New Yorker's Animated Cartoons

clipped from blog.wired.com The New Yorker is now animating their cartoons online. And if you thought a single panel with a terse 20 word caption wasn't enough to pad out an animated cartoon past the two second mark... you were right. It's truly pitiful stuff. Somehow, they make the New Yorker's Cartoons appear even more witless than they usually are. Here's one example: Satan and some sort of ghoul are sitting in an office in Hell. Satan says, "I'm looking for a new torturer. Do you know Powerpoint?" This joke isn't even funny in the one second it takes to scan your eyes across it... let alone being forced to sit through thirty seconds of blinking, nodding and long, pregnant pauses between sentences. Another involves one dog talking to another about his frustrations in hearing a very simplistic moral argument for the invasion of Iraq and only being able to reply "Woof!" On the off-chance that anyone's laughing at these jokes, congratulations! You're special.