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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2751<br />
| date = March 17, 2023<br />
| title = March Madness<br />
| image = march_madness_2x.png<br />
| imagesize = 593x333px<br />
| noexpand = true<br />
| titletext = My bracket has 76 trombones led by John Philip Sousa facing off against thousands of emperor penguins led by Morgan Freeman.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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[[Randall]] has created [[:Category:Tournament bracket|yet another]] {{w|Tournament bracket|single-elimination tournament bracket}}. This time, everything in the bracket relates to the word March. The first section has things that are named after March.<br />
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{{w|NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|March Madness}} is a college basketball tournament played each spring in the US.<br />
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{{w|March Hare|The March Hare}} is a character famous for appearing in the tea party scene in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.<br />
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{{w|Middlemarch|Middlemarch}}, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot.<br />
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{{w|Ides of March|The Ides of March}}, is the 74th day of the Roman Calendar, corresponding to March 15th, and is notorious for being the date Julius Caesar was assassinated<br />
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The Lower left quadrant all refers to the {{w|Seventy-Six Trombones|Seventy-six Trombones}}, which is a marching band piece and the signature song from the 1957 musical ''The Music Man''. Along with the titular 76 trombones, the piece is also meant to be played with 110 coronets, more than a thousand reeds, and fifty mounted cannon.<br />
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{{w|March of Dimes|March of Dimes}} is a charity program advocating for moms and babies.<br />
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{{w|March of the Toy Soldiers|March of the Toy Soldiers}} is a musical piece from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.<br />
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{{w|March of the Penguins|March of the Penguins}} is a 2005 nature documentary directed by Luc Jacquet.<br />
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{{w|Ent|The Last March of the Ents}} is a scene in the Lord of the Rings: The Two towers, where ents, fictional treelike creatures march against Isengard.<br />
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Wedding March may refer to {{w|Wedding March (Mendelssohn)|Felix Mendelssohn's musical composition in C Major}}, or as a more general description of a bridal chorus as the bride enters a wedding.<br />
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{{w|Funeral March|Funeral March}} is a musical genre, usually in a minor key, in a slow "simple duple" metre, imitating the solemn pace of a funeral procession.<br />
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{{w|The Imperial March|The Imperial March}} is a theme from Star Wars which often plays when characters from the empire, particularly large batches of storm troopers, are on screen.<br />
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{{w|Nissan Micra|The Nissan March}} is a supermini car produced in Japan.<br />
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In the alt text, Randall claims his bracket has 76 trombones being led by Sousa (a famous bandleader; the lead character in "The Music Man" claims that he led the supposed parade) against the March of the Penguins, led by Morgan Freeman (who narrated the English release of the film).<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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:[A tournament bracket tree is shown with 16 competitors, 8 on the left and 8 on the right side]<br />
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:[Left side:]<br />
:Madness<br />
:Hare<br />
<br />
:Middle<br />
:Ides<br />
<br />
:76 Trombones<br />
:110 Cornets<br />
<br />
:1000+ Reeds<br />
:50 Mounted Cannon<br />
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:[Right side:]<br />
:Dimes<br />
:Toy Soldiers<br />
<br />
:Ents<br />
:Penguins<br />
<br />
:Wedding<br />
:Funeral<br />
<br />
:Imperial<br />
:Nissan<br />
<br />
Alt Text: My bracket has 76 trombones led by John Philip Sousa facing off against thousands of emperor penguins led by Morgan Freeman.<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Tournament bracket]]</div>Softshadehttps://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2751:_March_Madness&diff=3087942751: March Madness2023-03-17T19:57:28Z<p>Softshade: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2751<br />
| date = March 17, 2023<br />
| title = March Madness<br />
| image = march_madness_2x.png<br />
| imagesize = 593x333px<br />
| noexpand = true<br />
