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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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 {{w|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. The humour is in that the dad reveals he has 'trolled' his daughter, thus eliciting an emotional response which perfectly displays his prank.
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Set in the future, a daughter approaches her father playing a music video of {{w|Rick Astley's}} "{{w|Never Gonna Give You Up}}". The daughter insults her father's generation's versions of playing pranks, specifically {{w|Rickrolling}}. The daughter refers to this as "{{w|trolling}}" (part of the comics title), which is popular jargon for trying to disrupt a person or community via an action to elicit an emotional response. The humour is in that the dad reveals he has 'trolled' his daughter, thus eliciting an emotional response which perfectly displays his prank.
  
 
In this comic, the girl holds an ultra-thin tablet, a futuristic technology when released, a year before the release of the iPad. It also shows a curved computer monitor, which seems to float above the desk.
 
In this comic, the girl holds an ultra-thin tablet, a futuristic technology when released, a year before the release of the iPad. It also shows a curved computer monitor, which seems to float above the desk.
  
The title text refers to the conflict between teenagers and adults over music and culture, with teenagers often listening to music such as dubstep which annoys their parents. 'Easter egg' is a term used to describe a hidden inside joke or feature inside software. Here, the daughter is the software.
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The title text refers to the conflict between teenagers and adults over music and culture, with teenagers often listening to music which annoys their parents. '{{w|Easter egg (interaction design)|Easter egg}}' is a term used to describe a hidden inside joke or feature inside software. Here, the daughter has been treated like a piece of software by her father Cueball. He states that since the kids on purpose chooses music and culture that they know annoys their parents, it is a fair retaliation to build in such Easter egg responses. Many people would probably disagree on this, but maybe not so much parents with teenagers at home...
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
:The Future
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:[In a frame crossing the top border of the first panel of the comic:]
:[Cueball is sitting at a futuristic desktop computer, and a girl is standing behind him with a portable ultra-thin screen.]
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:The future
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:[Cueball is sitting at a futuristic desktop computer with the curved screen and keyboard both floating above the table, and a girl with pigtails is standing behind him with a portable ultra-thin screen. She shows the screen to Cueball. On it is a man with dark hair.]
 
:Girl: Hey dad, look at this old music video.
 
:Girl: Hey dad, look at this old music video.
 
:Video: We're no strangers to love...
 
:Video: We're no strangers to love...
 
:Cueball: Wow, you got me.
 
:Cueball: Wow, you got me.
:Girl: Did your generation really use this to troll people? SO lame. Your generation sucked at pranks.
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:[The girl now looks at the device.]
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:Girl: Did your generation really use this to troll people? '''So''' lame. You know, you guys '''sucked''' at pranks.
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:[The girl is holding the device down along her legs as Cueball turns from his computer and addresses her.]
 
:Cueball: Did we? I once raised a kid with conditioning so her speech centers shut down when she was upset.
 
:Cueball: Did we? I once raised a kid with conditioning so her speech centers shut down when she was upset.
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:[The girl has dropped the device on the floor and are fisting her hands. Cueball has turned back and are typing on the keyboard.]
 
:Girl: What? No, you couldn't have bleegle warble yargle arrgh!
 
:Girl: What? No, you couldn't have bleegle warble yargle arrgh!
 
:Cueball: Teehee.
 
:Cueball: Teehee.
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{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Internet]]
 
[[Category:Internet]]
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[[Category:Rickrolling]]

Revision as of 13:10, 6 August 2015

Parental Trolling
They'll pick music and culture that they know annoys you. Building in behavioral easter eggs is a fair retaliation!
Title text: They'll pick music and culture that they know annoys you. Building in behavioral easter eggs is a fair retaliation!

Explanation

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 Rickrolling. The daughter refers to this as "trolling" (part of the comics title), which is popular jargon for trying to disrupt a person or community via an action to elicit an emotional response. The humour is in that the dad reveals he has 'trolled' his daughter, thus eliciting an emotional response which perfectly displays his prank.

In this comic, the girl holds an ultra-thin tablet, a futuristic technology when released, a year before the release of the iPad. It also shows a curved computer monitor, which seems to float above the desk.

The title text refers to the conflict between teenagers and adults over music and culture, with teenagers often listening to music which annoys their parents. 'Easter egg' is a term used to describe a hidden inside joke or feature inside software. Here, the daughter has been treated like a piece of software by her father Cueball. He states that since the kids on purpose chooses music and culture that they know annoys their parents, it is a fair retaliation to build in such Easter egg responses. Many people would probably disagree on this, but maybe not so much parents with teenagers at home...

Transcript

[In a frame crossing the top border of the first panel of the comic:]
The future
[Cueball is sitting at a futuristic desktop computer with the curved screen and keyboard both floating above the table, and a girl with pigtails is standing behind him with a portable ultra-thin screen. She shows the screen to Cueball. On it is a man with dark hair.]
Girl: Hey dad, look at this old music video.
Video: We're no strangers to love...
Cueball: Wow, you got me.
[The girl now looks at the device.]
Girl: Did your generation really use this to troll people? So lame. You know, you guys sucked at pranks.
[The girl is holding the device down along her legs as Cueball turns from his computer and addresses her.]
Cueball: Did we? I once raised a kid with conditioning so her speech centers shut down when she was upset.
[The girl has dropped the device on the floor and are fisting her hands. Cueball has turned back and are typing on the keyboard.]
Girl: What? No, you couldn't have bleegle warble yargle arrgh!
Cueball: Teehee.


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Discussion

Given the other places Cueball is identified, Dad here is Cueball, yes? Mark Hurd (talk) 10:02, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Having read Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", how hard would it be to achieve this conditioning? 70.24.167.3 23:24, 30 September 2013 (UTC)

I notice that Cuball's monitor is more curvy than usual and is missing a stand, further implying that this is in the future. JohnGabrielUK (talk) 19:17, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

You *do* realize it says 'the future' in
the first panel, right?141.101.98.253 05:44, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

'"Teehee" could also be a reference to NigaHiga's YouTube channel.' Relevance? 108.162.216.106 00:11, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Hey, I like rickrolling people in 2018.Who's with me? 172.68.146.80 15:11, 9 December 2018 (UTC)