442: xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel
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| xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel |
 Title text: I love the title-text! |
Explanation
The transcript by Randall does a lot of the explanatory work here, as "[t]he 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 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."
The campaign from the Discovery Channel was not called "Boom De Yada", but I Love The World. It's possible that the title "xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel" is in reference to that.
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 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]
- Panel 1: (Reference Comic 162)
- [woman spinning around]
- I love momentum.
- Panel 2: (Reference Comic 413)
- [woman laying on floor tinkering with EEE PC hamster ball robot]
- I love to engineer.
- Panel 3: (Reference Comic 452)
- [man with beret standing in bakery holding a loaf of bread in each hand, sign with "PIE!" in background]
- I love this bakery!
- Panel 4: (Reference Comic 239)
- [man with goggles and red cape (Cory Doctorow) flying superman-style]
- I love the blogosphere!
- Panel 5: (Reference Comic 152)
- [man running in large hamster ball]
- I love the whole world
- Panel 6: [depiction of internet sludge (4chan /b/-Random)]
- And all its messed-up folks.
- Panel 7: (Reference Comic 150)
- [man and woman immersed in playpen balls]
- Boom De Yada
- Boom De Yada
- Panel 8: [mass of playpen balls with speech "I put on my robe and wizard hat" originating from it]
- Boom De Yada
- Boom De Yada
- Panel 9: (Reference Comic 72)
- [black hat man taking gift away from kid with party hat]
- I love your suffering.
- Panel 10: (Reference Comic 153)
- [diagram showing RSA fingerprint authentication between two people]
- I love cryptography.
- Panel 11: (Reference Comic 230)
- [man and woman in bed covered by red sheet]
- I love entangled sheets.
- Panel 12: (Blag)
- [man hanging from kite string holding camera]
- And kite photography.
- Panel 13: (Reference Comic 256)
- [map of the internet]
- I love the whole world
- Panel 14: (Reference Comic 8)
- [cube with red spider on top]
- And all its mysteries.
- Panel 15: (Reference Comic 303)
- [two people sword-fighting on rolling office chairs]
- Boom De Yada
- Boom De Yada
- Panel 16: (Reference Comic 263)
- [class room with two students and female teacher]
- Boom De Yada
- Boom De Yada
- Panel 17: [man saying "Barack me Obamadeus!" to another man speaking energetically at a podium]
- I love elections.
- Panel 18: [man holding schematic diagram depiction of transistor in front of his crotch]
- I love transistors.
- Panel 19: (Reference Comic 69)
- [man and woman in bed, man saying "There must be taft slash fiction"]
- I love weird pillow talk.
- Panel 21: (Reference Comic 249)
- [roller coaster with person in front car holding chess board and thinking about a move]
- I love the whole world.
- Panel 22: (Reference Comic 167)
- [man with beret standing in the midst of leafless trees]
- The future's pretty cool!
- Panel 23: (Reference Comic 108)
- [woman moving toward man by means of MC Hammer slide]
- Boom De Yada
- Boom De Yada
- Panel 24: (Reference Comic 409)
- [man and woman moving on electric skateboard]
- Boom De Yada
- Boom De Yada
add a comment!Discussion
I think that panel 9 actually is meant to be Black Hat giving the child a present and the lines around the gift suggesting that there is something moving around inside (likely alive and agitated) for the child to open and be mauled/harmed by.
- The transcript comes from Randall himself, and it says he's taking the present away. Blaisepascal (talk) 10:14, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
- I was hoping it was a bobcat. 76.106.251.87 19:05, 10 May 2013 (UTC)
