The last laugh

Well, I tried. For the life of me I tried to turn this YouTube clip into a video for this blog but it turns out that you can't because YouTube downloader only converts to mp4 which is a format unacceptable to Windows Movie Maker and so you end up with all video and no audio. It's something to do with codec files. I couldn't even embed the video because that function was disabled and I am too inept to hack into it (all these hideously techy and ultimately useless things I've learnt from the process of running this blog and trying to make things work electronically the way they do in my head). So, I present you with a less than polished consolation.

Please follow this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTvfG3HSDYA

Or click here.

And forward to 8 min 46 sec, the gag continues until 9 min 38 seconds.

In case your internet is broken, here's:

A picture of the show

And the dialogue

Manny: Ah! I see you're an afficionado of paintings

Freddy: Oh yes, yes. Manny[looking at a painting of a brown cow]: It's ...a cow

Freddy: Do you like art? Manny: Oh yes, yes. Especially... late... art.

[Both look at the painting]

Manny: Yes, the way he's captured the look. The cow's looking over there, we can't see what the cow's seeing. Maybe the artist is saying cows know something we don't.

Freddy: [nods] It's French, apparently, from the Dutch School.

Manny: Yes... brown.

Freddy: Oh I don't know what his name is.

I laughed to myself sometimes in lectures when I remembered this joke, and I think now, more than ever, with the soon to be avalanche of exams and essays, we need to have a bit of a laugh. While what I've learnt in PHIL250 has been highly enjoyable, and invaluable in understanding all aspects of Art, it can be easily manipulated, deceiving us into reading way too much into something, deluding us into thinking the cow knows something we don't.

So, goodbye. It's been fun!