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+ | :Off-panel: Oh, crap, I deleted the file! | ||
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+ | :Turtle (thinking): I am a turtle. | ||
− | [There is a turtle.] | + | :[There is a turtle.] |
+ | :Off-panel: No, wait, there it is. | ||
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+ | :Turtle (thinking): I am a turtle. | ||
− | [There is a turtle.] | + | :[There is a turtle.] |
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Revision as of 06:30, 30 October 2012
Turtles |
Title text: You're a turtle! |
Explanation
This references how laid back turtles are. While an offscreen character is panicking over deleting a file, the turtle sits content with just being a turtle. Fifty years later it is still content with being a turtle. The title text is perhaps exhorting us all to be like turtles and just be content with our lot in life.
Transcript
- [There is a turtle.]
- Off-panel: Oh, crap, I deleted the file!
- [There is a turtle.]
- Turtle (thinking): I am a turtle.
- [There is a turtle.]
- Off-panel: No, wait, there it is.
- [There is a turtle.]
- Turtle (thinking): I am a turtle.
- [There is a turtle.]
- 50 Years Later:
- Turtle (thinking): I am a turtle.
- Caption: Turtles have it figured out, man.
Discussion
I don't think turtles possess that level of sentience, but whatever. Seems legit. Davidy²²[talk] 10:10, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
- "I am a turtle"
- -The Turtle
- :) - St.nerol (talk) 23:50, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
- I don’t think “sentience is actually the right word for that, it should be sapie-WOAH 2013???? 162.158.106.95 22:07, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
- ye this website's been here for a while 172.70.178.47 00:51, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
Plot twist...off screen character is a turtle... 199.27.129.17 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
I always interpreted it as the human spends their short life worrying about the smallest of things, yet eve a long time after the events of this the turtle is perfectly fine being such - and has all the time in the world to do so. 108.162.216.89 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
I just realized that the official transcript describing the scene says simply There is a turtle. which perfectly compliments the comic and is high caliber humor on Randall's part --Lackadaisical (talk) 12:33, 12 July 2017 (UTC)