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troper@tvtropes:/$ describe xkcd hereWhat? No, we're not doing another Describe Topic Here joke.troper@tvtropes:/$ suroot@tvtropes:/# describe xkcd herenote sudoOkay.xkcd is a Stick-Figure Comic by Randall Munroe. It is a gag-a-day comic and generally does not have a continuing plot line or continuity (though there are occasional short story arcs). Many of the jokes are based on math, physics, science, UNIX or Internet memes, as well as romance and sex. It utilizes Alt Text for each and every comic, which contains additional jokes and context.Originally a relatively unknown set of personal sketches and doodles, it grew in popularity in 2006 when other webcomics (such as Dinosaur Comics) began linking to it. However, it was when Randall posted "Map of the Internet" and said map was subsequently featured on Slashdot that xkcd's popularity truly erupted. Since then, it has been among the most well-known of webcomics.Of course, you wouldn't know that just by looking at the comic. The characters are still drawn as very basic stick figures, with no facial features other than hairstyle (which is often used to distinguish males and females). There are a couple recurring characters that can be discerned by their headwear: "Black Hat Guy": a Jerkass badass character with a black pork-pie hat, who in one storyline encountered a woman who out-Jerkassed him and has now become his romantic interest. "White Hat Guy": best described as "tries to be as mean and cool as Black Hat Guy, but fails miserably". He has the same type of hat as Black Hat Guy, only it's white. A beret-clad Cloudcuckoolander and Anti-Nihilist, generally thought of as an Existentialist, albeit one with strange powers and a thing for pastries. A dark-haired woman, referred to in several comics as "Megan"; she shares many of the same interests with the nondescript Author Avatar and is commonly shown to be in a relationship with him. Was the main character of the "Choices" Series. There also seems to be a recurring main character with a distinct personality (most likely the author's own), but since he looks exactly the same as all the other stick figures without hair or hats, it could be argued that he's just a stock character. He has picked up the nicknameinvoked Cueball.There are other recurring characters in the same social circle—e.g. the dark-haired existential nihilist—but most of them are less distinctive.Has mentioned this very wiki. The wiki has returned the favor, taking many xkcd comics for page images (see ImageSource.xkcd for the list), as well as (formerly; may he be mourned) making the image for all pages under the category "Webcomic" a little picture of Black Hat Guy.xkcd is part of the documentation for goto on the PHP website and was mentioned as a ticket in a changelog.◊note For those curious, here's #619.Two big occurrences for the comic happened in 2012. The webcomic reached one thousand comics in January; as the above-mentioned main character says, "Wow—just 24 to go until a big round-number milestone!" Later in June, xkcd added a section called What If? to its website, where Randall tackles hypothetical questions with physics and silly drawings. Has a lot of snark.Numerologists take note: adding up the numerical values of the title's letters yields a sum of 42. Coincidence?...Yes.Completely unrelated, but some fans had the bright idea to create graphs in xkcd style.Two entries, the subcomic Time and the "small game" Hoverboard, are so big that they have their own pages.The comic also has a wiki of sorts of its own; Explain XKCD, a resource for understanding the jokes that may fly over the reader's head.
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Visible Silence
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Visible Silence: E.g. The end of this strip.
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Sexy Shirt Switch
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Sexy Shirt Switch: At the bottom of #819, that girl in biology class wearing one of your shirts rates 4 (out of 4) stars on the hotness meter. That girl in biology class wearing one of your mother's shirts rates a Flat "What".
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Snowy Screen of Death
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Snowy Screen of Death: With a screensaver. And a weather forecast.
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Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle
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Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle: Done with a wolf, goat and cabbage, it ends halfway through when the problem solver leaves the wolf behind, questioning why he had a wolf in the first place. The Alt Text goes a step further asking why there was a cabbage, taking only the goat, goats are fine. Revisited later on with even more wolves, goats, and cabbages. And it just keeps escalating.
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Correlation/Causation Gag
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Correlation/Causation Gag: Apparently the WHO got the whole "cellphones cause cancer" thing backward.
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Vanity License Plate
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Vanity License Plate: The tendency of such plates to be owned by pretentious rich jerks is parodied, and Black Hat Guy claims another victim. One guy tries to fool people by getting a vanity plate consisting of 1's and I's, thinking he can commit crimes with impunity as no one will be able to correctly record his plate number. This backfires on him in that he's the only one with a license plate like this, so the cops can find him easily; and the Alt Text suggests his girlfriend gets a similar plate so that she can commit crimes that he'll get blamed for.
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Pizza Boy Special Delivery
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Pizza Boy Special Delivery: Subverted.
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The Artifact
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The Artifact: The webcomic's tagline self-describes it as about romance, sarcasm, math, and language. This is true of early xkcd, however the comic's sense of humor has shifted since then, and romance (as well as related concepts like sex, relationships, and breakups) faded out as a major theme roughly around the 1000th comic.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: Blockbuster Mining introduces blood, explosions and guns to Harriet the Spy in an In-Universe example.
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My Grandson, Myself
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My Grandson, Myself: Implied by the Alt Text of "Mystery Solved," which claims that "Jimmy Hoffa currently heads the Teamsters Union — he just started going by 'James'." (Jimmy Hoffa's son James P. Hoffa is the actual current head of the Teamsters Union.)
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: A couple times in this strip. #2730: Code Lifespan has Ponytail do this to code that's well-made and poorly made:
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Your Mom
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Your Mom: Played with frequently. The trope is also used. Subverted here. Is in the Alt Text here and here. Mrs. Roberts defaces websites of people who tell these jokes to her daughter. Another one, and still another. She apparently has a deeper gravity well than Saturn. Included in the pile of Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure comparisons. She weighs 200 kgs, (220 with cheap jewelery and 223 with cheap jewelery and makeup)
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Calvinball
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Calvinball: Metaball combines a football (or soccer ball) with a basketball hoop and baseball zone rules. The Alt Text further adds golf and ice hockey into the mix. Parameterball appears to be largely based on Tennis, with a twist: the court's size, the height of the net, and the size and density of the ball are randomized throughout the course of one game. One minute, Megan and Cueball are playing Parameterball the size of a table tennis match; the next, Cueball's struggling to get the ball over the net, both of which are taller than he is.
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"It" Is Dehumanizing
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"It" Is Dehumanizing: Some jerkass uses this on a furry in "Aversion Fads."
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Right Behind Me
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Right Behind Me: This person wants to shoot for the moon, as in with guns, rockets and the like, hoping to destroy that stupid "skycircle". While talking about it, she realizes why her group is acting funny.
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Exactly What I Aimed At
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Exactly What I Aimed At: Apollo retroreflectors.
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Feghoot
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Feghoot 90 years worth of predictions for the future... only to end in a Zero Wing reference. Defied in "Math Paper", when the professors at Cueball's presentation catch on to the fact that his paper is a Feghoot for an "imaginary friends" pun and revoke his math license.
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Genre Shift
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Genre Shift: The remaining 90 minutes of the movie will be a romantic comedy.
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Funny Conception Story
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Funny Conception Story: #1512 "Horoscopes" lists potential circumstances of someone's conception based on when they were born. For example, Aries is "You may have been conceived after a 4th of July fireworks show".
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Swallowed a Fly
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Swallowed a Fly: This strip, referencing a similar example in Serenity.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: Alt Text drop, actually. From "Time": "We need to run."
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Older Is Better
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Older Is Better: This comic shows that older technology is still very useful, and can't be completely replaced by every new technology.
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Gone Horribly Right
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Gone Horribly Right: The result of trying to be "the Walmart of social interaction" is... becoming "the Walmart of social interaction" in a different way: a place where, like Walmart, running into people you know is incredibly awkward and leads to forced small talk.
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: You could argue that it's subverted in the Alt-text... but not by much.
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Gone Horribly Wrong
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Gone Horribly Wrong: In this strip, upgrading a computer leads to being stranded out in the middle of the ocean.
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The Cameo
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The Cameo: Hannelore from Questionable Content can be found here.
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Kidnapped for Experimentation
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Kidnapped for Experimentation: Implied in Selection Effect.
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Alt Text
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Another Alt Text one: "I've been trying for a couple of years now, but I haven't been able to come up with a name dumber than 'Renesmee'."
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Visual Pun
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Visual Pun: This comic features a literal tarbomb.
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Poor Communication Kills
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Poor Communication Kills: Demonstrated here.
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Paranoia Gambit
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Paranoia Gambit: Black Hat Guy hires Rick Astley to show up at a party and...just stand around not breaking into song. His victim quickly snaps and flees the room.
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Alternative Calendar
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Alternative Calendar: In Daylight Calendar, a new calendar system is implemented in which a "day" is counted as 12 hours of daylight, however long that may be, in order to provide extra time on deadlines. During November, the sun may rise and set as many as three times a "day". Consensus Time has a different alternate handling of a "day": people click a button when they feel like it's 9 AM, and then the clocks adjust themselves based on the median of their choices.
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Clickbait Gag
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Clickbait Gag: Buzzfeed Christmas reimagines "12 Days of Christmas" as "12 Thing I Actually Got for Christmas": This strip reimagines twentieth-century headlines if they were written to get the most clicks in the internet era, resulting in such classics as "Most Embarrassing Reactions To The Stock Market Crash [gifs]".
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1d53cca0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1d751503
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Talking Your Way Out
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1d751503
comment
Talking Your Way Out: Inverted. The superintelligent AI is so convincing, it convinces the Black Hat Guy to let him back into the box.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1d751503
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1d751503
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 xkcd (Webcomic)
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1d751503
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1d8733d3
type
Overly Narrow Superlative
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1d8733d3
comment
Overly Narrow Superlative: "I love you most out of all the girls in all the world who love me back." Subverted in Bill Amend's guest strip: The Alt Text of #802 mentions that Farmville is "the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD". #2274: "That star is Vega. At magnitude 0.03, it's the brightest star I'm currently talking about." #2901 has what is declared to be the tallest statue of a skateboarding squirrel in the northern hemisphere.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1d8733d3
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1d8733d3
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1d8733d3
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1dea3034
type
Cool Shades
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1dea3034
comment
Cool Shades: A derivative of this trope (with a reference to the CSI Quip to Black), as seen here.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1dea3034
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1dea3034
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 xkcd (Webcomic)
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1dea3034
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e3a9a21
type
Angrish
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e3a9a21
comment
Angrish: Parental Trolling has a father conditioning his daughter's speech centers to shut down when she's upset. Hilarity Ensues.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e3a9a21
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e3a9a21
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic)
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e3a9a21
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e584efa
type
Cruel and Unusual Death
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e584efa
comment
Cruel and Unusual Death: No matter what the rash on your arm may be, Worrying about it is still less terrifying than slipping on a banana peel and getting sucked into an airplane engine.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e584efa
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e584efa
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 xkcd (Webcomic)
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e584efa
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e7c47ab
type
Stealth Pun
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e7c47ab
comment
Stealth Pun: Ahem. This strip. In this strip, where an audience member lampshades its use. In this strip, beneath Black Hat Guy's tool bench is a box labelled "drills" and a box labelled "non-drills". In this strip: "Haiku? It's an experimental OS that I... oh, never mind." Now try counting the syllables. The Alt Text in this strip asks, "When you talk about the job experience you'll give me, why do you pronounce Job with a long 'o'?" This is a reference to the Biblical figure Job, whose story centers on him being tormented with sickness while maintaining his faith in God.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e7c47ab
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e7c47ab
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic)
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1e7c47ab
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1f50c188
type
Home-Early Surprise
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1f50c188
comment
Home-Early Surprise: Parodied in "Scheduling," in which this scenario goes in a wildly different direction.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1f50c188
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1f50c188
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 xkcd (Webcomic)
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1f50c188
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1f79f239
type
The Compliance Game
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1f79f239
comment
The Compliance Game: The strip "Board Game" shows Cueball making a board game club do his taxes by presenting them as a board game. According to the Alt Text, they are more thorough than people whose job is to help with filling out tax forms.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1f79f239
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1.0
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1.0
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_1f79f239
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_20c309b1
type
Infinite Canvas
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_20c309b1
comment
Infinite Canvas: Several of the comics, but taken to the extreme with Click and Drag.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_20c309b1
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_20c309b1
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 xkcd (Webcomic)
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_20c309b1
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_21e0b70e
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Butterfly of Transformation
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_21e0b70e
comment
Butterfly of Transformation: Transformers plays on the transformation of Transformers and the transformation (metamorphosis) of butterflies.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_21e0b70e
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_21e0b70e
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1.0
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_21e0b70e
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_222dc873
type
Black Comedy
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_222dc873
comment
Black Comedy: Ice inverts an urban legend in which a person is drugged, has their kidneys harvested, and is sent to a bathtub filled with ice. The result shown in the strip is, as expected, very gory. Admin Mourning is based on the fact that a person who has died while logged in a UNIX-like computer system would still be on the list of running processes. The comic ends with "the ghost in zshell", a pun on Ghost in the Shell and a zshell (a kind of shell in computing).
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_222dc873
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_222dc873
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1.0
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_222dc873
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_22b1f074
type
Selfcest
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_22b1f074
comment
Selfcest: In Choices: Part 4, the woman inside the bubble and her clone outside have a conversation about the reality that they're in. The clone, in the end, admits that she made out with her.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_22b1f074
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1.0
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 xkcd (Webcomic)
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_22b1f074
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_22ffc004
type
In Case of X, Break Glass
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_22ffc004
comment
In Case of X, Break Glass: In case of emergency, a glass repair kit.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_22ffc004
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_22ffc004
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_22ffc004
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_233da103
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Cordon Bleugh Chef
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_233da103
comment
Cordon Bleugh Chef: Apparently, genetic algorithms favor deep-fried Skittles and quail eggs in whipped cream and MSG. Amelia's Farm Fresh Cookies shows the back of a box of cookies, but instead of telling a story, it criticizes the cookies made by the brand's founder's grandmother.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_233da103
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_233da103
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_23501ce3
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Old School Introductory Rap
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_23501ce3
comment
Old School Introductory Rap: In "Open Mic Night", two very nerdy rappers go up with raps in the following format: "I'm M.C. [scientific concept] and I'm here to say [line that self-demonstrates the concept]". E.g. "M.C. Aphasia" goes on to incoherently mumble words after introducing herself (aphasia is a language disorder).
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_23501ce3
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_23501ce3
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_23fb6bf2
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"Help! Help! Trapped in Title Factory!"
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_23fb6bf2
comment
"Help! Help! Trapped in Title Factory!": How someone got trapped in a universe factory, we'll never know. Also used in the Alt Text to "Exploits of a Mom".
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_23fb6bf2
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_23fb6bf2
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2411d5fb
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Parody Sue
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2411d5fb
comment
Parody Sue: Gnome Ann. Take every quote with "no man" in them, replace "no man" with "Gnome Ann", and you get what Gnome Ann is like.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2411d5fb
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1.0
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2411d5fb
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_258a3bf7
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Doomsday Clock
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_258a3bf7
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Doomsday Clock: Disaster strikes when someone moves the short hand one hour forward due to Daylight Saving Time.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_258a3bf7
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_258a3bf7
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_258a3bf7
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_259d5879
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Anachronism Stew
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_259d5879
comment
Anachronism Stew: Discussed in Period Speech, where all the words and phrases in the character's dialogue are from different periods. The point is that a few hundred years from now, all the English from historical and modern times would be lumped together into "old-timey language" and thus be interchangable.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_259d5879
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_259d5879
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_25ae077
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Disposable Intern
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_25ae077
comment
Disposable Intern: In "Fast Radio Bursts", Cueball mentions the slim possibility that the titular phenomenon is caused by a star somehow contained within the observatory's break room. He sending a grad student to check, either because to be in the same room as a star would flash-fry one's body and they'd want to sacrifice someone who isn't as useful, or (the more likely situation) the task is trivial and useless.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_25ae077
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1.0
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1.0
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_25ae077
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_260926c3
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Failure Is the Only Option
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_260926c3
comment
Failure Is the Only Option: This flow chart explains how to write good code, or possibly not.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_260926c3
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_260926c3
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic)
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_260926c3
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287
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Funny Background Event
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287
comment
Funny Background Event:
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_26eb6287
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2726d167
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The World Is Just Awesome
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2726d167
comment
The World Is Just Awesome: In general, the frequent invocations of interesting bits of science. In particular, xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel and Click and Drag make the point that it's a big world full of fun and wonder.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2726d167
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2726d167
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2726d167
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_28638961
type
Overflow Error
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_28638961
comment
Overflow Error: A character gets thrown off by this while Counting Sheep, causing their mental image of the whole herd to stampede in the opposite direction. Whether it's a bigger problem to have one's brain throw an overflow error or to be awake even after 32,767 sheepnote (the limit of a signed 16-bit integer) is anyone's guess. "Depth" features 32,767 angels dancing on the head of a pin- one more and they'd become 32,768 devils.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_28638961
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_28638961
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_288685dd
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World War Whatever
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_288685dd
comment
World War Whatever: "World War III+" makes fun of Einstein's (or whoever's) famous quote. It continues past World War IV though XIV, and tells us the exact kind of weapons used in those wars.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_288685dd
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1.0
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_288685dd
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_294ed981
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Bilingual Bonus
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_294ed981
comment
Bilingual Bonus: Assuming you speak Binary... this strip. Each group of four bits represents one nibble (hexadecimal digit): 6261 7365 2032. Each pair of digits is the ASCII code for one character in "base 2".
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_294ed981
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1.0
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_294ed981
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_295087bf
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Non-Indicative Name
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_295087bf
comment
Non-Indicative Name: "Exoplanet Names 2" proposes that a certain astronomical object be named "The Moon". Not only would this cause confusion with Earth's moon (which is commonly referred to as "the Moon" in English), but the object in question is actually an exoplanet.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_295087bf
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1.0
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_295087bf
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2a090d00
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Lampshade Hanging
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2a090d00
comment
Lampshaded here, in the "Principle of Explosion" comic.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2a090d00
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1.0
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1.0
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2a090d00
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2a44ebfa
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Elevator Gag
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2a44ebfa
comment
Elevator Gag: Floor 5: Zeppelin!
