The Rule of Threes

Something I Should Have Seen Before

Basically, not sure what I’m doing with this, but in my previous story on the Curious Incident involving Jon Stewart’s allegedly dead dog, allegedly named Dipper, I included a section called “The Art of the Callback.” It was all about how they ran the dog joke back for a second round, with John Oliver’s alleged dead dog named Hoagie.

But honestly, they did it a third time. I’m still rewatching videos to get the details here, but this one involved Seth Meyers. He also claimed that same summer to have recently lost a dog, this one named Frisbee.

So really, they were following a longstanding tradition in comedy: The Rule of Threes.

Yeah, I don’t know what to do with that, and I’ll be back to edit this post, once I get some more thoughts together. But I just wanted to put it out into the ether.