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[[Randall]] in the image text seems to imply that he finds it a pretty bad joke. | [[Randall]] in the image text seems to imply that he finds it a pretty bad joke. | ||
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Revision as of 23:50, 22 August 2012
Mario |
Title text: Why would anyone ever, ever say that? Please, nobody ever say that. |
Explanation
One-upmanship is the act of surpassing another person. In this case, one female character is one-upping her friend's claim of being taken on a mountain hike with a claim that she was proposed to.
Mario is the star of the Super Mario series. In the games, completing specific conditions causes a "1-up" to appear on screen, refering to an additional life. The comic relies on the homonym of the action of one-upsmanship and the event of one-ups in Mario.
Randall in the image text seems to imply that he finds it a pretty bad joke.
Discussion
Mario is not the star, Mario's the plumber. Muahaha. --Kronf (talk) 12:24, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
Am I the only person intrigued by the fact that he used European quotes («»)?162.158.79.185 22:21, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
Those aren't European; they're French. And I don't think he meant them to be quotation marks, they remind me of how the work "1-up" flashes on the screen in early mario games. That's a hard thing to represent with text, so maybe that's what he was going for. 162.158.79.185 19:07, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
- iirc chevrons are also used in Russian. 172.70.134.161 17:47, 13 February 2022 (UTC)Bumpf
Bowser is definitely better! And the trash talk is ON POINT! Nice work, Ponytail! 172.68.34.61 19:30, 6 February 2024 (UTC)