The Monkeys You Ordered – Literal New Yorker Cartoon Captions

Posted by Duffy on 01/16/2011

New Yorker Cartoons have a special place in my heart, but I almost love even more their reputation as being unfunny, deliberately obtuse, and intended only for wound-up, overeducated yuppies. Even better still are these literalized re-captions on The Monkeys You Ordered

I’m reminded of Charles Lavoie’s similar project of recaptioning every cartoon with “Christ, what an asshole.”. It’s a shame that he seems to be no longer updating.

I’m loving this new genre of remixed comics. I wonder if it started with garfield minus garfield, or if there is any pre-internet precedent.

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The Nietzche Family Circus