805: Paradise City

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Paradise City
Take me down to the paradise municipality   where the grass is mauve and the girls aren't fromthisreality.
Title text: Take me down to the paradise municipality where the grass is mauve and the girls aren't fromthisreality.

Explanation

Transcript

[A stick figure sits on a box playing a guitar and singing]
Singer: Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.
Singer: Take me down to the paradise village where the grass is green and the cute girls pillage.
Singer: Take me down to the fire-charred counties where the law's restored by Canadian mounties.
Singer: Take me down to Orwellian regions where they retrain girls using cortical lesions
Singer: 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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Discussion

"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)