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+ | Cueball and Megan are sitting in a park together and appear to be cloudwatching. Cueball asks if Megan has ever looked up in the sky and wondered, implying that he is thinking deep thoughts while allowing his mind to wander. However, it transpires that in fact he is listening to some audio device, and his wondering is possibly caused because he looked up at the sky and his ear buds fell out, leading to the thoughts about what it would be like to have "normal shaped ears" so he could wear earbuds without them falling out. (This joke is directed towards a large group of people who cannot use earbuds successfully because they fall out.) Megan response could either be making fun of Cueball and the stuff that goes on in his head with the random conversation points he tends to bring up, or agreeing with him that earbud wearers ears are mysterious. | ||
− | The comic appears to be a variation on a famous and | + | The comic appears to be a variation on a famous and often-quoted fragment from {{w|Voltaire}}'s {{w|Candide}}, where Dr. Pangloss states that we live in 'the best of all possible worlds', among other reasons because '…noses were made to wear spectacles, and so we have spectacles'. |
− | The title text is | + | The title text is a reference to the ''Animorphs'' book series or any other of a large number of similar stories, in which humanity is being colonized by parasitic alien slugs called Yeerks, that enter a human's brain through the ears and can control them. Randall/Cueball here is suggesting that the reason most humans can wear earbuds is because the Yeerks hold the earbuds in place. Randall seems partial to ''Animorphs,'' but it could also be referencing {{w|List_of_Star_Trek_animals#Ceti_eel|Star Trek Ceti Eels}}. |
− | Another possibility, given the earbud/music reference | + | Another possibility, given the earbud/music reference is that Randall is making a joke about {{w|earworms}}. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== |