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| | | titletext = So, um. Do you want to get a drink after the game? | | | titletext = So, um. Do you want to get a drink after the game? |
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| | ==Explanation== | | ==Explanation== |
| − | This comic is a joke parodying wedding ceremonies and {{w|American Football}} plays intended to misdirect or fool the opponents about what is really happening. | + | This comic makes fun of two things - Football and Wedding Ceremonies |
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| − | A standard misdirection play involves the offense misdirecting the defense into thinking that the play being executed is actually a different play: for example, a {{w|American_football_positions|passing play}} could actually be a running play, or that a ball being run left is actually being run right, or that a {{w|field goal}} or {{w|Punt_(gridiron_football)|punt}} end up being attempted to get a {{w|Down_(gridiron_football)|down}}. | + | A couple is about to get married, and the priest asks (for the sake of formality) if the bride takes the groom to be her husband. Rather than say 'Yes', she surprises him by saying No. [[Cueball|The groom]] is shocked because the bride is obviously expected to say yes. |
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| − | In this comic, [[Cueball]] is about to get married to Amy, a girl looking like [[Megan]], but the bride interrupts the ritual by saying that she doesn't want to get married. The bride then reveals herself to be a Cueball-like man and after questioning reveals that the relationship and the wedding was an elaborate con to get the advantage on the football field. "Amy" turns out to be a player for the opposing team and he had a football on his person. He then proceeds to run the ball in for a touchdown. This clearly constitutes the ''greatest high school football misdirection play of all time''. {{cn}}
| + | It turns out that [[Cueball]] has been tricked into thinking that he is at his own wedding rather than playing in a High School {{w|Football (American)|Football}} game. "Amy" turns out to be a player for the opposing team and runs the ball in for a touchdown. |
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| − | [[Randall]] takes the deception in a misdirection play to the next, virtually impossible level; it is unlikely that a relationship could develop to the point of marriage within the time-frame of a football game, with "the groom" not noticing that Amy was in fact a football player, or that he was standing on the football field.
| + | This is a play on Misdirection Plays common in football, especially in the high school level, where teams deliberately try to deceive and distract their opponents by some means or the other. Taking the deception to the next level, this comic says that everything until Cueball's marriage was just a deception play to score the goal. Also, see {{w|The Matrix}}. |
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| − | The title text indicates that, in spite of the deception, "the groom" still has feelings and is not ready to give up the relationship (or at least he would like to share a beer with the opposing team like after a friendly game). Alternatively, as it is unclear who is speaking, "the bride" may have also developed feelings for "the groom" and is now awkwardly asking for a date after deceiving "the groom." | + | The title text is what Cueball apparently wants to say to 'Amy', after he realises he has been duped. |
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| − | ===Misdirection Plays===
| + | A good example of a misdirection play is what's called the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkA3nxuMJoM&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active|"wrong ball trick"]. Before hiking the ball, the quarterback or center signals to their coach that the ball in play is the wrong ball and picks it up to supposedly exchange it for the right one at the sideline. Both teams relax and stand up to wait for the right ball, but just before getting to the sideline the quarterback takes off running down the field. This is considered to be a dirty trick and usually only works in Pee-wee/little league football, but sometimes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQbAP-K28J8&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active| it doesn't]. |
| − | Occasionally, especially at the high school level, extreme misdirection plays are attempted where teams try to misdirect the opposing team into thinking that a play is not even being run. Good examples of that can be found on YouTube, such as this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkA3nxuMJoM "wrong ball" trick], or that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UIdI8khMkw "five more yards" trick]. Despite conforming to the rules of the game, these are considered to be dirty tricks and usually only work in little league football.
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| − | :[A bride in full wedding dress, that looks like Megan, and Cueball with a bow-tie as the groom stand next to each other. Each has a hand outstretched toward the other.]
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| − | :Officiator (off panel): Do you take this man to be your lawful wedded husband?
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| − | :Bride ('Amy'): ...No.
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| − | :[Cueball steps back in surprise. The bride removes a wig to reveal that she is in fact a Cueball-like man.]
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| − | :Groom: ''What? Amy!?'' | |
| − | :Man: I'm not Amy. None of this was real. You're back in senior year. It's the big game.
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| − | :[Cueball puts his hands to his head in confusion. The man holds up an American football, still holding the wig in his other hand.]
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| − | :Cueball: What ''is'' this!?
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| − | :Man: ''The greatest high school football misdirection play of all time.''
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| − | :[Cueball puts his hands to his mouth as the man in the wedding dress begins to run backwards, away from him holding up the ball.]
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| − | :[Cueball remains frozen in horror as the man turns and dashes toward the goalpost in the distance.]
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| | {{comic discussion}} | | {{comic discussion}} |
| | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] |
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