I liked this one, but mainly for a lot of small reasons... there's nothing really big and hilarious...
In order: the hremail opening was great. The burn-in on SB's wall was hilarious for some reason. The steak sandwich/"I guess I'm out of practice" thing was odd, and the Cardgage thing was a bit out-of-character (as Heimi said), but both I thought were still funny. The no-one-knows-what-dog-years-are running joke is still hilarious.
[edit] Oh wait, the dog years thing wasn't the running joke, it was SB confusing time with money... with dog years in
alternate universe, and general relativity in
space program. Still,
I thought it was a running joke, and thus I thought it was funny. You can't take that away from me with your pedantry. [/edit]
But then the bit with the explosive Pop-Tart was too slowly paced (and not in a good way, like
boring (really)), and the spit thing was just almost a minute of unfunny. The actual blowing up of his own computer I saw more as TBC saying that sbemails are dead, for reals this time... but given how many other times something's happened that could be seen as TBC saying that sbemails are dead, for reals this time, I'm not going to put too much stock in that theory. The explosion was suitably epic, and the throwback to
Happy Fireworks was nice, but it still lacked with the funny.
First watching, the early jokes were good enough to coast through, but the less funny bits stood out second time through. All up, 3/5.
Power Crunch wrote:
All the computers before had personalities, Lappy's was just most prominent.
Really? The Tandy didn't do anything personification-like before it was thrown out (its first was giving its death bed messages while in the bin)... the Compy did one or two things on occasion... but the Lappy, along with the Paper (and, to a lesser extent, the new paper) are the only objects that have been pseudocharacters to the point of actually having conversations (of a sort) with the characters... there's actual personality there, unlike that of, say The Stick, or Bennedetto, where a large part of the joke is that they
don't have a personality, or any personified characteristics at all.