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| ==Explanation== | | ==Explanation== |
− | This comic is a parody of the {{w|Discovery Channel}} commercial showing various clips of people singing a song with the chorus line [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0 'Boom De Yada']. The comic is divided into a grid of 4 panels by 6 panels, most depicting a character or situation from a previous xkcd strip. In each panel is written a part of a song similar to the song from the Discovery Channel commercial.
| + | The transcript by [[Randall]] does a lot of the explanatory work here, as "[t]he comic is in parody of the {{w|Discovery Channel}} commercial showing various clips of people singing a song with the chorus line [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0 'Boom De Yada']. The comic is divided into a grid of 4 by 6 panels, each depicting a character or situation from a previous XKCD strip. In each panel is written a part of a song similar to the song from the Discovery Channel commercial." |
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− | The campaign from the {{w|Discovery Channel}} was not called "Boom De Yada," but "I Love the World". The title "xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel" is in reference to this. | + | The campaign from the {{w|Discovery Channel}} was not called "Boom De Yada", but {{w|I Love The World}}. It's possible that the title "xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel" is in reference to that. |
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− | Most of the panels are references to previous xkcd strips, but a few are not.
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− | | + | * This comic was enacted by Olga Nunes and various famous people as [http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd ''We Love xkcd'']. |
− | ;Panel 1 ''I love momentum.''
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− | :A reference to comic [[162: Angular Momentum]], where [[Megan]] spins in a circle to "rob the planet of angular momentum."
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− | ;Panel 2 ''I love to engineer.''
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− | :A reference to comic [[413: New Pet]], where Megan and [[Cueball]] turn an {{w|EEE PC}} into a household pet.
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− | ;Panel 3 ''I love this bakery!''
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− | :A reference to comic [[434: xkcd Goes to the Airport]], where [[Beret Guy]] shows his liking for bakeries in first panel. His love of bakeries is a recurring gag in the comic.
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− | ;Panel 4 ''I love the blogosphere!''
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− | :A reference to comic [[239: Blagofaire]], where someone from the far future believes that many people blogged from high-altitude balloons whilst wearing red capes and goggles. The flying character may be [[Cory Doctorow]], who is mentioned in the comic as the only blogger to actually do this, and who also appeared in comic [[345: 1337: Part 5]] in this guise.
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− | ;Panel 5 ''I love the whole world.'' (Cueball running in a large hamster ball.)
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− | :Likely a reference to comic [[152: Hamster Ball]], though there are [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Hamster_Ball multiple comics] featuring human-sized {{w|Hamster ball|hamster balls}}.
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− | ;Panel 6 ''And all its messed-up folks.''
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− | :A reference to the {{w|/b/}} ("Random") forum on {{w|4chan}}, which is in fact home to plenty of "messed-up folks." This on-line behavior is something [[Randall]] comments on in several comics both before and after this. For instance in [[202: YouTube]].
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− | ;Panel 7 ''Boom de yada, Boom de yada'' (Cueball and Megan immersed in playpen balls.)
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− | :A reference to comic [[150: Grownups]], where Megan decides that she has the ability to, and wants to, turn her house into a giant ball pit.
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− | ;Panel 8 ''Boom de yada, Boom de yada'' (''I put on my robe and wizard hat'')
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− | :A reference to [http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/bloodninja this roleplay chat transcript] (NSFW), which became an Internet meme. A user named bloodninja would roleplay as a wizard during {{w|cybersex}} (saying "I put on my robe and wizard hat" to signal this) and invariably infuriate his unwitting partners with demeaning actions. Other incidents involved him roleplaying as a rhinoceros. In the above mentioned comic [[150: Grownups]], the two characters also disappear, but in that case a big pink heart comes out of the playpen balls.
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− | ;Panel 9 ''I love your suffering.''
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− | :The recurring character [[Black Hat]] is being his usual self and causing suffering for his own amusement, as in comic [[72: Classhole]]. In this panel, he is seen giving a child a present, probably containing a bobcat as seen in [[325: A-Minus-Minus]].
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− | ;Panel 10 ''I love cryptography.''
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− | :{{w|Cryptography}} is a subject that comes up often in the comic, notably, in comics [[153: Cryptography]] and [[177: Alice and Bob]] before this one (for a full list see [http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Cryptography Category:Cryptography]). The panel shows a flowchart of the kind commonly used to show how a particular cryptosystem works and/or how it can be broken.
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− | ;Panel 11 ''I love entangled sheets.''
