3209: Plums
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 Title text: My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost. |
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This is a reference to the poem This Is Just to Say, in which the narrator is apologizing for eating the plums in the icebox. In this comic, the joke is that Cueball cannot resist eating the plums from the icebox as a reference to the poem.
The title text is another joke about trapping poets with references to their own poems, referencing another well-known poem, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
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- [Cueball is sitting at a desk with a laptop on it. He is looking backward towards someone offscreen.]
- Out of view: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight.
- Out of view: Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them.
- Out of view: Be back later!
- Cueball, thinking: Oh no.
- Caption: Help. It actually happened. I shouldn't, but how can I not!?
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Referencing William Carlos Williams "This is Just To Say", an apology for eating the plums. 2600:1001:B000:6009:F81B:2869:73B7:339 03:31, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
Robert Frost is my first cousin five times removed. Pgn674 (talk) 03:36, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
You could easily trap Edgar Allan Poe by training a crow. Xkdvd (talk) 05:07, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
I just described the scene in the transcript, it doesn't look quite right to me, I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be brackets or something, could someone fix that if I did it wrong? Xkdvd (talk) 05:12, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
The characterization of the poem as an apology needs an [actual citation needed] tag. 2001:8004:4E50:6B3:A564:E93B:1878:3634 06:00, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
- The words "forgive me" aren't good enough for you? 174.127.214.79 06:46, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
Seems pretty simple. Eat the plums for the cred, and then book reservations for a romantic breakfast the next morning. 73.42.229.109 06:22, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
- Might just make things more awkward if the trapper is just a roommate. 82.13.184.33 09:10, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
Could the caption style also be a reference to the poem? New editor (talk) 07:08, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
It would be much more difficult that Robert Frost if one is to follow Gulzaar's "Is Mod se" Mitradranirban (talk)
Does the joke rely on any connection between Frost's surname and the Icebox? 79.161.109.128 10:35, 19 February 2026 (UTC) Add comment
