A Penny Arcade strip you like and why

Jamie_Madigan · 2011-01-07T15:52:05.000Z

“Flavorful syrup blisters.”

Rimbo · 2011-01-07T16:06:11.000Z

Jamie Madigan:

“Flavorful syrup blisters.”

Worse: Slyrup blisters.

Eww. Ugh. Gaack.

Anti-Bunny · 2011-01-07T16:24:26.000Z

sinnick:

Penny Arcade called it Slorm.

I wonder if they realize how much of a blatant futurama ripoff this comic was? They must.

Futurama ripped off bees and cows.

rhinohelix · 2011-01-07T19:19:24.000Z

Rimbo:

Worse: Slyrup blisters.

Eww. Ugh. Gaack.

It’s so horrible yet I can’t look away.

Does it make me a bad person to think of this as a What If? Willey Wonka story end?

Brad_Grenz · 2011-01-07T21:59:29.000Z

Anti-Bunny:

Futurama ripped off bees and cows.

Yeah, that was just a worm that naturally produced Slurm which was captured, packaged and marketed. The joke being that it seems gross, but it isn’t that different from drinking milk or eating honey. Penny Arcade’s mad scientist idea is a completely different take, involving Tropicana’s weird marketing copy and attempts to “gogurtify” their product portfolio.

jerri_blank · 2011-01-08T05:42:19.000Z

I love the Pepsico medallions those minions are wearing.

liquorice · 2011-01-08T07:36:28.000Z

“My flesh grew flaky, and moist”

It’s horribly wonderful.

Sebmojo · 2011-01-08T14:21:26.000Z

liquorice:

“My flesh grew flaky, and moist”

It’s horribly wonderful.

The comma is somehow crucial.

belgerog · 2011-01-08T15:48:31.000Z

The Penny Arcade guys really like creatures attached to the ceiling by cables. The third panel of the Globfather part III reminds me of the Microsoft Metaminds.

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Can’t blame them, both look great.

RepoMan · 2011-01-10T10:18:44.000Z

They snuck the goddamned sneaky double-word in there again. I hate it when they do that. They did it here too:

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If you don’t know what I’m talking about, look harder. At this point they’ve done it so often I no longer believe it’s a mistake. They are fucking with my mind.

sinnick · 2011-01-10T10:25:01.000Z

It can’t be intentional - if they could choose to reduce the word box size and thus show more of the art I’m sure they would. It must be Gabe typing out the text himself rather than cutting and pasting it or something.

liquorice · 2011-01-10T10:55:00.000Z

Ok so I read through the entire thing a dozen times trying to find what you were talking about.

I actually swore aloud to myself upon discovering it, such was my shock that I had missed it.

RepoMan · 2011-01-10T11:17:16.000Z

It’s a notorious cognitive blind spot, which is why I now think it’s semi-deliberate on their part.

LesJarvis · 2011-01-10T11:24:31.000Z

On the subject of Penny Arcade errors, am I missing something, or is the first speech bubble in panel 1 of today’s comic being attributed to the wrong person?

Edit: It disappeared! So I’m guessing error.

And now they’ve fixed it.

Jamie_Madigan · 2011-01-10T18:13:01.000Z

Top speech box in the last panel of the strip above. It’s still there in the comics archive at the time of this writing.

Mike_O_Malley · 2011-01-10T18:24:15.000Z

Holy crap, I read that many times and didn’t catch it until you explicitly localized it.

I feel like I’ve just seen the fnords.

Rimbo · 2011-01-11T07:08:45.000Z

Mike O'Malley:

Holy crap, I read that many times and didn’t
didn’t catch it until you explicitly localized it.

I feel like I’ve just seen the.

Seen the what?

Anders_Hallin · 2011-01-11T07:11:54.000Z

If you just look at it carefully, you’ll find the
the error, it’s quite obvious!

Dave_Perkins · 2011-01-11T07:17:27.000Z

I was going to post a little puzzle
post a little puzzle like you guys are
you guys are doing, but I don’t see
I don’t see the point now.

Gus_Smedstad1 · 2011-01-11T10:34:21.000Z

Rimbo:

Seen the what?

This board needs a “I saw what you did there, and found it very amusing” button.