551: Etch-a-Sketch - Revision history

FaviFake: /* Explanation */

2025-07-30T09:22:51Z

‎Explanation

172.70.94.42: Provided an alternate explanation to Cueball's sigh and shaking of the Etch-a-Sketch

2024-12-05T18:41:55Z

Provided an alternate explanation to Cueball's sigh and shaking of the Etch-a-Sketch

172.68.205.151: Undo revision 355525 by 162.158.114.235 (talk) NSCat

2024-11-03T15:58:14Z

Undo revision 355525 by 162.158.114.235 (talk) NSCat

162.158.114.235 at 04:46, 3 November 2024

2024-11-03T04:46:45Z

172.69.214.5 at 13:37, 20 August 2024

2024-08-20T13:37:40Z

172.69.43.173: /* Explanation */ No obvious/expected signs of anger. I'd suggest "to have another go and perhaps get the 'right' reality", but not sure I can justify that, either.

2024-04-18T10:11:26Z

‎Explanation: No obvious/expected signs of anger. I'd suggest "to have another go and perhaps get the 'right' reality", but not sure I can justify that, either.

WaddleDeo at 13:52, 17 April 2024

2024-04-17T13:52:55Z

141.101.98.226: Undo revision 333293 by 172.71.242.3 (talk) If that's meaningful/useful, it escapes me.

2024-01-21T13:57:05Z

Undo revision 333293 by 172.71.242.3 (talk) If that's meaningful/useful, it escapes me.

172.71.242.3: /* Explanation */

2024-01-21T10:37:33Z

‎Explanation

JLZ0kTC5 at 16:39, 10 December 2022

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 ==Explanation==
-[[Cueball]] notices that if you draw a lot on an {{w|Etch_A_Sketch|Etch-a-Sketch}}, the aluminum powder in it can be cleared from enough of the screen to allow a view of the interior (as seen [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/EtchASketch_Inside_Shown.jpg here]).
+[[Cueball]] notices that if you draw a lot on an {{w|Etch_A_Sketch|Etch-a-Sketch}}, the aluminum powder in it can be cleared from enough of the screen to allow a view of the interior (as seen [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/EtchASketch_Inside_Shown.jpg here]). Cueball then proceeds to clear a window into the device, which shows him that there's a girl, [[Megan]], inside whose job is to act as the stylus for the Etch-a-Sketch. She suggest that they be friends, and little hearts pop up.
 Another possible explanation is that Cueball is lonely and craving companionship, enough to envision someone living inside his Etch-a-Sketch. This is demonstrated by the hearts in the eighth panel, and Megan's line: "Let's be friends, and never be alone again." When his fantasy ends, he sighs sadly before becoming frustrated and shaking it.

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 Cueball then proceeds to clear a window into the device, which shows him that there's a girl, [[Megan]], inside whose job is to act as the stylus for the Etch-a-Sketch. She suggest that they be friends, and little hearts pop up.
 As the dream fades, it then becomes clear that this is just a fantasy, and Cueball sighs at the rather more mundane reality that the lines get drawn by a stylus moving on a simple arrangement of rods. The comic ends with Cueball shaking the Etch-a-Sketch, likely in resignation at the reality of it, which resets it and will re-conceal the mechanism.
 The title text notes that sometimes the mysteries surrounding us turn out to be much more boring than we dream they are.

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 ==Transcript==
-:[Cueball is sitting on a bench playing with a pink Etch-a-Sketch.]
+:[Cueball is sitting on a bench playing with a pinkish-red Etch-a-Sketch.]
 :Cueball: Hey. If I draw enough lines, I can see what's behind the screen.

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 :[Close up of the Etch-a-sketch where the black hole Cueball has drawn shows what is really behind the glass; just the mechanics of the machine, with a pin that moves on a cross and removes the sand from the screen.]
-:[Zoom back out to Cueball who shakes etch-a-sketch above his head.]
+:[Zoom back out to Cueball who shakes the Etch-a-Sketch above his head.]
 {{comic discussion}}