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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 517<br />
| date = December 15, 2008<br />
| title = Marshmallow Gun<br />
| image = marshmallow_gun.png<br />
| imagesize = <br />
| titletext = Except in reality crossing a stream of marshmallows would create a giant Bill Murray.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
In this comic, [[Cueball]] decides to shoot marshmallows at Megan, who promptly silences him by using a super soaker. The next day,everyone shoots marshmallows at each other in the office,which results in a huge explosion (a reference to GhostBusters, in which crossing the ghost-capturing streams would result in a huge explosion).<br />
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The title text is a further GhostBusters reference. In the movie, the GhostBusters (one of whom is played by Bill Murray) are tasked with taking down an enormous marshmallow man. The text puts forward the idea that if you were to fire marshmallows at people, the inverse would happen and an enormous Bill Murray would appear.<br />
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The super soaker originally appeared in [[220: Philosophy]].<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:Narrator: I got this gun that shoots marshmallows.<br />
:[Cueball removes a marshmallow gun from a box.]<br />
:[Cueball shoots woman with marshmallow gun from offpanel.]<br />
:<<POP POP POP>><br />
:<<WHAP WHAP WHAP>><br />
:<<POP>><br />
:[Megan sighs]<br />
:<<POP POP>><br />
:[Megan removes a super soaker from desk drawer.]<br />
:[Megan shoots offscreen man with super soaker.]<br />
:Cueball: (offscreen) AUGH!<br />
:<<FWOOSH>><br />
:Cueball: (offscreen) Man, I forgot that was there.<br />
:Narrator: The next day, everyone else got them too.<br />
:[Megan and Beret Guy brandish marshmallow guns.]<br />
:Megan: Hey noob! Eat stay-puft®!<br />
:[Megan shoots marshmallow gun.]<br />
:<<POP POP POP>><br />
:[Cueball shoots marshmallow gun.]<br />
:<<POP POP POP>><br />
:[Megan and Cueball shoot marshmallows into the air, crossing the streams of fire.]<br />
:Beret Guy: (offscreen) No, don't cross the ~<br />
:<<FOOM>><br />
:<<ROAAAR>><br />
:[Megan, Cueball, and Beret Guy are all standing with weapons pointed at the ground]<br />
:Megan: Okay, this is bad.<br />
:Offscreen: You're shooting what?<br />
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