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The title text refers to the comic strip ''{{w|Peanuts}},'' and the running gag where fussbudget Lucy would hold the football for lovable loser Charlie Brown and he'd come running at it full speed, only to have Lucy pull the football away at the last moment and send Charlie Brown crashing to the ground. What made it funny was that each time, Lucy would find some way to convince Charlie Brown that ''this'' time, she wouldn't pull the football away, and he'd try again — but lo and behold, of course she did. | The title text refers to the comic strip ''{{w|Peanuts}},'' and the running gag where fussbudget Lucy would hold the football for lovable loser Charlie Brown and he'd come running at it full speed, only to have Lucy pull the football away at the last moment and send Charlie Brown crashing to the ground. What made it funny was that each time, Lucy would find some way to convince Charlie Brown that ''this'' time, she wouldn't pull the football away, and he'd try again — but lo and behold, of course she did. | ||
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| + | Although minor, Luigi's face in the first panel appears to be modeled after [http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs40/f/2009/011/3/a/Weegee_Revamp__by_MrL345.png "Weegee"], [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/weegee a memetically infamous piece of vector art]. | ||
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Revision as of 18:06, 25 October 2013
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 Title text: The question with Lucy and the football was always whether, on some level, she believed the things she said. |
Explanation
Cueball and Megan are playing Mario Kart, with Cueball's Luigi character ahead of Megan's Mario towards the end. Megan begins waxing philosophically on how winning a video game isn't really important, and how by speeding through a racing level like the game asks you to do, you sometimes miss the fun of simply exploring the level and enjoying the extraordinary level of detail and work that went into it. In other words, she wants him to rebel against the system with her, and not act like a mouse going through a laboratory maze in pursuit of cheese.
It's enough to convince Cueball to halt his pursuit of the finish line, just long enough for Megan to speed past him and win, much to her glee. "It's more fun than a blue shell", she says, referring to the Mario Kart item that, when fired, will inevitably hit the race leader and cause him to crash. Randall has rather adamantly expressed his opinion about blue shells before.
The title text refers to the comic strip Peanuts, and the running gag where fussbudget Lucy would hold the football for lovable loser Charlie Brown and he'd come running at it full speed, only to have Lucy pull the football away at the last moment and send Charlie Brown crashing to the ground. What made it funny was that each time, Lucy would find some way to convince Charlie Brown that this time, she wouldn't pull the football away, and he'd try again — but lo and behold, of course she did.
Although minor, Luigi's face in the first panel appears to be modeled after "Weegee", a memetically infamous piece of vector art.
Transcript
- [Mario and Luigi in go carts, Luigi in the lead.]
- Megan (playing Mario): Sometimes I stop right before the finish line.
- Cueball (playing Luigi): Why?
- [Cut to Cueball and Megan playing the video game.]
- Megan: 'Cause I know I've won.
- Megan: It proves I'm playing for fun, on my own terms. That I don't need validation from the machine.
- Megan: That I'm not a rat pulling a lever.
- Cueball: ...Man. Good Call. Let's stop and explore the course for a-
- Player Two wins
- Cueball: Hey!
- Megan: Ha ha!
- Cueball: Dammit, I'm a sucker for your "Be a Rebel" speech.
- Megan: It's more fun than a blue shell.
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Is the "rat pulling a lever" phrase a reference to studies with rats where they will self administer opiates and ignore food until death? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_stimulation_reward#Addiction 108.162.219.46 23:39, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
"Rat pulling a lever" studies are done to test a wide variety of hypotheses about behavior, not just how they respond to opiates. Rats are one of the favorite animals used in psychological studies, especially among doctoral candidates working on their dissertations. 108.162.219.165 09:13, 1 October 2015 (UTC)
His Luigi looks like the Weegee meme version of Luigi xD International Space Station (talk) 20:40, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
- I agree. It even has the same amount of mustache occlusion. I added it to trivia.162.158.72.65 22:34, 20 June 2016 (UTC)
Cueball and Megan seem to be playing Mario Kart Wii, judging biy the controllers. Cuebaal is using a vertical wii remote with nunchuck and Megan is using a sideways Wii-remote.
