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3 | * [[http://xkcd.com/70/ "Guitar Hero"]]: |
4 | -->''When I'm in a rock band, I'm gonna do a cool, mellow song. Then in the middle I'll stop, announce "this part is just to be an [[{{Troll}} asshole]] to people playing ''VideoGame/GuitarHero''," and then [[SurpriseDifficulty flail wildly on the strings]] [[ThatOneAttack for 30 seconds]].'' |
5 | * Though the comic itself is [[TearJerker not funny]], the mouseover text for [[https://xkcd.com/102/ "Back To The Future"]] is. |
6 | --> "He's kind of an asshole, when you think about it" |
7 | * [[https://xkcd.com/123/ Centrifugal Force]]. The very image of Franchise/JamesBond and Auric Film/{{Goldfinger}} having that conversation is just hilarious. |
8 | ** And the Black Hat Guy is Goldfinger. |
9 | * The pretty clever song parody [[http://xkcd.com/118 "50 Ways To Learn To Hover"]]. |
10 | * [[http://xkcd.com/214/ The mouse rollover text. Oh, good god, the mouse rollover text]]. |
11 | ** It gets better (or worse) when you get the alternate image of Taft in ''lesbian erotica''. |
12 | * [[http://xkcd.com/325/ Would not buy again.]] |
13 | ** Note particularly the title on that one. |
14 | * [[http://xkcd.com/327/ "And I hope you've learned to sanitize your database inputs."]] |
15 | ** Only for it to [[http://xkcd.com/342/ resurface]] [[http://xkcd.com/884/ thrice]] [[http://xkcd.com/1253/ more]] [[BrickJoke in later comics]]. |
16 | *** remember to read the AltText of all four |
17 | * [[https://xkcd.com/400/ "Go go Power Rangers!"]] |
18 | * ''[[http://xkcd.com/406/ "P.P.S. I can kill you with my brain."]]'' |
19 | * [[http://xkcd.com/408/ "Wait a second. Are you asking me to show her a mediocre time?"]] |
20 | * [[http://xkcd.com/416/ CTRL-C! CTRL-C!]] |
21 | * [[http://xkcd.com/443/ Know Your Vines.]] |
22 | * [[http://xkcd.com/461/ The directions on Google Maps.]] |
23 | * And who could forget [[http://xkcd.com/463/ the voting machine]] gem. |
24 | * [[http://xkcd.com/469/ Harrison Ford's less successful ad-libs as Han Solo.]] |
25 | * [[http://xkcd.com/496/ "You refuse to quarter troops in your house?" "I have few principles, but I stick to them."]] |
26 | ** That ''entire arc''. "However, on review of your qualifications, we've decided to sentence you to death. An unorthodox move, sure. But the vote was unanimous." |
27 | * [[http://xkcd.com/520/ Even funnier for us biology majors.]] |
28 | * [[http://xkcd.com/532/ ... Are you doing anything later?]] |
29 | * [[GeniusBonus Provided you get the]] [[Literature/DonQuixote reference]], [[http://xkcd.com/556/ Alternative Energy Revolution.]] |
30 | ** Double GeniusBonus here because the stick figure version of Don Quixote is a very close match for a famous sketch of the character done by Picasso. |
31 | * In their spoof of ''Film/TheMatrix'', when given the RedPillBluePill choice, Neo takes both pills, grinds them to a fine dust, then snorts the resulting purple dust. [[http://xkcd.com/566/ It causes reality to fracture.]] |
32 | -->'''Morpheus:''' ''Now'' look what you've done...\ |
33 | '''Neo:''' Where ''are'' we?\ |
34 | '''Morpheus:''' I have no idea. |
35 | * The entirety of [[http://xkcd.com/577/ the "Race" arc]]. |
36 | -->'''Cueball:''' So, wait. [[Creator/SummerGlau Summer]]'s actually weird, [[Creator/JewelStaite Jewel]]'s actually a mechanical whiz...Will Creator/MorenaBaccarin be here? Is she really a--?\ |
37 | '''Nathan and Jewel:''' No.\ |
38 | \ |
39 | '''Jewel Staite:''' [[Creator/SummerGlau She]] says, "Plan Gamma acknowledged. [[SpySpeak The meerkats are in the bag]]." ... So we're good?\ |
40 | '''Nathan Fillion:''' Hard to tell with her. Did you see an actual bag of meerkats?\ |
41 | '''Jewel Staite:''' No.\ |
42 | '''Nathan Fillion:''' Then we're probably good.\ |
43 | \ |
44 | '''Nathan Fillion:''' No, use my '''''space''''' [[http://xkcd.com/578/ name]]!\ |
45 | \ |
46 | '''Summer Glau:''' I'm part of the floor now. |
47 | * [[http://xkcd.com/583/ "Could not reproduce."]] (AltText: [[LamePunReaction Can't and shouldn't.]]) |
48 | * [[http://xkcd.com/585/ "Daddy? I wanna be a scientist!"]] |
49 | * [[http://xkcd.com/674/ "Aw, crap."]] |
50 | * [[http://xkcd.com/699/ Did you know]] you can just ''buy'' lab coats? |
51 | * "I...''fondle'' the castle guard? [[http://xkcd.com/708/ That doesn't seem right."]] |
52 | ** "It did do six damage, though." |
53 | ** AltText: "You roll for initiative, and ... [roll] ... [[NothingIsFunnier wow, do you ever take it]]." |
54 | * [[http://xkcd.com/819/ The Five-Minute]] [[http://xkcd.com/820/ Comics]] [[http://xkcd.com/821/ series]] has sad circumstances, but the comics themselves are very funny. The "hotness rating" one in the first part is darkly hilarious. |
