572: Together

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Together

Title text: This scavenger hunt is getting boring. Let's go work on the treehouse!

Explanation

Cueball and Megan fall in love, get married, and grow old together. And then we learn at the end that it's just another thing crossed off the list of what is presumably the longest-duration scavenger hunt of all-time, given that scavenger hunts are usually only played by children.

The treehouse reference in the title text is another example of a common childhood activity.

Transcript

Cueball and Megan are running in a field, holding hands. Another male and female stand in the background, next to a table.]

[Cueball and Megan are in a boat on a lake, very romantic. Cueball is speaking to Megan, illustrated with a heart.]

[Cueball and Megan sit together on a bench on a beach, watching the sunset.]

[Cueball and Megan stand at an altar. They have married.]

[Cueball and Megan, having grown old together, sit together on their doorstep, holding hands.]

[Cueball begins walking away with his cane.]

Megan: Dear? Where are you--Come back!

Cueball approaches the other couple from the first panel, who are now just as old.]

[Cueball picks up a piece of paper from the table in the first panel and begins to write.]

Cueball: Okay,

[The paper is shown: a scavenger hunt list. "Happiness"; has just been checked off.]

Cueball: What's next?

[Full list:

SCAVENGER HUNT:

[X] Indian-head penny

[X] Snake skin

[X] Happiness

[ ] Four-leaf clover

[ ] Shark tooth

[The next item is blocked by the speech balloon.]

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Discussion

Definitely one of the sweetest xkcd strips ever. Alpha (talk) 07:30, 1 March 2013 (UTC)