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{{comic | {{comic | ||
− | | number = | + | | number = 574 |
− | | date = | + | | date = 2009-04-24 |
| title = Parental Trolling | | title = Parental Trolling | ||
− | | image = | + | | image = http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/parental_trolling.png |
− | | titletext = They'll pick music and culture that they know annoys you. Building in behavioral easter eggs is a fair retaliation! | + | | titletext = They'll pick music and culture that they know annoys you. Building in behavioral easter eggs is a fair retaliation! |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | Set in the future, a daughter approaches her father playing a music video of | + | Set in the future, a daughter approaches her father playing a music video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". The daughter insults her father's generation's versions of playing pranks, specifically [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling Rickrolling]. The daughter refers to this as "trolling" (also in the title), which is popular jargon for trying to disrupt a person or community via an action to elicit an emotional response. |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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− | :The | + | :[Man is sitting at a futuristic desktop computer, and a girl is standing behind him with a portable ultra-thin screen] |
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:Girl: Hey dad, look at this old music video. | :Girl: Hey dad, look at this old music video. | ||
− | :Video: We | + | :Video: We're no strangers to love... |
− | : | + | :Dad: Wow, you got me. |
− | + | :Girl: Did your generation really use this to troll people? SO lame. Your generation sucked at pranks. | |
− | + | :Dad: Did we? I once raised a kid with conditioning so her speech centers shut down when she was upset. | |
− | :Girl: Did your generation really use this to troll people? | + | :Girl: What? No, you couldn't have bleegle warble yargle arggh! |
− | + | :Dad: Teehee! | |
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− | :Girl: What? No, you couldn | ||
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