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− | :Sexual reference. Sex and red sheets are also brought up in comic [[230: Hamiltonian]].
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− | ;Panel 12 ''And kite photography.''
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− | :A reference to Randall's own hobby of [http://xkcd.com/kite/ kite photography], as well as comic [[235: Kite]].
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− | ;Panel 13 ''I love the whole world'' (Map of the internet.)
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− | :A reference to comic [[256: Online Communities]], featuring online communities of the time visualized as a world map, with geographic areas representing their approximate membership size. There is, more directly, a pun on "internet," namely "outernet."
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− | ;Panel 14 ''And all its mysteries.''
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− | :A reference to a series of comics on "red spiders": [[8|8: Red Spiders]], [[43|43: Red Spiders 2]], [[47|47: Counter-Red Spiders]], [[126|126: Red Spiders Cometh]], and [[427|427: Bad Timing]].
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− | ;Panel 15 ''Boom de yada, Boom de yada'' (Two people sword-fighting on rolling office chairs.)
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− | :A reference to comic [[303: Compiling]], where two coders battle with fake swords at work, with the excuse that their code is compiling.
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− | ;Panel 16 ''Boom de yada, Boom de yada'' (Classroom with two students and a teacher.)
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− | :Nothing too special, but it does embrace the "everybody joins in" theme behind the commercials. The teacher is [[Miss Lenhart]], who was first properly introduced in comic [[263: Certainty]], but may have made an appearance in comic [[59: Graduation]].
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− | ;Panel 17 ''I love elections'' (''Barack me Obamadeus!'')
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− | :A pun on the song {{w|Rock Me Amadeus}} and US president {{w|Barack Obama}}. At this point, Randall had not done any comics directly on elections, but he made this after the one in 2008: [[500: Election]] and has shown his love for this subject also around the 2012 election.
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− | ;Panel 18 ''I love transistors.''
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− | :This panel has Cueball's crotch replaced with the (similar-looking) icon used for a {{w|transistor}} in a {{w|circuit diagram}}. Randall later showed how much he loves anything that can go in to such a diagram in [[730: Circuit Diagram]].
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− | ;Panel 19 ''I love weird pillow talk.'' (''There ''must'' be Taft slash fiction.'')
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− | :"[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pillow+talk Pillow talk]" means intimate conversations between lovers, "{{w|slash fiction}}" is fanfiction with characters of the same sex, and "Taft" is {{w|William Howard Taft}}, a US President mostly remembered for his severe obesity. It appears that they are invoking {{w|Rule 34 (Internet meme)|rule 34 of the Internet}} as a reference to [[305: Rule 34]]. Weird pillow talk is also the subject of comic [[69: Pillow Talk]], while the Taft reference comes from comic [[214: The Problem with Wikipedia]].
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− | ;Panel 20 ''I love your sister.''
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− | :A reference to xkcd's recurring joke of dating the female character's sister, which spans several comics including [[49: Want]], [[279: Pickup Lines]], [[317: That Lovin' Feelin']], and [[408: Overqualified]].
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− | ;Panel 21 ''I love the whole world'' (Roller coaster with Cueball holding a chess board)
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− | :A reference to comic [[249: Chess Photo]], which inspired an internet meme.
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− | ;Panel 22 ''The future's pretty cool!'' (Beret Guy in a forest.)
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− | :The picture of the forest is similar to that in [[269: TCMP]], though it may also be a reference to comic [[167: Nihilism]], where Cueball and Beret Guy make observations about the future while climbing a tree. Later, in comic [[1322: Winter]], the two are seen walking through a forest very similar to the one shown here. The forest Beret Guy is in also may be a reference to the {{w|Narnia (world)|Wood Between the Worlds}} in {{w|The Magician's Nephew}}, from the series of childrens' books, {{w|The Chronicles of Narnia}} by {{w|C.S. Lewis}}.
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− | ;Panel 23 ''Boom de yada, Boom de yada'' (Megan doing the MC Hammer slide towards Cueball.)
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− | :A reference to comic [[108: M.C. Hammer Slide]], where Hairy falls in love with "a girl whose only mode of transportation is the M.C. Hammer Slide."
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− | ;Panel 24 ''Boom de yada, Boom de yada'' (Cueball and Megan on an electric skateboard.)
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− | :A reference to comic [[409: Electric Skateboard (Double Comic)]], where Megan and Cueball go on an electric skateboard ride, but he already introduced these back in [[139: I Have Owned Two Electric Skateboards]].
