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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 442<br />
| date = June 27, 2008<br />
| title = xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel<br />
| image = xkcd_loves_the_discovery_channel.png<br />
| titletext = I love the title-text!<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This comic is a parody of the {{w|Discovery Channel}} commercial showing various clips of people singing a song with the chorus line [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0 'Boom De Yada']. The comic is divided into a grid of 4 by 6 panels, each depicting a character or situation from a previous XKCD strip. In each panel is written a part of a song similar to the song from the Discovery Channel commercial."<br />
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The campaign from the {{w|Discovery Channel}} was not called "Boom De Yada", but {{w|I Love The World}}. It's possible that the title "xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel" is in reference to that.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[The comic is in parody of the Discovery Channel commercial showing various clips of people singing a song with the chorus line "Boom De Yada."]<br />
:[The comic is divided into a grid of 4 by 6 panels, each depicting a character or situation from a previous XKCD strip.]<br />
:[In each panel is written a part of a song similar to the song from the Discovery Channel commercial.]<br />
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:Panel 1: [[162|(Reference Comic 162)]]<br />
:[Megan spinning around.]<br />
:I love momentum.<br />
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:Panel 2: [[413|(Reference Comic 413)]]<br />
:[Megan laying on floor tinkering with EEE PC hamster ball robot.]<br />
:I love to engineer.<br />
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:Panel 3: [[452|(Reference Comic 452)]]<br />
:[Beret Guy standing in bakery holding a loaf of bread in each hand, sign with "PIE!" in background.]<br />
:I love this bakery!<br />
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:Panel 4: [[239|(Reference Comic 239)]]<br />
:[Cory Doctorow in goggles and red cape flying superman-style.]<br />
:I love the blogosphere!<br />
<br />
:Panel 5: [[152|(Reference Comic 152)]]<br />
:[Cueball running in large hamster ball.]<br />
:I love the whole world<br />
<br />
:Panel 6:<br />
:[Depiction of 4chan's /b/-Random.]<br />
:And all its messed-up folks.<br />
<br />
:Panel 7: [[150|(Reference Comic 150)]]<br />
:[Cueball and Megan immersed in playpen balls.]<br />
:Boom De Yada<br />
:Boom De Yada<br />
<br />
:Panel 8:<br />
:[Mass of playpen balls with speech "I put on my robe and wizard hat" originating from it.]<br />
:Boom De Yada<br />
:Boom De Yada<br />
<br />
:Panel 9: [[72|(Reference Comic 72)]]<br />
:[Black Hat taking gift away from kid with party hat.]<br />
:I love your suffering.<br />
<br />
:Panel 10: [[153|(Reference Comic 153)]]<br />
:[Diagram showing RSA fingerprint authentication between two people.]<br />
:I love cryptography.<br />
<br />
:Panel 11: [[230|(Reference Comic 230)]]<br />
:[Cueball and Megan in bed covered by red sheet.]<br />
:I love entangled sheets.<br />
<br />
:Panel 12: (Blag or [[235|Reference Comic 235)]]<br />
:[Cueball hanging from kite string holding camera.]<br />
:And kite photography.<br />
<br />
:Panel 13: [[256|(Reference Comic 256)]]<br />
:[Map of the internet.]<br />
:I love the whole world<br />
<br />
:Panel 14: [[8|(Reference Comic 8)]]<br />
:[Cube with red spider on top.]<br />
:And all its mysteries.<br />
<br />
:Panel 15: [[303|(Reference Comic 303)]]<br />
:[Two people sword-fighting on rolling office chairs.]<br />
:Boom De Yada<br />
:Boom De Yada<br />
<br />
:Panel 16: [[263|(Reference Comic 263)]]<br />
:[Classroom with two students and Mrs. Lenhart.]<br />
:Boom De Yada<br />
:Boom De Yada<br />
<br />
:Panel 17:<br />
:[Cueball saying "Barack me Obamadeus!" to another man speaking energetically at a podium.]<br />
:I love elections.<br />
<br />
:Panel 18:<br />
:[Cueball holding schematic diagram of a transistor in front of his crotch.]<br />
:I love transistors.<br />
<br />
:Panel 19: [[69|(Reference Comic 69)]]<br />
:[Cueball and Megan in bed, Cueball saying "There ''must'' be taft slash fiction."]<br />
:I love weird pillow talk.<br />
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:Panel 20: (Reference Comic [[49]], [[279]], [[317]])<br />
:[Cueball speaking to Megan.]<br />
:I love your sister.<br />
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:Panel 21: [[249|(Reference Comic 249)]]<br />
:[Roller coaster with Cueball in front car holding chess board and thinking about a move.]<br />
:I love the whole world.<br />
<br />
:Panel 22: [[167|(Reference Comic 167)]]<br />
:[Beret Guy standing in the midst of leafless trees.]<br />
:The future's pretty cool!<br />
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:Panel 23: [[108|(Reference Comic 108)]]<br />
:[Megan doing the MC Hammer slide towards Cueball.]<br />
:Boom De Yada<br />
:Boom De Yada<br />
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:Panel 24: [[409|(Reference Comic 409)]]<br />
:[Cueball and Megan on an electric skateboard.]<br />
:Boom De Yada<br />
:Boom De Yada<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
*This comic was enacted by Olga Nunes and various famous people as [http://www.olganunes.com/xkcd ''We Love xkcd''].<br />
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