Suggestion: Gift Of The Magi Plot

Finally found one of the other comics I thought of before: http://joshreads.com/?p=870

That's pretty good, provided those first two panels resize well.

"Christmas shopping stresses me out.◊"

edited 6th May '13 10:31:40 AM by dsneybuf

That's good; you can lose the copyright fine print at the right edge.

I thought we weren't supposed to crop out copyright information?

Since we're only using a part of the strip, it's not necessary to keep it on there, especially if we link the strip in the examples.

"Christmas shopping stresses me out.◊"

edited 6th May '13 7:01:36 PM by dsneybuf

I'd avoid linking the full strip in the caption; if it's not already on the page, it can be put into the example list. Something simple like "...whoops." or "Well, this is awkward." would suffice, and it doesn't really need a caption to get the point across.

I'll add it to the examples now.

Bump; any other thoughts?

I was thinking of using the Futurama example. [1]◊ This shows Zoidberg getting both gifts. Not sure how well that illustrates (I could try getting a screenshot from the episode later to see if that works.)

edited 8th May '13 6:42:56 AM by Rethkir

8 is much better.

The Futurama one doesn't appear to show the trope at all.

Agreed...the point of the plot is the mutual self-defeat.

Okay. 8 is fine. I didn't realize that it wasn't the entire cartoon, so it's good.

Added the image.

Cool, thanks. Caption or no?

"Ummmm. Oooops?"

"The gift that keeps on taking."

edited 11th May '13 5:21:07 PM by Rethkir

That works.

That's pretty good.

I don't think it makes any sense. How does the gift "keep on taking"? What's it taking in the first place?

Her hair and his pocket watch.

edited 11th May '13 6:49:20 PM by Rethkir

I still don't see how that's something being taken. The point of the trope is that the pair of gifts is only unfortunate because of what the givers did to get them.