Yeah, the joke would have worked better if he’d said something about the piano being 6:1 scale.
And, of course, there’s a huge contingent that now insists on pronouncing the word ‘pee-AN-ist’ to avoid the very confusion upon which the joke is based. Kind of like the people who pronounce the planet ‘YOOR-an-is’ for more-or-less the same reason.
No, it’s funny because it’s deconstructionist. If he’d done a joke where a horse is at a bar saying, “Well, I’m sad because my fillie left me, that’s why,” it could have been just as funny.
Obligatory Futurama reference.
Except now you 500+ comics that you have to reread and mouse-over. Say “bye-bye” to whatever plans you had for today!
I got that one. I didn’t get the last one. Someone please 'splain this to me.
ETA: Never mind. Last time I looked at it, I swear there was no Jurassic Park reference, indeed no caption at all, on the thing… 
-FrL-
I accidentally my reply to this post. :smack:
I think you need to add a few more of these: :smack::smack::smack:
Same here. :smack:
This seems like a pretty common theme of Randall’s, where he takes a common joke and reverses it.
Reverse Euphemisms
Reverse Bel-Air
I’m sure there are some better examples of this, I just can’t think of them right now.
And here.
No thanks, they just make me go whoosh.
Wow i was totally gonna ask this question. I feel sheepish for not getting it. hahhahaha thanks guys.
This reminds me of an old Benny Hill joke where he explains what he named his dogs:
“We call this one Meany because he’s the meaniest. And we call this one Teeny because he’s the teeniest. And we call this one Liberace.”
“Liberace? Why Liberace?”
“Because he’s the peein’-est.”
I didn’t really understand the Reverse Bel-Air joke. I mean, clearly she’s modified the theme song to Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but … what? Why is it called a “reverse” Bel-Air?
ETA: OK, according to this post on the xkcd forums, a Bel-Air is like a rickroll, but you talk about something deadly serious like how you’re about to commit suicide or something, then play the lyrics to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air song to show that it was all phony. I get it now.
Also note the way the guy is holding the piano in the last frame. The phallic reference sticks out a mile. 
So far I have been able to get all the examples. I also have not found any to be funny.
Or in this case, about 12"…
The important part is that you unexpectedly cut into it like, “I tied the rope around my neck, kicked over the stool, and my mom got scared and said, ‘You’re moving with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air’, etc.”
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
WHAT! reverse euphemisms was a great one! i used it this summer, when I had to do my aunt a favor and take a shit, so to speak.