https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=71.8.89.42 2026-07-09T18:30:37Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.30.0 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1164:_Home_Alone&diff=26020 2013-01-23T16:58:30Z

<p>71.8.89.42: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 1164<br /> | date = January 23, 2013<br /> | title = Home Alone<br /> | image = home alone.png<br /> | titletext = Starring Macaulay Culkin.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> ''{{w|Home Alone}}'' is a popular movie 1990 film in which the child protagonist Kevin McCallister (portrayed by {{w|Macaulay Culkin}}) is accidentally left alone in his house when his family goes on vacation, and has to thrwart a burglary all by himself. In the movie, McCallister comes up with a variety of ingenious traps and schemes (usually involving {{w|jury rig}}ed toys and household items) to harass, injure and eventually incapacitate the burglars, which was the film's defining feature. The film spawned a {{w|Home Alone (franchise)|series of sequels}} (4 sequels as of 2012, the first of which also starring Culkin) all with a similar premise to the original.<br /> <br /> The scene depicted in the strip is an adaptation of an iconic scene from the first movie which was used heavily in advertising where McCallister hangs two paint cans from string above the staircase and when the burglars try to climb up and get him, he let's the cans swing down and hit them in the face. <br /> <br /> The films represent a classic story of the underdog (in this instance, a child) defeating a much stronger opponent (the burglars) through his own ingenuity. In this strip, [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] suggests rebooting the franchise (where a new film is made that begins a series fresh, ignoring the previous continuity of the series, and usually with some changes to update or improve the series), which has become very popular and successful these days. Randall suggests that the reboot &quot;reverse&quot; the ages so that the protagonist is an adult and the burglars are children. This obviously wouldn't work well as a movie because it would mean an adult man using his much greater strength and abilities to harm children. Randall also suggests that, as it has been more than two decades since the original film, Culkin could again play the protagonist in the reboot, as he is now in his 30s.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[Aged man standing at the head of a flight of stairs. A paint can on a rope is swinging into a child at the foot of the stairs. A child on the floor is in a semi-fetal position and crying.]<br /> :Child: Ow!!<br /> :Child on floor: Waaaaaaaaa!<br /> :Rejected movie ideas:<br /> :Age-reversed ''Home Alone'' reboot. <br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}</div>

71.8.89.42 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1150:_Instagram&diff=23264 2012-12-21T09:25:07Z

<p>71.8.89.42: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 1150<br /> | date = December 21, 2012<br /> | title = Instagram<br /> | image = instagram.png<br /> | titletext = I'm gonna call the cops and get Chad arrested for theft, then move all my stuff to the house across the street. Hopefully the owners there are more responsible.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> The comic is in response to Instagram's change to their terms of service (ToS), allowing the Facebook-owned network to sell user-uploaded images without profit to the content generators. In response, many Instagram users have chosen to either close their accounts or to cease uploading images to the network.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> <br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]</div>

71.8.89.42 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1150:_Instagram&diff=23263 2012-12-21T09:24:50Z

<p>71.8.89.42: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 1150<br /> | date = December 21, 2012<br /> | title = Instagram<br /> | image = instagram.png<br /> | titletext = I'm gonna call the cops and get Chad arrested for theft, then move all my stuff to the house across the street. Hopefully the owners there are more responsible.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> The comic is in response to Instagram's change to their terms of service (ToS), allowing the Fcaebook-owned network to sell user-uploaded images without profit to the content generators. In response, many Instagram users have chosen to either close their accounts or to cease uploading images to the network.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> <br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]</div>

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