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2a44ebfa
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2a44ebfa
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1.0
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2a44ebfa
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2b3bd260
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Readings Are Off the Scale
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2b3bd260
comment
Readings Are Off the Scale: Discussed in "Spinal Tap Amps", which shows the titular amp that goes up to 11, and three possible responses to it: a normal person would suggest to cap the scale at 10 and make 10 louder; an engineer would argue that "11" is a meaningless number in this context since it lacks any defined units; but a smart engineer would offer to sell an amp that goes up to 12.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2b3bd260
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1.0
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 xkcd (Webcomic)
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2b3bd260
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2b5ab7c1
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Analogy Backfire
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2b5ab7c1
comment
Analogy Backfire: In SkiFree, the monster in the eponymous game (which runs faster than the player) is likened by Megan to the inevitability of death. What she didn't know is that pressing the "F" key could make the player go faster than the monster.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2b5ab7c1
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1.0
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1.0
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2b68b7fa
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Sickeningly Sweethearts
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2b68b7fa
comment
Sickeningly Sweethearts: Black Hat Guy and his equally sociopathic girlfriend, when they think no one's watching. God help you if you catch them at it.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2b68b7fa
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1.0
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2b68b7fa
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2bc48235
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Dream Apocalypse
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2bc48235
comment
Dream Apocalypse: A character in someone's dream says, "please don't wake up. I don't want to die."
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2bc48235
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1.0
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1.0
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2bc48235
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2bc8bdeb
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Speak of the Devil
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2bc8bdeb
comment
Speak of the Devil: This strip features an abuse of Bloody Mary. Explaining it would ruin the joke. And another, but for the more serious purpose of co-authoring a paper with Bloody Mary. This strip references the old superstition that this was true of bears, which is why the original English word for it was abandoned in favor of the present one. When Gretchen McCulloch is asked about this, she hazards a guess as to what the original word was... and is promptly proven right. Cue Oh, Crap! moment...* Funnily enough, the word she guesses is actually the word for bear... in Welsh.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2bc8bdeb
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1.0
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2bc8bdeb
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2bdae2ae
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Awesome, but Impractical
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2bdae2ae
comment
Awesome, but Impractical: Marshmallow features the reentry marshmallow toasting module. Attached to a reentry vehicle from a space shuttle or some other source, the reentry marshmallow toasting module extends a stick with a marshmallow attached to toast it from the heat of entering the atmosphere. Marshmallows toasted this way sound impossibly cool, but the method suffers from a couple problems, primarily that the extended arm would cause turbulence that makes steering harder and risks everyone for a fatal crash, and the Alt Text points out that it would be way too easy for the marshmallow to fall off.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2bdae2ae
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2c9e262
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Catapult Nightmare
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2c9e262
comment
Catapult Nightmare: The dream in 806, "Tech Support" starts out as a nightmare, but eventually it gets a Happy Ending. The catapult is still there at the end.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2c9e262
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2c9e262
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2d4a6d8c
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Sophisticated as Hell
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2d4a6d8c
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Sophisticated as Hell: Strip 36 And this one. This happens a lot. Check this strip.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2d4a6d8c
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2d4a6d8c
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2d7c66d3
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The Stars Are Going Out
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2d7c66d3
comment
The Stars Are Going Out: Invoked in this strip.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2d7c66d3
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2d7c66d3
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2e13acd1
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Occam's Razor
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2e13acd1
comment
Occam's Razor: Parodied, naturally. According to Megan, the simplest explanation to the Barber Paradox is that Occam shaves the barber.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2e13acd1
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2e13acd1
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2e49d2b1
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Butt-Dialing Mordor
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2e49d2b1
comment
Butt-Dialing Mordor: Parodied here, with a protester shouting "WAKE UP SHEEPLE!", only to accidentally summon actual sheeple, which are horrifying underworld sheep-men monsters.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2e49d2b1
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2e76947a
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The Topic of Cancer
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2e76947a
comment
The Topic of Cancer: Shows up in more than a few strips, as Randall Monroe's now-wife had been diagnosed with stage-3 breast cancer during their engagement.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2e76947a
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1.0
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2e76947a
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xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2e76947a
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_2ec6e90f
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Yet Another Christmas Carol
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Yet Another Christmas Carol: #2836 is a parody of the classic A Christmas Carol: three ghosts of past, present, and future haunt Cueball to teach him the true meaning of the holiday. But the holiday they are here to teach is All Hallows' Eve, not Christmas. As such, their lesson on the "true meaning of Halloween" is just them floating around his bedside and making various spooky ghost noises.
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X Called; They Want Their Y Back
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X Called; They Want Their Y Back: Interrupted here due to Sarcasm Blindness (or maybe the guy's just snarking back). Parodied here, where they didn't leave a message on voicemail. To leave a message, press '1'. (Rather hard to do on a rotary phone.) Umwelt has two variants that also parody the trope, one for using Maxthon Cloud Browser and another for using Netscape Navigator.
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Weasel Words
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Weasel Words: Randall has a bone to pick with Newscasters who use "one of the [X]" instead of "the [X]" when they aren't 100% certain to the validity of a claim, they get so used to hedging their speech that they use it in cases where they can be 100% certain, and the weasel words just ruin what they are saying.
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Logic Bomb
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Logic Bomb: Used several times, but this one's for the audience.
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Two-Keyed Lock
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Two-Keyed Lock: Parodied in Strip #2677, making an analogy about the cyclical nature of software security. A two-key system is implemented, a device to facilitate the use of that system is developed, and the same system is used on that device.
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Even Evil Has Standards
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Even Evil Has Standards: While going over Black Hat Guy's (extensive) criminal record... The Black Hat Man's companion does not condone his participation in the My Lai massacre.
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Incredibly Obvious Bomb
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Incredibly Obvious Bomb: It comes with a ''radioactive'' label.
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Girl on Girl Is Hot
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Girl on Girl Is Hot: Go go Gadget two lesbians doing it.
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Clingy Aquatic Life
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Clingy Aquatic Life: This strip features Napoléon Bonaparte escaping from St. Helena and swimming back to Europe with an octopus clinging to his hat.
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Guest Strip
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Guest Strip: A week full of them, by the authors of Questionable Content, Buttercup Festival, Overcompensating, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, and FoxTrot. Yes, Bill Amend did a guest strip.
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False Cause
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False Cause: Several, though it is discussed here. Firefox and Witchcraft, as pointed out by Microsoft and the Christian Church. Cancer causes cellphones, though he is willing to reconsider with more data. A web site's visitors with Martha Stewart Living subscribers, and the Furry Fandom.
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Chekhov's News
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Chekhov's News: Suggested here to make the news more interesting.
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Mindless Sheep
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Mindless Sheep: In "Sheeple", five people sharing a subway car have the same thought: "Look at these people. Glassy-eyed automatons going about their daily lives, never stopping to look around and think! I'm the only conscious human in a world of sheep."
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Pac-Man Fever
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Pac Man Fever: The subject of the fall-guy's ire's cellphone is making sounds more appropriate to a machine from the era he's actually referring to.
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Un-Installment
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Un-Installment: 404
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But What About the Astronauts?
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But What About the Astronauts?: Addressed in "Nanobots," where a Grey Goo scenario is being observed from the space station.
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Poe's Law
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Poe's Law: Referenced here.
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Fun with Homophones
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Fun with Homophones: #1704 takes quotes with the words "no man" and replaces them with "Gnome Ann".
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Named by Democracy
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Named by Democracy: "Exoplanet Names" is about the International Astronomical Union accepting suggestions from the public for the names of astronomical objects, only to regret doing so after receiving an absurd amount of suggestions that aren't suitable names for various reasons, such as Eternia Prime, How Do I Join the IAU, Unicode Snowman, and e'); DROP TABLE PLANETS;—.
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Right Through the Wall
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Right Through the Wall: In retaliation for a neighbor who likes having loud sex, someone decides to have one with an elliptical reflector dish.
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Noodle Incident
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Noodle Incident: Also, he somehow managed to go from upgrading a computer to being stranded out in the middle of the ocean surrounded by sharks. Then we have #521. Start with trying to one-up some christmas light displays on Youtube. End up fighting raptors with lightsabers, Bill Gates killing Santa, and finally cutting down the Yggdrasil as a Christmas tree. And however he lost his genetics, rocketry, and stripping licenses in one go. The "Apollo 12 rum incident" seems to qualify. No consensus has been reached yet about the nature of said incident, how it relates to harpoons, or whether it actually happened or was made up by Randall. In City Talk Pages the actual contents of the said Wikipedia article is this; the talk page describes various weird events happening, including a complaint from Voltaire, remarks on how the page image contains an in-progress murder, the article apparently taking a stance on correct condom use, and an Edit War breaking out between an editor and the murderer. The contents and edit history of the city are left up to the imagination. Another Wikipedia example: Wikipedia Article Titles suggests that Randall isn't very interested in reading the pages for Meryl Streep or seagulls, but some kind of unexplained "Meryl Streep Seagull Incident" would pique his curiosity, especially if it was a disambiguation page, implying multiple seagull incidents.
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Bad Date
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Bad Date: One that goes so badly that onlookers start livestreaming it. When the couple discover this, however, they start taking advantage of the situation for the lucrative sponsorship opportunities.
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White and Red and Eerie All Over
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White and Red and Eerie All Over: Invoked and Played for Laughs in this strip, which claims that Christmas presents are parasitic plants to Christmas trees. One piece of evidence listed is that the "bright white and red colors indicate a lack of chlorophyll."
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Skewed Priorities
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Skewed Priorities: As the Apocalypse unfolds around him and the dead rise from their graves, Cueball's first priority is to get him and his math department colleagues the Erdős number of 1, from the now-reanimated Paul Erdős. In Devotion to Duty, terrorists hold up a building, tie up hostages, and cut the communication lines. The resident sysadmin kills everyone in his path, climbs through ventillation ducts, and walks across broken glass... to reconnect the communication lines, ignoring the hostages. Path Minimization presents the Lifeguard problem: a lifeguard has to reach someone drowning in a body of water and has to figure out the fastest way to get there. In addition to the three normal paths that each intend to minimize time, depending on how fast swimming is compared to running,ie beelining the drowning person (fastest if the lifeguard swims as fast as they run), running to the closest point on the shore to them and then swimming (fastest if swimming is significantly slower than running), or somewhere in between, the comic presents two additional options. One path maximizes time rather than minimizes it, going off the image's border, presumably travelling around the world, and then reconvening from the opposite side of the body of water. The other path moves away from the shore, gets the lifeguard a scoop of ice cream, and then beelines them to the drowning person. The Alt Text states that getting ice cream for a currently-drowning person is a social obligation for lifeguards.
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Twice Shy
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Twice Shy: This strip. And again. Deconstructed (sort of) and subverted.
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Black Speech
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Black Speech: "Complex Vowels" reads: "Linguistics tip: Extend the IPA vowel plane along the imaginary axis to produce the complex vowels, cursed sounds which the human mind cannot comprehend."
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Captain Obvious
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Captain Obvious: In #2783, this is apparently what Cueball's astronomy group has been doing: taking easy work by making studies about things that obviously don't exist, among which include "Earthlike stars" and "exoplanets in our solar system".
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"Far Side" Island
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"Far Side" Island: If this strip is to be trusted, they're not half as boring as they're stereotyped.
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Quote Mine
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Quote Mine: Claimed to happen in the Alt Text of World War III+.
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Chess with Death
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Chess with Death: In #393, playing games with the dead is just a standard business practice for Death. The late Gary Gygax manages to keep Death away from the office for days via Dungeons & Dragons.
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Voodoo Shark
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Voodoo Shark: Amelia Earhart explains that it took her 74 years to complete her flight around the world because the world is big. She doesn't seem to comprehend why this raises more questions.
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Zerg Rush
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Zerg Rush: Due to the popularity of xkcd, it's common to click on links and watch counts skyrocket. This is more apparent on "What if?", which has at least one outside link and a couple of PDFs per post. One of the most common comments in any of them is "xkcd army reporting in!"
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot
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A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Zealous Autoconfig shows Cueball trying to connect to a Wi-Fi network of someone's access points. The "zealous autoconfig" program in his computer begins a dictionary attack, attempts to find a WEP vulnerability, connects to Cueball's Bluetooth to locate the children of the owner of the access point, and kidnaps the children to start a negotiation with their parents. Genetic Algorithms provides one solution to prevent this from happening: setting the cost of the algorithm from becoming Skynet to a very high amount. Subverted in Skynet, where Skynet "becomes too self-aware" and stops its plan of killing all humans.
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Girl in the Tower
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Girl in the Tower: This girl wants to be a lighthouse keeper because she gets to be the girl in the tower, only she's the one saving people.
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Elemental Powers
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Elemental Powers: Aang may be the master of all four elements, but Dmitri Mendeleev is the master of all 118+.
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Appeal to Worse Problems
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Appeal to Worse Problems: Demonstrated in Bigger Problem, as an excuse for not helping to fix <problem>. Naturally, when called on it, they don't want to help with <bigger problem> either.
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Jump Physics
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Jump Physics: Hoverboard is an interactive comic where you can move around with a hoverboard. It has all the classic platformer-physics in action. Also, you can jump arbitrary times in the air.
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Mundane Wish
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Mundane Wish: Done in this strip.
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Record Needle Scratch
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Record Needle Scratch: In Baby Names, this is considered as the name of someone's daughter. This comic lampshades the outdatedness of the trope, not by making a Freeze-Frame Introduction, but by introducing history of vinyl discs (or where the scratch would come from).
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Gift of the Magi Plot
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Gift of the Magi Plot: Inverted with 506: Theft of the Magi. Black Hat and his girlfriend both sold each others' possessions on the internet (his Xbox 360 and her roomba), using the money to buy themselves gifts (a copy of Left 4 Dead for Xbox and a roomba dueling harness) that are useless without the item that the other sold off.
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Scary Science Words
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Scary Science Words: The webcomic made a chart of how scary certain technical terms sound compared to how scary the phenomena they describe actually are.
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Most characters in the strip, male and female, have a strong devotion to making life a little weirder from the start, including Black Hat Guy, so at least by real-world standards, the recurring female character can come off as one, such as in #308. The appeal of this trope is parodied in comic 122: "I didn't actually mean be different. I just want silly and entertaining on command now and then."
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The Parody Before Christmas
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The Parody Before Christmas: This comic also did one.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: "No One Must Know."
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Characterization Marches On
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Characterization Marches On: Early on, Beret Guy was more of an existentialist. He then shifted to being a bartender obsessed with bakeries, before finally settling into his Cloudcuckoolander self with "Pumpkin Carving."
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Planet of Steves
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Planet of Steves: The Alt Text for Hurricane Names reveals that with the English and Greek alphabets and the Oxford English Dictionary exhausted, and the subsequent storms proving to be uncountably infinite, the NOAA gives up and names all the remaining hurricanes "Steve".
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NameDrop
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Invoked and namedropped in this comic.
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Aggressive Categorism
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Aggressive Categorism: How It Works: When a guy sucks at math, it's the guy's problem; when a girl sucks at math, the problem lies with all girls.
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Scenery Porn
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Scenery Porn: There are several strips that have good visuals in them, such as "United Shapes," but the absolute ginormous size of "Click and drag" takes this trope way past root 121. Then Hoverboard takes it up to infinity. "You've found all the coins" indeed.
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Silent Scenery Panel
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Silent Scenery Panel: The occasional landscape drawings.
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The Alt Text gag from #721 only works on the assumption that people in the xkcdverse really are stick figures. The punchline of #1054 depends entirely on you reading the speech bubbles instead of imagining them as spoken dialogue.
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Red Pill, Blue Pill
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Red Pill, Blue Pill: Parodied in this strip. Neo is offered red and blue pills, but instead of choosing between the two, Neo takes both of them, grinds them up, and snorts them. The result is Neo and Morpheus trapped in a weird limbo zone.
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Call to Adventure
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Call to Adventure: "Interesting Life."
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Forgotten Framing Device
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Forgotten Framing Device: The "1337" storyline begins with a guy getting foiled by a mother when trying to leech off her Wi-Fi and seques into his friend telling him about how the mother is only the second-greatest hacker compared to her daughter, Elaine. By the time we get to the end of Elaine's story, the two guys are never mentioned again.
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Three Laws-Compliant
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Three Laws-Compliant: This strip shows what happens when the order of those three laws is messed with.
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Bunnies for Cuteness
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Bunnies for Cuteness: According to these three comics, "buns" are invaluably adorable. This comic has Cueball applying for a grant to introduce the pygmy rabbit to the eastern US — but not for any practical reason, just because they're adorable.
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Power Perversion Potential
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Power Perversion Potential: 3D printers.
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I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You
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I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You: Well, kill you even sooner.note You'll be moved up from 49 of ~7 billion to 31 of ~7 billion.
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Spin the Earth Backwards
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Spin the Earth Backwards: Sort of.
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Beret Guy seems to somehow change the world around him to the way he naively believes it should work (as with his "business").
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Swivel-Chair Antics
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Swivel-Chair Antics: #815 graphs the productivity of someone when they have a swivel chair of various levels of friction. The lower the friction, the more productive — until a certain point when less friction leads to less productivity, caused by that person getting distracted by spinning really fast on their swivel chair. When the friction is low enough, productivity becomes negative by virtue of that person roping others into associated swivel chair antics.
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Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal
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Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal: When Zombie Feynman wants brains after explaining how MythBusters are true science:
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: "Never".
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Newcomers to the series will find it very strange that the first few dozen comics are actually just sketches and philosophical musings set to artwork. It wasn't until around 50 strips in that xkcd as we know it began to surface.