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− | The title text continues the song, self-referentially. Self-reference is a reoccurring theme in {{w|Douglas Hofstadter|Douglas Hofstadter's}} books, notably ''{{w|Gödel, Escher, Bach}}'', which Randall refers to directly in [[24: Godel, Escher, Kurt Halsey]]. Later, Hofstadter has been referenced in other comics, such as in the title text of [[555: Two Mirrors]] and [[608: Form]], plus, of course, in [[917: Hofstadter]]. Self-reference as a form of humor was also [[:Category:Self-reference|explored before]], but most famously in the later [[688: Self-Description]].
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− | From ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'':
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− | {{quote|To everyone who did YouTube covers of this, I love you all.}}
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| ==Transcript== | | ==Transcript== |
− | :[The comic is in parody of the Discovery Channel commercial showing various clips of people singing a song with the chorus line "Boom De Yada."] | + | :[The comic is in parody of the Discovery Channel commercial showing various clips of people singing a song with the chorus line "Boom De Yada"] |
− | :[The comic is divided into a grid of 4 panels by 6 panels, each depicting a character or situation often from a previous xkcd strip.] | + | :[The comic is divided into a grid of 4 by 6 panels, each depicting a character or situation from a previous XKCD strip] |
− | :[In each panel is written a part of a song similar to the song from the Discovery Channel commercial.] | + | :[In each panel is written a part of a song similar to the song from the Discovery Channel commercial] |
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− | :Panel 1: | + | :Panel 1: [[162|(Reference Comic 162)]] |
− | :[Megan spinning around.] | + | :[woman spinning around] |
| :I love momentum. | | :I love momentum. |
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− | :Panel 2: | + | :Panel 2: [[413|(Reference Comic 413)]] |
− | :[Megan laying on floor tinkering with an EEE PC hamster ball robot.] | + | :[woman laying on floor tinkering with EEE PC hamster ball robot] |
| :I love to engineer. | | :I love to engineer. |
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− | :Panel 3: | + | :Panel 3: [[452|(Reference Comic 452)]] |
− | :[Beret Guy standing in bakery holding a loaf of bread in each hand, a sign with "PIE!" in background.] | + | :[man with beret standing in bakery holding a loaf of bread in each hand, sign with "PIE!" in background] |
| :I love this bakery! | | :I love this bakery! |
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− | :Panel 4: | + | :Panel 4: [[239|(Reference Comic 239)]] |
− | :[Cory Doctorow in goggles and a red cape flying superman-style.] | + | :[man with goggles and red cape (Cory Doctorow) flying superman-style] |
| :I love the blogosphere! | | :I love the blogosphere! |
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− | :Panel 5: | + | :Panel 5: [[152|(Reference Comic 152)]] |
− | :[Cueball running in a large hamster ball.] | + | :[man running in large hamster ball] |
| :I love the whole world | | :I love the whole world |
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− | :Panel 6: | + | :Panel 6: [depiction of internet sludge (4chan /b/-Random)] |
− | :[Depiction of internet sludge (4chan b-Random)] | |
| :And all its messed-up folks. | | :And all its messed-up folks. |
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− | :Panel 7: | + | :Panel 7: [[150|(Reference Comic 150)]] |
− | :[Cueball and Megan immersed in playpen balls.] | + | :[man and woman immersed in playpen balls] |
| :Boom De Yada | | :Boom De Yada |
| :Boom De Yada | | :Boom De Yada |
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− | :Panel 8: | + | :Panel 8: [mass of playpen balls with speech "I put on my robe and wizard hat" originating from it] |
− | :[Mass of playpen balls with speech "I put on my robe and wizard hat" originating from it.] | |
| :Boom De Yada | | :Boom De Yada |
| :Boom De Yada | | :Boom De Yada |
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− | :Panel 9: | + | :Panel 9: [[72|(Reference Comic 72)]] |
− | :[Black Hat taking a present from a kid with a party hat.] | + | :[black hat man taking gift away from kid with party hat] |
| :I love your suffering. | | :I love your suffering. |
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− | :Panel 10: | + | :Panel 10: [[153|(Reference Comic 153)]] |
− | :[Diagram showing RSA fingerprint authentication between two people.] | + | :[diagram showing RSA fingerprint authentication between two people] |
| :I love cryptography. | | :I love cryptography. |
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− | :Panel 11: | + | :Panel 11: [[230|(Reference Comic 230)]] |
− | :[Cueball and Megan in bed covered by a red sheet.] | + | :[man and woman in bed covered by red sheet] |
| :I love entangled sheets. | | :I love entangled sheets. |
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− | :Panel 12: | + | :Panel 12: (Blag) |
