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− | : | + | :Cueball: You know that giant hamster ball you've always wanted? I just found out that Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips crowd-surfs in one. |
− | : | + | :Friend: Let's go. |
− | :Some Weeks Later ... | + | :Some Weeks Later... |
:[Wayne Coyne is, in fact, crowd-surfing in a giant hamster ball.] | :[Wayne Coyne is, in fact, crowd-surfing in a giant hamster ball.] | ||
− | : | + | :Cueball: Ready? |
:Friends: Ready. | :Friends: Ready. | ||
− | : | + | :Cueball: Now! |
− | :'' | + | :''Shove'' |
:[People on both sides shove the crowd out of the way, causing Coyne in his ball to fall to the ground.] | :[People on both sides shove the crowd out of the way, causing Coyne in his ball to fall to the ground.] | ||
:Wayne Coyne: Hey! | :Wayne Coyne: Hey! | ||
− | : | + | :Cuebal: Okay, push! |
− | :[ | + | :[Cueball and friends start pushing the ball away, as the crowd looks on.] |
:Wayne Coyne: What's going on? | :Wayne Coyne: What's going on? | ||
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:[The truck drives off, leaving the audience in a cloud of dust.] | :[The truck drives off, leaving the audience in a cloud of dust.] | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
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Revision as of 02:44, 26 June 2013
Hamster Ball Heist |
Title text: First person to bring me Wayne Coyne in a hamster ball gets a free t-shirt! He gets one too. |
Explanation
This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Please include the reason why this explanation is incomplete, like this: {{incomplete|reason}} If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks. |
This is one of several xkcd comics to feature a hamster ball, with the others including 152: "Hamster Ball", 413: "New Pet", and 442: "xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel". This comic particularly references Cueball's wish to own a hamster ball from 152: "Hamster Ball", as the first panel illustrates Cueball saying "Let's go." in response to the suggestion that they steal the hamster ball from Coyne. Since human-sized hamster balls are somewhat rare, this comic outlines an elaborate mission to acquire a human-sized hamster ball by infiltrating a music concert and kidnapping a rock star, who would be structurally powerless to fight back while trapped within a spherical object.
Transcript
- Cueball: You know that giant hamster ball you've always wanted? I just found out that Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips crowd-surfs in one.
- Friend: Let's go.
- Some Weeks Later...
- [Wayne Coyne is, in fact, crowd-surfing in a giant hamster ball.]
- Cueball: Ready?
- Friends: Ready.
- Cueball: Now!
- Shove
- [People on both sides shove the crowd out of the way, causing Coyne in his ball to fall to the ground.]
- Wayne Coyne: Hey!
- Cuebal: Okay, push!
- [Cueball and friends start pushing the ball away, as the crowd looks on.]
- Wayne Coyne: What's going on?
- [Some roll him up the ramp into the back of a semi, while others hold the crowd back and one stands by to drive.]
- Wayne Coyne: Help!
- [The truck drives off, leaving the audience in a cloud of dust.]
Discussion
Unlike most of the comics featuring real people, this one had essentially zero followup. I can't find anything on anyone trying to do it, but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened. Still, I don't feel that small blemish could make this explanation incomplete. --Quicksilver (talk) 04:34, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
I would like to see examples of attempted kidnaps of Wayne Coyne. 108.162.249.209 23:12, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Oh wait never mind108.162.249.209 23:14, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Would he get 2 t-shirts for turning himself in?