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<p>Justice: /* Transcript */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 2396<br /> | date = December 9, 2020<br /> | title = Wonder Woman 1984<br /> | image = wonder_woman_1984.png<br /> | titletext = 'Wait, why would you think a movie set in 1984 would do drive-ins as a retro promotion?' 'You know, 80s stuff. Drive-in movies. Britney Spears doing the hustle. Elvis going on Ed Sullivan and showing off his pog collection.' 'What year were you born, again?'<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> {{incomplete|Created by Walter Mondale. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> <br /> The comic is fairly self-explanatory. Ponytail has shut off all news sites for the sake of a movie, and, improbably, has not ventured outside enough to discover that grocery stores, restaurants, and other public establishments are in fact radically altered. <br /> <br /> The title text shows Ponytail’s even more remarkable historical imagination. According to Wikipedia, {{w|drive-in theaters}} were in fact in decline in the 80s due to the advent of cable TV, VCRs, and home video, {{w|Britney Spears}} was popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, {{w|pogs}} under that name peaked in the mid-1990s, and Elvis’s appearance on the ''Ed Sullivan Show''- one of the pivotal moments of American pop culture- occurred on September 9, 1956. We, who have not the wit of Ponytail, can only dream of a world in which all these wonders were united.<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> {{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br /> :[Ponytail sitting at a desk, chatting with Cueball (off-screen) on a laptop]<br /> :Ponytail: Just two weeks until I see ''Wonder Woman 1984'', learn who the Democratic nominee was, and find out how the election went.<br /> :Cueball: Huh?<br /> <br /> :[Close-up on Ponytail]<br /> :Ponytail: To avoid spoilers, I blocked all news sites ahead of the November 2019 release.<br /> :Ponytail: But then they bumped the date on my ticket to June 2020, and now December 25th.<br /> :Ponytail: It also moved to a drive-in theater? Some retro promotion, maybe.<br /> <br /> :[Cueball on his laptop, chatting with Ponytail (off-screen) on a laptop]<br /> :Cueball: Wait, you haven't seen '''''any''''' news?<br /> :Ponytail: Nope!<br /> :Cueball: So you don't know about -<br /> :Ponytail: '''''No spoilers!'''''<br /> <br /> :[Back to Ponytail sitting at a desk, chatting with Cueball (off-screen) on a laptop]<br /> :Cueball: Okay. Just...<br /> :Cueball: Bring a mask, in case you need to get out of the car.<br /> :Ponytail: Oh, I'll have a full '''''costume!''''' But it's a tiara, not a mask.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br /> [[Category:COVID-19]]<br /> [[Category:Fiction]]</div>

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