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    I wouldn’t mind it as long as the fucker doesn’t judge me. It’s enough that my fridge keeps complaining about the food I put in it…

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    We are just one tiny step away from the legendary sentient toilet, the one the Internet has long debated the love or hate relationship with its owner.

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      No we really aren’t. We are still decades to a century at the least from anything even resembling actual sentience.

      “A.I.” is nothing more than a scaled up, fancy autocorrect.

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        I know. I was just adding to the joke in the universe where we already have sentient microwaves.

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    If this ever happens I am going to put my soldering iron to good use and figure out a way to lobotomize my microwave.

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    Is there a name for the trope of something topical but not strictly necessary happening incidental to a punchline like the microwave in the last panel?

    I know I’ve seen it in other places, but the only other instance I can think of is the people saying “I am a consumer whore!” “And how!” in the Rejected cartoon, and I’m not even sure that qualifies.

    Maybe a few things that happen in the asdfmovies too, but they often introduce a recurring gag or a different joke entirely.