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They Changed It, Now It Sucks!
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They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: In-universe: In Workflow, after the spacebar was fixed to no longer overheat the CPU, someone, who wanted their computer to interpret a rise in temperature as a control key, claims to have their workflow broken.
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Blaming the Tools
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Blaming the Tools: In the strip "Think Logically", an amateur chess player questions why an experienced player sometimes moves their pieces backwards - if the goal is to checkmate the enemy king, then moving pieces away from the king doesn't make any sense. The experienced player challenges the amateur to a game and gets an easy checkmate, and the amateur decides the loss demonstrates that chess is a badly designed game
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Overly Pre-Prepared Gag
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Overly Pre-Prepared Gag: Just shy of a hundred years of Googled predictions for the future, until you get to 2101. Time may count as both this and Overly Long Gag: the image on the strip page changes every hour, forming a stop-motion video with narrative when combined on external sites such as this one. People discussing it on the forums initially assumed it would go on for a few days, it went beyond that. Then it seemed logical that it would conclude at the end of the week, with a punchline on April 1st. When it became clear that the story was of two people building a sandcastle on the beach, the most common prediction was that upon finishing the sandcastle the tide would wash it away and the scene loop to the beginning, forming a metaphor of some sort. Eventually the castle was finished and the tide did wash it away, the scene fading to white... only for a brand new scene to start, two people now on a quest to find out how seas and river and everything else works! It went on for over four months, updating each hour, and finally ended on July 26, 2013.
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Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter
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Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter: Strip 79, "Iambic Pentameter".
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Chew Bubblegum
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Chew Bubblegum: Parodied in Bubblegum, where Beret Hat says he came here to chew bubblegum and "make friends".
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What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
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What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: My normal approach is useless here.
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Body Horror
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Body Horror: Subtly implicit in some, such as Eyelash Wish Log. Feb 5: Unlimited Eyelashes Feb 6: That wish granting entities be required to interpret wishes in accordance with the intent of the wisher.
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Showdown at High Noon
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Showdown at High Noon: Parodied in "Showdown." A showdown occurs between two cowboys at noon, a tumbleweed rolls by... then the tumbleweed pulls out dual revolvers and guns both the cowboys down.
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Five of them, ranked by the likelihood of catching on.
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Disproportionate Retribution
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Disproportionate Retribution: Some of the many examples. A revenge on a rickroll can cause 363,104 people to watch a haunted video from The Ring. If Black Hat sees a car parked over two spaces, he'll be sure to cut it up with a torch. Miscommunication of a joke can result in a cutting of an arm. In Exoplanet Hi-5, Cueball does the classic "high five; down low; too slow" trick on aliens from Proxima Centauri b, sending the "too slow" message a month before the down-low is expected to come in, as one does in this situation. The aliens react to the prank by sending an intergalactic invasion fleet.
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Fake-Out Opening
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Fake-Out Opening: "The remaining 90 minutes of the movie will be a romantic comedy."
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Crazy-Prepared
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Crazy-Prepared: Instead of preparing for a date, a character does extensive research to prepare for a snake attack. Water resistance is apparently a useful factor when buying a flashlight because you may use it to find something underwater. Turns out that Richard Nixon had quite a few speeches to cover multiple outcomes of Apollo 11.
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Hurricane of Euphemisms
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Hurricane of Euphemisms: In "City Nicknames," Black Hat Guy reels off endless, completely made-up nicknames for St. Louis ("The Winged City. The Golden Trombone. Castleopolis. The Kissing Kingdom. Sandland. The High Place. Ol' Ironhook. ...")
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What Measure Is a Mook?
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What Measure Is a Mook?: Done via FPS mod.
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Motive Decay
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Motive Decay: The second Manhattan Project starts out as an attempt to cure cancer, but ends up replicating the original Manhattan Project exactly.
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Significant Anagram
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Significant Anagram: The alt-text of this strip points out that ARCTANGENT THETA = ENCHANT AT TARGET.
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Riding the Bomb
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Riding the Bomb: In one part of Hoverboard, Beret Guy rides a torpedo. (A regular one, because they have no photon torpedoes.)
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Bookends
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Book Ends: Phobia touches on the fear of snakes, stormchasing and the fact that a storm is picking up snakes (the last one is in the alt-text). The very first strip and the line on the very uttermost right of Click and Drag. Time began and ended with a very small sandcastle.
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Cardiovascular Love
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Cardiovascular Love: Heart Symbol style with "Binary Heart": Alt Text: i love you.
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_53d45fa8
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Back-Alley Doctor
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_53d45fa8
comment
Back-Alley Doctor: In "Doctor's Office", Beret Guy provides some woefully inept medical practice to Cueball, giving him the Monday newspaper crossword instead of medical documentation, giving him pills to get colder, and apparently thinking that doctors are "like librarians, but for your bones and blood". All this is just because he was able to change his house's location type to be a doctor's office on Google Maps, but that doesn't explain how he apparently gets an MRI machine to install there.
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5400ad8
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Never Bareheaded
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5400ad8
comment
Never Bareheaded: Black Hat Guy. Except the one time his hat was stolen.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5400ad8
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_541c0283
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Jumping the Shark
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_541c0283
comment
Jumping the Shark: Played with In-Universe in this strip's Alt Text.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_541c0283
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_54adb6a3
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Staircase Tumble
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_54adb6a3
comment
Staircase Tumble: Black Hat rides to the top of the country's longest escalator and blocks the end with a chin-up bar, causing the people to tumble down like dominoes while the escalator still takes them up.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_54adb6a3
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5535bb82
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Centipede's Dilemma
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5535bb82
comment
Centipede's Dilemma: "Did you know November is Tongue Awareness Month?" By being reminded that he has a tongue, Cueball realizes that it's in his mouth, and he doesn't like that.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5535bb82
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_55ec42d7
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Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_55ec42d7
comment
Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: Voynich Manuscript produces such a conversation from 500 years ago. Period Speech combine this with modern slang (and other anachronisms) to make fun of period pieces.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_55ec42d7
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_565106b3
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Women Are Wiser
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_565106b3
comment
Women Are Wiser: The women usually play the more sensible part in the comic.
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Artistic License – History
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_56515a39
comment
Artistic License – History: For an In-Universe example, "Columbus" has White Hat tell the story of how Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean to prove the world was round. Of course, people of the time already knew the world was round — they objected to Columbus' voyage not because they thought the world was flat, but because Columbus would surely die at sea because he misunderestimated how long it'd take to get to Japan from Europe. As a result, Megan butts into the story, directing Columbus off to Valinor. When he tells her to stop making stuff up, she responds that he needs to stop making stuff up.
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_56585f74
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Flat World
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_56585f74
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Flatworld: Here, in a reference to Flatland. (Bonus points for the Alt Text pointing out what a stick figure would look like in Flatland according to the book.)
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Orphaned Etymology
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_568b9d5
comment
Orphaned Etymology: Etymology raises the question of what a falcon is in Star Wars.
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Achievements in Ignorance
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_57b74bd4
comment
Achievements in Ignorance: Beret Guy does this a lot. Examples include Vacuum, where he uses a vacuum cleaner to "unlock the tremendous energy of the vacuum [as in "vacuum energy" in quantum mechanics]"; and Interferometry, where he uses the principles of interferometry to ride two small dogs as if they were one giant dog.
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_57cd63e6
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Art-Style Dissonance
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_57cd63e6
comment
Art-Style Dissonance: It's surprisingly smart for its limited art style.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_57cd63e6
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5a4aa505
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Government Conspiracy
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5a4aa505
comment
Government Conspiracy: This open letter to whatever group or groups are secretly controlling the U.S. government telling them to get their shit together, it's embarrassing.note Referring to the 2013 government shutdown.
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5a6cbdce
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Sham Wedding
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5a6cbdce
comment
Sham Wedding: #1100 comic has a fake wedding (and, it's implied, a years-long Fake Relationship) as a misdirection play in a high school football game.
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5aa4ec8a
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Ambiguous Syntax
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5aa4ec8a
comment
Ambiguous Syntax: Hyphen plays on the suffix "-ass" as an intensifier and the prefix "ass-" as a modifier. Jacket plays on "fucking" being both an intensifier and the present participle of "fuck". Laser Scope plays on "miss" meaning 'aiming for a target and not hitting it', and 'sadness at not seeing them': "Miss your loved ones? You don't have to. RJX-21 laser scope". Alt Text: I wish I'd missed you then so I wouldn't be missing you now"
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5abc8612
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Unholy Matrimony
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5abc8612
comment
Unholy Matrimony: Black Hat Guy acquires a girlfriend in a mini-arc who shares similar interests and is more than a match for him. She comes up again, but slightly more rarely than he does.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5abc8612
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5b01a021
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The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5b01a021
comment
The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House: "Modernized" in Campfire, where, in the story, "she" traces the killer's IP address to be 192.168/16. Most home networks behind a router will use an IP address under that range, so this implies that the killer is inside her house.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5b01a021
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5bb60a3c
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The Presents Were Never from Santa
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5bb60a3c
comment
The Presents Were Never from Santa: He's an agent for the "forces working beneath the chaos of life"...or maybe not.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5bb60a3c
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Author Vocabulary Calendar
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5bc1ce14
comment
Author Vocabulary Calendar: Wikipedia's propensity for using specific words over and over is discussed in the strip "Malamanteau".
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5bc1ce14
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5bddf95f
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Talk About the Weather
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5bddf95f
comment
Talk About the Weather: Weather geeks HATE this trope.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5bddf95f
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Older Than They Think
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5be7bcfa
comment
Older Than They Think: In-Universe. With the rapid pace of technology and information, everyone assumes that conversation is dying, newspapers are becoming sensationalist garbage, the sanctity of marriage is being threatened, society is collapsing, and things were better in the old days. This comic shows that people have been believing this for over a century.
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5ca80293
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Pragmatic Villainy
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5ca80293
comment
Pragmatic Villainy: Hell's representative goes off on a recently deceased executive for dropping what he claims to have been "the perfect laptop".
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5ca80293
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03
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Brown Note
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03
comment
Brown Note: The titular complex vowels in "Complex Vowels", which are incomprehensible cursed sounds made by extending the IPA vowel chart along the mathematical imaginary axis.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5db59a03
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5f146203
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Dissonant Serenity
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5f146203
comment
Dissonant Serenity: "Chess Photo" features someone calmly posing with a chess board in their lap for a roller coaster photo while the other passengers scream their heads off like most people would.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5f146203
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5fb6411f
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We Are as Mayflies
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5fb6411f
comment
We Are as Mayflies: To the time vultures, at any rate.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5fb6411f
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5fe47c0
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Distracted from Death
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5fe47c0
comment
Distracted from Death: In this strip a guy is so worried about this happening that he forces in sweet last words even when his love interest is just going to the grocery store.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_5fe47c0
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Off the Chart
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_601a7577
comment
Off the Chart: This comic describing The Star Wars Holiday Special; not just bad, not even So Bad, It's Good, just a bottomless abyss. This comic says "Logarithmic scales are for quitters who don't bother with getting enough paper to display their charts properly".
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_601a7577
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_605cf3f
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Something Only They Would Say
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_605cf3f
comment
Something Only They Would Say: How to get access to a server.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_605cf3f
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba
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Off the Rails
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba
comment
Off the Rails: In Outbreak, Cueball and Megan derail the Zombie Apocalypse by promptly killing Patient Zero and destroying all the Toxin X-7 they've created.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_60eac4ba
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_6112a91d
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Unit Confusion
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_6112a91d
comment
Unit Confusion: "US Survey Foot" follows a team of architects and engineers as they witness Black Hat cause chaos... by using the depreciated US survey foot, longer than the normal foot by 610 nanometers. Knowing that the revival of the US survey foot will cause "headaches of having two conflicting definitions of the foot", the National Institute of Standards and Technology tracks Black Hat's device and sends an elite team of NIST enforcers to his location 8,000 miles away... and they are unable to find him because he's actually 8,000 US survey miles away.
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Riding into the Sunset
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_613ecc2d
comment
Riding into the Sunset: Subverted in the Alt Text to "Showdown" — after the apparently sentient tumbleweed managed to gun down both cowboys, it tried to roll off into the sunset, but failed because the winds were blowing it in the wrong direction.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_613ecc2d
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_6205f4e5
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Courtly Love
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_6205f4e5
comment
As a real paladin, he fights in the name of his fair lady in "Venting."
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_62fd5552
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Bavarian Fire Drill
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_62fd5552
comment
Bavarian Fire Drill: The point in Trimester is that you can just buy lab coats to fool others.
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_62fd5552
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My New Gift Is Lame
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_630e5e56
comment
My New Gift Is Lame: "Oceanography Gift" has Cueball prepare "these water molecules" as a birthday gift. The upside is that sending the gift to someone who lives on the coast is as trivial as pouring water into an ocean 10 years in advance; the downside is that giving someone the most common molecule on Earth is extremely lame, and the recipient is not even going to get all those molecules since they're going to be spread out over the entire ocean. For an inversion of this trope, Megan seems absolutely touched by the molecules Cueball gave her.
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Grub Tub
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_633114a4
comment
Grub Tub: In #1092, Megan and Cueball try to catch Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps by dumping Jello into the pool. According to the Alt Text, he promptly eats all of it in a short time.
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_63557923
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Death World
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_63557923
comment
Death World: Earth-like Exoplanet. It's theoretically habitable... if you ignore the constant stellar flares, asteroid impacts, acidic oceans, and the fact that it's tidally locked.
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 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_63cad64b
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Threatening Shark
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_63cad64b
comment
Threatening Shark: Just imagine what would ensue if this comic ever reached the folks behind Sharknado.
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_63d861f8
comment
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Black Hat Guy and his girlfriend
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Bluff the Eavesdropper
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_63f492d1
comment
Bluff the Eavesdropper: In I Know You're Listening
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_63f492d1
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Viewers Are Geniuses
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_641cf81d
comment
Viewers Are Geniuses: One of the biggest practitioners. The strip often bases comics on obscure math, physics, or computer jokes. This has gotten less common over time, though the forums and ExplainXKCD remain very useful. You may need to be knowledgeable in several possibly obscure or complicated fields to completely get some of the earlier ones. This strip has a number of programmers one-upping each other over their choice of text editors, until the last guy boasts that he uses a single butterfly to flap its wings, creating air currents to cause pockets of higher air pressure that direct cosmic rays to flip bits on a hard drive. So, in one strip: computer programming, tao philosophy, meteorology, particle physics, and computer hardware. The What If? 2 Gift Guide suggests a number of gifts for friends in various science fields. Some of the jokes behind them are obvious enough to a layman, such as the gift for people with an interest in "animals" — who in their right mind would give a gift-wrapped bobcat as an actual present? — but others, not so much. The gift suggested for people with an interest in "puzzles" ("two goats and a new car") is a reference to the Monty Hall Problem, for example. Another example: Circuit Diagram is a really bizarre circuit diagram that includes things like holy water, a tangled mess of resistors, and a gladitorial arena where two wires go in and only one comes out. To an electrician the strip might be a funny kind of nonsense; to anyone who doesn't know how to read circuit diagrams, it's just a normal kind of nonsense.
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He Knows Too Much
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comment
He Knows Too Much: What happens when you catch Black Hat Guy and his girlfriend together.
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Non-Human Undead
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Nonhuman Undead: The Opportunity Rover evolved into this.
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Author Appeal
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Author Appeal: Randall seems to really, really like cunnilingus, going so far as to create http://cu.nniling.us/ a redirect to xkcd itself
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Premature Aggravation
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Premature Aggravation: 439, "Thinking Ahead." "Did he just go crazy and jump out the window?"
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Author Avatar
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The Author Avatar may be named Rob.
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Telepathic Sprinklers
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Telepathic Sprinklers: "Pool on the roof must've sprung a leak."
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Jackass Genie
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Jackass Genie: The genie in "Wish Interpretation" explictly warns he'll twist wishes to teach people a lesson. But Black Hat wishes for things that are so obviously destructive without any creative twisting, the genie gets discouraged and offers to just give him 20 dollars if he'll go away.
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!
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Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Cueball makes a computer sentient simply because he was using Python. (Per the Alt Text, it's as easy as typing "import skynet".)
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Thinking the Same Thought
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Thinking the Same Thought: "Sheeple" has several people each imagining that they're the only person capable of thought.
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Fetish Retardant
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Fetish Retardant: In-Universe, the Power Rangers theme is this.
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Bizarrchitecture
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Bizarrchitecture: Log Cabin concerns the titular log cabin. Not named for the fact that it's made of wood, but because it has an infinitely-recursive floor plan: the main room looks normal enough, but it connects to a slightly-smaller copy of itself, same for that copy, and so on.
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Old People are Nonsexual
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Old People are Nonsexual: In "Ages" people 55 and up are marked with "more sex than anyone is comfortable admitting".
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Deliberate Under-Performance
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Deliberate Under-Performance: A student here deliberately tries to fail some of their classes so that their grades are in alphabetical order.
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Glasses Pull
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Glasses Pull: There are multiple instances of characters putting on a pair of sunglasses for emphasis just before a particularly dreadful pun, namely Rick Astley in 524: Party, Isaac Newton in 626: Newton and Leibniz, and the alt text in 977: Map Projections.
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Only the Chosen May Wield
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Only the Chosen May Wield: Deconstructed in "Sword in the Stone". Megan pulls out a sword out of the stone, and thus is crowned the ruler of England, but then she decides to put the sword back in because she doesn't want the burden of having to rule a kingdom. Parodied in "Sword Pull". A guy pulls a sword from a stone, but the sword doesn't budge completely; instead, the stone starts up and begins to slowly move across the ground like a lawnmower.
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Serious Business
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As required for any "real" computer user, the strip hates Windows, especially Vista.
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The Scream
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The Scream: The beret man has endless wings (not chicken wings). Everyone around him screams as he grows them to the size Earth.
