1751: Movie Folder

2016-10-26T15:11:59Z

Piderman: /* Black Hat's downloaded movies */

{{comic
| number = 1751
| date = October 26, 2016
| title = Movie Folder
| image = movie_folder.png
| titletext = That's actually the original Japanese version of A Million Random Digits, which is much better than the American remake the book was based on.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|First draft}}

[[Cueball]] is looking through [[Black Hat]]'s downloaded movies, which are all adaptations of non-literary works, improbable sequels, and/or crossovers between very disparate properties. Cueball reacts with increasing incredulity to Black Hat's collection, while Black Hat casually responds with equally unlikely (non-)explanations. Knowing Black Hat, his movie folder is deliberately weird just to provoke this kind of reaction.

=== Black Hat's downloaded movies ===
{|class="wikitable"
! Title
! Explanation
|-
| ''Lorem Ipsum: The Movie''
|
|-
| ''Titanic XCVIII'' || Implies that there were 98 Titanics which all sank, creating an artificial reef
|
|-
| ''Debbie Did 9/11'' || A combination of ''Debbie Does Dallas'' and a 9/11 conspiracy theory
|
|-
| ''Time Jam: A Connecticut Huskie on King Arthur's Court'' || A combination of ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Author's Court'' and ''Space Jam''
|
|-
| ''Harold and Kumar Go to Howl's Moving Castle'' || A combination of ''Harold and Kumar go to White Castle'' and ''Howl's Moving Castle''
|
|-
| ''A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates'' || This is actually [https://www.amazon.com/Million-Random-Digits-Normal-Deviates/dp/0833030477 a real book]
|
|-
| ''Michael Bay's The Vagina Monologues'' || ''The Vagina Monologues'' as directed by Michael Bay (who is known for over-doing explosions in the movies he directs)
|
|}

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript}}

:[Black Hat is sitting in a chair reading his phone.]
:Cueball (off-panel): Your movie folder is so ''weird''. Where do you find all this stuff?
:Black Hat: Dunno.
:Black Hat: Around.

:[Cueball is sitting at a computer.]
:Cueball: ''Lorem Ipsum: The Movie?''
:Cueball: ''Titanic XCVIII?''
:Black Hat (off-panel): That series gets good when they start hitting the reef created by all the previous wrecks.

:[Cueball leans in closer to the screen.]
:Cueball: ''Debbie Did 9/11?''
:Cueball: ''Time Jam: A Connecticut Huskie on King Arthur's Court?''
:Black Hat: Really underrated ''Space Jam'' sequel.

:[Close-up of Cueball's head and the monitor.]
:Cueball: ''Harold and Kumar Go to Howl's Moving Castle?''
:Cueball: ''A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates?''
:Black Hat: That's the original--the book was a novelization.

:[Back to Black Hat sitting in the chair.]
:Cueball (off-panel): ''Michael Bay's The Vagina Monologues!?''
:Black Hat: It's pretty good, despite all the CGI explosions.

{{comic discussion}}

Talk:1483: Quotative Like

2015-02-06T05:53:10Z

Piderman:

That second panel is, like, depressing. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.185|108.162.249.185]] 05:19, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

I found [http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/01/25/linguists-are-like-get-used/ruUQoV0XUTLDjx72JojnBI/story.html the article]. [[User:Piderman|Piderman]] ([[User talk:Piderman|talk]]) 05:53, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

explain xkcd - User contributions [en]

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