1560: Bubblegum - Revision history

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CategoryGeneral at 03:32, 28 November 2024

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Tromag at 20:04, 2 June 2023

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Davidy22: Reverted edits by Davidjanny22 (talk) to last revision by 162.158.78.75

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Reverted edits by Davidjanny22 (talk) to last revision by 162.158.78.75

Davidjanny22 at 16:58, 1 June 2022

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162.158.78.75: wrong use of word

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wrong use of word

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Ex Kay Cee Dee at 20:24, 4 May 2022

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic spoofs the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/quotes iconic quote] from the 1988 action movie ''{{w|They Live}}'', where the armed protagonist, upon entering a bank, states that "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum." This implies that the protagonist will soon fight the people in the bank, as he cannot do the other objective he came there for (chewing bubble gum). This phrase has been quoted and modified often enough that it's often mistakenly attributed to other sources.
+This comic spoofs the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/quotes iconic quote] from the 1988 action movie ''{{w|They Live}}'', where the armed protagonist, upon entering a bank, states that "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum." The entire line is a thinly veiled threat of violence between the action hero protagonist and the other people in the bank (actually alien invaders in disguise) as he cannot do the other objective he supposedly came there for (chewing bubble gum). This phrase has been quoted and modified often enough that it's often mistakenly attributed to other sources.
 Former wrestler Rowdy {{w|Roddy Piper}}, who played the protagonist in ''They Live'', died five days prior to the publication of this comic so this comic is most likely a [[:Category:Tribute|tribute]] to him. The iconic quote was an ad-lib Piper himself came up with.

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 Strangely, though, [[Randall]] has not preserved the number of words in the original film quote: there are 16. There would be 18 if 'bubble gum' (which occurs twice) were taken as two words, but in the comic, it is clear that Randall takes it as one.
-Beret Guy has previously indicated he has a finite number of words he can say in [[1493: Meeting]]. In comic [[3009]], it was indicated that they're running out of numbers.
+Beret Guy has previously indicated he has a finite number of words he can say in [[1493: Meeting]]. In [[3009: Number Shortage]], it was indicated that they're running out of numbers.
 In [[1110: Click and Drag]] Megan, walking out on to a platform on the left side of the tower Burj Khalifa, says "I came here to chew bubblegum... And I'm all out of bubblegum" to which Cueball walking with her replies "That's a shame" (see [http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1n2w.png picture here].)

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 Strangely, though, [[Randall]] has not preserved the number of words in the original film quote: there are 16. There would be 18 if 'bubble gum' (which occurs twice) were taken as two words, but in the comic, it is clear that Randall takes it as one.
-Beret Guy has previously indicated he has a finite number of words he can say in [[1493: Meeting]].
+Beret Guy has previously indicated he has a finite number of words he can say in [[1493: Meeting]]. In comic [[3009]], it was indicated that they're running out of numbers.
 In [[1110: Click and Drag]] Megan, walking out on to a platform on the left side of the tower Burj Khalifa, says "I came here to chew bubblegum... And I'm all out of bubblegum" to which Cueball walking with her replies "That's a shame" (see [http://imgs.xkcd.com/clickdrag/1n2w.png picture here].)

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic spoofs the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/quotes iconic quote] from the 1988 action movie ''{{w|They Live}}'', where the armed protagonist, upon entering a bank, states that "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum." This implies that the protagonist will soon fight the people in the bank, as he cannot do the other objective he came there for (chewing bubble gum). This phrase was also used by the title character of the video game ''{{w|Duke Nukem 3D}}'' and is often mistakenly believed to have originated in it. Furthermore, the phrase has itself been parodied by British comedy ''IT Crowd'', and by ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' in the episode 521 "Santa Claus" ("Ho-ho-ho! I'm here to kick butt and lick candy canes, and I'm all out of candy canes!"), and a version appeared in [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106677/quotes?item=qt0350124 the 1993 movie ''Dazed and Confused''], where Clint says, "I only came here to do two things, kick some ass and drink some beer. ... Looks like we're almost outta beer." (Note that this movie was filmed in 1993 but set in 1976, and so the character in the movie wouldn't have known about the movie ''They Live''.)
+This comic spoofs the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/quotes iconic quote] from the 1988 action movie ''{{w|They Live}}'', where the armed protagonist, upon entering a bank, states that "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum." This implies that the protagonist will soon fight the people in the bank, as he cannot do the other objective he came there for (chewing bubble gum). This phrase has been quoted and modified often enough that it's often mistakenly attributed to other sources.
 Former wrestler Rowdy {{w|Roddy Piper}}, who played the protagonist in ''They Live'', died five days prior to the publication of this comic so this comic is most likely a [[:Category:Tribute|tribute]] to him. The iconic quote was an ad-lib Piper himself came up with.

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