the controller) has been renamed the Wii (pronounced WHEEEEE), which is a stupid name, but then iPod is a stupid name too and look at where that's gotten it. Therefore, clearly the best way to call attention to the ridiculousness of the action is to suggest that "HA HA, VAGINAS."
I don't know how you flub making fun of something called the Wii, but somehow they managed!
Yeah I know about the Wii, which is indeed a really dumb name. I guess that's just not much of a joke. "Vagina?" It doesn't really make sense. I mean, there are SO MANY JOKES for Wii. (For Example: "All my friends are coming over after school to play with my Wii.")
Of course, now my brain is easily making better vagina+videogames jokes. Hehe.
We were harping on the Wii (fish in a barrel? Hand me a shotgun) in French class this morning and one of my friends--ignorant of the strip, of course--told that joke. I think the crappy name has caused so much ensuing snark in such a short amount of time that all possible jokes have already been made.
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I thought Wii sounded like "We."
And, I just thought it was supposed to be funny because they had the guy with the gay shirt mentioning female genitalia. Because, half of Penny Arcade humor is talking about that. I just thought they were trying to switch it up since they normally talk about male genitalia. Didn't realize it was a deep commentary on the system.
I guess, given that the activity involves fondling a joystick for hours on end, some gamers feel a tad threatened in the masculinity department...?
But he's right about those cartoon musicals, though. Totally gay.
All I see is a joke on the new (inappropriately hilarious) name for a game system, only instead of using a word that could mean penis, they used "vagina." And somehow, from that, humor was born.
That's all I'm saying.
Vagina +
Video Games +
Idiotic Marketing +
Switching of Conceivably Profane Yet Assumedly Innocent Word With Word Which Undeniably Indicates Genetalia +
Distracting Amounts of Arm Hair
=
Mildly Funny
Seriously, are no longer allowed to make jokes about the vagina? Do I yet again have to turn in my feminist card? What?
Hazah for humor being subjective! And it is an unbelievably stupid name.
The humor of the strip really wasn't about the vagina. They could have replaced it with "uterus" or "vas deferens" or simply "penis" and the joke would have remained basically the same.
No one was saying, "Hey, aren't vaginas silly?" They were saying, "Hey, isn't naming something after a euphemism for part of the reproductive organs silly?" So I don't really understand this whole "screw you" thing.
I think a better joke would be the Nintendo UTI--it's pronounced "ooti", and stands for "Us Together In" Nintendo. It's not a great joke, but it doesn't have to be; the damn thing is called Wii, for God's sakes. It's like shooting fish in a vagina.
Most of the people I've seen have been doing the penis jokes. "Would you like to play with my Wii" and all that.
The UTI thing would just fly over my head. Never had one, took forever for me to figure the acronym out. Then again, you're talking to a girl whose initials are VD.
I don't know how you flub making fun of something called the Wii, but somehow they managed!
Of course, now my brain is easily making better vagina+videogames jokes. Hehe.
Wow.
Can I quote you?