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This is so obscure I chuckled.

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Is it a reference to something? I thought it was just a little slice of life thing, but curious if there’s more to it

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I… don’t get it

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A common trope in fiction of the time was that of an aging married couple that does not divorce but that quietly… or even secretly… resents each other.

In contrast, pets are almost universally loved. The idea of living with a pet that you have a quiet resentment for is is humorously foreign and surprising.

Another comment in the thread is hinting at an obscure reference. If there is such a reference, I don’t get it either. The cultural touchstone of the resentful married couple is clearly part of the bit though.

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Haha, this guy has never lived with someone he secretly loathed.

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He lives alone with his dog, but he hates the dog.

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You’re not the only one.

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Hello fellow Far Side fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

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