805: Paradise City
| Paradise City |
 Title text: Take me down to the paradise municipality / where the grass is mauve and the girls aren't fromthisreality. |
Explanation
Cueball is singing the opening lines of Guns N' Roses' 1987 song "Paradise City". Here, he changes the word "city" in every panel with a synonym, and then completes the lyric with a new rhyme, usually an awkward one because he has chosen difficult words to rhyme with. As the song continues, the "paradise city" goes through an increasingly dark progression into chaos and then dystopic totalitarianism.
The "Orwellian regions" line is a reference to the George Orwell book Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which a totalitarian government enforces loyalty in its citizen through brainwashing.
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Transcript
- [Cueball sits on a box playing a guitar and singing.]
- Cueball: Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.
- Cueball: Take me down to the paradise village where the grasses burn and the cute girls pillage.
- Cueball: Take me down to the fire-charred counties where the law's restored by Canadian mounties.
- Cueball: Take me down to Orwellian regions where they retrain girls using cortical lesions
- Cueball: Take me down to the paradise borough where the grass is labeled 'cause the girls are thorough. Ohh, won't you please take me hooome...
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"cortical lesions" may refer to the "Uglies", a 2005 science fiction Orwellian novel by Scott Westerfeld, as it turns out populations is controlled by the way of surgery lesions in the brain to make the people placid --JakubNarebski (talk) 22:20, 9 April 2014 (UTC) Or it could refer to River Tam (e.g. https://xkcd.com/311/ or https://xkcd.com/406/) 172.69.42.130 (talk) 03:12, 25 September 2020 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Anyone notice that the third panel preshadowed the Vancouver riots? 108.162.250.223 (talk) 05:53, 13 September 2014 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
edit: moved previously added information to proper paragraph in explanation 108.162.216.84 03:11, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
I have the feeling that the grass in the last panel is different varieties of marijuana, which the girls have thoroughly labeled as such. Consumption of this grass would lead to the sensation described in the title text. 173.245.53.105 16:21, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
Take me down to the land of Mordor/Where Sauron makes rings and puts in backdoors {)|(}Quill{)|(} 15:24, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
