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* The final image in "[[https://what-if.xkcd.com/44/ High Throw]]" is of a small girl releasing a red balloon. The AltText says "[[Music/{{Nena}} just 98 more]]".
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* The final image in "[[https://what-if.xkcd.com/44/ High Throw]]" is of a small girl releasing a red balloon. The AltText says "[[Music/{{Nena}} just 98 more]]".more]]".
* The question of "Would all the world's bananas fit in all the world's churches" refers to the Spiders Georg meme.
-->Bananas Georg, who lives on a mountain and eats 17 trillion bananas every year is an outlier and should not be counted.
* The question of "Would all the world's bananas fit in all the world's churches" refers to the Spiders Georg meme.
-->Bananas Georg, who lives on a mountain and eats 17 trillion bananas every year is an outlier and should not be counted.
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* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/141/ "Sunbeam"]] has Shout-Outs[=/=]{{Take That}}s to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and its two sequels.
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* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/141/ "Sunbeam"]] has Shout-Outs[=/=]{{Take That}}s to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ''[[Literature/Twilight2005 Twilight]]'' and its two sequels.
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* Occasional jokes involving the [citation needed] meme spawned by Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.
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* Occasional jokes involving the [citation needed] meme spawned by Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.Website/{{Wikipedia}}.
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** And ''Film/{{Terminator}}'' in the ninth.
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** And ''Film/{{Terminator}}'' ''Film/TheTerminator'' in the ninth.
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** And ''Film/{{Terminator}}'' in the ninth.
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* Occasional jokes involving the [citation needed] meme spawned by Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}.
* The AltText for the third image of "[[http://what-if.xkcd.com/37/ Supersonic Stereo]]": "[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender My cabbages!]]"
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/41/ "Go West"]] borrows its name from the song by Music/VillagePeople, and the AltText for the second image reads, "cars drive west, every one driven by someone [[EarWorm with that song in their head]]".
* From [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/43/ "Train Loop"]]:
** The second image has the locomotive going [[Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould "I think I can, I think I can,"]] and the AltText lampshades it with "the little engine that let everyone down".
** AltText for the fourth image: [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "i will diminish, and go into the west, and remain a train"]]
* To ''Videogame/TheOregonTrail'' in the final image of [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/121/ "Frozen Rivers"]].
** "You lost 3 family members and 2 oxen fording the river! I mean, you didn't lose them. They're right there. But they're definitely not going anywhere."
* To ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' in the fourth image of [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/57/ "Dropping a Mountain"]].
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/60/ "Signs of Life"]] contains the sentence "Wait for nightfall." followed by a footnote that, instead of containing a citation, references the classic SF story "Nightfall" by Creator/IsaacAsimov.
* The AltText for the eighth image of [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/68/ "Little Planet"]] reads, "This is [[VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram KSP]] on nightmare mode."
** In the print edition, footnote 3 reads "This is presumably what happened to VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog."
* The AltText of the second image of [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/73/ "Lethal Neutrinos"]] refers to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_anomaly the kerfuffle over neutrinos traveling faster than light]], which later turned out to be an equipment screwup.
---> "Hey, these ones arrived faster than light! Wait, no."
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/77/ "Growth Rate"]]:
** The first paragraph and its image compare the birth length of the average human baby to [[Film/ANewHope the Death Star's exhaust port and a womp rat]]. He later compares the ensuing rapidly growing baby to the heights of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda and Darth Vader]].
** To ''Film/AirBud'' in the AltText of the thirteenth image:
----> "What do you mean 'against the rules'? Your team has a freakin' golden retriever!"
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/42/ "Longest Sunset"]]:
** There's one to ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' in the Alt Text of the third image. Appropriate, since it's the 42nd post.
** Also, another one to ''Minecraft'' in the sixth, this time the image itself.
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/103/ "Vanishing Water"]]
** The Alt Text to the third image is another ''Air Bud'' ref.
** The fourth image is another ''Hitchhikers'' ref.
* The first footnote in [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/124/ "Lunar Swimming"]]:
--->"Inertia is a property of matter[[labelnote:[1] ]]♬ [[Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy BILL NYE]] [[EarWorm THE SCIENCE GUY]] ♬[[/labelnote]] independent of gravity.
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/126/ In "Stairs"]], the first image's AltText:
--->[[Literature/HouseOfLeaves ſtairs! We have found ſtairs!]]
* The last line of [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/127/ "Tug of War"]]:
--->"In the end, trying to develop stronger ropes leads only to greater danger to everyone, both participants and bystanders. In the ultimate game of tug-of-war ... [[Film/WarGames the only winning move is not to pull]].
** The article also mentions a footnote pointing out that "People often play tug-of-war with their dogs. Going by weight alone, 30 humans would probably be about evenly matched against WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians."
* The third image in [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/50/ "Extreme Boating"]] shouts out to ''Film/{{Jaws}}''.
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/141/ "Sunbeam"]] has Shout-Outs[=/=]{{Take That}}s to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and its two sequels.
