Lego
by Jeff
Image text: Dad, where is Grandpa right now?
This comic looks to be, first and foremost, in support of the scientific view of the human body and its internal organs. This comic is comparing a lego house to a person. The arrangement of parts doesn't stay with the person and they are just pieces. Which, fast forwarding to later in life at the bottom 3 frames of the comic, causes the kid to select "Organ Donor" on her drivers license.
And the answer to the image text according to the comic would be: Grandpa doesn't stay with his body parts and doesn't go anywhere else, he's just gone...
Orbitals
by Jeff
Image text: And now someone drunk and hot stumbles in, one thing follows another, and the next roommate to return home sleeps in the hall lounge orbital.
This is a parody on the Pauli exclusion principle of quantum mechanics that states that no two identical fermions (electrons, protons, neutrons, muons) can occupy the same state. In the case of the comic, the state is the dorm room suite. The highest lowest level or state is in this comic is your own bedroom, then next two lower higher states are the next two bedrooms, and the lowest highest state is the couch in the living room. The image text goes on to speculate that the next lowest higher state would be the hall lounge if the living room itself was "occupied" by a romantic pair. The Pauli Sexclusion Principle dictates that no two roommates can occupy the same "state" in the case of sexual activity and it dictates the order of "states" .
The pun on the name is that when one person is barred from their room due to the sexual activity of their roomate, this is known as "sexclusion".
EDIT: Also, I'm not quite sure whether or not the drawings of the couples in the rooms are very crude stick figures...
Movie Narrative Charts
by Jeff
(You absolutely have to click on the image to see it larger. It is quite detailed and impressive.)
Image text: In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.
Lord of the Rings is pretty self-explanatory if you have seen the movies based on the series by JRR Tolkien. It is important to note that the chart is based on the movie, not the books. Second, is the original Star Wars trilogy. If you haven't seen those, stop what you are doing right now and go get them. Third, is the original Jurrassic Park movie.
The joke in 12 Angry men graphic is that in the movie all 12 jurors are all in the same room the entire movie. They never move and they all always interact with each other, hence their lines stay straight and close to each other.
The last box is a movie called Primer from 2004, which became a cult classic. It is about accidentally discovering time travel. The plot is so convoluted and mixed up with the time travel between the original person and the so-called time travelling "double" that it is almost impossible to figure out where each character is at one time...as the comic illustrates.
UPDATE: These charts are roughly a reference to the map by Charles Joseph Minard that details the movements and losses of Napolean's troops on his failed conquest of Russia.
Example can be found here.
