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{{comic | {{comic | ||
| number = 472 | | number = 472 | ||
− | | date = | + | | date = May 5, 2008 |
− | | title = | + | | title = House of Pancakes |
| image = house_of_pancakes.png | | image = house_of_pancakes.png | ||
| titletext = Fuck it, I'm just going to Waffle House. | | titletext = Fuck it, I'm just going to Waffle House. | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | [[Randall]] is | + | {{incomplete}} |
+ | [[Randall]] is promoting this book {{w|House of Leaves}} on top of his original comic page. The novel is unconventional, with unusual page layout and style, including in particular the colouring of every instance of the word "house" in blue, as is done on the menu. It uses footnotes in footnotes like Randall often did joke about and doing here. | ||
− | + | But pancake also stands for "pancake landing", what is just a crash. | |
− | + | {{w|IHOP}} is the "The International House of Pancakes" and Randall has nightmares on them because he is dreaming that he did pinch that menus. | |
− | + | At the title text he is switching from pancakes to the {{w|Waffle House}}, just another restaurant chain in the US. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
:[All instances of the word "House" are in blue.] | :[All instances of the word "House" are in blue.] | ||
:[Every day a new city, a new IHOP. And yet every night the dreams get worse. I ply the highways, a nervous eye on the rear-view mirror, the back seat piled with stolen menus. Their doors are opened 24 hours, but forever closed to my soul. This is what my life has become. This is my hell.] | :[Every day a new city, a new IHOP. And yet every night the dreams get worse. I ply the highways, a nervous eye on the rear-view mirror, the back seat piled with stolen menus. Their doors are opened 24 hours, but forever closed to my soul. This is what my life has become. This is my hell.] | ||
− | :[ | + | :[sidenote left: International] House of Pancakes |
− | :[ | + | :[scribbled-out sidenote right: BLOGSPOT] Strawberry Banana Pancakes Four pancakes filled with sliced fresh banana and crowned with cool strawberry topping, more [17] bananas and [23] whipped topping. |
::[17] Driven by a nameless fear, a whisper in the dark behind me, I flee ahead of I know not what. Whenver I turn, there's nobody behind me. And yet someone is clearly stealing the ketchup. WHY? (The footnote is covered in fingerprints.) | ::[17] Driven by a nameless fear, a whisper in the dark behind me, I flee ahead of I know not what. Whenver I turn, there's nobody behind me. And yet someone is clearly stealing the ketchup. WHY? (The footnote is covered in fingerprints.) | ||
::[23] My life is feeding, fleeing, fighting, and forgetting. (The above note is sandwiched in sideways in between the Stuffed French Toast and Ham and Egg Melt.) | ::[23] My life is feeding, fleeing, fighting, and forgetting. (The above note is sandwiched in sideways in between the Stuffed French Toast and Ham and Egg Melt.) | ||
− | :[Rooty Jr. A kids only [19] version of our | + | :[Rooty Jr. A kids only [19] version of our house signature Rooty Tooty. One scrambled egg, one strip of bacon, one pork sausage link and one fruit-topped buttermilk pancake.] |
::[19] The decision not to hyphenate "kids only" is likely connected to the omission of the serial comma. I wonder if the author is British. I wonder if he sleeps at night. (The following passages are have a red substance underneath them, probably ketchup.) | ::[19] The decision not to hyphenate "kids only" is likely connected to the omission of the serial comma. I wonder if the author is British. I wonder if he sleeps at night. (The following passages are have a red substance underneath them, probably ketchup.) | ||
:[Rise 'N Shine Two eggs, toast and hash browns served with your choice [21] of two strips of bacon or two pork sausage links.] | :[Rise 'N Shine Two eggs, toast and hash browns served with your choice [21] of two strips of bacon or two pork sausage links.] | ||
− | ::[21] (illegible) rent a storage unit. Sleep there. Fill it with pancakes. Leave. | + | ::[21] (illegible) rent a storage unit. Sleep there. Fill it with pancakes. Leave. Stuffed French Toast Cinnamon raisin French [18] toast stuffed with sweet cream cheese filling, topped with cool strawberry or your choice of fruit compote and whipped topping. |
− | + | :::[18] Nightmares again. I wake up covered in sweat, and what appears to be a thin sheen of maple syrup (Handwritten, underlined) WHO IS MOHAWK GIRL? | |
− | ::[18] Nightmares again. I wake up covered in sweat, and what appears to be a thin sheen of maple syrup | ||
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:[Slanted 90 degrees left] Ham & Egg Melt Grilled sourdough bread stuffed with ham, scrambled eggs, Swiss and American cheeses. [20] (At normal orientation) | :[Slanted 90 degrees left] Ham & Egg Melt Grilled sourdough bread stuffed with ham, scrambled eggs, Swiss and American cheeses. [20] (At normal orientation) | ||
− | ::[20] Ordered this in at an IHOP in Rochester, New York. There was blood on the floor. Some of it was mine. | + | ::[20] Ordered this in at an IHOP in Rochester, New York. There was blood on the floor. Some of it was mine. (Comic strip) Enough with your pancakes. Enough with your GOD DAMN pancakes. The Big Steak Omlette Tender strips of steak, hash browns, (redacted) tomatoes and Cheddar cheese. Served [22] with house salsa. |
− | + | :::[22] Woke up in Las Vegas. They're closing the Star Trek Experience today. The IHOP up the strip had pancake platters named after various states. None of them sounded like home. | |
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− | ::[22] Woke up in Las Vegas. They're closing the Star Trek Experience today. The IHOP up the strip had pancake platters named after various states. None of them sounded like home. | ||
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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