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Revision as of 03:43, 7 August 2014
| Beautiful Dream |
 Title text: Lucky. In MY dream, all the people who grew up loving The Giving Tree paired up with all the students who had weird dreams after reading The Metamorphosis. That one was more confusing. |
Explanation
The Rules is a reference to the book that is pretty clear when you read the sub-title: "Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right". And naturally, The Game is also given away by the sub-title: "Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists". There is some social commentary there about how the men's book is about pickup artists and the women's book is about "finding Mr. Right." The joke here being that these two groups get together and stop bothering normal people with ideas on dating which some might find annoying.
The title text takes a surrealist step with Cueball's response to Megan. The Giving Tree is a children's book by Shel Silverstein about the relationship between a tree and a young boy who grows to be an old man. The Metamorphosis is a work of fiction by Franz Kafka in which a travelling salesman wakes up to find that he has been turned into a nondescript giant bug.
Transcript
- [Megan with disheveled hair stretches her arms. A sunburst indicating sleepiness is above her head.]
- YAWN
- Megan: I just woke up
- [Megan continues speaking from off panel, to Cueball who's sitting at a table with a laptop and cup. He's leaned his elbow on the chair, turning to face Megan.]
- Megan: from the most beautiful dream.
- Cueball: Which was?
- Megan: All the girls who read and follow The Rules and all the guys who swear by the techniques in The Game paired off with each other and left the rest of us alone forever.
- Cueball: Mmmmmm...
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refresh comments!Discussion
I lost the Game. 108.162.215.84 09:47, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
- same here!108.162.249.220 01:55, 25 September 2014 (UTC)
- I'm seriously surprised. I only discovered it ~4 comics ago. 108.162.238.187 11:59, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
- How have you not gone start to finish by this point? Are you bogosorting the comic??108.162.215.156 21:31, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
- https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/391:_Anti-Mindvirus 172.68.154.88 15:23, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
- Wrong version of "The Game."108.162.216.116 19:00, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- Me too. I had been winning for several hours!
- Darn, I lost it too! KirbyDude25 (talk) 19:44, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
I do not get this comic explanation at all. Can someone please clarify? What are the subtitles?? WHY DO THE NAMES OF THE BOOKS SEEM COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO ANYTHING AT ALL??? I know a little bit about what The Game is. I do not care about losing it, I just want an adequate explanation. -- 625571b7-aa66-4f98-ac5c-92464cfb4ed8 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- The books and the important sentences need more details -- but wikipedia links are common.--Dgbrt (talk) 15:31, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
I added some explanation of the books, but didn't address the discussion of the alt text. 108.162.245.136 02:54, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
