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{{w|One-upmanship}} is the act of surpassing another person. In this case, one female character is one-upping her friend's claim of being taken on a mountain hike with a claim that she was proposed to.
 
{{w|One-upmanship}} is the act of surpassing another person. In this case, one female character is one-upping her friend's claim of being taken on a mountain hike with a claim that she was proposed to.
  
Mario is the major figure at the {{w|Super Mario}} series. In the games, completing specific conditions causes a "1-up" to appear on screen, referring to an additional life. The comic relies on the homonym of the action of one-upmanship and the event of one-ups in Mario.
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Mario is the major figure in the {{w|Super Mario}} series. In the games, completing specific conditions causes a "1-up" to appear on screen, referring to an additional life. The comic relies on the homonym of the action of one-upmanship and the event of one-ups in Mario.
  
 
At the title text [[Randall]] implies that this is a pretty bad joke.
 
At the title text [[Randall]] implies that this is a pretty bad joke.
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:Megan: For our anniversary, my boyfriend took me hiking in the mountains.
 
:Megan: For our anniversary, my boyfriend took me hiking in the mountains.
:Ponyatil: My boyfriend proposed to me.
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:Ponytail: My boyfriend proposed to me.
:Ponyatil: They should call you Mario, 'cause you just got <<1 up'd>>
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:Ponytail: They should call you Mario, 'cause you just got <<1 up'd>>
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
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[[Category:Video games]]

Revision as of 13:29, 19 November 2014

Mario
Why would anyone ever, ever say that? Please, nobody ever say that.
Title text: Why would anyone ever, ever say that? Please, nobody ever say that.

Explanation

One-upmanship is the act of surpassing another person. In this case, one female character is one-upping her friend's claim of being taken on a mountain hike with a claim that she was proposed to.

Mario is the major figure in the Super Mario series. In the games, completing specific conditions causes a "1-up" to appear on screen, referring to an additional life. The comic relies on the homonym of the action of one-upmanship and the event of one-ups in Mario.

At the title text Randall implies that this is a pretty bad joke.

Transcript

Megan: For our anniversary, my boyfriend took me hiking in the mountains.
Ponytail: My boyfriend proposed to me.
Ponytail: They should call you Mario, 'cause you just got <<1 up'd>>


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Discussion

Mario is not the star, Mario's the plumber. Muahaha. --Kronf (talk) 12:24, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Am I the only person intrigued by the fact that he used European quotes («»)?162.158.79.185 22:21, 2 February 2017 (UTC)

     Those aren't European; they're French.  And I don't think he meant them to be quotation marks, they remind me of how the work "1-up" flashes on the screen in early mario games.  That's a hard thing to 
     represent with text, so maybe that's what he was going for. 162.158.79.185 19:07, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
iirc chevrons are also used in Russian. 172.70.134.161 17:47, 13 February 2022 (UTC)Bumpf

Bowser is definitely better! And the trash talk is ON POINT! Nice work, Ponytail! 172.68.34.61 19:30, 6 February 2024 (UTC)