get-me
Explanation
The Joke
A man is sitting on a mountainside with a companion, lamenting: "I just feel like nobody really gets me." His friend responds with what amounts to a thorough statistical rebuttal: the man works normal hours, spends weekends doing common activities like playing golf, watches popular TV shows, and has been doing variations of the same routine for years. The friend points out that the man has never had an unusual experience, visited an uncommon venue, or expressed a truly original opinion -- he is, statistically speaking, "dead-center average for your demographic."
The final panel shows the man with his child, still insisting "nobody really gets me," to which the child (or a companion) replies: "Stop it. Stop. Everyone on Earth would get you. You are a demographic cliche. That was getting a romantic challenge." This reveals that the man's complaint about not being understood is itself the most generic, predictable thing about him.
The Humor
The comedy derives from the gap between the man's self-image as a misunderstood, complex individual and the reality that he is almost comically average. The friend's detailed enumeration of the man's thoroughly ordinary life -- spending open nights and weekends playing golf, watching mainstream entertainment -- serves as a devastating proof that there is nothing to "get" that is not immediately obvious to anyone. The joke taps into a universal human tendency: even the most statistically typical people believe they possess hidden depths that the world fails to appreciate. The punchline twists the knife by suggesting that even the complaint "nobody gets me" is itself a stock phrase of the thoroughly conventional person, making the man's attempt at individuality the most conformist thing he does.