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Gabe of Penny Arcade trying to cure Tycho's hiccups by cutting off his hand.
- It would be more awesome if it worked.
  - Well, he'll presumably stop hiccuping when he runs out of blood. So that's kind of like working.
  - In the volume it's in, Tycho says Gabe thinks people hiccup to spite him. So wanting to harm them works.
  - We heard on one of the podcasts that Gabe has the power to stop his hiccups through sheer willpower, and presumably he doesn't understand that this is not the case for other people.
Three Words: Cardboard Tube Samurai.
- Nine More Words: Cardboard Tube Samurai skin for Yoshimitsu in Tekken 6.
I guess Tycho needs to learn how to Shut His Filthy Mouth
Tycho gets his when he delivers an epic To the Pain speech that wouldn't be out of place in a fantasy novel in response to Gabe saying that Warhammer ripped off World of Warcraft.
- Not just any fantasy, it would be perfectly in place in a Warhammer novel.
The Dixie Twist in Gabe's line dancing finals is certainly his Crowning Moment of Awesome.
Tycho and Oksana's final moments in "Paint the Line 2". [1].
Tycho gets a Crowning Moment of Awesome and Funny. Nah, it's cool.
Annarchy had two in "Armadeaddon": this one where she's whaling on zombies with a bat'leth, and this one where she breaks up with her boyfriend while still whaling on zombies.
Tycho gets one here: DaytoooonaaaaaAAAAAAAAGH!
Hell, even the Fruit Fucker gets one.
- The entire Armadeaddon storyline counts. Hell, Jim, a completely anciliary character who was introduced as a dessicated skeleton, turns out to be the leader of the zombie horde; and one of the zombies was Gabe and Tycho's former undead roommate.
- Don't forget how Tycho beats Jim: with an absolutely legendary callback joke. Specifically, the "I roll twenties", from the sandwich comic.
  - Roll for initiative.
Gabe's first session as Dungeon Master. It helps if you read the lead-up.
Counter Stomp!
When Jack Thompson reneged on his offer to donate ten thousand dollars to charity if someone made the ultimate violent video game in which players could urinate on people's brains and murder kids who worked in video game stores, Mike and Jerry made the donation themselves.
Tycho: We've just made the donation you never would, and never meant to. Ten thousand dollars' worth. And we made it in your name.
Carl the Exterminator's taming of a truly ancient Deepcrow.
Gabe's facial expressions in this strip
- And also in this one.
- Tycho offers some delightfully wicked smiles in this strip and this strip.
Tycho's response to Roger Ebert is not only a CMOA for the comic, but for art criticism in general. The Rant for the strip is even better.
From the guest Lookouts comic, the troop kills the basilisk together.
Meta-example: Gearbox Studios chose PAX over E3 or another big gaming conference to reveal that Duke Nukem Forever was playable and on the way.
- Related comic!
Just about any time Tycho cranks up his literary motor and rolls out the Purple Prose. For instance, the mission of Carrot Cake Soup, and his experience of Venice.
DivX gets one here.
Mere words cannot do this justice.
Tycho's feelings on stereotyping.
Steve Jobs gets one.
It is a very odd sort of patriot who would destroy the first amendment to protect the second. The follow up is just the icing on the cake of Gabe's sobering and thoughtful viewpoint in regards to the recent school shooting in Connecticut.
The entire Ocean Marketing situation. Mobilizing the internet and making memes in less than 24 hours.
- What set it off: an email thread
- The last word on bullies? "I will personally burn everything I've made to the fucking ground if I think I can catch them in the flames. -Gabe Out"
- The same guy later continued to harass Mike and Penny Arcade via Twitter. He claimed to be visiting PAX in disguise even though he was banned. However, he forgot that his iPhone also tweets his location. It doesn't even stop there; read it for yourself.
One for Mike (Gabe), after going to his son's school and hearing that one of the girls loves Slenderman, he's planning to do something about the problem of kids playing violent games meant for teens or adults in a mature and reasonable manner by explaining to parents about the ESRB rating and what really happens online.
Robert Khoo is a walking CMOA. In 2002, he met Mike (Gabe) and Jerry (Tycho) and showed them a business plan he came up with for Penny Arcade and offered to do two months of work for free to try and make their webcomic a successful business, since he felt that they should be millionaires. Eleven years later, Penny Arcade is one of the most successful webcomics ever made and he manages to run it and has a huge hand in Child's Play and all of the PAX conventions.