History Funny / XKCD

* [[https://xkcd.com/838/ Hey- who does sudo report these "incidents" to?]]

--->'''First Cueball:''' The Death Star plans are not in the main computer.\\

* [[http://www.xkcd.com/699/ Did you know]] you can just ''buy'' lab coats?

* [[http://www.xkcd.com/1156/ Conditioning.]] Just imagine what would happen if you tried to pull it off.

* [[http://www.xkcd.com/1274/ Randall's take on the 2013 US government shutdown]]. "[[AltText Are you okay? Do you need help?]]"
* [[http://www.xkcd.com/1283/ 20th-Century headlines rewritten to get more clicks]].

* [[http://www.xkcd.com/1771 A Star Wars linguistics lesson.]]

* 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!

-->'''Beret Guy:''' [[CloudCuckooLander Horsey!]]

-->'''Megan:''' This is an okay sea. 2 1/2 stars.

* Randall explains how mRNA vaccines such as the COVID vaccine work [[https://xkcd.com/2425/ using Star Wars]].

** "[[{{Pun}} I want synesthesia so bad I can]] ''[[{{Pun}} taste]]'' [[{{Pun}} it.]]"

** Apparently [[UsefulNotes/SpaceX Elon Musk]] has a secret lair beneath [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Mount Doom]]. Who knew?

** AltText: [[spoiler: 'Rating 1/5. Room filled to brim with semen, and when front desk clerk opened mouth to talk, bedbugs poured out.']]

* The "[[https://xkcd.com/1608/ Hoverboard]]" strip is mostly [[Awesome/{{Xkcd}} awesome]], but there are some funny moments (spoilered out for those who want to explore it for themselves):
** [[spoiler: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.]]
** [[spoiler: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:]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Beret Guy:''' [[CloudCuckooLander Horsey!]]]]
** [[spoiler:Apparently [[UsefulNotes/SpaceX Elon Musk]] has a secret lair beneath [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Mount Doom]]. Who knew?]]
** [[spoiler:While we're on the subject of Mount Doom, Cueball describes the volcano's fumes as, and I quote, "Earth vaping."]]
** [[spoiler:At a gas station, an X-wing has stopped for a fill-up.]]
** [[spoiler:[[FourPointScale Megan rates the sea]].]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Megan:''' This is an okay sea. 2 1/2 stars.]]
** [[spoiler:"[[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]]."]]
** [[spoiler:"[[{{Pun}} I want synesthesia so bad I can]] ''[[{{Pun}} taste]]'' [[{{Pun}} it.]]"]]

--> "As prehistoric Megan states, this is not a real fact. (...) Since [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]]."

** And the Black Hat Guy is Goldfinger.

** It gets better (or worse) when you get the alternate image of Taft in ''lesbian erotica''.

** Note particularly the title on that one.

** Only for it to [[http://xkcd.com/342/ resurface]] [[http://xkcd.com/884/ thrice]] [[http://xkcd.com/1253/ more]] [[BrickJoke in later comics]].
*** remember to read the AltText of all four

** 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."

** 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.

'''Nathan and Jewel:''' No. \\

** "It did do six damage, though."

** AltText: [[spoiler: 'Rating 1/5. Room filled to brim with semen, and when front desk clerk opened mouth to talk, bedbugs poured out.']]

** 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.

** Even better is the AltText (and the paranoia and CrazyPrepared-ness within).

** 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]]:

** [[spoiler: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.]]
** [[spoiler: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:]]

** [[spoiler:Apparently [[UsefulNotes/SpaceX Elon Musk]] has a secret lair beneath [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Mount Doom]]. Who knew?]]
** [[spoiler:While we're on the subject of Mount Doom, Cueball describes the volcano's fumes as, and I quote, "Earth vaping."]]
** [[spoiler:At a gas station, an X-wing has stopped for a fill-up.]]
** [[spoiler:[[FourPointScale Megan rates the sea]].]]

** [[spoiler:"[[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]]."]]

* ''[[http://xkcd.org/406/ "P.P.S. I can kill you with my brain."]]''

* [[http://xkcd.org/461/ The directions on Google Maps.]]
* And who could forget [[http://xkcd.org/463/ the voting machine]] gem.

* [[http://xkcd.org/473/ Neil deGrasse Tyson should be ashamed of all the pain he caused.]]

-->"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--?"\\
"No." \\

--> "...You made the entire continent perfectly flat?"
--> "And sorted it into layers."
--> "..."
--> "I feel good about things. This is a good game."

-->'''Emperor Palpatine:''' '''It me. I allowed it.'''
-->'''Darth Vader:''' My master, please never say that again.

-->'''Emperor Palpatine:''' '''It me. I allowed it.''