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Beret Guy tells Ponytail about the new medication he’s using, with the normal side effect of sensitivity to sun exposure and the far less normal sensitivity to gravitational waves.  At first she doesn’t realize the second part is abnormal, and when she realizes Beret Guy starts to exhibit the stretching and squishing of a gravitational wave, but by visible amounts.
  
 
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Revision as of 02:59, 20 June 2026

Side Effect
Brace yourself--the chirp gets pretty weird.
Title text: Brace yourself--the chirp gets pretty weird.

Explanation

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Beret Guy tells Ponytail about the new medication he’s using, with the normal side effect of sensitivity to sun exposure and the far less normal sensitivity to gravitational waves. At first she doesn’t realize the second part is abnormal, and when she realizes Beret Guy starts to exhibit the stretching and squishing of a gravitational wave, but by visible amounts.

Transcript

[Beret Guy is standing to the right of Ponytail.]
Beret Guy: This new topical medication makes me extra sensitive to sun exposure and gravitational waves.
[Beret Guy's arms are out.]
Ponytail: Oh yeah, that's a common ...wait, what was that last part?
Beret Guy: Here comes one now!
[Beret Guy is stretched out in height, then he gets shorter and wider, then stretched out again.]
Beret Guy: WHEEE!

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Discussion

FIRST COMMENT! YZ100 2:07, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

I do believe this takes the cake from Doppler Effect as my all time favorite. Jjj (talk) 02:43, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

The Doppler Effect one was a good one. YZ100 (talk) 2:51, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

I tried my best to add a little bit of an explanation, it’s probably not very good and it’s certainly missing some stuff, but at least there’s something now.IllegallyNamed (talk) 03:01, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

even the hat changes. I guess its part of him Student Driver (talk) 03:22, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

I've added a (probably massively incorrect) detail on "The chirp". Someone with better understanding of black holes will probably need to amend it! 161.65.236.209 05:46, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

His beret expands and shrinks because it's stapled to his head -- his head underneath it is expanding and shrinking, dragging the top of the beret with it. 142.134.94.223 16:23, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

Would Beret Guy be experiencing discomfort from these distortions of spacetime? If it was caused by something like the tidal forces at differing distances from a nearby neutron star or black hole, large enough to cause that much stretching, I'd expect it to be very harmful. BunsenH (talk) 20:14, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
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