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Stock Unsolved Mysteries
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Stock Unsolved Mysteries: In this strip, Cueball theorises that D.B. Cooper is actually Tommy Wiseau. However, 1098 strips later, this was proven false.
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Parking Payback
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Parking Payback: "Police reported three dozen cheerful bystanders, yet no one claims to have seen who did it."
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Science Is Wrong
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Science Is Wrong: In Tesla Coil, when a tesla coil is shown to Black Hat man, he manages to shoot electricty from his fingers. The only explanation from him is that science doesn't work.
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Moon-Landing Hoax
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Moon-Landing Hoax: A few comics about the topic.
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20% More Awesome
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20% More Awesome: Graphing things that cannot be quantified is a running theme in many comics. This particularly meta example involves a graph about a decline in a relationship that might be caused by graphing things. "Love Songs" is a scatter plot that measures how much the singer likes the addressee, versus how much the addressee likes the singer. Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" maximizes both axes, while Alanis Morissette's "You Oughta Know" minimizes it. "Sphere Tastiness" graphs the size of various spheres against how tasty they are. Plotting fruit and celestial bodies together, Randall concludes that (at the midpoint of the objects' magnitudes of size) there is an object 800 meters in diameter that tastes worse than grapes but better than the moon.
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Don't Try This at Home
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Don't Try This at Home: The Alt Text for Wings says to not fly with wings (even if you are hanging from a wire) or else you may die. Subverted in a blog post: "But remember, I am not advocating doing anything dangerous unless it's really cool."
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs
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Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: This strip tells what's funny this week. Bees, tires, bees with tires, and whatever. "COVID Risk Chart" starts off with ordinary events but then makes absurd combinations out of them. The most obvious example, due to the components' proximity, is "Getting a dental cleaning", "Going on a Tinder date", and "Getting a dental cleaning from a Tinder date". "Probability Comparisons" lists the probability of several events, with some events combining previous events. The earliest set of examples includes guessing someone's birthday, Steph Curry's free throw rate, and Steph Curry guessing your birthday if each guess costs one free throw and he loses if he misses. "Rejected Question Categories" includes categories such as spam ("lonely singles in your area") and phishing ("log into your account by clicking here"). The last category is "?????" and includes a combination of spam, an actual question, and phishing. Age Milestone Privileges has "25: Rent a car, 30: Run for Senate, 32: Rent a Senator's Car" and combines multiple subjects for year 125: "Drink alcohol*21 in an R-rated movie*17 while getting a shingles vaccine*50 from the President*35." "Wikipedia Article Titles" involves the speed at which Randall would click the articles "Meryl Streep", "Seagull", "Meryl Streep (Seagull)", "Meryl Streep Seagull Incident", and a disambiguation page for the latter. "Fast Ratio Bursts" discusses possible origins of the titular: energetic stellar-sized astrophysical objects floating in space (most common), microwave ovens in the observatory break room (actually happened once in 2015), energetic stellar-sized microwave ovens floating in space (unlikely), and energetic stellar-sized astrophysical objects in the observatory break room (most certainly untrue, but they're sending a grad student to double-check).
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Remix Comic
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Remix Comic: the forum-produced Making XKCD Slightly Worse. Notable is the fact that the spin-off comic has more than three times the number of strips than the original.
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Mugging the Monster
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Mugging the Monster: A pick-up artist attempts to 'neg' Black Hat Guy's girlfriend. It doesn't go well for him.
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Gaslighting
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Gaslighting: AKA Stealth Carpentry.
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Fun T-Shirt
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Fun T-Shirt: The trend of shirts featuring "witty" sayings of the misanthropic persuasion is deconstructed in "T-Shirts". Ironically, the second-to-last one ended up becoming official XKCD merchandise.
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Creator's Culture Carryover
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Creator's Culture Carryover: The old World According To Americans "map of ignorance/prejudice" gag is subverted when the Americans asked turn out to be "unexpectedly good at geography" and also aware of the holes in their knowledge. This one subverts it by showing that America has not always been considered the centre of the world.
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Centrifugal Farce
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Centrifugal Farce: Argues whether or not this should be "centripetal force."
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Hard on Soft Science
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Hard on Soft Science: With some frequency. It also appears in the warning at the bottom of each page. Homeopathy is a soft target. Inverted in "Degree-Off," with a biologist giving a physicist a The Reason You Suck speech.
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Goofy Feathered Dinosaur
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Goofy Feathered Dinosaur: This strip lampoons the concept of harmless avian dinosaurs by denoting that if someone believes in the trope, you can tell they've never picked a fight with an ostrich.
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Nostalgia Filter
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Nostalgia Filter: In Morning News, a younger person assumes that journalism before the Internet was less damaging to her brain, and that newspapers had much better and more thoughtful opinions; an older woman agrees on the condition that they not go look at old newspapers to verify it.
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Flying Seafood Special
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Flying Seafood Special: In "Click and Drag," a birdwatcher spots a giant jellyfish floating by.
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Icarus Allusion
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Icarus Allusion: #1110, "Click and Drag", mentions Icarus. Really, it does. You'll have to look hard, though.
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X Days Since
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X Days Since: 38 days since someone reset this sign.
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All Love Is Unrequited
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All Love Is Unrequited: In Creepy, Cueball and Megan are sitting on chairs. Megan secretly wants Cueball to notice her, but the reason why he is ignoring her is because he thought he would get regarded as creepy if he did try to talk to her.
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Punctuation Changes the Meaning
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Punctuation Changes the Meaning: Mentally shifting the hyphen whenever someone refers to something as an "[adjective]-ass [noun]". For example, turning "sweet-ass car" into "sweet ass-car".
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Success Through Insanity
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Success Through Insanity: Don Quixote to the rescue!
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"Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal
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"Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal: If all his friends jumped off a bridge it's probably because something bad is happening, like the bridge is on fire.
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Smart People Play Chess
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Smart People Play Chess: On roller coasters, no less.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The haired man in Pickup Artist, a pickup artist, tries negging (to imply something that lowers the recipient's self esteem so that they'll want approval) a long-haired woman. The woman negs him back by telling him that he is ultimately a mediocre person, won't find any way to improve and thus be trapped in an never-ending cycle of failure.
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Spy Speak
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Spy Speak: Parodied.
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How We Got Here
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How We Got Here: Subverted in this one. It starts with a Record Needle Scratch over a chaotic scene, but rather than say something like "You're probably wondering how I ended up in this situation", it says "You're probably wondering what that sound was. Well, long ago, music was recorded on vinyl discs..."
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "There's no porn set atop storm chasing vans. No homoerotic spelling bees. No women playing electric guitar in the shower". The last one actually worked, so it probably was not so bad. The future predictions for 2100 end with: "Rainforests mostly gone due to climate shifts", "All coral reefs gone" and "Gillette introduces 14 bladed razor". The Alt Text for 1036 reads: "I plugged in this lamp and my dog went rigid, spoke a sentence of perfect Akkadian, and then was hurled sideways through the picture window. Even worse, it's one of those lamps where the switch is on the cord." Hazard Symbol gives us "radioactive, high-voltage, laser-emitting biohazards that coat the floor and make it slippery".
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Left Hanging
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Left Hanging: "The Race" series, featuring Firefly actors, which abruptly ended just before the main character and Nathan Fillion duke it out, mocking Firefly's abrupt cancellation.
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Cuteness Proximity
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Cuteness Proximity: Shown in the strip "Cat Proximity", which is the Trope Namer as well.
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Star Wars (Franchise)
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Two X-wings can be spotted, one taking off from a cave and one in the sky.
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Lawful Neutral
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Lawful Neutral: According to [1], this is the alignment of non-radioactive inert gasses.
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Compensating for Something
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Compensating for Something: Parodied in "Red Car"; a character comments on someone driving a bright red car that he's compensating for his cyan penis (red and cyan being on opposite ends of the color wheel). The Alt Text provides another parodied example:
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Pun
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Pun: Rather blatantly in strips 282, 594, and 626. "I'm sorry if I hurt anthropology-major feelings with Friday's alt-text. I meant it as a friendly jibe at a cool field. I ... anthropologize." This one has two, one as the punchline and one in the Alt Text. 460: Palaeontology. A comic the author drew as a part of a game features Richard Wagner chasing a guy on his "Ring Cycle". He commented: "Why did I draw this?" Complex Conjugate. Oh my Eris... Not just your significant other. Your "statistically significant" other. This strip's Alt Text. 345: You'd make a wonderful dread pirate, Roberts. This. A lampshade is hung in the alt text. He thinks he drew this one to get back at people going through his stuff. They did this one on purpose. The alt text here, accompanied by a Glasses Pull. What are the thoughts of a wind turbine about making people fly by blowing air on them while they're holding up a kite? "I'm not a huge fan." The reason the Immune System Unions got doctors to stop variolation? They don't like scabs.
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Rouge Angles of Satin
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Rouge Angles of Satin: "Wrong Superhero", where humans fighting a mantis infestation accidentally summon Etymology Man (who can only give the etymology of whoever they should have summoned) instead of Entomology Man due to confusing the similar-looking words "etymology" (the study of word origins) and "entomology" (the study of insects).
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Inherently Funny Words
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Inherently Funny Words: The xkcd "blag."
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Wishing for More Wishes
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Wishing for More Wishes: In this strip, the "Wish Bureau" keeps an ongoing log of Black Hat's clever attempts to get extra wishes, including wishing for "a universe which is an exact replica of this one sans rules against meta-wishes."
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The Ground Is Lava
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The Ground Is Lava: Spoofed in "Floor", where the children play the Trope Namer... and apply volcano management techniques to the game. Namely, blowing up a wall to redirect the flow, using running water to lower the temperature, and calling for helicopters. The Alt Text even mentions they once managed to convince the FAA that a real volcanic eruption had occurred, resulting in the diversion of flights over their county's airspace because of the supposed ash clouds!
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Badass Boast
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Badass Boast: Margaret makes a Blasphemous Boast to threaten God here. An unnamed biologist also combines this with a Take That! aimed at physics here.
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City Noir
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City Noir: The city this Wikipedia talk page is about seems to be this with all its bleak-looking pictures, murders and mining accidents.
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Stating the Simple Solution
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Stating the Simple Solution: "I'm An Idiot," which includes an Alt Text claiming it's Based on a True Story.
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Truth in Television
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Truth in Television: The "Get out of my head Randall!" meme where many of the comics are applicable to the everyday lives of the readers.
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Eldritch Abomination
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Eldritch Abomination: This is why you shouldn't awaken the sheeple.
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Major General Song
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Major General Song: "Every Major's Terrible," which is about choosing a course and how the person can't/won't/doesn't want to do any of them. Someone sang the whole comic (with accompaniment) here.
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Sidetracked by the Analogy
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Sidetracked by the Analogy: In "Dark Matter", Megan tells Cueball that dark matter density is about 0.3EV/cm3. To illustrate the ratio, she says that for an amount of mass equal to the Earth, there would be a squirrel's worth of dark matter. Cueball interprets this literally and takes it as meaning that one squirrel is made of dark matter, then further misinterprets that all squirrels are made of dark matter. Another dark matter metaphor (what we can see is just the tip of the iceberg; most of the universe's mass is unobservable to us) taken literally (if the ice below water level is dark matter, how did it interact with the baryonic matter of the Titanic?)
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On a Scale from One to Ten
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On a Scale from One to Ten: Parodied with the Universal Rating Scale, which mashes together the 1-10 rating scale (with 0 and 11 included for good measure), the five-star rating scale, the American movie rating system, the American education grade system, the IUCN Red List categories, and the Starbucks cup size chart, among others.
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That
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I Thought Everyone Could Do That: Beret Guy is surprised to learn that other people can't tell what atoms are in objects just by looking at them. He wonders, "How do you tell what things are?"
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Walking Techbane
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Walking Techbane: In this strip, a guy encounters a computer bug that somehow transfers from computer to computer via his keyboard. His friend mentions that when a robot apocalypse occurs, she plans to hide in his house because "any Skynet drones that come near will develop inexplicable firmware problems and crash".
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It Was His Sled
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It Was His Sled: invokedParodied in Spoiler Alert, in which Randall takes three common-knowledge spoilers: Snape, Trinity, and Rosebud kill Dumbledore, die in a hovercraft crash, and was Kane's sled, respectively, and then combines them into "Snake kills Trinity with Rosebud". The Alt Text goes a step further: Tyler Durden was both characters.
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Deconstruction
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Deconstruction: Having to hide the fact that you went on an adventure in The Chronicles of Narnia for seventy years is really not a fun experience. The frog in Video Game/Frogger may actually be a harbinger of traffic accidents.
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Stalker with a Crush
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Stalker with a Crush / Dogged Nice Guy: Once again, Strip 513. You'll understand.
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Confronting Your Imposter
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Confronting Your Imposter: A stranger sneaks into the supreme court pretending to be one of the justices, despite all 9 justices present and accounted for. The stranger goes as far as to claim he's either Justice Alito or Ginsburg.
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Nameless Narrative
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Nameless Narrative: Most of the names of recurring characters were never clearly stated. Averted with 'Megan' The alt text of the Actuarial strip names the Black Hat Guy as "Hat guy." The Author Avatar may be named Rob.
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Unwinnable Joke Game
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Unwinnable Joke Game: There's a strip about Tetris. Predictably, someone on the internet made a game like that. And some managed to score lines in it.
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Death by Newbery Medal
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Death by Newbery Medal: Referenced in the Alt Text of this strip.
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Fantasy Twist
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Fantasy Twist: "Fantasy" takes it to a very weird place when the daydream versions of Cueball and Megan realize they're in a daydream and decide to burn down their world before it ends and they vanish.
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Measuring the Marigolds
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Measuring the Marigolds: Subverted in "Beauty." Yes, scientists find beauty and wonder in their work. It's just not always what everyone else thinks of as beautiful.
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Reference Overdosed
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Reference Overdosed: Many comics require the reader to know the reference to get the joke.
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Wham Episode
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Wham Episode: Randall reveals that due to illness in the family, the next few weeks are going to be filler. Normal updates resume. Then five months later, he gives us a Tear Jerker with a heart-breaking Ironic Echo. (His now-wife is doing just fine, though.) From "Time": "The ocean is coming."◊
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Double-Blind What-If
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Double-Blind What-If: Discussed in #2149: Alternate Histories, which exaggerates it by having the characters talk about 500 levels worth of hypothetical alternate histories.
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Asshole Victim
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Asshole Victim: The alt text to to Barnard's Star reads "Ok, team. We have a little under 10,000 years before closest approach to figure out how to destroy Barnard's Star." "Why, does it pose a threat to the Solar System?" "No. It's just an asshole."
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Slaying Mantis
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Slaying Mantis: Don't forget to call the right superhero.
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You Answered Your Own Question
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You Answered Your Own Question: Happens here.
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Art Shift
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Art Shift: A few strips actually shift up in terms of quality. The author doesn't seem to have a strong inclination to keep up such things though. On occasion, Randall has created temporary UNIX-themed and 3D-versions of the comic. 1021: "Business Plan" is hand-drawn, like the early strips were.
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Children Are Innocent
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Children Are Innocent: Subverted in Swimsuit Issue when the child says that he has seen pop-up ads depicting women who are double-penetrated.
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Redundant Parody
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Redundant Parody: In "Dorm Poster", a character sees their roommate having put up a poster of the album cover for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, so they decided to "get back" at them by making a poster that inverts the light dispersion, bunching the rainbow together using a lens and directing it towards an inverted prism to turn it back into white light. The thing is, the concept has already been used◊ for the album's back cover, albeit without the lens.
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Major Injury Underreaction
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Major Injury Underreaction: "Fever" is about treatments for how to deal with fevers based on the patient's temperature. 38-45 celsius has normal advice, like drinking a lot of fluid or visiting the hospital, but the chart also describes increasingly passive-aggressive tips for higher temperatures, like "exit that steam cloud immediately" or "return to Earth from Venus ASAP". The response for a "10,000,000,000 degree fever" (at which point the patient is most certainly dead) is "I hope you're enjoying your visit to the big bang but you should really come back home immediately".
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Mighty Glacier
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Mighty Glacier: Used literally in "Digital Rights Management."
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers
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Lousy Lovers Are Losers: The punchline of this strip, where reporters gather to talk to a scientist who claims the G-Spot doesn't exist, only to find they're interviewing the wrong scientist.
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Wiki Walk
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Wiki Walk: This shows the danger of falling into these. This comic describes the trope perfectly. This one mentions a path in the Alt Text.
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Shaped Like Itself
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Shaped Like Itself: #688, as a set of chart, contains itself. #703 shows the Tautology Club, which is about tautologisms (e.g. honorable people are in honor societies and people in honor societies are honourable). According to #1079, Colorado is shaped like its (fake) Wikipedia article. The graph in #1230 is true if you interpret it either as a polar or a cartesian plot: as a polar plot, the certainty (radius) increases over time (angle); as a cartesian plot, the certainty (y-axis) decreases over time (x-axis).
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Leeroy Jenkins
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Leeroy Jenkins: In "Think Logically", an amateur Chess player assumes that since the goal of the game is to checkmate the enemy king, constantly moving your pieces towards the king is the only sensible strategy.
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Terminator Twosome
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Terminator Twosome: Exaggerated in this strip. Someone is visited by their future self, warning them to not watch Terminator: Dark Fate. Then, their other future self appears, this time from a timeline where they regret not watching the movie, convincing the present self to go see it with them. And then the future selves are visited by their future selves, wanting to stop them both. The comic eventually devolves as more and more future selves arrive, including one who wants to kill Hitler but got the year wrong.
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Never My Fault
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Never My Fault: The amateur Chess player in "Think Logically" attributes being beaten by a more experienced player to Chess being a badly-designed game.
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Turing Test
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Turing Test: The examiner is now questioning his own humanity. Doubles as an Alternative Turing Test.