55 | * The AltText for "[[http://xkcd.com/913/ Core]]": ''If you're a geologist or geophysicist and you don't introduce yourself by saying your name, then gesturing downwards and say "...and I study that", I don't know what you're doing with your life.'' |
56 | * [[http://xkcd.com/938/ "Are you sure you're a doctor?" "Almost definitely."]] |
57 | * [[http://xkcd.com/958/ For anyone who's read]] ''[[UsefulNotes/{{Capitalism}} The Wealth Of Nations]]'' ... |
58 | ** AltText: 'Rating 1/5. Room filled to brim with semen, and when front desk clerk opened mouth to talk, bedbugs poured out.' |
59 | * "[[http://xkcd.com/1014/ Can anyone tell me]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint what's wrong with this picture?"]] |
60 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1016/ We overthought this.]] |
61 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1023 Late-Night PBS.]] Who knew there was a darker version of ''Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?'' on the air? |
62 | * The AltText to [[http://xkcd.com/1026/ Compare and Contrast]]. |
63 | * [[http://imgur.com/URdOc "The trick was fuckin'."]] (imgur link because "Umwelt" changes by location/browser/referrer) |
64 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1108/ "...And this is the future if you give up the fight over the word 'literally'."]] |
65 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1110/ "Click and Drag"]] is big enough to have individual moments ''within'' it: |
66 | ** Just over the mountain from the start, a birder looks left through her binoculars and exclaims, "Ooh, a yellow warbler!" Her friend replies, "Cool"--not needing binoculars to see the giant flying jellyfish immediately to their right. |
67 | ** In a deep, deep dark cave, two poor souls trapped at the bottom of a pit call out: |
68 | -->"Is anyone up there? If you can hear us, ''friend us on {{Website/Facebook}}''!"\ |
69 | "''Follow us on {{Website/Twitter}}!'' ''Please!''" |
70 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1128/ Wishbone does]] ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''. |
71 | * In a [[NightmareFuel disturbing way]], [[https://xkcd.com/1139/ "Rubber and Glue".]] |
72 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1148/ Nothing To Offer]]. |
73 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1156/ Conditioning.]] Just imagine what would happen if you tried to pull it off. |
74 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1158/ Imagine a giant bowling ball on a rubber sheet...]] |
75 | * "Every change breaks someone's [[http://xkcd.com/1172/ workflow]]." Even repairing a bug that ''makes the computer overheat when you hold the space bar'', apparently. |
76 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1206/ Einstein.]] |
77 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1245/ 10-Day Forecast]] |
78 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1274/ Randall's take on the 2013 US government shutdown]]. "[[AltText Are you okay? Do you need help?]]" |
79 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1283/ 20th-Century headlines rewritten to get more clicks]]. |
80 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1285/ The ongoing war between two spaces after a period, one space after a period and Cueball's third option.]] |
81 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1414/ Have you read]] Creator/JamesJoyce's ''Love Letters''? The phrases "my little fuckbird" and "arse full of farts" appear. If we want to write the next ''{{Literature/Ulysses}}'', our generation may not be sexting ''enough''. |
82 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1479/ Randall Munroe shows the downside of having immense troubleshooting powers.]] |
83 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1493/ Beret Guy continues to inexplicably succeed in business]] in utter defiance of common sense and possibly the laws of causality. |
84 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1261/ Literally shaking what your mama gave you.]] |
85 | * [[http://xkcd.com/420/ The ending]] of Jealousy is a hilarious MoodWhiplash from the otherwise heartwarming tale. |
86 | * [[http://xkcd.com/428/ "You need to get out either more or less. I can't decide."]] |
87 | * [[http://xkcd.com/429/ The phrase "Not even in your dreams" takes an unexpected turn.]] |
88 | * [[http://xkcd.com/473/ Neil deGrasse Tyson should be ashamed of all the pain he caused.]] |
89 | * [[https://xkcd.com/861/ "What exactly is in the painkillers they gave you?"]] |
90 | -->'''Megan:''' ...You made the entire continent perfectly flat? |
91 | -->'''Cueball:''' And sorted it into layers. |
92 | -->'''Megan:''' ... |
