Usually when you see "emergency behind glass thing" in cartoons, part of the humor comes from the absurdity of needing that particular thing. My favorite example is from one thing I can't remember where they smash the glass and get the hammer inside to smash the glass for the chamber next to it. I understand the joke is like, you'd be breaking glass to repair glass, but it loses something without someone screaming "Oh no, the glass is going to break!" or something before seeing the glass. Also technically it's not really a visual oxymoron since you'd be breaking glass to repair other glass.
On a side note, do "in case of emergency break glass" things actually exist? Like I know you can buy novelty products but are there real glass breaking things that I've just never seen IRL?
This comic just makes no sense at all. That's an awesome song! Why would he get mad? If anything he should be trying to capture it to keep it as a pet and also bring it on Oprah and make money by exploiting its talents.
Pharrell, tho; this comic should have been structured way differently. The first panel should have the guy saying "What a beautiful day!" with some trees or nature imagery in the background, and the bird should only appear in the third panel (second panel in the actual comic) which would also be the last panel. The joke should be the bird is actually singing, end comic. Him getting mad just distracts from the actual punchline, since all it does is reinforce that he is annoyed by the song, which is not something that needs reinforcing.
The song should have been more famously annoying or shocking, though. Or maybe just go with the classic "Never Gonna Give You Up".
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