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| title = Potential | | title = Potential | ||
| image = potential.png | | image = potential.png | ||
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| titletext = The bunch of disadvantaged kids I was tutoring became too good at writing, and their essays were forcing me to confront painful existential questions, so I started trying to turn them on to drugs and crime instead. | | titletext = The bunch of disadvantaged kids I was tutoring became too good at writing, and their essays were forcing me to confront painful existential questions, so I started trying to turn them on to drugs and crime instead. | ||
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | This comic jokes about | + | This comic jokes about what a student could potentially create if they were working at their full potential. Instead of something like a better essay or a better {{w|science fair}} project, this student creates a 6-legged, car-destroying, helicopter-shooting monster robot. |
− | + | The moral of the comic is for students to not live up to their potential, because the havoc that results from doing so far outweighs the benefits of lethargy. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :Narrator: When teachers complain | + | :Narrator: When teachers complain "You're not working at your full potential!" |
− | :[Explosion in background | + | :[Explosion in background] |
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:Narrator: Don't take it too hard. | :Narrator: Don't take it too hard. | ||
− | :[ | + | :[car casually spirals through the air while a crash is heard in the background] |
− | + | :Narrator: They complain *way* more when you do. | |
− | :Narrator: They complain | + | :[A mechanized, 6-tentacled robot rampages around, picking up cars and creating a small warzone before the student inside while the lamentations of people and :the building of military forces are in the background] |
− | :[A mechanized, 6-tentacled robot rampages around, picking up cars and creating a small warzone before the student inside while the lamentations of people and the building of military forces are in the background | ||
:Throughout the third frame: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! | :Throughout the third frame: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! | ||
:In the control center of the robot: Click, beep, whirr | :In the control center of the robot: Click, beep, whirr | ||
:Out-of-frame: It's headed this way! | :Out-of-frame: It's headed this way! | ||
− | :Ponytail: Somebody stop him! | + | :Ponytail-like-character: Somebody stop him! |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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