93 | -->'''Cueball:''' I feel good about things. This is a good game. |
94 | ** Even better is the AltText (and the paranoia and CrazyPrepared-ness within). |
95 | --> "I heard general anesthesia drugs can cause amnesia, so when I woke up mid-extraction, I started taking notes on my hand so I'd remember things later. I managed 'AWAKE BUT EVERYTHING OK' before the dental assistant managed to find and confiscate all my pens." |
96 | * [[http://xkcd.com/874/ Scheduling is important. Even if you're lazy.]] |
97 | --> "8:00 AM - Whenever: Fuck around." |
98 | * [[http://xkcd.com/885/ What happens when you combine overthinking and recycling.]] |
99 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1732/ Xkcd's comic 1732]] is a timeline detailing changes in the Earth's average temperature across time (to illustrate the point about man-made global warming even further), with a few funny bits added to make what is essentially an alarming fact less depressing (see NightmareFuel.{{XKCD}}). |
100 | ** One highlight is at 9000 BCE about North American Franchise/{{Pokemon}} going extinct. It's made even better [[http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1732 in the explanation]]: |
101 | --> "As prehistoric Megan states, this is not a real fact. (...) Since [VideoGame/PokemonGo] was released Pokémon began to thrive throughout the entire world, and are now most commonly found near [[http://time.com/4443225/pokemon-go-affluent-white-neighborhoods-report/ affluent first world neighborhoods]]." |
102 | * [[http://xkcd.com/1771 A Star Wars linguistics lesson.]] |
103 | -->'''Emperor Palpatine:''' '''''It me. I allowed it.''''' |
104 | -->'''Darth Vader:''' My master, please never say that again. |
105 | * The "[[https://xkcd.com/1608/ Hoverboard]]" strip is mostly [[Awesome/{{Xkcd}} awesome]], but there are some funny moments: |
106 | ** On the [[Franchise/StarWars Star Destroyer]], Darth Vader can be found explaining ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' to a subordinate. The mental image of a Sith Lord watching ''Steven Universe'' is priceless. |
107 | ** Beret Guy can be found doing his best [[Film/DrStrangelove Slim Pickens]] [[RidingTheBomb impression]] on one of the torpedoes, but what clinches it is what he shouts as he does it: |
108 | --->'''Beret Guy:''' [[CloudCuckooLander Horsey!]] |
109 | ** Darth Vader's computer literacy is mocked. |
110 | --->'''First Cueball:''' The Death Star plans are ''not'' in the main computer.\ |
111 | '''Second Cueball:''' Darn.\ |
112 | '''Second Cueball:''' See, if we had found them in the main computer, that would be good news, since it would mean no one else had them.\ |
113 | '''Second Cueball:''' But since we didn’t find them, we need to keep searching for anyone with a copy.\ |
114 | '''Second Cueball:''' That all makes sense and I ''definitely'' understand how computers work. |
115 | ** Apparently Elon Musk has a secret lair beneath [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Mount Doom]]. Who knew? |
116 | ** While we're on the subject of Mount Doom, Cueball describes the volcano's fumes as, and I quote, "Earth vaping." |
117 | ** At a gas station, an X-wing has stopped for a fill-up. |
118 | ** [[FourPointScale Megan rates the sea]]. |
119 | --->'''Megan:''' This is an okay sea. 2 1/2 stars. |
120 | ** "[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi And if any here can give cause why these two should not be wed, The Great Jabba the Hutt will now listen to your pleas]]." |
121 | ** "[[{{Pun}} I want synesthesia so bad I can]] ''[[{{Pun}} taste]]'' [[{{Pun}} it.]]" |
122 | ** A girl flying by flapping her arms. |
123 | * Randall explains how mRNA vaccines such as the COVID vaccine work [[https://xkcd.com/2425/ using Star Wars]]. Also double as [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments Awesome Moment]] as an effective, easy-to-understand explanation how the vaccine will work. Plus, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint they're blowing up more Death Stars]] woohoo! |
124 | * [[https://xkcd.com/838/ Hey- who does sudo report these "incidents" to?]] |
125 | * "[[https://xkcd.com/944/ Hurricane Names]]" involves so many hurricanes forming that they start receiving random words as names, such as "Eggbeater". Later, when it becomes impossible to properly identify them individually, [[PlanetOfSteves they are collectively named "Steve"]]. |
126 | * [[https://xkcd.com/1013/ "Wake Up Sheeple! Wake Up Sheeple! Wake Up Sheeple!"]] |
127 | * The National Hurricane Center's deadpan [[DespairEventHorizon descent into madness]] during the saga of [[https://xkcd.com/1126/ Epsilon and Zeta]]. |
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