796: Bad Ex

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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Bad Ex
Since the goatee, glasses, and Seltzer & Friedberg DVD collection didn't tip you off, there will be a $20 negligence charge for this service.
Title text: Since the goatee, glasses, and Seltzer & Friedberg DVD collection didn't tip you off, there will be a $20 negligence charge for this service.

Explanation

This comic is fairly self-explanatory -- in the first three panels of the comic one stick man relays to another his ideas for an online service that tracks devious or deceptive ex-partners, the other stickman comments on the feasibility of this scheme comparing it to existing efforts to track sex offenders, and in the last panel an imaginary scenario involving the scheme is depicted.

Transcript

[Two people are walking. The first is wearing a white hat.]
Second person: It just blows my mind. She seemed so genuine. I had no idea she was such a serial liar.
Second person: I just wish I had our six months back.
[The view focuses on the second person.]]
Second person: Her exes say the same thing happened to them.
Second person: Maybe what we need is a terrible-ex tracking and notification service.


[The second person turns, thoughtfully.]]
First person: But after all the problems with sex offender registries, who would agree to run it?
Second person: Maybe one of the state governments more willing to experiment could try it out...
Soon...
[Two people are sitting at a table, on which sit wine glasses and plates. One has glasses and a goatee, and the other has long hair. A person approaches them carrying a clipboard and a license.]]
License person: Excuse me, ma'am.
Long hair person: Yes?
License person: This man is known to the state of California to be a total douchebag.


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Discussion

Interestingly, the Abstruse Goose webcomic (which is fairly similar to xkcd) also published a comic regarding a similar idea, called iScreener. --Waldir (talk) 11:41, 16 April 2013 (UTC)

Who's to say the last panel is imaginary? Anonymous 01:21, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

The 1987 spoof movie "Amazon Women on the Moon," had a sketch where Steve Gutenberg tries to date Rosanna Arquette who then uses a service similar to a credit report where his prior dates have posted derogatory information about him -- for example, not calling back after his date had sex with him. Not a bad bit of foresight for a 1980's film! Mountain Hikes (talk) 03:47, 30 December 2015 (UTC)