Editing 573: Parental Trolling
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− | Set in the future, a daughter approaches her father playing a music video of | + | Set in the future, a daughter approaches her father playing a music video of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up". The daughter insults her father's generation's versions of playing pranks, specifically {{w|Rickrolling}}. The daughter refers to this as "trolling" (also in the title), which is popular jargon for trying to disrupt a person or community via an action to elicit an emotional response. The humour is in that the dad reveals he has 'trolled' his daughter, thus eliciting an emotional response which perfectly displays his prank. |
− | + | The title text refers to the conflict between teenagers and adults over music and culture, with teenagers often listening to music such as dubstep which annoys their parents. 'Easter egg' is a term used to describe a hidden inside joke or feature inside software. Here, the daughter is the software. | |
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− | The title text refers to the conflict between teenagers and adults over music and culture, with teenagers often listening to music which annoys their parents. ' | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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− | :The | + | :[Cueball is sitting at a futuristic desktop computer, and a girl is standing behind him with a portable ultra-thin screen.] |
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:Girl: Hey dad, look at this old music video. | :Girl: Hey dad, look at this old music video. | ||
:Video: We're no strangers to love... | :Video: We're no strangers to love... | ||
:Cueball: Wow, you got me. | :Cueball: Wow, you got me. | ||
− | + | :Girl: Did your generation really use this to troll people? SO lame. Your generation sucked at pranks. | |
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− | :Girl: Did your generation really use this to troll people? | ||
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:Cueball: Did we? I once raised a kid with conditioning so her speech centers shut down when she was upset. | :Cueball: Did we? I once raised a kid with conditioning so her speech centers shut down when she was upset. | ||
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:Girl: What? No, you couldn't have bleegle warble yargle arrgh! | :Girl: What? No, you couldn't have bleegle warble yargle arrgh! | ||
:Cueball: Teehee. | :Cueball: Teehee. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Internet]] | [[Category:Internet]] | ||
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