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Revision as of 12:18, 23 January 2016
Five-Minute Comics: Part 4 |
Accidentally posted on imgs.xkcd.com by website management in place of 940: Oversight. |
Explanation
This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Rough draft. An explanation of EmTron 3000 and most of the transcript still missing completely. If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks. |
This is an accidentally published "five-minute comic" by Randall that was released as an oversight by the Management of the xkcd website, then was permanently cached by one of the unofficial xkcd browsers for Android, instead of the correct comic 940: Oversight. Interestingly, it contains an early version of 942: Juggling, which was published less than a week after this comic, thus indicating that this indeed a true unpublished Randall comic.
- The first comic shows what appears to be a dramatic stand-off between two baseball players. One of them appears to be holding a tennis racquet instead of a glove, which would explain the fact that no on has scored any points yet.
- "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?" is a television game show where the contestant has to answer questions a 5th grader should be able to answer, but an adult has generally long since forgotten because of the subject's little use in everyday life. The comic shows a similar show, with "smarter" replaced by "sluttier". The contestant hopes the answer is "yes", as sluttiness is generally viewed as a very negative trait, especially for children, due to its "mature" nature.
- The comic below puts together two phrases "Muslim call to prayer" and "call for papers". The former, known as adhan, is called out by a muezzin from the mosque five times a day, traditionally from the minaret (a tall spire typical for mosques, depicted in the comic), summoning Muslims for mandatory worship. The latter refers to the announcement of an academic conference, when prospective presenters are instructed how to submit their abstracts and papers. The result is a muezzin announcing a submission deadline instead of the usual religious verses.
- The comic on the right refers to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, where Dorothy (the little girl) is captured in a cyclone that transports her, along with her farmhouse, into the Land of Oz.
- "Evolution has not prepared humans/me/us/men/women to..." is a common excuse by some people to justify their behaviour by blaming it on basic instincts over which they have no control. Not pooping in other people's floor lamps is something most people are sufficiently evolved to be capable of [citation needed].
- The comic to the right shows two characters preparing for a duel. One of them activates their lightsaber, a weapon from the Star Wars franchise. The other one follows by turning on a flash-light, which superficially resembles a lightsaber in their deactivated state, but serves quite different purpose.
- "Jack and Jill went up the hill / To fetch a pail of water. / Jack fell down and broke his crown, / And Jill came tumbling after." is a traditional English nursery rhyme. San Juan Hill is the site of a decisive battle of the Spanish-American War.
- The comic at the bottom is an early version of 942: Juggling.
Here is a complete list of the comics in the entire Five-minute comics series:
- 819: Five-Minute Comics: Part 1
- 820: Five-Minute Comics: Part 2
- 821: Five-Minute Comics: Part 3
- Five-Minute Comics: Part 4
Transcript
Comic #1
Comic #2
Comic #3
Comic #4
Comic #5
Comic #6
Comic #7
Comic #8
- [The panel shows a close up of Cueball reading a book. The book is called "How To Juggle" and has a picture of a person juggling on the cover.]
- [The view now shows the entirety of Cueball. A book is on the floor behind them, and he is holding some juggling balls.]
- [Cueball throws the juggling balls in the air.]
- [He lowers his arms to prepare to catch the balls. The balls are still hovering in mid-air.]
- [Cueball now stands with his arms by his sides. The balls have not moved and are still suspended in mid-air.]
- [Cueball jumps, trying to grab the lowest ball. He can't reach.]
- [Cueball scratches his head and stares at the still floating juggling balls.]
- [Cueball throws the book into a trash can.]
Discussion
How is this unpublished? Although only through an app, this comic has still been issued for distribution to the public, therefore, by definition, published. Forrest (talk)14:41, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the great explanation (also by but not just by Forrest). I found the link to it from the explanation for 940, and though we really lacked this page. As I did not know all the info I just called it unpublished. And then I actually hoped that someone would explain this comic, and you all did, and it is a great work. Especially finding out why it is here etc. Thanks :-) And great that it was saved because some of them are really funny --Kynde (talk) 21:06, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
I just wanted to add that the forum post about this comic notes that this comic was accidentally posted by the site admins for xkcd, then later replaced with the current version of the comic, i.e. 940: Oversight. The direct image URL for this comic now points to this image. Thus, the comic was not published through the unofficial xkcd app or anything like that; the more likely scenario is that the app downloaded the comic when it became available and cached it, so when the comic was replaced with 940: Oversight, the app did not update it. 108.162.238.82 03:58, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
Isn't the joke in the first comic that one of the players is holding a tennis racquet and the other a baseball bat? 141.101.66.227 08:07, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Concerning the Muezzin calling for "submission" instead of prayer - has anyone noticed yet that the arabic word for "submission" is "Islam"? Seems more deliberate than accidental to me. 141.101.76.58 14:03, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
- Of course it's deliberate. It's referring to submission to Allah - most deistic religions call for some form of submission to their God or gods.172.69.194.227 13:59, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
- Oh wait, sorry, I think I get what you mean now! 172.70.86.79 14:15, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
I don't know if anyone else thought this, but in the last panel of the "Wizard of Oz" comic, I thought that Dorothy had some sort of knife sticking out of the top of her skull, presumably thrown by the robot as an attack. It took me a while to realise that it's actually (probably) just one of her pigtails. 172.71.242.137 14:38, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
Trivia
- The original image link now shows the following message:
- Sorry!
- Minor glitch in the universe.
- Nothing to see here. Move along!
- --Management