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Tripod Terror
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Tripod Terror: When wind turbines become this, it's up to Don Quixote to save the day.
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Word Purée Title
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Word Purée Title: Explained here.
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Impossibly-Compact Folding
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Impossibly-Compact Folding: The "retractable rocket", which doesn't take off — it just extends itself upwards until it's tall enough to reach the ISSnote  about 250 miles, if you're wondering, then retracts back down again.
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Evolutionary Levels
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Evolutionary Levels: Parodied in "Evolving", which uses a Pokémon style cut scene to show a disease-causing bacterium evolving into a drug-resistant variant.
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Word-Salad Humor
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Word-Salad Humor: Done in "Laser Products."
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Fantasy Keepsake
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Fantasy Keepsake: This deconstruction of a Summon Everyman Hero fantasy — the protagonist has a thank-you gift which proves to him, but wouldn't prove to anyone else, that his adventures in another world were real.
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Rule 34
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Rule 34: If there are no actual Strunk/White erotic fanfictions out there now, there probably will be as a direct result of this comic. Discussed by name. The man in the comic doubts the validity of the rule until he and the woman agrees that the concept of women playing the electric guitar in the shower would be fairly hot.
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Giant Spider
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Giant Spider: While surprisingly literate, they aren't so good at pretending to be human.
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Public Secret Message
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Public Secret Message: This strip makes fun of the public messages in Redwall.
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Animal Athlete Loophole
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Animal Athlete Loophole: There's no rule saying a meerkat can't play rugby! Nor anything in any Terms of Service saying that dogs can't play baseball in the server room. (the Alt Text) You have to be careful when invoking this excuse, since there's also no rule against the other team killing and eating the animal. note Well, technically there actually is a rule that covers it, but taking the intentional foul is probably worth getting the animal off the field. Not to mention the free meat. Sweet 16 plays it straight, exaggerates it, inverts it and parodies it. It shows a final-16 bracket for a basketball tournament, and the teams on the upper left corner are a school team with a dog, a school whose team is entirely dogs, a dog team with one human, and a dog team with one cat.
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: See Call Back.
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: FUCK. THAT. SHIT. MISSION. FUCKING. ACCOMPLISHED.
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Magical Particle Accelerator
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Magical Particle Accelerator: Not surprisingly, Large Hadron Collider. The bored scientists use it to give a helicopter cancer.
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Flock of Wolves
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Flock of Wolves: What are the odds of five Ayn Rand fans being on the same train together?
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Counting Bullets
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Counting Bullets: In a parody of Dirty Harry and Rain Man in this comic.
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Laborious Laziness
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Laborious Laziness: Sometimes optimizing efficiency, automating a task, or figuring out the best approach takes more time and effort than just plowing ahead.
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Sarcasm Mode
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Sarcasm Mode: The television show in this comic ends abruptly as a result of being cancelled. The final panel says, "Try an Internet petition drive — those totally work."
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Overly Long Gag
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Overly Long Gag: On TV Tropes Significant, which even combines this with Overly Pre-Prepared Gag. Expect to burst out laughing several times during #1110. Not from the little tidbits in it, but from scrolling through it and finding you're still scrolling but it's not ending! That or simply stare in awe with mouth agape while thinking about how long that had to have taken to make... Many pages in the What-If blog have these, but this one deserves a special mention, combining this with a constantly returning Brick Joke.
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Dogged Nice Guy
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Dogged Nice Guy: Deconstructed here, with the whole "Nice Guy" situation being played uncharacteristically cynically.
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Megaphone Gag
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Megaphone Gag: Strip #81 "Attention, shopper" (the page image) shows Black Hat holding a golf club and announcing over a megaphone that an expensive car in the parking lot was just smashed by a golf club.
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Would Rather Suffer
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Would Rather Suffer: The Alt Text of "Gen Z" quotes someone expressing a preference for an early death over a lifetime of eating yogurt.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: Too many to fully enumerate. Some examples: A sad shift from something romantic to the complete opposite. "Dark Flow" segues from a Your Mom gag to something rather heartbreaking.
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Marrying the Mark
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Marrying the Mark: Exaggerated when a football player somehow manages to insert an entire fake relationship into a misdirection play — taking the other player all the way to a fake wedding before finally revealing the deception and dashing unimpeded to the end zone while the erstwhile groom looks on in shock.
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Appeal to Familial Wisdom
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Appeal to Familial Wisdom: In "Flies", a character falls back on this only to discover their mother's Proverbial Wisdom was far from infallible.
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I Want My Jet Pack
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I Want My Jetpack: Replace "jetpack" with "flying car" and the trope name's quoted word-for-word. The Alt Text here starts with the trope name, but then Epic Fail happens. 2016 Conversation Guide discusses the trope.
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Cool Sword
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Cool Sword: This strip pokes fun at some of the flavors this trope comes in. For example, the salesman says that a dagger glows blue, but only because it's made from actinium, a radioactive element.
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Scrabble Babble
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Scrabble Babble: In a comic observing Randall's wife surviving cancer for two years, she would beat him in Scrabble by using words like "Zarg", while using the cancer to guilt him into letting her win. The Alt Text suggests that once the cancer drugs kick in, she becomes easy to beat.
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Mouse World
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Mouse World: Those aren't dandelions; they're the field mice's wind turbines.
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Meet Cute
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Meet Cute: A friendship version in "Bug Thread": a friend group apparently decides to reconvene at a beach house weekend after everyone first meets via a five-years-ongoing bug thread. According to the alt text, six more people get added to the group after finding them on the support forum for the beach house rental business.
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To Be Lawful or Good
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To Be Lawful or Good: He chooses lawful.
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Ancient Astronauts
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Ancient Astronauts: Parodied in "Alien Visitors", which plays with the usual trope by having the aliens who would teach humanity to build stone monuments arrive thousands of years too late. "Alien Visitors 2" continues the story of the previous strip by having the aliens recommend technologies that humans have learned to be dangerous, such as a hydrogen blimp and lead gasoline, or inefficient, such as biplanes and Juicero.
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Four-Point Scale
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Four-Point Scale: Strip 1098 explains the trope.
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Parting-Words Regret
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Parting-Words Regret: Discussed in "Leaving".
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Pluto Is Expendable
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Pluto Is Expendable: Refernces several times: In 1551, Pluto's features include a "Debate Hole" where "all the people arguing about Pluto's planet status" will go. The Alt Text proposes an unorthodox solution by reclassifying it as "dwarf Pluto". 1555 tries to make matters even more confusing by assigning the name "Pluto" to an actual planet located in a different solar system. 1020 subverts this trope: the first two panels seem like a typical Pluto controversy, but the third reveal it to be something else entirely. It also has a mention in 473: While strip #1458 doesn't mention Pluto, it seems to be clearly inspired by its reclassification:
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Wrong Song Gag
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Wrong Song Gag: "Important Life Lesson" warns against leaving your music library running on shuffle while making love. While a couple is going at it in bed, one of their phones suddenly blares out "GO GO POWER RANGERS!"
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The Masochism Tango
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The Masochism Tango: Black Hat Guy and his girlfriend. He blew up her car, for Chrissakes. By moving the mines she had set up to blow up his car. She stole his hat. He likes his hat.
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Know Your Vines
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Know Your Vines: In this comic the narrator uses vines to tie up their girlfriend for bondage. They weren't aware they were using poison ivy for this purpose. This strains their relationship.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: As said by Michael Phelps when the boxes of Jell-o mix get wheeled in while he's swimming. December 25th Launch has ground control prepare for a rocket to launch, only for Santa to come into range. Cue an "Oh no." from one of the personnel.
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Has Two Thumbs and...
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Has Two Thumbs and...: Used in the Alt Text for Things You Learn.
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Terrible Ticking
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Terrible Ticking: The comic The Tell-Tale Beat parodies The Tell-Tale Heart, in which the murder victim hidden beneath the floorboards is Daft Punk, and Cueball is driven to insanity by the constant background noise of their synth beats.
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Expert in Underwater Basket Weaving
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Expert in Underwater Basket Weaving: "Every Major's Terrible" is a Take That! to nearly every academic major for training students to have completely useless skills and knowledge. The only one not insulted is engineering.
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
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Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: "Comic Fragment". God knows how it all fits together, but it sounds great. Examined further in "Trochee Fixation."
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Xtreme Kool Letterz
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Xtreme Kool Letterz: Illustrated in Car Model Names. Note that X and Z are the top two. Life Goals collects a whole list of these. The Alt Text lampshades the comic title using this trope.
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Unsound Effect
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Unsound Effect: Draw. Make make. Scoop. Pour. Tie. Rumble. Boom. Crack. Fuse. Follow. Detach. Open. Remove. Admire. Examine. Grind. Set. Approve. Give. "Touch." "Park."
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FillerStrip
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Filler Strip: Parodied.
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Person with the Clothing
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Person with the Clothing: Black Hat Guy.
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Viewer Pronunciation Confusion
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Viewer Pronunciation Confusion: In-Universe example in "Pronunciation", in which each letter in the word "Tuesday" is explained as being pronounced the same as in another word... which can, in each case, have two different pronunciations, depending on meaning.
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Be Careful What You Wish For
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Be Careful What You Wish For: In Tower of Babel, the Biblical story goes a bit differently — God is very impressed with the achievement, and offers to give humanity a reward. It so happens that one of the people on top of the tower is a linguist who'd like more languages to study and, well...
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Convection, Schmonvection
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Convection, Schmonvection: Floor shows a game of "The floor is lava" taken way too seriously, disregarding the fact that the players would've died very early on if the floor was actually lava.
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I Ate WHAT?!
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I Ate WHAT?!: In "Capri Suns", a bag of IV fluid is consumed like a Capri Sun. The saltiness of the "drink" was brought up. The alt text suggests that the doctors called for security after noticing the scene.
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Kid Hero All Grown-Up
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Kid Hero All Grown-Up: In this strip. Kid hero goes to another dimension, saves a kingdom, and now has to live with that knowledge for the rest of his life here on boring ol' Earth.
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Loophole Abuse
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Loophole Abuse: "There's no rule on the books saying a meerkat can't play rugby." Though, according to the Alt Text, there are rules against gorillas and golden retrievers. In one of Black Hat's schemes, he takes the observation that standard internet server racks and beehive frames are both 19 inches and have similar pitches and runs with it, noting that most web hosting TOSes*Terms of Service don't mention beehives in what's not allowed. The Alt Text calls back to the example listed above, noting that most TOSes also don't prevent dogs from playing baseball in the server facility. Played With in #1593, where Beret Guy seems to believe that stealing a base in baseball is loophole abuse. His reaction is, "Everyone's real mad but I guess they checked the rules and there's nothing that says he can't do that."
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Earth All Along
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Earth All Along: The "Time" comic, which updated once an hour for just over four months after posting, is set in some strange world where the inhabitants don't seem to know things that are common knowledge among humans, like how rivers work and why birds chirp. The reveal eventually showed that it's actually set in the distant future of what was once (and will soon become again) the Mediterranean Sea.
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Enhance Button
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Enhance Button: Superzoom
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Stupid Question Bait
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Stupid Question Bait: A press conference about an asteroid heading towards Earth gets sidetracked by reporters asking about what role Social Media has played. "Minnesota" has Cueball's boss ask if anyone has any concerns about their meeting. Cueball responds that he's concerned about geophysics causing Minnesota to shrink less than an inch per year. His boss has to clarify and ask if anyone has concerns specifically about the meeting.
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Droste Image
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Droste Image: This. And that - possibly the world's first truly infinite one.
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Super Zeroes
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Super Zeroes: Etymology-Man, seen in these strips, whose superpower is to explain the etymology of various words and nothing else. This strip is about a version of Superman where the adjective "super" is intended to be just as impressive as it is in the astronomical term "supermoon", meaning not very.
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Epic Fail
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Epic Fail: Best explified in this comic about NASA's New Horizons probe to Pluto, which a comic shows suddenly photographing Earth.
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Take That!
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With some exceptions, like the one against homeopathy, the Take Thats are usually intended to be in jest. Occasionally the comic doesn't make this entirely clear; notably, the one against anthropology majors was so widely seen as a serious insult to the field that the author later issued an apology for it, as noted above under Incredibly Lame Pun.
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Too Dumb to Live
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Too Dumb to Live: In this comic, a girl runs up to a man named Rob and tells him:
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Author Filibuster
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Author Filibuster: Quite a few on DRM, for example here. Eventually lampshaded here and here. This one provides a similar counterpoint, though it's not exactly a lampshade.
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A Degree in Useless
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A Degree in Useless: According to the Alt Text here, anthropology. As it turns out, it's impossible for experts in literary criticism to spot our impostors in their field. Every Major's Terrible bashes on almost every academic major in the form of a song.
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Touché
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Touché: When Black Hat goes to confront Danish, she blows up the mines she planted under his car. Black Hat had already found the mines and put them in her garage. Her response: "Touché".
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"Stop Having Fun" Guys: Trope Namer. This strip shows a guy deriding a few people playing Rock Band, telling them it doesn't make them cool ... even though they're having fun. invoked
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Hypocritical Humor
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Hypocritical Humor: In "Sheeple", someone on public transit looks at four other people and mentally criticizes them for not thinking about things, holding themselves up as the only conscious person in a world where everyone else is mindless. The joke is that all five of the characters are thinking the exact same thing about the other four.
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!
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Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Likened to a person trying to hold many balloons (a metaphor for tasks) in ADD.
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Logical Fallacies
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Logical Fallacies: An intentional example in "Extrapolation." Lampshaded here, in the "Principle of Explosion" comic.
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False Dichotomy
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False Dichotomy: Deconstructed in "Charity". Megan forces a choice between buying games and donating to charity, hoping it'll convince Cueball to donate the money he was planning to spend on a game he wanted, but this instead convinces Cueball to use the money he was planning on donating to buy a second game. Parodied in the appropriately-named "False Dichotomy", which provides a sillier and more meta example.
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Demand Overload
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Demand Overload: In universe. In an strip, a web site announcing the winner of the Compulsive Phone-Checking Championship crashes as a result of all the people checking to see if they won.
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Slow-Loading Internet Image
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Slow-Loading Internet Image: Discussed in this comic.
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Must Be Invited
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Must Be Invited: In the Alt Text of this strip, COVID social distancing practices are likened to the myth that vampires need to be invited into a house. In this case, just because you invite a vampire in, doesn't mean they're going to step foot inside your "haunted plague box". In what might be a Call-Back, this strip has the female character conflate public health rules with common courtesy by claiming that now that she's vaccinated against COVID-19, she can visit a stranger's house freely. Her confusion continues in the Alt Text when the homeowner objects, and she thinks they've mistaken her for a vampire that needs an explicit invitation.
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A Good Name for a Rock Band
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A Good Name for a Rock Band: Megan mentions that raccoons have gotten into her attic and started a "raccoon sex dungeon"; Cueball responds by stating it would make for a good Tumblr URL, with the subtitle mentioning that doing so has been steadily replacing how often he states that a phrase in question "would be a good name for a band". (Inverted in the Alt Text: "Dot Tumblr Dot Com" would not make A Good Name for a Rock Band, due to potential confusion about its website.) Also Inverted in this strip; the comic posits that "Hedgeclipper" is the worst name for a rock band. The Alt Text of this strip features a double whammy, part of which is a callback to an earlier strip.
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Gift Shake
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Gift Shake: Strip 1151 has a variation, where Megan soaks her presents first in purple dye and then in pink — a procedure used in biological research to sort bacteria into one of two primary types, gram-positive and -negative, based on whether their cells walls bond with the purple dye or not — and announces that none of the presents are gram-negative. Cueball remarks that he wishes she hadn't opened the home biology kit first.
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Parodic Table of the Elements
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Parodic Table of the Elements: Noting that periodic tables become outdated as new elements are discovered, Randall brings us one from half an hour after the Big Bang, which features only the four elements that existed at the time.note  No, not earth, air, fire and water.
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Glass-Shattering Sound
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Glass-Shattering Sound: Attempted. In Megan's attempt to break glass with her voice, she accidentally turns the water inside into blood.
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Coincidental Accidental Disguise
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Coincidental Accidental Disguise: Apparently, having acne on half your face and flipping a coin is enough to fool Batman.
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School Grade Hacking
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School Grade Hacking: Final Exam features the exam proctor informing that all their students failed, then describing how their failing marks are stored in a within-reach database and will be submitted the following morning, as if Tempting Fate for them to change it themselves. Since the subtitle says this is for a cybersecurity course, the trope is Played With for the implication that hacking the database to alter grades isn't cheating, but the intended solution.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: Mission. FUCKING. Accomplished! Also: What a goshdarned CUNT Cueball and friends try to come up with a word to fill the Kix slogan "Kid Tested, Mother...". Among their failed attempts is "Fucker".
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: This comic points this out, specifically with regards to zombie movies that start in labs.
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Mind Screw
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Mind Screw: Here. Just so you understand how weird this is, the guy on the right is talking to the past, and it's talking back. This strip starts out fairly normal. Then the whole world falls apart all of a sudden. The small print about "the algorithm" on the home page might also qualify as either an example or a parody: The story behind that is as follows: In 2007, some billboards popped up in New York with those sentences on them, as part of an apparent viral marketing campaign by ask.com. However, they apparently didn't finish it; the phrases didn't return anything relevant on Google. Randall decided to exploit this by having the many bloggers in his fanbase post the sentences as links to xkcd.com. He added them to the site itself so that the effort wouldn't be misinterpreted as an attempted Googlebomb. It worked; if you Google the phrases, the top results are all references to xkcd. "Perhaps this could change your mind?" It's like something straight out of The Twilight Zone.
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Really Gets Around
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Really Gets Around: In Experimentation, the woman does her lesbian experimentation scientifically, by making a hypothesis and doing experiments, or in this case having sexual encounters on men and women. She apparently has done this to the entire sophomore class, as seen in the title text.
