Tranquility Base Comic

Yep, it's the return of Peter Reid's (legoloverman) robots. This time they have their own TV show, a device that means I can bring them back from time to time without needing any sort of continuity.

This episode was controversial* for the discussion it caused about what the joke was. It seemed to me to work on several levels, so I don't care if people laughed at something that wasn't actually the intended joke.

For the record, it's illustrating how robots don't understand the subtleties of language involved in telling a joke and they manage to suck all the humour out of a simple playground joke by using their elaborate scientific language. Data in Star Trek the Next Generation has a similar problem.

The joke they are telling is:

- My dog has no nose.
- How does he smell?
- Terrible!

I never said the joke was actually funny.

This episode marks a slight change in style with a different font used for the Tranquility Base titles and speech bubble text (although in this episode the robotic speech uses a different font to human speech anyway).

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* but not as controversial as the "there's always a bigger dish" episode in Brick Issue #14.