Art imitating art in The New Yorker

[suranyi]

@bouv

Here’s the current cartoon caption contest for The New Yorker.

They know what’s going to happen, right? I mean…30% of people will submit "I wish I was taller, 30% will submit “My wife is a slut,” 20% will submit “I can’t find my receipt, my place is a sty,” 10% will be something else Seinfeld related, and maybe 10% at best will be actual submissions.

Personally, I submitted “My wife is a slut,” and I hope that’s the one that gets submitted most, and some editor at The New Yorker who has never seen Seinfeld will be confused off his rocker.

It’s not a coincidence. If you go to their website you’ll see that they know all about the Seinfeld reference, and are clearly doing it deliberately. They have a whole page talking about that Seinfeld episode.

[digs]

@Hypno-Toad

Weird coincidence! I submitted, “Happy Lendervedders wife is a slut!”

You submit that every week. I see it did win the consolation prize back in May: third stall from the left, Pike Place public men’s room, Southwest Stairway.

phreesh, which caption was yours? That’s great!

[madmonk28]

@jz78817

I would have gone with “Christ, what an asshole.”

Me too, it actually works for every cartoon in the magazine, not just the contest ones.