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Am I too millennial to get this? Help please.

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I’m not 100% sure, but I think it’s funny for the following reason:

Ordinarily you’d expect the strip to be like: panel 1 Jon says something trying to be funny, panel 2 Liz says something in reaction maybe riffing off it or gently deflecting, panel 3 Jon says something back and maybe Garfield thinks something wry.

But instead, in panel 2 Liz shoots him down hard and says she isn’t going to put up with his BS. Jon’s only possible move is a quick retreat. It’s a subversion of the reader’s expectations.

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I guess if I read it every day for years that would make sense. Thanks.

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I guess it’s probably the sort of stuff that only makes sense if you’ve read like a trillion Garfield strips -and specially about this flirting theme- before.

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