| titletext = My bracket has 76 trombones led by John Philip Sousa facing off against thousands of emperor penguins led by Morgan Freeman.<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a PENGUIN OVERLORD - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
[[Randall]] has created [[:Category:Tournament bracket|yet another]] {{w|Tournament bracket|single-elimination tournament bracket}}. This time, everything in the bracket relates to the word March. <br />
{{w|NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|March Madness}} is a college basketball tournament played each spring in the US. <br />
The March Hare is a character famous for appearing in the tea party scene in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.<br />
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by the English author George Eliot.<br />
The Ides of March, is the 74th day of the Roman Calendar, corresponding to March 15th, and is notorious for being the date Julius Caesar was assassinated<br />
<br />
Seventy-six Trombones is a marching band piece and the signature song from the 1957 musical ''The Music Man''. The piece is also meant to be played with 110 coronets, more than a thousand reeds, and fifty mounted cannon.<br />
<br />
March of Dimes is a charity program advocating for moms and babies.<br />
March of the Toy Soldiers is a musical piece from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.<br />
March of the Penguins is 2005 nature documentary directed by Luc Jacquet.<br />
The Last March of the Ents is a scene in the Lord of the Rings: The Two towers, where ents, fictional treelike creatures march against Isengard.<br />
<br />
Wedding March may refer to Felix Mendelssohn's musical composition in C Major, or as a more general description of a bridal chorus as the bride enters a wedding.<br />
Funeral March is a musical genre, usually in a minor key, in a slow "simple duple" metre, imitating the solemn pace of a funeral procession.<br />
The Imperial March is a theme from Star Wars which often plays when characters from the empire, particularly large batches of storm troopers. are on screen.<br />
The Nissan March is a supermini car produced in Japan<br />
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The first section has things that are named after March. March Madness is the tournament inspiring this comic. March Hare is the rabbit from Lewis Carrol's ''Alice in Wonderland''. Middlemarch is a novel by the English author Mary Anne Evans, under the pseudonym George Eliot, titled ''Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life''. The Ides of March is March 15th, infamous for being the day Caesar was assassinated.<br />
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The second section come from the lyrics of "Seventy Six Trombones" from the 1957 musical "The Music Man," about the instruments in an imagined parade. The opening line of that song states that "76 trombones led the big parade, with 110 cornets close behind". Later in the song the lyrics "there were more than a thousand reeds springing up like weeds" and "there were fifty mounted cannon in the battery" inspire the next match up.<br />
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The third section are more things named after marches, in the form of March of [blank]. March of Dimes is a non-profit that aims to help women and babies. March of the Toy Soldiers is a song from The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky. The last march of the Ents is from the Lord of the Rings when the ent males go to battle. March of the Penguins was a 2005 French nature documentary.<br />
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The last section are things named after March in the form [blank] March. Wedding March is a song by Felix Mendelssohn. A Funeral March is a genre of marches that are slow and generally in a minor key.The Imperial March is a song from the Star Wars series written by John Williams, initially used as Darth Vader's theme. The Nissan March is a super mini 4-door, also marketed as the Nissan Micra.<br />
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In the alt text, Randall claims his bracket has 76 trombones being led by Sousa (who the lead character in "The Music Man" claims led the supposed parade) against the March of the Penguins, led by Morgan Freeman (who narrated the English release of the film).<br />
<br />
==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
<br />
:[A tournament bracket tree is shown with 16 competitors, 8 on the left and 8 on the right side]<br />
<br />
:[Left side:]<br />
:Madness<br />
:Hare<br />
<br />
:Middle<br />
:Ides<br />
<br />
:76 Trombones<br />
:110 Cornets<br />
<br />
:1000+ Reeds<br />
:50 Mounted Cannon<br />
<br />
:[Right side:]<br />
:Dimes<br />
:Toy Soldiers<br />
<br />
:Ents<br />
:Penguins<br />
<br />
:Wedding<br />
:Funeral<br />
<br />
:Imperial<br />
:Nissan<br />
<br />
Alt Text: My bracket has 76 trombones led by John Philip Sousa facing off against thousands of emperor penguins led by Morgan Freeman.<br />
<br />
{{comic discussion}}<br />
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