120: Dating Service

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Dating Service
I don't understand why people are so disingenuous! I just want someone to walk with!
Title text: I don't understand why people are so disingenuous! I just want someone to walk with!

Explanation

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Enjoying "long walks on the beach," like candle light dinners, is a romantic activity stereotypically associated with dating and with profiles for online dating sites.

When people mention long walks on the beach, they generally refer to something within the span of a couple of hours - something that would happen on a single date or evening. [[Randall]'s definition ostensibly would take place over tens, dozens, or hundreds of miles, spanning far outside the range of what most people would consider normal. The joke is that he is going for a hike that takes place at least over 2 days, hence requiring the overnight use of a tent.

Transcript

[A computer monitor displays the profile of a man named Randall on an online dating site. His profile contains a picture of a spiky-haired man and some text, which is rendered as dialogue in the panels.]
Randall: Hi, my name is Randall. I like candlelight dinners and long walks on the beach.
Randall: When I say long walks on the beach, I mean LONG walks on the beach. I've met people through these services who CLAIM to like long walks on the beach. But we'll be out there barely an hour before they start in with "I'm tired" and "Don't you think it's time we head back?" BRING A TENT.


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Discussion

"Other similar activities include piña coladas and getting caught in the rain." This wiki is supposed to explain odd references, not make more of them! -Oxguy3 (talk) 05:18, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

It's now at trivia where it should belong to. I also did add a link to the lyrics.--Dgbrt (talk) 13:37, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
I don't really see why we need it at all, but it's fine there and I won't take it away. --Quicksilver (talk) 04:19, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
Somebody took it away. cries Danish (talk) 22:21, 12 January 2021 (UTC)

I rewrote the explanation and title text. hopefully this is sufficient. 173.245.56.152 03:45, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

He used this in his bio in the Thing Explainer. 08:48 AM, 11 March 2016 (UTC)

Trivia

This was also used in the "about the author" bio of his book The Thing Explainer, however the picture was a cueball and this is a hairy. 108.162.238.95 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I'm just going to add this to the explanation. Beanie (talk) 10:27, 17 March 2021 (UTC)