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This comic refers to wall-to-wall carpeting, also known as {{w|Fitted carpet}}, which usually is carpeting that runs from wall to wall. Usually, the carpeting is on the ''inside''{{citation needed}} of the house where it is installed. However, in this example, Megan and Cueball are installing it on the ''outside'' of the house, walking the entirety of the earth's circumference until the finally finish installing it on the other side of their house. This method would be impractical{{citation needed}}, since it would both cross over oceans and use 40,008 to 40,075 kilometers of carpet, depending on where the house is and where it is facing.
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[[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are installing wall-to-wall carpeting (also known as {{w|fitted carpet}}), which usually runs from the inner edge of one wall to the inner edge of a facing wall. Somehow, they have managed to mistakenly start laying the carpet against the outer edge of the wall without noticing. Despite encountering unfinished and uneven surfaces, plants, rocks, and other obstructions, they have not been clued in to their error, and have simply continued laying it for an unknown distance. Presumably, they would continue doing so until they encountered the outer wall of another building unless they check if the wall is actually the other end of their room. They may be prevented from doing so, as it appears their last roll of carpet is about to run out.
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According to the title text they have failed to notice another rather large clue to their problem — that there is a big open sky above them. Instead, they have, rather improbably, interpreted this as an extremely large {{w|skylight}} — a window on the ceiling designed to add light to a space of a building.
  
 
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:Megan: You're sure we started installing the wall-to-wall carpet on the right side of the wall?
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:Cueball: The other end of the room ''must'' be getting close by now.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 09:58, 12 February 2026

Installation
Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?
Title text: Do YOU remember the skylight being this big?

    Explanation[edit]

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    Megan and Cueball are installing wall-to-wall carpeting (also known as fitted carpet), which usually runs from the inner edge of one wall to the inner edge of a facing wall. Somehow, they have managed to mistakenly start laying the carpet against the outer edge of the wall without noticing. Despite encountering unfinished and uneven surfaces, plants, rocks, and other obstructions, they have not been clued in to their error, and have simply continued laying it for an unknown distance. Presumably, they would continue doing so until they encountered the outer wall of another building unless they check if the wall is actually the other end of their room. They may be prevented from doing so, as it appears their last roll of carpet is about to run out.

    According to the title text they have failed to notice another rather large clue to their problem — that there is a big open sky above them. Instead, they have, rather improbably, interpreted this as an extremely large skylight — a window on the ceiling designed to add light to a space of a building.

    Transcript[edit]

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    Megan: You're sure we started installing the wall-to-wall carpet on the right side of the wall?
    Cueball: The other end of the room must be getting close by now.

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    This is what hiking trails should BE! Explainyourself (talk) 02:47, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

    no. it would be better with waterslides. (/j) --Utdtutyabthsc (talk) 03:19, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
    Hiking trail pavement needs to be sturdy enough to withstand hikers stomping up and down. It also needs to help their hiking boots grip the trail, or at least not do worse at that than bare dirt would. I am not convinced that carpet fits either of those criteria. GreatWyrmGold (talk) 04:15, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
    But now you can hike in your socks. 82.13.184.33 09:40, 12 February 2026 (UTC)

    I think this strip is a knowing reference to "outside the asylum", the inside-out home of Wonko the Sane in _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_.

    https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/The_Outside_of_the_Asylum

    https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Wonko_the_Sane

    Lproven (talk) 09:09, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
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