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When All You Have Is a Hammer…
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When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Parodied.
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Loud of War
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Loud of War: Several strips have featured inventive audio revenge on loud car stereos and neighbours who are loud in bed.
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Winged Soul Flies Off at Death
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Winged Soul Flies Off at Death: Merging this trope with Painting the Medium and Rule of Symbolism. Pareidolia at its best. R.I.P. John Horton Conway, who invented Game Of Life.
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Soda-Candy 'Splosion
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Soda-Candy 'Splosion #346 has someone seemingly demonstrating the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment to their friend, deeming it "the coolest thing" and telling them to "give it a moment". It causes said friend's father to magically come back (either from death or abandonment). #1053, which is about not making fun of people for not knowing things, notes that on average, around 10,000 hear about something for the first time. The second panel has Megan not know what the "Diet Coke and Mentos thing" is, causing Cueball to gesture her to come with him to the grocery store, deeming her "one of today's lucky 10,000".
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Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?
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Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: In "Exploits of a Mom", a woman is called out for not only giving her son a ridiculous name but also for deleting the school's student records with SQL injection.
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Chicken Joke
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Chicken Joke: The Alt Text of this strip, shows how the character who overexplains everything might tell the joke:
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Car Fu
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Car Fu: Actually Submarine Fu: Black Hat Guy recovers his hat from his Love Interest in this strip by crashing a Russian nuclear submarine through the ice she's skating on.
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Kangaroos Represent Australia
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Kangaroos Represent Australia: A not-so-subtle instance in Thing Explainer. In a map of the Earth, Australia is simply labeled "Big Animals with Pockets."
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Let's See YOU Do Better!
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Let's See YOU Do Better!: "Long Light" has a driver complaining about a long red light, and the engineer who designed the intersection jumps onto his car telling him how hard it was to work out the light timings with the nearby intersections to prevent a total traffic jam, but obviously the driver must have a better plan for the lights than him. The punch line is that the red light won't change until Tuesday, meaning the engineer has royally screwed up.
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Insane Troll Logic
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Insane Troll Logic: All over the place: "Just talk to them like a fucking human being." "Nah, that's a sucker's game!" Face it—I'm your statistically significant other. "Why are you carrying a chin-up bar?" ... "I'm not really a not-carrying-a-chin-up-bar person."
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Relationship Labeling Problems
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Relationship Labeling Problems: In "Couple", Megan and Cueball discuss whether their fling the night before qualifies as a Relationship Upgrade.
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Retro Rocket
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Retro Rocket: The spaceship in this strip looks like a potato with fins.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Many, but of particular note is this one. It gets worse. Click the comic itself. Earlier than that, we have "In Popular Culture". It's very subtle, but take a look at the works listed as examples. Any of them look familiar? This also parodies People Sit on Chairs, showing The Other Wiki featuring various works containing wood with no narrative purpose. Calvin and Hobbes say Hi. And again (this one also contains Shout Outs to Rocky and Bullwinkle and The Lord of the Rings). In the first "1337" comic, one character poses the question, "How does she type with oven mitts on?" This is a reference to a frequently asked question on Homestar Runner's Strong Bad emails, and possibly also a reference to his "training gloves" in the site's "In Search of the Yello Dello" toon. The final "1337" comic has the line "You'd make a great dread pirate, Roberts." Several comics reference Ender's Game. The Alt Text on this one is a reference to an obscure detail in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. House of Pancakes is House of Leaves meets International House of Pancakes. Strip 574 "Swine Flu": Hannelore's twitter account is one of the tweeters. It also has someone asking how long it'll take the flu to reach Madagascar. "Craigslist Apartments" has a few notable addresses, including one house on scenic Ash Tree Lane. Strip Games. See the Alt Text? Right. Black Hat is based on Aram from Men in Hats in many ways. Douglas Hofstadter and his recursiveness. Jason Fox makes a cameo appearance in this strip. The Alt Text of this strip is "We have met the enemy and he is us". Gravity Wells has a couple of things in Titan going "weeoooeeooo". Click and Drag: The falling whale is a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A Creeper can be found in one of the caves, chasing someone with a pickaxe. A part of the scenery is the classic world 1-1 of Super Mario Bros.. Two X-wings can be spotted, one taking off from a cave and one in the sky. In one spot of the map, a woman can be seen ignoring her friend's warning and going into the tall grass, saying "Pikachu, I choose death -- and with it, immortality." Hey! you're doing science. And you're still alive Big Brother realizes he's trapped in the worst possible hell... One of the contenders for the awful ringtone championship was "That noise from Dumb and Dumber." The Alt Text for this strip references the Helvetica Scenario. While the entirety of Wait Wait is a reference to the news quiz Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! if you look closely, one of the articles also quotes Peter Sagal as saying "I aten't dead." This strip has some suspiciously familiar file extensions strung together in the bottom line. In the "Jurassic World" strip, apart from the obvious reference to Jurassic World, the punchline is that the reconstructed dinosaur is T-Rex from Dinosaur Comics (and as a bonus, he's depicted in the same pose he always stands in when delivering a punchline). To The Lion King (1994) here. Hoverboard is loaded with Star Wars references (probably because of the upcoming release of The Force Awakens). There's also more well-hidden references to Star Trek, The Ring, Steven Universe, Hamlet, Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias", Prince of Persia, and more. It's Click and Drag all over again... Centrifugal Force mixes the most famous scene in Goldfinger with a classic physics debate. This one is a very dark shoutout to Car Talk. In #1665, a guy suggests a new image for a Wikipedia city page. Another guy points out that the proposed image is a screenshot of Zootopia. The "British Map labeled by an American" has lots of these, including "Everdeen" and "FHQWGADS" This one references The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The VKCouplesTesting site is a reference to the Voight-Kampff Test. The Alt Text for "Aspect Ratio" mentions Randall mistaking "Anamorphic widescreen" for a widescreen Animorphs movie. The Alt Text in "Old Files" mentions him finding a file named ANIMORPHS-NOVEL.RTF (presumably a fanfic), and quietly deleting it in shame. "Manual for Civilization" is about a collection of books to rebuild civilization. It's nothing but Animorphs books. "Incognito Mode" has a woman (possibly Rachel, since she has blonde hair) warning Cueball to never stay in incognito mode longer than 2 hours. The title text mentions morphing into apples to infiltrate Apple (the company). The title text for "Ears" hypothesizes that people whose earbuds don't fall out must have a Yeerk in their head holding the earbuds for them. What If? 2 Gift Guide shouts out Hemingway's Six-Word Story in its title text, suggesting the gift of baby shoes for people who like babies or literature, but not both, as reference to the story's loose implication that the shoes are only being given because a baby died. The alt text for "Trash Compactor Party" is "What an incredible smell you've discovered."
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Description Cut
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Description Cut: Surely Nathan Fillion has better things to do these days than pretend to be Mal Reynolds. Meanwhile, wearing a brown coat, "Name's Captain Reynolds, ma'am." *ahem* "Name's Captain Reynolds, ma'am." Made even funnier by a certain episode of Castle
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The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday
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The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: "Startup Opportunity" ponders the idea of disrupting the industry of these kinds of shops. Also, Beret Guy says he gets his groceries from them. In this strip, Beret Guy believes he bought a cursed desk chair from one of these, as the place was boarded up when he tried to return it. When Cueball points out that a lot of shops are currently boarded up due to coronavirus, Beret Guy becomes convinced that the curse must have caused the virus, and he can end the pandemic by destroying the chair. "Curbside" has Beret Guy contacting the shop about getting an amulet to fight ghosts, and some groceries. However, he changes his mind after they explain they don't do curbside pickup, and he's not willing to take the risk.
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ComedicSociopath
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Comedic Sociopath: Black Hat Guy. In one comic, he says that his pastimes include feeding rocks to children in the park and poking tiny holes in styrofoam noodle cups at the grocery store, and describes himself as a classy asshole, or a "classhole".
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Retirony
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Retirony: This strip shows an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to defy the trope, with an officer dying the day before his last day on the job, when the department locks retiring officers into a heavily protected room for that day.
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Ontological Mystery
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Ontological Mystery: #505 starts with this, and then puts another layer on top.
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"London, England" Syndrome
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"London, England" Syndrome: Poked fun at in "No, The Other One", which showcases a map of American cities and towns that have the same names as their much more well-known counterparts.
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Bitter Wedding Speech
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Bitter Wedding Speech: This comic initially appears to be about Cueball falling in love with Megan, but as the text continues it starts to get weirdly bitter about their marriage. And then the final line ("hey, man, you asked me to do a toast.") indicates that it's one of Megan's exes giving the speech to spite Cueball.
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Self-Deprecation
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Self-Deprecation: Physicists is about physics students (annoyingly) stating that a problem is actually easy to solve provided that they have a simplified model. Randall has a degree in physics, which might have inspired him to make this comic. The hipster graph notes that the graph itself is "making it all worse."
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Age-Gap Algebra
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Age-Gap Algebra: Dating Pools focuses on the "half your age plus seven" rule, which says that it is creepy to date anyone who is half your age plus 7 years.
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Formula for the Unformulable
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Formula for the Unformulable: In cartoon "Useless", the author has tried to calculate the square root, cosine, derivative, and various increasingly complex mathematical operations on a love heart, and concluded that "My normal approach is useless here."
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Comic Sutra
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Comic Sutra: This strip, which illustrates sex positions as numbers but gets increasingly weirder as it goes along. Also seen here, apparently as a result of mistranslations of the original Kama Sutra text.
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Love Allegory
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Love Allegory: Katamari. Also, "Our love is like a Brontosaurus."
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Cloudcuckoolander
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Cloudcuckoolander: Apparently, Summer Glau: The Beret Guy can count as one as well. He once asked a politician a question and rephrased his way to a request for the politician to see his bug. And maybe Randall himself...
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Rain of Arrows
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Rain of Arrows: In the title text of Agincourt Gambit, "↘↘↘" after the chess moves may be interpreted as a rain of arrows. The comic is an analogue of the Battle of Agincourt in The Hundred Years War, where the English, with their longbows, won against the French.
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Lame Pun Reaction
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Lame Pun Reaction: #2312:
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Rule #1
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Rule #1: The first rule of the tautology club is first rule of the tautology club.
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Soul-Crushing Desk Job
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Soul-Crushing Desk Job: The strip "Academia vs. Business" contrasts academia and business with their reaction to solving a seemingly impossible programming problem; the professor is amazed and sees this as a revolution in queuing theory, the boss just gives the programmer another issue that is insultingly easy in comparison.
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Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
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Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act: Black Hat Guy uses a one-time-only time machine to go back and kill Hitler, at his friend's insistence. Only he did it in 1945, in the bunker, which is when and where Hitler actually died. Beret Guy also travels through time to kill Hitler. He finds it easier than expected because he traveled forward in time by hiding in a time capsule. In this strip, one of the main character's future selves traveled back in time to kill Hitler, but they got the year way off, traveling to the present day instead of the 1900's.
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Serial Escalation
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Serial Escalation: There are poster sized comics. There's one or two wall sized comics. But #1110 is so big it probably wouldn't fit on the floor of a passenger jet hangar. It's 165888 pixels wide by 79872 pixels high (roughly 46'/12m wide by 22'/6m tall at 300DPI). The stick figures are about half an inch tall in a world that is to them 5 miles across. Trying to find everything in it is likely to take at least half an hour.
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Science. It works, bitches.
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Golden Mean Fallacy
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Golden Mean Fallacy: Played for laughs here, in which Cueball tries to propose to 9/11 conspiracy theorists a compromise between their beliefs and what is commonly believed: the government plotted to crash one plane into the towers, while terrorists actually did crash the second plane. The Alt Text explicitly states: "I believe the truth always lies halfway between the most extreme claims." "Daylight Saving Choice" has the apparent resolution between people liking/hating daylight saving time: everyone who likes it should use it, and everyone who hates it shouldn't. Of course, since Black Hat is the one announcing it, you can assume this solution will cause maximum chaos: if everyone's using their own preference of daylight saving time or not, then that makes coordinating time way harder since nobody can agree on what time is when. This comic has Megan and Cueball arguing over whether the Earth orbits the sun or vice versa. White Hat suggests that both orbit around a common center (he's correct, as the whole solar system orbits the center of the milky way). The joke is that accidentally being right this way is extremely annoying, with the Alt Text joke compounding this (light isn't a wave or particle, but both at the same time).
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Nightmare Fuel
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Nightmare Fuel: Velociraptors, In-Universe.
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Porn Names
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Porn Names: Discussed here.
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One-Word Title
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One-Word Title: Although whether or not "xkcd" is a word is a matter of opinion.
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Mundane Made Awesome
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Mundane Made Awesome: In the xkcd-Verse, computer science is revered as if it were a martial art. The 1337 story arc is a good example. Making a sandwich! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!
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Cue O'Clock
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Cue O'Clock: There's a wristwatch with Zeppelin O'Clock where the 12 usually goes.
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Patchwork Map
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Patchwork Map: In "Geography", Randall states that he wants to live on an example map of geography books.
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Schmuck Bait
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Schmuck Bait: "Jeffrey is famous as the picture on the Wikipedia article on 'Necrosis'." Although that article doesn't have the image anymore, it's still present in articles such as 'Loxoscelism'...
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Spaceship Slingshot Stunt
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Spaceship Slingshot Stunt: "Six Words" has one planned.
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Hoist by His Own Petard: "I just caught myself idly trying to work out what that resistor mass would actually be, and realized I had self-nerd-sniped." In-Universe, the strip just before that one.
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Tower of Babel
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Tower of Babel: Played with in this strip, also titled "Tower of Babel". God is actually impressed by the tower, and decides to reward humanity with an abundance of one specific thing they want. Unfortunately, one of the people to reach the top is a linguist.
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Blasphemous Boast
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Margaret makes a Blasphemous Boast to threaten God here.
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Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup
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Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup: This strip posits that Iceland was designed by a committee that was trying to satisfy everyone.
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The Operators Must Be Crazy
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The Operators Must Be Crazy: #1438 posits what would happen if mission control acted like indifferent telephone service operators during the Apollo 13 disaster; the operator doesn't care about their emergency, makes snarky comments when they try to explain their plight, and brushes them off in favor of a call from his mother.
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The Unpronounceable
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The Unpronounceable: U+202e.
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There Are No Girls on the Internet
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There Are No Girls on the Internet: This strip addresses the author's theories about the reason for that.
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Weird Currency
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Weird Currency: In this strip, a news report announces the collapse of the dollar, and that the new currency will be the number of funny pictures saved to your computer.
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight: "It's like, you know the giant spider downtown that sits on the buildings and sometimes eats cars?"..."I've been meaning to ask, what's with that spider?"
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Drunken Master
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Drunken Master: The "Ballmer's Peak" shows that you will exhibit superhuman programming powers if you have drunk a specific amount of alcohol.
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Boggles the Mind
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Boggles the Mind: "Scrabble"; on the prevalence of dirty words you find when playing family games.
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It's Been Done
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It's Been Done: In "Washing Machine Settings", Cueball muses about the exact meaning of the settings on his washing machine and comes up with an idea for a website where people document all this stuff for reference. As the caption points out, the instruction manual should already have that covered.
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A God Am I
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A God Am I: 676: The result of realizing how much computing power is available to the average person. 505: Speculating that a deity might be creating the universe out of boredom.
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Start My Own
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Start My Own: In Standards, two of the characters create a single unifying standard for the fourteen other (competing) standards. Instead of helping anything, there are now just 15 competing standards. In Honor Societies, Cueball creates tautology club when he finds out it doesn't already exist.
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Number Obsession
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Number Obsession: One specific example is the narrator of the strip "Alone" who describes himself as feeling distant from most people because he's always abstracting numbers and patterns, and falls in love with a woman because the pattern of her touches is the Fibonacci sequence.
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Global Ignorance
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Global Ignorance: 850: "World according to Americans" actually subverts this. Whoever made the map was expecting them to fail horrendously, but instead just so happened to choose a group of Americans that just came out of a geography bee, according to the alt text, and as such they were able to mark down an imperfect but generally accurate map of the world.
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What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
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What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: "Wrong Superhero", where all Etymology-Man could do was to explain the etymology of the name of the superhero the people fighting the giant mantises should have summoned instead.
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Tradesnarkâ„¢
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Tradesnarkâ„¢: In this comic's alt text after the spambot is found out: This comic's Alt Text, about the downside of reading "according to a PDF" in the news.
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Apophenia Plot
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Apophenia Plot: In "Puzzles", a bunch of child adventurers are looking for their aunt's hidden amulet. One of them notes that the aunt's name (Gertrude) starts with G, as does "ground", and thus concludes that the amulet is buried. Obviously, it makes no sense for Aunt Gertrude to bury her stuff just because she goes by a name that starts with the letter G.
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Silly Will
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Silly Will: "Dying Gift" is about a dying man who pranks his loved ones by bequeathing them ridiculous things that will be as difficult as possible to put into storage.
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Rage Quit
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Rage Quit: Vaccine Guidance, when a CDC official on a teleconference is asked all sorts of idiotic questions from the other participants, prompting the official to end the call.
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Distant Reaction Shot
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Distant Reaction Shot: In Tuesdays, Beret Guy's wings grow to the diameter of the earth.
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Triple Shifter
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Triple Shifter: In this strip, one of the characters proposes a sleep schedule that allocates 28 hour days, as the other person has a flexible work schedule. The Alt Text notes that actually attempting this will cause the individual to go insane.
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Deathbringer the Adorable
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Deathbringer the Adorable: This chart plots out scary names based on how scary the name is, and how scary the thing itself is. "Chernobyl Packet" and "Bomb Calorimeter" are considered this, while "Soil Liquefaction" and "Grey Goo" are cases of Fluffy the Terrible. "Flesh-Eating Bacteria" is in the corner for Names to Run Away from Really Fast.
