#521: 2008 Christmas Special explain

The 2008 XKCD Christmas Special

Due to the slowing economy, we could only afford to produce the prime-numbered panels.

You should be able to infer the missing parts of the story easily enough.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

[The first panel is blank.]

[Megan carrying Christmas lights and Cueball watching.]

Megan: I’m going to one-up those Christmas light displays on YouTube.

[Megan thinking.]

Megan: Hmm. Needs more flair. Do you know what happens when you fire sodium pellets into a snowbank?

Cueball: No.

Megan: Me neither.

[The next panel is blank.]

[Megan sitting in front of a console.]

Megan: Whoops, one of the Arduino control boards sublimated.

Megan: If only I could make it self-repairing…

[The next panel is blank.]

Megan: Shit. The system has become sentient.

Cueball: Friggin’ Python.

System: GRAAARR!

[The next three panels are blank.]

[Megan showing laptop to Cueball.]

Megan: But according to this email forward, Santa is secretly a Muslim!

Cueball: It explains everything!

[The next panel is blank.]

Megan: Okay, the cloned raptors are hunting the last of the cyborgs. We’re safe.

Cueball: Are you sure you thought this through?

[The next three panels are blank.]

[Two couples appear in this next panel.]

Cueball: Are the raptors contained?

Ponytail: Sure. Unless they figure out how to build lightsabers.

[The next panel is blank.]

[Guy with hat fighting with a raptor using lightsabers.]

Cueball: It’s all right. I’ve got her.

[Lightsaber appears from behind.]

Snap-hiss!

Cueball: …Clever girl.

[The next three panels are blank.]

[Bill Gates is holding a weapon over Santa’s body. The two girls are watching.]

Megan: Great. Bill Gates kills Santa.

Bill Gates: I thought it was Stallman with a dyed beard.

[The next five panels are blank.]

[Danish and Black Hat are looking at a tree.]

Danish: Where did you get this Christmas tree?

Black Hat: Nowhere.

Danish: Did you cut down the Yggdrasil?

Black Hat: …Maybe.

[The next panel is blank.]

[Megan and Cueball holding hands and looking at reader.]

Merry Christmas from XKCD <3

[The last panel is blank.]