February 11, 2008
#382: Trebuchet explain

[Cueball is working on something on a table, and Megan is sitting at a computer.]
Cueball: The trebuchet is almost done!
Megan: Mm.
Cueball: The range should be over 150 meters.
[Megan leans back on her chair.]
Megan: Look,
Megan: I’m sure it’s a cool project.
[Picture of a trebuchet, with some spare parts to its right.]
Megan: But eventually you’ll need to outgrow these toys, and focus your energy on something practical.
Megan: This mad science is getting out of hand.
[The camera zooms out, and we see a cross-section of an exterior wall/window from ground to gutter and lower edge of the roof, showing that the characters are inside but the off-frame action is outside.]
Cueball: Says the girl who mounted an auto-targeting kilowatt laser on the roof.
Megan: That’s practical! It keeps the squirrels off the feeder!
[From off-frame.]
Laser: GZZZZZAPP
Squirrel: Squeak!