3133: Dual Roomba
| Dual Roomba |
 Title text: I tried uploading it to a household appliance porn site I found, but apparently their content is limited to only fans. |
Explanation
A Roomba is a small household robot that was designed to clean floors. To do so, its underside is equipped with brushes and vacuums to clean the floors. Roombas are generally not meant to clean anything other than floors, but Cueball has his Roombas clean each other when they get dirty (as opposed to the simpler solution of cleaning the Roombas by hand).
When Cueball demonstrates his Roombas cleaning each other to White Hat, White Hat remarks that the cleaning Roombas look sexually suggestive. The term "Not safe for work" (NSFW) describes material, like pornography, which may not be appropriate for a general audience, and in particular the kind of workplace internet browsing that would normally be particularly discouraged because it's likely to offend colleagues and/or violate workplace policies regarding such offense. While the Roombas don't look at all like sexual organisms, their interaction evidently reminds people of sex, as they are going back and forth across each other's surfaces and change positions in the middle of it. When one Roomba is cleaning the top of the other, it looks like doggy style; when it's cleaning the bottom, it looks like missionary position or 69, depending on the orientation of the front and back.
Cueball says that the YouTube video that he posted about this trick was demonetized, meaning that the video is not allowed to generate ad revenue. This normally happens to NSFW videos, such as those with NSFW content or a large amount of profanity.
One popular monetized pornography (porn) site is called OnlyFans. The title text says that Cueball tried to upload his video to a porn site dedicated to "household appliances," but was unable to because its content was limited to only fans. This is a play on words; for the real OnlyFans site, "fans" is short for "fanatics," rather than mechanical fans. A site dedicated to household appliance porn would be an example of Rule 34 (if you can imagine it, there is porn of it). The same play on words has already been made in 1378: Turbine.
Transcript
- [Cueball holds a finger up in front of White Hat. Behind Cueball, to the right, there is a stationary Roomba on the floor.]
- Cueball: The Roomba keeps my floor clean.
- Cueball: But what do I do when the Roomba gets dirty?
- [In a frame-less panel White Hat looks over Cueball's shoulder as he has turned and gestures towards two Roombas on the floor. The new Roomba is climbing up a ramp on to the first, still stationary, Roomba. Small lines behind the climbing Roomba indicates movement.]
- Cueball: Simple:
- Cueball: I got a second Roomba and a ramp, so they can clean each other.
- [White Hat looks on as Cueball kneels down to flip the first Roomba over. He turns it on so it begins to move even though it is turned over, this is indicated with motion lines. The ramp is next to it, and the other Roomba is next to the ramp, now that one is stationary.]
- Cueball: After the tops are clean, I flip one of them over so they can clean each others’ undersides.
- [Cueball and White Hat are now watching the Roombas clean each other. The second Roomba has used the ramp behind them to climb on top of the first. Both of them are wiggling as indicated with several motion lines around them.]
- White Hat: There’s nothing NSFW about this, and yet it’s the most NSFW thing I’ve every seen.
- Cueball: Yeah, my YouTube DIY video about this got demonetized.
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wow now way i was here before the page was created ts is crazy TheTrainsKid (talk) 04:08, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
- ... I think the bot is broken? TheTrainsKid (talk) 04:33, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
- actually, nope! this behavior isn't too surprising of the bot and it definitely isn't broken. the bot sometimes has a bit of a lag when creating pages, so you might see the comic page before the talk page is created. 42.book.addictTalk to me! 04:55, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
i'm going to be honest, this is one of the first times in MONTHS that randall has been able to get a laugh out of me from his comics. keep it up, randall! miss the good old days in the 2010s when you had a lot more adult-oriented comics C: 42.book.addictTalk to me! 05:09, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
- welcome back Tori! how you doing? Caliban (talk) 11:34, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
- it's entirely possible that the last time I saw you edit this wiki was when you commented on my user page! (thanks for that) RadiantRainwing (talk) 15:18, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
- hi all, i've been doing well! see y'all around :3 42.book.addictTalk to me! 04:00, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
profanity will return to xkcd Caliban (talk) 11:34, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
- pleaseeeeeee 🙏🙏🙏 42.book.addictTalk to me! 04:00, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
- [seeks evidence justifying the creation of a "Comics Referencing Household Air Movers" category on the Contents page. :P] 205.175.118.194 20:04, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
THE RETURN OF THE LEGENDARY 42.BOOK.ADDICT! MAY SHE BRING PEACE AND UNITY TO ALL READERS AND EDITORS ALIKE! --DollarStoreBa'alConverseMy life choices 14:09, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
Caliban (talk) 15:10, 26 August 2025 (UTC)15:10, 26 August 2025 (UTC)- i'm not legendary-i just help out in areas that need some tlc! 42.book.addictTalk to me! 04:00, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
I know I shouldn't be putting reason into absurdity, but if he already has to intervene to flip one over, why not just clean it by hand? I feel like that would take just as long. 2600:4040:79DD:3A00:B489:424C:28D:8EE7 15:20, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
Re "Only Fans": would it be worth mentioning the inverse-rule-34 that happened to the [/r/onlyfans](https://reddit.com/r/onlyfans) (SFW!) Reddit? It used to be about the pornography site, but the moderators lapsed. A new moderator stepped in and converted the sub to be about the household air movers. Their title-puns are delightfully groanworthy 84.155.151.205 06:08, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
This REEKS of Randall having thought of the pun then backforming the comic to fit it. Yorkshire Pudding (talk) 10:45, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
Oddly enough, 9 months later you have another Roomba. Fephisto (talk) 14:43, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
- This concept was already explored by another webcomic--one which is linked at the bottom of every xkcd! Somewhere way back in the archives of Questionable Content is a running gag about roomba reproduction. Dextrous Fred (talk) 15:37, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
- Here, maybe ... 205.175.118.194 21:04, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
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