* One of the charts in [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/147/ "Niagara Straw"]] shows the rating [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner "very yes"]].
* ''Series/LookAroundYou'' with "[[https://what-if.xkcd.com/97/ What IS fire? We just don't know.]]" [[labelnote:*]]birds in the original[[/labelnote]] and "[[https://what-if.xkcd.com/152/ Thanks, Nick. Thick.]]"
* [[https://what-if.xkcd.com/18/ "BB Gun"]], the AltText for the first image, inevitably, has a reference to [[Film/AChristmasStory shooting your eye out]].
* The final image in "[[https://what-if.xkcd.com/44/ High Throw]]" is of a small girl releasing a red balloon. The AltText says "[[Music/{{Nena}} just 98 more]]".
* The AltText for the third image of "[[http://what-if.xkcd.com/37/ Supersonic Stereo]]": "[[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender My cabbages!]]"
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/41/ "Go West"]] borrows its name from the song by Music/VillagePeople, and the AltText for the second image reads, "cars drive west, every one driven by someone [[EarWorm with that song in their head]]".
* From [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/43/ "Train Loop"]]:
** The second image has the locomotive going [[Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould "I think I can, I think I can,"]] and the AltText lampshades it with "the little engine that let everyone down".
** AltText for the fourth image: [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings "i will diminish, and go into the west, and remain a train"]]
* To ''Videogame/TheOregonTrail'' in the final image of [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/121/ "Frozen Rivers"]].
** "You lost 3 family members and 2 oxen fording the river! I mean, you didn't lose them. They're right there. But they're definitely not going anywhere."
* To ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' in the fourth image of [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/57/ "Dropping a Mountain"]].
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/60/ "Signs of Life"]] contains the sentence "Wait for nightfall." followed by a footnote that, instead of containing a citation, references the classic SF story "Nightfall" by Creator/IsaacAsimov.
* The AltText for the eighth image of [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/68/ "Little Planet"]] reads, "This is [[VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram KSP]] on nightmare mode."
** In the print edition, footnote 3 reads "This is presumably what happened to VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog."
* The AltText of the second image of [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/73/ "Lethal Neutrinos"]] refers to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_anomaly the kerfuffle over neutrinos traveling faster than light]], which later turned out to be an equipment screwup.
---> "Hey, these ones arrived faster than light! Wait, no."
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/77/ "Growth Rate"]]:
** The first paragraph and its image compare the birth length of the average human baby to [[Film/ANewHope the Death Star's exhaust port and a womp rat]]. He later compares the ensuing rapidly growing baby to the heights of [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda and Darth Vader]].
** To ''Film/AirBud'' in the AltText of the thirteenth image:
----> "What do you mean 'against the rules'? Your team has a freakin' golden retriever!"
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/42/ "Longest Sunset"]]:
** There's one to ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' in the Alt Text of the third image. Appropriate, since it's the 42nd post.
** Also, another one to ''Minecraft'' in the sixth, this time the image itself.
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/103/ "Vanishing Water"]]
** The Alt Text to the third image is another ''Air Bud'' ref.
** The fourth image is another ''Hitchhikers'' ref.
* The first footnote in [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/124/ "Lunar Swimming"]]:
--->"Inertia is a property of matter[[labelnote:[1] ]]♬ [[Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy BILL NYE]] [[EarWorm THE SCIENCE GUY]] ♬[[/labelnote]] independent of gravity.
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/126/ In "Stairs"]], the first image's AltText:
--->[[Literature/HouseOfLeaves ſtairs! We have found ſtairs!]]
* The last line of [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/127/ "Tug of War"]]:
--->"In the end, trying to develop stronger ropes leads only to greater danger to everyone, both participants and bystanders. In the ultimate game of tug-of-war ... [[Film/WarGames the only winning move is not to pull]].
** The article also mentions a footnote pointing out that "People often play tug-of-war with their dogs. Going by weight alone, 30 humans would probably be about evenly matched against WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians."
* The third image in [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/50/ "Extreme Boating"]] shouts out to ''Film/{{Jaws}}''.
* [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/141/ "Sunbeam"]] has Shout-Outs[=/=]{{Take That}}s to ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and its two sequels.
* One of the charts in [[http://what-if.xkcd.com/147/ "Niagara Straw"]] shows the rating [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner "very yes"]].
* ''Series/LookAroundYou'' with "[[https://what-if.xkcd.com/97/ What IS fire? We just don't know.]]" [[labelnote:*]]birds in the original[[/labelnote]] and "[[https://what-if.xkcd.com/152/ Thanks, Nick. Thick.]]"
* [[https://what-if.xkcd.com/18/ "BB Gun"]], the AltText for the first image, inevitably, has a reference to [[Film/AChristmasStory shooting your eye out]].
* The final image in "[[https://what-if.xkcd.com/44/ High Throw]]" is of a small girl releasing a red balloon. The AltText says "[[Music/{{Nena}} just 98 more]]".
