#Explain gag me with a spoon full#
#Explain gag me with a spoon tv#

#Explain gag me with a spoon full#

This way, papers with space restraints can chop off the top of the comic and run the bottom 2/3 and still have a full joke, and those with a bit more can run the full comic.Īnd yeah, when it went into book form, because they probably wanted to keep the Sunday strips to one single page, because of the difference in height/width with a book page as opposed to a portion of a newspaper page, caused them to rearrange the panels a bit. They're usually split into two parts: the top third (usually a couple of panels) will contain a small, seperate joke that has nothing to do with the rest of the strip. I don't even KNOW what this is except 'Hey guys, Star Wars! Sex! AMIRITE?' Reply Deleteįemalethoth, that's likely what happened. This is one step below that because at least that has a pun in it and therefore some semblance of a joke. Really? Vader has a Force choke so what if he used it for sex purposes? This is like.one step above Luke flying in an X-wing with a bunch of silverware and saying 'I thought you said 'May the FORKS be with you!'' Actually I take it back. God damn it Randall if you're going to make sex jokes at least do some fucking research.Ĥ. This is why people who are actually into erotic asphyxiation use nooses, scarves, plastic bags, and other tools, because putting your own hands around your neck is pointless. In the same vein, Vader's Force choke would magically disappear as he lost consciousness, ALSO preventing him from choking himself, so the joke DOESN'T EVEN WORK. A regular person trying to choke his/herself would have their body go limp when the brain lost enough oxygen, releasing the grip they have on their own neck, preventing them from choking themselves. But still, how much work would it have taken to draw like one of those futuristic pod bay doors or something and a giant monitor with the Wikipedia entry instead of a laptop computer at a desk?ģ. Why is this happening in a regular house? Isn't Star Wars a long time ago in a galaxy far far away? Shouldn't Vader be on the Death Star, or Coruscant, or something in space? Oh wait, that would require effort to draw.silly me. But what? So Vader can't use his Force choke on himself without a mirror? What sense does that make? Does he not know where his own friggin' neck is?Ģ. The mirror is obviously there for a reason, as there's no other detail in the room, meaning he drew it for a purpose. I think Carl is back to posting on Friday's comic, so Happy New Year's, bitches, and perhaps I'll sneak a little hamster action onto the blog in the next few days.Ī few thoughts occurred to me upon reading this.ġ. I'll admit that's extremely pedantic and nitpicky of me, but considering xkcd's target audience is exactly the sort of folks who would be pedantic and nitpicky about Star Wars stuff, I think it's worth pointing out. Maybe I'm way off-base here, but it doesn't seem likely to me that someone who is essentially living in a giant iron lung would be attracted to the idea of auto-erotic asphyxiation.

Part of the reason he wears the suit is because he can't fucking breathe without it. The joke was also diminished for me by this little fact: When Anakin falls onto the lava during his duel with Obi-Wan on Mustafar, his lungs were seared. Drawing him so that he looks like a skinny midget really spoils the joke. Handwave away the shitty art all you want, but to me a big part of the humor in the idea of Vader erotically force-choking himself to death is the fact that he's such a powerful, bad ass dude. Now look at xkcd-Vader flipped to compare him to the paramedics: That was a big part of what made him so intimidating- he wasn't just a dude in a crazy armored suit(stormtroopers had suits, too,) he was a dude in a HUGE armored suit. Why the hell is Vader so tiny? Darth Vader was 6'8'.

#Explain gag me with a spoon tv#

I guess I should be all like 'GOOMH, Randy!!! I totally watched Star Wars on TV during the holidays, too!' I went over to the forums to see if that's what his fans are doing, and instead got treated to a discussion of Darth Vader and Padme masturbation and god fucking DAMN IT. I did kind of luck out in the respect that I'm a Star Wars nerd. That's right, this xkcd literally broke my heart.

I have been having heart palpitations all day, so I am really not in the mood to discuss this comic.