− | :[Cueball hanging from a kite string holding a camera.] | + | :[man hanging from kite string holding camera] |
| :And kite photography. | | :And kite photography. |
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− | :Panel 13: | + | :Panel 13: [[256|(Reference Comic 256)]] |
− | :[Map of the internet.] | + | :[map of the internet] |
| :I love the whole world | | :I love the whole world |
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− | :Panel 14: | + | :Panel 14: [[8|(Reference Comic 8)]] |
− | :[Cube with a red spider on top.] | + | :[cube with red spider on top] |
| :And all its mysteries. | | :And all its mysteries. |
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− | :Panel 15: | + | :Panel 15: [[303|(Reference Comic 303)]] |
− | :[Two people sword-fighting on rolling office chairs.] | + | :[two people sword-fighting on rolling office chairs] |
| :Boom De Yada | | :Boom De Yada |
| :Boom De Yada | | :Boom De Yada |
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− | :Panel 16: | + | :Panel 16: [[263|(Reference Comic 263)]] |
− | :[Classroom with two students and Miss Lenhart.] | + | :[class room with two students and female teacher] |
| :Boom De Yada | | :Boom De Yada |
| :Boom De Yada | | :Boom De Yada |
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− | :Panel 17: | + | :Panel 17: [man saying "Barack me Obamadeus!" to another man speaking energetically at a podium] |
− | :[Cueball saying "Barack me Obamadeus!" to another man speaking energetically at a podium.] | |
| :I love elections. | | :I love elections. |
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− | :Panel 18: | + | :Panel 18: [man holding schematic diagram depiction of transistor in front of his crotch] |
− | :[Cueball holding a schematic diagram of a transistor in front of his crotch.] | |
| :I love transistors. | | :I love transistors. |
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− | :Panel 19: | + | :Panel 19: [[69|(Reference Comic 69)]] |
− | :[Cueball and Megan in bed, Cueball saying "There ''must'' be taft slash fiction."] | + | :[man and woman in bed, man saying "There must be taft slash fiction"] |
| :I love weird pillow talk. | | :I love weird pillow talk. |
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− | :Panel 20: | + | :Panel 20: (Reference Comic [[49]], [[279]], [[317]]) |
− | :[Cueball speaking to Megan.] | + | :[man speaking to woman] |
| :I love your sister. | | :I love your sister. |
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− | :Panel 21: | + | :Panel 21: [[249|(Reference Comic 249)]] |
− | :[Roller coaster with Cueball in the front car holding a chess board and thinking about a move.] | + | :[roller coaster with person in front car holding chess board and thinking about a move] |
| :I love the whole world. | | :I love the whole world. |
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− | :Panel 22: | + | :Panel 22: [[167|(Reference Comic 167)]] |
− | :[Beret Guy standing in the midst of leafless trees.] | + | :[man with beret standing in the midst of leafless trees] |
| :The future's pretty cool! | | :The future's pretty cool! |
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− | :Panel 23: | + | :Panel 23: [[108|(Reference Comic 108)]] |
− | :[Megan doing the MC Hammer slide towards Cueball.] | + | :[woman moving toward man by means of MC Hammer slide] |
| :Boom De Yada | | :Boom De Yada |
| :Boom De Yada | | :Boom De Yada |
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− | :Panel 24: | + | :Panel 24: [[409|(Reference Comic 409)]] |
− | :[Cueball and Megan on an electric skateboard.] | + | :[man and woman moving on electric skateboard] |
| :Boom De Yada | | :Boom De Yada |
| :Boom De Yada | | :Boom De Yada |
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− | ==Trivia==
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− | * This comic was enacted by Olga Nunes and various famous people as [http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd ''We Love xkcd''].
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− | * Noam Raby and Olga Nunes also produced an animation based upon this comic, named [https://vimeo.com/7151435 ''I Love xkcd''].
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− | * This comic used to be [https://web.archive.org/web/20220125023401/https://store.xkcd.com/products/signed-prints available as a signed print] in the xkcd store before it was [[Store|shut down]].
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| {{comic discussion}} | | {{comic discussion}} |
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− | [[Category:Comics with color]] | + | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] |
| [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] |
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| [[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]] | | [[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]] |
| [[Category:Comics featuring Cory Doctorow]] | | [[Category:Comics featuring Cory Doctorow]] |
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