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Office Sports
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Office Sports: What programmers get up to while their code's compiling.
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Newhart Phonecall
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Newhart Phonecall: This one. Lampshaded by the Alt Text.
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Literal-Minded
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Literal-Minded: "Shake what your mama gave you!" This prompts Megan not to keep dancing, but to go home and handle a gift from her mother very vigorously. In Cuisine, Cueball prepares some fusion cuisine. No, not mixing multiple cultures' techniques to create food; he's using heavy water to create nuclear fusion.
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Quip to Black
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Quip to Black: Here. (The CSI meme version.)
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No Man of Woman Born
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No Man of Woman Born: No man can kill him. Well, Gnome Ann can.
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Godwin's Law
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Godwin's Law: Referenced and parodied in this strip. Also, the suggested a screen consisting entirely of Hitler's face with flashing eyes would be preferable to Vista. Done in the Alt Text of this strip. In "Every Major's Terrible" the singer compares choosing an academic major to Sophie's Choice.
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Art Evolution
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Art Evolution: Lines in the strips become clearer after the first few hundred strips. Colored comics also decrease in frequency after that point.
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Zonk
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Zonk: The beret guy appears on a nameless game show based on the classic two-goats-and-a-car problem and wins a goat. Instead of going for the car, he takes the goat and says he has an overgrown yard.
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Determinator
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Determinator: "He just reconnected the cables we cut, muttering something about "uptime." Not even being frozen in Antarctic ice is enough to keep Napoleon down.
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Flanderization
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Flanderization: #2832 is dedicated to a "typical urban planning opinion progression" regarding car-centric land development as opposed to cycling-centric development. It starts out with various characters having car-centric views and/or inexperience with the topic,note "I wish there wasn't so much traffic to get into the city. They should put in more lanes", then developing conclusions that car-centricism is self-defeating and unsustainable.note "Widening roads to speed up traffic makes them more dangerous to walk near, making walking more dangerous and creating more traffic." From that, the progression starts to devolve from reasonable conclusions against car-centricism to car-hating craziness, punctuated with Black-and-White Insanity by pitting drivers against everyone else, patriotic fervor for the bicycle-friendly Netherlands from a person who isn't a native Nederlander, and suggestions for city council to scatter tire spikes onto roads.
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Suspiciously Specific Denial
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: In the Jet Lag strip, the character is having trouble staying awake because of jet lag. That's what it is. He definitely didn't spend half the night reading Wikipedia.
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Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder
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Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Exaggerated in 57: Wait For Me, where in the 90 seconds Megan was gone, Cueball had a baby with another woman, and the baby grew to about Megan's age.
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Something Person
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Something Person: Etymology-man!
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Old Shame
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Old Shame: In-Universe In Old Files, Cueball has this reaction to looking through his high school work and discovering he wrote poetry. The Alt Text has him finding an Animorphs fanfic and quickly deleting it.
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It Meant Something to Me
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It Meant Something to Me: The spambot.
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Space Whale Aesop
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Space Whale Aesop: This is what happens when you use GOTO.
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Steven Ulysses Perhero
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Steven Ulysses Perhero: Lampooned here with athlete's names; Randall mentions three real names (Margaret Court, a tennis player; Gary Player, a golf player; and Lonzo Ball, a basketball player), and then mentions a few other names like Jake Halfpipe, Dwight Shuttlecock and Kate Dopingscandal. The Alt Text mentions how Usain Bolt will be superseded in popularity by Derek Legs in the 2090s.
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PlayedWith
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Played With in #1593, where Beret Guy seems to believe that stealing a base in baseball is loophole abuse. His reaction is, "Everyone's real mad but I guess they checked the rules and there's nothing that says he can't do that."
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Kill It with Water
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Kill It with Water: FIRST Design has Cueball and Megan build bots for the FIRST Robotics Competition that exploit this: one of them has a telescoping arm with a lighter attached that sets off the fire sprinklers. This deactivates the opponent's robots, which enables Cueball and Megan's second robot (a normal bot that has a parasol attached) to score its soccer balls into the goal unimpeded.
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In the Style of
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In the Style of: Many of his parodies fit this trope a little closer.
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Space Travel Veto
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Space Travel Veto: The work often throws shade at this trope and its real-life adherents. In "Realistic Criteria", quoted above, White Hat argues that we need to solve all our problems on Earth before we can afford to go to space. Cueball sarcastically asks how long it will take to "solve all problems", the implication being that it will never happen even if we don't got to space. The Alt Text for "65 Years" points out the inevitable outcome of such a sentiment: human extinction.
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Exact Words
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Exact Words: A Feature Comparison of various communication services advertises that the Cybiko® Wireless Handheld Computer for Teens (2000) has wireless message delivery without internet, which only SMS also has. This is true... but only because the Cybiko communicates with radio, and so the "advantage" it has means that you can't message anyone who's too far away, a problem that none of the other services have.
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Bookcase Passage
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Bookcase Passage: "Bookshelf"; one that activates when you tug on the copy of Atlas Shrugged, though all it does is tell you that you have terrible taste.
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All Just a Dream
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All Just a Dream: In Tech Support, Cueball is given the chance to ask a tech-savvy person for help if he speaks a secret word on the phone, which could help him on tech support. It is revealed, however, to be a dream. "Like This One" has Cueball and Megan talk to a researcher who is studying "gas molecules, like this one" as she gestures around them. The comic suggests languages, social interactions, gravitational fields, and sound waves as normal things for a researcher to say "like this one" to point out when inquired about their specialization; the Alt Text, on the other hand, points out how the phrase "I'm a neurologist studying dreams, like this one" would immediately shift the tone of the conversation.
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April Fools' Day
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April Fools' Day: xkcd has an April Fools related comic or event almost every year. 2008 sees the infamous #404 "strip"; xkcd famously skipped #404 and went from #403 to #405, and thus attempting to look up a #404 XKCD comic yields a standard Page Not Found error, although this is treated as if it was its own strip. For 2010, they changed the layout so that you navigate through the comics with a text interface. If you typed in 'cat' with no arguments, you'd get a line of text that reads "You're a kitty!" There were a lot of Easter Eggs hidden in there. 'make me a sandwich'/'sudo make me a sandwich', emacs, MUD Shout-Out jokes (type "look", or "go south"), the Konami Code... the list goes on. For 2011, all of XKCD's comics are in 3D. This is also still findable. Doubles as a Hypocritical Humor given the actual strip posted on the same day. 2012's "Umwelt" which becomes completely different comics on different web browsers or operating systems (with at least four different variations in Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera), and sometimes even changes due to your physical location on Earth. One appeared only to people who signed up to see Randall's talk at CNU. 2013's "Externalities" is bundled with a competition for university students to break a Skein hash, and also an appeal to donate to the Wikimedia foundation. The comic's panels constantly changes as students attempt to break the hash and donate to Wikimedia, among other things. Unfortunately, the comic seems to have broke as of 2019, showing only a blank page when viewed. 2014's "Lorenz" is an interactive short choose-your-own-adventure comic. At one point, readers were even able to suggest their own lines for the story. The title was in honor of Edward Norton Lorenz, the mathematician who founded the modern chaos theory. 2015's "XKCloud" is another interactive comic, where the character in the comic admits to have lost all their data thanks to a flimsy cloud setup and asks readers to help them combine which images go to which pictures and vice versa. Readers were even able to submit their own drawings or text. 2016's "Garden" is a gardening simulator game. You start off with a light, and if you wait for long enough, plants will grow. You can add more lights or even change the lights' colors and an assortment of other things besides plants will pop out of the ground. 2018's "Right Click" encourages readers to right click on the comic to save the full image. However, right clicking on the image would give an utterly nonsensical right click prompt, full of secrets, jokes, games, endless nesting, and references to past XKCD comics.note The full image can actually be saved, it just takes a ton of digging. 2019's "Emojidome" pits hundreds of emojis against each other by viewer voting. In the end, the two winners are the Milky Way emoji (🌌) at #1 and the Hedgehog emoji (🦔) at #2, which were featured in the final comic image. 2020's "Collector's Edition" sends readers on a scavenger hunt for items scattered through other XKCD comic pages, and encourages them to bring them over back to the "Collector's Edition" page and put them there to showcase them. 2021's "Checkbox" shows only a single checkbox, which clears itself when checked. An unmute button is also provided. Readers can input messages on the checkbox in Morse code, by timing the presses on the checkbox. In return, should the unmute button is clicked beforehand, the checkbox will reply back to them, also in Morse code. This is the first of the only two XKCD comics with audio, which is followed by... 2022's "Instructions", which isn't really a comic so much as it is a 9-hour long audio file. The audio is a mix of random facts about turtles and a detailed series of coding instructions for the programming language LOGO. When executed, the program will draw the actual comic◊.
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Anti-Advice
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Anti-Advice: According to New Products, products that are criticized by techies achieve great success, and those that are hyped eventually flop.
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Crossover
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Crossover: xkcd teams up with MinutePhysics to show you how to go to space using the ten hundred words used the most. And there are also In-Universe crossovers: HAL replaces Dave with someone who's more devoted to the whole science thing. Asteroid - also huge Mood Whiplash.
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Big Electric Switch
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Big Electric Switch: In Time Machine, the time machine looks like some kind of vending machine with a Big Electric Switch on the front.
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Jerkass
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Black Hat is based on Aram from Men in Hats in many ways.
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Giving Up on Logic
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Giving Up on Logic: Computer problems make a character pretty much drop the trope name here. (Not a Trope Namer though, as the trope existed for years before that comic.)
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Defied Trope
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Defied in "Math Paper", when the professors at Cueball's presentation catch on to the fact that his paper is a Feghoot for an "imaginary friends" pun and revoke his math license.
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Information Wants to Be Free
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Information Wants to Be Free: With a mythological twist.
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Space Elevator
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Space Elevator: After countless engineers / spend trillions over fifty years, / a modern Babel disappears / because some fuck brought pruning shears.
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Geeky Turn-On
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Geeky Turn-On: Frequent, though with occasional unfortunate Manic Pixie Dream Girl overtones.
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: Mephistopheles encounters the E.U.L.A
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Mundane Utility
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Mundane Utility: Frequently, including lasers to zap squirrels. Also, using the LHC to cause cancer in helicopters. Possibly the worst one yet: using Narnia as a literal garbage dump. An alternative explanation for the 26-second pulse on seismometers is that a long time ago, seismologists killed a giant and buried it in the sea, using its still-beating heart to... synchronize seismometers.
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Insignificant Little Blue Planet
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Insignificant Little Blue Planet: Spoofed in Pale Blue Dot when the audience complains about the "blue dot" being an artifact on the photo.
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That Cloud Looks Like...
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That Cloud Looks Like...: Cueball asks Megan what she sees in a cloud, but she instead points her cell phone at it and uses Google's image search to identify it. Google says it's a cloud, Cueball is unimpressed.
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Wikipedia's propensity for this is discussed in the strip "Malamanteau."
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Making a Spectacle of Yourself
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Making a Spectacle of Yourself: New Year's Eve Party concerns those fancy novelty glasses shaped like the year number that you'll see during New Year's. Cueball went the extra mile and got laser eye surgery patterned in the same way instead, and is having trouble seeing with it as one might expect.
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Expospeak Gag
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Expospeak Gag: Somehow both inverted and played straight in the book Thing Explainer, where everything is explained in Buffy Speak— which can be thick enough to obfuscate what it's talking about. Standout examples include the "Sky Boat with Turning Wings" (helicopter), the "Shape Checker" that checks whether you have a piece of metal with a certain shape (cylinder lock), the "Box that Cleans Food Holders" (dishwasher), and the "Big Tiny Thing Hitter" (Large Hadron Collider).
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The Internet Is an Ocean
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The Internet Is an Ocean: There's a "Map of the Internet" depicting it as an archipelago in strip 802.
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Asbestos-Free Cereal
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Asbestos-Free Cereal: The "Free" strip, featuring three brands of cereal, with one of the being asbestos-free! Provides the page image for the trope and is the Trope Namer.
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Mix-and-Match Critters
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Mix-and-Match Critters: The Omnitaur from the titular strip is a beast that comprises the cross sections of the following (from front-to-back): a bird, a human, a ram, a leopard, a horse, a dragon, a bull, a shark, a snake, a lion, and a fish.
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Organ Theft
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Organ Theft: Inverted in #914. His ice is stolen... and he wakes up in a bathtub full of kidneys, rather than the other way 'round.
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Reverse Psychology
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Reverse Psychology: Black Hat Guy warns vandals not to mess with his explosive jack-o-lantern with a warning sign.
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Dying Alone
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Dying Alone: The eventual fate of the Spirit rover, stuck on Mars.
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Anything but That!
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Anything but That!: Many of the strips revolve around Randall's fear of velociraptors. Search History, for example, shows Randall's search history consisting of information about velociraptors and ways to survive their attacks.
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I Will Find You
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I Will Find You: Find You
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Facepalm
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Facepalm: "Local g" has Cueball do this when he realizes that by asking how the angry pole vaulters got onto their balcony, he's answered his own question.
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More than Three Dimensions
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More than Three Dimensions: In strip #721, Cueball apologizes to a two-dimensional square named A. Square for having given him a hard time when he had trouble understanding three-dimensional space. Playing a four-dimensional game called Miegakure has made Cueball more sympathetic to Square's situation.
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Running Gag
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Running Gag: Cory Doctorow blogging in a hot air balloon from the blogosphere. Raptors. Randall might have had a fear of them as he plotted a plan about this. "My Hobby". Apparently, this guy has about a million different hobbies, give or take a few. (Full list) Mailing people bobcats, which started in 325, and was referenced in the title text in two subsequent comics. More recently, during the 2013 holiday season, the XKCD store stated, "I will probably not send you a bobcat" in the main page link. In the "what if" section of the website, the Netherlands is often seen as a superpower, from conquering the world as Munroe explains what happens if the oceans started to drain to having colonized Mars. In this comic (released 24 July 2015), Munroe revels in listing a lot of his old running gags, including the Blogosphere (from the Doctorow comics), the Netherlands, and Sulawesi (which he included in his famous "Map of the Internet" comics).
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Don't Explain the Joke
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Don't Explain the Joke: The comic frequently violates this rule. In many cases, the punchline occurs in the second-to-last panel, only to have a final panel that then explains it. Other times the punchline is in the last panel... but there's a final sentence that then explains the joke. On the rare occasion neither are done, you can probably check the Alt Text and find it explained there. The explain xkcd website is Exactly What It Says on the Tin: a wiki solely dedicated to explaining each and every joke and reference in xkcd. Because, you know, Viewers Are Morons.
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Comically Missing the Point
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Comically Missing the Point: "Car Problems": In "Paleontology Museum", a museum visitor's reaction to seeing a fossil skeleton is to lament that rocks used to be much more interesting shapes than they are now.
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Department of Redundancy Department
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Department of Redundancy Department: The Tautology Club is about redundancy because redundancy is what the Tautology Club is all about.
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Special Edition Title
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Special Edition Title: On October 26, 2009, the site was temporarily redesigned in a retraux early 90's style in dubious honor of the end of GeoCities. Complete with broken HTML!◊
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Beware the Nice Ones
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Beware the Nice Ones: In Asshole, our beret-clad Cloudcuckoolander knocks two people away with an excavator because he heard criticisms about what car he drove. Stephenie Meyer. Seriously.
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He Also Did
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He Also Did: invokedParodied in "Mainly Known For", in which Megan knows several famous people by some of their least prominent traits, from Steve Jobs being "the Pixar guy" to George W. Bush being "Jenna Bush's dad".
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Personal Dictionary
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Personal Dictionary: In "Communicating", Humpty Dumpty from Through the Looking-Glass explains that whatever word he says means whatever he wants it to mean. Alice throws it back at him by using her own personal dictionary to interpret what he said to mean that she can take all of his stuff, including his car.
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Brick Joke
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_fe0330fb
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At one point Munroe produced several strips about boomerang hijinks. Then, once we've all forgotten about them, we get this.
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The New '20s
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The New '20s: Discussed in the January 1, 2020 strip, leading to an argument about when a new decade actually begins. Ultimately resolved based on VH1's authority.
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Buffy Speak
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Buffy Speak: Up Goer Five is a cross between this and an inverted Expospeak Gag: it describes a Saturn V rocket using only the 1000 (ten hundred) most-frequently-used words in the English language. Randall followed this up with "Thing Explainer", an entire book in this style. The dialogue in the first three panels of Winter is a complicated way of saying the phrases "The air is cold and the puddles have frozen, but I [Beret Guy] have mittens, the sunlight is warm, and the birds are chirping in the trees."
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Leaving Food for Santa
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Leaving Food for Santa: Often lampooned. "Santa" questions the logistics of this practice, pointing out that if Santa eats a cookie for every few houses he visits, that would add up to hundreds of tons of food, so he would have to poop them out somewhere during the night. "Santa Facts" and its Alt Text mention that Santa's natural diet is actually reindeer meat, and that the milk and cookies are actually integrated to his diet via an aggressive public campaign.
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Overcomplicated Menu Order
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Overcomplicated Menu Order: Xkcd orders $15.05 worth of appetizers, expecting the waiter to figure out what quantities of which items to serve in order to reach that number. The joke is that the costs listed on the menu just happen to mean that the waiter is being asked to solve a complex mathematical problem.
