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Beret Guy and a friend are setting up a party, with a snack table and a big banner reading "PARTY!"]]
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:[Beret Guy and a friend are setting up a party, with a snack table and a big banner reading "PARTY!"]
Friend: Everything's ready ...
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:Friend: Everything's ready ...
Friend: Except we're out of ice.
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:Friend: Except we're out of ice.
Beret Guy: I'll get some!
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:Beret Guy: I'll get some!
  
[[Beret Guy is walking down the street past a building marked Save Mart, with a bag of ice over his shoulder. Someone standing on the sidewalk calls to him.]]
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:[Beret Guy is walking down the street past a building marked Save Mart, with a bag of ice over his shoulder. Someone standing on the sidewalk calls to him.]
Person: Hey sexy. Where're you headed with all that ice?
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:Person: Hey sexy. Where're you headed with all that ice?
Beret Guy: A party!
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:Beret Guy: A party!
Person: There's a BETTER party up at my place.
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:Person: There's a BETTER party up at my place.
Beret Guy: But I--
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:Beret Guy: But I--
Person: C'mon, one drink.
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:Person: C'mon, one drink.
  
The next morning ...
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:The next morning ...
[[Beret Guy rubs eyes groggily.]]
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:[Beret Guy rubs eyes groggily.]
Beret Guy: ... ugh ... where am I?
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:Beret Guy: ... ugh ... where am I?
Beret Guy: I was supposed to--
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:Beret Guy: I was supposed to--
Beret Guy: --where's all my ice!?
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:Beret Guy: --where's all my ice!?
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:[Beret Guy looks down to find himself in a bathtub full of kidneys.]
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:Beret Guy: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
  
[[Beret Guy looks down to find himself in a bathtub full of kidneys.]]
 
Beret Guy: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
 
 
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Revision as of 15:18, 19 October 2012

Ice
On the plus side, she wrote "Welcome to the AAA Club!" in lipstick on the bathroom mirror, and left me a membership/roadside assistance card on the counter.
Title text: On the plus side, she wrote "Welcome to the AAA Club!" in lipstick on the bathroom mirror, and left me a membership/roadside assistance card on the counter.

Explanation

This comic is a reference to an old urban legend: a guy is drugged, then he awakes in an ice-filled bathtub only to discover one (or both) of their kidneys has been harvested by organ thieves [1]:.

In the comic, the situation is reversed: Beret Guy (who has just bought some ice for a party) is drugged, and he awakes in a bathtub filled with kidneys, only to discover that his ice has been harvested by a thief.

Transcript

[Beret Guy and a friend are setting up a party, with a snack table and a big banner reading "PARTY!"]
Friend: Everything's ready ...
Friend: Except we're out of ice.
Beret Guy: I'll get some!
[Beret Guy is walking down the street past a building marked Save Mart, with a bag of ice over his shoulder. Someone standing on the sidewalk calls to him.]
Person: Hey sexy. Where're you headed with all that ice?
Beret Guy: A party!
Person: There's a BETTER party up at my place.
Beret Guy: But I--
Person: C'mon, one drink.
The next morning ...
[Beret Guy rubs eyes groggily.]
Beret Guy: ... ugh ... where am I?
Beret Guy: I was supposed to--
Beret Guy: --where's all my ice!?
[Beret Guy looks down to find himself in a bathtub full of kidneys.]
Beret Guy: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


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Discussion

Well, at least he didn't lose his spleen. Davidy²²[talk] 01:30, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

I understood the AAA-Club as reference to him shouting AAAAA. I think that is something pretty common in his situation. --162.158.91.189 20:25, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

lol why would Danish need to harvest his ice anyway? And where the hell did she get a bathtub full of kidneys and an AAA membership? 108.162.215.249 22:31, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Yeah she should donate those. SilverMagpie (talk) 17:36, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
they could be *sheep* kidneys.New editor (talk) 22:19, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

I don't think this is Danish. The hair is a little different, and this situation makes more sense if she is a stranger than someone Beret Guy knows. 162.158.63.214 00:13, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

She looks exactly like Danish, and her personality is the same. Beanie (talk) 11:08, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Is this a "Danish commits an act of surreal sadism" comic or a "Beret Guy gets in a weird situation" comic? 172.70.134.91 03:53, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

don't rule out the possibility of it being both.New editor (talk) 22:18, 4 April 2022 (UTC)

beret guy rubbing his beret implies that the beret is just part of him Me[citation needed] 04:16, 13 September 2023 (UTC)