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June 27, 2008

Beret Guy
Black Hat
Cory Doctorow
Cueball
Megan
Miss Lenhart
politicians

#442: xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel explain

[The comic is in parody of the Discovery Channel commercial showing various clips of people singing a song with the chorus line “Boom De Yada.”]

[The comic is divided into a grid of 4 panels by 6 panels, each depicting a character or situation often from a previous xkcd strip.]

[In each panel is written a part of a song similar to the song from the Discovery Channel commercial.]

Panel 1:

[Megan spinning around.]

I love momentum.

Panel 2:

[Megan laying on floor tinkering with an EEE PC hamster ball robot.]

I love to engineer.

Panel 3:

[Beret Guy standing in bakery holding a loaf of bread in each hand, a sign with “PIE!” in background.]

I love this bakery!

Panel 4:

[Cory Doctorow in goggles and a red cape flying superman-style.]

I love the blogosphere!

Panel 5:

[Cueball running in a large hamster ball.]

I love the whole world

Panel 6:

[Depiction of internet sludge (4chan b-Random)]

And all its messed-up folks.

Panel 7:

[Cueball and Megan immersed in playpen balls.]

Boom De Yada

Panel 8:

[Mass of playpen balls with speech “I put on my robe and wizard hat” originating from it.]

Boom De Yada

Panel 9:

[Black Hat taking a present from a kid with a party hat.]

I love your suffering.

Panel 10:

[Diagram showing RSA fingerprint authentication between two people.]

I love cryptography.

Panel 11:

[Cueball and Megan in bed covered by a red sheet.]

I love entangled sheets.

Panel 12:

[Cueball hanging from a kite string holding a camera.]

And kite photography.

Panel 13:

[Map of the internet.]

I love the whole world

Panel 14:

[Cube with a red spider on top.]

And all its mysteries.

Panel 15:

[Two people sword-fighting on rolling office chairs.]

Boom De Yada

Panel 16:

[Classroom with two students and Miss Lenhart.]

Boom De Yada

Panel 17:

[Cueball saying “Barack me Obamadeus!” to another man speaking energetically at a podium.]

I love elections.

Panel 18:

[Cueball holding a schematic diagram of a transistor in front of his crotch.]

I love transistors.

Panel 19:

[Cueball and Megan in bed, Cueball saying “There must be taft slash fiction.”]

I love weird pillow talk.

Panel 20:

[Cueball speaking to Megan.]

I love your sister.

Panel 21:

[Roller coaster with Cueball in the front car holding a chess board and thinking about a move.]

I love the whole world.

Panel 22:

[Beret Guy standing in the midst of leafless trees.]

The future’s pretty cool!

Panel 23:

[Megan doing the MC Hammer slide towards Cueball.]

Boom De Yada

Panel 24:

[Cueball and Megan on an electric skateboard.]

Boom De Yada