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A Degree in Useless / int_6059ad6b
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A Good Name for a Rock Band / int_6059ad6b
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A Rare Sentence / int_6059ad6b
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Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder / int_6059ad6b
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Absurdly Bright Light / int_6059ad6b
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_6059ad6b
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene / int_6059ad6b
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Admiring the Abomination / int_6059ad6b
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Alice and Bob / int_6059ad6b
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Alien Geometries / int_6059ad6b
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Aliens Steal Cable / int_6059314b
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All Just a Dream / int_6059ad6b
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All Love Is Unrequited / int_6059ad6b
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Alt Text / int_6059ad6b
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And That's Terrible / int_6059ad6b
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And Then What? / int_6059ad6b
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Appeal to Authority / int_6059314b
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Author Vocabulary Calendar / int_6059ad6b
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Brand X / int_6059314b
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 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Character Alignment / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Character Level / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Chekhov's News / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Chicken Joke / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Children in Tow / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Christmas Carolers / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Christmas Episode / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Chunky Salsa Rule / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Circling Vultures / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Circular Reasoning / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Clap Your Hands If You Believe / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Clickbait Gag / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Clipboard of Authority / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Coincidental Broadcast / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Comic Sutra / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Companion Cube / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Compensating for Something / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Complexity Addiction / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Confronting Your Imposter / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Conqueror from the Future / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Constrained Writing / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Construction Vehicle Rampage / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Contemplating Your Hands / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Content Warnings / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Contractual Purity / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Cooking Duel / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Cool and Unusual Punishment / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Cool Sword / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Correction Bait / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Crazy Enough to Work / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Creator Cameo / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Cryptic Conversation / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Cue O'Clock / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Curse of Babel / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Cursed with Awesome / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Cute Kitten / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Cuteness Proximity / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Cycle of Revenge / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Cynic–Idealist Duo / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Damn You, Muscle Memory! / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Damned by Faint Praise / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Dancing Bear / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Daydream Believer / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Death Ray / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Deconstructed Character Archetype / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Deliberate Under-Performance / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Demand Overload / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Department of Redundancy Department / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Description Cut / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Deteriorates Into Gibberish / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Developer's Foresight / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Developing Doomed Characters / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
"Die Hard" on an X / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Discredited Meme / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Dissonant Serenity / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Distant Reaction Shot / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Don't Ask, Just Run / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Don't Try This at Home / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Don't Wake the Sleeper / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Doomsday Clock / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Double-Blind What-If / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Dream Apocalypse / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Dressed to Heal / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Droste Image / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Drunken Master / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Dude, Not Ironic / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Dug Too Deep / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Dying Alone / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Eagleland / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Ear Worm / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Earth Drift / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Easter Egg / int_6059ad6b
 EditWar
seeAlso
xkcd (Webcomic)
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Elevator Gag / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Embarrassing Browser History / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Embarrassing but Empowering Outfit / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Emergency Cargo Dump / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Episode Zero: The Beginning / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Erotic Asphyxiation / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Essential Madness / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Everybody Hates Mathematics / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Everyone Hates Mimes / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Everyone Is Related / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Evolution Power-Up / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Evolutionary Levels / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Exactly What I Aimed At / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Exactly What I Meant to Say / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Exactly What It Says on the Tin / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Exhaustion-Induced Idiocy / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Expert in Underwater Basket Weaving / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap! / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Extinct in the Future / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Facepalm / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Failure Is the Only Option / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fake-Out Opening / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
False Cause / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
False Dichotomy / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fan Community Nicknames / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fantastic Measurement System / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fantasy Keepsake / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fantasy Metals / int_d72b0d6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fantasy Twist / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
"Far Side" Island / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fastest Gun in the West / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Feigning Intelligence / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fetish Retardant / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fictionary / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Flat World / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Flowery Insults / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Footnote Fever / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
For Science! / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
For the Evulz / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Forgets to Eat / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Forgotten Framing Device / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Formula for the Unformulable / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Formulaic Magic / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Foul Ball Pit / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Four Lines, All Waiting / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
419 Scam / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fourth Wall Psych / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fox-Chicken-Grain Puzzle / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Frankenstein's Monster / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
From the Latin "Intro Ducere" / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fun Size / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fun T-Shirt / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Fun with Autocensors / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Funny Conception Story / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Funny Terrain Cross Section / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Future Imperfect / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
GPS Evidence / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Gamebooks / int_6059ad6b
 GaryGygax
seeAlso
xkcd (Webcomic)
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Gateway Series / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Gay Bravado / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Geeky Turn-On / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Gender-Inclusive Writing / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Genie in a Bottle / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Genius Bonus / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Genre Shift / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Germanic Efficiency / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Get Thee to a Nunnery / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Giant Spider / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Gift of the Magi Plot / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Gift Shake / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Girl of My Dreams / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Glass-Shattering Sound / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Glasses Pull / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Glasses Pull / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Global Ignorance / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Go to the Euphemism / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
God-Emperor / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Golden Mean Fallacy / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Gone Horribly Wrong / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Good Bad Translation / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Goofy Feathered Dinosaur / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Government Conspiracy / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Grammar Nazi / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Gravity Screw / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Great Big Book of Everything / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Grey Goo / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Grievous Harm with a Body / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Gross-Up Close-Up / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
"Groundhog Day" Loop / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Grow Old with Me / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Growing Up Sucks / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Grub Tub / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Guest Strip / int_6059ad6b
 HTZ
seeAlso
xkcd (Webcomic)
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hammerspace Hideaway / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hard on Soft Science / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hard-Work Montage / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Haunted Technology / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
He Also Did / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hearing Voices / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Heel Realization / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hello, [Insert Name Here] / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
"Help! Help! Trapped in Title Factory!" / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Here There Be Dragons / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Here We Go Again! / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hiroshima as a Unit of Measure / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Historical Hilarity / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hollywood Law / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hollywood Restraining Order / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hollywood Tourette's / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Home-Early Surprise / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hostage Spirit-Link / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hostile Terraforming / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys? / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Humans Through Alien Eyes / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Humble Beginnings / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hurricane of Euphemisms / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Hypnotic Creature / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
I Have a Family / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
I Know You're Watching Me / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
I Miss Mom / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
I Resemble That Remark! / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
I Take Offense to That Last One / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
I Thought Everyone Could Do That / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
I Want My Jet Pack / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
I Wish It Were Real / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Iconic Item / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Iconic Outfit / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
If I Do Not Return / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Ignored Vital News Reports / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
I'm Thinking It Over! / int_6059ad6b
 Image Links Wiki
seeAlso
xkcd (Webcomic)
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Immediate Self-Contradiction / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Impossibly-Compact Folding / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
In Case of X, Break Glass / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
In Love with Love / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
In Memoriam / int_d72b0d6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Incompetence, Inc. / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Incredibly Lame Fun / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Incredibly Obvious Bomb / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Incurable Cough of Death / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Indian Burial Ground / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Infinite Canvas / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Inherited Illiteracy Title / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Initialism Title / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Inside Job / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Insignificant Little Blue Planet / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Instant A.I.: Just Add Water! / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Instant Seduction / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Instant Web Hit / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Insufficiently Advanced Alien / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Insurance Fraud / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Interfaith Smoothie / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Interrogation by Vandalism / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Interrupting Meme / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Inventional Wisdom / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Invisible Aliens / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Invisible Subtle Difference / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
It Amused Me / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
It Came from the Fridge / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
"It" Is Dehumanizing / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
It Runs on Nonsensoleum / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
It's A Small Net After All / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
It's a Wonderful Plot / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Jacob Marley Warning / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Janitor Impersonation Infiltration / int_6059314b
 JimmyCarter
seeAlso
xkcd (Webcomic)
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
"Jump Off a Bridge" Rebuttal / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Jump Physics / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Jumping the Shark / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Kid Hero All Grown-Up / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Kidnapped for Experimentation / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Kids Love Dinosaurs / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Kiss Me, I'm Virtual / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Kissing Under the Influence / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Kitchen Sink Included / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Knights and Knaves / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Kubrick Stare / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Laborious Laziness / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Lady Mondegreen / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Lame Pun Reaction / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Lampshaded Double Entendre / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Lampshaded the Obscure Reference / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Language of Magic / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Law of Disproportionate Response / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Layman's Terms / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Leaning on the Fourth Wall / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Leaving Food for Santa / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Left Hanging / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Let Us Never Speak of This Again / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Lethal Diagnosis / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Lies to Children / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Life Imitates Art / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Lightbulb Joke / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Limerick / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Literal Genie / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Literal Metaphor / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Literal-Minded / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Logic Bomb / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
"London, England" Syndrome / int_6059ad6b
 LongForThisWorld
seeAlso
xkcd (Webcomic)
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Loud of War / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Lousy Lovers Are Losers / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Love Allegory / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Love at First Sight / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Love Chart / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Ludicrous Precision / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Lyrical Shoehorn / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Mad Lib Thriller Title / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Mad Libs Catchphrase / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Magical Particle Accelerator / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Major General Song / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Making a Spectacle of Yourself / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Making Love in All the Wrong Places / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Mathematician's Answer / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Matryoshka Object / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Measuring the Marigolds / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Megaphone Gag / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Mexico Called; They Want Texas Back / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Milestone Celebration / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Millennium Bug / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Mindless Sheep / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Mirror Monster / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Mirrors Reflect Everything / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Missing Reflection / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Mix-and-Match Critters / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Mook Horror Show / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Moon-Landing Hoax / int_d72b0d6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
More than Three Dimensions / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Motherly Scientist / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Motive Decay / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Mouse World / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Mundane Solution / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Mundane Wish / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Must Be Invited / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
My Future Self and Me / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
My Grandson, Myself / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
My Nayme Is / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Name-Tron / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Named by Democracy / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Nameless Narrative / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Nanomachines / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Nested Story / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Never Bareheaded / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Never Got to Say Goodbye / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
New Media Are Evil / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Newhart Phonecall / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
News Travels Fast / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Nice Guys Finish Last / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
No Delays for the Wicked / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
No Ending / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
No Man of Woman Born / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
No One Else Is That Dumb / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
No Party Like a Donner Party / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
No Time to Explain / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
No, You / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Nobody Poops / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Non-Answer / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Non-Human Undead / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Non-Natural Number Gag / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Non Sequitur / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Non-Human Lover Reveal / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Not Quite Forever / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Nothing Is Scarier / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Noticing the Fourth Wall / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Number Obsession / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Obsolete Occupation / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Off the Chart / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Off the Rails / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Oh, No... Not Again! / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Old People are Nonsexual / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Old School Introductory Rap / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Ominous Cube / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
On a Scale from One to Ten / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
One Degree of Separation / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
One Dialogue, Two Conversations / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
One-Person Birthday Party / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
One Scene, Two Monologues / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Only Six Faces / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Only Smart People May Pass / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Only the Chosen May Wield / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Ontological Mystery / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Opinion Flip-Flop / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Opposing Sports Team / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Orphaned Etymology / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Our Dark Matter Is Mysterious / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Our Slogan Is Terrible / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Overcomplicated Menu Order / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Overflow Error / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Overly Narrow Superlative / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Overly Pre-Prepared Gag / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Overreacting Airport Security / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Paralysis by Analysis / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Parental Hypocrisy / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Parental Sexuality Squick / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Parking Payback / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Parking Problems / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Parody Sue / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Patchwork Map / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Patient Zero / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Person with the Clothing / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Personal Effects Reveal / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Placebo Effect / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Planetary Relocation / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Please Dump Me / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Plug 'n' Play Technology / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Pluralses / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Pluto Is Expendable / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Poe's Law / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Poke in the Third Eye / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Poke the Poodle / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
[Popular Saying], But... / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Porn Stash / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Portmanteau / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Post-Modern Magik / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Power Glows / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Power Hair / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Power Perversion Potential / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Pre-Mortem One-Liner / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Precision-Guided Boomerang / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Preferable Impersonator / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Premature Empowerment / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Pretentious Latin Motto / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Psychological Projection / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Punctuation Changes the Meaning / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Punctuation Shaker / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Quick Draw Decision / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Quip to Black / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Racing Ghost / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Rapid-Fire Comedy / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Real Joke Name / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Reality Is Unrealistic / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Really Gets Around / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Record Needle Scratch / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Recursive Crossdressing / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Recursive Reality / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Red Pill, Blue Pill / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Redundant Parody / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Reed Richards Is Useless / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Reference Overdosed / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Relationship Labeling Problems / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Retirony / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Retraux / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Revealing Cover-Up / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Reverse Cerebus Syndrome / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Rhetorical Question Blunder / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Riddle Me This / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Ridiculous Future Sequelisation / int_d72b0d6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Right Behind Me / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Right for the Wrong Reasons / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Right Through the Wall / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Robosexual / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Rouge Angles of Satin / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Rousing Speech / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Rule #1 / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Rule of Seven / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Safe Word / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Satiating Sandwich / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
School Grade Hacking / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Science Is Wrong / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Scrabble Babble / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Screwball Squirrel / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Screwy Squirrel / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
"Second Law" My Ass! / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Selective Obliviousness / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Self-Imposed Challenge / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Self-Insert Fic / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Self-Proclaimed Love Interest / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Sexiled / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
"Shaggy Frog" Story / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Shaped Like Itself / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Shear Menace / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Sheep in Sheep's Clothing / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Sidetracked by the Analogy / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Silly Will / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Slap-Slap-Kiss / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Slash Fic / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Slip into Something More Comfortable / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Snake Pit / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Snowy Screen of Death / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
So What Do We Do Now? / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Social Media Before Reason / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Soda-Candy 'Splosion / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Somebody Named "Nobody" / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Sophisticated as Hell / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Soul-Crushing Desk Job / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Space Elevator / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Space Travel Veto / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Space Whale / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Space Whale Aesop / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Spaceship Slingshot Stunt / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Speak Friend and Enter / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Speaking Like Totally Teen / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Speech Bubbles / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Sphere Factor / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Spiders Are Scary / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Splash of Color / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Spoof Aesop / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Spy Speak / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Staircase Tumble / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Start My Own / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Steven Ulysses Perhero / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Stock Unsolved Mysteries / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Stock "Yuck!" / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Stranger in a Familiar Land / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Strip Poker / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Stupid Question Bait / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Submersible Spaceship / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Suicide by Sea / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Super-Persistent Predator / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Super Window Jump / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Super Zeroes / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Surprise Difficulty / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Sustained Misunderstanding / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Swivel-Chair Antics / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Tagline / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Talk About the Weather / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Tastes Like Purple / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
10,000 Years / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Terrible Ticking / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Tertiary Sexual Characteristics / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
That's What She Said / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Air Not There / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Anti-Nihilist / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Art of Bra Removal / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Artifact / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Bet / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Chain of Command / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Compliance Game / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Dead Have Names / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Fundamentalist / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Ground Is Lava / int_6059ad6b
 TheGuy
seeAlso
xkcd (Webcomic)
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Immodest Orgasm / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Internet Is an Ocean / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Internet Is for Cats / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Joy of First Flight / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Masochism Tango / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Merch / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Operators Must Be Crazy / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Parody Before Christmas / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Password Is Always "Swordfish" / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Scream / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Slow Path / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Tape Knew You Would Say That / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Tonsillitis Episode / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Topic of Cancer / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Twelve Spoofs of Christmas / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
The Unpronounceable / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Theseus' Ship Paradox / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Thinking the Same Thought / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
This Song Goes Out to TV Tropes / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Thought-Aversion Failure / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Threatening Shark / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Three Laws-Compliant / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Three Wishes / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Tim Taylor Technology / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Time Dissonance / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Time Travel for Fun and Profit / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Tin-Can Telephone / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
To the Pain / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Toasted Buns / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Torment by Annoyance / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Totem Pole Trench / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Tractor Beam / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Tradesnarkâ„¢ / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Tragic Robot / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Transformation Sequence / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Treehouse of Fun / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Tricked-Out Shoes / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
[Trope Name] / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Trust Password / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Turbine Blender / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
20% More Awesome / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Two Dun It / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Two-Keyed Lock / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Un-Installment / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Under Strange Management / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Understatement / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Uneven Hybrid / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Unflinching Faith in the Brakes / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Unsound Effect / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Unusual Dysphemism / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Unwanted Assistance / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Unwinnable by Design / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Unwinnable Joke Game / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Up the Real Rabbit Hole / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Urban Legends / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Useless Without Cell Phones / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Valentine's Day Episode / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Vanity License Plate / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Variant Chess / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Versus Title / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Victory by Endurance / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Victory Is Boring / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Viewers Are Geniuses / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Viral Marketing / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Visible Silence / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Walking in Rhythm / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Walking Techbane / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Wall of Text / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Waving Signs Around / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
We All Die Someday / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Web First / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Webcomic Print Collection / int_6059ad6b
 WebcomicsMultiverses
seeAlso
xkcd (Webcomic)
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Webcomics of the 2000s / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weird Currency / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Weird Moon / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
What Does This Button Do? / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
What's a Henway? / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
When All You Have Is a Hammer… / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
When Things Spin, Science Happens / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
White and Red and Eerie All Over / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"? / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Who's on First? / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Wish Upon a Shooting Star / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
With Friends Like These... / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Word Purée Title / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Word Salad Title / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Workplace-Acquired Abilities / int_6059314b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
World Tree / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
World War Whatever / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
World's Smallest Violin / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Would Rather Suffer / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Wrench Whack / int_d72b898b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Wrong Song Gag / int_d72b0d6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
X Called; They Want Their Y Back / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
X Days Since / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
"X" Makes Anything Cool / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Xanatos Speed Chess / int_d72b0d6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Xtreme Kool Letterz / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Year Inside, Hour Outside / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
You Answered Your Own Question / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
You Are the Translated Foreign Word / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
You Can't Miss It / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
You Can't Thwart Stage One / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Your Answer to Everything / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Your Mind Makes It Real / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Zeppelins from Another World / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Zeroth Law Rebellion / int_6059ad6b
 XKCD
sameAs
xkcd (Webcomic)
 Xkcd
sameAs
xkcd (Webcomic)
 HTZ (Webcomic)
seeAlso
xkcd (Webcomic)
 XKCD
sameAs
xkcd (Webcomic)
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Girl in the Tower / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Love at First Punch / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Sickeningly Sweethearts / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd (Webcomic)
hasFeature
You All Meet in an Inn / int_6059ad6b
 xkcd
sameAs
xkcd (Webcomic)